Maya Angelou Film Programme<\/p>\n
Each year, ILFU highlights a selected author from the literary canon. This year\u2019s icon is Maya Angelou (1928-2014), poet, writer, dancer, singer, filmmaker and civil rights activist. She had her international breakthrough with the autobiographical novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969) Angelou worked as a journalist in Cairo and Ghana, worked as an activist together with Dr. Martin Luther King, and President Bill Clinton asked her to read her now-famous poem \u2018On the Pulse of the Morning\u2019 at his inauguration. We will focus on Maya Angelou\u2019s work for the coming year, and during the festival we will screen two of her exceptional films: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1979) and Georgia, Georgia (1972).<\/p>\n