WINNERS: August 2025 DIVERSITY Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Awards:
Best Short Film: MELODRAMA
Best Direction: SIZWE
Best Peformances: QUANTUM CAUSALITY CONUNDRUM
Best Story: Don’t pretend you didn’t see me
Best Micro-Short: THE PRISONER

THE PRISONER, 1min., India
Directed by Allabhya Ghosh
Life is confined to a ten-foot-by-ten-foot room. That’s the norm in the suburbs now.

Don’t pretend you didn’t see me, 1min., Argentina
Directed by Jimmy Alejandro Castro Zambrano
The narration of the experiences of a blind person who moves through the city.

https://instagram.com/jimmyartista

MELODRAMA, 34min., Italy
Directed by Giuseppe De Vuono
Rebecca Reveal, a promising designer, lives with her husband in an old farmhouse lost in the middle of the countryside. She is a beautiful woman, visionary and devoted to the art world, he a paranoid and egocentric man. They seem the picture of the perfect family, but both are hiding a secret that will push them beyond their limits.

Sizwe, 28min., South Africa
Directed by Ayanda Makayi
The story of a young, deaf Xhosa girl, overcoming adversity in the height of lockdown to save her gogo (grandmother).

https://www.instagram.com/sizweshortfilm/

Quantum Causality Conundrum, 2min., USA
Directed by Aki Aitos
While walking back to a college campus, Emma and Lila delve into the nuances of quantum mechanics and causality, balancing profound curiosity with the practical need to get to class on time.

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