Habito

Habito tells the story of a poor, fat black man in pursuit of his dream of being a filmmaker, facing academic and personal challenges after his mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. A narrative that intertwines life, family and cinema, exploring the roots of Alagoas and Bahia.

Acts of Reparation

Two friends, one Black and one white, journey to their Southern ancestral homes, exploring reparations' meaning. Their travels uncover opportunities that transform their bond, communities, reclaiming and reckoning with their roots.

Pollinator

The artist walks through a garden, with additional footage featuring Black trans activist Marsha P. Johnson.

Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn

An inspiring love story about a self-described “poor, gay, black man from North Philly” on his historic run for the United States Senate. But this race is about more than taking on the political competition. It’s about taking on an entire system.

Drijfvermogen - Over flotatie, ras en andere drijfveren

Short documentary in which Ivan Barbosa follows Tarikh Janssen's career switch. The actor leaves the movie world behind and returns to top swimming. Together, Barbosa and Janssen explore taboo topics such as white innocence, Black identity and the Black Lives Matter movement to expose the absurdity and seriousness of today's racism debate.

CHAAW: Chapter 1

A Celebration of Hip Hop through beatboxing and unique storytelling by the Legendary Biz Markie who rhymes while telling the stories of victims of injustice. CHAAW - Five interconnected stories highlighting victims of injustice. China, Hector, Africa, Ardnas and Wesley.(CHAAW) These are the stories of victims of Injustice in America. The effect of injustice not only impacts the individuals but also their families and community.

The Issue of Mr. O'Dell

A documentary examining the life of civil rights organizer, Jack O'Dell, a close colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a force in his own right.

Caixa D'Água: Qui-Lombo é Esse?

The documentary "Caixa D'água: Qui-lombo is this?" It reports, through testimonies from former residents and photographic collections, the importance in the cultural and historical scope of the Getúlio Vargas neighborhood located in Aracaju, capital of Sergipe. Emphasis is placed on black culture and the presence of black slaves and their descendants, with the rescue of issues related to their origin, orality, geographical location and awareness of their racial identity, showing that, although this community exists in an urban area, it still maintains many aspects of the quilombo life of the former black slaves in Brazil.

Lima Barreto: Trajetória

Short film about the life and career of the notorious Brazilian writer Lima Barreto.

COMPLEXion

"COMPLEXion is a documentary that aims to unpack the hegemony of skin color globally and challenge the archaic notions that exist surrounding it. Our mission is to defy toxic beauty standards through raw human stories."

Wè

As Black and LGBTQ+ History Month begin this February, material science clothing brand PANGAIA leads celebrations with a poetic film that honors these two communities. Following a year of isolation, and with it a deeper understanding of the importance of outdoor spaces and the environment, Wè is a portrait of the self-love and acceptance we have learned to show others and gift to ourselves.

Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story

Everyone knows the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” but few know of the man who helped popularize it. Little known Harlem based photographer - freedom fighter and activist - Kwame Brathwaite took 500,000 photos across his 70-year career, always devoted to celebrating the joy and beauty of African American life. This feature documentary tells the story of Kwame and the “Black is Beautiful” movement.

What Now Mama

A mother struggles to hold her family together as multiple crises threaten to destroy them.

Flyin' Cut Sleeves

FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.

CARUKANGO

How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?

A multimedia performance including film, live narration and dance, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? explores loss and transcendence experienced in human partnerships. Reflecting on his relationship with 102-year-old former sharecropper, carpenter and gardener Walter Carter as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction classic, Solaris, Lemon and 6 dancers create a performance which arcs from turbulent physicality to restorative grace.

Coaching While Black

When Don 'Tex' Phillips, an American basketball coach, takes the reins of a Canadian college team on the prairies, his squad becomes the subject of sabotage on their way to back-to-back titles, before his premature exit as head coach.

Bittersweet

An oral history documentary of people of color at Miami University during its Public Ivy period—from 1970 to the early 2000s.

YOU WILL NOT REPLACE US

A documentary drama addressing the shared tribulations and historical unity between Black and Jewish Americans.

With Liberty and Justice for All

Set on a university campus in 1975, this film follows the lives of Q (a Black adoptee), her roommate Jam (the daughter of former Black Panthers), and Marcus (a student who has experienced the school’s discrimination firsthand) as they bond together to form a Black Student Union.