Filmscene

African Diaspora

FilmScene highlights the work of African American filmmakers and films and artists of the African diaspora through year-round screenings and events curated in collaboration with members of the Iowa City community.

Previous Screenings

LOVE JONES

1997 / USA / Theodore Witcher

A poet and a photographer navigate the Black arts scene in 1990s Chicago, both too cool to fully commit. But when she’s offered a job in New York City, can they hold onto each other?

RUSTIN

2023 / USA / George C. Wolfe

Activist Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo) faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT

2023 / USA / Raven Jackson

A decades-spanning exploration of a woman’s life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.