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Black Harvest Opens With Shorts and a Party

Official 2026 Black Harvest Film Festival poster showing two people dancing.

The 32nd Black Harvest Film Festival opens Friday with four shorts, the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Prize presentation and a post-screening filmmaker reception. The full festival runs through November 15 with more than 75 films, including 60 Chicago premieres. Opening-night tickets are already running low.

Black Harvest Film Festival: Opening Night
Where: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
When: Friday, November 6, 7 p.m.
Cost: $25 members and SAIC community; $35 students; $40 general
Tickets: Black Harvest opening night