2025 WINNERS
MY NAME IS CLIMATE 2025 AWARD WINNERS LIST
SPECIAL AWARDS
My Name is Climate Bravery Award 2025
- The Stolen Life of Lucy the Elephant - Fern Susan Levitt - Canada
Best Climate Action by Youth Film Award 2025
- Green SuperHeroes 2030 - Los Angeles Barea - United States
Best Inspiring Key Cast:
- The Man of The Trees - Daniel Balima - Burkina Faso
Diversity Award:
- Kanenon:we - Original Seeds - Katsitsionni D Fox - United States
Compassion Award:
- The Last Drop - Omar Al-Naimat, Malek Ahmad - Jordan
Green Future Award:
- The Inga Tree Model 2025 - Adam Wakeling - Honduras
Best Farmer Story from United Kingdom Award:
- Stroodelande - a vision for nature restoration - Graham Higgins - United Kingdom
Best International Farmer Story Award:
- Reviving Millets for Climate Resilience - Kavita Carneiro - India
Best Ocean Life Awareness Award:
- Ocean seen from the heart - Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, Marie-Dominique Michaud - Canada
Best Sustainable Film
Best Film Award:
- It'll Never Work - Joe Osborn - United Kingdom
Jury Award:
- The Value of Things - Tobias Luchsinger -
Best Director:
- The Electric Caravan - Kyle Niemer - United States
Best Short Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
- to Save Life on Earth - Jan Phillips - United States
Audience Award:
- The Future is in Our Territories - Eliana Lafone - Colombia
Jury Award:
- Ice Breaker - Chayanee Niljianskul - Thailand
Honourable Mention:
- Les Matérialistes - Jonathan Lapalme, Meggan Collins - Canada
-How We Are Saving a River | Restoring Ross Island : David Alexander Baker - United States
- Remains - Robert Duncan - United Kingdom
-Hot Poets: Blink by Chris Redmond | Written for 3M - Chris Redmond, Jon Hardy, Liv Torc - United States
- Hot Poets: Super Sleuths of the Streets by Liv Torc | Written for Urban ReLeaf - Hot Poets, Liv Torc, Chris Redmond,
Jon Hardy -United Kingdom
- Inundations - Anne Ciecko - United States
Official Selection by Jury :
- Unheard - Jessica Gomula-Kruzic - United States
- The Most Urgent Town Hall That Has Ever Happened - Bethany Hall, Esteban Gast, Caty Borum - USA
- Ode to Invisible - Linn Obrestad - Norway
Best Feature Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
- Harmony - Yuda Kurniawan - Indonesia
Audience Award:
- AMPHIBIANS. Pioneers of life on land - Sławomir Skupiński - Poland
Jury Award:
- Dating Planet A - subtitle version - Johannes Felder, Jonathan Hofmeister - Germany
Honourable Mention:
- Brave Love - John Calder - New Zealand
- Insect_O_Cide - Georgina Willis - United Kingdom
- Europe's lithium paradox - Stijn van Baarle - Belgium
Best Short Documentary Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
- Frozen Waters - Anastasia Fetisov - United States
Best Educational Award:
- Herders of Change - František Ficek, Christian Fischer, Verónica Relaño - Germany
Best International Director:
Something in the water - Alex Eggermont/ Jaron Pham - Belgium
Best Writer:
- On African Soil - Bedelia Basson - South Africa
Best Women Director:
- Ko Tātou Te Wai - We Are the Water - Stephanie Guest - New Zealand
Best Women Director from United Kingdom:
- Rising Tides, Raising Voices - Jody Kristina Santos - United Kingdom
Best Film from United Kingdom:
- Keep our Sea Chemical Free - Senara Wilson - United Kingdom
Best Director From United Kingdom:
- Ocean of Sounds - Jackson Kingsley - United Kingdom
Best Drama from United Kingdom:
- Sentinels - Mark Knightley - United Kingdom
Best First Time Filmmakers:
- Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea - James Chapman, Oscar Fraser Turner, Annie Liddell - United Kingdom
Best Narrator Award:
- Its Time - Dave Pettitt - United States
Jury Award:
- Keepers of The Coastline - Jermey Charles - United States
- Desert Of The Mists - Cristiana Bontemps - Monaco
- Correnteza - Diego Müller, Pablo Müller - Brazil
Honourable Mention:
- Women Lead the Charge for a Waste-Free Jim Corbett - Anushka Rovshen - India
- Transforming the Future of Food - Anelisa Garfunkel, Jeanne Eisenhaure - United States
- Civil Disobedience - Thomas Østbye - Norway
- Taste of Honey - Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Fabeha Monir - Bangladesh
- Aeras - Yannis Bletas - Greece
- My Name is Swallow - Kirsty Wells, Nick Manser - United Kingdom
Best Feature Documentary Film on Climate Change
Best International Film Award:
- Priceless Forests - Orane Burri - Switzerland
Best Film Award United Kingdom:
- THE RWENZORI RAINMAKERS - Zuleika Kingdon - United Kingdom
Best International Women Director:
- OFF THE MARK- Wera Uschakowa - Norway
Best Women Director From United Kingdom:
Tim Stead Magician With Wood - Beatrix A. Wood - United Kingdom
Best Director
- On Melting SnowBest International - Mojtaba Bahadori - Belgium, Iceland
Best International Screenwriter Award:
- Imprint - Mattias Olsson - Sweden
Best Screenwriter From United Kingdom Award:
System Update | Rebooting Our Future - Paul Maple - United Kingdom
Best Producer Award:
- Water - Gary Beeber/ Hope Taft - United State
Best Film Score:
Artery - Ádám Balázs - Hungary
Audience Award:
- Machland – Four Dimensions of Sustainability - Patrick Veit, Lewin Grabo - Germany
Jury Award:
- The Red List - Ross Pierson - United Kingdom
- Not In My Country - Stijn van Baarle - Belgium
- Our new world - Gilles Dufraisse, Frédéric Fougea - France
Best Editor Award:
- Mountains In Harmony - Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada - Spain
Honourable Mention:
- Wild Again - Nick Wilkinson - United Kingdom
- Mes Voisins Sauvages - Pascal Cardeilhac - France
Best Short Animation Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
- Solid as a Rock - Tiva Door Pam - Netherlands
Best Director
- Lunatic - Robin Noorda - Netherlands
Audience Award:
- The Straight Poop - Sue Orloff - United States
Jury Award:
- Animal Anthem Music Video - Ben Wild - United Kingdom
Honourable Mention:
- Unless - Antonina Gotfrid - Poland
Best Short Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
- Protect & Conserve - Atzmon Dagan - Israel
Honourable Mention:
- Friends Not Food - Peter Stray - United State
Best Feature Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
-The Master Of The Altai Mountains - Vadim Vitovtsev, Ilya Tsyganov - Russian Federation
Best Feature Documentary Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
- Wilding - Miguel Cortes Costa, Carolina Castro Almeida - Portugal
Best Director:
- Jake & Isa and the Biomes of Brazil - Joao Amorim - Brazil
Jury Award:
- 399:Queen of the Tetons - Elizabeth Leiter - United States
Honorable Mention:
- The European pond turtle. A unique relic of Polish nature - Michal Ogrodowczyk - Poland
Best Short Documentary Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
- The Lingerie Protestv - Jordan Ehrlich - United States
Audience Award:
- Arctic Encounters - Cristiana Bontemps - Monaco
Jury Award:
- Journey of Transformation - Jaap Perenboom - Netherlands
Honourable Mention:
- Meet The Woman Saving Orangutans from Extinction - Nigel Duarte - United States
Best Short Animation Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
- Cows - Alina Sivets
Jury Award:
- Save Swift Parrots - Jim Southwell
Best Short Film on Social Issue
Best Film Award:
- SHELTER - Tony G.X. Shi - Canada
Best Drama
- Beholden - Leon Lopez - United Kingdom
Best Director
- Ban Before Reading - Stephen Ziegler - United States
Jury Award:
- Earth in 100 Seconds - Daniel Raven-Ellison- United Kingdom
Best Feature Documentary Film on Social Issue
Best Film Award:
- Purpose - Martin H. Oetting - Germany
Best Cinematography
- Roots of Resilience - Benjamin Thomassin - Saint Lucia
Best Director:
- ROMAGNA TROPICALE - PASCAL BERNHARDT - Italy
Best Short Documentary Film on Social Issue
Best Film Award United Kingdom:
- Autonomous Winter Shelter - Dean Cooper - United Kingdom
Best International Film Award:
- THE MAN OF THE TREES - Andrea Trivero - Italy
Jury Award:
- Tempest - Bridget Sutherland - New Zealand
Best Feature Animation Film on Social Issue
Best Film Award:
- Imagine - Jack Manning Bancroft - Australia
Best Feature Film From United Kingdom
Best Film Award:
- Tapped - Teoman Sayin - United Kingdom
Best Director:
- Tim Stead Magician With Wood - Beatrix A. Wood - United Kingdom
Best Actor Award:
- Tapped - Elijah Baker - United Kingdom
Best Short Film From United Kingdom
Best Film Award:
- Heal The Land - Tom Francome, Hayley Smith - United Kingdom
Audience Award:
- The Dark Side of Dove - Alice Russell - United Kingdom
Best International Short Film
Best Film Award:
- SACREBLEU - Chapter 1 - Clement Oberto
Audience Award:
- Messages from the Marsh - Amy Kaczur
Jury Award:
- Freetown’s Ultracool Roofs - Surabhi Tandon
Honourable Mention:
- SHELTER - Tony G.X. Shi
Best Drama:
- Camping Armor - Nicolas de Lumbée
Best International Feature Film
Best Film Award:
- Sargassum - Claude Barnes - Canada
Best Female Director:
- The Forgotten Pacific - Elizabeth Koroivulaono - New Zealand
Best Writer:
- REQUIEM IN WHITE - Harry Putz - Austria
Jury Award:
- Sintrópica - Miguel García Orive - Spain
Best Director Award
- Clock Without A Dial - Fatma Karakuş Kaçmaz - Turkey
Special Award Category
My Name is Climate Bravery Award 2025
- The Stolen Life of Lucy the Elephant - Fern Susan Levitt - Canada
Best Climate Action by Youth Film Award 2025
- Green SuperHeroes 2030 - Los Angeles Barea - United States
Best Sustainable Film
Best Film Award:
- It'll Never Work - Joe Osborn - United Kingdom
Jury Award:
- The Value of Things - Tobias Luchsinger -
Best Director:
- The Electric Caravan - Kyle Niemer - United States
Best Short Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
- to Save Life on Earth - Jan Phillips - United States
Audience Award:
- The Future is in Our Territories - Eliana Lafone - Colombia
Jury Award:
- Ice Breaker - Chayanee Niljianskul - Thailand
Honourable Mention:
- Les Matérialistes - Jonathan Lapalme, Meggan Collins - Canada
-How We Are Saving a River | Restoring Ross Island : David Alexander Baker - United States
- Remains - Robert Duncan - United Kingdom
-Hot Poets: Blink by Chris Redmond | Written for 3M - Chris Redmond, Jon Hardy, Liv Torc - United States
- Hot Poets: Super Sleuths of the Streets by Liv Torc | Written for Urban ReLeaf - Hot Poets, Liv Torc, Chris Redmond,
Jon Hardy -United Kingdom
- Inundations - Anne Ciecko - United States
Official Selection by Jury :
- Unheard - Jessica Gomula-Kruzic - United States
- The Most Urgent Town Hall That Has Ever Happened - Bethany Hall, Esteban Gast, Caty Borum - USA
- Ode to Invisible - Linn Obrestad - Norway
Best Feature Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
- Harmony - Yuda Kurniawan - Indonesia
Audience Award:
- AMPHIBIANS. Pioneers of life on land - Sławomir Skupiński - Poland
Jury Award:
- Dating Planet A - subtitle version - Johannes Felder, Jonathan Hofmeister - Germany
Honourable Mention:
- Brave Love - John Calder - New Zealand
- Insect_O_Cide - Georgina Willis - United Kingdom
- Europe's lithium paradox - Stijn van Baarle - Belgium
Best Short Documentary Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
- Frozen Waters - Anastasia Fetisov - United States
Best Educational Award
- Herders of Change - František Ficek, Christian Fischer, Verónica Relaño - Germany
Best International Director:
Something in the water - Alex Eggermont/ Jaron Pham - Belgium
Best Writer:
- On African Soil - Bedelia Basson - South Africa
Best Women Director:
- Ko Tātou Te Wai - We Are the Water - Stephanie Guest - New Zealand
Best Women Director from United Kingdom:
- Rising Tides, Raising Voices - Jody Kristina Santos - United Kingdom
Best Film from United Kingdom:
- Keep our Sea Chemical Free - Senara Wilson - United Kingdom
Best Director From United Kingdom:
- Ocean of Sounds - Jackson Kingsley - United Kingdom
Best Drama from United Kingdom:
- Sentinels - Mark Knightley - United Kingdom
Best First Time Filmmakers:
- Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea - James Chapman, Oscar Fraser Turner, Annie Liddell - United Kingdom
Best Narrator Award:
- Its Time - Dave Pettitt - United States
Best Diversity Award:
- Kanenon:we - Original Seeds - Katsitsionni D Fox - United States
Compassion Award:
- The Last Drop - Omar Al-Naimat, Malek Ahmad - Jordan
Green Future Award:
- The Inga Tree Model 2025 - Adam Wakeling - Honduras
Best Farmer Story Award from United Kingdom:
- Stroodelande - a vision for nature restoration - Graham Higgins - United Kingdom
Best International Farmer Story Award:
- Reviving Millets for Climate Resilience - Kavita Carneiro - India
Jury Award:
- Keepers of The Coastline - Jermey Charles - United States
- Desert Of The Mists - Cristiana Bontemps - Monaco
- Correnteza - Diego Müller, Pablo Müller - Brazil
Honourable Mention:
- Women Lead the Charge for a Waste-Free Jim Corbett - Anushka Rovshen - India
- Transforming the Future of Food - Anelisa Garfunkel, Jeanne Eisenhaure - United States
- Civil Disobedience - Thomas Østbye - Norway
- Taste of Honey - Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, Fabeha Monir - Bangladesh
- Aeras - Yannis Bletas - Greece
- My Name is Swallow - Kirsty Wells, Nick Manser - United Kingdom
Best Feature Documentary Film on Climate Change
Best International Film Award:
- Priceless Forests - Orane Burri - Switzerland
Best Film Award United Kingdom:
- THE RWENZORI RAINMAKERS - Zuleika Kingdon - United Kingdom
Best International Women Director:
- OFF THE MARK- Wera Uschakowa - Norway
Best Women Director From United Kingdom
Tim Stead Magician With Wood - Beatrix A. Wood - United Kingdom
Best Director
- On Melting SnowBest International - Mojtaba Bahadori - Belgium, Iceland
Best International Screenwriter Award:
- Imprint - Mattias Olsson - Sweden
Best Screenwriter From United Kingdom Award:
System Update | Rebooting Our Future - Paul Maple - United Kingdom
Best Producer Award:
- Water - Gary Beeber/ Hope Taft - United State
Best Film Score:
Artery - Ádám Balázs - Hungary
Best Ocean Life Awareness Award
Ocean seen from the heart - Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, Marie-Dominique Michaud - Canada
Audience Award:
- Machland – Four Dimensions of Sustainability - Patrick Veit, Lewin Grabo - Germany
Jury Award:
- The Red List - Ross Pierson - United Kingdom
- Not In My Country - Stijn van Baarle - Belgium
- Our new world - Gilles Dufraisse, Frédéric Fougea - France
Best Editor Award:
- Mountains In Harmony - Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada - Spain
Honourable Mention:
- Wild Again - Nick Wilkinson - United Kingdom
- Mes Voisins Sauvages - Pascal Cardeilhac - France
Best Short Animation Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
- Solid as a Rock - Tiva Door Pam - Netherlands
Best Director
- Lunatic - Robin Noorda - Netherlands
Audience Award:
- The Straight Poop - Sue Orloff - United States
Jury Award:
- Animal Anthem Music Video - Ben Wild - United Kingdom
Honourable Mention:
- Unless - Antonina Gotfrid - Poland
Best Short Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
- Protect & Conserve - Atzmon Dagan - Israel
Honourable Mention:
- Friends Not Food - Peter Stray - United State
Best Feature Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
-The Master Of The Altai Mountains - Vadim Vitovtsev, Ilya Tsyganov - Russian Federation
Best Feature Documentary Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
- Wilding - Miguel Cortes Costa, Carolina Castro Almeida - Portugal
Best Director
- Jake & Isa and the Biomes of Brazil - Joao Amorim - Brazil
Jury Award:
- 399:Queen of the Tetons - Elizabeth Leiter - United States
Honorable Mention
- The European pond turtle. A unique relic of Polish nature - Michal Ogrodowczyk - Poland
Best Short Documentary Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
- The Lingerie Protestv - Jordan Ehrlich - United States
Audience Award:
- Arctic Encounters - Cristiana Bontemps - Monaco
Jury Award:
- Journey of Transformation - Jaap Perenboom - Netherlands
Honourable Mention:
- Meet The Woman Saving Orangutans from Extinction - Nigel Duarte - United States
Best Short Animation Film on Animals
Best Film Award:
- Cows - Alina Sivets
Jury Award:
- Save Swift Parrots - Jim Southwell
Best Short Film on Social Issue
Best Film Award:
- SHELTER - Tony G.X. Shi - Canada
Best Drama
- Beholden - Leon Lopez - United Kingdom
Best Director
- Ban Before Reading - Stephen Ziegler - United States
Jury Award:
- Earth in 100 Seconds - Daniel Raven-Ellison- United Kingdom
Best Feature Documentary Film on Social Issue
Best Film Award:
- Purpose - Martin H. Oetting - Germany
Best Cinematography
- Roots of Resilience - Benjamin Thomassin - Saint Lucia
Best Director
- ROMAGNA TROPICALE - PASCAL BERNHARDT - Italy
Best Short Documentary Film on Social Issue
Best Film Award United Kingdom:
- Autonomous Winter Shelter - Dean Cooper - United Kingdom
Best International Film Award:
- THE MAN OF THE TREES - Andrea Trivero - Italy
Best Key Cast
- THE MAN OF THE TREES - DANIEL BALIMA - BURKINA FASO
Jury Award:
- Tempest - Bridget Sutherland - New Zealand
Best Feature Animation Film on Social Issue
Best Film Award:
- Imagine - Jack Manning Bancroft - Australia
Best Feature Film From United Kingdom
Best Film Award:
- Tapped : Teoman Sayin - United Kingdom
Best Director:
- Tim Stead Magician With Wood - Beatrix A. Wood - United Kingdom
Best Actor Award:
- Tapped - Elijah Baker - United Kingdom
Best Short Film From United Kingdom
Best Film Award:
- Heal The Land - Tom Francome, Hayley Smith - United Kingdom
Audience Award:
- The Dark Side of Dove - Alice Russell - United Kingdom
Best International Short Film
Best Film Award:
- SACREBLEU - Chapter 1 - Clement Oberto
Audience Award:
- Messages from the Marsh - Amy Kaczur
Jury Award:
- Freetown’s Ultracool Roofs - Surabhi Tandon
Honourable Mention:
- SHELTER - Tony G.X. Shi
Best Drama:
- Camping Armor - Nicolas de Lumbée
Best International Feature Film
Best Film Award:
- Sargassum - Claude Barnes - Canada
Best Female Director:
- The Forgotten Pacific - Elizabeth Koroivulaono - New Zealand
Best Writer
- REQUIEM IN WHITE - Harry Putz - Austria
Jury Award:
- Sintrópica - Miguel García Orive - Spain
Best Director Award:
- Clock Without A Dial - Fatma Karakuş Kaçmaz - Turkey
2024 WINNERS
Best Film on Climate Change
Best Film Award:
-WATER IS LOVE: RIPPLES OF REGENERATION
directed by Ludwig Schramm, Rosa Pannitschka, Martin Winiecki, Isabel Rosa Zabou, Emily Coralyne Bishop
-Courage from Nature: The Story of Sepp Holzer
Directed by Zach Weiss, Raleigh Latham
Audience Award:
-DOCUMERICA, self-portrait of a nation on the brink
Directed by PIERRE-FRANCOIS DIDEK
-Whale Call
Directed by Ron Goodlin
Jury Award:
-Disaster Theories - Our planet in flames
Directed by Dimitris Tzetzas
-Made in Europe, from mine to electric vehicle
Directed by Stijn van Baarle
Honourable Mention:
-Here is the SOS
Directed by Maxence Gross
-Heal - Rewilding
Directed by David W Renton
-Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops
Directed by Susan Gray
-Northern Performance
Directed by Juuso Koivisto
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Best Film on Animal
Best Film Award:
-Where do frogs come from?
Directed by Hannes Rohtma
Audience Award:
-The All Is One
Directed by Tobias Schönenberg
Jury Award:
-Atoll in the heart of the wild life
Directed by Marc Emmanuel Louvat, Kiri Lacinnik, Mako Lacinnik Lacinnik
-Salmon Secrets
Directed by Jeremy MATHIEU
Honourable Mention:
-Tribute To Freedom
Directed by Charlotte Wendt, Philipp Silbernagl
-Shark Teeth Don't Have Roots
Directed by Fang Zhou
-How YOU Can Save Wildlife
Directed by Skylark Media, Viva!
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Best Film on Human Issues
Best Film Award:
-Where Olive Trees Weep
Directed by Zaya Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo
-Vulnerable
Directed by Adam Bellamy
Best Film on Men Abuse
-TACIIT
Directed by Sandy Singh, Ravi Prakash Dubey
Audience Award:
-The Mountain Wagtail
Directed by Begaly Nargozuev
-End2End Relay
Directed by Nathalie Grace
Jury Award:
-Inherited Shame
Directed by Fruzsina Skrabski, Sándor Kiss
Honourable Mention:
-Black, Queer & Done
Directed by Nyasha Daley
-The Shadow Pandemic
Directed byPaola Ghislieri
-INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF EASTERN COASTAL
Directed by KINGSLY RATHNAYAKA
-Corruption on Earth
Directed by Omid Mirnour
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Best Film on Social Issues
Best Film Award:
-MathMoms - where children come to learn
Directed by Gerald Schank
-Prostate, Men, let's talk
Directed by Wayne Nelson
-Memories of a Forgotten Childhood
Directed by Lars Smekal
Audience Award:
-Cookster The Darkest Days
Directed by Stephen Edward Roach
-Light My Fire
Directed by Farid Ismail
Jury Award:
-10IronWomen Breaking Down Barriers of
Long Distance Triathlon
Directed by Josh Williams
Honourable Mention:
-WordLotto - Pilot
Directed by Johnny Baca
-Housing Rights Films - KAIROS Women+
Directed by Vilte Vaitkute
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Best Film on Mental Health
Best Film Award:
-Seb, A Surf Therapy Journey
Directed by Matilda Thompson
Audience Award:
-Breakthrough
Directed by Patryk Wezowski, Kasia Wezowski
Jury Award:
-The Tales of the Blue Sky
Directed by Vruir Tadevosian
Honourable Mention:
-What I will not forget
Directed by Inez Kort, Eva Dullaart
-MANIA
Directed by Behdad Esfahbod
-Course of Conduct 'Gemma's Story'
Directed by Jenni Herd, Claire Dean
-Solo Peaks
Directed by Jacob Chambers
-From the Dark
Directed by Erika Sanz
-Loneliness
Directed by Wayne Nelson
-Work Life
Directed by John Lukey
