Film: Africans in Europe Represented in BIFA

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The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) highlight and reward the best, most innovative, creative, independent filmmaking and filmmakers in the UK. They identify and encourage emerging talent, support, and celebrate the independent film community and promote British film and talent to the public.

Annually, the BIFA voters, comprised of the Screening Group and Nomination Committee, view all the submitted films. They perform a thorough discussion-based selection process of the long list and nominations to decide which films to nominate in which categories.

The winners in most categories are decided by independent jury members who do not participate in the nomination process. These jury members decide what films win by confidential vote. Once the votes have been counted and validated, the winners are announced at the British Independent Film Awards ceremony.

In this article, we look at some of the nominated movies centered on African descent.

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Rocks

Rocks is a British coming-of-age drama that explores a marginalized life — but a very resilient, black teenage girl in London navigating hardship.

There is so much to love about this film. The lead performance is very reminiscent of old interaction with children daily in her tender strength despite her circumstances. For a significant portion of its runtime, the film is bleak. We get glimmers of happiness and hope when friends rally to support Rocks; there is still an underlying current situation that easily gotten out of easily yet simultaneously impossible. This is more than just Rocks; it’s gold.

Les Misérables

This already multiple award-winning films, Les Misérables, explores the Afro experience in French society.

It is a fantastic yet furious film that does its best to put its morals in your own hands, and that is the thing about it that people appreciate the most. A majority of my favorite movies deal with this subject but do so very bluntly and in a subtle manner, which isn’t a bad thing because no one likes to be spoofed how to feel about certain things all the time. Films that do so are at a very high risk of coming off as pushy. There isn’t much of a voice behind Les Misérables, which puts things in the audience’s hands again. That complements the strength that the film already has.

These films premiered in 2019 and told stories that directly portray African descent people in the diaspora. The winners will be announced in February next year, and we here are highly rooting for these films.

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