Movies: Racism

A group of African American students at the University of Arizona reveals the importance of political spaces within Universities in times of intolerance....

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery....

Two men in Bahia, Brazil, try to prove their UK ancestry to qualify for a small plot of land in the city’s finest location: the British Cemetery....

A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s. It weaves together archival material with the filmmaker's personal narrative about living next to fr...

When a state phantomizes a population, another reality. When history distorts the truth. When my (her)story meets another (her)story. When women disappear without a trace. When, white and privileged, I attend a rehearsal of stories. When violenc...

Inspired by a true story, the short is contextualized in the long arc of racism throughout US history, by utilizing news stories about racism from the past century as the canvas for each frame of the hand-painted animation....

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The only people charged over the brutal police murder of Elijah McClain are community activists who organized mass peaceful demonstrations calling for justice. They are facing up to 48 years in prison - among the highest charges for peaceful politica...

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Two boys in trouble at school face a racist high school administration....

A young boy meets his estranged trailer park father for the first time. What his father doesn't know is that he now identifies as a girl....

Through a poetic language, "White Noise" seeks to reflect on the whitening processes that Brazil suffered for 130 years, after the abolition of slavery. How it affects our offspring and makes it difficult to search for the identity of black people in...

The story begins in the basement of a worn-out blues bar in Louisiana in the 1980s. A few regular customers are having a drink. A guitarist gets on stage and everybody comments on the newcomer. The guitarist draws the attention of the audience by tap...

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The film can be described as an Alice in Wonderland- inspired saga. In the film we meet Josef, a young Afro-Swede in high school who, during a lesson, ends up in a dream world where he travels in time and meets people who contributed to the perceptio...

A black, female, apprentice carpenter faces discrimination and must choose between taking a stand or keeping her job....

What if this next generation could transcend racism? One year, 12 teens, on a remarkable journey to face racism and white privilege, have the conversations most of us are too afraid to have. Once they push through naivete, guilt and tears, what they ...

This intimate portrait of an American domestic terrorist contemplating mayhem is a close-up and unflinching look at right-wing hatred and intolerance in the United States...

Riddle of Rhodesia is an American documentary/short on Zimbabwe restored by La Cinémathèque française in 2010....

Experimental documentary examining the interaction of hate, religion, and the apocalypse in the United States....