Rashida Bumbray’s short film Untitled (How High the Moon) reimagines her mother’s childhood visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the lens of magical realism.

Untitled (How High the Moon)

A first-generation Nigerian American and her Black American partner must decide between being true to themselves or trying to live up to their families’ expectations.

Food for the Soul

Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss and friendship against the rapidly shifting landscape of their beloved city.

Love, Brooklyn

Multiple voices reflect on the language, sounds, touch, history, and choice of public and private Black and queer spaces.

Talking Walls

The Last Harvest is a short film that follows three characters navigating life within Lisbon’s Cape Verdean immigrant community. The film delves into their connection to memories and nostalgia and their ways of coping with loss, abandonment and the complexities of life as immigrants in an urban environment.

The Last Harvest

TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer Toni Cade Bambara, whose literary works and film collaborations were a catalyzing force in 20th century cultural and political movements. The documentary is made up of stories shared by friends and colleagues including Toni Morrison, Nikky Finney and Haile Gerima. Thank you to our screening partners: <a href="https://scribe.org/home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scribe Video Center</a>, <a href="https://www.badwest.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BADWest</a>, <a href="https://wurdradio.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WURD Radio</a>

TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing

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