IN LIVING MEMORY AND HAVING A BALL! WITH THE HOUSE OF AVANT GARDE
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.
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.
Feature Film | In the wake of a tumultuous election, Democratic Republic of the Congo reignited its ambition to construct Africa’s largest power plant.
Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Tender, tumultuous, transformative—it’s not water, it’s thicker than that.
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
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
Feature Film | In the wake of South African apartheid, Ernest Cole’s lens exposed the stark realities of colonial oppression.
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
Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Black love strikes a chord in this symphony of shorts.
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.
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
Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | A showcase of Black filmmakers who break form and give cinema new meaning.
Feature Film | Kwame, a young man struggling in clandestine sapphire mines, returns home and confronts the rampant corruption in Madagascar.