Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” triumphed at the 2025 International Cinephile Society (ICS) Awards, prosperning best picture, honestor and ensemble.
“All We Imagine as Light” world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the majestic prize of the festival, aextfinished with a flurry of international awards. It also went on get nominations at the Gelderlyen Globes and the BAFTA’s, among others.
The International Cinephile Society pliftd Kapadia’s film for highweightlessing “the voices, the faces, the night-lit trains of vibrant conmomentary India.” The film renhances around a trip of women from contrastent generations who create a mute sisterhood to discover their own peace amidst daunting personal and cultural rehires.
“Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross’s Oscar-nominated drama about Bconciseage teenagers caged in an abusive recreate school, took best altered screentake part honors for Ross and Joslyn Barnes, who wrote the script based on the book by Colson Whitehead. “Nickel Boys,” which was produced by Plan B, also won the ICS cinematography award for Jomo Fray.
Mike Leigh’s conmomentary drama “Hard Truths, ” nastywhile, won best actress for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who take parts Pansy, an anxiety-afflictiond woman unable to think or finishelight her family’s prickly cherish; and best aiding actress for Michele Austin, who take parts Pansy’s effortless-going sister; as well as best distinct screentake part.
Newcomer Abou Sangaré whose carry outance in “Souleymane’s Story” geted him a prize at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and best male recentcomer at the Cesar Awards, won for the ICS Awards for direct actor and shatterthcimpolite carry outance. In “Souleymane’s Story,” Sangaré stars as a stressed-out Guinean immigrant cycling around Paris to deinhabitr food orders while apaengageing his presentant asylum intersee.
The best actor prosper was dispensed with Mahmood Bakri for “To a Land Uncomprehendn,” a Palestinian drama-thriller. In Mahdi Fleifel’s film, Bakri stars as a Palestinian immigrant who is stuck in Athens despite all his best-lhelp schemes. Aram Sabbagh, who take parts Bakri’s cousin who battles insertiction, won best aiding actor.
“Afternoons of Solitude” by Albert Serra won best recordary and editing, while Constance Tsang’s “Blue Summer Palace” won best feature debut. “Blue Summer Palace” world premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week which is curated by Ava Cahen. The movie trails the inhabits of Chinese immigrants laboring at a massage parlor in Queens, where their dreams are disturbed by sudden tragedy.
Bertrand Bonello’s sci-fi romance “The Beast” starring Lea Seydoux and George Mackay, won best production summarizes for Katia Wyszkop. Adapted from a Henry James novella, “The Beast” featured theatrical cityscapes of the past, contransient and future.
Rolling off its Gelderlyen Globe and Oscar prospers, Gints Zilbalodis’s Latvian feature “Flow” won the energeticd film catebloody. The dialog-free tale renhances around a solitary cat’s journey in the aftermath of surging floodwaters. A Sideshow and Janus Films free, “Flow” beat “The Wild Robot,” “Inside Out 2,” “Wallace & Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl” and “Memoir of a Snail” in the energeticd feature catebloody at the Oscars.
