AWARDS AND PRIZES

Last year, top award-winners in categories including best narrative film, best animation, best documentary, best experimental film, and best local film, received cash prizes. The details of prizes for this year will be announced closer to the time of the festival. 

TRIFEST 2025 judges included: Karen Allen (Actress, “Raiders of the Lost Ark”), Margie Cohn (President of DreamWorks Animation), Molly Cooper (Executive Producer, “Grand Budapest Hotel”), Tony Gerber (Documentary Filmmaker, “War Game”). 

Award Winners from TRIFEST 2025

January by Jetske Lieber
Best Picture | Best Narrative Film

When We Move by Jasper and Lukas Fletcher
Best Documentary Film | Audience Award 

Being Boxed In by Gabriel Biennas
Best Experimental Film

Soup! by Ava Elizabeth Azarmi
Best Animation Film

Rage by Lisa Marchetti
Best Local Film

November by Nick Lussier
Special Recognition Award

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Subnivean (Narrative) by Yonah Sadeh
Anhad | A Way of Looking (Documentary) by Syed Ahmad Rufai |
 Can’t Remember the Faces (Experimental) by Noah Murphy
 | Wilbur & Harold (Animation) by Giovanni Edwards
 | Karate Cop (Local) by Elise Kenney