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 of Black cinema.

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 self-definition. 

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.