Official Section – Albar
The International Jury of the Official Section – Albar International Competition of the 63rd Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival, made up of Alexis Juncosa, Eva Llorach, Scott Macaulay, Carlos Marques-Marcet and Sophy Romvari, has awarded the following prizes:
BEST FEATURE FILM:
Al Oeste, en Zapata
David Bim (Cuba, Spain, 2025)
With assertive control over its formal elements while maintaining its empathetic and loving gaze, this film took all of our hearts and minds by surprise. For its sensitively observed and astonishingly realized portrait of a family during a time of global crisis.
“AISGE” AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS:
Eszter Tompa for Kontinental ‘25 (Romania, 2025)
For portraying a woman in the aftermath of tragedy, articulating not only her sadness but also a larger moral and political discourse.
“AISGE” AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR:
Ben Wishaw for Peter Hujar’s Day (United States, Germany, 2025)
For his precisely rendered evocation of both an artist and an era, delivered with technical prowess and emotional insight
SPECIAL MENTION:
Andranic Manec for Ari (France, Belgium, 2025)
BEST DIRECTING:
Ángel Santos for Así chegou a noite (Spain, 2025)
For elegantly capturing the life rhythms of a man and a woman, each standing on their own existential precipice.
Official Section – FICX Premiere International
The International Jury of the Official Section – FICX Premiere International Competition of the 63rd Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival, made up of Lisandro Alonso, Lina Lizardou and Monica Stan, has awarded the following prizes:
BEST FICX PREMIERE FEATURE FILM:
Los bobos
Sofía Jallinsky, Banavih Marinaro (Argentina, 2025)
SPECIAL FICX PREMIERE AWARD FOR ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION:
Mare’s Nest
Ben Rivers (United Kingdom, France, Canada, 2025)
Official Section – Short Film International Competition
The FIPRESCI Jury of the Official Section – Retueyos International Competition of the 63rd Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival, made up of Julien Camy, Holger Heiland and Joan Pons Pinac, has awarded the following prizes:
PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS PRIZE FOR BEST SHORT FILM:
Loynes
Dorian Jespers
(Belgium, France, North Macedonia, United Kingdom, North Ireland, 2025)
Our first prize goes to a piece that seems to draw on the codes of architecture to create a narrative and an aesthetic, using weights and counterweights in each image and each sound to raise a symbolic building, where the point of view is distributed across different levels of space, and different scales, through a high circular wooden grandstand, where the inhabitants are committed to judging the soul of a corpse, with absurd conversations and collective monologues, where the verb would seem to be a Kafkaesque and illogical echo spread throughout the cinematic membrane, which is none other than that of a great ellipsis, with no beginning and no end, for time is and is not in this short film, where the visible and the invisible form part of an absurdly cyclical and disturbing whole, which we have undoubtedly fallen captive to.
SPECIAL MENTION TO THE SHORTFILMS:
1:10
Sinan Taner (Switzerland 2024)
We have agreed to give our first mention to a short film in which the device functions as a game board; people move around on it strategically, like fleshy pieces that seem to respond to a choreographed exercise of progress, defence and accumulation, within a primary school community that we observe from different perspectives and viewpoints, always uncomfortable, shots from above and below, which further clarify the power of competitive play, the advance and the demolition in which the piece participates, until it explodes in a final episode of violence that goes beyond the typical shock trick within the frame, from which the director manages to activate our subjectivity as spectators, in favour of movements of socio-political consciousness and interracial discourse.
Si el silencio fuera azul
Gabriela Muñoz Garay, Magdalena Fuenzalida, Benjamín Rojas, María Jesús Cardemil, Marc Pompermayer (Spain, 2025)
Our second mention is intended to reward a piece that is outside the industry and the business logic of film or audiovisual production, for being a democratic narrative that participates in other codes and other processes that we feel are indispensable within the creation of cinematic memory, the result of creative mediation between a tutor and their students, cooperation between creators, and of a daring, free narrative, full of curiosity and playfulness, which we also feel is committed not only to the language of cinema, but also to that of the ocean, since its language makes use of clicks, moans, roars of dolphins, whales, and other aquatic species, in counterpoint to the human noise that is increasingly settling on the seabed, and which the piece echoes.
Youth Jury Award
The Youth Jury of the 63rd Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival has awarded the following prizes:
YOUTH JURY AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM OF THE OFFICIAL SECTION – RETUEYOS INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
Magic Farm
Amalia Ulman (Argentina, USA, 2025)
YOUTH JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM OF THE OFFICIAL SECTION:
Tolos fueos el fueu
Diego Flórez (Spain, 2025)
The Spanish Film Jury, made up of Iratxe Fresneda, Nila Núñez Urgell and Lilia Scena, has awarded the following prizes from among the feature films of Spanish production and/or directed by Spanish filmmakers premiered in the 63rd edition of the Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival:
BEST SPANISH FEATURE FILM PRIZE:
A la cara
Javier Marco (Spain, Belgium, 2025)
SPECIAL MENTION:
Al Oeste, en Zapata
David Bim (Cuba, Spain, 2025)
PREMIO “RCSERVICE” AWARD FOR THE DIRECTOR OF THE BEST SPANISH FEATURE FILM:
Javier Marco for A la cara (Spain, Belgium, 2025)
“DAMA” AWARD FOR BEST SCRIPT OF A SPANISH FEATURE FILM:
Anxos Fazáns, Ian de la Rosa for As liñas descontinuas (Spain, 2025)
“AMAE” AWARD FOR BEST EDITING OF A SPANISH FEATURE FILM:
Federico Delpero for Amílcar (Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Cape Verde, 2025)
“CIMA” AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM DIRECTED BY A WOMAN:
The CIMA Jury, made up of Tábata Cerezo, Nati Juncal Portas and Irene Menéndez Palomino, has awarded the following prize from among the films premiered in the competitive sections of the 63rd edition of the Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival:
“CIMA” AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM DIRECTED BY A WOMAN:
Love Me Tender
Anna Cazenave (France, 2025)
SPECIAL MENTION:
Sorella di Clausura
Ivana Mladenović (Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain, 2025)
The Jury of the competition La Noche del Corto Español of the 63rd Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival, made up of Marta Codesido, Alicia Moncholí and Carmen Chávez Muñoz, has awarded the following prizes:
BEST SHORT FILM OF THE LA NOCHE DEL CORTO ESPAÑOL COMPETITION:
Bariazioak
Lur Olaizola (Spain, 2025)
Light, music, and performance are intertwined to create an atmosphere of beauty and nature that contrasts with the pain of losing a loved one.
“FESTHOME” DISTRIBUTION AWARD:
La diva, mi abuela y yo
Inés G. Aparicio (Spain, 2025)
RTPA AWARDS
The Asturian Cinema Jury, made up of Ana Domínguez, Aitor Martínez Valdajos and Maryam Harandi, has awarded the following prizes sponsored by RTPA:
“RTPA” AWARD FOR THE BEST ASTURIAN FEATURE FILM:
Volver a casa tan tarde
Celia Viada Caso (Spain, 2025)
“RTPA” AWARD FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM IN THE ASTURIES CURTIUMETRAXES COMPETITION:
Alimaña
Juan Villa (Spain, 2025)
“RTPA” ASTURIES CURTIUMETRAXES COMPETITION SPECIAL MENTION:
Una mujer que conocí llamada Yudita
Rodrigo Agüeria (Spain, 2025)
Laboral Cinemateca has awarded the LABORAL CINEMATECA CORTOS award of the Asturies Curtiumetraxes – Competition Section to the short film:
Cases
Jandro Llaneza (Spain, 2025)
RAMBAL AWARD
The jury, made up of África Preus Rodríguez, Carla Herrera Valdés and Francisca Mª Santiago Urdiales, has awarded the following prize, dedicated to Alberto Alonso Blanco “Rambal”:
RAMBAL AWARD FROM THE XEGA ASSOCIATION:
As liñas descontinuas
Anxos Fazáns (Spain, 2025)
ENFANTS TERRIBLES AWARDS
The young audience of the Enfants Terribles Section has decided to award the following prize:
ENFANTS TERRIBLES AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM:
Le Grand Noël des animaux
Camille Alméras, Ceylan Beyoğlu, Caroline Attia, Olesya Shchukina, Haruna Kishi, Natalia Chernysheva (France, Germany, 2024)
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
The audience of the 63rd Gijón/Xixón International Film Festival has awarded the following prizes:
GRAND AUDIENCE AWARD:
Made in EU
Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic, 2025)
TIERRES EN TRANCE AWARD:
The bewilderment of chile
Lucía Seles (Argentina, 2025)
EUROPA FILM FESTIVALS (EFF) – YOUNG EUROPE AWARD:
Des preuves d’amour
Alice Douard (France 2025)
NEW FILMAKERS AWARD
The Jury of Principado de Asturias New Filmmakers Award made up of Francisco de Asís Fernández Olanda, Alejandro Díaz Castaño, Isabel Lugilde, Lucía Herrera and Semíramis González, and sponsored by Principado de Asturias has awarded the following award to the project:
PRINCIPADO DE ASTURIAS NEW FILMMAKERS AWARD:
Pasar l’agua
Pablo Casanueva
PROYECTO CORTO MOVISTAR PLUS+ / PECERA ESTUDIO 2024
MOVISTAR PLUS+, in collaboration with Milciclos and Elamedia, has awarded the 2025 Proyecto Corto Movistar+ Prize to the following project:
Trella
submitted by Kabiria Films and directed by Miguel Guindos
Premios Semilleru LAB 2025
The Semilleru Lab Jury, made up of Lei González, Beatrice Fiorentino and Jana Wolff, has granted the following awards:
SEMILLERU LAB IN DEVELOPMENT
SEMILLERU Lab Development Award
Préstame tus ojos de Natalie Grande (DIRECTOR)
y Andrea Mateu (producer Aire de Cinema – Tambo Film)
SEMILLERU LAB IN THE (POST)PRODUCTION STAGE
SEMILLERU Lab Award for (Post)Production
Chapuzón by Juan Pedro Somodi, produced by Juan Pedro Somodi, Chacha Huang, Paola Álvarez and Manuel Escorihuela (Juan Pedro Somodi, Paola Á. Filmproduktion, 6866 Films)
Subtitulam Award
Lecho de Pasto by Carmela Román, produced by Rami García and edited by Luis Soto Muñoz.
WELAW Award
Lecho de Pasto, directed by Carmela Román, produced by Rami García and edited by Luis Soto Muñoz.
Semilleru Awards 2025
See the list of winners of previous editions:
Palmarés 62FICX
Palmarés 61FICX
Palmarés 60FICX
Palmarés 59FICX
Palmarés 58FICX
