AIFF25 WINNERS
The Team @ the Australia Independent Film Festival congratulate the Winners of AIFF25.
AIFF25 BEST Short Film
DUSTY Director Jeremy Lindsay Taylor (AU)
Grief, love, and one wild resurrection — a drug-fueled odyssey where memory refuses to fade.
BEST Australian Short Film
DUSTY Director Jeremy Lindsay Taylor (AU)
Grief, love, and one wild resurrection — a drug-fueled odyssey where memory refuses to fade.
BEST International Short Film
DON'T BE LATE, MYRA Director Afia Serena Nathaniel (PK)
A missed school bus leaves ten-year-old Myra stranded in Lahore, where her journey home spirals into a tense fight for survival against the men who stalk her every step.
BEST QUEENSLAND SHORT FILM
LITTLE ADDY Director Madeleine Chaplain (QLD)
A rowdy singer, sleeping with her guitarist, is blindsided when he quits the band. In all kinds of denial, Addison struggles to write a song to prove to her record label she’s worth keeping solo.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
NGARRIDURNDENG KURED
An epic journey where ancient fire knowledge meets modern science. Join Dean Yibarbuk as he leads his people home to protect Kuwarddewardde. - Directors Emma Masters, Dean Munuggullumurr Yibarbuk (AU)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
MIRROR MIRROR Director Candice Hill (QLD)
As a celebrated art curator is seduced by a younger polyamorous artist, her carefully constructed life unravels—where desire, freedom and self-obsession collide.
BEST Animation
SATOMI DIRECTOR Rayner Wang (JP, HK, USA)
At the end of the 20th century, a shy girl with a dazzling voice discovers courage—and magic—when her stage fright leads to an unexpected encounter with a living anime star.
BEST STUDENT FILM
RAGE Director Renee Kypriotis (AU)
Amidst the chaos of teenage Sharpie life, Julie forges an unlikely bond with the tailor whose cardigan becomes her badge of identity and defiance.
BEST MOTION PICTURE FILM
WHAT WE WISHED WE COULD BE Director Luke Shelley (UK)
Two interwoven moments in the relationship of a couple affected by the contaminated blood scandal, revealing their sacrifices, their love, and the things they never felt safe to say.
BEST EPISODIC FILM
LAKEFIELD Director Caden Pearson (QLD)
When Charlie, a big-city journalist, returns home to report on a child’s drowning, she discovers her best friend dead in the same river—and unearths a web of grief, corruption, and buried secrets in a remote Cape York town.
PEOPLE'S CHOICE
LITTLE ADDY Director Madeleine Chaplain (QLD)
A rowdy singer, sleeping with her guitarist, is blindsided when he quits the band. In all kinds of denial, Addison struggles to write a song to prove to her record label she’s worth keeping solo.
BEST SHORT FILM SCREENPLAY
The f-word by Jon Coghill
When an inexperienced 12-year-old boy is thrown into the world of dating, he must face his biggest fear or blow the chance of a
lifetime.
QLD Future Stars.
BEST QLD SHORT FILM
Diana, 2007 Director Sebastien Arnold
BEST SEQ SHORT FILM
The story of Angelique Director Jessica Cross
BEST REGIONAL FILM
Insomnia Director Quinn William Dungey
BEST FNQ FILM
Doppelgänger Director Leah Ericson
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Living in Tension Director Mackenzie Guyatt
BEST ANIMATION
Eclipse Director Alexa Cary Trevors
SEQ PEOPLE'S CHOICE
Drowning Director Patrick Jones