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A Screaming Man

A Screaming Man

A former swimming champion selfishly puts his welfare above his son during the Chadian revolution, and out of guilt, regrets his decision.

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American Thief

American Thief

A teen hacker seeking revenge for his father's murder becomes a pawn in a plot to derail the 2016 presidential elections.

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August the First

August the First

Tunde's family throws him a graduation party, but they have no idea that he has arranged for his estranged father to attend.

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Deep Blues

Deep Blues

In 1990, director Robert Mugge and music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the Mississippi Delta on a pilgrimage in search of the blues.

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Dreams of Dust

Dreams of Dust

The lives of Mocktar and Coumba cross paths in the dusty gold mining fields of Burkina Faso.

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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK tells the story of the life and work of the highly influential anti-colonialist writer Frantz Fanon.

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Goldie

Goldie

Goldie, a spirited teenager in a family shelter, fights the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer.

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Grigris

Grigris

A dancer with a bum leg finds himself dangerously entwined in the black market, in an effort to save himself and the woman he loves.

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Gun Runners

Gun Runners

Two warriors from Northern Kenya trade in their AK-47s for running shoes and the Kenyan dream of marathon running.

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How I Learned to Fly

How I Learned to Fly

Two African-American teenage boys are suddenly and mysteriously abandoned by their parents.

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I Am the Blues

I Am the Blues

From juke joints to church halls, up the mountain and down to the bayou, I AM THE BLUES travels the back roads with the last of the blues legends.

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Mapantsula

Mapantsula

After being arrested by the police, a “mapantsula” (petty gangster) is forced to choose between freedom and taking a stand against apartheid.

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Memory House

Memory House

Director João Paulo Miranda Maria uses spiritual and fantastical story-telling to encapsulate the social and racial tensions of modern day Brazil.

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Narcissister Organ Player

Narcissister Organ Player

Narcissister is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary showcasing her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of racial identity and sexuality.

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Nurse.Fighter.Boy

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.

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Queen of Glory

Queen of Glory

Ghanaian-American Sarah is all set to abandon her Ivy League doctoral program to follow her married lover across the country....

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Scared of Revolution

Scared of Revolution

A portrait of the performance poet Umar Bin Hassan and his personal struggle with the revolution he propagated himself with The Last Poets.

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Second Coming

Second Coming

Busy parents Jackie and Mark are shocked when she inexplicably becomes pregnant.

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Shake the Dust

Shake the Dust

Break dancers from third world communities become linked through their passion for hip-hop culture.

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Somewhere in the Middle

Somewhere in the Middle

Four lovers find themselves caught in a tangle of intersecting relationships in this engaging, New York-set romantic drama that explores the ripple effects of love and obsession.

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The Killing Floor

The Killing Floor

The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards.

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Why Is We Americans?

Why Is We Americans?

By turns kinetic and intimate, this in-depth documentary examines Newark’s legendary Baraka family from its patriarch Amiri to mayor Ras Baraka.

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Zombi Child

Zombi Child

Melissa confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends, never imagining it will convince her classmate to do the unthinkable.

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