Tetchena Bellange's documentary "Black Hands: Trial of the Arsonist Slave," examines the controversial 1734 case of a woman accused of setting the fire that burned much of Montreal. It screens Thursday 3/3 in the Black World Cinema Series.
Darryl Pitts and a host of celebrity interviewees critique cinematic images of African American romance in Pitts's documentary "Kiss & Tell," screening Thursday 2/24 in Black World Cinema's "Truth Be Told" series.
Robin Shuffield's 2006 documentary "Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man," about the Marxist leader of Burkina Faso, and Djibril Diop Mambety's Senegalese dramatic short "The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun" screen Thursday 5/6 in the Black World Cinema series.
Black World Cinema presents a discounted preview screening of "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" a day before the documentary about the iconic Senegalese singer and activist opens for a weeklong run at Chatham 14.
A wronged woman returns to her village for revenge in Djibril Diop Mambety's Senegalese satire of colonialism "Hyenas," screening tonight in the Black World Cinema series at Chatham 14.