Festival Awards

2025

Best Feature

Motherland Winner!
You Are Not Alone
Universal Silver
A Rare Grand Alignment

Best Animated Feature

The Storm Winner!
Magic Beach
Sunburnt Unicorn Silver

Best Director of a Feature

Motherland, Evan Matthews Silver
You Are Not Alone, Marie-Helene Viens, Philippe Lupien
Universal, Stephen Portland
A Rare Grand Alignment, Cinqué Lee Winner!

Best Animation (Best in Show)

113 Words for You Today Winner!
Kitty and the Viper
Two Black Boys in Paradise
Matilda and the Brave Escape
Tiny Little Journey Silver

Best Documentary Short

You and I and AI
Help Solve a Murder Silver
The Art Side of the Moon
On Dying of Dementia in a Capitalist System Winner!
Sparking Creativity: GalaxSea

Best Animated Short (Long-Form)

Kitty and the Viper
Gardening
Trumpet Voice
Tiny Little Journey
Flocky Silver (tie)
113 Words for You Today Winner!
Jus d’orange Silver (tie)

Best Mid-Length Animated Short

Blu’s
Matilda and the Brave Escape Winner!
Eureka!
Passenger
Jasmine
LAIKA; An Animated Short Film Silver

Best Animated Microshort

Mistletoe
The Murderer Winner!
Unknown Callers
Bound
Forever Friends
Impossible Journey Silver

Best Narrative Short

Margaret the Brave
Crazy as a Loon Winner!
Hearts of Stone Silver
The Connoisseur
Teddy
Sister
An Old Friend

Best Sci-Fi Short

AURA Silver
In Old Ranchos
Dead End Winner!
Chad
Ripper Was Here

Best Director of a Short (2025 Surprise Award)

Tom Van Avermaet, Hearts of Stone Silver
Monica Raymund, Crazy as a Loon
Danny Chandia, Margaret the Brave Winner!
Matthew Lucas, In Old Ranchos
Nuk Suwanchote, An Old Friend
Joel Knoernschild, Ripper Was Here

Best Comedic Stop-Motion Animation

Autophagy
A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian
I Took My Avocado to Aspen, Colorado Winner!
Meevil the Weevil Silver

Best Stop-Motion Short

Two Black Boys in Paradise Winner!
Family Portrait
Brain Space Silver
Tin Tune

Best Short Form Stop-Motion Animation

A Pleasure Winner!
One Final Day
Brim Broome Boulevard Silver
Meevil the Weevil

Best Student Stop-Motion Short

The Other Space Silver
(G)host Country
A Guest from Elsewhere
Dragfox
Humantis Winner!
Freshwater
God Dam

Best Experimental Animation

The Garden Sees Fire
Witness: An Organima Film Silver
Whose Woods Are These
Baby on Board. The Dark Web Catbot
Unknown Callers
Humantis Winner!

Best Experimental Film

Greetings from San Francisco
Elevator Dance (For Elisa) Remix Winner!
The Bomber Silver
Distance Between Two Points
How to Unearth: Creatures from the Depths of Your Mind

Best Music Video

Dancing Dhamaal! Winner!
Agoraphobia Silver (tie)
Polyghost Silver (tie)
Away We Go
“Staircase Stomp” by The Clamor
Les Savy Fav “Guzzle Blood”

Best Virtual Reality

Gihan
Ruby Singh’s Vox.Infold II: Mojuba
Diatribes Winner!
The Golden Thread Silver

Best Series

Zombie Safari Silver
Dick Bunny Winner!
Kaleb and Ms. Kelsey
The Wild History of Willamette Falls
Help Solve a Murder
Sparking Creativity

Best Animated Short for Kids

Tag, You’re It! Silver
The Apricot Winner!
Blu’s
Kid President
Night of the Living Fish
Pow!

Best Student Animated Short (Mid-length)

This Darling Miserable Life Winner!
Metal Flower
Out of Tune
Kid President Silver

Best Student Animated Microshort

Fear
Free Snakes
The Day We Flew
Dolly Baby – Rhythm and Flesh Silver
Out of Order
Umit Winner!

Best Short Horror Film

Deformed Silver
Teddy
Sister Winner!
The Elevator Dance (For Elisa) Remix
Rash

Best Horror Animation

Next Show in 90 Minutes Winner!
Autophagy
Zombie Safari
I Beg Your Pardon
Fear Silver
Mindless Idiots

Best Sci-Fi Animation

Help Me Tom
Illuminatus! Silver
Eureka!
Bippy the Little Robot
Dolly Baby – Rhythm and Flesh
113 Words for You Today Winner!

Best Comedic Animation

Inner Freak
She and Her Good Vibrations Winner!
Pow!
Kitty and the Viper Silver
Baby on Board. The Dark Web Catbot
Nighty Night Ken Burns

Best Comedic Short

In Old Ranchos Winner!
Night Shift
Dick Bunny
The Legend of Fry- Roti: Rise of the Dough Silver
Be True to Your School

Best Portland Film or Animation

The Intention Invention
Controlling the Narrative
Help Solve a Murder Winner!
Away We Go
How to Unearth: Creatures from the Depth of Your Mind
Brim Broome Boulevard Silver

Best of the Pacific Northwest

Retrieving Roadie
An Old Friend Silver
Agoraphobia
Have I Swallowed Your Dreams? Winner!
Bippy the Little Robot

Best Actor in a Short Film

Brandon Scales, Trumpet Gumbo Silver
Jason Faunt, An Old Friend
Max Alder, Crazy as a Loon
P.J. Sosko, The Connoisseur Winner!
Roberto Raad, Margaret the Brave

Best Actress in a Short Film

Noomi Rapace, Hearts of Stone Winner!
Lisa Cordileone, Crazy as a Loon
Sarah Bock, The Connoisseur Silver
Kelsey Wang, Sister
Jessica Barden, Hearts of Stone

Best Dome Film - Long Form

Resolution: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul Silver
Total Eclipse: Chasers of the Lost Sleep
The Great Solar System Adventure Winner!
Niyah and the Multiverse

Best Dome Film - Short Form

Queen of the Mountains
Cosmic Rhythms
White birds worship the phoenix
Elements of Air
The Circle Silver
Entropy Track 1: Blue Deep
Stratum Winner

Best VFX in a Short

One Final Day Silver
Dead End Winner!
Treasure Imagination
AURA
Margaret the Brave
Brim Broome Boulevard

Best Documentary Feature

Code the Road Silver
The Universe in a Grain of Sand Winner!

Best Feature Film - Audience Choice

The Storm

Magic Beach

Sunburnt Unicorn

Motherland

Resolution: A Cinephonic Rhapsody for the Soul Winner!

Universal

You are Not Alone

The Universe in a Grain of Sand

Code the Road

A Rare Grand Alignment Silver

Best Dome Film - Audience Choice

Break to Build

The Circle

Cosmic Rhythms

Cosmonaute: Time to Fly

Destin

Elements of Air

Entropy

The Great Solar System Adventure

Machine Visions: Mojave

Niyah and the Multiverse Silver

Our Colorful World

Resolution Winner!

Stratum

Total Eclipse Chaser of Lost Sheep

White birds worship the Phoenix

Best of Oregon - Audience Choice

Brim Broome Boulevard Winner!

Away We Go

Controlling the Narrative

How to Unearth Creatures from the Depth of Your Mind

Help Solve a Murder Silver

The Intention Invention

Jet Lag

Break to Build

Cats on Things

Mother of Portland

Planet Juice Box

Rash

Retrieving Roadie

Running Out on a Feeling

She Came from Outer Space

Galaxies

Migrations

Wild History of Willamette Falls

The Circle Chapter One

Diatribes

Best of Midnight at 8 - Audience Choice

She and Her Good Vibrations

Inner Freak

again I again

Fear

I Beg Your Pardon Silver (tie)

Illuminatus!

Ole