BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Opens Friday, November 28, 2025

Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival

• Country USA
• Running Time 113 minutes
• Format DCP
• Director Kahlil Joseph
• Cast Shaunette Renée Wilson, Kaneza Schaal, Anthony Okungbowa Peter, Jay Fernandez, Tony Tambi, Noel Arthur, Bria Samoné Henderson
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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