IFFR 2025 Awards

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VERDICT: Original, sophisticated films that pushed the limits of fiction and documentary were recognized by juries at this year's Tiger awards.

February 8th, 2025

Taking home multiple prizes, Fiume o morte! by Croatian director Igor Bezinovic won the 2025 Tiger Competition Award and the Fipresci Award, in what critic Carmen Gray called “a madcap and irreverent yet astute and politically trenchant intervention by Bezinovic into public space in his own hometown” of Fiume (now Rijeka), Croatia. Read the full TFV review here.

Tiger Competition award
Fiume o morte! (Cro-It-Slovenia)
Dir. Igor Bezinovi?

Special jury awards
L’arbre de l’authenticité (DR Congo)
Dir. Sammy Baloji

Im Haus Meiner Eltern (Ger)
Dir. Tim Ellrich

Big Screen award
Raptures (Swe-Fin)
Dir. Jon Blåhed

Fipresci award
Fiume o morte! (Cro-It-Slovenia)
Dir. Igor Bezinovi?

Neptac award
Bad Girl (India)
Dir. Varsha Bharath

Youth jury award
The Visual Feminist Manifesto (Syria-Leb-Ger-Swe-Neth)
Dir. Farida Baqi