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Cover of If Beale Street Could Talk
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Barry Jenkins
Based on the novel by James Baldwin,  “a timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year-old Tish and her fiancé Fonny who have a…
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Mimi Leder
“The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the US…
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Ryan Coogler
“King T'Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the…
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Raoul Peck
“Using James Baldwin’s unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author’s friends, Medgar…
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Margaret Byrne
“Recorded over six years, Raising Bertie delivers an authentic and tender portrait of the lives of three young boys as they face a precarious coming of age within Bertie County, a…
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Sean Baker
“It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn’t been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working…
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Matthew Warchus
“U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.”
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Ryan Coogler
“Oscar wakes up on New Years’s Eve and decides to try and be a better person to those he cares about. The day goes well until an encounter with police officers puts him in the…
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Dee Rees
“Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good…
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Lisa Cholodenko
“Nic and Jules are your average suburban couple raising their two teens, Joni  and Laser . But when the kids secretly track down their ‘donor dad,’ Paul, an unexpected new…