
BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - BUEIFF®

BUEIFF®
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Competition 2025
WINNERS 2025
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BEST SHORT FILM - NARRATIVE
- "PATOU: In Black & White" by Fiona Cochrane (Australia)
BEST SHORT FILM - EXPERIMENTAL
- "The three tenors who crossed the ocean from the Po" by Giusy Cafari Panico, Corrado Calda (Italy)
BEST SHORT FILM - ANIMATION
- "Million Loves in Me" directed by Sampson Yuen (Hong Kong)
BEST SHORT FILM - DOCUMENTARY
- "Mlungu - The White King" by David Lusicic (Croatia)
BEST SHORT FILM - UNDER 10MIN
- "Forfaiture" by Jean-François Cantenot (France)
BEST SHORT FILM - UNDER 5MIN
- "WOUND RIDERS" by Angel Barroeta (USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - HORROR
- "From belly to another" by Anaïs Peleyrol (France)
BEST SHORT FILM - COMEDY
- "A Significant Problem" by Trish Harnetiaux (USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - STUDENTS
- "The Cathar" directed by Liam Hendrix Heath (United Kingdom)
BEST DIRECTOR (SHORT FILM)
- "The Cathar" directed by Liam Hendrix Heath (United Kingdom) - WINNER
- Impossible Yet True 2" by Yanush Ahy (United Kingdom) - NOMINEE
- Memory lane" by Frederic Mosbeux (Belgium) - NOMINEE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (SHORT FILM)
- "ASHES" directed by Lewis MARTIN SOUCY and Mehdi AJROUDI (USA) - WINNER
- "While Fingernails Grow" by Leandro Rial (Brazil) - NOMINEE
BEST EDITING (SHORT FILM)
- "ASHES" directed by Lewis MARTIN SOUCY and Mehdi AJROUDI (USA)
BEST ACTOR (SHORT FILM)
- Gerry Grimes in "Confessional directed by Donal O'Dea (Ireland)
BEST ACTRESS (SHORT FILM)
- Yasaman Moshani in "Everyone" (United Kingdom)
BEST ACTING DUO (SHORT FILM)
- Mehdi AJROUDI and Marc Andreoni in "ASHES" (USA)
BEST SCREENPLAY (SHORT FILM)
- "A Minute To Midnight: A Musical" directed by Caue Barcelos (USA) - WINNER
- "While Fingernails Grow" by Leandro Rial (Brazil) - NOMINEE
BEST SOUNDTRACK (SHORT FILM)
- "X212" by Lau Pon yi (Republic of Korea)
BEST 1-MINUTE SHORT FILM
- "YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW" by Chia-Hung Kao (Taiwan)
BEST FEATURE FILM - FICTION
- "Cordas / Cordas World Music Festival" by Diogo Rola, Terry Costa (Portugal)
BEST FEATURE FILM - DOCUMENTARY
- "Land Activities" by Aliss Germain (Canada)
HALF-LENGTH FILM
- "SanDance! A Journey to the Heart of San Culture" directed by Richard Wicksteed (South Africa)
BEST DIRECTOR (FEATURE FILM)
- "Going to Beyond" by Kalli Paakspuu (Canada) - WINNER
- "The Last Keeper" by Tom Opre (USA) - NOMINEE
- "The alchemist's dance" by Arantxa Vela (Spain) - NOMINEE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (FEATURE FILM)
- "Nafkot - Yearning" directed by malka shabtay (Israel)
BEST EDITING (HALF-LENGTH AND FEATURE FILM)
- Branislav Trifunovic in "The Game" directed by Ana Lazarevic (Serbia) - WINNER
- "Heavy Metal Dancers" by Gretta-Garoliina Sammalniemi (Germany) - NOMINEE
- "The Last Keeper" by Tom Opre (USA) - NOMINEE
BEST ACTOR (HALG-LENGTH AND FEATURE FILM)
- Keene McRae in "Bad Furniture" (USA)
BEST ACTRESS (HALF-LENGTH AND FEATURE FILM)
- Shereen Ramprashad in "BLANKET" (Canada)
BEST SCREENPLAY (HALF-LENGTH AND FEATURE FILM)
- "Million Loves in Me" directed by Sampson Yuen (Hong Kong) - WINNER
- "Invisibles México" by Rafael Franco Gomez (Mexico) - NOMINEE
- "In the Footsteps of Alexander Nevsky" by Anna Leonidovna Turchaninova (Russian Federation) - NOMINEE
BEST SOUNDTRACK (FEATURE FILM)
- "Swallow, Dear Swallow" by Eva Colmers (Canada)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
- "BEAST" by Missy Jubilee (Australia)
BEST WEB /TV SERIES
- "The Wait" directed by Rik Langan (USA)
BEST TRAILER / TEASER
- "Complete Time Travel Guide / Denboran Bidaiatzeko Gida Osoa" by Oliver Mend, Rose of Dolls (Spain) - WINNER
- "The Golden Acorn" by Maciej Osuch (United Kingdom) - NOMINEE
- "Dream Farm" by Bryce Mackie (USA) - NOMINEE
BEST POSTER
- "Factory" by Ad Emilson (Paraguay) - WINNER
- "Impossible Yet True" by Yanush A - NOMINEE
BEST FIRST MOVIE
- "1212" by Laura Anderson (Colombia)
THE FULL LIST OF FINALISTS / NOMINEES ("WORK OF EXCELLENCE")
"Monday's Blues Dreaming of Tuesday Weld" by Bruce Edward Radek
"Enrico Calamai A life for human rights" by Enrico Blatti
"Sun Blazes Above" by Zhang WEI
"TRIALITY" by Jean-Luc Oicle
"Teeth" by Frank Dell'Oro
"The Sniper" by Dastan Khalili
"TIGRE" by Maria Victoria Sanchez Lara
"THE OVERLOOK" by John Gray
"MUSE" by Genel Mejia
"8 seconds" by Jean-Marie Vinclair
"SEARCHING FOR THAT SEA" by Xavier Guàrdia
"Roses" by Tosh Leykum
"Lamb of Vengeance" by Gaosheng Xin
"Farewell to Music" by JIAN WANG
"Luz" by Alfonso Otero Mireles
"The Imagination of a Child" by Cesare Catania
"Burning Water" by Noa Röthlisberger
"Genny - The Uncle" by Nicola Bianchi, Claudio Braccini
"Memories of the Little Pond" by Yeon Choi
"Darn It Darla!" by Walid Chaya
"En El Espejo" by Pablo Raul
"Persimmon Sonata" by Yiyao Zhang
"While Some Must Sleep" by Craig Urquhart
"Lovely" by Craig Urquhart"
"Sonata in D" by Craig Urquhart
"A WEATHER REPORT" by YU KAJINO
"An Old Friend" by Nuk Suwanchote
"Hypnogogic" by Linsi Yang
"Climacteric woman" by Yeonjin Jo
"Herir" by Jonathan Ivan Hernández Jiménez
"Uncanceled" by Mikelle Virey
"I Love You So Much But You Are So Difficult" by Berenicé Brino
"You are not the others" by YUCAN YE
"OBRAZ" by Nikola I. Vukcevic
"Breasts Not Included" by Seth Thompson, Hannah Sullivan
"SOFIA" by Carlos Soto
"The Guardian" by Xiaojie Shen
"The Flickering Experiment" by Kostiantyn Mishchenko
"NAND - SOS" by Aleksandr Irinarkhov
"Tiny Teaching Tales" by Julie Anne Burch
"En El Espejo" by Pablo Raul
"Listen to Your Mother" by Anabella Lenzu
"NEW DAWN" by Bing Luo
"Nowhere But Here" by Özgür Uyanık
"Sun also rises" by Enzo Xia
"Big Mama Thornton: I Can't Be Anyone But Me" by Robert E Clem
"Secret Plan" by Zhao Kejun
"ARTHUR AVE." by Joey Medina
"A Ray of Sunlight" by Sook-hee MOON
"TRANSLATIONS" by Shelley Alice Thompson
"Dance Studio" by LINGXI YUAN
"Disco Boy" by Mafalda Lorijn
"Scattered Sea" by Lia Sáile
"In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves" by Virginia Heath
"Those who are under the star" by Víctor Terán Sandoval
"BATCAN" by Riu Lohri, David Riedener
"Back Home" by Mercedes Arturo
"Zero Limits" by Dr. Kasia Wezowski, Patryk Wezowski
"The Life and Times of G" by Ian Johnston
"THOMAS" by Jénia Zaytsev, Gianluca Canale
"In the Shadow of the Jaguar" by Bryan Hiveley
"Macho!" by Courtney Bahr
"Beyond Time" by Geoffrey de Valois
"Overtime" by Martin Molpeceres
"La Gloria" by Joseph Todd Walker
"Above water" by WANYING ZHANG
"The Perfect Family" by Pablo De Antuñano
"Ravens" by Mark Gill
"Leave behind" by Isabel Bernal
"No Apologies" by Dee Hood
"Deluge" by Meejin Hong
"She who visions" by Linda Belinda Podszus, Lena Leuschner
"The Vocho from Hell" by Gerardo Oñate
"Poetries from the Bookstores III" by Chi-jan Hou
"Stardust" by Vikram Chacko
"Silent Elegy" by Zhizhou Liang
"Puzzled - Paths are made by walking" by Brooklyn-Owen Julian Giannin Etzweiler
"The Passion of A Revolutionary Cinderella" by Siamak Dehghanpour
"The Sniper" by Dastan Khalili
"Medicine" by William Amos McKegg
"The Waiting“ by Rolando Fernández Climent
"KINTSUGI“ by Manuela Morgaine
"Tales of the Sea“ by Luca Severi
"WE WERE CHILDREN ONCE“ by Peter Hegedüs
"Tócame“ by Patricia Leih
"The Last Bee“ by Osseily Hanna
"Self " by Marco Abujamra
"Heroes From Heaven: Battle Ground Earth“ by Dr. Scott Glenn
"The Pilots“ by Karim Carvallo
"THE INTERNATIONALIST“ by Yolanda Torres
"The lost Years of the turtles“ by Verónica Contreras Jasir
"Full Moon Over Palcazú“ by Bren Vienrich-Felling
All the Winners and Finalists can request their Official BUEIFF® Trophy and their BUEIFF® Certificate!
Competition 2025