The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) is a non-profit film festival held in the Bahamas. Open to both locals and international visitors, the festival was founded by Leslie Vanderpool in 2004.^[1]

BIFF also hosts a youth film workshop that aims to provide young Bahamians with information and resources on filmmaking.^[2]

The 2015 BIFF showcased several women-driven films such as Carol and Janis: Little Girl Blue.^[3]

BIFF was listed among the 25 coolest film festivals in the world by MovieMaker Magazine.^[4]

Awards

The following is a list of awards given at the Bahamas International Film Festival.^[5]

Grand Jury

Year	New Visions	Spirit of Freedom Narrative	Spirit of Freedom Documentary	Short Film	Special Mention(s)
2004	Modern Maverick Award: Love Me If You Dare Yann Samuell Torchlight Award: Dorian Blues Tennyson Bardwell	20 Fingers Mania Akbari			Whisky Romeo Zulu Roger Corman
2005	Antibodies Christian Alvart	Zozo Josef Fares	La sierra Scott Dalton, Margarita Martinez
2006	Half Nelson Ryan Fleck	Chronicle of an Escape Adrián Caetano	Encounter Point Ronit Avni, Julia Bacha		Premium
2007	I'm Through with White Girls Jennifer Sharp	In the Valley of Elah Paul Haggis	Iron Ladies of Liberia Daniel Junge, Siatta Scott Johnson	Rose Hoku Uchiyama
2008	Cold Lunch Eva Sørhaug	Lion's Den Pablo Trapero	Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi	Gone Fishing Chris Jones
2010	Hello Lonesome Adam Reid	The Athlete Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew	Budrus Julia Bacha	Contact Zone Gustavius Smith
2011	Restless City Andrew Dosunmu	VIPs Toniko Melo	Marathon Boy Gemma Atwal	Homecoming Gursimran Sandhu	Better Mus' Come Zero Percent
2012	Maybe Tomorrow Michael Wolfe	Between Us Dan Mirvish	Mulberry Child Susan Morgan Cooper	Brigidy Bram Toby Lunn, Laura Gamse	Apartment in Athens Baseball in the Time of Cholera
2014	Leave to Remain Bruce Goodison	Wheels Donavon Thomas	Poverty, Inc. Michael Matheson Miller	Perfect Day Derrick L. Sanders	Tobacco Burn In the Clouds
2015	Somewhere in the Middle Lanre Olabisi	Showing Roots Michael Wilson	India's Daughter Leslee Udwin	More Than God Kev Cahill	A Beautiful Now Terra Incognita
2016	Live Cargo Logan Sandler	9 Rides Matthew A. Cherry	The House on Coco Road Damani Baker	Replika Luc Walpoth
2017	Interlude Bernard Tanguy	Liyana Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp	My Enemy, My Brother Ann Shin	Owen Kelly Pike	I Am Shakespeare: The Henry Green Story
2018	Sprinter Storm Saulter	Capernaum Nadine Labaki	Wrestle Suzannah Herbert	Lalo's House Kelley Kali	Ovum
2019	Quest: The Truth Always Rises Santiago Rizzo	Doing Money Lynsey Miller	The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion Lisa Cortés, Farah X	The Wind Phone Kristen Gerweck	Black Hat Night Song Silence
2021	Jumbo Zoé Wittock	Small Time Niav Conty	My Blood is Red Thiago Dezan, Graciela Guarani, Marcelo Vogelaar	Ashmina Dekel Berenson	Three Blades

Audience awards

Year	Best Narrative	Best Documentary
2004	One Love Rick Elgood, Don Letts	Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion Tom Peosay
2006	Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits Larry Blamire	Eleutheran Adventure Kareem Mortimer
2010	The Athlete Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew	Bouncing Cats Nabil Elderkin
2011	Better Mus' Come Storm Saulter	On The Wings of Men Calvin Dwight Harris
2012	The Story of Luke Alonso Mayo	Rising From Ashes T.C. Johnstone

First Look

Year	Best Feature	Best Short	Special Mention(s)
2011	Amos Ferguson: Match Me If You Can Karen Arthur, Thomas Neuwirth	Five Bones K. Tyler Johnston	Tall Tale of An Accidental Tourist

Honors