BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
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.
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Kaneza Schaal
Young W.E.B. Du Bois & Funmilayo Akachukwu
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Hope Giselle
Lady
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Shaunette Renée Wilson
Shayla Morris & Sarah
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Tony Okungbowa
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Zora Casebere
Max
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Peter Jay Fernandez
W.E.B. Dubois
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Penny Johnson Jerald
Shirley Graham Du Bois
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John Tijani
Robert
Tony Tambi
Sana
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Ama K. Abebrese
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
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Noel Arthur
Desmond
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Alzo Slade
BLKNWS Anchor
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Kahlil Joseph Director · Saidiya Hartman Writer Kaneza Schaal Writer
Budget $6M · United States release November 28, 2025 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$6,000,000
Production
Rich Spirit
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Ford Foundation / JustFilms
Production
BLKNWS
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United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 27, 2025
Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
United States · November 28, 2025
Limited theatrical
United States · March 6, 2026
Digital
United States
April 18, 2025 · Premiere · San Francisco International Film Festival
May 18, 2025 · Premiere · Seattle International Film Festival
August 1, 2025 · Premiere · BlackStar Film Festival
October 4, 2025 · Premiere · New York Film Festival
October 16, 2025 · Premiere · Orcas Island Film Festival
October 25, 2025 · Premiere · Montclair Film Festival
November 7, 2025 · Premiere · Houston Cinema Arts Film Festival
Argentina
April 6, 2025 · Premiere · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Australia
June 6, 2025 · Premiere · Sydney Film Festival
August 16, 2025 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
Austria
October 18, 2025 · Premiere · Vienna International Film Festival
Brazil
October 16, 2025 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
Canada
September 5, 2025 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
October 11, 2025 · Premiere · Vancouver International Film Festival
Germany
February 19, 2025 · Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
Lithuania
November 30, 2026 · Premiere · Vilnius Documentary Film Festival
United Kingdom
October 12, 2025 · Premiere · BFI London Film Festival
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