IDFA 2025's Award Winners
Thursday evening the winners of the competition programs of IDFA's 38th edition were announced during the Awards Ceremony in Eye Filmmuseum.
A Fox Under a Pink Moon by Mehrdad Oskouei won the IDFA Award for Best Film in the International Competition.
Past Future Continuous by Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani won the IDFA Award for Best Film in the Envision Competition.
The IDFA 2025 award winners
IDFA Award for Best Film - International Competition
A Fox Under a Pink Moon, dir. Mehrdad Oskouei
IDFA Award for Best Directing - International Competition
The Kartli Kingdom, dir. Tamar Kalandadze and Julien Pebrel
IDFA Award for Best Editing - International Competition
December, dir. Lucas Gallo
IDFA Award for Best Cinematography - International Competition
Silent Flood, dir. Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Special Mention - International Competition
Flood, dir. Katy Scoggin
IDFA Award for Best Film - Envision Competition
Past Future Continuous, dir. Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani
IDFA Award for Best Directing - Envision Competition
Holy Destructors, dir. Aistė Žegulytė-Zapolska
IDFA Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution - Envision Competition
Amílcar, dir. Miguel Eek
IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction
Feedback VR, un musical antifuturista, dir. Claudix Vanesix for Collective AMiXR
Special Mention - IDFA DocLab for Immersive Non-Fiction
Under the Same Sky, dir. Khalil Ashawi
IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling
Artificial Sex (Ep. 1 & 2), dir. Anan Fries
Special Mention - IDFA DocLab for Digital Storytelling
Coded Black, dir. Maisha Wester
IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary
An Open Field, dir. Teboho Edkins
Special Mention - Short Documentary
Dreams for a Better Past, dir. Albert Kuhn
IDFA Award for Best First Feature
Paikar, dir. Dawood Hilmandi
Special Mention - IDFA Award for Best First Feature
The Kartli Kingdom, dir. Tamar Kalandadze and Julien Pebrel
IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film
My Word Against Mine, dir. Maasja Ooms
Special Mention - IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film
Paikar, dir. Dawood Hilmandi
Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award
Remake, dir. Ross McElwee
Special Mention - Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award
The Memory of Butterflies, dir. Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
FIPRESCI Award
Paikar, dir. Dawood Hilmandi
