Cannes 2026: Isaach De Bankole
2026 Cannes Film FestivalBFM News and UpdatesFeaturesFestival CalendarFestivalsFrance May 13, 2026
Cannes 2026: The Cinema Crossroads
2026 Cannes Film FestivalBFM News and UpdatesDirectors May 12, 2026
New York filmmaker Vagabond Beaumont arrived in Cannes to push his latest work — and found himself stepping back into the cinema that made him, bumping into old collaborators and new alliances on the streets of the South of France.
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Cannes 2026 Dispatch: African Cinema and the Global Black Presence Rise Beyond Erasure
2026 Cannes Film FestivalBFM News and UpdatesFestivalsUncategorized May 11, 2026
Jean Claude Barny’s Fanon in Chicago
BFM News and UpdatesDirectorsFeaturesFilm ShowcaseFranceInternationalSupport BFM February 25, 2026 0
“Fanon is a powerful cinematic portrait of Frantz Fanon — psychiatrist, revolutionary thinker, and author of The Wretched of the Earth — whose work continues to shape global conversations on colonialism, racialized violence, psychological trauma, and liberation.”
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The Yasuke Reclamation: Moving the African Samurai From Colonial Novelty to Global South Hero
AnimationBFM News and UpdatesCommunityDramatic FeatureFeaturesFilm HistoryInternationalJapanReflectionsSouth AfricaUnited StatesWorks-in-Progress October 14, 2025
The story of Yasuke, the African samurai, has become a global Rorschach test. For Hollywood, he is a box-office premise. For gamers, a controversial character.
But for those of us engaged in global Black cinema, he represents a far more urgent question: Who has the right to tell our stories — and from what soil must those stories grow?
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Help Us Relaunch BFM Magazine
BFM News and UpdatesBFM RelaunchCommunityLegacySupport BFM October 12, 2025
