Haile Gerima — Black Lions – Roman Wolves

Nine hours, thirty years, five parts. The L.A. Rebellion elder's first feature since <span class="a">Teza</span> turns Italy's 1935 gas-and-fire invasion of Ethiopia into a ballad of refusal — archival footage, eyewitnesses, his own father's plays woven into one panorama of a nation that would not kneel. Berlinale handed him a career Camera in February; it reaches North America as BlackStar's closing night. Made to keep the record from being flattened.