Season Winners 2025
Celebrating Cinematic Excellence
Best Feature Film
Many Wounds
Dir. Jeremy Torrie
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.