2025 Award Winners

Kurrak Rama de Oro

BEST DIRECTOR IN A NARRATIVE
Winner – Tulegenov Darkhan – Brothers – Kazakhstan

BEST DIRECTOR IN A DOCUMENTARY
Winner – Natasha Craveiro – Pirinha – Cape Verde

BEST SCREENPLAY
Winner – San Nanshan Zheng – The Spider Web – China

BEST ACTRESS
Winner – Ana Paula Mujica – Pégame – Mexico

BEST ACTOR
Winner – Alisher Ismailo – Brothers – Kazakhstan

BEST YOUNG TALENT
Winner – Mehri Mansouri – Sunflower Shadows – Iran

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner – Aidée González – Pégame – Mexico

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner – Gilberto Chi – Pégame – Mexico

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Winner – Sietefilos – Lidia Ibarra & Darleen Quim Romero Torres – Mexico

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A NARRATIVE
Winner – Dylan Verrechia – Pégame – Mexico

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A DOCUMENTARY
Winner – Nenass Almeida – Pirinha – Cape Verde

BEST EDITING IN A NARRATIVE
Winner – Maria Calle – Sietefilos – Mexico

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
Winner – Karl Pettersen – Pégame – Mexico

BEST SOUND DESIGN & MIXING
Winner – Omar Juárez Espino – Cocodrilos – Mexico

BEST ART & COSTUME DESIGN
Winner – Felix Martiz – Trending – Mexico/USA

BEST VFX
Winner – Keaton McQuarrie – Vox Humana – The Philippines

BEST ANIMAL
Winner – Wicca – Pégame – México

Kurrak Grand Jury Prize

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Winner – Sietefilos – Antonio Coello – Mexico

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner – Pirinha – Natasha Craveiro – Cape Verde

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Winner – Vox Humana – Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan – The Philippines

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Winner – Plataneros – Juan José Garrafa – Mexico

BEST ANIMATION
Winner – Chardak – Mileta Postic & Predrag Joldic – Serbia

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Winner – La Lloroncita – María Louisa De La Rosa – Mexico/USA

BEST AI
Winner – Yunbin An – August 32nd – Corea

Kurrak Audience Award

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Winner – Pégame – Dylan Verrechia – Mexico

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner – Luciana Kaplan – The Invisible Contract – Mexico

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Winner – Sunflower Shadows – Roya Zanbagh – Iran

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Winner – #WAY_Aurelio – Alan Rexroth – Mexico

BEST ANIMATION
Winner – Fábula del sapo y el alacrán – Margot Pettersen – Mexico

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Winner – Mugre Sur: Si no es – YAR Leo Bastidas – Ecuador

Kurrak Special Jury Award

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Winner – Brothers – Tulegenov Darkhan – Kazakhstan

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner – Highway Nomads – Alberto Arnaut Estrada & José María Castro Ibarra – Mexico

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Winner – Electron – Mehran Ranjbar – Iran

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Winner – Poppy Crash – Andalusia K. Soloff – Mexico

BEST ANIMATION
Winner – Counting Calories – Renee Shi – USA

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Winner – Keznamdi: Pressure – Nathanael Amadi – Ghana

BEST BAJA CALIFORNIA
Winner – Ofrenda – Diego Sandez – Mexico

BEST YOUTH FILMMAKER
Winner – Paige Bethmann – Remaining Native – USA
Winner – ET Vazquez – Encuentro Americano – USA

BEST RESILIENT SPIRIT
Winner – Vladimir Zamudio – Pégame – Mexico

2025 Nominees

Kurrak Rama de Oro

BEST DIRECTOR IN A NARRATIVE
Nominee – Antonio Coello – Sietefilos – Mexico
Nominee – Adolfo Davila – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico
Nominee – Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Alessandra Lacorazza – In the Summers – USA
Nominee – Mehran Ranjbar – Electron – Irán
Nominee – Dylan Verrechia – Pégame – Mexico
Nominee – Roya Zanbagh – Sunflower Shadows – Iran
Nominee – San Nanshan Zheng – The Spider Web – China

BEST DIRECTOR IN A DOCUMENTARY
Nominee – Artemis Andriotis – Koukouváya – Greece
Nominee – Alberto Arnaut Estrada & José María Castro Ibarra – Highway Nomads – Mexico
Nominee – Paige Bethmann – Remaining Native – USA
Nominee – Luciana Kaplan – The Invisible Contract – Mexico
Nominee – Sara Reginella – The Front of the Invisibles – Italy/Ukraine
Nominee – Rodrigo Reyes – Sansón y yo – Mexico

BEST SCREENPLAY
Nominee – Antonio Coello & Valentina Torres – Sietefilos – Mexico
Nominee – Tulegenov Darkhan & Alen Rakhmetaliev – Brothers – Kazakhstan
Nominee – Adolfo Davila – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico
Nominee – Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Alessandra Lacorazza – In the Summers – USA
Nominee – Mehran Ranjbar – Electron – Irán
Nominee – Dylan Verrechia – Pégame – Mexico

BEST ACTRESS
Nominee – Kristen Abate – Straighten Up & Fly Right – USA
Nominee – Sasa Cabalquinto – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Sasha Calle – In the Summers – USA
Nominee – Martina Cavazzana – Alma blu – Germany/Italy
Nominee – Natalia Cortés Rocha – The Cowboy – Colombia
Nominee – Diana Laura DI – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico
Nominee – Magdalena Máscianica – Mother – Poland

BEST ACTOR
Nominee – Miguel Lee – How’s Your Brother? – Mexico/USA
Nominee – Caleb Anthony Martinez – Trending – Mexico/USA
Nominee – Yi Peng – The Spider Web – China
Nominee – Alejandro Porter – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico
Nominee – Residente – In the Summers – USA
Nominee – Aleksander Szachniewicz – Mother – Poland
Nominee – Bruce Venida – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Vladimir Zamudio – Pégame – Mexico

BEST YOUNG TALENT
Nominee – Ruby Chi – Pégame – Mexico
Nominee – Lidia Ibarra – Sietefilos – Mexico
Nominee – Piotr Witkowski – Mother – Poland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Nominee – Lio Mehiel – In the Summers – USA
Nominee – Ymeiliza Tabora – Vox Humana – The Philippines

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Nominee – Aibar Saly – Brothers – Kazakhstan

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Nominee – Brothers – Kazakhstan
Nominee – The Cowboy – Colombia
Nominee – Electron – Rezak Babak, Sepas Rezaei, Shadi Ziyaei, Meisam Yousefi & Morteza Beigi – Iran
Nominee – Encuentro Americano – Mexico/USA
Nominee – Pégame – Gilberto Chi, Ruby Chi, Aidée González, Ana Paula Mujica, Vladimir Zamudio – Mexico
Nominee – Sunflower Shadows – Iran
Nominee – Vox Humana – Sasa Cabalquinto, Ymeiliza Tabora & Bruce Venida – The Philippines

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A NARRATIVE
Nominee – Federico Barbabosa – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico
Nominee – Joshua Echevaria – Daughter of the Sea – Puerto Rico
Nominee – Morteza Khanmohammad – Electron – Iran
Nominee – Alejandro Mejía AMC – In the Summers – USA
Nominee – Vincent Prochoroff – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Bailey Salwey – Encuentro Americano – Mexico/USA
Nominee – Sherkhan Tansykbayev – Brothers – Kazakhstan

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A DOCUMENTARY
Nominee – Iván Águila – Plataneros – Mexico
Nominee – Artemis Andriotis – Koukouváya – Greece
Nominee – Shai Ben-Dor – Remaining Native – USA
Nominee – Julio Llorente AMC & Leonardo García Castilla – Highway Nomads – Mexico
Nominee – Alejandro Mejía AMC – Sansón y yo – Mexico
Nominee – Gabriel Serra Arguello – The Invisible Contract – Mexico

BEST EDITING IN A NARRATIVE
Nominee – Kavoos Aghaei – Electron – Iran
Nominee – Brandon Bunner – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Armando Croda – Straighten Up & Fly Right – USA
Nominee – Tulegenov Darkhan – Brothers – Kazakhstan
Nominee – Adolfo Davila & Julian Santarriaga – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico
Nominee – J. Xavier Velasco – Cocodrilos – Mexico
Nominee – Dylan Verrechia – Pégame – Mexico

BEST EDITING IN A DOCUMENTARY
Nominee – Pedro García – Highway Nomads – Mexico
Nominee – Andrés Lira – Primero, Sueño – Mexico
Nominee – Saúl Méndez Santos – Plataneros – Mexico
Nominee – Liora Spilk & Ybran Asuda – The Invisible Contract – Mexico

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
Nominee – Abai Akbaev – Brothers – Kazakhstan
Nominee – Alejandro Castaños – The Invisible Contract – Mexico
Nominee – Arman Farhadi – Sunflower Shadows – Iran
Nominee – Arman Moosapoor – Electron – Iran
Nominee – Ernesto Romero – Sietefilos – Mexico
Nominee – Martin Thulin – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico

BEST SOUND DESIGN & MIXING
Nominee – Lena Esquenazi – The Invisible Contract – Mexico
Nominee – Henry Hawks – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Reza Heydari – Electron – Iran
Nominee – Omar Juárez Espino – Pégame – Mexico

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Nominee – Maxim Akbarov – Brothers – Kazakhstan
Nominee – Alemberg Ang & Hannah Schierbeek – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Cyrum Aytana Ramirez Zaldivar – Encuentro Americano – Mexico/USA
Nominee – Jorge Vujosevich – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico

BEST ART & COSTUME DESIGN
Nominee – Ramin Ghafoori – Electron – Iran
Nominee – Georgina Gutierrez & Marisa Llamas – Encuentro Americano – Mexico/USA
Nominee – Anika Ladero – Vox Humana – The Philippines
Nominee – Carlos Zamorano Sanchez – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico

BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP
Nominee – Mohsen Darsanu – Electron – Iran
Nominee – Ahahí Denti, Carmi Aglahe Hernandez Rios & Elizabeth Torres – Violentas Mariposas – Mexico

Kurrak Grand Jury Prize

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Nominee – Alma blu – Alice Palchetti – Germany/Italy
Nominee – The Cowboy – Emma Rozanski – Colombia
Nominee – In the Summers – Alessandra Lacorazza – USA
Nominee – Violentas Mariposas – Adolfo Davila – Mexico

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Nominee – The Front of the Invisibles – Sara Reginella – Italy/Ukraine
Nominee – Koukouváya – Artemis Andriotis – Greece
Nominee – Remaining Native – Page Bethmann – USA
Nominee – Stories We Have Earned – Cody Lefthand – Canada

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Nominee – Aleteos – Daniel Ramírez – Mexico
Nominee – Domingo Familiar – Gerardo Del Razo – Mexico
Nominee – Encuentro Americano – ET Vazquez – Mexico/USA
Nominee – Ofrenda – Diego Sandez – Mexico
Nominee – The Spider Web – San Nanshan Zheng – China
Nominee – Trending – Felix Martiz – Mexico/USA

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Nominee – Primero, Sueño – Andrés Lira – Mexico
Nominee – Tijuana designer unafraid to break the rules of fashion – Alejandro Tamayo – Mexico
Nominee – What We Carried – Carolina Pereira – Palestine

BEST ANIMATION
Nominee – La Creación del mundo – Antonio Coello – Mexico
Nominee – A Guerra Finita – Simone Massi – Italy