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

2025 Official Selection

NARRATIVE FEATURES
“Alma blu” de Alice Palchetti, Alemania/Italia
“Brothers” de Darkhan Tulegenov, Kazakhstan
“Cocodrilos” de J. Xavier Velasco, México
“The Cowboy” de Emma Rozanski, Colombia
“In the Summers” de Alessandra Lacorazza, USA
“Pégame” de Dylan Verrechia, México
“Sietefilos” de Antonio Coello, México
“The Spider Web” de San Nanshan Zheng, China
“Straighten Up and Fly Right” de Kristen Abate, USA
“Violent Butterflies” de Adolfo Davila, México

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
“The Choice” de Mehrana Raadfar, Irán
“The Closures” de Lucila Arellano, Bélgica/Chile/España/Francia
”The Front of the Invisibles” de Sara Reginella, Italia/Ucrania
“Highway Nomads” de Alberto Arnaut Estrada y José María Castro Ibarra, México
“The Invisible Contract” de Luciana Kaplan, México
“Koukouváya” de Artemis Andriotis, Grecia
“Pirinha” de Natasha Craveiro, Cape Verde
“Remaining Native” de Paige Bethmann, USA
“Sansón y yo” de Rodrigo Reyes, México
“Stories We Have Earned: The Stoney Nakoda Film Project” de Cody Lefthand, USA

NARRATIVE SHORTS
“Aleteos” de Daniel Ramírez, México
“Culinary Coexistence” de Mitchell Harris, USA
“Daughter of the Sea” de Alexis Garcia, Puerto Rico
“Domingo Familiar” de Gerardo Del Razo, México
“Electron” de Mehran Ranjbar, Irán
“Encuentro Americano” de E.T. Vazquez, México
“How's Your Brother?” de Eric Armando Ibarra, México
“Matka” de Sebastian Kwidziński, Polonia
“Ofrenda” de Diego Sandez, México
“Sunflower Shadows” de Roya Zanbagh, Irán
“Trending” de Felix Martiz, USA
“Vox Humana” de Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Las Filipinas

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
“Desde San José la Zorra“ de Nicolas Defossé, México
“Fuck Fame - Underground Feminist Hip-Hop: Batallones Femeninos México” de Saray Argumedo, México
“Haagua“ de Marc Antony Chavez & Octavio Aceves Coutiño, México
“Kanenon:we - Original Seeds de Katsitsionni” de D Fox, USA
“Plataneros” de Juan José Garrafa, México
“Poppy Crash” de Andalusia K. Soloff, México
“Primero, Sueño” de Andrés Lira, USA
“Tijuana designer unafraid to break the rules of fashion” de Alejandro Tamayo, México
“#WAY_Aurelio” de Alan Rexroth, México
“What We Carried” de Carolina Pereira, Palestina

ANIMATION
“Atrocity Exhibition” de Jesus Llamas, México
“Chardak” de Mileta Postic & Predrag Joldic, Serbia
“Counting Calories” de Renee Shi, USA
“The Creation of the World” de Antonio Coello, México
“Fábula del sapo y el alacrán” de Margot Pettersen, México
“A Guerra Finita” de Simone Massi, Italia
“Infiniteness of Nostalgia!” de Alejandro Najera, México
“Into the Reds Tale” de Alisdair Zhang, USA
“Katora” de Harsh Singh Rawat, Sanket Pramod Chothe, Shreshtha Rawal, India
“Raakshas” de Tansheet Jatin Bhatt, India
“Undertow” de Justin Taylor, USA

MUSIC VIDEOS
“Amanda Kurt – Mamaicha” de Noah Frech, Alemania
“Keznamdi – Pressure” de Nathanael Amadi, Ghana
“La Lloroncita – Where are our children?” de María Louisa De La Rosa, México/USA
“Mugre Sur – Si no es” de YAR Leo Bastidas, Ecuador
“The Sunset of Green Snails” de Mohammad Hasani, Irán
“Dalits – Untouchable” de Samanya Gandavarapu, India

AI
“August 32nd” de Yunbin An, Corea
“The Good, The Bad and The Bloodthirsty: The Four Horseman” de John Kalning, USA
“Mothers of the Leeches Born of Leeches” de Ali Sabokbar, Irán