FILM SCREENING: Mother of All Lies

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

FILM SCREENING: Mother of All Lies • A Moroccan filmmaker investigates her family's history, uncovering lies. She connects personal and national narratives, linking the 1981 Bread Riots to contemporary Morocco.

FILM SCREENING: VIY (1967)

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village.

FILM SCREENING: BLACK AUGUST (2007)

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Through courtroom drama, ideological transformation, and real-life tragedy, the film offers a sobering portrait of Black resistance in late-60s and early-70s America.

FILM SCREENING: Miss Juneteenth

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Miss Juneteenth is a poignant and heartfelt drama that follows Turquoise Jones, a former beauty queen and single mother in Fort Worth, Texas, who is determined to give her teenage daughter, Kai, the opportunities she never had. Once crowned Miss Juneteenth—a local pageant offering a scholarship to historically Black colleges—Turquoise’s life didn’t go as planned. Now working at a bar and struggling to make ends meet, she pours her hopes into preparing Kai for the same pageant, hoping it will open doors to a brighter future.

FILM SCREENING: Petro

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

In the midst of historic upheaval in Colombia, Senator Gustavo Petro, a former M-19 guerrilla leader, is the early front runner for president in 2022. Petro begins in September 2021 at the launch event of Petro’s campaign. With unprecedented access to Colombia’s most charismatic and polarizing politician, the film follows the highs and lows of the Colombian progressive movement and Petro's historic campaign for president through Election Day.

FILM SCREENING: Harlan County, USA

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

A record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Set just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, depicts a workers' strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his fellow employees revolt against the Czarist regime controlling the factory. As the strike drags on and government officials grow more desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become brutal.

Russia | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 88 Min

FILM SCREENING: Concerning Violence

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

FILM SCREENING: Uptight (1968)

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic "The Informer."

FILM SCREENING: The Liberator

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

The Liberator charts the story of the revolutionary leader ,Simon Bolivar, and his impassioned fight for independence from Spain and creation of a united South American nation.

FILM SCREENING: The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

In the late 60s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, feminist guerrilla movement.

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