Genre: Art

A surreal, nightmarish game in which the player (or the viewer) is confronted with abstract and frightening tasks to complete.

In this short, we see a delicate and deeply moving portrait of Maria, a grieving woman. Small fragments of Maria’s life and surroundings help give the work a sense of poetry and mystery that lingers long after the end of the viewing experience.

A retired director is hired by a local university to direct a short play in this wistful meditation on regret, connection, and the creative process.

An imaginative, surreal chronicle of the return of 26 stolen artifacts from Paris to their rightful home in Benin. How should they be received?

Leo Berkeley is a wheelchair-bound resident of an inner city suburb in Australia. Filled with ideas about existence but limited to the observations of his neighbors, Leo comes to know the depths of his awareness, while others are unbothered by their personal impact.

Through unique and fantastical imagery, the 17th-century Congolese heroine and prophetess Kimpa Vita comes to life in contemporary Brazil. In an effort to rescue her people from colonial oppression, Kimpa Vita methodically replicates herself.

A powerful reclamation of pioneering South African photographer Ernest Cole, whose astute, vivid portraits of racial injustice have been largely forgotten – until now.

Estranged Letters provides intimate access into Iranian-American visual artist Maryam Taghavi’s process as she prepares for her fist solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

A self-portrait of trauma, dilemma, objectification, and relief told through a collection of experimental shorts.

Newly discovered archival footage shot in Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb is mixed with images of the city in the present moment. This work is a haunting meditation on war and memory.

Iconoclastic French filmmaker Leos Carax reflects on his work, life, and filmography in this playful, personal cinematic essay.

Following artist Richard Hunt as he sculpts a monument to civil rights icon Ida B. Wells, this inspiring film weaves the stories of these two Black pioneers.

In need of a “cultured boyfriend”? A “perfect son”? Matthias is available for rent in this incisive comedy that levels up the “rent-a” genre.

A filmmaker pieces together a picture of her mother, a renowned Chicago-born photojournalist, attempting to close the gap between herself and the woman she never knew.

After being offered the chance to showcase his art in Chicago’s most famous museum, a black sculptor reflects on decades of rejection. Elliot’s film is a melodic portrayal of the bias of history, and the institutions that control its interpretations.

Using the shadow and light of the pinscreen animation technique, this film considers a portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria by Baroque painter Diego Velázquez. Forced to marry her uncle as a child, Queen Mariana’s traumatic life becomes a reminder of the cruelty of incest, as well as art’s deep resonance, in this delicately made work.