Starring: Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Nia Long, Miles Teller, Laura Harrier, Larenz Tate, Mike Myers
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
CALL for Peace & Nature Selection

The hit film about Michael Jackson’s rise, played by his nephew Jaafar.

It had the most successful film opening of any biopic in history: „Michael”, the film about the life of pop superstar Michael Jackson, depicting his meteoric rise up to 1988, took an astonishing 217 million dollars at the worldwide box office on its opening weekend. Sharply criticised by the media for leaving out controversial themes of his life, the film nevertheless became a global audience hit. We are showing the film above all for one reason: Michael Jackson was the first pop megastar to campaign throughout his life for the preservation of our environment and our planet. Songs such as „Earth Song” remain a manifesto and a sign of how art can package a complex subject musically in order to make people think. That is why „Michael” is screening as part of our „CALL for Peace & Nature Selection”.