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20 black directors 2025.

This year the challenge is hosted by Nadine
Welcome to the fifth annual 20 Films by Black Directors challenge! I am looking forward to another great year of delving into Black art. A huge thank you to those Letterboxd members that are interested in joining in.

The challenge is to watch 20 previously unseen films by Black directors and to review them. Please use the tag "20 Black Directors 2024" so that we can easily find each other's reviews.
Here’s the original list with the rules

This prompts are proposed by Nadine:
For this year, I suggest a few categories:
- At least 1 Horror and\or fantasy movie 
- At least 1 from Africa 
- At least 1 documentary 
- At least 1 LGBTQ+ story 
- At least 7 movies directed by a woman 

*Not RANKED, USE TO SHOW WHICH MOVIE I WATCHED FIRST*

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  • One of Them Days

    1

  • Nickel Boys

    2

  • The Defiant Ones

    3

  • Beauty Shop

    4

  • Poetic Justice

    5

  • He Got Game

    6

  • Men of Honor

    7

  • First Daughter

    8

  • Taxi

    9

  • Inside Man

    10

  • Think Like a Man

    11

  • Fruitvale Station

    12

  • The Equalizer 2

    13

  • Till

    14

  • The American Society of Magical Negroes

    15

  • Ash

    16

  • Bones

    17

  • Malcolm X

    18

  • The Hate U Give

    19

  • In the Heart of the World

    20

  • Shame

    21

  • The Wash

    22

  • Juice

    23

  • Sinners

    24

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    25

  • Alpha

    26