Black Reel Award for Outstanding Foreign Film

Black Reel Award for Outstanding International Film
Country	United States
Presented by	The Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
First award	Black Reel Awards of 2012
Most recent winner	Hard Truths (2025)
Website	blackreelawards.com

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Foreign Film. This award is presented to the director of the film and was first awarded during the 2012 ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2010s

Year	Film	Country	Director(s)	Ref
2012
	Attack the Block	United Kingdom	Joe Cornish	[1]
	The First Grader	United Kingdom	Justin Chadwick
	Kinyarwanda	Rwanda	Alrick Brown
	Life, Above All	South Africa	Oliver Schmitz
	Viva Riva!	Congo	Djo Tunda Wa Munga
2013
	The Intouchables	France	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache	[2]
	Elza	France	Mariette Monpierre
	Ties That Bind	Ghana	Leila Djansi
	Toussaint Louverture	France	Philippe Niang
	Wuthering Heights	United Kingdom	Andrea Arnold
2014
	War Witch	Canada	Kim Nguyen	[3]
	Better Mus' Come	Jamaica	Storm Saulter
	Home Again	Canada	Sudz Sutherland
	Nairobi Half Life	Kenya	David Gitonga
	Storage 24	United Kingdom	Johannes Roberts
2015
	Fishing Without Nets	Kenya	Cutter Hodierne	[4]
	Difret	Ethiopia	Zeresenay Mehari
	The Double!	United Kingdom	Richard Ayoade
	Freedom Road	South Africa	Shane Vermooten
	Half of a Yellow Sun	Nigeria	Biyi Bandele
2016
	Girlhood	France	Céline Sciamma	[5]
	Freetown	Liberia	Garrett Batty
	Honeytrap	United Kingdom	Rebecca Johnson
	Mediterranea	Italy	Jonas Carpignano
	My Friend Victoria	France	Jean-Paul Civeyrac
	Samba	France	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
2017
	Eye of the Storm	Burkina Faso	Sékou Traoré	[6]
	Aisha	Tanzania	Chande Omar
	Divines	France	Houda Benyamina
	Lamb	Ethiopia	Yared Zeleke
	Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It	Niger	Christopher Kirkley
2018
	The Wound	South Africa	John Trengove	[7]
	Félicité	France	Alain Gomis
	Kati Kati	Kenya	Mbithi Masya
2019
	Lionheart	Nigeria	Genevieve Nnaji	[8]
	Green Days by the River	Trinidad	Michael Mooleedhar
	Where Hands Touch	United Kingdom	Amma Asante
	Rafiki	Kenya	Wanuri Kahiu
	Vaya	South Africa	Akin Omotoso

2020s

Year	Film	Country	Director(s)	Ref
2020
	Atlantics	Senegal	Mati Diop	[9]
	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind	United Kingdom	Chiwetel Ejiofor
	Farming	United Kingdom	Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
	In Fabric	United Kingdom	Peter Strickland
	Les Misérables	France	Ladj Ly
2021
	Night of the Kings	Senegal	Philippe Lacôte	[10]
	His House	United Kingdom	Remi Weekes
	The Life Ahead	Italy	Edoardo Ponti
2022
	African America	South Africa	Muzi Mthembu	[11]
	Bitter Sugar	Tunisia	Malik Isasis
	Faya Dayi	Ethiopia	Jessica Beshir
2023
	Saint Omer	France	Alice Diop
	Neptune Frost	Rwanda	Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
2024
	Rye Lane	United Kingdom	Raine Allen-Miller	[12]
	Brother	Canada	Clement Virgo
	Our Father, the Devil	Cameroon	Ellie Foumbi
2025
	Hard Truths	United Kingdom	Mike Leigh	[13]
	Bird	United Kingdom	Andrea Arnold
	Emilia Pérez	France	Jacques Audiard
	Old Righteous Blues	South Africa	Muneera Sallies
	Nine	South Africa	Erica Joy
2026
	My Father's Shadow	United Kingdom	Akinola Davies Jr.	[14]
	Night Call	Belgium	Michiel Blanchart
	On Becoming a Guinea Fowl	Zambia, United Kingdom, and Ireland	Rungano Nyoni
	Souleymane's Story	France	Boris Lojkine
	We Were Here – The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe	Germany	Fred Kudjo Kuwornu

Multiple nominations

2 nominations

• Andrea Arnold
• Olivier Nakache
• Éric Toledano

Tally by country

Country	Number of winning films	Number of nominated films
United Kingdom	&&&&&&&&&+3	&&&&&&&&+16
France	&&&&&&&&&+3	&&&&&&&&+12
South Africa	&&&&&&&&&+2	&&&&&&&&&+7
Senegal	&&&&&&&&&+2	&&&&&&&&&+2
Kenya	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&&+4
Canada	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&&+3
Nigeria	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&&+2
Burkina Faso	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&&+1
Ethiopia	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+3
Italy	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+2
Rwanda	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Congo	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Ghana	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Jamaica	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Liberia	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Tanzania	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Niger	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Trinidad and Tobago	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Tunisia	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Cameroon	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Belgium	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Zambia	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Ireland	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Germany	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1

References

1. 2012 Black Reel Awards
2. "Critics Wild About Beasts". Black Reel Awards. February 8, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
3. "2014 Black Reel Awards - Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 11, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
4. 2015 Black Reel Awards
5. 2016 Black Reel Awards
6. 2015 Black Reel Awards
7. 2018 Black Reel Awards
8. 2019 Black Reel Awards
9. 2020 Black Reel Awards
10. "A Special "Night in Miami!"". 18 February 2021. Archived from the original on 22 February 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
11. "'The Harder They Fall' Sets Record with 20 Nominations from the Black Reel Awards". Black Girl Nerds. BGN Staff. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
12. Complex, Valerie (February 6, 2023). "'The Woman King' Wins Big at the 23rd Annual Black Reel Awards". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 6, 2023.
13. "25th Annual Black Reel Awards Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 19, 2024. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
14. "26th Annual Black Reel Awards Nominees". Black Reel Awards. December 18, 2025. Retrieved December 18, 2025.