BSIFF announces films selected for 2025 festival

Black Star International Film Festival (BSIFF) has officially selected films for this year’s 10th year anniversary celebration.

The board received entries from over 120 countries including Afghanistan, China, Cambodia, Macao, Venezuela, Nepal, Sri Lanka, among a host of others. 

However, countries that had their films selected included Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Jamaica, U.K. Bangladesh, Romania, Albania, Italy, France, Brazil and Uzbekistan.

Ghanaian directors Michael Sefa, Onasis Gaisie, Zoey Martinson, and Wael H Hakum had their films selected in the Feature/Fiction category.

Also, Ghana’s Nana Kofi Asihene’s ‘Wrong Way’, Ramesh Jai’s ‘Love and Jollof’, and Eugene Appiah’s ‘Kasi’ were selected for Short-fiction category.

Ghanaian photographers, Twindntberg took the Music Film category.

In August, BSIFF announced partnership with Majestic Cinemas in Ivory Coast to revolutionise film distribution across West Africa, breaking language barriers and fostering cross-cultural collaboration.

Black Star International Film Festival (BSIFF) announced the celebration of its 10th anniversary, a major milestone for the festival and the Ghanaian film industry at the beginning of the year.

To commemorate the occasion, the festival invited filmmakers from Ghana, Africa and around the world to submit their entries for the upcoming edition via its website or filmfreeway.

The festival, over the years, has birth a number of other film festivals in Ghana and impacted many films and filmmakers, giving them a platform to reach audiences far and near, as well as gain distribution. 

Juliet Yaa Asantewa Asante, Founder of BSIFF, told Graphic Showbiz the official selection of films is a major breakthrough towards preparation for this year’s festival.

“Well done to all those who have worked so hard to bring us here. Sometimes you even wonder how the news about your work travels,” she said. 

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