Black Harvest Film Festival: Black and Blur

About this event

November 10 | BLACK AND BLUR brings together artists who approach cinema as a site of inquiry, ritual, performance, archive, and experimentation. Working across essay film, choreography, archival practice, handmade processes, sound, poetry, abstraction, and installation aesthetics, these filmmakers challenge dominant cinematic forms while expanding the visual and philosophical language of Black moving-image culture. The works invite audiences to linger with sensation, embodiment, memory, fragmentation, materiality, and performance, affirming experimental cinema as an essential space for Black artistic innovation, intellectual inquiry, and radical imagination.

2025–2026, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Angola, Portugal, Nigeria, Turtle Island, Germany, 102 min.

In English and various languages with English subtitles | Format: Digital and 35mm

General Admission - $15.50

Group Rate - $11.50 (Groups can save $4 off per ticket - minimum of 15 guests required)

Celebrating its 32nd year in 2026, the Black Harvest Film Festival is Chicago’s annual showcase for Black film across the diaspora. Born from an urgent need to celebrate the Black experience, the Black Harvest Film Festival unites filmmakers and audiences to showcase the power of Black cinema. This annual festival highlights emerging and established talents and historical narratives, enriching the landscape of Black culture. The festival curates both short and feature length films, proudly presenting influential auteurs and emerging filmmakers of color side by side.

The film festival will be held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center November 6–15, 2026.

Festival passes and individual tickets are available for purchase. Audiences additionally can choose from two Festival pass options:

Opening Night plus five screenings: $80 general public / $55 members

Six regular screenings: $60 general public / $36 members