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- A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
- The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
- A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
- Filmmaker Isaac Julien uses film clips and interviews to illustrate the history of the so-called "blaxploitation" genre.
- Tenderly tracing the life of poet Audre Lorde, the film cracks open life's poetry guided by Lorde's sincere belief more and better is possible if we envision it enough to will it into existence.
- A character study of three generations of Black women.
- Sparks fly as racial, sexual and social politics intermingle at a lesbian potluck.
- Through interviews and dramatizations, the film examines social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men.
- If necessity is the mother of invention, then Tijuana is where she gave birth and raised her kid. A city that rejects entropy, Tijuana constructs its own rules. Its denizens negotiate the chaos with fierce independence, ingenuity and a gift for improvisation. Frontier Life is a feature-length documentary that explores beyond Tijuana's Sin City heritage, beyond the aura of menace cultivated by the mainstream media, and searches for the heart and identity of a city that is much more than a cantina-strewn throwback to the Old West. This film does not set out to valorize or condemn what it finds. It approaches Tijuana on its own terms, looking at the city not so much in relationship to the U.S., the border, or even other regions in Mexico, but rather from the inside, within its own context. Frontier Life interweaves stories of car worship, drag racing, wastewater treatment and a new musical hybrid that announces the shape of things to come -- finding combinations and contradictions that define the city. Isolated from the South, alienated from the North, Tijuana is a strange "island" with a culture all its own, and this documentary discovers faces of this complex city rarely seen from the outside.
- Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation.
- She Don't Fade is a short film by Cheryl Dunye about a black lesbian's dating life. The film's characters include Shae, Shae's best friend Paula, and two of Shae's love interests.
- This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and Whites live in a complex world of cotton, work, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese community is framed against the harsh realities of civil , religion, politics, and class in the South. Rare historical footage and interviews of Delta residents are combined to create this unprecedented document of inter-ethnic relations in the American South.
- In the decade following the Spanish-American War, more Filipinos were killed by US troops than by the Spanish during the 300 years of colonial rule. More than 1 million Filipinos died between 1899 and 1913. This experimental documentary about the Philippine American War of 1899 combines archival photographs and turn of the century film, digital video and 16mm footage to create memories of a forgotten history. A contemporary Filipina-American narrator weaves this complex history through historiography, experimental documentary and intercultural cinema. Shot on location in the Philippines and edited in the US, the film was produced by an international team of Filipino and American media artists.
- A secret political prison unit in the USA? In 1986, a controversial high security unit was opened in an underground chamber of Kentucky's federal prison. Its three female prisoners received sentences of unprecedented length for nonviolent crimes.
- A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.
- Devotion investigates the extremely complex and hierarchical relationships among a committed group of filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man - Ogawa Shinsuke.
- A young woman takes her boyfriend home to visit her family and is confronted with her father's alcoholism.
- A brief examination of the challenges facing the Sikh community in a post-9/11 New York City that erroneously associates the Sikh turban (or dastaar) with terrorism and Islamic extremists.
- An experimental choreographed poem,made within the LA Rebellion movement of film students at UCLA.
- The video documents selected scenes from panels, readings, and performances held during the first major international literary conference on women of African descent.
- This is fastpaced drama about sexual harassment in the workplace from a child's perspective. The "Beautiful Dreamer Salon" is owned by Eva, a single parent who manages to juggle her clients, her employees, and her daughter, all in a day's work. Her multicultural clientele interact in hilarious sequences with the equally diverse hairdressers. The film allows a deeper look at sexual harassment on the job and other issues that lie just below the surface of everyday life in the workplace
- The documentary follows four immigrant passengers as they travel through Queens, New York, one of the most ethnically diverse regions in the United States.
- Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.
- One man's story of coming out to his conservative Jamaican family. Made more interesting by the issues raised with his out older brother and the young "straight" man with whom he has an affair.
- A black lesbian takes a city walk alone at night after her memory of a domestic assault.
- Jagadakeer is an Armenian term meaning fate, destiny or literally what is written on the forehead. Memory, nostalgia, displacement and reconnection are explored using the Armenian genocide as a point of reference, and visual/aural backdrop. Nuance and gesture are accentuated by stories and sounds, which take us backwards to the past and forward to the present simultaneously. These stops and starts form a complex series of transitions to revisit both real and imagined sites, to evoke a sense of homeland, a lost and enigmatic landscape.
- Through the use of voiceover narration, two African American men describe situations that typically go unnoticed or discounted by the White mainstream.
- The lives of a rural Mexican family are examined.
- In 1996, the filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara, now living in New York, returns to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Despite the years that have gone by, Diawara expects to be welcomed as an insider, and is shocked to discover that he is not.
- A collage of various footage taken at the protest rallies at the 1968 democratic convention.
- The portrait of Wilton Braga, this short film documents the last months in the life of this Brazilian artist stricken with AIDS. His final story is told: his difficulties, his exile in Barcelona, his marked and dying body, and his quest for survival.
- A film which chronicles the lives and experiences of two present-day exotic dancers, one male and one female, who perform for gay and lesbian audiences and one former burlesque queen who performed during the 1950's.
- The story of three young women searching for identity and self-esteem as they compete for the title of Ebony Goddess in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, the largest black city outside of Africa.