Brooklyn Film Festival

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Brooklyn Film Festival BFF is a 10-day International-competitive festival. Our 28th event will run from May 30 - June 8, 2025. The 28th BFF will be staged indoors at Windmill ...

BFF has ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway for the month of August!

According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, our festival ranks in the top 1% of more than 12,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world.

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BFF has ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway for the month of July!

According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, our festival ranks in the top 1% of more than 12,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world. No doubt, this ranking is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and care that our staff have devoted to creating our event.

BFF has ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway for the month of June!

According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, our festival ranks in the top 1% of more than 12,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world.

Thanks to all the filmmakers that year after year trust our work and let us review their projects.

One last look at the Awards. Congrats to all of this year’s filmmakers!

AUDIENCE AWARD, SHORT NARRATIVE: BLOQUÉ by MIGUEL ORTIZ

AUDIENCE AWARD, FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: SMALL TOWN UNIVERSE by KATIE DELLAMAGGIORE

AUDIENCE AWARD, FEATURE NARRATIVE: THE TEACHER by FARAH NABULSI

AUDIENCE AWARD, ANIMATION: MIRA by EVA LOUISE HALL

AUDIENCE AWARD, EXPERIMENTAL: LIVING REALITY by PHILIP THOMPSON

AUDIENCE AWARD, SHORT DOCUMENTARY: DAYS OF HATE by OLIVER SHAHERY

AUDIENCE AWARD, KIDSFILMFEST: LOW DOWN LARRY VERSUS THE GIANT REPTILE by SAMMY VERNI

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT: BLOOD LIKE WATER by DIMA HAMDAN

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE: ATIKAMEKW SUNS by CHLOÉ LERICHE

GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD: ATIKAMEKW SUNS by CHLOÉ LERICHE

BEST ANIMATION: TOMORROW by ARYASB FEIZ

BEST EXPERIMENTAL: REANIMATIONS by BENJAMIN BERTRAM GOLDMAN

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: SHOTPLAYER by SAM SHAINBERG

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: IMPOSSIBLE TOWN by MEG GRIFFITHS and SCOTT FARIS

SPIRIT AWARD, SHORT NARRATIVE: DECISION by NEGAR EBNALI

SPIRIT AWARD, FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: ALL WE CARRY by CADY VOGE

SPIRIT AWARD, FEATURE NARRATIVE: UNDER MY SKIN by PASCAL TESSAUD

SPIRIT AWARD, ANIMATION: JUS D’ORANGE by ALEXANDRE ATHANÉ

SPIRIT AWARD, EXPERIMENTAL: THE TIGHTROPE WALKER WITH HIS DAUGHTER ON HIS SHOULDERS CROSSING THE DANUBE CANAL AT A HEIGHT OF 40 METRES by VICTORIA HALPER

SPIRIT AWARD, SHORT DOCUMENTARY: MY QUEERCEAÑERA by MARCOS NIEVES

BEST PRODUCERS: WILLIAM ANDREW WEN, ZOE XUE & LULU LU for GARDEN IN THE SKY

BEST NEW DIRECTOR: DISTANCIA by T.S. MEEKS

BEST BROOKLYN PROJECT: BEN AND SUZANNE, A REUNION IN 4 PARTS by SHAUN SENEVIRATNE

BEST EDITING: CHIARA MAROTTA for Z.O. (EASTERN ZONE)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: PETRUS CARIRY for HEAVIER IS THE SKY

BEST SCREENPLAY: KATHY MENG & HARRY BACON for WILLOW AND WU

BEST MALE ACTOR: NAIM BAKHTIAR for DOM JUAN

BEST FEMALE ACTOR: MITZI AKAHA for CHAPERONE

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: DAN DEACON for A BODY CALLED LIFE

BEST STYLE: LIANNE SONIA WALDEN for DÉRIVE

Congratulations to the OVID, NEW YORK team on a packed World Premiere!

Thanks to , which is well represented at our upcoming Award Ceremony, happening at 8p!

The Brooklyn Film Society is the organizer of and providing cash prizes for many of our winners tonight! 💵 🏆

That’s a wrap on shorts at !

We couldn’t present without our primary venue sponsor ! A huge thank you to the team at Windmill, who make their space a home for our staff, artists, and audiences for 10 days. 🙌🏼

Our Closing Day film is the World Premiere of ’ OVID, NEW YORK at 5:30pm !

Seven tales of transformation poetically reimagine Ovid’s Metamorphoses and paint a picture of violence and catharsis, anchored in mythical landscapes.

The film’s stories range in tone from crimson surreal to the darkest of comedy, playfully shifting moods, genres, and seasons without losing sight of its overarching mythology. It follows a lone bounty hunter prowling across snow covered mountains, a famous actress out for revenge, statuary lovers peeping leaves, a distraught demigod waxing poetic, an entomologist meeting her match in a mantis, a vacuum salesman haunted by his motel room, and twin ferrymen guarding the underworld by demanding exact change.

Thank you to our sponsor for housing our filmmakers!

Don’t miss our final Narrative Shorts block, “Futurology: What’s Next?,” coming up at 3pm with:

• GONERS, Dir: ZhaoHong Luo
• BRIDGE / KEEPER, Dir: Sinclair Rankin
• ROED, Dir: Dawn Lambing
• I ALREADY WENT, Dir: Allegra Oxborough
• QUEEN SIZE, Dir: Avril Besson
• ALL’S WELL, Dir: Paulina Casey

Congratulations to our filmmakers from UNDER MY SKIN and PRECONCEIVED on great screenings last night!

Join us for the final day of ! We have one more Narrative Shorts program and a Narrative Feature World Premiere, before the Awards at 8p. All are welcome! 🎥✨

3P: NARRATIVE SHORTS (Futurology: What’s Next?)
- GONERS, Dir: ZhaoHong Luo
- BRIDGE / KEEPER, Dir: Sinclair Rankin
- ROED, Dir: Dawn Lambing
- I ALREADY WENT, Dir: Allegra Oxborough
- QUEEN SIZE, Dir: Avril Besson
- ALL’S WELL, Dir: Paulina Casey

5:30P: OVID, NEW YORK, Dir: Vito A. Rowlands

8P: AWARDS CEREMONY!