NOMINEES IGFA ANNUAL AWARDS International Guadalajara Film Awards 2025

   BEST FEATURE 

• Even in the Best Families, the Restoration – Gustavo Letelier
• Son of Adam – Amartya Bhattacharyya
• Bodega – Joseph Ruzer
• Mandasoodu (Spoof Of Errors) – Karthick Mohan
• We Are Stories – Multiple authors
• Better Tomorrow – Sharvi

      BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

• Sweetest Vacation – Phillip E. Walker
• As Easy As Closing Your Eyes – Parker Croft
• The Key Lord – Guillermo Martin Sepulveda
• You Look Great – Vinz Feller
• Super Latina – Cristina Sasso
• Capetillo – Antonio Asencio
• Exodus – Yassine EL Idrissi

      BEST MEXICAN SHORT

• Fragmented – Jaime Andres Duque
• Cobalto – Julián Hernández
• Wait – Jared Jacobsen
• Time To Order – Leonardo Benavides

       BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

• All The Eyes – Mohammad Abedi
• Son of Adam – Amartya Bhattacharyya
• Abysse: Performing the Archive – Susanna Schoenberg
• 3rd Aye – Richard Philpott
• Gentrified – Andres Bronnimann
• The Story of a Colorful Day – Mahmood Arib

     BEST SUPER SHORT

• Empty Words – Obed Absalon Mejía Benítez
• Meteor – Virpi Eriika Pahkine
• untitled (he/she) – Nicole Herrera Roebsteck, Grace Serrano Carmona
• Pulchra – Fernando Rosales
• Priscilla | Shades: Amplify Her Voice – Ximena Ríos

       BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

• Creators – Shamil Aliyev
• Eternal You – Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
• Bodega – Joseph Ruzer
• The Outlaw Gardeners (Giardinieri d’Assalto) – Angelo Camba
• Wild Coast Warriors – Nick Chevalier, Leigh Wood, Guido Zangi, Warren Smart
• When Elevators Were Racist – Keyonda Smith
• SPECIAL MENTION: The Endless (Parts I & II) – Oscar Enriquez
• The Shrovetide Devil – Diogo Valera Silva

       BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

• Airbrushed Beyond Recognition – Vidal D'costa
• The Visit – Ivan F. Cordeiro
• Golden Wings: Fifty Year Flight Path – Caleb Mills Stewart
• Taco Mafia – Alex Wolff, Joe Rocha
• Differences in Emotional Perception Between Korean and English – Doyeon Kim
• Against Time – Cesar Palacios

      BEST ANIMATION FILM

• Letter From a Stranger – Shima Markazi Omidvar
• The Storm – Zhigang aka "Busifan" Yang

       BEST INDIE FEATURE FILM

• Manamagizhselvan (MMS) – Harish Sundarajan
• Yezhu Jenmangal (7 Angels) – Harish Sundarajan
• Bodega – Joseph Ruzer
• Love in Your Face (Amor en toda la cara) – Gerald Fillmore
• The Old Man and the Demon Sword – Fabio Powers
• De la Cruz – Michael Baez
• Tremolo – Mohammad Abedi
• João Ayres, an Independent Painter – Diogo Varela Silva

     BEST INDIE SHORT FILM

• EL Cantante De Jazz – Antonio Bellido Marin
• Dry – Antonio Sanchez Lorenzo
• Stuck in Limbo – Alexis Hernández Peña
• When We See Each Other – Luis Enrique V. Schettino
• To Sofia – JD Macías
• Mariachis – Antonio Sanchez Lorenzo
• Dead Graffiti – Pendar NasserSharif
• I Could Try To Carry On – Vidal D'costa

     BEST MEXICAN INDIE SHORT FILM

• Ecstasy – Carolina Costa
• Who is God? – Oscar Adan Lopez
• Ahoritita – Sebastian Escamilla Monsalvo
• Edel – Santiago Rangel Bertran

     BEST MEXICAN INDIE FEATURE FILM

• Wills – Ignacio Ferreyra
• Amongst The Ropes – Fernando A. Fisher
• Cometa 1600 – Alejandra Carmen Díaz
• Xantolo, Celebration of the Dead – Luis Angel Sagahón, Karen Linnet Eslava

      BEST SMARTPHONE FILM

•  The Perfect Person – Oscar Gio Ramirez
• Giant – Daniel Mariel

     BEST INDIE DOC FEATURE FILM

• Spyral – Bill Gutentag

     BEST MUSIC VIDEO

• In Memoriam – Patrick Cormack
• Paint it Black – Patrick Cormack

     BEST SCREENPLAY

• Equidade – Luiz Alberto Cassol
• The Darkside of Society – Larry Wade Carrell
• Closed Gates Short Film – Naresh Kumar Rajendran
• Flying Hands – Marta Gómez & Paula Iglesias
• Betty Bird Goes to War – Stephanie Chloe Hepner
• Apparition – Camila Freitas

     BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY

• The Wheel Of Furtune – Luis Diaz Melgar
• Edmund – Mohammad Abedi

     BEST HORROR FILM

• A Vampire's Kiss – Mark Francis
• Draumur – Gerardo Castañeda
• Evil Connection – Daniel Maciel
• The Red Market – Christopher Matthew Spencer

     BEST STUDENT FILM

• Gardien – Varvara Mashanskaya
• Life, in Short – Ana Sofia Caballero

     BEST ACTOR

• Gerald Fillmore & Tito Valverde – Love in Your Face
• Phillip E. Walker – Sweetest Vacation
• Andrew Mojica – Bodega
• Mario Olivares – Return to the End

      BEST ACTRESS

• Laura Coover – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes
• Claudia Valdés – Trust the Process
• Aparna Kannan – Mandasoodu (Spoof Of Errors)
• Sierra "Inovadora Jey" Ortega-Moore – Super Latina

     BEST DIRECTOR 

• Shima Markazi Omidvar – Letter from a Stranger
• Amartya Bhattacharyya – Son of Adam
• Alex Wolff & Joe Rocha – Taco Mafia
• Harish Sundarajan – Yezhu Jenmangal (7 Angels)
• Zhigang aka "Busifan" Yang – The Storm
• Aida Bouya – Palace Guardians
• Joseph Ruzer – Bodega
• Parker Croft – As Easy As Closing Your Eyes
• Gustavo Letelier – Even in the Best Families, the Restoration