The Roze Filmdagen Jury and Audience Award 2025

This year, Roze Filmdagen also presented a number of awards on behalf of a jury of professionals and the Roze Filmdagen audience. This latter group actively voted during the festival by giving a score after each screening. On Sunday 30 March, the results were finally revealed.

The festival proudly presents the following winners:

Winner fiction film competition
'Not Built To Last' dir Deniz Arikan

Roze Filmdagen Jury Awards:
Best Dutch Short Film and Iris Prize Nominee: 'Marleen' dir. Jop Leuven
Best Short Film (special mention): 'Blood Like Water' dir. Dima Hamdan, Palestina
Best Short Film: 'Chico' dir. Enzo Lorenzo, Belgium
Best documentary: 'If I Die, It'll Be of Joy' dir. Alexis Taillant, France
Best documentary (special Mention): 'Reas' dir. Lola Arias, Argentinia
Best feature film: 'Ponyboi' dir. Esteban Arango, USA
Best feature film (special mention): 'Eat the Night' dir. Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, France

Roze Filmdagen Audience Awards:
Best Short Film: 'Die Bully Die' dir. Nathan and Nick Lacey, Australia
Runners up 'Best Short Film': 2. A Mort Le Bikini! dir. Justine Gauthier, Canada / 3. 'I Hope He Doesn't Kill Me' dir. Lyndon Henley Hanrahan / Nora Dahle Borchgrevink, UK

Best documentary: 'Short Dick Man' dir. Willem Timmers, Matthijs Janssen, Netherlands
Runners up 'Best Documentary': 2. 'I'm Your Venus' dir. Kimberly Reed, USA / 3. 'If I Die, It'll Be of Joy' dir. Alexis Taillant, France

Best feature film: 'No Dogs Allowed' dir. Steve Bache, Germany
Runners up 'Best Feature Film': 1. 'What a Feeling' dir. Kat Rohrer ,Austria 2. 'Fireworks' dir. Giuseppe Fiorello, Italy