All 2023 Festival Events - Page 8 of 15
Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land
dir. by Eternal Polk
Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land is a timely and stirring documentary from Emmy-nominated producer/director Eternal Polk and Al Roker Entertainment that examines the causes, effects what is being done to fight the exploitation of these issues, and how landowners are reclaiming their agricultural legacy and creating paths to generational wealth.
- Closed captions online
- Closed captions online
Mafifa
Filmmaker Daniela Muñoz Barroso, who is almost completely deaf, wants to discover the identity of the remarkable musician Mafifa. Her quest leads her on the trail of an enigmatic woman, and also makes her question her own head and heart.
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
- Closed captions online
- Trigger warning: Flashing lights
Intimacy and Movement Direction
with Teniece Divya Johnson, Coral Messam, and Rocío Mendez, moderated by Lenée Voss
- American Sign Language interpretation in-person
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
Sound of The Police
dir. by Stanley Nelson & Valerie Scoon
Sound of the Police examines the fraught relationship between African Americans and the police from slavery to the present. The film traces the long and complex racial history in the U.S. that set the path for policing in communities of color and fuels ongoing conflicts and calls for reform.
- Closed captions online
- Trigger warning: Flashing lights. Police violence.
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
- Trigger warning: Flashing lights
A Place of Our Own
Laila and Roshni, two trans women, are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. It soon becomes evident that their search for a home is also their ongoing search for a place in this society that wants to keep them away in a section that cannot be the center.