Black Rebels
Overview of films
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195 Lewis
Chanelle Aponte Pearson | 45' | USA | International premiere
A web series about the loves and challenges faced by a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in Brooklyn. -
Afronauts
14' | USA | None
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… -
Atlanta
Donald Glover | 300' | USA | None
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… -
Baldwin’s Nigger
Horace Ové | 48' | United Kingdom | None
In a filmed conversation with a largely black British audience, writer James Baldwin examines similarities between the British and American black expe -
Bayard & Me
Matt Wolf | 16' | USA | International premiere
Intimate portrait of black homosexual civil rights activist and Freedom March organiser Bayard Rustin. His partner Walter Naegle describes how they re -
Masterclass Barry Jenkins
A groundbreaking film on many levels, Moonlight is based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. Barry Jenkins (1979, USA) and McCraney were raised… -
Chlorophyl
Barry Jenkins | 17' | USA | None
Young woman wrestles with her identity and failed relationship, reflected in the city of Miami. A cinematographic exploration of change as a natural p -
Double Play
Ernest Dickerson | 130' | Curaçao | World premiere
An electrifying sketch of society in Curaçao focused on the apparently innocent domino game played by four men every Sunday. Until it unexpecte -
Fonko
Lars Lovén, Lamin Daniel Jadama, Göran Hugo Olsson | 87' | Germany | None
An exciting exploration of the musical, social and cultural innovation presently spreading across the African continent. Fonko introduces us to a youn -
The Glass Shield
Charles Burnett | 104' | France | None
The idealist JJ starts as a rookie and first black cop in the department. There he comes across a murky affair and discovers that when… -
The Golden Chain
Ezra Claytan Daniels, Adebukola Bodunrin | 14' | USA | None
Yetunde is the only crew aboard the Nigerian space station Eko and witnesses the recreation of the origins of the universe. A futuristic reinterpretat -
Graft and Ash for a Three Monitor Workstation
Sondra Perry | 7' | USA | European premiere
This self-portrait of Sondra Perry’s avatar, which failed because of inadequate software, was developed to help relax employees. It does not, however, have Perry’s physical…