The 33rd Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival

Award Winners

Best Narrative Feature:
Nawi: Dear Future Me (Kenya)
Directed by Vallentine Chelluget, Apuu Mourine, Kevin Schmutzler & Tobias Schmutzler

Best Documentary Feature:
Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa (South Africa)
Directed by Tara Moore

Best First Feature – Narrative:
Color Book (US) – Directed by David Fortune

Best Short Documentary:
Can’t Retire From This (US)
Directed by Melanie Page

Best Short Narrative:
Advent (US)
Directed by Rachael Danae Bass

Best Feature Narrative:
Til Death…Do You (US)
Directed by Andra Fuller

Best Feature Documentary:
Memories of Love Returned (Uganda/US)
Directed by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

Best Short Narrative:
For Sale (US)
Directed by Nika King

Best Short Documentary:
The Devil is Busy (US)
Directed by Geeta Gandbhir & Christalyn Hampton

Short Narrative:
Bela LX-404 (Brazil)
Directed by Luiza Botelho

Short Documentary:
Born in the Struggle (US)
Directed by Kamasi Hill

Feature Documentary:
We Want the Funk (US)
Directed by Stanley Nelson

Feature Narrative:
Young King (US)
Directed by Bryant Griffin

Short Documentary:
The Thoughts of Our Ancestors (Tanzania/Germany)
Directed by Kokutekeleza Musebeni

Short Narrative:
Run Like We (UK)
Directed by Rhys Aaron Lewis

Feature Documentary:
(Tie)
Mount Mutombo (UAE/US)
Directed by Dina Khreino

and

Sountrack to a Coup d’Etat (Belgium/France/Netherlands)
Directed by John Grimonprez

Feature Narrative:
The Fisherman (Ghana)
Directed by Zoey Martinson