Special Presentation | Black Harvest opens with four standout short films, presentation of the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Prize, and a post-screening reception celebrating the filmmakers and the future

Special Presentation | For more than five decades, the Community Film Workshop of Chicago (CFWC) has championed Black filmmakers and artists of color through education, mentorship, and independent production.

Short Film Program | SPACE IS THE PLACE celebrates the possibilities of Black imagination through science fiction, supernatural horror, surrealism, visionary storytelling, and speculative world-building.

Short Film Program | EVERYDAY PEOPLE considers community as a living practice, sustained through shared histories, spiritual traditions, cultural expression, political struggle, and everyday acts of care.

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

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.

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

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

Special Presentation | BLACK PANTHER & THE SIGHT UNSEEN brings together historic archival documentation and the work of acclaimed Chicago-based filmmaker Shawn Antoine II.

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

Feature Film | Five generations of the Obie family heal through the Indigenous practice of farming while confronting heartbreaking challenges as outside forces threaten to separate them from their land. 

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