Fantasia Festival 2025 – Read the full list of winners

The 29th fantasia party Isn’t over yet, but we already know the big winners in Montreal. On Saturday night, filmmakers and lawyers gathered in a theater at Cinéma du Musée to assign seven of the eight categories of the competition. (Les Fantastiques Week-end du Cinma Québécois, a regional category, was announced last week.)

“Fly Mor“Took home the chevala noiren best Film Like best points. The haunting feature was a family business, from filmmakers and punk bands John Adams, Zelda Adams and Toby Poser. They are collectively known as – wait for it – the Adams family.

“It’s just good marketing,” joking director Pascal Plante, whose film “Red rooms” Won Cheval Noir 2023. Plante served as the section’s jury president 2025 and announced the best film.

“I want to put my heart up to the microphone, so you can hear how fast it is right now,” said Zelda Adams, the oldest child. “Thanks, Fantasia, so much for this. I can’t believe it. Every time we’re done with a movie, we think for ourselves,” Is it good enough to get into Fantasia? “And fortunately this one was here!”

Like Adam’s former Fantasia posts, “Mother of Fluies” is shot in their home in Catskills. The moving drama hangs in the space between life and death and draws from real experiences with cancer.

“Everything we do has a personal resonance, and this one has a particularly dark resonance at the cellular level,” said mom Toby Poser. “Learning that it speaks to others means so much to us.”

“In a violent nature” Author/director Chris Nash served as jury president for the new meat competition for the best first feature. The prize went to “It Ends” from director Alexander Ullom. After the ceremony, the Nash praised his debut for its sincerity and said: “Everything about it reasoned with being a young adult and not knowing where to go with your life and then realize that it never ends. It sticks with you.”

Read the complete list of winners from Fantasia 2025 below.

Black horse

Best Movie: “Mother of Flies” (Dirs. John Adams, Zelda Adams and Toby Poser)

“This may not be the movie by most means or the flashst camera, but it is a movie that in a meta way reminds us why we even care about making movies in the first place. It’s fun – every time I’m back in this area, it gives me back to my Concordia days … and a teacher once said to us,” don’t just make your friends! “And I was always against that concept. At least. —Pascal plante (“red room”), jury president

Special jury mentions/best concept: “New Group” (Dir. Yuta Shimotsu)

Best Director: Hadrah Daeng Ratu, “The Book of Sijin and Illiyy”

Best script: Connor Diedrich and Samuel Johnson, “Terrestrial” (Dir. Steve Pink)

Best Kinematography: Alex Metcalfe, “Cielo” (Dir. Alberto Sciama)

Sandro Forte Award for Best Movie Points: H6LLLB6ND6R, “Mother of Flies” (Dirs. John Adams, Zelda Adams and Toby Poser)

Outstanding Performance Award: Bakhytzhan Alpeis, “Stinker” (Dir. Yerden Telemissov)

Outstanding Performance Award: Ui Mihara, “I fell in love with a Z-class director in Brooklyn” (Dir. Kenichi Ugana)

New meat competition for best first feature

Best first feature: “It ends” (you. Alexander Ullom)

“It ends is a movie that manages to use low budget conventions and tropes fully to create a movie that goes from being an unnecessary thriller to a sincere and bitter -cute contemplation on time, friendship and loneliness; this would be a difficult task for even the most experienced filmmaker, but Alexander Ullom succeeds in the unclear. Ullom succeeds with an unclear grace; this would be a difficult task for even the most experienced filmmaker, but Alexander Ullom succeeds with an unclear grace; this would be a difficult task for even the most experienced filmmaker, but Alexander Ullom succeeds with an unpleasant level; Most experienced filmmaker, but Alexander Ullom succeeds with an unclear grace.

Special jury mentions: “Fucktoys” (Dir. Annapurna Sriram) and “Hellcat” (Dir. Brock Bodell)

International short film

Best Movie: “Barlebas” (Dir. Malu Janssen)

“An overly acquainted story, fear of the power that women have. A story about resilience told through beautiful images and a haunting soundtrack. The management bears the audience along with her unforgettable original voice and songs. Definitely a simple and unanimous decision for the jury.”

Best Director: Cow ba-run, “floor”

Best script: Dylan Pun, “Shrimp Fried Rice” (Dir. Dylan Pun)

Best cinematography: Sam du pon, “Barlebas” (you. Malu Janssen)

Sandro Forte Award for Best Movie Points: Christopher Lund, “Proxy” (Dir. Artem Skiy)

Outstanding Performance Award: Ruby Zoom, “The Collector” (Dir. Scott Leberecht) and Agnieszka Rajda, “Weird to Be Human” (Dir. Jan Grabowski)

Special jury boards – Strange to be human (dir. Jan Grabowski) and “The Rebirth” (Dir. Connie Shi)

Satoshi cone for excellence in animation

Best animated feature: “The girl who stole time” (dir. Yu ao and zhou tienan)

Special jury mentions: “I’m Frankelda” (“I’m Frankelda”) (Dir. Arturo Ambriz and Roy Ambriz)

Best Animated Card – Bronze: “My organs lying on the ground” (dir. Shinobu SOEJIMA)

Best Animated Card – Silver: “It’s” (Dir. Youngness Giovanna)

Best Animated Card – Gold: “Off-time” (dir. Nata Metlukh)

Jury statement: “For its lively animation, its designs, and its drawn universe that delighted all three of us, its engaging sound design, its reflection on time, accelerationism, and the attention and care required to be in touch with onself, and by OTHERS, and with all of LIVA LIVES. Gold Prize for Best Short Film to Off-Time by Filmmaker Nata Metlukh. “

Northern Excellence for best Canadian filmmakers

Best director (feature film) -Chloé Cinq-Mars, for skin to skin (nest)

Jury statement: “Anchored by a raw and uncompromising lead performance and engrossing direction, this film leads us down a sometimes scary young mother’s downward mental spiral. For its unclear and deeply human exploration of an often overturned aspect of motherhood, we give the award for best Canadian film to the author/director Chlo Cinq-Mar’s for