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Best of BlackStar 2025: five standout features championing cultural work and legacy

August 19, 2025

A film still from Don’t Cry Butterfly shows two Asian people standing side by side looking up at presumably the ceiling of a home. The person on the right is folding a mop.
A film still from Don’t Cry Butterfly shows two Asian people standing side by side looking up at presumably the ceiling of a home. The person on the right is folding a mop.

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.

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