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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

EVERY SEED IS A STAR

Shorts Program | Select filmmakers scheduled to attend. | From blood to chosen, this collection of shorts honors tenderness and ties across generations and geographies. 

SEEDS

Feature Film | A lyrical portrait of Black farmers in the American South, tracing land, lineage, and loss. Shyne captures quiet acts of care and resistance as families fight to