SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 3:00PM & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 8:15PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Black love strikes a chord in this symphony of shorts […]
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 8:15PM | Feature Film | Mack, Tracy, Amari, and Stephanie, high school teammates, find themselves abandoned at the beach on their way to a basketball tournament […]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 8:15PM & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 8:30PM | Feature Film | A corporate executive finds herself sharing a rental car with her ex-fiancé’s mother amidst a fierce storm. As the rain pours, old wounds reopen, and heartfelt revelations […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 5:30PM & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 3:00PM | Feature Film | AMAKKI, meaning “your mother,” is an intimate journey through Sidama’s coffee-growing hills […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 6:30PM | Special Event | Join Terence Nance for an intimate evening showcasing episodes four and five from season two of the acclaimed HBO series Random Acts of Flyness […]
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 8:30PM & TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 8:30PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | A showcase of Black filmmakers who break form and give cinema new […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 | Special Event | Join Black Film Club (BFC) Chi for a day of film and conversation at the 30th Black Harvest Film Festival! BFC will be catching THE DEBUTANTES at 2:00PM […]
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 8:15PM & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2:30PM | Feature Film | At a dining hall table at Yale in the 1990s, a group of Black students sought sanctuary within the ivory tower […]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 7:00PM | Special Event | We’re honored to conclude the 30th Black Harvest Film Festival with the Chicago premiere of the 4K digital restoration of Charles Burnett’s long-lost feature […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 3:00PM & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 7:30PM | Feature Film | Following his wife’s passing, single father Lucky embarks on a journey with his son Mason, who has Down syndrome […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 12:00PM | Special Event | For over five decades, the Community Film Workshop of Chicago (CFWC) has supported African Americans and people of color in the film industry […]
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 8:45PM & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 6:00PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Experience the rollercoaster of your 30s with humor, heart, and raw honesty in this collection […]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 5:45PM & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 5:45PM | Feature Film | Kwame, a young man struggling in clandestine sapphire mines, returns home and confronts the rampant corruption […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 12:30PM & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 6:00PM | Feature Film | In the wake of South African apartheid, Ernest Cole’s lens exposed the stark realities of colonial oppression […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 12:00 PM & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 4:30PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | In a world where Black girls are enough, these shorts reflect the powerful […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 4:00PM & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 6:00PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | From cradle to cane, join us for short films for the fam. […]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 5:45PM & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 8:30PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | The Windy City raised us, but the world is our oyster. Celebrate stories by local filmmakers with this […]
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 6:00PM & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 5:45PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | What’s done in the dark comes to the light on the big screen […]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 8:30PM & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 8:15PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | What is passed down cannot be forgotten […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 12:00PM | Special Event | How do we honor the past while forging new paths? In this dynamic double feature, we explore the intricate interplay of memory and identity […]
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 8:15PM & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 6:15PM | Feature Film | In 1993, as hip-hop emerged as a radical voice against a backdrop of systemic racism and mass incarceration, IT WAS ALL A DREAM […]
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 6:15PM & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 5:30PM | Feature Film | Leaving the oppressive backdrop of the 1940s United States, James Baldwin departs New York for Paris […]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 6:00PM | Special Event | Psst! Peer into the unknown, embrace the ambiguity, and show up to the Film Center for a screening that is entirely, absolutely, and ultimately “to be announced” […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2:30PM & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2:00PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | The legacy of Black masculinity unfolds in this collection of […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 5:15PM & 5:30PM | Feature Film | Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, NICKEL BOYS chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing […]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 7:00PM | Special Event | Welcome to the 30th Black Harvest Film Festival! Join us for this presentation of select Black Harvest Film Festival short films and the announcement of the winners of […]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 5:45PM & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2:15PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Tender, tumultuous, transformative—it’s not water, it’s thicker than that. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 8:30PM | Special Event | Visual maker, creative researcher, sound designer, and director Osadolor Osawemwenze presents their thesis on Blackqueer creatives using lo-fi and DIY audiovisual […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 5:00PM & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 12:15PM | Feature Film | In the wake of a tumultuous election, Democratic Republic of the Congo reignited its ambition to construct Africa’s largest power plant. […]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 6:15PM | Special Event | With Sonic Constellations, Chicago-based scholar and curator chris d. reeder, alongside artist and theorist Nina Garibaldi, explores the essential role of sound in cinema […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 5:30PM & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 8:30PM | Feature Film | Khalid, a Black man from New York, finds himself stranded in a small Bulgarian coastal town—bankrupt on bailouts, broken, and […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2:00PM & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 6:00PM | Feature Film | An intergenerational group of Black women and girls take the debutante ball off the mantle of memory […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 12:30PM | Dan Freeman, the CIA’s first “diversity hire,” becomes disillusioned with the agency and returns to a post-1968 Chicago, a city still mourning its beloved revolutionaries. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 8:30PM & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 8:15PM | Feature Film | In search of family, orphaned Nikiya plunges into the shadows of her fiancé’s estranged kin. As buried secrets surface, she confronts the […]
