Art and Resilience Aligned at This Year’s BlackStar Film Festival

The 14th iteration of the BlackStar Film Festival returned to Philadelphia from July 31 to August 3 with a robust program championing independent Black, Brown, and Indigenous film and media artists. BlackStar’s commitment to uplifting such voices is especially...

Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?

The cinematic journey in Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) (2024) begins in the Mexican countryside. Modern civilization — signified by concrete, metal, and powerlines — peeks through the green landscape to reveal a more rigid world of roads,...

BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World 

Still from Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez’s TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025), which will kick off this year’s BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia (all images courtesy BlackStar Film Festival) A prolific storyteller,...