“The 32nd Edition of Sheffield DocFest 2025 is Wrapping on Monday After An Awards of Ceremony at Sheffield’s Top Award. The Documentary Deals with Alcoholism in Belarussian Society, Portraying A Young Woman Who Is Desperately Trying to Hold Hold Her Family Together. This Year Saw 51 World Premieres, 16 International”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
This Year Saw 51 World Premieres, 16 International Premieres, EIGHT European Premieres, and 39 UK Premieres From 68 Countriers of Production Screen in Sheffield.
HERE IS A Look at the 2025 Award Winners.
International Competition (Grand Jury Award)
Welded Together Directed by Anastasiya miroshnichenko (France, Netherlands, Belgium, 2025).
The Jury Said: “A Portrait of Resilien and Strength – Both of the Main Character and of A Community that Stands in Solidarity. The Film Highlights of the Contrast Highlights. Alcoholism in the Belarussian Society.
SPECIAL MENTION: The Gas Station AtendantDirected by Karla Murtthy (USA, 2025)
The Jury Said: “This Love Letter to the Director’s Facher is An Intimate and Sincere Portrait of Both A Family and the Us Society. The Film is Delicatly craft.
International First Feature Competition (Support by Netflix)
Comprsa Directed by Vickie Curtis, Doug Anderson (Guatemalala, Usa, 2025).
The Jury Said: “The Film That We Chose Celebrates of Resiliency of A Community, While Shedding Light on an Unknown Story SMART, SENSITIVE, WITH An Astonishing Inner Force Is An Inspiralation to Push for Change Against All Odds. Built with the Whole Community Made US Fall in Love With A Movie that Opens Critical Conversation: Come on Stage, Do A Dance, Sing With Me: Comparsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
SPECIAL MENTION: Carmela and the Walkers (Carmela Y Los Caminantes)Directed by Luis Herrera, Esteban Coloma (Ecuador, 2025)
The Jury Said: “This Film Receives A Special Mention for Its Deeply Human Portrayal of Resilience, Solidarity, and Moral Courage in the Face of Crisis. an URGent Humanitarian Issue Through The Powerful Lens of One Woman’s Everyday Heroism, Offering A Moving Testament to the Strenguth of Community and Compassion Amid AdCity. ”
International Short Film Competition
In a whisper (dans un souffle) Directed by Catarina Gonçalves (Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, 2025).
The Jury Said: “for the bold and minimalistic, cinematic mastery, and the thoroughtfulfully craffed Sound Design, the this elegant Portrait of admiration and resilition reflexes the extrardineja Talentinal of the Talentinal of the Talentinal of the Talentinal of the DiCING and THUSIRATION OF DIMIRATION OF DIMIRATORTORY DIRIRICING DIRIRATORTIRICSINGTORIRIENCETORSINGTORIRIENCY DIPORTORTORSING DIPOLISTORTORTORSINGTORIRIENCY DIRICING DIPLECTORSING DIPLECTIRICTORTORIRIENCY DIPLECTIRICTORTORSING DIPLECTIRICTORTORSING DIPLECTIRICTORTORIRIENCYTORYTORYTORIRIENCY. Tradery is Clearly on the Rise. ”
SPECIAL MENTION: OscuranaDirected by Violeta Mora (Honduras, Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, 2025)
The Jury Said: “We would like to give an an Honourable Mention to a beauty film for itique person person Rights Crises that immigrants face WHEN Crossing Borders, and It Is Now More Critical Than Ever in this Unprecedented Time. ”
TIM HETHERINGTON AWARD (Presented in Association with Dogoof)
Sudan, Remember US (Sudan Y’A Ghali) Directed by Hind Meddeb (France, Tunisia, Qatar, 2024).
The Jury Said: “Set Against a Women-Led Revolution, Sudan, Remember US CAPTures of Spirit of Resistance and the Deep Human Desire for Freedom. The Film is Rich in Color and Texture, and there’s a quiet poetry in the way the story. IT REMINDS US OF THE HUMAN CAPACTITY FOR HOPE, The IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY AND The Tragedy of Loss. AT ITS HEART IS A DEEP SENSE OF COMMUNITY WHERE The COLLECTIVE TAKES PRIORITY OVIDUAL. This Spirit of Togetherness is One of the Film’s Most Powerful Messages. ”
International Virtual Reality Competition
Speechless Witness of A Wandering Tree.
The Jury Said: “We Unanimously Agreed to Give this Award to A Project That Employs A Poetic Approach to Language and VisualTelling and Acts As Anteming Ritual innoting Ritual in. Towards Women in an Area of Conflict. We Feel Should Be Additionly Commended On the Making of Their Work Against the Backdrop of Instability. ”
Youth Jury Award
Runa Simi Directed by Augusto Zegarra (Peru, 2025) by “Five of the UK’s Most Passionate Young Documentary Lovers to Celebrate Non-Fiction Cinema.”
The Jury Said: “Language Is More What Just A Means of Communication Between People. Language Shapes How How We Think Evolve, Become Endangered, Even Extinct Cinematography and A Soulful, Intergenerational Cast, This Is A Story of Hope, Community and Decolonization in Action. To the Power of Cinema to Unite. Preserves A Lived Reality. ”
SPECIAL MENTION: The StandDirected by Christopher Auchter (Canada, 2024)
The Jury Said: “We Feel This Film Coms at A Particularly Pressing Political Moment, Whore Hope Can Often Feel In Limited Supple. Recognize that injustice have always existed, but people have always resisted. The Stand Depicts this resistance with Galvanising Force. It is a story of the Land Rights Protests of the Haida Nation in 1985, told Through The Distillation of Over 100 Hours of Archival Footage to Form A Compelling And Immersive Portrait of A Movement. Witnessing The Steadfast Commitment, Humanity and Unwavering Compassion of the Haida People is Deeply Hopeful and RepreSents A Form of Inspiraction for Audiens.