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"Detroit" is an unflinching look at events in
the summer of 1967 riots in the U.S. city, when tensions between
black residents and a predominantly white police force erupted.
Reviewers have called the film powerful but painful to watch.
"The film is a kind of indictment against the pervasiveness of
racism. And obviously we see that pervasiveness occurring yet
again a few days ago in Charlottesville," Bigelow told reporters
in London at the movie's British premiere.
Trump has inflamed tension after a deadly rally by white
nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend by
blaming both left- and right-wing extremists for violence,
reigniting a firestorm over U.S. race relations.
Bigelow said she "would encourage him (Trump) to see the movie
only in the hope that it might humanize, perhaps something that
is unimaginable for him."
"But my small platform is as a filmmaker and so I hope that I've
sent a message to the world that we have to begin to talk about
the inequity," she added.
"Detroit" opened in U.S. movie theaters earlier this month and
comes to Europe next month.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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