Un Certain Regard Winners List 2025 © Manon Boyer / FDC

Celebrating a cinema of discoveries, the 2025 selection has included 20 feature films – 9 of which are first features also competing for the Caméra d’or. This year, the opening film was Erige Sehiri‘s Promised Sky. 

Chaired by British director, screenwriter and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, the Jury included French-Swiss director and screenwriter Louise Courvoisier, Croatian director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam Vanja Kaludjercic, Italian director, producer and screenwriter Roberto Minervini and Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.

Un Certain Regard Prize

LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO (THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO)

Diego Céspedes

1st film

Jury Prize

UN POETA

Simón Mesa Soto

Best Directing

ARAB & TARZAN NASSER

for Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Best Actor

FRANK DILLANE

in Urchin directed by Harris Dickinson

Best Actress

CLEO DIÁRA

in O Riso e a Faca (I Only Rest in the Storm) directed by Pedro Pinho

Best Screenplay

PILLION

Harry Lighton

1st film



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