IDFA 2025: The Awards

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VERDICT: 'A Fox Under a Pink Moon', the emotionally charged collaboration between veteran Iranian documentary maker Mehrdad Oskouei and his teenage niece, Soraya Akhalaghi, won IDFA's international competition while another Iranian film, 'Past Present Continuous' by filmmakers Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani, won the Envision competition.

November 21st, 2025

IDFA Award for Best Film – International Competition:
A Fox Under a Pink Moon
Dir. Mehrdad Oskouei, Soraya Akhalaghi

IDFA Award for Best Directing – International Competition:
The Kartli Kingdom
Dir. Tamar Kalandadze and Julien Pebrel

IDFA Award for Best Editing – International Competition:
December
Editing. Fernando Epstein

IDFA Award for Best Cinematography – International Competition:
Silent Flood
Cinematography. Ivan Morarash,. Oleksandr Korotun,. Viacheslav Tsvietkov, 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. Aiste Žegulyte-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

IDFA NPO Doc Audience Award
Cutting Through Rocks
Dir. Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni

FIPRESCI Award:
Paikar
Dir. Dawood Hilmandi