When Kyra loses her job and her mother gets sick, she becomes desperate to make ends meet. She resorts to deception and self-destructive behavior, hoping to find a way out.
In 'Beauty,' a talented Black woman faces the challenge of preserving her unique voice and sense of self when she is presented with a profitable recording deal.
Mother of George is a drama film that tells the story of a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn, who face the challenges of infertility and cultural expectations. They must navigate their way through the pressures and sacrifices they have to make in order to find a sense of identity and purpose.
In the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII, Awa and Ibrahim are a young couple whose lives are upended by war. Their love story takes a tragic turn when Ibrahim is conscripted and later presumed dead in 1940. Driven by love and hope, Awa embarks on a perilous journey to Paris in January 1942, seeking any trace of Ibrahim. She finds refuge in the Paris city mosque, alongside Jews evading Nazi persecution. However, her quest leads her to Auschwitz, where, in a twist of fate, she miraculously finds Ibrahim alive.
Travis Scott takes his audience on a mind-bending visual odyssey across the globe, exploring human experience and the power of soundscapes in this surreal and psychedelic journey. The film showcases a collective of visionary filmmakers from around the world, woven together by the speaker rattling sounds of Travis Scott's upcoming album 'UTOPIA'.
Set in the 1920s, Marked Man follows a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation and then infiltrates Garvey’s UNIA organization, testing his loyalty to both race and country as he grows weary of both men’s actions.
Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.
A chronicle of the life of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician and political force who invented Afro-beat music and introduced it to the world.
In Detroit, hair styling isn't just a matter of personal grooming, it's a way of life, and Andrew Dosunmu's documentary Hot Irons offers an inside glimpse at Motor City hair salons that turn the tresses of their African-American clientele into remarkable works of art. Dosunmu takes his cameras to Detroit's annual "Hair Wars" competition, in which stylists compete to see who can create the wildest and most outrageous hairdo. Offering a stark contrast between the unique aesthetic of the stylists and the grinding poverty of inner city Detroit, which never fully recovered from the 1968 riots, Hot Irons shows how events like "Hair Wars" brings a sense of art and purpose to a community where both are often lacking.
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