Layana Flachs-Rickards

Berlin-Kreuzberg est le microcosme de Nora. Nora, l'observatrice silencieuse, la suiveuse: lors de fêtes, à l'école, à la piscine, sur les toits et dans les appartements. Nora déambule dans les immeubles d'habitation monotones avec sa grande sœur et ses amis, assistant à des événements qui semblent s'estomper à la lumière de l'été. Des filles qui veulent être minces et jolies, des garçons qui disent des choses stupides pour provoquer ou parce qu'ils sont amoureux. Caméras de smartphone impitoyables et adolescents fragiles. Mais Nora a sa propre façon de voir le monde, et quand elle rencontre Romy, elle comprend pourquoi.

“Emmett − Tief in meinem Herzen” (“Emmett – Deep in My Heart”) is a film with theatrical elements, telling the story of the 14-year-old Black teenager Emmett Till, who became the victim of a racist murder in Mississippi, USA, in 1955. This murder is considered the spark for the civil rights movement in the USA as well as a global, public-media confrontation with racism. Emmett’s story is not an exclusively Black or American story. Emmett had to die because he (allegedly) whistled after a White woman, while his killers were acquitted by an all-male, all-White jury, only to openly admit to the murder in an interview a short time later. “Cases like Emmett's are repeated in Germany and around the world. They affect us all – they are the stories of each and every one of us. Almost 70 years after Emmett Till’s murder, we live in a world that is still shaped by structural racism.