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‘Raising Bertie’ is an intimate portrait of three African American boys coming of age in rural North Carolina, one of the feature attractions coming to the
40th annual Portland International Film Festival.
Power Up for International Films
NW Film Center kicks
off 40th annual festival
The Northwest Film Center kicks off the 40th
Portland International Film Festival, a more than
two weeks long schedule of movie screenings, with
a Thursday, Feb. 9 viewing of the new Oscar-nomi-
nated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” which
focuses on James Baldwin’s final, unfinished novel
and is a potent reflection on what it means to be
black in America.
“I Am Not Your Negro” uses archival footage of
the civil rights and Black Power movements to ex-
plore the racial violence that continues to permeate
American culture. The movie will screen simulta-
neously on the opening night of the PIFF festival
at 7:15 p.m. at the Whitsell Auditorium, located in
the Portland Art Museum at 1219 S.W. Park Ave
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