Communities First, Inc.’s Culture Shock Program, in partnership with the Flint Institute of Arts, presents the 4th Annual African American Film Series. The event will be held at Flint Institute of Arts, 1120 E. Kearsley St.

Doors open at 5:30pm for a reception with live entertainment, refreshments and gallery tours, movie begins at 7pm and a discussion panel follows the film. There is a suggested donation of $5 per person.

Brothers Hypnotic
(U.S., 2013) Directed by Reuben Atlas, 84 min., not rated
For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South Side on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black Consciousness. Family band practice began at 6 AM. Now grown, as they raise eight brass horns to the sky, they make music that is at once indescribably joyful, unremittingly exciting, and undeniably together. But as the brothers try to make their own way in the wide world-while playing in the streets of New York City, collaborating with Mos Def, or wowing a jazz festival-they find the values their father bred into them constantly tested. They must decide whether his principles really are their own.