Throughout February, the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Somerville Theatre and the Somerville Cine-Club will screen Poitier ...

The documentary is a conversation between mother and daughter, moving between personal memory and historical reckoning.

By the 1920s, “race films,” movies starring largely Black casts, marketed to Black audiences and often produced by ...

“Wasteman,” the BAFTA-nominated pressure cooker prison thriller starring BAFTA Rising Star winner David Jonsson (“The Long ...

Southern African countries committed serious human rights violations throughout 2025, creating vicious cycles of abuse and ...

Six months ago, Anne Ndarua’s only son went to Russia on the promise of a job as an electrical engineer. She says he was forced into military training and she no longer knows if he’s alive.

There’s a present-tense thrill to images of the downtrodden confronting those with great power in films like Bugonia and It Was Just an Accident.

Marlon Riggs’ revolutionary 1989 documentary, Tongues Untied, examines the spaces and identities Black queer men inhabit and ...

Nigeria has battled insecurity for more than a decade, with armed groups like Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa ...

The film Rafiki is a charming love story that plays out in urban Kenya. It follows two teenage girls whose close friendship slowly turns into first love. Directed by rising filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, it ...

Running at Cinema Nova, the festival brings award-winning films from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Algeria and Guinea-Bissau.