Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | From blood to chosen, this collection of shorts honors tenderness and ties across generations and geographies. 

Feature Film | 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.

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Six portraits of Black women and girls tracing the art of becoming across generations and geographies.

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | In this shorts program, horror and speculative cinema become portals where the future is here, and the past walks beside us.

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | A meditation on Black love and its many languages.

Feature Film | A family comedy where a Bigfoot-obsessed 10-year-old and her grandfather rediscover wonder through loss and laughter.

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Experimental cinema on the edge of Black possibility.

Feature Film | Barbara Jordan’s extraordinary life of “firsts”—from Texas senator to Congressional powerhouse—comes alive in this portrait, narrated by Alfre Woodard. 

Feature Film | 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.

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | An eclectic late-night ride for the nocturnal.

Feature Film | Barbara Jordan’s extraordinary life of “firsts”—from Texas senator to Congressional powerhouse—comes alive in this portrait, narrated by Alfre Woodard. 

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | A meditation on Black love and its many languages.