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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

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

Special Presentation | MEMORY & STYLE: SOJOURN & CANDY PAINT brings together two formally inventive works that explore identity, memory, and the ways Black life is archived through personal and

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,

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.

Special Presentation | Presented in partnership with Jupiter Magazine, this special presentation celebrates the pioneering cinematic work of Burkinabè filmmaker Fanta Régina Nacro.