En afroamerikansk kvinna i den amerikanska södern under tidigt 1900-tal möter många svårigheter i sitt liv, men hon finner extraordinär styrka och hopp i systerskapets okrossbara band.
The 2020 U.S. election, January 6 insurrection, and transition of power are recast and retold in a radical transformation of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injustices of racial segregation while on the road. The Negro Travelers’ Green Book was a directory of lodgings, restaurants, and entertainment venues where African Americans were welcomed. Features performances and interviews with vocalists, musicians, activists, historians, and others.
A slice-of-life documentary following a visually-impaired married couple as they prepare for a trip to the grocery store.
An intimate insider’s journey to uncover buried truths and explore how the community in Monroe, Georgia has been impacted by the 1946 quadruple lynching and decades of racial injustice, shattering a code of silence that has distanced neighbor from neighbor for generations.
Philoxenia is a short documentary highlighting the synergy between the Greek notion of philoxenia ("friend of the stranger") and Southern hospitality, as expressed through Birmingham, Alabama's Greek-owned restaurants. The film features six local favorite restaurants, two historians and, of course, a lot of mouthwatering dishes.
"Harriet" berättar historien om frihetskämpen Harriet Tubman; om hennes flykt från slaveri och hennes modiga uppdrag att leda slavar till frihet via den s.k. "Underjordiska järnvägen"
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice. The film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story.
Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence is a 50-minute documentary about the life and work of Georgia writer and activist Lillian Smith (1887 – 1966). This documentary explores her legacy and the life journey that led to her awakening, from her childhood experiences in a small southern town, to her years of living abroad in China, to directing a girls' summer camp in North Carolina. By the time she published a bestselling novel in 1944, her moral compass was finely tuned to the changes needed in the southern U.S., and she spent the next two decades confronting the ugly institution of segregation, saying that it harmed whites as much as blacks. In the decade before her death she wrote about the need for freedom and respect for everyone everywhere.
Tony Lip, en fd utkastare från de italiensk-amerikanska kvarteren i Bronx New York, anställs för att köra den världsberömda klassiska pianisten Don Shirley, med rötter i den afroamerikanska kulturen, på en konsertturné genom djupaste amerikanska södern. Ett minst sagt udda par. Längs vägen måste de förlita sig på ”The Green Book” för att hitta de restauranger och hotell som anses godkänna afroamerikanska gäster. På en fantastisk resa tvingas de lägga undan sina meningsskiljaktigheter när de konfronteras av rasism, fara, oväntad medmänsklighet och en hel del humor.
In Tennessee, and across the South, transgender people like Graham and Zeke face a daily struggle in their pursuit of equal protection under the law. From so-called 'bathroom bills' to laws restricting their ability to change their sex on legal documents, not to mention the personal and familial challenges as you transition, life is not easy nor fair for trans folk.
Helpless to stop a thief from stealing his father’s modest nest egg, Travis grows up blaming himself for his parents’ suicide. Becoming a priest who operates a highway confessional with his ambivalent brother, Michael, he offers sage advice to chosen sinners while raining death on unrepentant thieves. Into the world of this antagonistic duo comes Mary Francis, a deranged young woman with psychopathic tendencies who kills a thief who threatens to expose the decidedly un-holy siblings. Filled with gratitude, Travis invites the woman into their sacred world which begins a chain of carnage-laced events that threaten to destroy the brothers’ bloody, decades-long partnership.
Director Sam Pollard constructs a portrait of charismatic trailblazer Maynard Jackson, who became Atlanta’s first black mayor in 1973. The son of pastors raised in the segregated South, Jackson entered college at 14 and took office at 35. During his three-term tenure, he led the city through the traumatic Atlanta child murders scare and triumphantly hosted the 1996 Olympics, all while championing racial equality. Family and colleagues, including Bill Clinton, Andrew Young and Al Sharpton, tell the epic story of a dynamic leader and his legacy of honor and progress.
With a case of writer’s block, a children’s author escapes to small town Mitford for a change of scenery. She soon finds the heart and soul of the southern town in a priest as they work together to care for a young boy who’s lost his family. With heartbreak in their pasts, each must find the courage and faith to grab an unexpected chance at true love.
When six college kids in a sleepy Southern town are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history, one of them sets in motion a horrific fate when he proposes they head into the Georgia backwoods to tackle the legend of Emily Burt, the Talbot County werewolf.
David är en okomplicerad man som har fastnat i en monoton vardag. Dag in och dag ut kör han sin värdetransport där han transporterar andra människors miljoner. Det enda som är exalterande är att få träffa tjejen på jobbet som han är kär i – Kelly Campbell som snart lurar in honom i århundradets kupp.
Tillsammans med en grupp halv-smarta brottslingar som leds av Steve Chambers och en absurd plan klarar de det omöjliga och sticker med 17 miljoner dollar i kontanter. Det enda problemet är att han dumdristigt nog lämnar över pengarna till resten av gruppen som består av manipulativa lögnare och blir själv den som får ta på sig stöten. Medan banditerna bränner pengarna på lyx, lämnar de samtidigt spår efter sig. David måste nu undvika polisen, den hysteriske lönnmördaren Mike McKinney och samtidigt försöka vända på situation som hans fördetta kompanjoner har försatt honom i.
Jimmy is convinced he's found a way to release his inner demons without going against the will of God. He believes that on the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, when Jesus is “dead”, our sins are overlooked. Jimmy believes in... DEAD SATURDAY.
I ”Birth of a Nation” får vi följa den predikande slaven Nat Turner som nyttjas av sin ägare att sprida falskt hopp bland slavar i den amerikanska södern, 30 år innan det amerikanska inbördeskriget. Efter att ha upplevt fruktansvärd grymhet mot både sig själv, sin fru Cherry och sina medslavar leder Nat ett uppror för sitt folks frihet.
With a single abortion clinic remaining in the state of Mississippi, the city of Jackson has become ground zero in the nation's battle over reproductive health-care. Jackson is an intimate portrait of the interwoven lives of three women in this town. Wrought with the racial and religious undertones of the Deep South, the lives of two women are deeply affected by the director of the local pro-life crisis pregnancy center and the movement she represents.
Filmed in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, this documentary tells the stories of four twentysomethings who are living their lives under the scrutiny and judgment often faced by those who clash with mainstream gender norms. Lizzy G, Kyta, and Yella Man are lesbian studs, and Ashton is an out trans man. While Lizzy G struggles to overcome abuse from her past, Kyta wants to free herself from her Asian family's expectations about her future. Ashton is navigating the tribulations of transition. And Yella Man? She's just trying to have a good time.