“live, chile”

Live, Chile is an affirmation, an encouragement, a command whispering to us through the rustle of Gruenewald leaves, the rumbling of the U-bahn cars, from corners of colonial-named streets of a Berlin that has been home over centuries, to Black and Brown artists, intellectuals, aunties, and teachers who made ways and means for us to live, create, to thrive. Audre Lorde, May Ayim, and all our unnamed ancestral guides beckon us to believe that we belong everywhere, even when we choose not to remain, because as Nina Simone said, “freedom is having no fear,” and “I don’t blame you much for wanting to be free.”

A Black Brown Berlin film, commissioned by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Starring Rhea Ramjohn, Stephanie Burrell, Esther Jeroboan, Estela Suarez, Maiysha Cade, Nasheeka Nedsreal, Rachel Schwarz

director Ibra Wane
director of Photography Diara Sow
creative director Rhea Ramjohn
production Yaasaa
producer Noor-Cella Bena
1st assistant director Sarah Kachiri
1st assistant camera David Schwier
executive producers Rhea Ramjohn, Chanel Knight, Tristan Littlejohn, Femi Oyewole
edit + color Ibra Wane
sound Paul Lorton
makeup Ladivine Mulumba
styling Goitseone Montshe