BET AND WALMART PRESENT: BLACK & UNLIMITED AT ABFF

For the third year in a row, Walmart is supporting filmmakers by giving them the platform to showcase what Black fatherhood looks like in their eyes at the 2025 American Black Festival.

Freshman Again

A Film by Aji Bass

This short film By Ali Bass is a documentary about a man that goes back to college at 50 and ends up at the same school at his daughter. The beauty of seeing a director go back to school through the eyes of his son.

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Reconciliation

A Film by Ian Phillips

A young man reconnects with his father after many years of distance. In the process of reconciliation, he decides to make a film about it.

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Laundry

A Film by Okema T. Moore

After his son’s tragic accident, a husband struggles to save his marriage and himself, until a chance encounter at a laundromat shows him that even in grief, hope and healing can all come out in the wash.