Sylvia Scarlett

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.

A trio of bumbling young men are mistaken for undocumented Koreans in a cutting commentary on Japan’s treatment of immigrants, with director Nagisa Ôshima at his most politically engaged and madcap.

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.