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2) Park day
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English
Description
Park Day is a moving urban drama about a hometown reunion where we follow three young people as they approach a dangerous life crossroads.
7) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Language
English
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A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith₂s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
8) Beat street
Language
English
Description
Three friends who dream of breaking out of their South Bronx existence find a ray of hope in the form of a local composer/choreographer, who takes interest in their individual talents.
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English
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Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton was the black urban dream and a hero to youngsters Wilford Robinson and Earl Carter. Shortly before he would have become the first man from his community to go to college, he demonstrates his scholarship-winning running ability to his friends and admirers in the neighborhood. At the same time, the police are on a manhunt for an armed rapist. They mistake Cornbread for the rapist and shoot him dead in the street. In the...
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English
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"A mismatched pair pushed together for a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, Justice and Lucky have only one thing in common: they can't stand each other. But as their friends Iesha and Chicago fight, and make up, in the back of the van, Justice and Lucky find themselves reluctantly drawn together before being confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind"--Container.
11) The inheritance
Language
English
Description
Part documentary, part narrative, this experimental, quasi-documentary ensemble work is a "speculative re-enactment" based partly on Asili's own experiences in a West Philadelphia Black liberationist group. Infusing this documentary scaffold is a scripted drama centered on a young man who inherits a sprawling, multi-story house in West Philadelphia from his grandmother and decides to refashion the property into a collective of young, Black artists...
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