THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 5:30 PM & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 3:00 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | A meditation on Black love and its many languages. […]
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 3:00 PM & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 8:00 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Experimental cinema on the edge of Black possibility. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 12:00 PM | Special Event | Matinee screening as part of the continuing BLKNWS Sunday series. […]
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 5:30 PM | Kahlil Joseph’s long-anticipated feature expands his acclaimed BLKNWS project into a cinematic experience. […]
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 8:00 PM & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 8:30 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Ten portraits of Black men and boys tracing the art of becoming across generations and geographies. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 6:00 PM | Special Event | BLACK GIRL is a tender portrait that follows Billie (Peggy Pettitt), a young dancer coming of age between the weight of the world and her own dreams of becoming. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 11:00 AM | Special Event | Join Community Film Workshop of Chicago and the Black Harvest Film Festival in celebrating the authentic voices of South Side storytellers. […]
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 5:30 PM | Special Event | Two stories celebrating the cultural and organizing spirit of Black women who shaped Chicago’s legacy. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 11:30 AM & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 5:15 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | From blood to chosen, this collection of shorts honors tenderness and ties across generations and geographies. […]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 5:30 PM & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2:30 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Stories from Chicago’s very own take the center. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 12:15 PM & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 8:15 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Horror and speculative cinema become portals where the future is here, and the past walks beside us. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2:30 PM & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 5:45 PM | A soulful chronicle of Chicago’s house music—its powerful roots and its echoes, and its power to move the world through rhythm, memory, and joy. […]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 6:00 PM | Special Event | Peer into the unknown, embrace the ambiguity, and show up to the Film Center for a screening that is “to be announced.” […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 8:15 PM & FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 8:15 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | An eclectic late-night ride for the nocturnal. […]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 7:00 PM | Special Event | Welcome to the 31st Black Harvest Film Festival! Join us for this presentation of select Black Harvest Film Festival short films and the announcement of the winners of The Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Black Harvest Film Festival Prize, followed by a lively reception. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2:30 PM & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 5:45 PM | A family comedy where a Bigfoot-obsessed 10-year-old and her grandfather rediscover wonder through loss and laughter. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 5:00 PM & TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 5:45 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Stories on migration, belonging, and the places we call home. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2:00 PM & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 8:15 PM | A lyrical portrait of Black farmers in the American South, tracing land, lineage, and loss. Shyne captures quiet acts of care and resistance as families fight to preserve the soil and their story. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 6:00 PM & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 8:00 PM | Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Six portraits of Black women and girls tracing the art of becoming across generations and geographies. […]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 8:15 PM & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 12:00 PM | Barbara Jordan’s extraordinary life of “firsts”—from Texas senator to Congressional powerhouse—comes alive in this portrait, narrated by Alfre Woodard. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 12:00 PM & TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 8:30 PM | Five Black Chicagoans, each carrying the impact of incarceration, journey to Benin through the Restore Fellowship to reclaim history and reimagine repair and liberation at the source. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 8:15 PM | Special Event | Three films chart the evolution of Black queer life, art, and community. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 5:30 PM & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 6:15 PM | The first feature directed by a Black woman, Jessie Maple’s 1981 WILL tells a Harlem story of redemption, marking Loretta Devine’s unforgettable screen debut. […]
