| BLACK HARVEST SHORT FILM PROGRAM |
2025–2026, USA, Nigeria, 92 min.
In English, Egun, and Yoruba with English subtitles | Format: Digital
November 7 & 11 | ABOUT HIM offers an expansive portrait of Black manhood grounded not in dominance or performance, but in care. Across documentary and narrative cinema, these films illuminate the responsibilities Black men carry as fathers, sons, mentors, artists, laborers, friends, and community leaders. Whether navigating grief, preserving cultural traditions, creating spaces of refuge, confronting injustice, or defending collective dignity, the protagonists reveal masculinity as a practice of stewardship, vulnerability, courage, and collective responsibility. Together, these works challenge reductive narratives and affirm the richness, complexity, and humanity of Black men’s lives across generations and across the African diaspora.
PROGRAM
FIRECRACKER
2026, dir. Jovan Brooks, USA, 14 min., In English / Format: Digital
A young man confronts personal hurdles through vivid, analog-inspired cinematic vignettes.
THE BARBER
2026, dir. Brennan DuBose, USA, 22 min., In English / Format: Digital
A compassionate neighborhood barber offers quiet wisdom and safe harbor to his clients.
NOW, HEAR ME GOOD
2025, dir. Dwayne LeBlanc, USA, 15 min., In English / Format: Digital
Trumpet music guides a weary musician back to personal stillness after a lively gathering.
STACK
2025, dir. Randolph Buffington, USA, 8 min., In English / Format: Digital
A dedicated bricklayer and preacher balances job sites and a Sunday sermon within forty-eight hours.
A KING DISPLACED
2026, dir. Olayinka Eno Babalola, Nigeria, 20 min., In Egun, English, and Yoruba with English subtitles / Format: Digital
A traditional ruler in the waters of Makoko fights to protect his community from urban displacement.
NEGRO LEAGUE NIGHTS
2025, dir. Kyle Sykes, USA, 13 min., In English / Format: Digital
Black baseball players make a courageous stand against segregation at Yankee Stadium in 1923.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu
SHOWTIMES
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 8:15 P.M. & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 8:30 P.M.
