Brooklyn Film Festival Announces its 28th Edition: Pause
160 film premieres will screen from May 30-June 8, 2025
[April 8, 2025 — Brooklyn, NY] Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), New York’s longest running international-competitive film festival, is proud to announce its 28th edition titled . BFF, a Canadian Screen Award qualifying festival, received 3,270 films from 130 Countries for its 28th edition, and will program the selected films into 43, two-hour program blocks. The 2025 film lineup will include 160 film premieres.
This year, BFF will be staged from May 30-June 8, in-person at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint. Additional screenings will be held on June 2 through June 5 at the Wythe Hotel Cinema in Williamsburg. BFF will also run online via the festival’s website from May 31-June 8 (24/7).
BFF divides films into six categories: Feature Narrative, Documentary Feature, Short Narrative, Short Documentary, Experimental, and Animation. Among all selected films, BFF awards 30 films/filmmakers and gives away prizes totaling $50,000 in total value (cash, products, and services).
Pause is the theme of the 28th Brooklyn Film Festival. “In a world of distractions, pop-up notifications, infinite scrolling with fabricated truths, content that demands constant attention, what if the solution isn’t more noise, but a Pause,” said festival Director, Marco Ursino. “The 28th BFF plans to grab the audience’s attention amongst the chaos, and underscore the relief associated with smart, honest, quality screen time and the clarity that comes from taking a break, finding focus, and tuning in.”
The 2025 campaign is being developed by design and creative studio Otherway. Reflecting the festival’s theme, Javier Passerieu, Otherway’s US President, shared, “We’re excited to partner with the Brooklyn Film Festival-an organization that, like us, champions creativity and craft. As we open our NYC studio, we’re looking forward to forging deeper connections with the local creative community.”
Details will be announced soon on the festival’s website.
Originally published at http://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on April 14, 2025.
