BLACK TABLE

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 during civil rights protests at lunch counters decades earlier.

GRIOTS, GHOSTS, AND GUARDIANS

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | What’s done in the dark comes to the light on the big screen with these short stories of Black horror and haunting.

JIMMY

Feature Film | Leaving the oppressive backdrop of the 1940s United States, James Baldwin departs New York for Paris, joining fellow Black expats searching for liberation.

A YELLOW CIRCUS

Feature Film | Mack, Tracy, Amari, and Stephanie, high school teammates, find themselves abandoned at the beach on their way to a basketball tournament.

BLACK AND BLUR

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | A showcase of Black filmmakers who break form and give cinema new meaning.

DISCO AFRIKA

Feature Film | Kwame, a young man struggling in clandestine sapphire mines, returns home and confronts the rampant corruption in Madagascar.

THE DEBUTANTES

Feature Film | An intergenerational group of Black women and girls take the debutante ball off the mantle of memory, bringing this long-lost tradition back to life in Canton, Ohio.

IT WAS ALL A DREAM

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 memoir that immerses viewers in the genre’s golden era, teetering on the edge of global domination.

HOODOOS AND HEIRLOOMS

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | What is passed down cannot be forgotten.

GRIOTS, GHOSTS, AND GUARDIANS

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | What’s done in the dark comes to the light on the big screen with these short stories of Black horror and haunting.

DIRTY 30s

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | This ain’t no rom-com; it’s complicated: 30, flirty, and navigating life one laugh (or cry) at a time.

THE WEEKEND

Feature Film | In search of family, orphaned Nikiya plunges into the shadows of her fiancé’s estranged kin.