Film Screenings

In October 1972, nine Black men and one white woman were wrongfully convicted of arson and conspiracy and sentenced by the North Carolina state court to 282 collective years in prison. An international cause célèbre, the so-called Wilmington 10 languished for nearly a decade in separate jails, even as journalists and lawyers exposed criminal wrongdoing in the State’s case; religious leaders, politicians, and activists demanded their release and exoneration; and the Soviet Union brandished their photos as a symbol of American hypocrisy and racism.

100 years after the Haitian Revolution, the people of Haiti find themselves once again having to defend their liberty, this time against a powerful neighbor: the United States.

El Benny is a Cuban film released in 2006, directed and co-written by Jorge Luis Sánchez, his first feature-length film. It is a fictional story based on the life of the famous Cuban musician Benny Moré.

Join us for a screening and talkback at the Angelika Film Center on Friday March, 13th & Saturday March 14th at 7:15PM for the theatrical re-release of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised also known as Chávez: Inside the Coup. 

Join Hindus for Human Rights on March 14th for a free screening of Homebound, a film by director Neeraj Ghaywan, which was India’s submission to the Academy Awards, and was shortlisted in the best international film category.

BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS uses split-screen original and archival footage to trace immigration, imperialism, and globalization around the Unisphere, linking the racist authoritarian visions of Robert Moses and Donald Trump across liberal and neoliberal eras.

This film “Honoring Amilcar” captures Amilcar Cabral’s influence and impact on several social justice involved Black people in Cape Verde and The United States.

Join us for a special Earth Day Screening of the second documentary from journalist Abby Martin that uncovers a shocking blind spot in the climate conversation: the U.S. military.

Don’t Be Long, Little Bird: A young Palestinian girl time travels to 1930s Palestine and meets her great-grandmother as a child.

LA Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement: A documentary on the rise of LA Rebellion, the UCLA-born movement of filmmakers of color after the Watts Uprising.

Seth Fein presents three short films of diverse content as well as form that he produced in and (mainly) about Queens.

An acclaimed documentary on poet Nikki Giovanni, tracing her life, poetry, and influence from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.

Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.