Emile Awards 2025 Ceremony will be held on Sunday, November 16 during Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn! 
Emile Awards 2025 feature film and short film nominees are revealed! Take a look!
Emile Awards 2025 nominees in feature film are:
Pelikan Blue, Hungary (director László Csáki)
Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, France, Belgium (director: Benoît Chieux)
Sultana’s Dream, Spain, Germany, India (director: Isabel Herguera)
Flow, Latvia, France, Belgium (director: Gints Zilbalodis)
The Feature film nomineee categories are: Best Writing in Feature, Best Soundtrack in Feature, Best Backgrounds and Character Design in Feature, Best Animation in Feature and Best of the Best in Feature.
Disclaimer: Given the limited number of qualifying films during our selection period, we proudly present four outstanding nominees in this category.
Emile Awards 2025 nominees in short film are:
Category: Best of the Best in short film
I died in Irpin, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraina (director: Anastasiia Falileieva)
Beautiful Men, Belgium, Netherlands, France (director: Nicolas Keppens)
Butterfly, France (director: Florence Miailhe )
Wander to Wonder, Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom (director: Nina Gantz)
Night Boots, France (director: Pierre-Luc-Granjon )
Category: Best sound and music design in short film
Winter, Poland (director:Tomek Popakul Kasumi Ozeki, composer: Michal Fojcik )
Sans-voix, Switzerland (director: Samuel Patthey, composer Patrick Becker, sound designer Thomas Gassman)
The Voice of Sirens, France, Italy (director: Gianluigi Toccafondo, composer: Marco Molinelli)
Butterfly, France (director: Florence Miailhe, composer: Pierre Oberkampf )
Bunnyhood, United Kingdom (director: Mansi Mahesgwari, composer: Marcin Mazurek, sound designer: Alexander Faingold )
Category: Best character design and backgrounds in short film
Fox Tossing, Hungary (director: Zénó Mira, design: Mira Zénó)
Percebes, Portugal, France (director: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, design: Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves)
Zarko, You will Spoil the Child, Croatia, France (director:Milivoj Popovic Veljko Popovic, design: Tisja Kljakovic Braic)
Joko, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic (director: Izabela Plucinska, design: Susanna Jerger, Yann Jouette, Dominika Wyrobek)
Beautiful Men, Belgium, Netherlands, France (director: Nicolas Keppens, design: Nicolas Keppens)
Category: Best animation in short film
The Eastern Rain, Estonia (director: Millie Yenken, animation: Millie Yenken )
Joko, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic (director: Izabela Plucinska, animation: Izabela Plucińska, Martin Pertlicek, Karolina Gołębiowska)
Wander to Wonder, Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom (director: Nina Gantz, animation: Kristien Vanden, Bussche Steven de Beul, Rosanne Janssens, Sergio Iara Jimenez, Ben Tesseur, Soetkin Verstegen, Andrine Gimnenez)
Beautiful Men, Belgium, Netherlands, France (director: Nicolas Keppens, animation: Iris Alexandre, Timothee Crabbe, Geertrui De Vijlder, Soetkin Verstegen)
Night Boots, France (director: Pierre-Luc-Granjon, animation: Pierre-Luc-Granjon )
Category: Best Student Film
Fox Tossing, Hungary (director:Zénó Mira)
There are People in the Woods, Poland (director: Szymon Ruczynski )
Carrotica, Germany (director: Daniel Sterlin-Altman )
Dodo, Germany (director: Yi Luo )
Pear Garden, Germany, Iran (director: Shadab Shayegan )
