A collage of film poster artwork for the 24th Oakland International Film Festival, including posters for People of the West, The Blacumentary, Unidos, Set Her Free, Liberty and Limits: Guns in California, I Was Thinking of You, Prison and Time, KosherSoul, Brewin' Stew, The Marxist Who Would Be Mayor, Ashes of the Monarca, In Love and Struggle, The Listeners, Simultanè, Oldman's Blues, Wood Street, Una Vita All'Assalto, Niki Tomi Beto, and Soul Searchin'.
Oakland International Film Festival
with Mills Performing Arts
& Northeastern University Present

24th Oakland International Film Festival


Friday, September 11 – Saturday, September 19

Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall, Music Building

An improvisational ensemble of including keyboards, harp, violin, cello, drum set, saxophone are arrayed across a stage for a Mills Music Now concert in Oakland, California. Photo by Robbie Sweeny.
Mills Music Now

From improvisation to world music to experimental sound art, this concert series pushes the boundaries of music as we know it.

An Oakland author speaks to an audience.
We Are the Voices

The We Are the Voices We Have Been Waiting For project connects Mills students with artists to collaborate around art and scholarship.

A color photograph of the Newton monument in Oakland CA featuring a sculted bust featuring a broad, muscled back and shoulders and the back of a head wearing short cropped hair, the scultpure is adorned with white flowers. Image courtesy of the filmmaker.
Bridging Perspectives Film Series

A transformative three-part film series that delves into pressing social issues of our time: climate change, racial and gender justice.

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