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Two Black women sit outside on a porch; the older woman in a brown patterned shirt gazes ahead while the younger woman next to her in a collared gingham tank looks down smiling.

September 17, 2026

Liz Here Now

Anchored by a commanding, powerhouse performance from Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Liz Here Now is a devastatingly poignant and deeply moving exploration of the unsung labor of Black womanhood and caretaking. Taylor stars as Liz, a devoted live-in caregiver in segregated 1960s America who jeopardizes h...

A woman with long blonde hair in a blue shirt tensely sits in a prison cafeteria opposite a male inmate in a orange jumpsuit during visitng hours.

September 17, 2026

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

In a small town in Oklahoma, Karen (Amanda Seyfried) finds work teaching creative writing at a nearby maximum security prison. One of the inmates in her class, Wilson Shedd (Scoot McNairy), takes a particular interest in expressing his feelings on paper—and in Karen’s warmth and generosity. What ...

A woman in all black, bags slung over both shoulders, briskly walks away from a group of people who are also all dressed in black formal wear. They follow her with concern through a rain-soaked residential neighborhood on a tree-lined street.

September 17, 2026

The Liberation

It’s the early 1980s: Rita Cooper (Carrie Coon) is a closed-off mother of two who works as a bank executive, unable to come to grips with her traumatic history. At the bank one day, she meets the radiant Ricki (Lily James) who invites Rita to join her women’s self-empowerment group. Discovering a...

A woman, man, and young girl stand in an elevator. The woman holds the young girl, who has her arms wrapped around the woman's neck and shoulders, the man glances at the girl tensely.

September 17, 2026

Josephine

One early Sunday morning, athletic dad Damian (Channing Tatum) and 8-year-old daughter Josephine (Mason Reeves) are jogging in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. When Josephine takes a wrong turn and finds herself alone, she is stopped in her tracks by a shocking assault that she witnesses from a ...

September 17, 2026

Three Colors: Pan-African

A three-part narrative anthology mapped across the symbolic spectrum of the Pan-African flag, Three Colors: Pan-African explores three distinct stories of contemporary Black survival. In Red: Black Men Don't Cry, directed by Elijah Davis, a college football star (Peyton Alex Smith) faces an id...

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