Official Selection Announcement – IFFNY 2025

We are thrilled to announce that for the 14th edition of the International Filmmaker Festival of New York (IFFNY), we have selected 57 outstanding projects representing 89 countries across the globe! This year, we received an incredible 542 submissions from filmmakers worldwide—each one a powerful expression of creativity, vision, and storytelling.

✨ 47 projects will compete in our official competition program across various categories.
🌟 An additional 10 projects have been selected for our new Spotlight Showcase, a special non-competition category highlighting unique voices and artistic innovation. These selected films will be part of IFFNY’s online program, expanding our reach and allowing global audiences to engage with the festival virtually.

📽️ Here is the official list of selected films for IFFNY 2025:

FEATURE FILM

-“Idilia” by José Taltavull Sepúlveda & Javier Canales Sepúlveda/ 73 min/ Spain

-“Ocarina” by Alban Zogjani 92 min/ Kosova     

– “Monday Wolves” by Mateo Rojas/ 89 min/ Peru

– “Children of Silence” by Anika Petrov/ 95 min/ Ukraine

SHORT FILM

-“The Long Walk Home” by Jeremy Folmer/ 14:30/US

-“Nice Shoes” by  Nkenge Jones/13:42/ US

-“El Azul Silencio” by Mateoit Carratú/9 min/Spain

– “Hotcakes” by Carlos Gallego García/12 min/ Mexico

– “Bud” by John R. Caccamo /12 min/ US

-“Let me out” by Anders Lidin Hansen/ 11:21/ Norway

-“Juicy” by Emily Weider/ 7:21min/ US

-“Umbra” by Dario Haruni/19:38 min/ Albania

– “The Interview” by Mac Brydon/ 8:23/US

-‘Eat Hot Chip & Lie” Anders Kapur/ 14:51/US

-“The Meal” by Thomas Steen Sørensen /15:38 min/ Denmark

-“Free Mind” by Ramy Gheit Abouelkhir /5:41/US

-“Diell” by Rain Nikolla/17:26/Albania

-“My mother’s scarf” by Asis Tabrizi/ 18 min/Iran

-“Unmarked” by Soren Halvorsen/ 19 min/ Belgium

-“The Island You Forgot” by Mei-Ling Chao/ 16 min/ China

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM

-“The Saint of Brooklyn” By Ulisse Lendaro/72 min/Italy

-“Lost in the Moment” by Mateo Alvarenga/ 80 min/ Argentina

-“Aladileh” by Joseph Winter /92 min/Israel

-“The Dust of the Sahara Flowers” by Omar El-Badawi/ Afghanistan

SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM

– “You” by Elisa Bessa/7:26 min/ Brazil

– “Common Ground” by ASH YIP/ 13:55 min/ US

– “Ankla” by Raul Fabricio Cabrera/5:22 min/Ecuador

-“Before the River Dries” by Lina Morante/ 32 min/Canada

ANIMATION

-“Brave new tech” by Laura Gingrich/7 min/Korean, Spain

-“Owner” by Eugene Feoktistov/4 min/ Russian Federation

-“Into the Reds Tale” by Alisdair Zhang/ 4 min/ US

-“Lalaland”by Anna Moreau/ 7 min/ Cuba

MUSIC VIDEOS

-“Orange blues 24” by Alyssa Dann /04:58 min/ US

-“lvx Machina – Thug Deluxe” by Cristian Balint & Béla Baptiste/3:41 min/US

-“A Gloucester Fisherman” (tribute music video short) by The Atomik Age Project/5:43 min/US

-“Ballerina” by Maia Dobbs/ 3:55 min/US

SCRIPT OF FEATURE FILM

-“At the Mercy of Faith” by Samuel Taylor/US

-“Able’s Fables” by Mark Amador/ US

-“Serendipity” by Karl Safindah/Camroon

-“Shadows of Yesterday” by Zara Kuznetsova/Ukraine

-“Velvet Skies” by Elias Haddad /Iran

SCRIPT OF SHORT FILM

-“Running on Empty” by Margaret Young /Japan

-“Guilty as sin” by Nick Spicer/ UK

-“Non-Smoking area” by Theodora Christodoulos /Greece

-“Mina’s House” by Miha Zupan/ Slovenia

-“Bosnian Behara” by Medina Beširović/Bosnia & H.

SPOTLIGHT SHOWCASE–Non-competition

-“Giselou” by Mohammad Sadeq Esmaeeli/60 min / Iran

-“Veus del pallars sobirÀ” by Laia Rissech Pere Manrique/70 min/Catalan

– “Voiceless” by Zahra Mojahed/14:38min/Germany

– “Canarian healers, traditions of healing” by Beatriz Chinea Hernández/30 min/Spain

-“Shadows of Ourselves” by Pedro Serrazina/7:39 min/ Portugal

– “A child is listening” by Pedro Moraelche/18 min/ Spain

-“Dear son” by Zhu Cunkuo /11 min/ China

– “Another ghost story” by Alfonso Morillas/16 min/Spain

-“I’am where the butterflies sleep” by Ceyhan Kandemir/78 min/ Turkey

– “Tales of the Sea” by Luca Severi/98 min/Italy

(This non-competitive category highlights outstanding works that deserve special recognition for their artistic vision, cultural relevance, or unique storytelling. Selected by our programming team, these films and projects are featured to celebrate the voices, perspectives, and creativity shaping today’s cinematic landscape.)

📅 IFFNY 2025 will take place on May 28, 29, and 30 at the prestigious Dolby Theatre in New York City.

Thank you to all the incredible filmmakers who submitted their work. We can’t wait to share these powerful stories with the world.

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