Awards
2025
Best Film International Fiction
Family Man
dir by Kalani Gacon Ι Australia, Germany, Nepal
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During a storm in a remote Nepalese village, a mysterious man finds refuge in the house of a family haunted by their father's disappearance years before. Strangely unwilling to leave, he slowly reawakens lost memories of the missing father.
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Best Animation
The Night Boots
dir by Pierre-Luc Granjon I France
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While his parents are welcoming friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night and enters the undergrowth, wearing rubber boots. There, a strange beast, curious and solitary, will lead him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal creatures that live there, and so as not to be alone again, will try to delay the child's departure as long as possible.
Best Documentary
Workers' Wings
dir. by Ilir Hasanaj I Kosovo
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Accidented labourers are looking at us:
How do they feel? What are their hopes? What does the future hold for them?
Every line on their faces sculpted by life itself.
In contrast, a system filled with danger and injustice looms overhead.
Best Mexico Short Film
Voices from the abyss
dir. by Irving Serrano, Victor Rejón I’ Documentary
La Quebrada Cliff Divers in Acapulco, Guerrero, are a diverse group—including boys, girls, youths, elders, Afro-Mexicans, and natives—who earn their living by diving 100 feet into the sea from a dangerous cliff as part of a thrilling show at La Quebrada.
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Best film Architecture & Environment
End of season
dir by Leonor Martín I Documentary I Spain
It's the summer of 2030. With the intention of taking a bath, Leonor returns to the water parks where she would go to play as a child. Severe water restrictions in Spain and Portugal have now reduced these spaces to ruins. As she traverses these grounds, she contemplates the idea of progress and its consequences on the territory.
visions of a more natural world.
Best Greek Short Film
What Mary Didn't Know
dir. by Konstantina Kotzamani I Fiction
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A cruise ship, NEOROMANTICA, crosses the Mediterranean. Among pensioners who yearn for Marriage Margaritas, Mary, a teenage girl wanders the casino and hits her own jackpot in love. Under the whimsical Aegean moon, Greek myths meet Arabian Nights.
Best Film With Emphasis on Diversity
Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting
dir by Alexander Thompson Ι United States
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An allegorical 1930s-set coming-of-age fable about mothers, daughters & the beasts they hunt.
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Best Screenplay
Vox Humana
dir. by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan I Philippines, Singapore, United States
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In the aftermath of an earthquake, the police find a man in the woods. A zoologist, a sound recorder, and a news team grapple with the truth that he may be the cause of all the natural disasters that devastated this small mountain town.
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Special Mention Irini
Zodiac
dir by Hans Buyse I Belgium
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Zodiac is a story about two forty-year-olds, whose friendship and empathic abilities are put to the test when they go on a fishing trip together and encounter seven drifting refugees in distress in the middle of the sea.
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Best Actress
Patsy Ferran
from the film "The Viewing" dir. by Nick Blake I United Kingdom
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A house viewing spirals into a surreal nightmare for a young woman with a troubled past.
Best Actor
Ingvar E Sigurðsson
from the film "O " dir. by Rúnar Eyjólfur Rúnarsson Ι Iceland
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O is a humanistic and poetic short film about a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself.
Special Mention I Mexico
A Whisper Starts a Fire
dir. by Eduardo Moreno Fernández I Fiction
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Olivia (Arcelia Ramírez, Cannes Award-winning "La Civil") feels a call to rebel when she discovers that, using artificial intelligence, her filmed testimonies for a documentary about her son's death have been altered. More than just questioning the use of AI in media, "A Whisper Starts a Fire" ponders upon when new technologies will be able to shape our deepest tragedies, with the times we are currently living between the border of reality and science fiction as its backdrop.