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- A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
- The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.
- A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
- Filmmaker Isaac Julien uses film clips and interviews to illustrate the history of the so-called "blaxploitation" genre.
- Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation.
- A secret political prison unit in the USA? In 1986, a controversial high security unit was opened in an underground chamber of Kentucky's federal prison. Its three female prisoners received sentences of unprecedented length for nonviolent crimes.
- A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.
- Tenderly tracing the life of poet Audre Lorde, the film cracks open life's poetry guided by Lorde's sincere belief more and better is possible if we envision it enough to will it into existence.
- Through interviews and dramatizations, the film examines social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men.
- This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and Whites live in a complex world of cotton, work, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese community is framed against the harsh realities of civil , religion, politics, and class in the South. Rare historical footage and interviews of Delta residents are combined to create this unprecedented document of inter-ethnic relations in the American South.
- She Don't Fade is a short film by Cheryl Dunye about a black lesbian's dating life. The film's characters include Shae, Shae's best friend Paula, and two of Shae's love interests.
- A character study of three generations of Black women.
- Sparks fly as racial, sexual and social politics intermingle at a lesbian potluck.
- Conflicts arise when a middle aged African American school teacher decides to visit her father's homeland of communist Cuba.
- The story of three young women searching for identity and self-esteem as they compete for the title of Ebony Goddess in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, the largest black city outside of Africa.
- An experimental choreographed poem,made within the LA Rebellion movement of film students at UCLA.
- A brief examination of the challenges facing the Sikh community in a post-9/11 New York City that erroneously associates the Sikh turban (or dastaar) with terrorism and Islamic extremists.
- The lives of a rural Mexican family are examined.
- Devotion investigates the extremely complex and hierarchical relationships among a committed group of filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man - Ogawa Shinsuke.
- A black lesbian takes a city walk alone at night after her memory of a domestic assault.
- In the decade following the Spanish-American War, more Filipinos were killed by US troops than by the Spanish during the 300 years of colonial rule. More than 1 million Filipinos died between 1899 and 1913. This experimental documentary about the Philippine American War of 1899 combines archival photographs and turn of the century film, digital video and 16mm footage to create memories of a forgotten history. A contemporary Filipina-American narrator weaves this complex history through historiography, experimental documentary and intercultural cinema. Shot on location in the Philippines and edited in the US, the film was produced by an international team of Filipino and American media artists.
- A film which chronicles the lives and experiences of two present-day exotic dancers, one male and one female, who perform for gay and lesbian audiences and one former burlesque queen who performed during the 1950's.