Nominated films 2025

LEA AND THE FLAMINGO

Antonio De Palo

Italy

In Italy, where the conservative government seeks to imprison all transgender individuals as a threat to traditional family values, Lea (45), a transgender woman held in isolation in a remote mountain prison, falls into a deep depression. As imaginary scenarios shape in her mind, the country erupts into social conflict and Lea will have the opportunity, mixing reality and imagination, to find a role that restores her will to live and fight for her freedom, and for the freedom of all transgender people.

BURNING SUN

Nutsa Tsikaridze

Georgia

After meeting with death for the first time, the well-known environment for four 10-year-old kids becomes ominous

SLAUGHTER OF GOATS

Edson Jair Caballero Trujillo

Mexico

Documentary of the traditional goat slaughter, which has been carried out in southern Mexico by Spanish chiefs since the 17th century, massacring the goats with knives, practice that was taken up by the Mixtec people to feed the armed independence movement of those times. An experimental film docufiction, where the suspense and the abundant music, it is conceived on a battlefield, between the fight of man and beast for survival.

THE BLUE HOUR

James Caratini

Réunion (France)

Aline Escalon, artist photographer, takes us into her underwater world in freediving to meet the blue and her model Aurelie.

UNFENCED

Wiktoria A. Ciesielska

Poland

Amidst harsh winter conditions, Patagonia Park Argentina’s rewilding team works to dismantle deadly fences – enabling guanacos to continue their ancestral migrations unimpeded. This effort is part of their remarkable mission to restore the Patagonian steppe.

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Cinema Art Foundation
Puławska 61 / 02-595 Warsaw / PL

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