Keratin dir Charlie Jimenez, Scarlett Wang
Best International Experimental Short
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by The James Joyce Centre, Dublin
Loosing My Body dir Žiga Ciber
Best Irish Experimental Short
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by The James Joyce Centre, Dublin
If You Call Me Eveline dir Fernando Oikawa Garcia
Best Joycean Short
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by The James Joyce Centre, Dublin
Taiji Cove, dir Sasha Gromova
Best Literature Short
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by The James Joyce Centre, Dublin
I Found A Place dir Zoë Gibney
Best Dublin Short Story
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by The James Joyce Centre, Dublin
The Way Home, dir Chiara Viale
Best Irish Poetry Short
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by Poetry Ireland
Purple Cat dir Josua Graf
Best International Poetry Short
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by The James Joyce Centre, Dublin
Songs of Blood and Destiny dir Trish McAdam
Best Feature
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by The James Joyce Centre, Dublin
Purple Cat dir Josua Graf
Best Overall Short
Bloomsday Film Festival 2025
Presented by Writers Tears
Judges Comments
Literature Shorts
Nominations
6.14
Taiji Cove
Winner: Taiji Cove by dir Sasha Gromova
Judges Comment: A subtle portrait of a young woman dealing with grief and loss, with an ominous, brooding atmosphere throughout, where each scene crackles with the menace caused by one pivotal violent act. An accomplished and confident piece of filmmaking.
Irish Poetry Shorts
Nominations
The Way Home
Learning to Breathe
Winner: The Way Home dir Chiara Viale
Judges Comment: This deliberately paced film tells the story of a nomadic life with a unique lens: the building materials of different homes and places. Through apparently simple encounters with the exteriors of dwelling places that anchor the film in material culture, the viewer is successfully brought into the everyday reality of each phase of the poem’s journey.
International Poetry Shorts
Nominations
Wandering Houses
Vice Versa
Purple Cat
Winer: Purple Cat dir Josua Graf
Judges Comment: Purple Cat’s central metaphor provides a striking image that demonstrates how insidiously a private battle can take over a life. Ominous lighting, tightening shots, and the ever-increasing seep of purple wax combine with an intimate performance to illuminate the loneliness of a deep personal struggle. A brilliantly conceived look at addiction, making powerful use of all the elements at the filmmaker’s disposal.
Irish Experimental
Nominations
KRYLA
Loosing My Body
Winner: Loosing my Body dir Žiga Ciber
Judges Comment: A heartfelt, achingly intimate piece executed with economy and authority.
International Experimental
Nominations
State O’ Chassis
Keratin
Winner: Keratin dir Charlie Jimenez, Scarlett Wang
Judges Comment: This film felt like a glimpse into a dark otherworld, oozing with ethereal atmosphere and sinister mystery.
Dublin Short Stories
Nominations
I Found A Place
Conveyance
Winner: I Found A Place dir Zoë Gibney
Judges Comments: A short story that is both poignant and succinct, beautifully shot and acted. The tale of a man’s plight slowly and cleverly unfolds and echoes the old story of the Irish emigrant abroad, too ashamed to come home and admit things hadn’t worked out, but is set in modern day Ireland where homelessness is at crisis point. A heartbreaking watch and worthy winner.
Joycean Shorts
Nominations
And our eyes are on europe
If You Call Me Eveline
Winner: If You Call Me Eveline dir Fernando Oikawa Garcia
Judges Comments: While faithful to the spirit of the “Dubliners” story, If You Call Me Eveline does not adhere slavishly to the original but instead crafts a smart metadrama – with marked complementarity of text and image – to quietly reveal the interiority of a young woman’s reflections.
Best Feature
Nominations
Horrible Creature
Songs of Blood and Destiny
Winner: Songs of Blood and Destiny
Judges Comment: A bold and visionary journey to the centre of a woman. Cinema at its best, ineffable, hypnotic, transcendental.
Overall Winner: Purple Cat
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