Black Women Block 3
Interruption
Doom Scroll
Strong Friend
SAHM
The Shower
Urban Uptake
Little Stories, Big Echoes: Beads of Hope
As floodwaters rise, Dawn turns to the sacred tradition of the Mardi Gras Indians—a rich cultural legacy of Black resilience, resistance, and artistry. Her first handmade Mardi Gras suit, meticulously crafted with beads, feathers, and ancestral memory, becomes her source of strength and identity. Through it, she connects with the spirits of those who came before her and discovers that her legacy, her voice, and her community’s truth cannot be washed away.
Beads of Hope honors the 20-year legacy of Katrina by shining a light on the enduring fight for environmental justice in Black and Brown communities. It is a story about cultural survival, intergenerational power, and the unbreakable spirit of New Orleans. As the city continues to rebuild, this film stands as a tribute to the youth who carry forward its stories—and the hope threaded into every stitch.
You Just Watch & See
Baby Killer: The Pain Of Silence
Girl Dinner
Amelia is in her first year of law school. She recently landed an internship at a major law firm and is on track to continue there as a litigator upon graduation. She is deeply in love with Trinity but, due to work and school demands, is increasingly unable to spend time with her. She understands Trinity’s frustration, but she’s doing all that she can with the time she has. She feels as though Trinity doesn’t appreciate that the time she is investing in school and work will pay dividends for them both – in just a few years. Trinity is newly starving artist. She loved that her work at a pottery shop allowed her to paint and connect with other artists. She was actually a bit of a workaholic. But recently let go, Trinity’s job search has endured for far longer than expected. And during this stretch, she has found a new appreciation for life – for the little things. She loves Amelia so much, but is growing resentful. She understands why Amelia does what she does, but it doesn’t feel good.
As competing priorities and shifting perspectives create tension, a seemingly simple dinner becomes a space for confrontation, vulnerability, and reflection.
CODE-SWITCHED
White Agbada
Her concerned sister calls her one day, and poses that she join her on a family trip to Nigeria for spiritual assistance. Ibironke is totally against this, and continues to engage in her bad habits. One vice includes a casual relationship with an engaged prospective business partner who has a baby on the way.
Ibironke invites him over to get to the bottom of this issue and their post-sex discussion accelerates into a fight. In the midst of the argument, an ancestor who has dropped Easter eggs all throughout her day makes an appearance in her mirror, terrifying Ibironke. She immediately knows this climatic sighting is a radical call for change, responds by ending her situationship, and changing her mind to join her sister on their life-changing return back home.
8:38
Fairytales
powers are exposed during a violent national guard encounter,
forcing her and her husband to flee through a city that
now sees her as a threat— finding brief refuge at her
loving father’s secluded home, until the outside world
catches up and turns sanctuary into battleground.
The Baltimore Barber
Seventeen-year-old Scooter is one of Anthony’s favorites. Bright, ambitious, and full of plans. Scooter talks about opening a bike shop, going viral, buying his mother a house, and building a safer life for his family as Anthony trims his hair and offers fatherly guidance.
Intercut with these moments is a second, colder ritual: Anthony working late at night in an undisclosed location, carefully laying out tools and tufts of hair, performing the same precise motions we see in the shop, but under far different circumstances.
As Scooter speaks passionately about the life he intends to build, the film slowly reveals a shattering truth: Anthony is not only the barber shaping his community’s future, he is also the man preparing its dead. Scooter, whose voice fills the shop with hope, is already gone.
The Baltimore Barber is a haunting meditation on grief, gun violence, and the quiet labor of the men who hold Black communities together. It questions what it costs to keep showing up in a world that keeps taking your kids, and who takes care of the care taker?
