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Ponders 20 Films by Black Directors Challenge

Taking a crack at Nadine's Challenge.

Because I have a penchant for starting too many challenges and finishing none of them, I'm going to allow picks for this to overlap with my Criterion and Anti Criterion Challenges to start, and then if I finish all of those I'll double back and replace the picks here with unique films. (Right now that's 9/20 films.)

🎙️ 1. One movie related to music or dance (could be a musical, concert, biopic, or documentary about a musical artist, etc.)

🌟 2. Two movies from the Letterboxd Top 100 Narrative Feature Films by Black Directors list

🌍 3. Two movies from Africa

🌈 4. One Queer movie

♀️ 5. At least seven movies directed by…

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  • Mo' Better Blues

    1

  • Training Day

    2

  • Juice

    3

  • West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

    4

  • Sarraounia

    5

  • Looking for Langston

    6

  • Daughters of the Dust

    7

  • Saint Omer

    8

  • Rye Lane

    9

  • Drylongso

    10

  • I Am Not a Witch

    11

  • Eve's Bayou

    12

  • The Forty-Year-Old Version

    13

  • My Brother's Wedding

    14

  • Super Fly

    15

  • Personal Problems

    16

  • Rise of the Guardians

    17

  • I Am Not Your Negro

    18

  • Sinners

    19

  • Killer of Sheep

    20