An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.”...

Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to...

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent...

In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.

A young African-American man, living in Los Angeles without direction in his life, reluctantly agrees to be the best man for his brother, an...

A naive young woman moves from the South to stay with her aunt and uncle in Compton. As an outsider, she struggles at first to find her footing...

Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the...

In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its...

Filmed in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo opens with stills taken by Bernard Nicolas of a demonstration...

A gang uses Marina, a naive striptease artist, on a tour of Asia, to make a microfilm out of the country. As soon as the girl arrives at Orly...

Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy...

Zion, a club kid grappling with their gender-fluid identity, finds liberation in New York City's avant-garde nightlife scene while facing backlash...

The relationship of a married couple takes an unexpected turn when the husband's boss gets the idea that their ad campaigns need spicing up with...

Carl, a handsome Austrian, tries to find in a Norman castle that is said to be haunted by a treasure buried by the Nazis before the liberation.

Myrna, whose husband just passed away, struggling with depression. She just found her purpose once again when she received a postcard from Monang...

A short directed by Michael Podogil.