PRESENTATION: AN_EVENING_W/_OSADOLOR

Special Event | Visual maker, creative researcher, sound designer, and director Osadolor Osawemwenze presents their thesis on Blackqueer creatives using lo-fi and DIY audiovisual aesthetics within the Black diaspora.

RISING UP AT NIGHT

Feature Film | In the wake of a tumultuous election, Democratic Republic of the Congo reignited its ambition to construct Africa’s largest power plant.

PARENTAL GUIDANCE

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Tender, tumultuous, transformative—it’s not water, it’s thicker than that.

BLACK TABLE

Feature Film | At a dining hall table at Yale in the 1990s, a group of Black students sought sanctuary within the ivory tower, echoing the legacy of solidarity forged during civil rights protests at lunch counters decades earlier.

NICKEL BOYS

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 trials of reform school together in Florida. (MGM)

ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND

Feature Film |  In the wake of South African apartheid, Ernest Cole’s lens exposed the stark realities of colonial oppression.

IT WAS ALL A DREAM

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 serves as a visual memoir that immerses viewers in the genre’s golden era, teetering on the edge of global domination.

A LOVE SUPREME

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Black love strikes a chord in this symphony of shorts.

THE BLACK SEA

Feature Film | Khalid, a Black man from New York, finds himself stranded in a small Bulgarian coastal town—bankrupt on bailouts, broken, and bereft of loved ones.

SONIC CONSTELLATIONS

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, revealing how scores shape narratives and emotional experiences.

BLACK AND BLUR

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | A showcase of Black filmmakers who break form and give cinema new meaning.