Flatpack 2025 Award Winners |

Drumroll please. We are delighted to announce the short film award winners for Flatpack 2025.

Colour Box Audience Award

Rise Age
Tatjana Theuer, Germany 2024, 5 mins

Colour Box Award

Baking with Boris
Maša Avramović, France 2023, 8 mins

Colour Box Special Mention

The Night Tunnel
Annechien Strouven, Belgium, France, Netherlands 2024, 8 mins

Screendance Award

Refuge
Marlene Millar, Canada 2025, 14 mins

The Screendance jury said:
"The film was a radiant celebration of dance, capturing the pure joy of movement across generations. It was a delight to witness people of all ages expressing themselves through movement, brought to life through exquisite choreography and stunning cinematography."

Optical Sound Award

Déjà Nu
Rolf Hellat, Côte d’Ivoire 2023, 14 mins

Animation Award

Noggin
Case Jernigan, USA 2024, 7 mins

The Animation Jury said:
"This film is devastating as it is funny. Using animation to articulate a complicated condition and deliver emotional beats with the heft they deserve."

Animation Special Mentions

Hurikan
Jan Saska, Czech Rep 2024, 13 mins

LARVAL
Alice Bloomfield, UK 2024, 12 mins

Audience Award

LARVAL
Alice Bloomfield, UK 2024, 12 mins

WTF Award

Who Loves the Sun?
Arshia Shakiba, Canada 2024, 19 mins

The Short Film Jury said:
"We felt this film deserved the WTF award for it's utterly standout method of storytelling. The striking cinematography, grueling subject matter and billowing sound design all contribute to a depiction of the hazardous reality of oil refineries in Syria. Truly immersive, the film carries you along, only ever alluding to the larger socio-political context that bubbles beneath the surface."

WTF Special Mention

sixty-seven milliseconds
Fleuryfontaine, France 2024, 15 minstaine

Best Short Award

Their Eyes
Nicolas Gourault, France 2025, 22 mins

The Short Film Jury said:
"We were unanimous in this decision, to award a film that reframes the art of looking, bringing to the foreground a visual commodity that slips between the servers and spectators. Composed of covert screen recordings and anonymous voices, we share in the dreams of outsourced Kenyan workers, paid pennies to annotate views of the USA - teaching driverless cars how to see, and what to value. It is precisely at this digital intersection of wistful observations that we feel we've taken a wrong turn, as technology and exploitation harden into a future we can't touch. It was, however, the quiet rebellion of its final image that offered a glimmer of hope, reclaiming something we didn't know we were losing: a perspective. This is cinema at a time when it's needed the most."

Best Short Special Mention