Patois New Orleans International Film Festival

03/16/2026

It's BAACK!! 👏🏾💞

03/16/2026

Thank you to the filmmakers, organizers, Black feminists, artists, activists, volunteers, cultural workers, scholars, young people, elders, dreamers, doers, neighbors, friends, and relations that made PATOIS 2026 our best fest yet. What a joy it is to offer this space each year at the intersection of art and liberation. What an honor to lift up our communities for collective celebration on our stage. We hope you found something at PATOIS 2026 that showed you, or reminded you, that in these painful times, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. When we have each other there is nothing we cannot do. Let’s go.

03/15/2026

Close out PATOIS 2026 with this celebration of Toni Cade Bambara and all that she gave to cultural and community-based organizing. Between TCB, the panel that follows, and Q***r Night Out, this Sunday night will set you up right for whatever this week holds for you. Tickets available at the link in our bio.

03/14/2026

From Palestine to Mexico, Philly to New Orleans - our people are documenting justice struggle and organizing for the world we deserve. Join us for a day of powerful film and conversation. Tickets on sale at the link in our bio.

03/14/2026

TONIGHT: Movement history from the East Coast to the West Coast at PATOIS. Elders from MOVE in Philly, the theatrical wing of Cesar Chavez’s labor organizing in Cali, and Long Island’s finest are all delivering premium programming at The Broad. Get your tickets while they last at the link in our bio.

03/13/2026

From farm to table, the classroom to the walkout, Saturday at PATOIS is brimming with powerful storytelling. See the films and stick around for rich conversation with youth organizers, chefs, filmmakers and more. Tickets and passes on sale at the link in our bio.

03/12/2026

Join PATOIS for a horrifying, fantastical, thrilling, mind-bending, expansive Friday the 13th! Special guests include award-winning filmmakers from across the country who showcase the many creative ways to explore justice struggles in narrative film. Tickets and Passes on sale at the link in our bio.

03/12/2026

03/11/2026

Thursday! PATOIS celebrates the dancers, organizers, scholars, afrofuturists, and visionaries who dream the impossible and then invite us all to do the damn thing. Join us for an evening of extraordinary film, riveting conversation, and live music that will have you dancing in your seats. Tickets and passes on sale at the link in our bio!

04/04/2025

TONIGHT! Come out to watch this film on neighborhood organizing and their navigation of gentrification, the climate crisis and development.