From the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey, New York’s NewFest, Tribeca Film Festival, and Urban World Film Festival, to the famed Sundance Film Festival, here you’ll find our film festival coverage (which contains movies, shorts, and episodic content).
The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future boils down to toxic family relationships that need to be acknowledged, addressed, and corrected, or else that toxicity will kill more than just family members.
Fresh is the kind of film which will make you double back on its description for you clearly weren’t paying attention when reading its synopsis.
Maika is probably one of the most entertaining sci-fi action films, aimed at kids, I have either ever seen.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande acts as a reminder that intimacy and vulnerability go well beyond sex and is really about allowing someone to know you beyond the physical.
Master for PWI may have the same effect that Get Out had on Black man/White woman relationships.
When not paired with action, drama, or being an adventure, sci-fi is a tough sell, and After Yang shows why.
Emergency taps into that innate feeling many Black Americans have about getting involved with certain people who automatically lead to suspicion and the police.
The voice presented in Reasons pulls you between wanting a full-length movie focused on Mercy’s story and/or a series.
Prayers For The Stolen presents the fears involved when a lurking presence can, at any moment, rob you of your autonomy and joy.
Therapy is the kind of short that just starts getting good when it ends.
The Little Death chronicles the heartbreaking story of one couple trying to get pregnant and the test it presents for their marriage.
Despite a rather interesting premise, The Last Days devolves into a simple poem that acts as a reminder of racial injustice for Black people in the UK.
With an FX/ Adult Swim vibe, Luv U Cuz might be one of the strangest animated shorts out of NewFest but might be one of the most memorable things we’ve seen overall.
A chance encounter leads to an unexpected relationship as faith creates an instant bond, but what’s to happen once the fun is over?
As we mourn the end of Insecure, Car Therapy: Uncoupling reminds you of the show’s origins.
A couple learns they are pregnant and deals with the difficulty of maintaining a non-binary ideal in a world that doesn’t honor that.
There is a level of intimacy in our daily lives that we take for granted, but things are slowed down in Girls & The Party, and what usually is a forgettable series of moments are embraced.
More Happiness is a bit strange and doesn’t really venture to demystify itself.
The First Time gives you webcomic-turned short web series vibes, but it is not long enough.
While at times excruciatingly dull, Kristen Stewart’s transformation, paired with the psychological aspect of being a public figure who is isolated and controlled, saves Spencer.
In this three-minute short, we get an innocent and adorable showing of the lengths someone will go through for a crush.
Throw three monologues, we recount how a young man named Matthew found strength in community, through his Grandmother and eventually, himself.
The Harder They Fall will remind you why westerns were once the most popular film genre and pushes Jeymes Samuel to potentially be this generation’s Quentin Tarintino.
I want you to imagine the intensity in Black Swan mixed with Whiplash, and in that volatile mix, you’ll get Isabelle Fuhrman in The Novice.
While Under My Skin may make you question “Where is this going” and “Why are four people playing one person?” you never get bored.
As a young girl comes of age, she finds herself idolizing one of her friend’s older sister.
Be Good hyper focuses on the experience of having an eating disorder while making its character solely a vehicle for the depiction.
Americanized explores that longing for community, especially when you don’t perfectly fit in with any you identify with.
A young girl of Islamic faith has a growing interest in wearing a bikini to her swim meet and decides she isn’t going to ask her mother’s permission.
In this music video, you get a sad, animated story that illuminates the lyrics of Sting’s “Inshallah.”
Someone call Nickelodeon, Disney, some children’s network because they need to make Death & Deathability (A Period Piece) a series – STAT!
Apart, Together is a touching story focused on a woman looking for the daughter she was forced to give up.
In The Black Disquisition, a young man recaps the moment his parents had to tell him what it means to be Black, and the journey to find Black to be beautiful
Externo, while at times tapping on that line of being too art-house, presents a compelling journey as one man vies to take over the world.
Your first anything is always a magical moment, but only if with the right person.
The One and Only Dick Gregory feels very much like a highlight reel that pushes the idea it wanted to either minimalize faults or that there weren’t any.
I hope you’ve been drinking enough water for She Dreams At Sunrise will not only make you cry but ugly cry.
Is it real life, or was it all a fantasy? That is the question you’re left with after watching Girl With A Thermal Gun
3 children, worried about bus driver over the summer, contemplate who they know to pair them up within an adorable 10 minute short.