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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| '63 Boycott | Gordon Quinn | 2016 | USA | - |
| American Revolution 2 | The Film Group | 1969 | USA | |
| Aya of Yop City | Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie | 2013 | France | - |
| Babylon | Franco Rosso | 1980 | UK | - |
| Blowin' Up | Stephanie Wang-Breal | 2018 | USA | |
| Cane River | Horace Jenkins | 1982 | USA | - |
| Charm City | Marilyn Ness | 2018 | USA | - |
| Chasing the Blues | Scott Smith | 2017 | USA | - |
| Downtown 81 | Edo Bertoglio | 1981 | USA | - |
| Give Me Liberty | Kirill Mikhanovsky | 2019 | USA | - |
| Goldie | Sam de Jong | 2019 | USA | - |
| Harriet | Kasi Lemmons | 2019 | USA | - |
| Life and Nothing More | Antonio Méndez Esparza | 2017 | USA | - |
| Liyana | Amanda Kopp, Aaron Kopp | 2018 | Swaziland, Qatar, USA | - |
| Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Stanley Nelson | 2019 | USA | - |
| Minding The Gap | Bing Liu | 2018 | USA | - |
| New Breed Film Showcase: A Creative Cypher Collaboration | Various | 2018 | USA | |
| Owned, A Tale of Two Americas | Giorgio Angelini | 2018 | USA | - |
| Rafiki | Wanuri Kahiu | 2018 | Kenya, South Africa, France | - |
| Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | Matt Wolf | 2019 | USA | - |
| Strike a Rock | Aliki Saragas | 2017 | South Africa | - |
| The Gospel According to André | Kate Novack | 2017 | USA | - |
| The Gospel of Eureka | Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri | 2018 | USA | - |
| The Killing Floor | Bill Duke | 1984 | USA | - |