• 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

  • A LOVE SUPREME

    Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | Black love strikes a chord in this symphony of shorts.

  • THE BLACK SEA

    Feature Film | Khalid, a Black man from New York, finds himself stranded in a small Bulgarian coastal town—bankrupt on bailouts, broken, and bereft of loved ones.

  • SONIC CONSTELLATIONS

    Special Event | With Sonic Constellations, Chicago-based scholar and curator chris d. reeder, alongside artist and theorist Nina Garibaldi, explores the essential role of sound in cinema, revealing how scores

  • 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.

  • FOR THE FAM

    Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | From cradle to cane, join us for short films for the fam.

  • HOODOOS AND HEIRLOOMS

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

  • ALBANY ROAD

    Feature Film | A corporate executive finds herself sharing a rental car with her ex-fiancé’s mother amidst a fierce storm.

  • CLOSING NIGHT: ANNIHILATION OF FISH

    Special Event | We’re honored to conclude the 30th Black Harvest Film Festival with the Chicago premiere of the 4K digital restoration of Charles Burnett’s (KILLER OF SHEEP, TO SLEEP

  • CLOSING NIGHT: ANNIHILATION OF FISH (FILM ONLY)

    Special Event | We’re honored to conclude the 30th Black Harvest Film Festival with the Chicago premiere of the 4K digital restoration of Charles Burnett’s (KILLER OF SHEEP, TO SLEEP

  • OPENING NIGHT

    Special Event | Welcome to the 31st Black Harvest Film Festival! Join us for this presentation of select Black Harvest Film Festival short films and the announcement of the winners