2020 IBFF Official Selections
| Narrative Features |
| Narrative Shorts |
#Anniversary
#Whereisbeauty
A New Chapter
A Storybook Ending
Beauty Mark
A young woman struggles with the illusion that pain is love while trapped in an abusive relationship.
Brother
Dignity
DVD & Chill
A beautiful, exotic groupie schemes to get close to her celebrity obsession by inviting his brother over to watch a movie. The brother plans to take advantage of her obsession, but things take a turn, changing one of them forever.
Her Spotlight
An overly ambitious fashion designer must choose between her tasteful image or respecting her sister in honoring their mother’s flamboyant wish.
Little Brother
A white elementary school teacher goes to South Central LA to visit the family of his gifted student. A polite conversation with Grandma turns hostile, even bizarre, after a few sips of Grandma’s sweet tea.
Mental Warfare
A soldier returns home after a deployment and finds it difficult to readjust to home life.
One Sweet Night
JD Williams (The Wire) stars in this dramatization of the true story of Dr. Ossian Sweet, a 1920s African American doctor who moved his family into an all-white Detroit neighborhood. His friends & family encountered mob violence, then were arrested and tried in the aftermath, defended by none other than Clarence Darrow.
Part Of Me
A small, tight-knit family must regroup after a dramatic, life-changing event.
Puppy Love
A coming of age story about a boy with a huge crush on his favorite R&B singer. He’s got a chance to go to her concert but his phone doesn’t work, so he can’t call in to enter the contest. His best friend, a young girl, tries to help & along the way he discovers his feelings for her.
Sacrificing The Queen
Under the guise of a truce meeting, two kingpins talk about the street game over a game of chess. Neither knows what’s being plotted against them.
Six Pack
Living in South Central LA, six sisters must band together to get their family’s bike back.
Sixteen Thousand Dollars
A struggling black college grad wakes up to learn that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of American slaves. With this newfound capital, he and his sister decide how to spend their reparations--a mere $16,000.
Sweating Sand
After the death of her father, a young female boxer must complete her training with the only man who beat her father in the ring.
The Night Comes On
Two sisters wishing to have each other’s lives fight for the attention and love of their mother in a house full of magic and family secrets. Can they reconcile their differences and live the lives they intended to?
The Simple Path
An elder care nurse takes matters in her own hands when her beloved patient runs out of funds for nursing home care. Her brother, a Peace Corps volunteer, helps his sister care for her patient in her home and himself lives a life of service.
Thousand Lights of Sun
On the night of his son’s 10th birthday, a level-headed young father’s desire to provide for his family lands him in a predicament that will change him forever. This story of trauma, perseverance, and family shows love & heartache as shown through the lens of the father.
