This special program, focusing on altered states, the occult, liminal worlds and liminal beings.

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A seminar for Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists working in cinematic realms, hosted by BlackStar. Registration open now.

Desire is the focus of this shorts block, which showcase lush, joyful, and tender longing for a world beyond patriarchy.

As part of the month-long environmental film festival that showcases films from regional filmmakers, we will host a screening of Jennifer MacArthur’s Family Tree.

Coming Soon

A new performance series and installation from artist Joiri Minaya, curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell.

Our annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the global majority. This year's festival will be in-person in Philadelphia and online around the world.

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

An evening of short films exploring ancestral connections through time and space at the ICA Boston.

BlackStar-curated screenings co-presented with the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, taking place across both venues this fall and winter.

BlackStar presents a special shorts program and panel featuring LA-based filmmakers who are alumni of the annual festival.

BlackStar's annual benefit honoring luminaries in global arts and culture.

The checkpoint is closed: “Detour, detour!” shouts a taxi driver, announcing the beginning of yet another uncertain search for a way around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank.

Celebrate the launch of our latest issue with guest editor Ja’Tovia Gary, lite bites, music and dancing.