Nominations 2025

Jury : Samantha Lang / Mehdi Rahmani / Eulalia Ramón / Lalit Mohan Joshi

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. When The Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow! (Mehmet Ali Konar) Turkey
  2. Strangers When we Meet (Zhang Guoli) China

SPECIAL MENTIONS

Pyre (Vinod Kapri) India

Norah (Tawfik Alzaidi) Saudi Arabia

Jury : Anjan Dutt / Mehdi Rahmani / Hanna Polak / Eulalia Ramón

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Strangers When we Meet (Zhang Guoli) China
  2. Mehmet Ali Konar, for When The Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow! (Mehmet Ali Konar) Turkey

Jury : Olga Khlasheva / Leena Alam / Therese Malvar

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Gresa Pallaska, Waterdrop (Robert Budina) Albania
  2. Aline Amike, for Minimals in a Titanic World (Philibert Aime Mbabazi) Rwanda, Germany, Cameroon
  3. Zhou Dongyou, for Strangers When we Meet (Zhang Guoli) China

Jury : Dov Hassan / Kim Do Kyung

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Fan Wei, for Strangers When we Meet (Zhang Guoli) China
  2. Abylai Marat, for Deal at The Border (Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi) Kyrgystan
  3. Ilya Chernysh, for Wanderer (Mikhail Shevchuk) Russia

Jury : Sougata Bhattacharyya / Félix Sabroso

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Vinod Kapri, for Pyre (Vinod Kapri) India
  2. Waterdrop (Robert Budina) Albania

SPECIAL MENTION

Deal at The Border (Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi) Kyrgystan

Jury :  Guillem Oliver/ Pooja Gupte

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Manas Bhattcharyya, for Pyre (Vinod Kapri) India
  2. Devendra Golatkar, for In The Name of Fire (Abhilash Sharma) India and Exaequo: Harshit Saini, Monica Tiwari for Humans in the Loop (Aranya Sahay) India

Jury : Andrés de la Torre

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Saransh Sharma, for Humans in the Loop (Aranya Sahay) India
  2. Weya Marie, Amin Goudarzi, for Minimals in a Titanic World (Philibert Aime Mbabazi) Rwanda, Germany, Cameroon
  3. Mychael Danna, Amritha Vaz, for Pyre (Vinod Kapri) India

Jury : Mikel Castells

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Soustav Naskar, for Pyre (Vinod Kapri) India
  2. Norah (Tawfik Alzaidi) Saudi Arabia

Jury : Anjali Monteiro / Sepideh Abdolvahab

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Bakyt Mukul, Nazgul Omuzhanova, for Deal at The Border (Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi) Kyrgystan
  2. Kivu Ruhorahoza, for Minimals in a Titanic World (Philibert Aime Mbabazi) Rwanda, Germany, Cameroon

Jury : Alberto Luchini

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Deal at The Border (Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi) Kyrgystan
  2. Waterdrop (Robert Budina) Albania

Jury : Daniela Creutz / Javier Tolentino / Ridhima Mehra / Kim Longinotto

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Of Caravans and The Dogs (Askold Kurov, Anonymous 1) Germany
  2. Jacques (Lysandre Leduc Boudreau) Canada
  3. The Great White Whale (Michael Dillon) Australia

Jury : The Festival

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. In The Name of Fire (Abhilash Sharma) India
  2. Humans in the Loop (Aranya Sahay) India

WINNER

30 Days of Autumn (Sudipto Roy) India

Jury : Miguel Marías / María Zaragoza

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Ru Ba Ru (Kapil Tanwar) India
  2. Ash Valley (Shu Zhu) Kyrgystan
  3. Family Man (Kalani Gacon) Nepal, Australia

Jury : Miguel Marías

NOMINATED

  • Agony (Eulalia Ramón) Spain
  • The Cure (Rosendo M. Diezma) Spain
  • Thimea (Susana Fialho Mota) Spain
  • Bones (Luis Paredes) Spain

WINNER

  1. Agony (Eulalia Ramón) Spain

Jury : Luis Coderque

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Gokhan Yeter, for When The Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow! (Mehmet Ali Konar) Turkey
  2. Ania Goszczynska, The Forest in Me (Rebecca E. Marshall) UK
  3. Kevin Ilango, for In The Name of Fire (Abhilash Sharma) India

Jury : Óscar Sánchez / Ana María Vico

NOMINATED

WINNERS

  1. Green light (Weronika Jamróz) Poland
  2. First last month (Elena Vatamanu-Mărgineanu) Poland
  3. Uninvited (Ekaterina Ganzhela) Russia
  • Santosh (Sandhya Suri) UK