awards and jury
winners 2025
Best Film Award
Inventory
Ivan Marković (Serbia)
The jury’s statement: The main award goes to a film that carefully weaves historical and contemporary materialities, linking a place, its uses and transformation, with a wider reflection on political imaginaries and possibilities. Its careful montage acknowledges the temporalities embedded in each image and transports us to a reflection about common spaces and the future of collective dreams. The award goes to Inventory by Ivan Markovic.
Provided by: Sirogojno Company
Special Mention
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagolopolus (Scotland, UK)
The jury’s statement: The jury decided to award a special mention to a film that speaks to our times through a delicate and unexpected gesture. We were moved by the film’s trust in the tensions and eloquence generated by the articulation between images and our own emotional experience of the world. The jury awards Special Mention to the film The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing by Theo Panagopoulos.
Youth Jury Award
Simply Divine
Mélody Boulissière and Bogdan Stamatin (France, Romania)
The jury’s statement:
Through animated imagery and archival photographs, the film conveys a deep connection and enduring love. It portrays a love story between a soldier at the front and a woman living in a village. For this reason, we decided to award the Youth Jury Prize to the film Simply Divine, directed by Mélody Boulissière and Bogdan Stamatin.
Audience Award
Simply Divine
Mélody Boulissière and Bogdan Stamatin (France, Romania)
