Phoenix Rising International Film Festival

🎬 Just 6 days to go until the #PRIFFUK2025 Weekender!

🎥 37 categories
🌍 35 countries
🏆 2 days of screenings, panels & celebration

📍 Genesis Cinema, London
🎟️ Tickets + programme → priff.co.uk

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🎞️ Just 9 days until the #PRIFFUK2025 Weekender!

🎥 37 categories
🌍 35 countries
🏆 2 unforgettable days at Genesis Cinema

Get your tickets + full programme → priff.co.uk

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🏆 The most nominated films at #PRIFFUK2025 are here!

🎬 Heart of Stone – 11 noms
🎬 Don’t Bury It – 11 noms
🎬 Langue Maternelle (Sira) – 9 noms

Some of the finest works ever screened at PRIFF.
📅 See them Nov 15–16 @ Genesis Cinema.
🏆 Winners revealed Sun 16th evening!

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🎞️ The #PRIFFUK2025 programme is LIVE!

37 categories. 35 countries.
Bold stories. Brilliant filmmakers.

🎟️ Tickets + full programme: priff.co.uk

📍 Genesis Cinema, London | This November

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🙏 A huge thank you to the people behind #PRIFFUK2025 🙏

🎬 15 film selectors
📝 20 script readers
📩 Submissions coordinators
🏆 Judging & Awards assistants
📱 Social media team

You’ve worked tirelessly behind the scenes, and PRIFF wouldn’t happen without you.

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✨ Meet the Jury – #PRIFFUK2025 ✨

67 jurors. 11 teams.

Judging top categories like Best of the Fest, Best Director, Best Actor + more.

First jury group reveal coming soon 👀

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How voting works at #PRIFFUK2025:

15 selectors + 20 script readers review & rate submissions.

Highest-rated films vetted by festival directors.

10 juries vote with a Eurovision-style 5-4-3-2-1.

Jury President breaks ties.

Films may be seen by 25–50 people before awards. Fair, robust, unmatched.

🏆 The crown jewel of PRIFF UK: Best of the Fest 🏆

This year, we’re giving Bronze, Silver and Gold awards!

Nominees:
🎬 The Ballad
🎬 Fuochi
🎬 The Boy Who Cheated Death
🎬 Beyond Words
🎬 Sira
🎬 Don’t Bury It
🎬 Babylon?
🎬 Perfect Age
🎬 Hearts of Stone

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Every great series begins with a pilot!

Here are the nominees for Best Unproduced TV Pilot:
✨ Precursor — Steve Brown
✨ Hope Springs Maternal — Marie Belsten
✨ The Orchard: A Seed of Hope — Kathryn Carmichael
✨ Remorse Court — Melanie Villines

Who will win? 🏆

🖋️ Great short films start with great scripts.

Here are the nominees for Unproduced Short Film Screenplay:

✨ Parliamentary Privilege — Elliot Stanton
✨ When Stars Align — Dave Orvis
✨ The Coal Kids — Alessandro Biacca
✨ Open Wide — Martin Richmond
✨ Universal Gambit — James Noir

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🌍 New for 2025: IMPACT 🌍

A category for socially impactful & charity-led films

Nominees:
🎬 Last Gasp — Tom Cholmondeley
🎬 What We Carried — Carolina Pereira
🎬 Scarlett — Sabi Liebl
🎬 Roya Was Here — Nafiss Nia
🎬 Michigan Visits Matter: The Family Cost of Incarceration — Bryce Mackie

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Last year’s Best Short Film was unforgettable. Who will win the prize this year? 🏆

🎬 Fuochi — Mirko Genduso
🎬 The Ballad — Christofer Nilsson
🎬 The Delay — Mattia Napoli
🎬 A Short Trip — Erenik Beqiri
🎬 Hold — Josiah Junqueira Spencer
🎬 The Breadwinner — Tatiana Fedyunina

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🖋️ Every film begins on the page.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Script (Short Film):

📜 Sira — Mariame N’Diaye
📜 Mein Surname — Adam Cowie
📜 Hearts of Stone — Tom van Avermaet & Alison Kathleen Kelly
📜 Don’t Bury It — Kristian Fitsall
📜 The Ballad — Christofer Nilsson

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Directors are the architects of cinema.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Director:
🎬 Mirko Genduso — Fuochi
🎬 Tom van Avermaet — Hearts of Stone
🎬 Mariame N'Diaye — Sira
🎬 Mattia Napoli — The Delay
🎬 Kristian Fitsall — Don’t Bury It

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🌍 In 2025, we are introducing the Black and Ethnic Minority-Directed category

Nominees:
🎬 7 times 7 times 7 times — Anderson West
🎬 Love Law Legacy — Joseline J. Hardrick
🎬 I Had A Fall — Jobe Wolf
🎬 Elijah — Razid Season
🎬 Babylon? — Joseph Bowley

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🇬🇧 Bold. Original. Unmistakably British.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best British Film:
🎬 Falling Rocks — William Sash
🎬 Last Gasp — Tom Cholmondeley
🎬 Perfect Age — Jason Moore
🎬 Mein Surname — Adam Cowie
🎬 Perfect — Miranda Nolan

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Directing a short film is one of cinema’s greatest tests.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Director – British Short Film:
🎬 William Sash (Falling Rocks)
🎬 Tom Cholmondeley (Last Gasp)
🎬 Jason Moore (Perfect Age)
🎬 Adam Cowie (Mein Surname)
🎬 Miranda Nolan (Perfect)

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🎥 Documentary needs no suspension of disbelief.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Short Documentary:
📽️ Alone Across Gola — Jude Kriwald
📽️ Breakthrough — Josh Bell & Thomas Binns
📽️ Reflection — Julia Libera
📽️ Beyond Words — Kim Brand
📽️ W: Return to Oz — Daniel Howard-Baker

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📷 Cinematography is the language of cinema.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Cinematography:
🎬 Fabio Vita — Fuochi
🎬 Jacopo Maria Caramella — The Delay
🎬 Harry Steele — Like Father Like Son
🎬 Hans Bruch Jr. — Heart of Stone
🎬 Aleksandra Ermolaeva — The Breadwinner

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🎭 Acting at its finest.

The #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Actress:
⭐ Noomi Rapace — Hearts of Stone
⭐ Mariame N’Diaye — Sira (Mother)
⭐ Miranda Nolan — Perfect
⭐ Luàna Bajrami — A Short Trip
⭐ Vladislava Ermolaeva — Breadwinner
⭐ Susan Lynch — Tracey

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🎭 Acting at its best transforms a film.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Actor:
⭐ Vincenzo Nemolato — The Delay
⭐ David Suchet — Last Gasp
⭐ Nayeem Mahbub — The Ballad
⭐ Malcolm Jeffries — Perfect Age
⭐ Joe Carmichael — Mein Surname
⭐ Henry Cross — Falling Rocks

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👥 Casting chooses the actors. Ensemble celebrates what happens when they come together.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Ensemble:
🎬 Falling Rocks
🎬 Breadwinner
🎬 Perfect Age
🎬 Last Gasp
🎬 Don’t Bury It

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🎭 Supporting roles often linger longest.

Can these #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Supporting Actress do the same?
⭐ Debra Monk — Hold
⭐ Anna Granath — The Ballad
⭐ Luna Calero — Collage
⭐ Jessica Barden — Hearts of Stone
⭐ Claudia Levis — Lucia & Nicole

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🎭 Supporting roles can steal the whole film.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Supporting Actor:
⭐ Gianfranco Quero — Fuochi
⭐ Skott Beal — Falling Rocks
⭐ Waleed Elgadi — Last Gasp
⭐ Djibril Sangaré — Sira
⭐ Anders Blentare — The Ballad

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✨ Casting can define a film — Foster & Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, the ensemble of Parasite. Perfect choices make characters unforgettable.

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Casting:
🎬 Heart of Stone
🎬 Fuochi
🎬 The Breadwinner
🎬 The Ballad
🎬 Mein Surname

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⏳ Mid-length films are among cinema’s hardest forms

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Mid-Length Film:
🎬 Tom van Avermaet — Heart of Stone
🎬 Ethan Porter — Like Father Like Son
🎬 Alexander Whitrow — Man Eater
🎬 Luca Caserta — The Reach

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💄 Make-up & hair transform characters & worlds

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best MUA:
🎬 Katrien Frenssen — Heart of Stone
🎬 Drue Konings — Selvedge
🎬 Rebecca Birch — The Orchard
🎬 Emma Procter — Bloodbuzz
🎬 Aimee Dennet — Don’t Bury It

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🎼 A great score doesn’t just accompany a film — it defines it.

The #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Score are:
🎬 Antoine Duchêne — The Boy Who Cheated Death
🎬 Will Davies — Perfect
🎬 Robin Schlochtermeier — Last Gasp
🎬 Dave Malkin — Don’t Bury It
🎬 Niki Demiller — Sira

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👗 Costumes speak before characters do

Here are the #PRIFFUK2025 nominees for Best Costume Design:
🎬 Monica Avitto — Selvedge
🎬 Sofie Callaerts — Heart of Stone
🎬 Mariam Coulibaly — Sira
🎬 Claudia Santaniello — The Delay
🎬 Thea Miller — Don’t Bury It

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