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.












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