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Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | The Windy City raised us, but the world is our oyster. Celebrate stories by local filmmakers with this dynamic slate of shorts.

NATIVE SONS

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | The legacy of Black masculinity unfolds in this collection of portraits, celebrating beauty, struggle, and resilience.

AMAKKI

Feature Film | AMAKKI, meaning “your mother,” is an intimate journey through Sidama’s coffee-growing hills.

FOR COLORED GIRLS

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | In a world where Black girls are enough, these shorts reflect the powerful bond between sisters.

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.

COLOR BOOK

Feature Film | Following his wife’s passing, single father Lucky embarks on a journey with his son Mason, who has Down syndrome.

PRESENTATION: AN_EVENING_W/_OSADOLOR

Special Event | Visual maker, creative researcher, sound designer, and director Osadolor Osawemwenze presents their thesis on Blackqueer creatives using lo-fi and DIY audiovisual aesthetics within the Black diaspora.

PARENTAL GUIDANCE

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Tender, tumultuous, transformative—it’s not water, it’s thicker than that.

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.

NICKEL BOYS

Feature Film | Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, NICKEL BOYS chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. (MGM)

NICKEL BOYS

Feature Film | Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, NICKEL BOYS chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. (MGM)