“Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,” a documentary by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman (“Praying with Lior,” “Black in Latin America,” “The Pursuit”), will make its world premiere at the 25th annual Maryland Film Festival on Sunday, May 5, at 5:15 p.m.

The 89-minute  documentary chronicles the Glen Echo Amusement Park protests in Montgomery County. On June 30, 1960, five Black students from Howard University took a stand by sitting on the segregated gilded horses of a Maryland carousel. This act of defiance at Glen Echo Amusement Park, a whites-only recreation spot, made waves in metropolitan Washington. The protest not only involved Black students but also garnered support from residents of the neighboring white community of Bannockburn, made up of largely Jewish labor organizers and civil servants, uniting a diverse group against segregation.

The film features the voices of Jeffrey Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Bob Balaban, Peter Gallagher, Alex Joseph Grayson, Alysia Reiner, Tracie Thoms, Dominique Thorne and Lee Grant.

The film will be shown at the SNF Parkway Theatre, 5 W. North Avenue. for information, visit prod5.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=384906~63eec0f1-bef4-4f1a-bcd9-0cf72bc4f5fb&epguid=e3031b94-cfb9-4efd-aa69-9d3f0092e562&showing=389060&.