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We thank you for attending 2023 BIFF

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR 2024 BIFF

Five amazing days of film MAY 3 - 7 NASSAU
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Dates & Deadlines

Filmmakers Writers and Musicians

August 1, 2023

Regular Deadline

March 1, 2024
Late Deadline

June 1, 2024
Late Late Deadline

August 1, 2024
Notification Date

RULES / ELIGIBILITY

- Only Bahamian Premieres
- Films completed after Jan. 2023
- English subtitles for submission

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Winners at biff

NEW VISIONS

OUT AND ABOUT
Dir: Peter Callahan (USA)

SPIRIT OF FREEDOM
NARRATIVE

WHEN TIME GOT LOUDER
Dir: Connie Cocchia (Canada)


SPIRIT OF FREEDOM
DOCUMENTARY

ON OUR OWN ISLAND
Dir: Sky Robbins, Ellie Dylan (USA)

SHORT

THE KICKSLED CHOIR
Dir: Torfinn Iversen (Norway)


WRITERS PROGRAM WINNERS

Writer Jomo Merritt (USA)
Journal of A Dinka Boy,  Chronicles the experiences of a young boy in Sudan. Triplets NOAH, SIMON and MATTHEW’S mother dies in childbirth. Superstitious beliefs attribute her death and their birth to the fact that their mother was the daughter of an adulteress.

Writer Mahmoud Salimi (Afghanistan)

Roya,  In a province in Afghanistan, life goes on much as it has for centuries. While the international newspapers focus on the wars and the opium trade, villagers go about their daily lives -- farming, practicing their religion and raising their children. This is the story (based on actual events) of two families, who are bound by a tragic sense of honor and tradition, which leads to a bloody feud.

2023 BIFF review

Morgan Freeman received the 2023 Sidney Poitier Tribute Award Sunday, May 7th 2023 Atlantis Theater

Followed by the Closing Night Film SIDNEY, about a Bahamian Actor, one of the greatest actors of all time. SIDNEY

BIFF has attracted A-List celebrities such as the former Sir Sean Connery, Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, Debra Messing, Cicely Tyson, Heather Graham, Zoe Saldana, Alan Arkin, Roger Corman, Jeffrey Wright, Daryl Hannah, Grace Jones, Anna Faris, Chaz Ebert, Danny Glover, Sophie Okonedo, Naomie Harris, Zoe Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Roger Guenveur Smith, Michael K Williams, Rae Dawn Chong, Lee Daniels and many more.

BIFF 2023 was a great success showing 66 films from 20 countries.

2023 BIFF Official Photos by John Gomez Link

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