Every year since 1998, the festival associates to the annual event a “philosophical” theme. Usually not too narrow, the theme is an additional tool of the festival to sharply promote the upcoming event.

Here is the list of all the themes the festival has been using throughout the years. To understand a little better our interpretation of each theme, you can simply look for the press releases of a particular year of interest by clicking the following link and searching through all our past press releases. The title of at least one release every year contains the theme name: Theme-Release

 

                                         Brooklyn Film Festival

                                          2023 – HUMAN TIMES – 26th Edition

                                          2022 – UNTHINKABLE – 25th Edition

                                          2021 – The CLEARING – 24th Edition

                                          2020 – TURNING POINT – 23rd Edition

                                          2019 – The GATHERING – 22nd Edition

                                          2018 – THRESHOLD – 21st Edition

                                          2017 – CELEBRATION – 20th Edition

                                          2016 – EXPERIMENT – 19th Edition

                                          2015 – ILLUMINATE – 18th Edition

                                          2014 – FORMULA – 17th Edition

                                          2013 – MAGNETIC – 16th Edition

                                          2012 – DECOY – 15th Edition

                                          2011 – PLOT – 14th Edition

                                          2010 – STUNT – 13th Edition

                                          Brooklyn International Film Festival

                                          2009 – OPENSOURCE – 12th Edition

                                          2008 – CINERGY – 11th Edition

                                          2007 – IDENTITY – 10th Edition

                                          2006 – ENIGMA – 9th Edition

                                          2005 – OPINION8 – 8th Edition

                                          2004 – STRETCH – 7th Edition

                                          2003 – PERSONAL – 6th Edition

                                          2002 – PROGRESS – 5th Edition

                                          Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival 

                                          2001 – BRAINSTROM – 4th Edition

                                          2000 – AXIS – 3rd Edition

                                          1999 – RAW – 2nd Edition

                                          1998 – CANDID – 1st Edition