2025 FINALISTS AND WINNERS
The Hobnobben Film Festival hosted the 2025 Awards Ceremony on Friday, October 24th and announced the following finalists and winners:
Best Narrative Feature
Battersea - WINNER
Miranda from Monday to Friday
Mother Mara
Still from Battersea.
Best Unscripted Feature
Giselou - WINNER
Gold
Spelkollectivet
Year of the Cat - WINNER
Still from Year of the Cat.
Best Animated Short
Dear Child II - WINNER
Disabled: A Love story
Draft Paper
For Small Creatures
If the Dogs don’t speak
K’uchu: A childhood place - WINNER
My Closet
Still from K’uchu: A Childhood Place
Best First-Time Filmmaker
Crack
Let me put it this way
Lost Songs of Sundari
The Tale of Mari - WINNER
Still from The Tale of Mari
Best Indiana Reel
Sometimes I Imagine your Funeral - WINNER
Fairground
Still from Sometimes I Imagine your Funeral
Best Make us Laugh
Book Club
Grave Expectations - WINNER
Still from Grave Expectations.
Best Unscripted Short
Amma’s Pride
Breasts not included
Don’t Cry for Me All You Drag Queens
Free Words: A Poet from Gaza - WINNER
Moon Belly - WINNER
Still from Moon Belly
Best Student Short
Ash Wednesday - WINNER
Back to the Closet
Cactus IN NEED
Calling the wild
Diffidence
Handwovern
Human Heart
Like a Fish in the Water
The Parallel
Play Date
Tang Hua Sheng
You can’t beat the feeling
Behind-the-scenes shot from Ash Wednesday.
Best Fiction Short
Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy
Choice
KOI
The Lift
Nettle - WINNER
Stimulants and Empathogens
Tenderheart
Turnaround
Still from Nettle.
Jen Lynn Award
Honors and recognizes LGBTQIA+ representation and storytelling
Ash Wednesday
Amma’s Pride - WINNER
Casa Susanna
Don't Cry For Me All You Drag Queens
Draft Paper
I don’t know if I'll Have to Say Everything Again - WINNER
Inside
Lucia and Nicole - WINNER
Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History
Stimulants and Empathogens
Still from Lucia and Nicole.