The Black Sea
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Director: Crystal Moselle, Derrick B. Harden
2024 / 96min / DCP
A compassionate, convivial, and deeply humane improvised comedy from Moselle (The Wolfpack, Skate Kitchen) and co-director Harden, inspired by the latter’s own experiences, The Black Sea stars Harden—also providing original music under the name Dear Derrick—as Khalid, a charismatic barista from Brownsville, Brooklyn, who drops everything back home to meet up with a woman in Bulgaria… then finds himself stranded without a return fare or a passport, the one and only Black man in the seaside resort town of Sozopol. Likened to a “cinematic freestyle” by its directors, The Black Sea is a film of unexpected connections, happy accidents, and wistful romanticism, with Harden joined by Letters from Antarctica’s Irmena Chichikova as the local travel agent who becomes Khalid’s lifeline and a motley cast of non-professional locals giving performances packed with unpolished charm.
A Metrograph Pictures Release
Post-screening performance by Derrick B. Harden and guests on Friday November 22nd.
Q&A with directors Crystal Moselle & Derrick B. Harden on Saturday, November 23rd moderated by Alliah Sophia Mourad.
Q&A with directors Crystal Moselle & Derrick B. Harden on Sunday, November 24th moderated by Monica Castillo.
Introduction by directors Crystal Moselle & Derrick B. Harden on Thursday, December 5th.
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