I tried this for the first time last year, and that was a bust. But as the saying goes, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again. So here's my list for Ponders Anti-Criterion Challenge 2025.

I love the bonus challenge this year, so I've spent quite a bit of time searching up BIPOC directed films for all of these prompts. Whether or not the films here stay what they are now depends entirely on what becomes available.