4º Kaaffilm International Short Film Festival
KAAFFILM SHORT FILM AWARDS
WINNER | 2025
HUMAN RIGHTS
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| Zodiac | Belgium | Hans Buyse |
INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| Wind Day | Netherlands | Roman Hageman |
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| Dried Joy: A Taste of Resilience | Ukraine | Julia Provorchenko |
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| The Strange Case Of The Human Cannonball | Ecuador | Roberto Valencia |
CHILDREN RIGHTS
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| The Sea | Argentina | Chabela Lorenzo |
IRANIAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| Choliboli | Iran | Mana Pakseresht |
JURY MENTION | 2025
IRANIAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| Empty Your Pockets | United Kingdom, Canada | Tara Aghdashloo |
OFFICIAL SELECTION | 2025
HUMAN RIGHTS
TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
Proceed to Rescue | Switzerland | Enrico Bachmann |
Never Come Fetch Me | South Africa | Jessie Ayles |
Architecture of Hope – for the ruins of the present. | Germany | Jan Lewandowski |
Zodiac | Belgium | Hans Buyse |
Mom, Marry Me | China | Qi Qiu |
Boarding School | Malaysia | Zhe Ying Loh |
Cala, cala son | Spain | Lucía Venero |
INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE
TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
INHALE | Georgia | Melana Sokhadze |
And That’s for This Christmas | Bulgaria | Peter Vulchev |
Wind Day | Netherlands | Roman Hageman |
Try Your Luck | Brazil | Guenia Lemos |
The Tie | Turkey | Çamran Azizoğlu |
Aceto | Italy | Nike Pirrone |
Dominus Videt | Spain | Jose Vega |
Incompatible | Spain | Judit Vilarrasa |
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| Fleurs de peau | France | Lisa Chabbert, Pauline Lebellenger |
| Dried Joy: A Taste of Resilience | Ukraine | Julia Provorchenko |
| HAPPIN | Russia | Inna Kudryavtseva |
| The Winding Path to Knowledge | Kyrgyzstan | Asel Umaralieva |
| The Land of Wanting More | Greece | Marianna Rantou |
| Time Dances Where the Earth Sings | Brazil | Ney Pankararu |
| STIGMA | Turkey | Rümeysa İnan, Merve Dülger |
| LORRAINE | Canada | Allison Basha, David Gosine |
| Between Faith and Tradition: The Shrine of Lord Ogum | Brazil | Claudia Marreiros |
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION
| TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
| The Strange Case Of The Human Cannonball | Ecuador | Roberto Valencia |
| Silent Cinema | North Macedonia | Krste Gospodinovski |
| Red Snow | Israel | Jonathan Dumosch |
| Where To | Egypt | Omar Hossam Eldin |
| Courage | France | Margot Jacquet, Nathan Baudry, Marion Choudin, Jeanne Desplanques, Lise Delcroix, Salomé Cognon |
| Tapir Memories | Colombia | Pedro Nel Cabrera Vanegas |
| Ursa Minor | United States | Sophie Schmid |
| Deadline | Israel | Idan Gilboa |
CHILDREN RIGHTS
TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
Bittersweet stars | Russia | Katrina Romanova |
The Sea | Argentina | Chabela Lorenzo |
The Apple Picker’s Son | United States | Yang Zimik |
Heavy Weight | Korea | Sea-Hoon Jeon |
Street of Hope | Serbia | Anđela Dabić, Tamara Radojković |
Place under the sun | Moldova | Vlad Bolgarin |
The Dressmaker | United States | Adriano Falconi |
PENCIL | Turkey | Nephan Baykal |
Cats | Serbia, Switzerland | Danilo Stanimirović |
Tadpoles | Spain | Isabel Rosó Monche |
IRANIAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS
TITLE | COUNTRY | DIRECTOR |
The Living | Iran | Sevda Ghazanfarian |
Choliboli | Iran | Mana Pakseresht |
Tie your hair | Iran | Sheyda Makaremi |
Empty Your Pockets | United Kingdom | Tara Aghdashloo |
The Cold Embrace | Turkey, Iran | Naji Salimi |
Fish Dance | Iran | Narges Elahi |
Myanmar | Iran | Hananeh Daliri |
Forty | Iran | Sogol Izadifard |
FearISH | Iran | Soheila Madadi |
