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Wyatt Cenac

“It's tough. You're talking about real life and you're talking about real people and you're talking about real issues. You want to be respectful, but, at the same time, I grew up with that sense of laughing to keep from crying. My thinking was, Well, if I'm going to make this joke, is there a way of making it so it both can give some people a sense of laughing to keep from crying, but also give other people a little bit of a dig, like, 'Imma laugh, but it kind of hurts'? And it should hurt, and you shouldn't necessarily be able to fully walk away from this absolved, whether it's guilt or whatever discomfort you feel.”

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    MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY

    BARRY JENKINS United States, 2008

    More than a calling card for the Oscar®-winning Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ feature debut heralded the arrival of a deeply impassioned vision. A yearning portrait of modern Blackness in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy is a captivatingly authentic tale of hesitant love and urban malaise.

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