In 1983, French director Euzhan Palcy became the first black director to take home France’s César award for her first feature, “Sugar Cane Alley.” She was also the first black women to direct a Hollywood studio picture. Despite this success, her films have rarely screened in the UK — until now. London’s Barbican Cinema and HOME, Manchester’s center for international contemporary art, have announced that they’re bringing Palcy’s work to the big screen this October.

This news follows a restoration screening of Palcy’s “Sugar Cane Alley” at Locarno and a special 30th anniversary presentation of “A Dry White Season” at this year’s TIFF.

In conjunction with Black History Month, both “Sugar Cane Alley” and “A Dry White Season” will screen as Barbican Cinema’s “Hidden Figures” program and HOME’s “Celebrating Women in Global Cinema” season, respectively. Barbican Cinema will also screen “Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History,” Palcy’s documentary on civil rights activist and négritude co-founder Aimé Césaire.

Set in a 1930s colonial-ruled Martinique, “Sugar Cane Alley” tells the coming-of-age story of an 11-year-old boy who wins a scholarship. Along with his grandmother, he leaves his former life as a sugar plantation worker to pursue an education in the big city.

Based on the novel by André P. Brink, “A Dry White Season” is set during the South American apartheid and sees a white school teacher helping his black gardener find his jailed son. He begins to realize the realities of a system built on racial inequality and brutality.

Tickets and more information on London’s Euzhan Palcy retrospective may be found on the Barbican Cinema website. For Manchester’s screening information, visit HOME’s website.