FROM THE BLOCK

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 dynamic slate of shorts.

MYSTERY MOVIE MONDAY: BLACK HARVEST EDITION

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”—quite

ALBANY ROAD

Feature Film | A corporate executive finds herself sharing a rental car with her ex-fiancé’s mother amidst a fierce storm.

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

GRIOTS, GHOSTS, AND GUARDIANS

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | What’s done in the dark comes to the light on the big screen with these short stories of Black horror and

JIMMY

Feature Film | Leaving the oppressive backdrop of the 1940s United States, James Baldwin departs New York for Paris, joining fellow Black expats searching for liberation.

A YELLOW CIRCUS

Feature Film | Mack, Tracy, Amari, and Stephanie, high school teammates, find themselves abandoned at the beach on their way to a basketball tournament.

BLACK AND BLUR

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

DISCO AFRIKA

Feature Film | Kwame, a young man struggling in clandestine sapphire mines, returns home and confronts the rampant corruption in Madagascar.

THE DEBUTANTES

Feature Film | An intergenerational group of Black women and girls take the debutante ball off the mantle of memory, bringing this long-lost tradition back to life in Canton, Ohio.

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