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 2012 Black Reel Awards 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 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 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 2015 Black Reel Awards 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 2016 Black Reel Awards 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 2015 Black Reel Awards 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 2018 Black Reel Awards Félicité France Alain Gomis Kati Kati Kenya Mbithi Masya 2019 Lionheart Nigeria Genevieve Nnaji 2019 Black Reel Awards 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 2020 Black Reel Awards 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 His House United Kingdom Remi Weekes The Life Ahead Italy Edoardo Ponti 2022 African America South Africa Muzi Mthembu 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 Brother Canada Clement Virgo Our Father, the Devil Cameroon Ellie Foumbi 2025 Hard Truths United Kingdom Mike Leigh Bird United Kingdom Andrea Arnold Emilia Pérez France Jacques Audiard Old Righteous Blues South Africa Muneera Sallies Nine South Africa Erica Joy 2026 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Zambia, United Kingdom, and Ireland Rungano Nyoni My Father's Shadow United Kingdom Akinola Davies Jr. Night Call Belgium Michiel Blanchart 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 ofwinning films Number ofnominated films United Kingdom France South Africa Senegal Kenya Canada Nigeria Burkina Faso Zambia Ireland Ethiopia Italy Rwanda Congo Ghana Jamaica Liberia Tanzania Niger Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Cameroon Belgium Germany
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