DECEMBER 1-7
FACETS CINEMATHEQUE

GET TICKETS: 
facets.org/cinematheque/films/dec2017/for-ahkeem.php

SPECIAL SCREENING:
Thurs 12/7 - 6:30 pm: Post film discussion with Michelle Mbekeani, Staff Attorney at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law and Kendrick Washington II, Civil Rights Attorney at the Federal Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights.

ABOUT:
From award-winning directors Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest, For Ahkeem is a coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Ferguson. After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road. Through Jade’s intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive