Letterboxd
Aug 19, 2025
Feminist culture work, Haitian batey life and a Vietnamese magical realist study of family tensions: all these and more screened at the 2025 BlackStar Film Festival, where Adesola Thomas selects the best of the Black artist-centered fest.
Hyperallergic
The festival’s 92 films from around the globe showcased cinema as a tool for experimentation, liberation, and resistance.
Observer
In probing themes of mythmaking, memory and control, this year’s roster of filmmakers reckoned with the ways the stories we tell both bind and release.
Variety
Filmmaker Louis Massiah pays captivating homage to the literary and political star without hagiographic reverence.
Hyperallergic
The film Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?
