Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the last-modified-timestamp domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /code/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114 Past Events from November 16, 2024 – November 18, 2024 – Page 5 – BLACK HARVEST FILM FESTIVAL NOV7-16

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)

ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND

Feature Film |  In the wake of South African apartheid, Ernest Cole’s lens exposed the stark realities of colonial oppression.

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.