Historical overviews are often painful for people of colour. Looking to&nbsp;the future keeps hope alive, but the present always has roots in the past.

Perspectives

Black Rebels

Afro Future

IFFR 2017

Yetunde is the only crew aboard the Nigerian space station Eko and witnesses the recreation of the origins of the universe. A futuristic reinterpretation of the Yoruba story of creation.

The Golden Chain

A rag-tag group is trying to launch a moon rocket to beat the American Apollo 11. The astronaut is a 17-year-old girl who has to be the first to set foot on the moon along with her two cats.

Afronauts

In a dystopian future, people live in darkness to protect themselves from the harmful rays of the sun. Except for a naughty little black girl.

They Charge for the Sun

A web series about the loves and challenges faced by a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in Brooklyn.

195 Lewis

Self-portrait of Sondra Perry's avatar investigating its own identity. A problematic software process that leads to a fatal error mode: the blue screen of death.

Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation

A future San Francisco is inhabited only by affluent people. The authorities lure others into the city to do manual labour in exchange for free education.

Remigration

Earn (Donald Glover) is the inexperienced manager of his cousin, rapper Paper Boi. All they have in common is their struggle for a better life and earning more money. This hilarious, intelligent series, also aired by television channel <em>FOX</em><em>,</em> offers an idiosyncratic, experimental narrative style but also a critical glimpse of the spirit of our times.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Afro Future

In this combined programme

Afronauts

The Golden Chain

Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation

Remigration

They Charge for the Sun

Black Rebels

195 Lewis

Afronauts

Atlanta