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Baltimore is an homage to writer, director, producer, and actor Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021), whose 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song ushered in the "blaxploitation" era, a genre of low-budget films created for African American audiences during the 1970s. Artist Isaac Julien appropriates the look and feel of blaxploitation films, using Baltimore's streets and museums as locations. He created this piece while filming Baadasssss Cinema (2002), a documentary on blaxploitation. Baltimore features the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, the Walters Art Museum, and The Contemporary museum, which serve as symbolic markers of American history and art history. Van Peebles stars with his signature hat and cigar alongside the stylish Vanessa Myrie, who-in a nod to Afrofuturism-plays a cyborg with superpowers. They move in parallel journeys through the museums as well as through time and space until Van Peebles encounters his likeness standing between wax versions of civil rights leaders Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Evading a single interpretation, Baltimore is-in Julien's words-"ironic and funky, nostalgic and futuristic, rough and fine." Isaac Julien (b. 1960, London) is a British installation artist, filmmaker, and distinguished professor of the arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This exhibition is curated by Vice President of Curatorial Affairs Doris Berger and Assistant Curator J. Raúl Guzmán. Thank you to Isaac Julien and his studio members in London and at the University of California Santa Cruz as well as Mark Nash.

A matchmaker connects Molly and Jacob, but their new romance is put to the test when they realize that they are competing deli owners. Will a Hanukkah miracle keep them together?

Johnny (Avan Jogia) and Clyde (Ajani Russell) are two serial killers madly in love and on an endless crime spree. They set their sights on robbing a casino owned by the crime boss Alana (Megan Fox) and guarded by her demonic warrior.

After a period of 10 years, in one of odd moments in life, Patricia (Haley Bennett), ex-wife of Idris, who now lives in the United States, shows up unexpectedly in a quiet English country hotel in Cornwall. Living in the hotel is her musician ex-husband, Idris (Sam Riley), with his current girlfriend, Louise (Marisa Abela), an aspiring actress, and the owner of the hotel.

Chicago detective Dan Lawson travels to Scotland to link up with Scottish detective Glen Boyd following the resurgence of a serial killer whose crimes match an unsolved case he investigated 5 years previously.

A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.

A woman returns home to help with her family's Christmas Carnival and romance ignites. A photo journalist curates a surprise reunion.

Eileen is grieving. She needs to get away. She rents a house in a remote corner of New Hampshire, in the dead of winter, where no one is likely to bother her. But wouldn't you know it? Someone does.

Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write his own outlandish "Black" book--that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

An ambitious cheerleader (Devery Jacobs) faces both new adversity and the increased drive for perfection and triumph when she and her girlfriend are selected for an all-star cheer squad with an overbearing head coach (Evan Rachel Wood).

Did he really see it? Or was it just in his head? As he emerges from yet another long slog in the Northwest wilderness, John's resolve remains undiminished. Long estranged from his family, John checks in to grab some provisions and touch base with some fellow sympathizers and true believers before resuming his all-consuming quest-to verify the existence of a Sasquatch he claims to have witnessed. In Hunting Bigfoot, Seattle-based filmmaker, Taylor Guterson skillfully melds the worlds of narrative feature and documentary film to capture this portrait of a broken man obsessively pursuing personal and professional redemption in a world where many of those close to him think he's crazy.

Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.

Peter Williams, an American priest working in Mexico, is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a dark secret that's eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his own demon one final time.

Ibinabo, a nigerian immigrant working as a cashier in a seafood restaurant in New York city, constantly struggles to maintain a social life and an unending pursuit of the American dream.

The morning after Trudy, a law school student, unsuspectingly steps into what she believes to be a "NetCar" black sedan, she wakes up confused and alone in a seedy motel-the victim of a roofie and sexual assault. Frustrated by the slow pace of the justice system, she takes matters into her own hands. Becoming NetCar driver herself, Trudy goes on a crusade to find and stop the serial rapist to whom she fell victim.

Nolan, an eager and outgoing small town boy, has adapted to living without his father who was mysteriously gunned down in front of him at a tender age. Isolated and alone, he makes the acquaintance of the local neighborhood hot-head, Sam. From the moment the two meet, they are inseparable. Sam brings excitement to Nolan's mundane existence, while Nolan offers an unconditional love that tempers Sam's proclivity for trouble-making. The bonds of the relationship are cemented through the boys' enduring love of the game of baseball, which Sam practically mentors Nolan through to his star status. Ultimately, small town life cannot protect these two youth on the verge of manhood from the excesses of life lived too fast. Too much freedom and too little supervision threaten their families, a budding romance and future success. In a last ditch effort to save her son from himself, Nolan's mother, Sharon, makes a desperate attempt to break the grip Sam has over her son, even from the grave...

My Summer as a Goth is a coming-of-age story about the sometimes painful-often entertaining-search for identity and love in adolescence. After the sudden death of her father, 16-year-old, Joey Javitts is sent to stay with her eccentric grandparents while her author mother promotes her latest novel. Joey promptly falls for the beguiling Goth boy next door, Victor, and is transformed by him and his merry band of misfits in black. Set in present-day Portland, My Summer as a Goth navigates Joey's relationships with her new friends, her family and herself, and will resonate with anyone who survived the social alienation of adolescence-and that first summer heartbreak.

An actress, Valentine Woodward, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when she co-stars alongside of rising star Jason Desmond. Valentine begins to feel uncomfortable on set due to Jason's sexual advances. Should she tell her boyfriend, Corey, about the sexual advances? Should she report the sexual harassment to the director, Dana? How far will Valentine go for the role of a lifetime.

DeAndrea, Nola, Daisy, and Crystal dubbed "The Bag Girls", successful streak of robberies on drug dealers reach its peak. Their plan to exit the operation to resume normal lives is disrupted by a notorious Columbian Cartel Queen's relentless pursuit for revenge.

Set 183 years before the events chronicled in the original trilogy of films, it tells the fate of the House of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan. A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless lord of Rohan, with dubious ancestry, having many ties to Dunland, he seeks vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg-a mighty fortress that will later come to be known as Helm's Deep. Finding herself in an increasingly desperate situation, Héra, the daughter of Helm, must summon the will to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on their total destruction.

Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father, a polyamorous Jewish psychiatrist. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father's mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.

During a fleeting bout of lucidity from her dementia, June Wilton has precious little time to bring together her estranged children, save the family business, and rekindle an old flame.

After millions of people vanish and the world falls into chaos, the only light is a charismatic leader who rises to become head of the U.N. But does he bring hope for a better future? Or is it the end of the world?

In this inspiring true story, amateur historian Philippa Langley believes she has made the archeological find of the century: the lost burial site of King Richard III. She takes on Britain’s most eminent historians, forcing them to rethink the legacy of one of the most controversial rulers in English history.