Black Perspectives

In a matriarchal cotton-rich Sudanese village, teenage Nafisa is at the nexus of a power play that will determine the community’s future.

This inspirational story of reclamation follows a 90-year-old film pioneer on a mission to restore his images of Ghana’s journey to independence.

Nigeria 1993. A father takes his sons on a whirlwind day trip to Lagos as the chaos of a changing world threatens to envelop them.

In 2014, Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League became the first all-Black team to win the Little League U.S. Baseball Championship. Along the way, 13 twelve-year-old athletes from the South Side turned into media superstars.

A Nigerian shoe salesman in Australia juggles fatherhood, fading traditions, and a changing world when his adolescent son comes to live with him full time.

This lyrical portrait of legacy Black farmers in the American South celebrates their tenacity and resolve, presenting a timeless vision of a waning way of life.

Close ties abound in these short films spanning Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, and the U.S. These six shorts explore the complicated relationships between parents and children, aunts and nieces, artists and their craft, and even former lovers.

In 1930s French-colonized Martinique, an eleven-year-old boy becomes the hope for his community, and his grandmother will do anything to see his ambitions realized.

Earth’s favorite Saturnist Sun Ra is celebrated through a cosmic musical journey into the Afrofuturist’s life, artistry, inspirations, and impact.

Focusing on the 1969 student protests at Montreal’s Concordia University, this powerful film confronts the buried legacy of racism in Canada.