Black Reel Award for Outstanding Foreign Film

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.

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Foreign-Language Film
Country	United States
Presented by	The Black Reel Awards (BRAs)
First award	Black Reel Awards of 2012
Most recent winner	Muzi Mthembu African America (Black Reel Awards of 2022)
Website	blackreelawards.com

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2010s

Year	Film	Country	Director(s)	Ref
2012
	Attack the Block	U.K.	Joe Cornish	[1]
	The First Grader	U.K.	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	U.K.	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	U.K.	Johannes Roberts
2015
	Fishing Without Nets	Kenya	Cutter Hodierne	[4]
	Difret	Ethiopia	Zeresenay Mehari
	The Double!	U.K.	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	U.K.	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

Tally by country

Country	Number of winning films	Number of nominated films
Italy	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+2
Senegal	&&&&&&&&&+2	&&&&&&&&&+2
United Kingdom	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&+11
Rwanda	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
South Africa	&&&&&&&&&+2	&&&&&&&&&+5
Congo	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
France	&&&&&&&&&+2	&&&&&&&&&+9
Ghana	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Canada	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&&+2
Jamaica	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Kenya	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&&+4
Ethiopia	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+3
Trinidad	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Nigeria	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&&+2
Niger	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Tanzania	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Liberia	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1
Burkina Faso	&&&&&&&&&+1	&&&&&&&&&+1
Tunisia	&&&&&&&&&+0	&&&&&&&&&+1