2025 New York CineFest Nominees
Best Dance
Spellbound
Urban Talent
Awoken
Hong Kong Ballet: Tutu Academy
Fitted Skin
Best Animation
Into the Reds Tale
Pick of the Latter
He Slipped
Flocky
Best Series
Forked
Roomies
Makeshift Society
Certifiable Series
Best Documentary
The Language of Light: Ashley Gilbertson
Breaking the Cycle
Valley of Growth
Coppola Mecanique
The Man Who Revealed the Secret of Stradivari
Best Sci-Fi
The Boy from Outer Space
Project Penelope
Man in the Mountain
Best Drama Short
Two Breaths
Standoff
Toothbrush
To Be With You
The River
Justice
Best Comedy Short
Time to Kill
Why Are You Like This?
Steps
The Burger
Pumpkin Pie
Best Actor | Short
Paul Dederick (Time to Kill)
P.J. Sosko (Flint)
Evan Williams (Steps)
George Diehl Jr (After Sunset)
Beck Williams (Pace)
Best Thriller Short
When Shadows Lay Darkest
Flint
Brotherly Blood
The Chosen
Why Those Crops Grow Taller
Best Actress | Short
Isabel Couceiro (What Makes Us Girls)
Zen Dot (Climax)
Palmar Kelly (I'm Sorry About Your Marriage)
Sarah Goeke (Forked)
Siobhan Doherty (Makeshift Society)
Best Director | Short
Kateryna Kurganska (Two Breaths)
Paulina Knaak (The Downtown 666)
Nicola Hepp (Spellbound)
Alejandra Lopez (Brotherly Blood)
Beck Williams (Pace)
Best Actor | Feature
James Austin Kerr (The Mother, the Menacer and Me)
Michael Coppola (That Creep from the Bar Last Night), Shah Motia (Mia)
Matt Foss (Lone Wolves)
Best Director | Feature
Adam Seidel (Anywhere)
Springna Zhao, Hayden McComas (The Absolutely Amazing, Wonderful, Frightening, Threatening Edge of Tomorrow)
Luis Ferrer (Mia)
Ryan Cunningham (Lone Wolves)
Best Actress | Feature
Nathalie Rangel (Colibri)
Hayley McFarland (Anywhere)
Cora Vander Broek (Lone Wolves)
Emiliana Jasper (MIA)
Best Picture
Anywhere
Mia
That Creep from the Bar Last Night
The Mother, the Menacer and Me
Lone Wolves