This series examines the aesthetic choices of artists who started in the world of animation before moving into live action filmmaking, spanning classic Hollywood to millennial Japan and beyond.

Connecting the earliest history of Black filmmakers to the boom of the 60s, these rarely screened films from Pearl Bowser’s collection highlight Black filmmaking and creativity in Brooklyn.

A family of Sasquatches embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey in the misty forests of North America as they reckon with the ever-changing world around them.

In these restored films from pioneering Black filmmaker Debra J. Robinson, a young girl comes to terms with the death of her grandmother, and four Black women comedians in the 1980s go about their daily lives.

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist star in Luca Guadagnino’s highly-anticipated, messy new film about a tennis-fueled love triangle.

An empathetic portrait of a Nigerian university film club where a derided young generation comes together to refine their political vision and develop a critical voice.

A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father’s murder in this quietly intense parable of revenge and forgiveness set in the wake of Chad’s decades-long civil war.

This revelatory program collects over two decades worth of vital, rarely-screened work in which filmmakers of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain and beyond created powerfully resonant images of Black people on screen.

Widely regarded as the first Black British feature film, this absorbing portrait of a London teenager struggling to find his place in the world considers what it means to be an outsider in one’s own society.

This cinematic companion to DanceAfrica showcases the best new narrative, documentary, and short films from across Africa and the diaspora, with a focus on films from, and about, Cameroon.