ISFMF 2025 – 13ª edición – Crystal Pine Awards – Nominados

BEST PICTURE

• BLUE – THE LIFE AND ART OF GEORGE RODRIGUE – Sean O’Malley, Jim Dotson | USA
• CHAMPIONS OF THE GOLDEN VALLEY – Ben Sturgulewski, Katie Stjernholm | USA
• CLOSED GATES – Naresh Kumar Rajendran | India
• DECONSTRUCTING BEIJING – Pablo Tréhin-Marçot | France
• ERASERHEADS: COMBO ON THE RUN – Maria Diane Canlas Ventura | Philippines
• FORCED RENEWABLES – Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada | Spain
• HÖLDERLIN’S ECHO – Hannes Rall, Susanne Marschall | Germany
• ICE BREATH – Leonard Alecu | Romania
• KENSUKE’S KINGDOM – Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry, Stuart Hancock | UK
• LENA AND VLADIMIR – Igor Aleksov | North Macedonia
• LITTLE PIECE OF SUGAR – Clément Armand | France
• OXYGEN STATION – Ivan Tymchenko | Ukraine
• PRELUDE ON THE SEA – Kristin Maria Hurst, Jack Augustin Dauner | Austria
• RHYTM OF DAMMAM – Jayan Cherian | India
• THE ARCHITECTS OF HOPE – Paul Thomas | Ukraine
• THE COST OF A DREAM – Adrian Pucheu | Dominican Republic
• THE DEVIL AND THE DAYLONG BROTHERS – Brandon McCormick | USA
• THE SHERICKS – Nurdulla Makhambetzhanovich Balmanov | Kazakhstan
• THE SLUGGARD CLAN – Rastislav Boroš | Slovakia
• THE SMOKE MASTER – Andre Sigwalt, Augusto Soares | Brazil
• THE WAY, MY WAY – Bill Bennet | Australia
• TOGETHER TO 35 – Srujan Yarabolu, Nanda Kishore Emani | India
• TREMOLO – Mohammad Abedi | Iran
• UNDER THE VOLCANO – Damian Kocur | Poland
• VENA – Chiara Fleischhacker | Germany
• VIRTUOSO – Alexandro Correa | USA
• WHAT IS LOVE? – Martina Herzog, Reinhard J. Steiner | Switzerland
• WHERE THERE IS LOVE, THERE IS NO DARKNESS – Stevan Mraovitch | France

 

BEST SHORT

• A FULL BODY ACT – Mariana Fagundes | Brazil
• ALARBA – Joshua Kantara | Germany
• AN AUTUMN DUSK’S DREAM – Shaoxiong Song | ?
• AN OLD FRIEND – Nuk Suwanchote | USA
• BREAKING – Yulia Travnikova | Russia
• CHOICE – Marko Crnogorski | North Macedonia
• CINETECA (FILM – Dimitri Montanari | Italy
• COME AND FIND ME – Carmine Carpenito |
• CREATIVITY ON TRIAL: THE MUSIC COPYRIGHT DILEMMA – Alexa Secrest, Dugan Bridges | USA
• DEATH & OTHER FEARS – Marie-Louise Elia | Lebanon
• DETLEV – Ferdinand Ehrhardt | Germany
• DO SOMETHING USEFUL! – Pavel Motorin | Finland
• EDRIS – Behrad Ezzati | Iran
• EXIMO – Mayed Al Qasimi | UK
• FOR YOUR MEMORY – Sylvia Robyn Gionti | Greece
• FRAYED – Ben Silver, Nadine Iskandar | UK
• GONG – THE SPACE WITHIN – Damien Lee, Taehyeon Kim | South Korea
• GOOD NIGHT – Stefano Meomartino | Italy
• GUM – Belal Albader | Saudi Arabia
• HULDREDANS – Eskil Hoel Abrahamsen | Norway
• ILLOGICAL – Luka Škarica | Croatia
• IN TWILIGHT – Kirsti Lovas | Norway
• JUST SAMI – Max Fernandez | Finland
• KILL – Ruth Sewell | UK
• K’UCHU: A CHILDHOOD PLACE – Alessio Del Pozo Temoche | Peru
• MOTHERLAND – Bianca Zylla | Germany
• PLASTIC SURGERY – Guy Trevellyan | UK
• MAITIGHAR – Marc Gurung, Lucas Tothe | Nepal
• MASQUERADE – Ivan Kudriashov | Russia
• NEMSHI? – Assaf Al Rousan | Jordan
• NOBODY – Msallam Hdaib | Jordan, Palestine
• ONE SECOND – Alex Hoxie, Sahil Raghavan | USA
• PIT – Egor Koreshkov | Russia
• POLE DANCE AS A DANCE FORM – Donald Ansah-Addo | UK
• POLICED MIND – Laury Hooghuis | Netherlands
• RAY THE RUG – Mohammad Ali Shakeri | Thailand
• REMAINS OF COLOR – Sharon Zhou | USA
• RETRO – Rami Jarboul | Tunisia
• REUNION – Mark G. Lakatos | Hungary
• REVIVED – Uriya Hertz | Israel
• SOMEDAY AGAIN – Kajetan Łukasz Pochylski | Poland
• SOUNDS LIKE A FAIRYTALE – Eva Kübar | Estonia
• STAY – Kiel Robinson | UK
• SURVIVAL – Philippe SFEZ | France
• THE ART OF SOUND – Andrew Lee | USA
• THE BUTTERFLY MAN – Sem Jones | Netherlands
• THE FOOD THAT FUELS – Ed Porter | USA
• THE GIRL IN THE ELEVATOR – Gang Zhao | China
• THE LAST GUNFIGHT… YET! – Pablo Tréhin-Marçot | France
• THE LEAP BENEATH – Roman Willi | Switzerland
• THE MAN BY THE SEA – Ben Li | USA
• THE MYSTERIES OF HECATE AND THE NIGHT: AN EXAMINATION OF SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH – Collin Thomas | USA
• THE REACH – Luca Caserta | Italy
• THE TUNES – Pablo Guarise | Belgium
• THE VOICENOTE – Kelechi Okafor, Kandy Rohmann | UK
• THEY – Egor Weisberg | Germany
• TSURU – Pedro Anias | Brazil
• UNDER THE NORTHERN SKIES – Timo Sakari Puustinen | Finland
• WHISPERS OF FREEDOM – Brandon Ashplant | Guernsey
• WHO IS GOD? – Oscar Adan Lopez Parres | Mexico
• WITH STRINGS AND ACCORDION – Luis Sánchez | Mexico
• WRONG ADDRESS – John Simmons, Abdoulay Ndiay | USA
• YOUR LAST BEST: A MEMPHIS ROX STORY – Glen Janssens | USA

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, FEATURE

• 37: THE SHADOW AND THE PREY – Andrea Boccadoro | France
• ALIMAÑAS – Isabel Royán | Spain
• DISCIPLE OF THE MOUNTAIN – Chia Heng Lin Hsu | Taiwan
• HEADS UP – Florian Simon Krefting | Germany
• I HEAR AMERICA SINGING – Daron Hagen | USA
• ICE BREATH – Leonard Alecu | Romania
• JUSTICE DEVIL – Harva Raj | Singapore
• KENSUKE’S KINGDOM – Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry, Stuart Hancock | UK
• MONGRELS – Hao-Ting Shih, Tae-Young Yu | Canada
• PLUESS – Raphael Sommer | Switzerland
• THE MAN WITHOUT A LIFELINE (LIFELINELESS MAN) – Elias Tadeus | Moldova
• SHAMBHALA STORY – Deon Lee | USA
• TENET OF LOYALTY – Le-Ho Wong, Yue Zhang | China
• THE BUBBLE – Mariano Barrella | Argentina
• THE DEVIL AND THE DAYLONG BROTHERS – Brandon McCormick | USA
• THE OUTRUN – John Gürtler, Jan Miserre | UK, Germany
• THE SLUGGARD CLAN – Rastislav Boroš | Slovakia
• THE SMOKE MASTER – Andre Sigwalt, Augusto Soares | Brazil
• TOGETHER TO 35 – Srujan Yarabolu, Nanda Kishore Emani | India
• TORNANDO A EST – Davide Caprelli | Italy
• TOTEM – Amaury Laurent Bernier | Germany
• TREASURE TRACKERS – Robin Hoffmann | Germany, USA
• VENA – Chiara Fleischhacker | Germany
• WARLORD – Stuart Brennan | UK
• WITCHES OF EVERLAND – Daniel Zerbst | Germany

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, TV SERIES OR LIMITED SERIES

• KAPI – Mustafa Yazicioglu | Turkey
• SEVERANCE – Theodore Shapiro | USA
• THE WHITE LOTUS – Cristobal Tapia de Veer | USA
• THE LAST OF US – Gustavo Santaolalla | USA
• THE THIRD SISTER – Nicolas Garcia | France

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, DOCUMENTARY

• AFRICA: A KUNG FU STORY – Eric Mazimpaka | Tanzania
• BABEL TO ABSTRACTION – Rob Lemkin, Irina Johnstone | UK
• BLUE – THE LIFE AND ART OF GEORGE RODRIGUE – Sean O’Malley, Jim Dotson | USA
• BLUE NOTES & HIGHER GROUND – Erik de Bruyn | Netherlands
• CANADIAN ADOBO – Katya Semyonova | Canada
• CHANTING OF THE DUNES – Amina Garcevic Tagaldin, Ali Sehir, Mokhless Al-Hariri | USA
• CHŒURS ATLANTIQUES | TALES FROM THE ATLANTIC BEYOND – Safoi Babana-Hampton | France, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Senegal, USA
• EVERYTHING YOU SAY ABOUT ME – Spyros Roumeliotis | Greece
• FRIDA – Victor Hernandez Stumpfhauser | USA
• FROM TALE TO TRUTH – Koray Demir | Turkey
• GIRLS DON’T CRY – Lea-Marie Sittler| Germany
• GOOD MEN – Monica Valdés, Bobby Roth | USA
• HYDROGEN – REVOLUTION OR ILLUSION? – Gary Marlowe| Germany
• INTERPRETING ERIK – Donald D’Haene, Tyrone Traher | Canada
• L’OMBRA DEL GIGANTE – Alberto Bellavia | Italy
• LUX ET UMBRA – Reiko Nomura | Japan
• MARLON WILLIAMS: TWO WORLDS – Ursula Grace Williams, Alexander Behse | New Zealand
• MESSENGERS – Jana Irmert | Canada
• ORLANDO, THE LIFE OF A COMPOSER IN THE RENAISSANCE – Joachim Thôme | Belgium
• RAIN – Mark Limburg | Netherlands
• SOLDIERS OF SONG – Gianni Russo, Ryan Smith | Ukraine
• SPACE: THE NEW FRONTIER – Alan Williams | USA
• THE GOLD OF THE SUN – Alfredo Sirica | Netherlands
• THE GREAT WARNING – Juan Carlos Salas Tamez | Mexico
• WHAT’S NEXT – Michele Josia | USA
• ZERO LIMITS – Patryk Wezowski | USA

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, SHORT

• A DANCE TO THE DEATH – Marcin Mazurek | UK
• A SIN DE FELLA STORY – Joe Galuszka | UK
• A STRANGE TALE FROM BUDAPEST – Terri Potoczna | Hungary
• A STRANGER IN THE WORLD – Sturla Pilskog | Norway
• ADRENALINE – Vedd Vijay Rawtaani | India
• AER – Josue Vergara Blanco | Spain
• ALL HAIL THE DUCK KING – Tommy Howlett | UK
• ALMOST ZERO – Saam Gabbay | USA
• BENDER DEFENDERS – Ira Putilova | UK
• BEYOND THE HORIZON – Stergios Mitas | Greece
• BEYOND THE PLAQUES – Sofia Roubati | UK
• BLACKWATER – Alan WIlliams | USA
• BREAKING OUT – David Glass | USA
• CAMCORDER – Eliyahu Harkham | Italy
• DEAR MR WILLIAMS – Stefania Aronica | UK
• DIVE INTO THE BLUE – Siy Chen | USA
• DOUBLE – Piotr Skowroński | Poland
• DREIGIAU CYMREIG PATAGONIA (THE WELSH DRAGONS OF PATAGONIA) – Niamh Wynne | UK
• FALLING FOR YOU – William Gruber | Sweden
• FILM LIBRARY – Damiano Rota | Italy
• FLÜGGE – Lukas Geppert | Germany
• GREY SKIES – Unni Rav | USA
• HEART OF STONE – Tom Van Avermaet | Belgium, Croatia
• IMPERIA – Marcel Barsotti | Germany
• IN THE DOGHOUSE – Sean Tinnion | Australia
• KUMARAN – Rajesh KR Radhakrishnan | India
• LIFE PATH – Ioulia Lymperopoulou | Greece
• LOST IN HARMONY – Sanjeev Venkataramanan | India
• MEOW – Michal Vojtech, Ariel de la Garza Davidoff | UK
• MO’S STRANGE PREDICAMENT – Greg Weis | USA
• MY DAD IS DEAD – Alva van Niekerk | Sweden
• NOISELESS – Jura Bakx | Netherlands
• OVER THE MOON – Jordan Paul Rousseau | ?
• PIG – Isabel Royán | Spain
• PLASTIC SURGERY – Michael Llewelyn Barker | UK
• PRAYER OF THE SEA – Martin Gerigk | Germany
• PURIM – Dana Mor Katz | Israel
• RING FOR ME IN THE MIST – Bartol Stopic | Croatia
• ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS – Marcin Mazurek | UK
• RODRIGO BRANQUIAS – Sebastian Zuleta | Colombia
• RUPS – Jurrian Steman | Netherlands
• SANS DIEU – Francesco Marzola – Italy
• SATSUKI – Deon Lee | USA
• SCOTT – Theo Elwell, George Sear | USA
• SHARDS OF FORTUNE – Simon Latzer, Annelie Straub | Austria
• STAY ALIVE – Cécilia Humez | France
• SUNSET ON PLUTO – Daniel Lewis Martin | UK
• TEA TRAVEL – Julien Jean-Zayatz | France, USA
• THAW – Jens Blankenburg | Germany
• THE CADENZA – Andrew Ragan | USA
• THE GIRL FROM FEDAMORE – Matthew Rocket | Ireland
• THE GOLDEN WOK – Dai Wei | USA
• THE LONELY MUSHROOM – Sasha Reid | UK
• THEMIS IS TIRED – Ilya Demutsky | France
• TWELVE – Arian Nowbahari | Norway
• VILES – Dave Alcaide | Spain
• VITA NOVA – Dmytro Zavora | Ukraine
• WHAT YESTERDAY WILL BRING – Olivier Klein | France
• WHEN UNFETTERED – Michele Josia | Italy
• WIND WALKER – Daniel Zhang | USA

 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

• 4TH OF JULY – Cedric Hill | USA
• AND THEN THERE WAS SILENCE – Dante Rustav | Uzbekistan
• BABY – Nora Rosenthal | Canada
• BEFORE THE DAWN – Alexander Denysenko | Ukraine, Poland
• DEL – Mehran Matin | USA
• DOBRINA – Hannes Rall | Germany
• FEAR NOT FEAR ITSELF – Dawn Westlake | USA
• GOUROE – Chloé Larrère | Belgium
• HERE FOR YOU – Samuel Leo Götz Benardo, Gabrielle Gorman | Germany, USA
• MOUNTAIN EYES – BOUND – Marina Uzelac | Serbia
• MOUNTAIN EYES – INCARNATION – Ana Krstajić | Serbia
• NAND – SOS – Aleksandr Irinarkhov | Germany, Russia
• NEON MOON – E’an Verdugo, Francis Juarez | USA
• NOT BAD – Zoe Peng | China
• OJALÁ – Paco Álvarez | Mexico
• ON THE RUN – Theo Zgraggen, Chara Tan | Canada
• RAILROAD TRACKS – Terry Blade | USA
• REDEMPTION – Ciril Tscheligi | Germany
• SEAL LULLABY – Xin Li | China
• UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE – Ilya Noyabrev | Ukraine
• WHITE BIRDS WORSHIP THE PHOENIX – Dian Wang | China
• YZERFONTEIN – Daniel Mpilo Richards, Tankiso Mamabolo | South Africa

 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• 4TH OF JULY – Cedric Hill | USA
• BLACKOUT – Iva Gašparević, Bartul Mušura | Croatia
• I KNOW CATHERINE, THE LOG LADY – Richard Green | USA
• INTERPRETING ERIK – Donald D’Haene, Tyrone Traher | Canada
• METRONOME – Adarsh Gupta | India
• STRANGER IN PARADISE – Gabriela Fernanda Orozco | France
• SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE – Logan Findlay | UK
• THE END OF LOVE – Alex Phuc Tran | Vietnam
• THE OPENER – Jeffrey Toye | USA
• THE TRESHOLD – Walter Rastelli | Italy
• THIS IS OUR TIME – Debra Gussin | USA
• UNDER THE NORTHERN SKIES – Timo Sakari Puustinen | Finland
• WINGS OF GOLD – Sanjeev Venkataramanan, Navaneeth Krishnan | India

 

BEST TRAILER MUSIC

• BLUELINE – Kankawee Nilthajan | Thailand
• FALLOUT – The Ink Spots | USA
• THE LAST WOMAN – Quirin Hildebrandt | Germany
• THE SUBSTANCE – Raffertie | UK

 

SPECIAL CRYSTAL PINE AWARDS

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• ALIEN ROMULUS – Benjamin Wallfisch
• BETTER MAN – Batu Sener
• CHALLENGERS – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• CONCLAVE – Volker Bertelmann
• DUNE, PART TWO – Hans Zimmer
• MEGALOPOLIS – Osvaldo Golijov
• THE BRUTALIST – Daniel Blumberg
• THE SUBSTANCE – Raffertoe
• THE WILD ROBOT – Kris Bowers
• WICKED – John Powell, Stephen Schwartz

 

BEST SOUND MIXING

• BETTER MAN – Andy Nelson, Dejan Ceko, Tom Marks, Greg P. Russell
• DUNE, PART TWO – Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett, Gareth John
• FLOW – Philippe Charbonnel
• THE ORDER – Michael Playfair, Andy Neil, James Ashton
• WICKED – John Marquis, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson
• THE WAY, MY WAY – Wayne Pashley

 

BEST SOUND EDITING

• BETTER MAN – Will Files, Warren Hendricks, Sean McCormack
• CHALLENGERS – Craig Berkey, Paul Carter
• DUNE, PART TWO – Richard King
• FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA – James Ashton, Robert Mackenzie
• THE WILD ROBOT – Randy Thom, Brian Chumney