A Brooklyn man has a perilous three-day journey through New York's infamous central booking jail system, famously known as The Tombs. This is the final edition of this 2019 series.

The story of Bed-Stuy legend Rawlston “Charlie” Charles and how he put Calypso music on the map and ushered in a new genre of music, Soca

LaKeith Stanfield stars in an emotionally charged performance as Colin Warner, unjustly jailed for decades for a crime he did not commit

The documentary RETURNING CITIZENS kicks off Mass Effects, our film series on how mass incarceration has afflcted the Black community

featuring the documentary ALL OUR SONS and the 1973 movie FIREHOUSE starring Richard Roundtree

During the 1970’s, fires consumed the South Bronx. Black and Puerto Rican residents were blamed for the devastation even as they battled daily to save their neighborhoods. Through rich archival and home movie footage, DECADE OF FIRE confronts the racially-charged stereotypes that dehumanized residents of the South Bronx in the 1970’s, and rationalized their abandonment by city, state and federal governments.

an all-day celebration of Black cinema in the middle of Bedford-Stuyvesant

We're extending Juneteenth celebrations with an encore presentation of Frank Lawson & Abby Ginzberg's landmark AGENTS OF CHANGE

The Cinema Garden Party takes over East Flatbush with a return screening of Anna Rose Holmer’s THE FITS, a fun and intriguing yet difficult to fully define drama.  Join us for this extra special event.

Akeem, nicknamed the Rasta Rocket for his once-in-a-generation speed, is set to be Jamaica’s next big track-and-field sensation. But his rising star is weighed down by a volatile father, and an unruly older brother, and Akeem’s hopes that his rise in athletics will take him to the U.S. to reunite him with his mother, who has supported the family while living as an illegal resident for over a decade.

a Brooklyn time-travel adventure to right yet another wrongful death from police violence

Celebrating the birthdays of Malcolm X and Kathleen Cleaver with the first-ever film biography of the pre-eminent theorist of the psychological impact of racism on both the colonized and colonizer AND the untold story of college students who struggled for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, that became a clarion call across the country in the late 1960's.

Celebrate Earth Day 2019 with environmentally conscious cinema, from and reflective of, the Black/African diaspora experience. The Luminal Theater and Hancock Community Backyard Garden Park present Naliah Jefferson’s VANISHING PEARLS and the Global Oneness Project’s “A Thousand Suns”

A screening of Al Santana’s “Voices of the Gods” followed by a slide presentation by Marilyn Nance about her photos on the African American religious experience, providing a revealing dual perspective on a common subject. Followed by a conversation with Nance, Santana, and artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden.