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We invite you to the first Polish movie screening of the new extraordinary reggae movie. It is a tale of the seeking and finding of a spiritual home in a foreign culture, one that follows people who are connected by one thing: music. You will see Gentleman and Alborosi there.
“JOURNEY TO JAH"
Film screening
The two directors Noël Dernesch and Moritz Springer, as well as cameraman Marcus Winterbauer (“Rhythm is it“), spent seven years shadowing two unique reggae artists German Gentleman and Italian Alborosie on their search for authenticity away from western consumerist societies in Jamaica.
People they meet along the way include Richie Stephens, Damian Marley and also Natty – driver and friend of Gentleman, who offers them an uncluttered look into the daily struggle for survival, far removed from the picture-book image of the Caribbean island. Professor Carolyn Cooper provides a contrasting intellectual insight into Jamaican politics and culture, while reggae stalwart Jack Radics reveals some astonishing truths.
Finally, Dernesch and Springer run across upcoming Jamaican singer Terry Lynn and follow her everyday life walking the streets of the ghettos of Kingston and also inside Berlin’s club scene.
Together with the protagonists we delve into a world where music is used as an outlet to confront poverty, criminality and a lack of prospects, but also one that is characterized by a deep and uplifting spiritual bond. A world about which Alborosie says, “God lives here. But Satan too.“
„Journey to Jah” isn’t your average reggae feel-good movie, but rather one that doesn’t shy away from looking at today's burning issues. ”Paradise perhaps isn’t a place“, Gentleman once said, “but rather an inner state of being.“
16.08 (Saturday), 13:30, free entrance
Reggae University, the conference room in the Ostróda’s amphitheatre, Mickiewicza street 17a
Directors: Noël Dernesch, Moritz Springer
Director of Photography: Marcus Winterbauer
Producers: Renè Römert, Jan Krüger, PiXiU Films, Port-au-Prince Film & Kultur Produktion
Germany / Switzerland 2013
92 minutes, Polish subtitles
Polish premiere (Against Gravity): 29.08.2014
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Video:
Alborosi & Gentleman - "Journey to Jah" (title song, clip)
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