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🎬 Concerning Violence (2014) 📽 88 mins Dir. Göran Olsson  Using Frantz Fanon’s anticolonial call to arms “The Wretched of the Earth” as a launching point, director Göran Olsson constructs a revelatory assemblage of
🎬 BabaKiueria (1986) 📽 29 mins Dir. Don Featherstone  Released two years before Australia marked its bicentenary of white settlement, BabaKiueria is a rockumentary that satirizes the colonizer’s ethnographic gaze. Set in a speculative r
🎬 Time (2020) 📽 91 mins Dir. Garrett Bradley  What does the weight of time’s passage feel like for a family caught in the jaws of a brutal carceral system? Both a breathtaking cinematic love story and a bruising indictment of American i
🎬 A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 📽 128 mins Dir. Daniel Petrie, screenplay by Lorraine Hansberry  Lorraine Hansberry’s immortal A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. Two years later, the produc
🎬 A Girl Like Me (2005) 📽 7 mins Dir. Kiri Davis Before anyone heard the term viral video, Kiri Davis’ powerful documentary, A Girl Like Me crashed internet servers worldwide in 2005, reaching tens of millions of viewers and becoming part o
🎬 Will (1981) 📽 73 mins Dir. Jessie Maple In 1981, Jessie Maple (one of the first Black TV camerawomen on the East Coast) became one of the first Black women to direct an independent film with this raw, unflinching portrait of heroin addiction and
🎬 The Potluck and the Passion (1993) 📽 21 mins Dir. Cheryl Dunye A short film by Cheryl Dunye (director of the Watermelon Woman), The Potluck and the Passion is a “gloriously lived-in lesbian date film” that explores the racial, politi
🎬 Killer of Sheep (1977) 📽 81 mins Dir. Charles Burnett A quietly stirring work of neorealist cinema and a touchstone of the groundbreaking L.A. Rebellion movement, Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut feature Killer of Sheep follows the life of