Doc.London 2025
Doc.London is an annual documentary film festival that features work from around the world by up and coming artists, showcasing innovative independent cinema that invites viewers to learn and ponder. Thursday marked the closing night of the in-person part of the 202( edition, which took place at BFI Stephen Street. The OFF ON Selection, the festival's newest online program, remains available for streaming until 4 April.
The official selection included 30 documentary films hailing from the U.S, the U.K., Lebanon, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, Canada, Hungary, Austria, Australia, Mexico, Italy and Belgium. Doc.London is happy to share with you today the award winners, as chosen by this year's jury members:
Best Feature Documentary Film:
Missing from Fire Trail Road (United States) by Sabrina Van Tassel
Best Short Documentary Film:
The Other Side of Despair (Switzerland) by Varsy Buchmann
Best Connecting Cultures Film:
Shifting Roots (Lebanon) by Angie Mrad
Best UK Documentary Film:
Maybe We Can Whisper (United Kingdom) by Alexandre Amaral, Aoife Mandeville
Best Experimental Documentary Film:
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Best Underground Documentary Film:
Marija Wants To Become A Woman (Serbia) by Jovan Pantovic
Best Super Short Documentary Film:
Maslenitsa (United Kingdom) by Polina Kulbachevskaia
Congratulations to all participating filmmakers!
Official selection 2025:
Maslenitsa (United Kingdom) by Polina Kulbachevskaia
Missing from Fire Trail Road (United States) by Sabrina Van Tassel
Shifting Roots (Lebanon) by Angie Mrad
Old Age is Worse than Fascism (Poland) by Marco Wojciechowski
Seek Beyond (United Kingdom) by Louis Scantlebury
Risa (United States) by Kate Weare, Jack Flame Sorokin
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (United Kingdom) by Kate Colenbrander
Marija Wants To Become A Woman (Serbia) by Jovan Pantovic
Fragments (United Kingdom) by Mélodie Roulaud
Featherbones (United Kingdom) by Sophie Klampferer, Penelope Corinaldesi, P. Avantika Sood, Tiana Te-Rong Hsu
The Other Side of Despair (Switzerland) by Varsy Buchmann
The House Where He Belongs (United Kingdom) by Hans Lo
Nine Easy Dances (Canada) by Nora Rosenthal
Material Conditions (United Kingdom) by Ben Collier
I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (Hungary) by Jeremy Luke Bolatag
Irpinia (United Kingdom) by Jameisha Prescod
Maybe We Can Whisper (United Kingdom) by Alexandre Amaral, Aoife Mandeville
Big Fish - Rumba Rwandaise (Belgium) by Luzie Kurth
This is where we meet (Austria) by Mindaugas Drigotas, Berta Tilmantaitė
Alone (United States) by S. Columbus
Unmuted (United States) by Dena Hysell-Cornejo
Nook with a View (United Kingdom) by Eduarda Vieira
AI in the Street: Drone Observatory (Australia) by Thao Phan, Jeni Lee
Holding On (United Kingdom) by Emma Croft
Aka 赤 (Mexico) by Abinadi Meza
Prison is Cool (United States) by Elya Randrianaivo
Quadratura (Italy) by Sara Bonaventura
Six (United States) by Diana Cignoni
The Untranslatable Forest (United States) by Ivan Miguel, Andy Camou
