BLACK WORLD CINEMA | SOUTH SIDE PROJECTIONS | HYDE PARK ARTCENTER Present A Pre-Festival Screening Event Introducing The 1st Annual South Side Film Festival Celebrating Films Made on the South Side & South Side Filmmakers 2:30pm, Sept 30, 2017 • Hyde Park ArtCenter 5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL Cry of Jazz (1959), 34 min…(Read More)
Studio Movie Grill Chatham 210 W 87th St | FREE PARKING Aug 10 – 7:15 pm Discussion takes place after the film at 9:45. If you haven’t seen the fim DETROIT, come join us at Black World Cinema as we view and discuss the film DETROIT by director Kathryn Bigelow. A writer in the…(Read More)
From the juke joints to the church, up the mountain and down the bayou, I AM THE BLUES transports you to the Mississippi crossroads together with the last legends of the blues. I AM THE BLUES takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the…(Read More)
RAISING BERTIE, US, 2017, 102 min Director: Margaret Byrne An intimate, six-year portrait of three boys growing into adulthood in rural North Carolina. Raising Bertie argues that rural black lives matter by showcasing people usually invisible in the media: African-American boys grappling with the precarious school-to-work transition in an impoverished and…(Read More)
May 26-June 2 Studio Movie Grill Chatham and Black World Cinema Present Chasing Trane, 2017, US, 99 min. Director:John Scheinfeld 210 W 87th St FREE PARKING CHASING TRANE is the definitive documentary film about an outside-the-box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around…(Read More)
Half A Yellow Sun, UK/Nigeria, 2013, 111min Director: Biyi Bandele May 12-19 11:30 A, 2:10 P, 4:50 P, 7:30 P, 10:10 P Studio Movie Grill Chatham 210 W 87th St FREE PARKING During the mid-to-late sixties, twin sisters Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose…(Read More)
A couple finds out that starting a extra marital affair is a lot easier to do than ending one when they both are seduced into outside situations…(Read More)
March 31-April 7 Theatrical Premiere BATTLEDREAM CHRONICLE Dir. Alain Bidard | Martinique | 2015 |108 min| Animation [dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” rounded_corners=”false” inside_shadow=”false” ] French and Creole with English subtitles In 2100, the empire of Mortemonde colonized almost all the nations of the Earth and…(Read More)
TIMBUKTU A film by Abderrahmane Sissako 1h37 – Mauritania/France – 2014 2015 Academy Award Nominee Official Competition 2014 Cannes Film Festival (Winner: Prix du Jury Ecuménique, François Chalais Award) SMG Chatham, 210 W 87th st Times: Chose time and purchase ticket: 11:15 A 1:45 P 4:15 P 6:45 P 9…(Read More)
April 14-21 I Called Him Morgan, (2016) Director: Kasper Collin Cast: Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Paul West, Jymie Merritt, Bennie Maupin, Billy Harper, Art Blakey [dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#acacac” rounded_corners=”false” inside_shadow=”false” ]On a snowy night in February 1972, the 33…(Read More)