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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary 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 pr...

Directed By: Jeremy S. Levine, Landon Van Soest

Written By: Anne Seidlitz

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 30 m

For Ahkeem

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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 pr...

Directed By: Jeremy S. Levine, Landon Van Soest

Written By: Anne Seidlitz

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88
Oct 13, 2017
There is a fascinating impulsiveness to the production of this story, especially as it essentially drops viewers into the world of Daje, and then has us follow her for months.
By Nick Allen FULL REVIEW
88
Oct 12, 2017
It’s a sort of bad-luck situation most documentarians secretly dream of, but to their credit, For Ahkeem’s co-directors don’t exploit the situation, merely letting their cameras continue to capture Daje’s ever-dire situation.
By Barry Hertz FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 19, 2017
A tenderly intimate, affecting documentary portrait.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 18, 2017
The vicious-cycle narrative is familiar, but For Ahkeem comes uncomfortably close at times to crossing the line between shining a light on a problem and exploiting one, despite the filmmakers’ good intentions.
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75
Oct 12, 2017
An illuminating film about poverty that one hopes can be a call for action even if the film itself doesn’t directly encourage advocacy, it’s clear that hashtags and temporary fixes aren’t enough to change Ahkeem’s life.
By John Fink FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 12, 2017
Levine and Van Soest (who are both white) deserve credit for eliding or treating obliquely a number of seemingly obvious narrative beats.
By Danny King FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 12, 2017
While the film ends at a logical stopping point, it feels incomplete. It probably could have used a few more years of filming.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Oct 13, 2017
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/forahkeemfilm/
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Awards

Independent Film Festival of Boston
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Documentary Edge Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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