Preview: Third Annual Hamptons Black International Film Festival

The Third Annual Hamptons Black International Film Festival started up Thursday night in Manhattan and will continue through the weekend at Sag Harbor's .

Celebrating minority independent filmmakers, the festival's headline film this year is called Obama's Irish Roots, a look at the president's lineage dating back over 200 years to the Emerald Isle. Obama's Irish Roots will screen on Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Tickets range in cost from $15 to $50 per showing, day passes cost $80, and full festival passes can be purchased for $250. All tickets can be purchased online.

Other films being screened include:

• Area Q, Saturday, 8:30 p.m.: Following the death of his son, a reporter travels to Brazil on assignment to investigate sightings of the first, second, and third kind, running into a local farmer who answers questions he's been asking all along.
• Popa Wu: A 5% Story, Sunday 4 p.m.: This documentary explores the life of Freedom Allah - the cousin of three members of the Wu-Tang Clan - the rap group itself, and the beliefs that Feedom Allah follows, the Five Percent Nation.
• Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, Saturday, 4:45: This documentary film looks into the neighborhood that may be America's oldest black neighborhood.