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
2024 – IMMERSION – 27th Edition
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