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