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A Moving Image
Shola Amoo
A young artist returns to Brixton as gentrification reshapes its communities.
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A United Kingdom
Amma Asante
A marriage becomes entangled with British imperial and racial politics.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.20thcenturystudios.com · Image source ↗
Atlantics / Atlantique
Mati Diop
Love, unpaid labour and migration take a haunting form in Dakar.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.themoviedb.org · Image source ↗
Ballroom
Amandine Gay
A documentary series follows members of the House of Revlon and racialised queer ballroom communities.
Film artwork from the linked official film, producer or festival source
Belle
Amma Asante
A historical fiction about Dido Elizabeth Belle, race, class and family.
Official Belle poster / Searchlight Pictures · Image source ↗
Burning an Illusion
Menelik Shabazz
A young Black woman’s relationships develop alongside a political awakening.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.imdb.com · Image source ↗
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Coffee Coloured Children
Ngozi Onwurah
An autobiographical short examines childhood, racism and mixed-race identity.
Dahomey
Mati Diop
The return of royal treasures from France to Benin opens questions of restitution and self-determination.
Film artwork from the linked official film, producer or festival source
Delphine’s Prayers
Rosine Mbakam
An intimate documentary portrait of a Cameroonian woman recounting her life.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.ovid.tv · Image source ↗
Félicité
Alain Gomis
A singer in Kinshasa struggles to secure treatment for her injured son.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.senscritique.com · Image source ↗
Handsworth Songs
John Akomfrah / Black Audio Film Collective
An essay film challenges conventional explanations of unrest and Black British life.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: diaspora-artists.net · Image source ↗
Hawa
Maïmouna Doucouré
A teenager fears separation from her ailing grandmother and imagines an unconventional future.
Film artwork from the linked official film, producer or festival source
I Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck
James Baldwin’s unfinished writing becomes a film essay on race, memory and resistance.
Film artwork from the linked official film, producer or festival source
L’Afrance
Alain Gomis
A Senegalese student in France confronts precarious status and divided attachments.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: filmlifestyle.com · Image source ↗
Mambar Pierrette
Rosine Mbakam
A seamstress sustains her family and neighbourhood while facing mounting pressures.
Icarus Films · video thumbnail
Nous / We
Alice Diop
A documentary portrait follows lives connected by the RER B. Premiered in 2021; French theatrical release 2022.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: boutique.arte.tv · Image source ↗
Omen / Augure
Baloji
Four people labelled as witches seek ways beyond the roles imposed on them.
Film artwork from the linked official film, producer or festival source
Ouvrir la voix / Speak Up
Writer / director / producer: Amandine Gay
Black women in France and Belgium speak about racism, gender, art and reclaiming narration.
Film artwork from the linked official film, producer or festival source
Playing Away
Horace Ové
A cricket match sets contrasting communities and colonial assumptions in motion.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.rottentomatoes.com · Image source ↗
Pressure
Horace Ové
A British-born young man encounters racism and conflicting generational expectations.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.renegade-films.co.uk · Image source ↗
Saint Omer
Alice Diop
A writer attending a trial confronts unsettling connections between motherhood, race and narrative.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.ashleyhajimirsadeghi.com · Image source ↗
Soleil Ô
Med Hondo
A West African migrant in Paris confronts racism and labour exploitation. Distributor restoration catalogue year: 1970; some records give 1967.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: cinematheque-ideale-des-banlieues-du-monde.com · Image source ↗
Tey / Aujourd’hui
Alain Gomis
A man spends a final day among people and places that have shaped him.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: es.unifrance.org · Image source ↗
The Body Beautiful
Ngozi Onwurah
A personal work reconsiders beauty, the body and the filmmaker’s relationship with her mother.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: docuseek2.com · Image source ↗
The Gravedigger’s Wife
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
A gravedigger struggles to secure life-saving care for his wife.
Film artwork from the linked official film, producer or festival source
The Stuart Hall Project
John Akomfrah
Archival images and sound trace Stuart Hall’s life and political thought.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: shop.ihrc.org · Image source ↗
Under the Hanging Tree
Perivi John Katjavivi
A Namibian detective confronts crimes haunted by German colonial violence.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.imdb.com · Image source ↗
Une histoire à soi / A Story of One’s Own
Writer / director / co-producer: Amandine Gay · Black French adoptee filmmaker
Five adult adoptees from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, South Korea and Australia narrate the intimate politics of transnational adoption.
Film artwork from the linked official film, producer or festival source
Welcome II the Terrordome
Ngozi Onwurah
A dystopian feature explores racism, confinement and the afterlives of enslavement.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.cineamo.com · Image source ↗
White Colour Black
Joseph a. Adesunloye
A London photographer journeys to Senegal after his father’s death.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: www.imdb.com · Image source ↗
Young Soul Rebels
Isaac Julien
Music, race, sexuality and friendship intersect in 1970s Britain.
Promotional film poster / still. Original film rights holders. Artwork source: princecharlescinema.com · Image source ↗