Nickel Boys will be screened in honor of Black Achievement Month in collaboration with Hello Zuidas. Prior to the screening, there will be an introduction (in English) by Guus Pengel in collaboration with IZI Solutions. The introduction will address the topic of ethnic profiling.
But please take note: the program already starts at 5 p.m.! All visitors will be welcomed with snacks and drinks, while DJ Jah Criss sets the mood. Then it's time for the introduction and the film.
Nickel Boys
Tallahassee, Florida, 1960s: young African-American Elwood Curtis is doing well in school, but everything goes wrong when he is falsely accused of involvement in a car theft. He is sent to the segregated reform institution Nickel Academy, where they will ‘correct’ him. Sadistic school headmaster Spencer and his harassing assistant Harper personally oversee this. Once in that hell, Elwood befriends Turner, who has been at the asylum for some time. The two realise that only together can they endure this ordeal.
Between 1900 and 2011, juvenile offenders were sent to Florida's Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a dreary institution where abuse, humiliation and rape were the order of the day. Colson Whitehead wrote the novel Nickel Boys about it, now filmed by RaMell Ross. This feature debut shows racism in all its ugliness, but also portrays the unbreakable friendship of two black boys who cannot be disparaged.
