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20 Films by Black Directors Challenge 2025

The AFI New African Film Festival makes this an easy and enjoyable challenge. I'm still adding to the list. Here's my progress on categories:
- At least 1 Horror and\or fantasy movie - 4 ✅
- At least 1 from Africa -20? ✅
- At least 1 documentary - 11 ✅
- At least 1 LGBTQ+ story - 2 ✅
- At least 7 movies directed by a woman - 15? ✅

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  • Sinners

    1

  • HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

    2

  • Dahomey

    3

  • Nickel Boys

    4

  • No Chains, No Masters

    5

  • The Empty Grave

    6

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    7

  • Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story

    8

  • Freedom Way

    9

  • The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos

    10

  • The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

    11

  • The Village Next to Paradise

    12

  • Nawi: Dear Future Me

    13

  • Memories of Love Returned

    14

  • Samia

    15

  • Hanami

    16

  • Ricky

    17

  • The Six Triple Eight

    18

  • Playing Frisbee in North Korea

    19

  • Compensation

    20

  • Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It

    21

  • The People's Way

    22

  • Listen to the Voices

    23

  • Twice Into Oblivion

    24

  • The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

    25

  • Miss Juneteenth

    26

  • Emitaï

    27

  • Sembène: The Making of African Cinema

    28

  • Women with Eyes Open

    29

  • A Caribbean Dream

    30

  • Those Whom Death Refused

    31

  • The Silence of the Forest

    32

  • One of Them Days

    33

  • Within Our Gates

    34

  • Neptune Frost

    35

  • Hedda

    36