The 1982 film is part of Array Classics, a new film initiative whose goal is to connect rarely seen gems with a new audience.

Award-winning director Ava DuVernay wasn’t playing when she said that one of her missions as a filmmaker was to uplift other filmmakers of color. Her newest passion project is restoring and distributing the rarely seen 1982 gem Ashes and Embers.

Her company Array Releasing acquired the rights of the Haile Gerima film and will release it in February 2016 under a new initiative of films called Array Classics whose purpose is to connect rarely seen masterworks with a new generation of viewers, Deadline writes.

The “rambling and dreamlike,” Ashes and Embers follows Ned Charles, an embittered and sullen Black Vietnam War vet who chaotically wanders the streets of Los Angeles as he struggles with transitioning back to life in the United States. The film stars John Anderson, Evelyn A. Blackwell, Norman Blalock, Kathy Flewellen, Uwezo Flewellen and Barry Wiggins.