Miami Film Festival Honoring Black History Month

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The Miami Film Festival Spotlight’s Black Stories honoring Black History Month including the world premiere of these stories:
The Gravity

Sunday, March 5, 12:30 PM
Silverspot Cinema 16

An unprecedented alignment of planets impacting gravity will upset the balance of a ghetto and the destiny of two duos of brothers eager to do anything for their freedom in an unceasing fight between old and new generations. Tickets.

Tori & Lokita

Fri, Mar 3rd, 7:15 PM
Coral Gables Art Cinema

Thu, Mar 9th, 9:00 PM
Bill Cosford Cinema
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile. Tickets.

Kitè Zo: Leave the Bones

Sunday, March 12, 3:00 PM
Silverspot Cinema 13

In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. “Kite Zo A” (Leave the Bones) is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to modern, made in collaboration with poets, dancers, musicians, fishermen, daredevil rollerbladers, and Vodou priests, set to poetry by Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel. Tickets.

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Sat, March 11, 2023 12:00 PM
Silverspot Cinema 13

Lisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything chronicles the career of the legendary rock and roll icon Little Richard while examining the genre’s Black queer origins in an effort to counterbalance the whitewashed history of American pop. Tickets.

Chevalier (Marquee Screening)

Wed, March 8, 7:00 PM EST
Coral Gables Art Cinema

Inspired by the incredible story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr. in a tour de force performance) rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton) herself and her court. Tickets.

 

Stephen Curry: Underrated

Sunday, March 5, 2023 12:00 PM
Silverspot Cinema 12

The remarkable coming-of-age story of one of the most influential, dynamic and unexpected players in the history of basketball: Stephen Curry. This feature documentary — blending intimate cinéma vérité, archival footage and on camera interviews — documents Curry’s rise from an undersized college player at a tiny backwater Division I college to a four-time NBA champion, building one of the most dominant sports dynasties in the world. Tickets.

Me Little Me

Saturday, March 11, 3:15 PM
Silverspot Cinema 16

While in the early stages of recovery from an eating disorder, Mya finds herself especially alone. As though balancing her mental health and relationships wasn’t hard enough, tension rises when she’s promoted in her male-dominant industry with demanding expectations and delinquent coworkers. Stress rises to an all-time high, and together, obstacles culminate until everything comes tumbling down. In a humble and heartbreaking journey, Mya embodies just how complicated, tiring, and lonely it can be to feel just a little self-love. Tickets.

Nayola

Saturday, March 11, 3:30 PM
Bill Cosford Cinema

Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is nally at peace but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to contain her for fear of the police coming to arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete. An encounter like nothing they could have imagined. Tickets.

Kokomo City

Saturday, March 11, 3:00 PM
Silverspot Cinema 11

Kokomo City takes up a seemingly simple mantle — to present the stories of four Black transgender sex workers in New York and Georgia. Shot in striking black and white, the boldness of the facts of these women’s lives and the earthquaking frankness they share complicate this enterprise, colliding the every day with cutting social commentary and the excavation of long-dormant truths. Sharing reflections on knotty desire, far-reaching taboo, identification in labor, and gender’s many meanings, these women offer an unapologetic and cutting analysis of Black culture and society at large from a vantage point that is vibrating with energy, sex, challenge, and hard-earned wisdom. Tickets.

 

Rye Lane

Sunday, March 5, 7:30 PM
Bill Cosford Cinema

From director Raine Allen-Miller, RYE LANE is a romantic comedy that stars David Jonsson (“Industry,” “Deep State”) and Vivian Oparah (“Class,” “The Rebel”), as Dom and Yas, two twenty-somethings both reeling from bad break-ups, who connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance. Tickets.

 

Rule 34

Sunday, March 5, 8:00 PM
Silverspot Cinema 16

Simone is a young black woman who spent years performing sex acts online to pay for law school. She has just passed a public defender exam and her ambition is to defend women in cases of abuse. In order to reawaken Simone’s sexual desire, a friend sends her a link to a video where a black woman practices sadomasochism. Gradually, Simone enters a journey of learning about BDSM practices, and her sexual interests lead her into a world of violence and eroticism. Tickets.

These are just a few of the many titles being screened throughout our upcoming festival this March. If you love movies as much as we do, then don’t miss out! Check our full lineup and program on our website today. 
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