SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 3:00 P.M. & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 8:30 P.M. | Five generations of the Obie family heal through the Indigenous practice of farming while confronting heartbreaking challenges as outside forces threaten to separate them from their land. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 8:15 P.M. & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 8:30 P.M. | ABOUT HIM offers an expansive portrait of Black manhood grounded not in dominance or performance, but in care. […]
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 8:15 P.M. | AFTER HOURS explores the uneasy space where attraction, desire, obsession, and fear collide. […]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 6:00 P.M. | ANCESTRAL FUTURES traces a lineage of Black speculative cinema that reaches backward as much as it imagines forward. […]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 5:30 P.M. | BLACK AND BLUR brings together artists who approach cinema as a site of inquiry, ritual, performance, archive, and experimentation. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 6:00 P.M. | Adapted from Solomon Northup’s landmark 1853 autobiography ‘Twelve Years a Slave,’ Gordon Parks’ powerful historical drama follows Northup, a free Black musician from Saratoga, New York, who is deceived, kidnapped, and sold into chattel slavery in 1841. […]
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 7:00 P.M. | 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. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 12:30 P.M. | BLACK PANTHER & THE SIGHT UNSEEN brings together historic archival documentation and the work of acclaimed Chicago-based filmmaker Shawn Antoine II. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:00 A.M. | For more than five decades, the CFWC has championed Black filmmakers and artists of color through education, mentorship, and independent production. […]
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 5:30 P.M. & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 5:30 P.M. | DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES follows three estranged childhood friends who embark on an impromptu road trip across America, transforming a journey through familiar landscapes into an intimate reckoning with grief, desire, friendship, and the ghosts of their shared past. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2:15 P.M. & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 6:00 P.M. | EVERYDAY PEOPLE considers community as a living practice, sustained through shared histories, spiritual traditions, cultural expression, political struggle, and everyday acts of care. […]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 5:30 P.M. & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 11:00 A.M. | SHORTS FROM THE BLOCK celebrates Chicago as both place and practice, a city continually shaped by its artists, organizers, institutions, and neighborhoods. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 8:00 P.M. & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 8:15 P.M. | Set in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME? follows a young Black father and his imaginative son as they navigate grief, housing precarity, and the enduring bonds of community. […]
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 3:00 P.M. | Presented in partnership with Jupiter Magazine, this special presentation celebrates the pioneering cinematic work of Burkinabè filmmaker Fanta Régina Nacro. […]
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2:30 P.M. & TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 8:30 P.M. | LISTEN TO ME follows three extraordinary Black women working on the frontline of the maternal health movement as they navigate institutional racism, the complexities of childbirth, and the urgent fight for reproductive justice in the United States. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 5:30 P.M. | MEMORY & STYLE: SOJOURN & CANDY PAINT brings together two formally inventive works that explore identity, memory, and the ways Black life is archived through personal and collective expression. […]
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 5:45 P.M. | Master documentarian William Greaves presents extraordinary archival footage from a legendary 1972 gathering at Duke Ellington’s Harlem townhouse. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 11:30 A.M. & MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 8:15 P.M. | SPACE IS THE PLACE celebrates the possibilities of Black imagination through science fiction, supernatural horror, surrealism, visionary storytelling, and speculative world-building. […]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 8:30 P.M. & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 8:00 P.M. | TCB – THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING traces the extraordinary life, intellectual rigor, and cultural legacy of writer, filmmaker, educator, and visionary cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara. […]
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 12:00 P.M. | Can Blackness truly escape the historical violence of its origins? Seeking an answer, three Black men embark on a transformative, restorative pilgrimage tracing the transatlantic slave route in reverse. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 5:00 P.M. & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 6:00 P.M. | 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. […]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 8:30 P.M. | TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS considers love not as romance alone, but as a sustained practice of care. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 3:00 P.M. | A landmark work of ethnographic and cultural preservation, VOICES OF THE GODS foregrounds the Akan and Yoruba religious traditions as they are actively practiced and sustained within the United States. […]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 5:15 P.M. & WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 5:30 P.M. | 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. […]
