The San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) has revealed the winner of the Golden Gate and the Audience Award for their 2025 edition, the 68th of the festival. Short film Winners are now qualifying for the Oscar Awards overweight in the categories of live-action story, documentary and animated card.
The Golden Gate Awards were given in the feature film categories for new directors (“Ink Wash”, directed by Sarra Tsorakidis), Global Vision (“Everything left by you”, directed by the Cine Latino Cine Latino Cine (“Loved tropics“Directed by Ana Endara Mislov) and the recently named Kirby Walker Documentary Award (” seeds “, directed by Brittany Shyne and Also a winner from Sundance).
In the categories with the middle of length and short films, the Golden Gate Awards were given to middle length film (“Two people who exchange saliva”, directed by Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh), narrative short film (“Mage Bug,” directed by Matty Crawford), Documentary Ava Film (“The Hemingre Film (” The Hemingre Film (“The Hemingre Film. Evan, and Evan), My Worered My Worered, My Worered, My Woreryed, My Woreryed, My Woreryed, My Worery by Saad Dnewar, Abdelrahman Dnewar) and short film in Bay Area (“A brighter summer day for Lady Avengers”.
The Golden Gate Awards were also presented for the family’s short film (“The Girl With The Percent Eyes”, directed by André Carrilho) and Youth Works Short Film (“Coop”, directed by Mujtaba Alhejji).
Audience awards were given to the documentary feature (Ryan White’s “Come See Me in the Good Light”), and in the tie two titles in the story category: “Everything left by you” and “Souleymane’s Story” (directed by Boris Lojkine).
2025 SFFILM Festival Golden Gate Award Juries included a diverse group of critics, journalists, filmmakers and industry leaders. Festival Jurors was David Canfield, Raven Jackson and Leandre Thomas (New Director Competition); Angelica Jade Bastién, Jannat Gargi and Kathleen Lingo (Global Vision Competition); Carlos Aguils, Dawn Valadez, Chloë Walters-Wallace (Cine Latino competition); Cayla Clements, Theresa Navarro and Evan Neff (Kirby Walker Documentary Award competition); Adamu Chan, Julian Brave Noisecat, Merrill Steritt (medium length and shorts); Polly Conway, Elyse Klaidman and Keika Lee (family short film competition); And Joe Talbot, Sophia Wilson and Penelope Dominguez Walton (Youth Works Short Film Competition).
Honest mentions were “Cactus Pears” (Rohan Parashuram Kanawade) in the Global Vision section, “How to build a library” (Chris King) for Kirby Walker documentary, and “Why can’t we just be ghosts?” (Patrick Jang) In the young people, short film competition works.
