Collections
Curated selections by movement, theme, country and form.
Movements
- The L.A. Rebellion5 films. In the 1970s and 80s, a group of Black students at UCLA set out to make films that had nothing to do with Hollywood. Their work, rooted in everyday Black life, reshaped American independent cinema.
- Classics of African Cinema11 films. From Sembène's first features to the FESPACO prizewinners of the 1980s and 90s: the films that built a cinema of independence.
- New Black Cinema4 films. The late 1980s and early 90s, when a wave of young directors brought Black stories into multiplexes across America.
Themes
- Pioneers8 films. The filmmakers who got there first, often with no money, no studio and no precedent.
- Contemporary African Cinema11 films. A new generation of directors from across the continent and its diaspora, winning at Cannes, Berlin and Venice.
- Black Queer Cinema6 films. Films that put Black queer lives at the center.
- Winners at Cannes8 films. Films that took home prizes at the Cannes Film Festival.
- Academy Award Winners9 films. Films that won at least one Oscar.
- Sundance Breakthroughs7 films. Debuts and second features that broke out at Sundance.
- Francophone Cinema19 films. Films from France, West and Central Africa and the Caribbean, in French and the languages spoken alongside it.