November, 9 1989: thousands of East Germans take to the streets forcing the gates in front of the powerless guards at the checkpoints; on the other side of the wall, the West Germans welcome their brothers with open arms. The images of the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as a few months before those of the unknown insurgent with plastic bags that challenges a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square, have indelibly sculpted our era.

AUTUMN OF THE NATIONS

Quincy drives home from work on the backroads so he can enjoy a blunt on the way home. But police lights behind him put him in panic as he pulls over. He tries to remain calm as the sharp tongued pure southern white officer shouts his demands. Suddenly the cop is spooked and draws his gun. Quincy is pulled from the car and thrown to the ground.He lies there while the cop searched his car. This seems like the nightmare he has been warned of his entire life. But the encounter takes a turn and Quincy learns something about hate and fear

DON'T SHOOT

Born and raised in the melting pot of all melting pots, New York City. An African American filmmaker tries to understand exactly why a black person, nearly a thousands miles south would raise the Confederate Flag instead of tearing it down.

CHASING ECHOS

A one-man film in whiteface that explores the exploitation and destruction of melanated people in Amerikkka...

THE MEETING THAT SHAPED AMERIKKKA

ASHES TO ASHES

Winfred Rembert, the only living survivor of a lynching, a Star Wars fanatic and leather artist, develops a friendship with Doctor Shirley Jackson Whitaker who is on a mission to memorialize the forgotten 4,000 African Americans lynched during the Jim Crow era. Together, their journeys of healing intertwine.

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