BlackStar's 2025 Selections Unpack Cinema as a Liberatory Tool

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BlackStar Film Festival’s 2025 Selections Unpack the Power and Pretense of Cinema as a Liberatory Tool

August 13, 2025

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.

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A photo of five people sitting on stage at the Festival, speaking out to an audience, all laughing and smiling. The four people on the right, who are centered in the photo, are all Black.