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BIFF 2025 Awards designed by Bahamian ceramists: Vincent McWeeney
2025 BIFF, SPIRIT OF FREEDOM NARRATIVE AWARD
A dazzling, high-stakes melodrama of exile and unraveling, The Bitter Tears of Zahra Zand is a whirlwind of glamour, heartbreak, and dark humor. - TRAILER
2025 BIFF, NEW VISIONS AWARD
Nobody Wants to Be Here, Nobody Wants to Leave is a Southern crime drama about a jaded motel owner in the Appalachians who quietly helps troubled guests with their final acts, and a young stripper trying to protect her grandmother. Their lives intersect with a drug-addicted club owner and a ruthless kingpin when a mysterious stranger arrives, leading to devastating consequences for them all. The film is grounded in lived experience and deals with themes of suicide, substance abuse, and violence.
2025 BIFF, SHORT FILM AWARD
A daughter, haunted by her past, helps her mom build a house in a small town in the Bahamas while struggling to reveal a devastating secret that’s kept them divided for as long as she can remember.