Widows (2018)

Widows is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica, Linda, Alice, and Belle take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Festival Opening Night Film Premiere

Runtime: 128 min

Baldwin's Nigger (1968)

James Baldwin and comedian-activist Dick Gregory speak to a group of radical West Indian students in London about everything from the state of the civil rights movement to the perils of false consciousness.

Black Liberation (aka Silent Revolution) (1967)

Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African-American struggle.

Black Panthers (1968)

Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton.

Widows (2018)

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