FFTG Awards Film Fest®

A roof in Iran. Children drilled like soldiers under an Old Man. A decade later they return, no orders, no obligation, to make it worth standing on. Compulsory Conscription by Abbas Tahaie took Audience Choice at the FFTG Awards 2024, the top honor of the night.

A woman stands with her back to the camera. No face. No voice. That is how Voiceless begins. Zahra Mojahed's doc short won two Grand Jury Choice awards at FFTG 2024. Now FFTG SELECT 008. Where films and filmmakers live on. #FFTGSelect #Voiceless #FFTGAwards

No face. No voice. That is how Voiceless begins. Zahra Mojahed's short took two Grand Jury Choice awards at FFTG 2024. FFTG SELECT 008. Where films and filmmakers live on. #FFTGSELECT #FFTGAwards #filmmaking #Zahramojahed #Voiceless

A film creates a world. We live in it. #FFTGAwards

Before the film, there was the work. Dr. Robert Mossi Alexander’s research, education, and lived understanding became the spine of the documentary. At FFTG Awards 2024, Reclaiming Our Humanity earned Grand Jury Choice - Film of the Fest. Where films and filmmakers live on. #ReclaimingOurHumanity

The film begins with the system. A cage. A country. A card. A question. Then it moves toward the men. Six lives. Six histories. Six voices. Not case studies. Not statistics. People.

FFTG SELECT 007 Reclaiming Our Humanity A film by Dr. Robert Mossi Alexander. Some films document survival. This one follows what happens after survival. A documentary about six African American men rebuilding their lives after incarceration. #FFTGAwards #FFTGSELECT #Filmmaker

Not to explain. To unfold. There is a difference. #FFTGAwards

For those who are gone. For Mariana's father. For Gabo Ferro. For all the unforgotten. Where films and filmmakers live on. Watch · @sombracine · @marirussodf · @al_sombra

The score: Mariano A. Fernández and Gabo Ferro. "I am all I remember" sings throughout. Livia Fernán, seventy years onstage. Eight wins. One film. The highest single-film win count in our five-year archive.

FFTG SELECT · 006 La larga vida de los recuerdos A film by Mariana Russo and Alberto Masliah Argentina · 2023 · 77 min She was working on the script when her father died. The film became her grief, her gift, her elegy. 🧵

Films are made to be returned to. Not consumed. #FFTGAwards

The close: hand the filmmaker the most quotable line in the deck. That's the screenshot that travels. Full piece → @fftgawards #FFTGAwards @NARwanda

The structure: pair the past with the next. Two films, one vision. Filmmakers travel further when their trajectory is visible, not just their latest title.

Beyond the Genocide. Among the first feature documentaries on the Genocide against the Tutsi told from within Rwanda itself. A film by Zion Sulaiman Mukasa Matovu. Grand Jury Choice, FFTG Awards 2025. FFTG SELECT 005.

A film takes us somewhere we have never been. Makes our ifs and maybes feel like home. One dialogue at a time. Now that. That is film. #FFTGAwards