Season Winners 2025

Celebrating Cinematic Excellence
Many Wounds Poster
Best Feature Film

Many Wounds

Dir. Jeremy Torrie
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Best Short Film, Best Director

Exodus

Dir. yassine EL Idrissi
In a post-apocalyptic world, an old and a young man escape from slavery to set themselves on a journey through the desert. The former looks for truffles and the latter looks for gold. Struggling with his new reality as a free person, the old man is tempted to go back to slavery, while the younger one is convinced that they can survive only if they stick together in freedom.
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Best Documentary

Loving Karma

Dir. Johnny Burke, Andrew Hinton
In the remote foothills of the Himalayas, former monk Lobsang Phuntsok has built Jhamtse Gatsal—"The Garden of Love and Compassion"—a community for children who have endured abandonment, neglect, and profound trauma.
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Best Animation

Bye Sweet Carole

Dir. Chris Darril
Lana Benton, threatened by the gelid Mr. Kyn, must confront bizarre creatures between the human world and a mysterious kingdom as she follows the last traces of Carole, her best friend who escaped from the austere Bunny Hall orphanage.
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Best Student Film

Strangers in the Night

Dir. Vangelis Chatzopoulos
On a snowy Christmas Eve in Reykjavik, a lonely, aging rocker encounters a mysterious young woman who holds the key to a hidden chapter of his past, forcing him to confront buried truths about family, freedom, and the untold cost of his rock-and-roll dreams.
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Best Screenplay

Jus d’orange

Dir. Alexandre Athané
Toni grows oranges. He loves them, they are his treasure. Until one day, strange cargo ships dock in the valley. Cargos loaded with... GREEN oranges!
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Best Cinematography

UNDER MY SKIN

Dir. Pascal Tessaud
Back to his hood in the North Side of Marseille, South of France, Kaleem accepts a job in construction. He reconnects with his best friend Rachad who wants to hire him as manager in his new sport center. Kaleem is training hard Krump and meets a mysterious greek architect : Marie.
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Best Actor/Actress

BETTER DAYS

Dir. Elsa Bennett, Hippolyte Dard
Suzanne, a widowed mother of three still grieving for her husband, has turned to alcohol to ease her pain, but is having an increasingly tough time maintaining a functioning façade. Until an accident on the way to school changes everything!
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New Filmmaker Award

Battlefield

Dir. Andrzej Mamcarz
A lonely, elderly man invites a young, attractive woman into his home. What seems like an unusual routine gradually becomes a space for him to pursue his passions and nurture an inner world where the boundaries between nostalgia, play, and tenderness begin to blur.