Spotlight on Black Cinema

Spotlight on Black Cinema

Films celebrating Black stories and Black creators from around the world.

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Spotlight on Black Cinema
  • Fear of a Black Hat

    Leaving February 1

    Directed by Rusty Cundieff | 88 mins | 1993
    Overshadowed somewhat at the time of its release by another gangsta rap mockumentary send-up of the same year, the Chris Rock vehicle "CB4," Cundieff’s shoestring-budget feature debut gets just as many laughs at a fraction of the pri...

  • Ganja & Hess

    Directed by Bill Gunn | 113 mins | 1973
    Cut by timid distributors and inappropriately marketed as grindhouse blaxploitation, this eerie, sui generis work by utterly iconoclastic director Bill Gunn ("Personal Problems") is, in its original form, nothing short of a masterpiece of ‘70s American cine...

  • The Black Sea

    Directed by Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden | 93 mins | 2024
    A compassionate, convivial, and deeply humane improvised comedy from Moselle ("The Wolfpack", "Skate Kitchen") and co-director Harden, inspired by the latter’s own experiences, "The Black Sea" stars Harden—also providing original ...