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Catch kweliTV’s Top Titles in May!

byChanel Cain
5 minute read

1. THE ART OF FLOW: LOVE IS A MOOD

The Art of Flow is an intimate live music experience where music enthusiasts can connect more deeply with independent artists listening not only to the sounds but also to the thoughts behind the artistic expression. DJ Larry Love and AMood collaborate to share conversations about conversations they have had over the last 13+ years of friendship.

2. THEY ARE WE

THEY ARE WE tells the story of how a family separated by the transatlantic slave trade for 170 years sing and dance its way back together.

3. THE SLEEPING NEGRO

A man must resolve his personal feelings when his boss orders him to commit fraud to benefit the corporation. Struggling with an overwhelming sense of shame, he seeks consolation by discussing his unease with a former friend and the man’s fiancee.

4. THE BEAST

An ordinary day at a Zulu cultural village. Shaka, their star performer, expresses his frustrations to his co-workers as he sits on display for tourists. On this day he reaches the end of his tether and his protest takes on Shakespearian proportion.

5. 1804 – THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF HAITI

The history of how Haiti won its independence, carrying out the first-ever successful slave rebellion.

6. KWAKU ANANSE

Kwaku Ananse is an intensely personal project which draws upon the rich mythology of Ghana. The short film combines semi-autobiographical elements with the tale of Kwaku Ananse, a trickster in West African stories who appears as both spider and man. Ananse teaches us that there are two sides to everything and everyone. The fable of Kwaku Ananse is combined with the story of a young outsider named Nyan Koronhwea attending her estranged father’s funeral. At the funeral, she retreats to the woods in search for her father.

7. TEACHER DON’T TEACH ME NONSENSE

‘Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense’ is a documentary that explores the growing phenomenon of Afro-descendants returning to Africa to live. The film follows the journey of an educational professional navigating the Texas school system, addressing issues of school equity, racism, and miseducation while seeking personal freedom. It contrasts this experience with the life and legacy of Tanzania’s founding father, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, and his empowering policies such as Ujamaa and Education for Self-Reliance. By examining culturally unresponsive curriculums and harmful teaching practices in America, the documentary offers solutions rooted in Tanzania’s history of independence.

8. 3 TEASPOONS OF SUGAR

In a household where meal times are a delightful feast full of bonding, fellowship & good eating, three members of this tight knit family are diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. 3 Teaspoons of Sugar chronicles their individual experiences living with diabetes – the highs, lows, defeats, victories and lessons. Inspired by true events and real people.

9. CLEAR

CLEAR follows Ember Bearheart Johnson’s first day at home after a 16-year prison sentence for a crime she didn’t commit. Reuniting with her daughter, who was an infant at the time she was incarcerated, is bittersweet as she uncovers how her family’s lives have gone on without her after all these years.

10. CONNECT

Four black millennials exploring entrepreneurship and simply trying to figure out life.

11. SOLACE

A 17-year-old orphan is shipped off to her estranged grandmother and she plots her escape while navigating a foreign environment, new friendships and a hidden eating disorder.

12. A LITTLE CLOSURE

After dying from a shrimp allergy, Keith returns as a ghost seeking help from his best friend, Woody, to give his fiancée closure before moving on.

13. COMING TO AFRICA: WELCOME TO GHANA

For the first time since her divorce, Akosua, an African schoolteacher, is in love again and preparing to fulfill her lifelong dream of moving to the U.S. with her new American boyfriend, Adrian, who is struggling to gain acceptance from her family.

14. WHERE HEARTS LIE

A young Brooklyn-based real estate mogul unwittingly gambles his success, sanity, and the safety of his young child when he falls for the wrong woman.

15. QUILOMBO

Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged seer, Acotirene. She anoints one who becomes Ganga Zumba, a legendary king. For years, his warriors hold off Portuguese raiders; then he agrees to leave the mountains in exchange for reservation land and peace. It’s a mistake. Zumbi, a warrior whose mother was killed by Portuguese and who spent 15 years with the Whites, stays in the mountains to lead Palmares. In 1694, the Portuguese import a ruthless captain from São Paulo to lead an assault on the free Blacks. Can Zumbi keep Palmares free?

16. THE MATUMBILA’S

The Matumbila’s is about a Tanzanian family living in middle-class America. The series deals with culture clashes between the immigrated parents and their first-generation American children.

17. BLACK MEXICANS (LA NEGRADA)

Through its central love triangle, the sun-lit movie addresses the alienation and discrimination black Mexicans face within their own homeland. “La Negrada” (Black Mexicans) is the first Mexican fictional film about the Afro-Mexican community, filmed entirely with people from different towns around the Costa Chica in Oaxaca.

18. ANGELS ON DIAMOND STREET

Angels on Diamond Street spotlights three women fighting for social justice in an African-American church in Philadelphia.

19. A TASTE OF OUR LAND

Set in an unnamed African country, A Taste of Our Land is a film about greed told against the backdrop of the current Chinese influence in African countries. While trying to provide for his pregnant wife, Yohani, an older African man, retrieves a gold nugget in a Chinese-run mine built on his land and runs away to sell it for $100. When he learns its real value, he becomes as obsessed with it as Cheng, the Chinese mine supervisor who will stop at nothing to get it back.

20. OF MIND AND MUSIC

Of Mind and Music is a story about a beautiful street musician suffering from memory loss and a disheartened neuroscientist intent on helping her.

21. THE RAISING BLACK MILLIONAIRES SHOW

The Raising Black Millionaires Show goes into the homes and offices of today’s Black millionaires and billionaires, in business, to find out the child-rearing strategies their parents used to get them to their various levels of success; and which of those same techniques they used in rearing their children to carry on their legacies.

22. YAFA, FORGIVENESS

Demba is an African who has fled an oppressive regime in his own country and is seeking asylum in Paris. One night he encounters Lucien, a policeman from the Caribbean, who speaks to him in the voice of the dominant class. But in his country Demba is a professor of History and Geography while Lucien left school early to help his mother, a cleaning lady.

23. THIS IS LIFE

Follow the intertwined lives of sisters Amara and Shera as they confront love, trust, and betrayal in this gripping drama series.

24. SUNDOWN ROAD

When three college students get stuck on an isolated road, they soon find themselves in all too familiar territory.

25. P.E.N.S – SPOKEN WORD

Amid Houston’s museums, historic landmarks, and vibrant nightlife exists a cache of the nation’s most prolific spoken word artists. Their words are etched in the very fabric of H­town. Their story, once the city’s best­kept secret, will finally be told.
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