NYTSIFF Winners - May 2025

Laura, 29 Old Compton Street

Director Weiqi Cai

in Best Poster

Symbiotic Futures

Director Ayo Eniola

in Best Environmentalist Film

Test Strike

Director Pavlo Karusenko

in Best AI Film

Hear Something, Say Something

Director YONELA DELUBOM

in Best Human Rights Film

"Daughter"

Director Piotr Jasiolek

in Best Silent Film

Polio's Last Mile VR

Submitter Brian Skalak

in Virtual Reality

MAD HOT SWEAT

Director Zae Jordan

in Best Comedy

For Better or Worse

Director Oswald Hunter

in Best Drama

House of Flies

Writer Alex Havens

in Best Horror

Sumarsólstöður

Director Amélie Ravalec

in Best Sci-Fi

Sacajawea, The Windcatcher

Writer Jane L. Fitzpatrick

in Best Feature (Long) Script

PRIMUS

Writers giovanni gervasi, Stefano Nicotra

in Best Short Script

Third Chance

Director Pavel Tsvetkov

in Best Micro Film

I'm back

Submitter Eduard Rimikhanov

in Best Song

RETREAT (short film)

Director Mari SanGiovanni

in Best LGBTQ Film

Wheel Tracks

Director Ashley Wong

in Student Films

Smoldering-Smoldering

Director Ilya Noyabrev

in Music Video

Demigod

Submitter Efthymios Stavropoulos

in Experimental Short

Her World

Director Janna Ilgner

in Female Empowerment

Nameless Empires of Glass

Director Dorottya Kovács

in Animations

Elastic

Director Veronica Hein

in Best Female Director

Traveling flower

Director Alina Dzmitrovich

in Documentary Short

The Last Wish

Director Ilya Noyabrev

in Narrative Short

Wheels of a Giant

Director Catarina Accioly

in Documentary Feature

Into the Dim Lights

Director David Rodgers

in Narrative Feature

Best Director

Leonard Alecu

For

Ice Breath

The Flat Earther

Director Peter Chidiac

in Ice Breath

El Poder del Diálogo

Director Miguel García Bernal

in Best Editing