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Film Venue: Logan Center for the Arts
September 17, 2026
14th
Written in the wreckage of the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was meant to close the door on the hierarchy of human worth. Instead, it has become a permanent argument. Ava DuVernay’s 14th pulls this constitutional fight out of the footnotes and into the present, chronicling the vicious battle over...
September 17, 2026
Congo Boy
Based on director Rafiki Fariala’s own lived experiences, Congo Boy is an autobiographical coming-of-age musical drama set amid the civil unrest of Bangui, Central African Republic. When both of his parents are suddenly imprisoned for carrying false passports, 17-year-old Congolese refugee Robert...
September 17, 2026
Marie Madeleine
Following up her acclaimed debut Freda, Haitian filmmaker Gessica Généus directs and stars in Marie Madeleine, tracking the sensual interior life of a fiercely independent sex worker in Jacmel. When her path crosses with Joseph, a young man trapped under the thumb of his fanatical father and an a...
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...
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...
