Retrospective: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Black Film* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

United States, 1968, 75 min

In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York’s Central Park, leaving them to try…

Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song

United States, 1971, 97 min

A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was Melvin Van…

Sambizanga

Angola / France, 1972, 102 min

This revolutionary bombshell by Sarah Maldoror chronicles the awakening of Angola’s independence movement. * One of the first feature films ever directed by…

Touki Bouki

Senegal, 1973, 88 min

With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of post-independence Senegal…

West Indies

France / Algeria / Mauritania, 1979, 115 min

West Indies is a visually and aurally stunning musical appropriately set on a giant slave ship symbolizing the relationship between Africa, Europe and…

Tongues Untied

United States, 1989, 55 min

Tongues United gives voice to communities of Black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront racism, homophobia,…

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

UK, 1993, 52'

An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader, Seven Songs for Malcolm X collects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reenactments to tell…

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

United Kingdom 1996, 69 min

Interviews, reconstructions and archive footage tell the story of the life and work of the highly influential anti-colonialist writer Frantz Fanon, author of…

Drylongso

United States, 1998, 86 min

A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder…

still/here

United States, 2000, 60 min

still/here kroji refleksiju o ogromnom krajoliku prošaranom ruševinama i praznim parcelama koji čine sjeverni dio St. Louisa, područje na kojem je nastanjena gotovo…

Tonsler Park

United States, 2017, 80 min

Tonsler Park records a polling station in Charlottesville, Virginia during Election Day in the United States on November 8th, 2016. * A masterpiece…

The Inheritance

United States, 2020, 100’

Ephraim Asili’s feature-length debut is a remarkable ensemble work that takes place almost entirely inside a West Philadelphia house. The film follows a…