#NYFF 2016: 13th

13th was the Opening Night film of the 54th New York Film Festival. The film will be available to stream on Netflix from October 7. Follow our coverage of NYFF 2016 here.
The past couple years have seen a creative outpouring of works, mostly by African Americans, that anatomize the systemic discrimination and violence perpetrated against black people since this country’s inception. These include books like Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, Ta-Nahesi Coates’ Between the Wo