40. Black International Cinema Berlin 2025
FILM AWARDS

Best film 40. Black International Cinema Berlin 2025

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THE LAST PHILADELPHIA

Director: John Carstarphen

USA 2025

 

 

Best film on matters relating to the Black Experience/Marginalized People

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ORANGO

Director: Samuel Kay Forrest

Guinea-Bissau/Germany/Brazil 2024

 

UMA MEMÓRIA EMPLUMADA / A FEATHERED MEMORY

Director: Ida Does

The Netherlands 2025

 

 

Best film in the Fine Arts discipline

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I SEE YOU SISTER

Director: Christene Browne

Canada 2025

 

 

Best film documentary production

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A PEACE OF ART

Director: Olad Aden

Germany 2025

 

AMORES NA PASAJEN / LOVE IN TRANSIT

Director: Daniele Ellery

Brazil 2025

 

 

Special Acknowledgment

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FROM BOX TO CAJÓN: PETA’S HERITAGE

Director: Eve A. Ma

USA/Peru 2025

 

COMMENT

Director: Ali Sokhangoo

Iran 2025

 

THE FOOTBALL CARPENTER

Directors: Sartie Sheriff & Zachariah Lloyd Sesay

Sierra Leone 2025

 

SCHICK MIR MAL NE POSTKARTE / SEND ME A POSTCARD SOMETIME

Directors: Mahide Lein & Sue Pakaipei Maluwa-Bruce

Zimbabwe 1996

Production and Direction

Prof. Donald Muldrow Griffith
Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre
Black International Cinema Berlin
The Collegium – Forum & Television Program Berlin
„Footprints in the Sand?“ ExhibitionBerlin

in association with
Cultural Zephyr e.V.
CrossKultur 2025

in cooperation with / in Kooperation mit

ALEX – Offener Kanal Berlin
(Open Channel Berlin)

Supporters and Associates

MOTTOS

„I may not make it if I try,
but I damn sure won´t if I don´t…“

Oscar Brown Jr.

„Mankind will either find a way or make one.“
C.P. Snow

„Whatever you do…, be cool!“
Joseph Louis Turner

„Yes, I can…!“
Sammy Davis Jr.

„Yes, We can…!“
Barack Hussein Obama

„Yes, we can and Yes, we better…!“
Barack Hussein Obama
and Donald Muldrow Griffith

 © Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre
Black International Cinema Berlin 2025