LIFF Shorts 2025: The Winners

LIFF SHORTS celebrates short film from around the world, across the UK and right here in Yorkshire! Over nine competitions of curated shorts, our teams of juries have selected the winning films, announced at our annual LIFF Shorts awards event at Howard Assembly Room. We want to say a huge thank you to our LIFF SHORTS Jurors and programmers for being part of this year's festival.

British Short Film Competition

Winner: No Mean City directed by Ross McClean
Special Mention: Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites directed by Duncan Cowles
Special Mention 2: Murewa directed by Ché Scott-Heron Newton

Fanomenon Short Film Competition

Winner: Houston, We Have a Crush directed by Omer Ben Shachar
Special Mention: Pimple directed by Fernando Alle
Special Mention 2: Fiend directed by Barnaby Boulton

Leeds Music Video Competition

Winner: Monolink: Avalanche directed by Vasco Alexandre and Zoe Stiletano
Special Mention: Honningbarna – Heute Ist Mein Tag directed by Sander August Dahl

Leeds Queer Short Film Competition

Winner: Sucker directed by Fae Al-Kalamchi
Special Mention: Ata Pūao directed by Allie Howell
Special Mention 2: Divine Intervention directed by Ravenna Tran

Screendance Short Film Competition

Winner: Spoken Movement Family Honour directed by Daniel Gurton
Special Mention: On My Way to You directed by Astrid De Haes, Brecht Van Vliet, and Jonathan Van Hemelrijck

Yorkshire Short Film Competition Presented in Partnership with VERSA Leeds Studios

Winner: Rocket Fuel directed by Jordon Scott Kennedy
Special Mention: Riding Time directed by Roopa Gogineni

Documentary Shorts Competition

Winner: Their Eyes directed by Nicolas Gourault
Special Mention: Daria's Night Flowers directed by Maryam Tafakory
Special Mention 2: Cairo Streets directed by Abdellah Taia

World Animation Competition

Winner: DETLEV directed by Ferdinand Ehrhardt
Special Mention: God is Shy directed by Jocelyn Charles

Louis Le Prince International Shorts Competition

Winner: Family Sunday directed by Gerardo Del Razo
Special Mention: Cucumber directed by Harald Furuholmen
Special Mention 2: Made of Sugar directed by Claudia Cedo

Published 9/11/25

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