The Gene Siskel Film Center presents programming in the spirit of the Black Harvest Film Festival all year long!
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Current and Upcoming Screenings
Daniel Vernon
UK2020
Serving a life sentence for murder in the early 1970s, music prodigy Ike White had plenty of time to perfect his musical talent, but no hope of…
The Choose Hope film series transports viewers to the frontlines of communities in Chicago facing the greatest challenges, providing a window into…
Luchina Fisher
USA2020
Before Janet Mock and Laverne Cox there was Gloria Allen. MAMA GLORIA is a glorious documentary profile of trailblazing Black trans elder and…
Catalog of Recent Screenings
| Film Title | Director(s) | Year | Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gospel According to André | Kate Novack | 2017 | USA | - |
| Minding The Gap | Bing Liu | 2018 | USA | - |
| Chasing the Blues | Scott Smith | 2017 | USA | - |
| American Revolution 2 | The Film Group | 1969 | USA | |
| Strike a Rock | Aliki Saragas | 2017 | South Africa | - |
| Liyana | Amanda Kopp, Aaron Kopp | 2018 | Swaziland, Qatar, USA | - |
| Owned, A Tale of Two Americas | Giorgio Angelini | 2018 | USA | - |
| '63 Boycott | Gordon Quinn | 2016 | USA | - |
| Life and Nothing More | Antonio Méndez Esparza | 2017 | USA | - |
| The Gospel of Eureka | Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri | 2018 | USA | - |
| Babylon | Franco Rosso | 1980 | UK | - |
| Rafiki | Wanuri Kahiu | 2018 | Kenya, South Africa, France | - |
| Blowin' Up | Stephanie Wang-Breal | 2018 | USA | |
| New Breed Film Showcase: A Creative Cypher Collaboration | Various | 2018 | USA | |
| The Killing Floor | Bill Duke | 1984 | USA | - |
| Give Me Liberty | Kirill Mikhanovsky | 2019 | USA | - |
| Downtown 81 | Edo Bertoglio | 1981 | USA | - |
| Charm City | Marilyn Ness | 2018 | USA | - |
| Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Stanley Nelson | 2019 | USA | - |
| Aya of Yop City | Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie | 2013 | France | - |
| Harriet | Kasi Lemmons | 2019 | USA | - |
| Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | Matt Wolf | 2019 | USA | - |
| Cane River | Horace Jenkins | 1982 | USA | - |
| Goldie | Sam de Jong | 2019 | USA | - |