2015 ABFF

In a culture requiring an ID card and commitment to the code, an African-American couple is about to find out just how far the boundaries can be pushed...

A young boy commits an accidental murder which causes a stir in the community and forces him to choose between his loyalty to the gang -AND- saving what's left of his innocence by turning himself into the police. Inspired by the last days of Robert Sandifer's life, the story made headlines and appeared on the cover of Time Magazine - showing America a world where children become warriors, grown men give the orders and make the money, and the street gang is family, employer and executioner.

First Date, Last Date is a drama about finding your soul mate at the worst possible time - the end of the world. Sara and Michael are on their first date when all hell breaks loose. One would think they would be terrified as it unfolds just outside their window but they both decide to suppress their fear and continue with the date as the world crumbles around them...

A Nigerian woman living in America struggles to convince her traditionalist husband not to circumcise their ten-year-old daughter.

Samuell McKenzie, 22, young father aspires to be a Hollywood superstar but is weighed down by his broken relationship, what doesn't help is his family who have their own little dramas, being the eldest son he must make an example. What's a young dad to do?

ESCORTS is a black comedy that follows Jay Miller on his perilous journey as a collegiate amateur "escort service" business owner in Southern California.

Four NYU girls who will do whatever it takes to make it in NYC - even if it involves a scheme or eight.

A successful businesswoman and a grieving housewife struggle to overcome loneliness in the face of a shared tragedy.

Fed up with traditional dating, Quinton commits to only have one night stands -- to his own peril.

In the wake on an ultimatum, Darrell must find a job or move out of his moms house. Set in small town Wakooki, Arizona, Darrell encounters an array of characters as he navigates the near impossible task of growing up.

Employees at the E.A.R (Everybody's A little Racist) do their best to tackle every race problem that comes through their door but for lead agent Akosua Miller, the biggest case may be her own.

Life changes for Malcolm, a geek who's surviving life in a tough neighborhood, after a chance invitation to an underground party leads him and his friends into a Los Angeles adventure.

Follow the story of foreign researcher and Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal whose study, An American Dilemma (1944), provided a provocative inquiry into the dissonance between stated beliefs as a society and what is perpetuated and allowed in the name of those beliefs. His inquiry into the United States racial psyche becomes a lens for modern inquiry into how denial, cognitive dissonance, and unrecognized, unconscious attitudes continue to dominate racial dynamics in American life. The films unusual narrative sheds a unique light on the unconscious political and moral world of modern Americans. Archival footage, newsreels, nightly news reports, and rare southern home movies from the 30s and 40s thread through the story, as well as psychological testing into racial attitudes from research footage, websites, and YouTube films. Hear from experts historians, psychologists, sociologists and Myrdals daughters all filmed directly to camera. Witnesses work to exhume unconscious feelings Americans have about themselves and others. Fascinated by the Myrdal question, the films experts reflect on it with emotion and intellectual rigor. At the core of their inquiry: How to reconcile individual feelings and thoughts with the bedrock values of our democracy?

STORY LINE: A black man in NYC struggles with bipolar disorder, while his girlfriend and mother learn to deal with the pain of his manic episode and struggle for mental survival.

IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE explores identity and legacy in the African-American family, as Grammy award-winning rapper Che 'Rhymefest' Smith and his long-lost father reconnect and try to build a new future in Chicago's turbulent South Side. Himself a child of a broken home, Che hasn't seen his father, Brian, in over 20 years, and presumes him dead. But after buying his father's childhood home, Che sets out to find him, and learns that his is now a homeless alcoholic living only several blocks away/ The film offers a probing take on memory and identity in a family two generations removed from slavery as it tracks Che and Brian's shared journey to create a new legacy for themselves, their community and the next generation of family.

The distant past, the recent past and the present collide in French Dirty, a meditation on love, loss and growing up as a millennial.

A bride and her three friends travel to Puerto Rico for her wedding when chaos ensues.

John of God is the world's greatest musician...in his own mind. When an American film maker is sent to Kinshasa - DR Congo to do a 'tell all' story about him, his talent is put to the test.

A Brooklyn man tries to cure himself of his incurable developmental disorders.

Sky's last night in DC before she moves to NC is sidetracked by a chance meeting with an attractive stranger.

A young girl from the Brooklyn housing projects goes from the subway to the runway becoming one of the most sought after models in the fashion industry. But in the high stakes world of fashion and beauty. Things aren't always as pretty and glamorous as they seem.

A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.

Rose Ricard has psychic abilities to read minds and discern truth. She uses her gifts to solve cases, but her latest one unravels her own past and that of her new partner Grant Summit's. The case brings revelations about their pasts.