Best Documentary   

A Move by Elahe Esmaili  –  WINNER

Sponsored by
VdFS – Austrian collecting society of filmmakers, Vienna

Project Nika by Tadija Tadić  –  SPECIAL MENTION 

 

Best Animation

Tako Tsubo by Fanny Sorgo, Eva Pedroza  –  WINNER

Sponsored by  
CLOSEfilm Film and Culture Association, Linz
epd Film, Frankfurt/M.
kolik.film, Vienna

Pear Garden by Shadab Shayegan  –  SPECIAL MENTION

 

Best Fiction

Almost Certainly False by Cansu Baydar  –  WINNER

Sponsored by
VdFS – Austrian collecting society of filmmakers, Vienna

 

SOS by Anita Morina  –  SPECIAL MENTION

 

Best Directing  

Almost Certainly False by Cansu Baydar  –  WINNER

Sponsored by  
CLOSEfilm Film and Culture Association, Linz

Best Screenplay 

A Mother Goes To The Beach by Pedro Hasrouny  –  WINNER

Sponsored by  
CLOSEfilm Film and Culture Association, Linz

 

Best Acting

A Mother Goes To The Beach by Pedro Hasrouny   
Actress: Cláudia Jardim  –  WINNER

Sponsored by
CLOSEfilm Film and Culture Association, Linz

 

Almost Certainly False by Cansu Baydar  
Actor: Isa Karataş  –  SPECIAL MENTION

Best Cinematography 

400 Cassettes by Thelyia Petraki
Cinematographer: Tudor Vladimir Panduru  –  WINNER

Sponsored by  
CLOSEfilm Film and Culture Association, Linz

Best Editing

A Move by Elahe Esmaili
Editor: Delaram Shemirani  –  WINNER

Sponsored by
CLOSEfilm Film and Culture Association, Linz

Best Sound Design

Im Dickicht by Katharina Pichler
Sound Designer: Katharina Pichler  –  WINNER

Sponsored by
Ambient Recording, Munich
epd Film, Frankfurt/M.
kolik.film, Vienna

Best Austrian Film

The Singers by Fabian Rausch, Zorah Berghammer  –  WINNERS

Sponsored by
ADA – Austrian Directors’ Association, Vienna
epd Film, Frankfurt/M.
kolik.film, Vienna

Gül by Lidija-Rukiye Kumpas  –  SPECIAL MENTION

Sponsored by
ADA – Austrian Directors’ Association, Vienna
kolik.film, Vienna

Best Queer-Feminist Film – Mahsa Jina Amini Award

The One Who Knows by Eglė Davidavičė  – WINNER

Sponsored by
Women’s Office of the City of Linz, Linz

 

Mother is a Natural Sinner by Hoda Taheri, Boris Hadžija  –  SPECIAL MENTION

 

 

TALENT ACADEMY 2025

Co-production Fund Talent Pitch Award

In the name of Ukraine von Vyacheslav Turyanytsya

Sponsored by
Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Croatia

 

Temar Lije – Learn My Child von Mickies Kiros 

Sponsored by
CLOSEfilm Film and Culture Association, Linz