MYSTERY MOVIE MONDAY: BLACK HARVEST EDITION

Special Event | Psst! Peer into the unknown, embrace the ambiguity, and show up to the Film Center for a screening that is entirely, absolutely, and ultimately “to be announced”—quite literally the moment the lights go down.

ALBANY ROAD

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

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.

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.