Short Film Program | BLACK AND BLUR brings together artists who approach cinema as a site of inquiry, ritual, performance, archive, and experimentation.

Feature Film | LISTEN TO ME follows three extraordinary Black women working on the frontline of the maternal health movement as they navigate institutional racism, the complexities of childbirth, and the urgent fight for reproductive justice in the United States. 

Short Film Program | WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? brings together stories of lives in transition, where personal decisions, unexpected encounters, and moments of reckoning reshape the future.

Short Film Program | TO KNOW HER IS TO LOVE HER centers the interior lives of Black women and femmes through stories of motherhood, healing, identity, illness, memory, embodiment, and self-definition. 

Short Film Program | AFTER HOURS explores the uneasy space where attraction, desire, obsession, and fear collide.

Short Film Program | ABOUT HIM offers an expansive portrait of Black manhood grounded not in dominance or performance, but in care.

Feature Film | DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES follows three estranged childhood friends who embark on an impromptu road trip across America, transforming a journey through familiar landscapes into an intimate reckoning with grief, desire, friendship, and the ghosts of their shared past.  

Short Film Program | ANCESTRAL FUTURES traces a lineage of Black speculative cinema that reaches backward as much as it imagines forward.

Special Presentation | Set in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME? follows a young Black father and his imaginative son as they navigate grief, housing precarity, and the enduring bonds of community.

Feature Film | Through the intimate reflections of friends, former students, close collaborators, and fellow revolutionary artists, TCB – THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING traces the extraordinary life, intellectual rigor, and cultural legacy of writer, filmmaker, educator, and visionary cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara.

Short Film Program | SHORTS FROM THE BLOCK celebrates Chicago as both place and practice, a city continually shaped by its artists, organizers, institutions, and neighborhoods.

Short Film Program | TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS considers love not as romance alone, but as a sustained practice of care.