Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? is the story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country.
What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? is the story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country.
From Texas to the swamps of Louisiana, Roberto Minervini has made his name as a formally adventurous chronicler of the forgotten communities of the U.S. South. Powerfully intimate and sociopolitically urgent, this New Orleans-set documentary is a striking portrait of community and racism in America.