Pinky

Oscar Micheaux’s bold 1920 rebuttal to the infamous The Birth of a Nation screens alongside Julie Dash’s subversive short about a female, white-passing Hollywood executive.

Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to the US to find a bride while passing as a poor student.

A white, widowed mother befriends a Black single mom and domestic, whose daughter Sarah passes as white, in this cornerstone interrogation of mid-century American life.