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An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.

Sugarcane
Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie
Produced by Emily Kassie & Kellen Quinn
October 10, 2026 at 10:02 AM
An investigation into missing children at a residential school ignites a reckoning a community has waited generations for.

Sugarcane
Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie
Produced by Emily Kassie & Kellen Quinn
October 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Aida (the director’s mother) struggles with Alzheimer’s often “returning” to Yafa of her youth. A tribute to the past and an attempt to restore individual and collective memory of Palestinians prevented from return, even after death.
October 8, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Even as Alzheimer's took hold, Aida kept returning, in memory, to the Yafa and Palestine of her youth.

Aida Returns
Director: Carol Mansour
Producer and Researcher: Muna Khalidi
Forward Film Production
www.aidareturns.com
October 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
New colonial policies imposed by the US Congress over Puerto Rico’s territory trigger a new wave of protests against US colonialism.

Drills of Liberation
Directed & Produced by Juan C. Dávila Santiago
Written by Diana Ramos Gutiérrez & Juan C. Dávila Santiago
October 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
The promises ran out. The resistance didn't.

Drills of Liberation
Directed & Produced by Juan C. Dávila Santiago
Written by Diana Ramos Gutiérrez & Juan C. Dávila Santiago
October 2, 2026 at 1:11 PM
While prepping for a Friendsgiving potluck, an Arab couple argues over the merits of a well quoted journalist after the 9/11 attacks.

Mashed Potatoes
Written and Directed by Suha Araj
Produced by Aya Sloan
Starring
Cynthia Samuel Bakri, Adam Bakri
With: Noura Erakat
September 30, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Weeks after 9/11, an Arab American couple heads to a holiday potluck and finds the real conversation isn't about turkey, it's about who the country decided they were.

Mashed Potatoes
Written and Directed by Suha Araj
Produced by Aya Sloan
Starring
Cynthia Samuel Bakri
Adam Bakri
With: Noura Erakat
September 29, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Money, Freedom, A Story of the CFA Franc
Director: Katy Lena Ndiaye - Indigo Mood Films
Producer: Oualid Baha - Tact Production
September 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Money, Freedom, A Story of the CFA Franc. A currency born under colonial rule, a continent still paying the price.

Money, Freedom, A Story of the CFA Franc
Director: Katy Lena Ndiaye - Indigo Mood Films
Producer: Oualid Baha - Tact Production
September 25, 2026 at 3:16 PM
A Mizrahi Jewish family from Tunisia, trying to settle into their new life in 1948 Haifa, Palestine is haunted by a disturbing house guest: a large blue parrot left behind by the former Arab residents.
September 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Before the family moved in, this was a Palestinian home. Saeed never let them forget.

Directors: Darin J. Sallam, Amjad Al-Rasheed
Producers: Deema Azar, Roman Roitman
Line Producer: Ayah Jardaneh
September 22, 2026 at 3:12 PM
An invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by the filmmaker, who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.

Director Milisuthando Bongela
Producer Marion Isaacs and Milisuthando Bongela
September 19, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Some borders never left the map. They just moved inside us.
MILISUTHANDO traces what apartheid built, and what it takes to unbuild it.

Director Milisuthando Bongela
Producer Marion Isaacs and Milisuthando Bongela
Editor Hankyeol Lee
Co-Producers: Viso Prodductiones
September 18, 2026 at 4:42 PM
THIS IS THE WAY WE RISE is an exploration into the creative process, following Native Hawaiian poet Jamaica Osorio as her calling to protect sacred sites atop Maunakea, Hawaii reinvigorates her art.

Director-Producer Ciara Lacy
Subject Jamaica Osorio
Cinematographer Chapin Hall
September 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
A poet. A mountain. A calling.
This Is the Way We Rise follows Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio as the fight to protect Maunakea’s sacred summit breathes new life into her art.

Director-Producer Ciara Lacy
Subject Jamaica Osorio
Cinematographer Chapin Hall
September 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late ‘60s and ‘70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.
September 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state."
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Concerning Violence
Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson
Narrated by Ms. Lauryn Hill
September 9, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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September 4, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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September 4, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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