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OUR 2025 AWARD WINNERS

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BEST LGBTQ+ FILM

ALMA

Alma lives alone in her quaint cottage. We follow her as she navigates everyday life in her old age. Lonely, she takes pleasure in visiting a local farm shop most days. When she starts to unexpectedly develop feelings for the shopkeeper Joan, Alma is confronted with mixed feelings about moving on from her late wife; contemplating going against a promise she made to herself to live the rest of her years alone.

BEST STUDENT FILM

MARIPOSA

Mariposa's world begins to unravel around her when she finds a mysterious butterfly.

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BEST HORROR FILM

THE STRANDED

The last survivor of a space base agonizingly awaits for her rescue, while a creature lurks in the dark.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

CHASING WHALES

Chasing whales is an experimental short documentary film following the journey of the French filmmaker La Fille Renne on the trail of cetaceans, reflecting on our relation to them and the evolution of their hunt in Northern Europe.

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BEST ANIMATION FILM

TWO ONE TWO

Two One Two, by award-winning filmmaker Shira Avni, combines shimmering clay on glass animation with personal archives in this deeply intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and two headed monsters everywhere.

BEST SHORT FEATURE FILM

DEAF

Beirut, Lebanon.
Hassan is assembling wooden boards. His wife is dead. He is building her coffin. Tamara and Rami, the children, in their twenties, are helping him as best they can to fulfill the last wishes of the deceased: to be buried in her childhood village, abandoned for more than 20 years.

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BEST FICTION FILM

GAME OVER

Sunday afternoon is Scrabble day for an elderly couple...

THE MICHAEL FLYNN AWARD

FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF CINEMATOGRAPHY

AL FRESCO

Large room in a dream apartment. Unbeatable location. Ready to move in. Plenty of light.

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MURMURATION AWARD

ONLINE AUDIENCE AWARD

GAME OVER

Sunday afternoon is Scrabble day for an elderly couple...

AVIARY AWARD

IN PERSON AUDIENCE AWARD

A MOMENT OF SOLACE

Two people share a profound connection through the power of music.

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THE GOLDEN FEATHER AWARD

FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM, SPONSORED BY MAD AS BIRDS FILMS.

GAME OVER

Sunday afternoon is Scrabble day for an elderly couple...

Fiction - Documentary - Student - Animation - horror - lgbt - Short feature film

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