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Fiume o morte! and Raptures take IFFR 2025’s top awards  

The winners of the top IFFR 2025 prizes are here! Alongside the Tiger Award and Big Screen Award, the Tiger Special Jury, FIPRESCI, NETPAC, and Youth Jury awards were announced during the ceremony tonight in 'de Doelen'.

The festival doesn't end here though – there's still plenty to catch over the closing weekend, including Mouly Surya's HBF-backed closing film This City Is a Battlefield. Read more below.

Tiger Competition winner
Fiume o morte! by Igor Bezinović (Croatia, Italy, Slovenia)
The jury said: "At times of the rise of ultra-nationalism within a contemporary European context, the film playfully grapples with the past not as a closed chapter, but as a living reality."

Big Screen Competition winner
Raptures by Jon Blåhed (Sweden, Finland)
The jury said: "A film that asks painful questions that were relevant almost a century ago and, as it turns out, are even more relevant today."

Tiger Special Jury Award winners
L’arbre de l’authenticité by Sammy Baloji (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
The jury said: "A beautiful essay film with a methodical, playful and meditative approach to both science and history."

Im Haus meiner Eltern by Tim Ellrich ()
The jury said: "For a seemingly simple portrayal of family relations and ageing, it is deeply honest, emotionally fraught, and sensitively framed."

FIPRESCI Award winner
Fiume o morte! by Igor Bezinović (Croatia, Italy, Slovenia)
The jury said: "Whilst full of dry, self-reflexive humour, the film manages to use its creative exploration of history to provide in-depth commentary on worrying contemporary political developments, specifically the rise of the global far-right."

NETPAC Award winner
Bad Girl by Varsha Bharath (India)
The jury said: "The film that we have chosen unfolds a coming-of-age story in a provocative way, it is cinematic and playful, with unexpected narrative solutions."

Youth Jury Award winner
The Visual Feminist Manifesto by Farida Baqi (Syria, Lebanon, , Sweden, Netherlands)
The jury said: "From the first instance, the film proves itself to be one of a kind: unravelling its story in the format of a poem, it gracefully takes its viewer along."

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