Film Nominations 2025
Conclave - WINNER
A taut and compelling political thriller from director Edward Berger, adapted from Robert Harris’s bestseller. The film dramatizes one of the world’s most secretive rituals - the election of a new Pope following the sudden death of his predecessor.
Ralph Fiennes leads an outstanding ensemble as the understated yet moral dean who uncovers buried intrigues and hidden agendas left behind by the late Pope, revealing dark secrets that threaten the Church’s very foundations.
Blending procedural suspense, spiritual questioning, and courtly maneuvering, Conclave is a psychological drama where faith, power, and ambition collide. This striking work delivers emotional tension and philosophical resonance, exploring how organised religion endures, but is also challenged, amid shifting values and institutional uncertainty.
KNEECAP
Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap is a politically charged, and darkly comedic biopic inspired by the real-life Irish-language rap group of the same name. Set in post-Troubles Belfast, the film reimagines the group’s origin story.
With sharp satire and anarchic energy, Kneecap explores the defiant use of music and the Irish language to challenge authority, provoke debate, and reimagine cultural pride. Inventive, irreverent, and with an unapologetically local voice, Kneecap offers a bold portrait of identity, rebellion, and creative resistance in a changing Ireland.
It’s not just a story about a band - it’s a playful, provocative portrait of what it means to fight for cultural relevance on your own terms.
Sister Midnight
A fierce and formally daring debut from Karan Kandhari that is a fantastical punk comedy, a feminist revenge film, and a revamped vampire movie all rolled into one.
In this original, funny and macabre tale we follow the trials and tribulations of Uma – a young, newly-married woman – who discovers the realities of married life in a Mumbai slum, and whose thirst for vengeance will not be abated.
Sister Midnight defies categorisation with dark humour, visual invention, and a wild narrative rhythm. An audacious, genre-smashing tale of rebellion, transformation and survival.
