35mm Under the Sky
Four movies in original version with subtitles in the Garibaldi Museum Courtyard

Friday 2th September - 9:00 pm
The United States vs Billie Holiday by Lee Daniels (o.v. with italian subtitles)
With Andra Day, Garrett Hedlund, Natasha Lyonne, Tyler James Williams, Tone Bell (USA, 2021)

Between the end of the thirties and the beginning of the forties, Billie Holiday brought to succes the song Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol, a denunciation of the ongoing lynchings against African Americans in the South of the United States. That song earned her the attention of the Government and the FBI. In 1947, at the height of her popularity, the woman was arrested and had to serve a year in prison (the "excuse" was drug possession). For the official Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the black singer was: "the symbol of all that America must be afraid of".