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BlackStar's annual benefit honoring luminaries in global arts and culture.

BlackStar-curated screenings co-presented with the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, taking place across both venues this fall and winter.

A special screening of Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024), Titus Kaphar’s first narrative feature film. The semi-autobiographical film follows Tarrell (André Holland), an artist attempting to overcome the trauma of his past through painting.

A screening of writer-director Nefertite Nguvu’s debut feature In the Morning, relates to the theme of femininity and offers an exploration of love, infidelity, and friendship with a focus on the interiority of Black women.

Kinship is the focus of today’s short films, which include Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (2012), Mickalene Thomas’s directorial debut. These films explore the idea that what is past is also present and celebrate the art created by Black people across time.

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The checkpoint is closed: “Detour, detour!” shouts a taxi driver, announcing the beginning of yet another uncertain search for a way around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank.