Virtual screenings for passholders and individual ticket holders will be released and available on a timed schedule (coming soon). You can unlock the film screening within 48 hours of its release time, and you have 24 hours from the moment you unlock it to finish watching the film.

All films and virtual events can be viewed at watch.blackstarfest.org. If you have any trouble using the ticketing system or technical issues with your screenings, please visit watch.blackstarfest.org/help.

For technical support with virtual screenings, navigate to the bottom of this page to chat with an Eventive representative.

Official TV apps for streaming films will be available during the festival. Stay tuned for more info.

Audience award voting is limited to films which are available both online and in-person.

To cast your vote for a film via the watch platform, you must first “unlock” the screening and complete your viewing. After you are done watching you will be prompted to vote. You can also access the voting screen by navigating to the Tickets page within your account, after completing a screening.

Award winners will be announced on August 5.

Select films in the in-person program are unavailable to stream virtually, at the request of the filmmakers. This year those films are:

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

BARRUNTO

Bisagras

Dallas, 2019

Dancing Palestine

The Dawn (Beutset)

Dreams in Nightmares

Enmity Djinn

Farmers of the Sea

GOD IS GREY

I DO NOT COME TO YOU BY CHANCE

A Mother Apart

Our Land, Our Freedom

Post Trauma

Rising up at night

Seeking Mavis Beacon

The Witness Tree

To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion

Select films which are streaming virtually are restricted to viewing in particular areas of the world, or to a particular audience size, according to the requests of the filmmakers. The films in this year’s program that are restricted are:

After the Long Rains - Only available in the US

Amma’s Pride - Only available in the US

Bring Them Home - Only available in Pennsylvania

Bye Bye Tiberias - Only available in the US

Dis-Ease - Only available in Pennsylvania

Family Tree - Only available in the US | 1,000 cap on audience

INKY PINKY PONKY - THE ODD ONE OUT - Only available in the US

A Litany for Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde - Only available in the US

Othelo, The Great - Only available in the US

Scapegoat - Only available in the US

Songs from the Hole - 1,000 cap on audience

Queen of My Dreams - Only available in the US