• WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

    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.

  • TO KNOW HER IS TO LOVE HER

    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

  • AFTER HOURS

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

  • ABOUT HIM

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

  • DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES

    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

  • ANCESTRAL FUTURES

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

  • TCB – THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING

    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,

  • FROM THE BLOCK

    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.

  • TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS

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

  • THREE BLACK MEN

    Feature Film | Can Blackness truly escape the historical violence of its origins? Seeking an answer, three Black men embark on a transformative, restorative pilgrimage tracing the transatlantic slave route

  • VOICES OF THE GODS

    Feature Film | A landmark work of ethnographic and cultural preservation, VOICES OF THE GODS foregrounds the Akan and Yoruba religious traditions as they are actively practiced and sustained within