2025 Annual Awards – All Films (A–Z)

Regal LA Live, September 6

Acorn, Iowa by Madison Wolfe (USA) – World premiere | Program 10, Cinema #10

Antidote Lipstick by Chase Montgomery Fein (USA) – World premiere | Program 3, Cinema #8

Argie Berman by Fon Davis (USA) | Program 10, Cinema #10

Aria by Hugo Will (USA) – World premiere | Program 8, Cinema #9

Àsaka by Edduardo Viera (Spain) – USA premiere | Program 3, Cinema #8

Belly Button – Mezcal by Dan Goldberg (USA) – World premiere | Program 5, Cinema #9

Clay Bird by Kiran Bhakta Joshi (Nepal) | Program 6, Cinema #9

Clinical Case by Ksenia Ishoot (Russia) – World premiere | Program 4, Cinema #8

Country Couture by Dustin J Robison (USA) | Program 9, Cinema #10

Crop Duster by Leonid Okhitin (Armenia) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 1, Cinema #8

Dadda by Aimee Hoffman (USA) | Program 2, Cinema #8

Delphinium by Melissa Puente and Patience Ray (Canada) – California premiere | Program 6, Cinema #9

Did My Heart Love Till Now by Veronica Tullo (USA) | Program 3, Cinema #8

Did You Remember The Cat? by Daniel Foster (USA) | Program 1, Cinema #8

Dilemma by Matthew Samuels (USA) – California premiere | Program 8, Cinema #9

Down by Ben Rogers (UK) – World premiere | Program 1, Cinema #8

Earth by Yura Katynsky (Ukraine) | Program 7, Cinema #9

Egg Soldier by Guymon Cheung (UK) – World premiere | Program 6, Cinema #9

Evasion 1944 by Saaid Hasbi (France) – North America premiere | Program 8, Cinema #9

Exchange by Monty Chaudoir (UK) – California premiere | Program 7, Cinema #9

Flirtologist by Madeline O’Leary (USA) | Program 6, Cinema #9

Focal Point by Raphael Buisson (USA) – World premiere | Program 7, Cinema #9

For: LiLa by Kaitron Bryant and Malik Myers (USA) – California premiere | Program 11, Cinema #10

Fuel by Marc Cleary (USA) | Program 5, Cinema #9

Generation Well by Jack Serra (USA) | Program 10, Cinema #10

Glasshouses by Lawrence Whelan (UK) – World premiere | Program 8, Cinema #9

Hemorrhage by Ella Lentini (USA) – USA premiere | Program 4, Cinema #8

Henry and the Horrible Thing by Phynley Joel (USA) – World premiere | Program 6, Cinema #9

How Long Until Now? by Sonya Akulshina (Finland) – California premiere | Program 5, Cinema #9

In Jeff We Trust by Blake Jarvis (USA) | Program 2, Cinema #8

Just Imagine by Karolis Kveselis (Lithuania) | Program 6, Cinema #9

Land of Forgotten Echoes by Layne Marie Williams (USA) – California premiere | Program 4, Cinema #8

Little Bunny Poop by Roméo Abolin (France) – World premiere | Program 3, Cinema #8

Look Away by Andrew Whyment (UK) | Program 1, Cinema #8

M/Other by Andy Twyman (UK) – World premiere | Program 9, Cinema #10

Mint Condition by So Man Tsoi (Hong Kong) | Program 7, Cinema #9

Mirage by Shuyue Zhang (China) – World premiere | Program 8, Cinema #9

Mothers by Choukri Rouha (France) – USA premiere | Program 11, Cinema #10

Mzia Leaves the Room by Madeline Leary (USA) | Program 5, Cinema #9

Not Another Coming Out Story by Rufus Shaljean (UK) – World premiere | Program 3, Cinema #8

Obolus by Kim Fabienne Hertinger (Germany) – California premiere | Program 7, Cinema #9

One Night in Brooklyn by CJ Taglione (USA) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 9, Cinema #10

Out of the Fire by Maximilian Curnow (UK) – World premiere | Program 5, Cinema #9

Pandaal by Shaily Sanghvi (USA) | Program 4, Cinema #8

Paradox by Wonki Choi (South Korea) | Program 7, Cinema #9

Polemos by Evgen Brooks (Ukraine) | Program 5, Cinema #9

Popcorn by Fangjian Li (USA) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 5, Cinema #9

Put To Sleep by Eric C. Yang (USA) – North America premiere | Program 9, Cinema #10

Rat King by Andrea Mae Perez (UK) – North America premiere | Program 2, Cinema #8

Siasar by Mahmood Sharifi Asl (Afghanistan) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 11, Cinema #10

Single Buffalo by Laura Anastasia Jones (USA) | Program 3, Cinema #8

Snip by Rowan Faris (USA) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 6, Cinema #9

Sorry, She Can’t Help Herself by Roqiye Tavakoli (USA) | Program 10, Cinema #10

Steady by Joey Rogoff and Brian Yuran (USA) | Program 11, Cinema #10

Sticky Note by Sam Orchard (Australia) – North America premiere | Program 2, Cinema #8

Strays by Or Schraiber (USA) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 2, Cinema #8

SwordPlay by Noah Sutton and Matty Wint (USA) – World premiere | Program 2, Cinema #8

Tallulah Park by David Guillermo Borges (USA) | Program 10, Cinema #10

Tennis, Oranges by Sean Pecknold (USA) | Program 5, Cinema #9

The Crone by Catherine Kasima Kanda (Poland) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 1, Cinema #8

The Hard R by Adad Warda (USA) – World premiere | Program 8, Cinema #9

The Missing Image by Maxime Pargaud (France) – North America premiere | Program 9, Cinema #10

The Pursuit Of Forgiveness by Thomas McQuillan (Ireland) – World premiere | Program 11, Cinema #10

The Rain Lady by Lyla Mzayek (USA) | Program 10, Cinema #10

There’s Something I Have to Tell You by Jamie Savarese (USA) – California premiere | Program 4, Cinema #8

Tides of Change by Justin Wheelon (USA) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 5, Cinema #9

What’s Wrong, Emma by Teo Frank (France) | Program 4, Cinema #8

Wizdom by Layne Marie Williams (USA) – California premiere | Program 7, Cinema #9

You Can Never Go Home by Jordan Qin (USA) – California premiere | Program 9, Cinema #10

You Got Me – A Place to Bury Strangers by Christopher Brown (Germany) – Los Angeles premiere | Program 1, Cinema #8

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