The Bokomorebi International Film Festival is a poetic and purposeful celebration of the seventh art — cinema — as a force for connection, compassion, and positive world change.
Brought to you by Studio Bokehgo, our mission is to bring together pioneering filmmakers whose work is rooted in authenticity, ethics, and the belief that storytelling can make the world better. At Bokomorebi, connection and community are at the heart of everything we do.
In our second year, the overarching theme of this year’s Bokomorebi is Peace and Harmony. This year’s festival intends to pull the definition and appreciation of 'peace' away from abstraction - To look at it’s meaning, its reality, and its application. And then to alongside this we explore harmony - to look at the connection and rhythms of harmony, and how we can drive it through ethical, authentic and compassionate storytelling..
The festival is really exploring the potential in community based showcase - and will be curating a series of events throughout September, October and November, bespoke to the films, speakers, communities, partners and subjects we are looking to reach and that we find connection with along the way. Much of the activity will be in Yorkshire, with some potential events further afield. The festival is looking at dynamic and bespoke ways to support new and innovative voices in cinema, with the hope of bringing together the incredible work of film and photography artists, to meet with receptive audiences.
At its heart the festival is about connection through filmmaking. It is a non competitive festival, interested in curating essential film for audiences. Our categories are around Joy, Curiosity, Pioneers, Our World, Peace, Humanity and Dreamers, with then a dedicated emerging filmmakers initiative called Rays of Hope. The festival will be made up of a showcase of short films and a number of workshops, talks and connecting opportunities designed at celebrating and amplifying authentic voices in filmmaking who are searching to empower a better world.
Bokomorebi is a lighthouse for filmmakers and audiences seeking cinema that is not only beautiful, but meaningful — a celebration of art that connects us, challenges us, and invites us into a kinder, more collaborative world.
We are about to open the festival for film submissions -
Visit the Film Freeway Listing here
CELEBRATING SEASON 1 - 2025
The first ever edition of the Bokomorebi International Film Festival was the coming together of a huge dream in amplifying, inspiring, and connecting voices in filmmaking who believe creating a more compassionate, kind and connected world through cinematic storytelling.
Below you can see the films and filmmakers who made up the 1st edition of Bokomorebi
OFFICIAL SELECTION
MAIN SHOWCASE - BOKOMOREBI
Sandeep Reddy Sama - Sunny-Man
Diana Caballero, José Raúl Callejas - The Voice of the Ravine
Ava Bounds - We are Here, Still
Gustavo Ribeiro, Ive Machado - AREIA
Ray Jacobs - Our Circle in the Storm
Daniel Johnson - I'm 22, But Not For Long
Jacob Whiting, Delilah Sykes - Fear
Sandra Kerttunen - Nature through my window
Hans Lein - Completed
Gianpiero Mendini - The Wailing Trees
Charles Frank - Clint Smith: Beyond This Place
Pishdaad Moderessi -
MAIN SHOWCASE - RAYS OF HOPE EMERGING FILMMAKERS
Ava Bounds - We are Here, Still
Danny Taylor, Issac Thornton / Digno Films - The Cards We're Dealt
CAPA College - Return to the Moon
CAPA College - The Dancer
Manyu Dubbyreddy - When It's Gone
Fazashan Hesafa Putra - Through What's Left
MAIN SHOWCASE - ARTISTIC INSTALLATIONS
Video Art Guerilla
Tzu Yi Yang - Reflections on a Journey
Fang-Yi Cheng - How to make water from ice
Zhao Ruo Tong & Sondre Bergersen Mæland - When we meet at the lakes
Yu-Ting Tsai - A Summer Afternoon on the Burial mound
Artists Liu Junlei, Chen Yifang - Sound Collaboration - Yu Ziting - 00:00
Chih Kai Lu - Laundry Hour
Miao Ying Lu - COMA
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Soumajit Chaki - WE HAVE BECOME LATE NIGHT MILLENNIALS
Daffa Mangussara - The Devil Wears Pants
Daffa Mangussara - The Voice I Yearn To See
Anlisa Rodrigues, Mario Pimenta - Rishi
Mian Rahman - Trees
Jacob Gainsborough - Beware Out There!
Tri Yuni Aulia - In The Still of The Night
Francesco Bori - Planted - Donald Watson and the Roots of Veganism
Luqman Mohammed Ibrahim - VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
Maria Maya - THE PARTY
Maria Maya - ROUTINE
Judi Alston - Breaking the Chains of Addiction
Drama at St Luke's CE Primary - Dyslexia & Me
Dale Forder - Navigating The Net
Chin-Fa Chen - Sunrise Xuejian
Angela Ruohan Yan - Fallen
Nephan Baykal - SIREN
Ankit Shriniwas Kesharwani - King
Emese Torma - Siargao
Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti - RAPA DE REP
Alberto Tarroni - IRBIS: A Shared Future
Sakdipong Jittasaiyapan - Bitterly-sweet
Mobin Hajilooie - dark room
Safia Lees - To Walk is to Dance
Mattia Morgut - Roots To Peaks
Ashish Bisht - Now-Or-Never
Ashish Bisht - Bhulyun Ghaar - A Forgotten Home
Sam Stevenson - Life at the Lake Margin
Wenhao Zhang - Go wandering
Jean-Baptiste Le Hen - The way of the orchid
Omar G. Neri - The dance of darkness
Ange Gabriel LABBE - When dance becomes peace
Inaz Javan - The mini god father
Alan Emslie - SOMNAMBULISTIC
冯 冠钦 Lev, 龙 思佳 Lorna - Nameless Face
Vittorio Caratozzolo & Class 3 A - The Trial of Don Giovanni
Vittorio Caratozzolo & Class 2 A (2022-23) - Sleepily Sleepless
Vittorio Caratozzolo & Class 2 A (2022-23), Luca Nicolini - Pestis Muliebris - Stories of Female Resilience
Vittorio Caratozzolo & Class 3 A (2023-24) - Once Upon a Time at the «Giacomo Bresadola» School
Yashvardhan Jha - Beloved Of Dreams
We are about to open the festival for film submissions -
Visit the Film Freeway Listing here
Our mission is to bring together pioneering filmmakers whose work is rooted in authenticity, ethics, and the belief that storytelling can make the world better. At Bokomorebi, connection and community are at the heart of everything we do.
STORYTELLING WITH INTEGRITY
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON THE STORIES THAT DESERVE TO BE TOLD
