Films


The Bitter Pill
Clay Tweel

With his hometown ravaged by the opioid epidemic, plaintiff attorney Paul Farrell Jr. sets out to take on giant pharmaceutical companies to recover enough money to make a lasting impact for the area. When his legal strategy catches the attention of lawyers across the country, all of the cases get rolled into the biggest civil litigation in US history. Will the case become too big for this small-town lawyer, or will he rise to the occasion and effect change not just for his hometown but for the entire nation?  

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Black Belt
Margaret Brown

In 2015, Alabama closed 31 DMVs, wiping out access to identification cards. This short follows a mobile unit traveling county to county to help register voters.

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Black Journal
St. Clair Bourne

From 1968 to 1970, Black Journal was the one hour of television a month for, about, and by African Americans. St. Clair Bourne was one…

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The Black List
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

In this groundbreaking film directed by famed portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, esteemed film critic Elvis Mitchell conducts riveting interviews with twenty prominent African American artists,…

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Black Out
Eva Weber

With no power at home, Guinean children walk miles to study for exams beneath the humming glow of airport, gas station, and parking lot lights. Festival Year: 2013

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Black Out
Eva Weber

With no power at home, Guinean children walk miles to study for exams beneath the humming glow of airport, gas station, and parking lot lights.

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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Stanley Nelson

A clarifying and vibrant history of the Black Panther Party, rich with rare archival footage, from the Party’s early beginnings to its ultimate dissolution.

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Black Picket Fence
Sergio Goes

Ever wondered where rap comes from, before it’s polished, packaged and sold as a commodity? Black Picket Fence goes to the source. Shot over a…

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Göran Hugo Olsson

Swedish filmmakers captured the Black Power movement as it happened, with riveting footage of Angela Davis, Huey Newton, and others.

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The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
Stanley Nelson

Since the first black American newspaper, Freedom Journal, was founded in 1827, publications across the nation have given voice to the black American experience. Pioneering…

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Black Sun
Gary Tarn

This extraordinary art film combines word, image, and music to portray a life interrupted and renewed. Black Sun begins with artist/filmmaker Hugues de Montalembert’s spoken…

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Blessed Are the Dreams of Men
Jem Cohen

Haunting in its simplicity, this short film captures a group of anonymous travelers as they drift through an unidentified landscape. A lovely reminder of the…

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The Blessing
Hunter Robert Baker, Jordan Fein

In this stunningly and candidly shot film, Lawrence, a Navajo coal miner, wrestles with his relationship to land to which he is spiritually bound but employed to destroy, while his daughter, Caitlin, forms her own identity amid cultural pressures. World Premiere

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Blind Loves
Juraj Lehotský

How do you search when you cannot see? As stunning cinematically as it is emotionally, this film gives new and tender meaning to the old…

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Blindsight
Lucy Walker

Appalled by the plight of blind people in Tibet—children who are blind are shunned from school and society—Sabriye Tenberken, a young blind German woman, established…

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Blockade
Sergei Loznitsa

A riveting, haunting chronicle of the siege of Leningrad created from a brilliant synthesis of archival footage and reconstructed sound.

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Blockade
Sergei Loznitsa

From 1941 to 1944 German troops descended on Leningrad, causing inconceivable destitution and loss of life. Using only found footage from Moscow archives and an…

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Blood Brother
Steve Hoover

A man’s life is changed forever when he travels to India and realizes he cannot leave the children he has met at an orphanage behind.

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