BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Opens January 31, 2026
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema
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.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
Named one of the ten best movies of 2025 by Robert Daniels of RogerEbert.com and Manohla Dargis of The New York Times.
“This is a challenging, dense, and all-encompassing picture that works best when it’s allowed to wash over you. What is left on the shore after the tide of BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions recedes is imperative and also reliant on the idiosyncrasies of the viewer, leaving much to comb through before the next necessary watch.” — Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
- Director: Kahlil Joseph
- Principal Cast: Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Peter Jay Fernandez, Penny Johnson Jerald
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 113 min.
- Language: English