This festival of films and videos by black artists from all over the world–which replaces the Blacklight Film Festival and has a new team of programmers–runs through Tuesday, July 18, at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson. Tickets are $5, $3 for Film Center members; a $30 festival pass is good for admission to each film. For more information call 443-3737)
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Laini Dakar’s Beyond the Agenda (1993) is about a six-year-old boy at a school for gifted children; Zeinabu Irene Davis’s Mother of the River is a children’s film based on an African folk tale about a young slave girl in the American south in the 1850s; and Kimberly Green and Camille Tucker’s Sweet Potato Ride (1993) is about the adventures of a Los Angeles boy running away from home. (4:00)
Black Is . . . Black Ain’t
Working the Spirit
Shida and Matatizo
Hyenas
