Directed by Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien • 1986 • United Kingdom
Starring Anni Domingo, Joseph Charles, Carlton Chance

One of the major works of the revolutionary Sankofa Film and Video Collective, this radically innovative film explores issues of Black British culture, gender, and sexuali...

Directed by Andrew Dosunmu • 2011 • United States
Starring Sy Alassane, Sky Nicole Grey, Tony Okungbowa

The visually ravishing feature debut by Andrew Dosunmu is a mesmerizing plunge into a New York rarely seen on screen, the city’s West African diaspora. Djibril (Sy Alassane) hustles to get by ...

Directed by Darius Clark Monroe • 2014 • United States
Starring Dante E. Clark, Rosalyn Coleman, Ellie Foumbi

When he was sixteen years old, filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe, along with a group of high school friends, donned a skeleton mask, walked into a Texas Bank of America, and robbed it at gun...

Directed by Shola Amoo • 2016 • United Kingdom
Starring Tanya Fear, Hussina Raja, Aki Omoshaybi

Blending fiction, documentary, and performance art, this incisive and heartfelt exploration of class, community, and social upheaval follows Nina (Tanya Fear), a young artist, as she returns to London...

Directed by Blitz Bazawule • 2018 • Ghana, United States
Starring Ama K. Abebrese, Joe Addo, Henry Adofo

A profusion of dazzling, magical-realist images grace the visually and emotionally stunning debut feature from musician turned filmmaker Blitz Bazawule. Through the eyes of Esi (Cynthia Dankw...

Directed by Shatara Michelle Ford • 2019 • United States
Starring Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean

Blending psychological horror with realist drama, the stunning debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and...

Directed by Cecilia Aldarondo • 2020 • Puerto Rico

An intimate and lyrical portrait of trauma, resilience, and resistance in post–Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL traces collective recovery in the wake of the devastating storm while exposing the island’s deepening economic and environmental...

Directed by Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides • 2023 • United States

FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS tracks the devastation experienced by residents of a New York City nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. Centered on Jay and the Reality Poets, largely a group of gun-violence survivors, ...

Directed by Cauleen Smith • 2001 • United States

In this experimental hybrid between science fiction and noir, Cauleen Smith explores Black alienation and outsiderhood via the story of two aliens stationed on Earth searching for kinship and a sense of purpose.

Directed by Ja’Tovia Gary • 2015 • United States

Employing intricately hand-altered archival footage of Black women speaking on the push for liberation and freedom, director Ja’Tovia Gary crafts a meditative invocation of transcendence as a means of restoration.

Directed by Adepero Oduye • 2017 • United States
Starring Adepero Oduye

In this soul-stirring short featuring stunning cinematography from Bradford Young, PARIAH actor Adepero Oduye takes the stage as the great Nina Simone for an intimate, defiant performance.

Directed by Imani Nikyah Dennison • 2024 • United States

THE PEOPLE COULD FLY is a poetic documentary about the history of Black gathering spaces in Louisville, Kentucky, from the 1960s to the mid-2000s. Through an intimate combination of archival footage, still photos, newly shot material, and ...

Directed by Christopher Radcliff • 2025 • Philippines, United States, Vietnam

In 1975, soon after the end of the Vietnam War, Hoa Thị Lê Chế and Huệ Nguyên Chế fled to the Philippines in a makeshift boat. There, they were held in a refugee camp and, along with nearly one hundred other refugees, ...