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And when he woke up, Black Lives Matter was also Spanish. Photographer Rubén H. Bermúdez, whose 2018 book “Y tú, ¿por qué eres negro?” was a pivotal moment in the visibility of the Afro-descendant community in Spain, now presents the audiovisual…
Cabeça de Nêgo
Based on real events, this political drama fuses Brazilian history with international anti-racist movements. Saulo, a black introverted student and fan of the Black Panther Movement, challenges his school in the largely white city of Fortaleza. After…
Meu Amigo Fela
My Friend Fela provides a new perspective on the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, in order to counter the most often portrayed narrative of Fela "as an eccentric African pop idol of the ghetto", according to director Joel Zito Araújo. The complexity of…
Filhas do Vento
Numa pequena cidade em Minas Gerais as irmãs Maria "Cida" Aparecida (Taís Araújo) e Maria "Ju" da Ajuda (Thalma de Freitas) têm objetivos bem distintos. A primeira quer se tornar uma famosa atriz e para isto é imperativo que deixe o lugarejo, já a…
Nana dijo
“Nana Dijo. Radiografía irresoluta de la conciencia negra”, es un trabajo que expone las condiciones de segregación, discriminación, censura y violencia cultural contra las poblaciones afrodescendientes en Latinoamérica y negros latinos en Estados…
Raíces de mi corazón
A present day AfroCuban woman [Mercedes] seeks her roots through her family history. Old photos, newspaper clippings jealously guarded by her grandmother, and her mother's stories reveal her great-grandparents' history. The historical truth raises…
Nana dijo
Nana Dijo is a cartography of the Black experience through a collection of narratives in first person. Nana Dijo is an urgent historical registry filmed in Mexico, Honduras, Uruguay, Argentina and the United States, which opens a crucial platform of…
Amor maldito
Duas jovens mulheres, Fernanda, uma executiva, e Sueli, uma ex-miss, se apaixonam e decidem morar juntas. Porém, Sueli se cansa do relacionamento amoroso que leva com Fernanda e envolve-se com um jornalista. A moça engravida do amante e ele a…
Bakosó: AfroBeats of Cuba
What does "Está Rico" by Marc Anthony, Will Smith & Bad Bunny have in common with "Made For Now" by Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee? They both high-jacked AfroBeats and did not give the genre's origin props. Bakosó is a film that does the opposite,…
Empoderadas
Empoderadas é uma websérie que apresenta entrevistas com mulheres negras das mais diversas áreas, profissionais bem sucedidas que falam sobre suas trajetórias, sobre o mercado de trabalho e o racismo e o machismo que o envolvem. Cada capítulo nos…
Afrolatinos
El cortometraje Afrolatinos es un reportaje que cuenta la historia de los africanos y sus descendientes en América Latina, recalcando la importancia de su influencia en la cultura e historia de varias regiones. Inspirado por la vida del director…
Cores pretas
Cores Pretas es un documental corto que, a través de varias entrevistas, cuenta las historias de cinco afrobrasileñas y sus experiencias enfrentando el racismo y la discriminación de género diariamente desde su niñez. (Sinopsis de Éowyn Bailey)
Temporada
Juliana está se mudando de Itaúna, no interior do estado, para a periferia de Contagem, na região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, para trabalhar no combate a endemias na região. Em seu novo trabalho ela conhece pessoas e vive situações pouco usuais…
Chocó
Chocó es una mujer negra de 27 años, que lleva a cuestas una familia de dos hijos menores y a Everlides, su esposo músico que sólo sabe tocar marimba, beber viche y jugar dominó. Chocó es una mujer fuerte y luchadora. En la mañana ella trabaja…
Nana dijo: Radiografía irresoluta de la conciencia negra
“Nana Dijo. Radiografía irresoluta de la conciencia negra”, es un trabajo que expone las condiciones de segregación, discriminación, censura y violencia cultural contra las poblaciones afrodescendientes en Latinoamérica y negros latinos en Estados…
Beba
"Beba" es una historia poética, cruda y despiadada, en la que una joven neoyorquina nacida y criada en la ciudad de Nueva York se enfrenta a un trauma histórico, social y generacional con un valor inquebrantable. (Film Affinity ES)
El mal de los 7 días
Para protegerlos del mal de ojo, dice la tradición, a los niños recién nacidos hay que “chumbarlos” envolviéndolos en una manta desde los pies hasta el cuello durante siete días. Cuando nace su hijo, Hana decide no hacer caso de lo que cree pertenece…
Kbela
Until 2018, a Black woman had not directed a feature-length film for national distribution [in Brazil], yet Black female film directors have been active in the independent short-film space. Yasmin Thayná wrote and directed Kbela (2015), an…
Café com canela
Violeta vive en una comunidad unida en Bahía, Brasil, y no es la única que lucha con el dolor y la pérdida. También se encuentra una abuela totalmente dependiente del cuidado de otros; una mujer que busca desesperadamente el amor; y un médico joven…
Café com canela
In 2018, a duo of filmmakers that included an Afro-Brazilian woman, Glenda Nicácio, and Ary Rosa brought the film Café com Canela (Coffee with cinnamon) to a commercial release. The film features a predominantly Black cast and is set in Salvador,…
A mí también me pasó
En esta ocasión Heny Cuesta, Zualy Riazco, Maio Rivas, Karen González, Lorena Benitez, Lina Lucumi y yo contaremos las maneras en que hemos vivido el racismo y la discriminación en diferentes etapas y momentos de nuestras vidas y como el mismo se …
Jennifer
Jennifer follows the ways in which a Black female high school student navigates the relationships and insecurities of teenage life. Jennifer wrestles with self-understandings of her own beauty, her relationships with classmates and friends, and…
Nada
Bia (played by the rapper Clara Lima) is confronted with a question in school: what do you want to do after you finish high school? Her answer is strong enough to lend the film its title: nothing. The young rapper, therefore, more than fits David…
Movimento
Tereza, nascida na pandemia do Coronavírus em 2020, é cuidada por seus pais Rimenna e Gabriel. (Tamanduá.tv)
Afro ascendente
El corto muestra una amalgama cultural donde a lo largo de una entrevista con la coreógrafa Krhistina Giles, se logra profundizar en aspectos espirituales y métodos tradicionales de danza. En este ejercicio ella combina la danza contemporánea,…
Afronta!
A série AFRONTA! é dirigida pela cineasta negra Juliana Vicente e lança luz sobre a potente juventude negra brasileira contemporânea que contam suas trajetórias e oportunidades geradoras da sua constituição como indivíduo e expressadas pelos seus…
Kafe Negro
Kafe Negro tells the story of migrations around a small grain that became the second most important raw material on the global market. This film tells the story of the waves of migration of Haitian workers who, over time, profoundly transformed the…
The Invisible Color: Black Cubans in Miami
This latest documentary by the Dean of Afro-Cuban Cinema Sergio Giral investigates the black Cuban exile community in South Florida, since the first wave of political refugees in the 1959 revolutionary aftermath, to today. It tracks its presence…
Y tenemos sabor
Recorrido por la exótica gama de instrumentos de percusión utilizados en la música cubana y los orígenes de estos: claves, cucharas, maracas, bongós, güiros (hechos con calabazas), cencerros, quijadas de caballo. Gómez era música de formación y su…
Los hijos de Baraguá
"La producción de Rolando es un documental etnográfico e histórico sobre la comunidad de Baraguá, un enclave cañero de inmigrantes antillanos en el cual aún sobreviven los descendientes de estos trabajadores. De esta producción, emergen dos…
Ojos del arco iris
La ex Pantera Negra e integrante del Ejército de Liberación Negra, Assata Shakur, habla de su vida, su activismo en el Movimiento de Liberación Negra, su fuga de prisión en 1979 y su exilio en Cuba. A partir del 2005, el gobierno del estado de Nueva…
As Minas do Rap
No Brasil, as mulheres tardaram a entrar no cenário do rap, e até hoje são raros os grupos ou artistas individuais que alcançaram destaque em suas carreiras. O documentário entrevista mulheres ligadas ao hip hop, abordando o histórico feminino dentro…
Miss Panama
In 1980, Gloria Karamañites became the first Black finalist in the Miss Panama pageant. On the verge of winning the crown, pageant officials orchestrated a last minute maneuver to obstruct her path to victory, demanding that she answer an obscure…
Negra
Tenía por ahí siete años cuando por primera vez alguien en la calle me llamó “negra”. Volteé a ver a quién llamaban, hasta que entendí que era a mí. Ese día supe que yo era negra, y las risas de alrededor me hicieron ver que quizás no era algo bueno……
Kbela
Hair is an important marker of black female identity. Many films have been made about 'nappy' hair, but this debut by Yasmin Thayná is among the best. This powerful visual essay is a form of resistance to invisibility and an audiovisual experience…
Alma no olho
Alma no olho (Soul in the Eye), a short film directed and performed by Zózimo Bulbul in 1973, constitutes the inaugural gesture of black cinema in Brazil. Bulbul’s status as a pioneer for Black Brazilian cinema does not reside in historical…
Chocó
Chocó es una mujer negra de 27 años, que lleva a cuestas una familia de dos hijos menores y a Everlides, su esposo músico que sólo sabe tocar marimba, beber viche y jugar dominó. Chocó es una mujer fuerte y luchadora. En la mañana ella trabaja…
O Tempo dos Orixás
The Summer of Gods is a short film about a young girl named Lili who unites with her Afro-Brazilian religious ancestry on a summer visit with family to their ancestral village in rural Brazil. During her stay, she encounters Orishas (African gods)…
Apátrida
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred fomented by the Dominican government. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped…
Voces de resistencia
Voces de resistencia es un proyecto audiovisual del Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos (CEAF) de la Universidad Icesi de Cali, financiado por la Fundación Ford, y realizado en alianza con el Centro de Ética y Democracia (CED), que busca visibilizar y…
Café com canela
Violeta lives in a tight-knit community in Bahia, Brazil. She is far from the only one struggling with grief and loss: there is also a grandmother entirely dependent on care, a woman desperately searching for love and a young doctor who – after 20…
Cores e Botas
Joana tem um sonho comum a muitas meninas dos anos 80: ser Paquita. Sua família é bem sucedida e a apoia em seu sonho. Porém, Joana é negra, e nunca se viu uma paquita negra no programa da Xuxa. (Preta Portê Filmes)
Rancheador
El Rancheador era un mercenario al servicio de los esclavistas para capturar a los negros esclavos en fuga y devolverlos a sus amos. Francisco Estévez no se detiene ante nada y reprime incluso a los campesinos blancos, pero su meta es Melchora,…
Raíces de mi corazón
A present day AfroCuban woman [Mercedes] seeks her roots through her family history. Old photos, newspaper clippings jealously guarded by her grandmother, and her mother's stories reveal her great-grandparents' history. The historical truth raises…
Plácido
Plácido, narrates the story of the Afro-Cuban poet, Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés – “Plácido” – who was executed following the ferociously suppressed black rebellion of 1843-44 known as “Conspiración de La Escalara” (“conspiracy of the ladder”),…
Oggun
In making the documentary "Oggun: An Eternal Present," film director Gloria Rolando skirts the edges of enchantment, enters Yoruba philosophy, and, especially, pays homage to the singer Lazaro Ros, one of the most important personalities in recent…
Invisible color
This latest documentary by the Dean of Afro-Cuban Cinema Sergio Giral investigates the black Cuban exile community in South Florida, since the first wave of political refugees in the 1959 revolutionary aftermath, to today. It tracks its presence…
O dia de Jerusa
"The Day of Jerusa" narrates the encounter between Jerusa (Lea Garcia), a resident of an old townhouse of Bixiga with the young Silvia, played by Deborah Marcal, which circulates through the traditional São Paulo neighborhood doing opinion research…
Diálogo con mi abuela
Un audiovisual donde se mezcla el documental y la ficción. Una foto de los años 20 es la imagen de la evocación espiritual. El Grupo Vocal Baobab interpreta los cantos tradicionales del espiritismo cubano. La voz original de la abuela Inocencia y el…
A negação do Brasil
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of Black actors in Brazilian television "soaps." Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyzes race relations in Brazilian soap operas,…