The British City Movie Pageant (BUFF) has unveiled the nominations for its 2025 Awards ceremony, which can mark the finale of the pageant’s twentieth anniversary version.
BUFF continues its mission to highlight underrepresented voices in movie, with nominees spanning UK and worldwide brief movies, options, documentaries, animation, and efficiency.
This 12 months’s pageant will function the UK premiere of The Skilled Guardian, which has additionally certified for consideration within the 98th Academy Awards’ Greatest Reside Motion Brief Movie class. Final 12 months, Rock, Paper, Scissors, which premiered at BUFF, went on to win Greatest Brief Movie on the BAFTA Movie Awards.
“As BUFF turns 20, these nominations mirror the daring storytelling and numerous voices that outline our pageant. From rising stars to established icons, the BUFF Awards shine a light-weight on expertise shaping the way forward for cinema“, stated Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe, the pageant’s founder and director.
The complete listing of nominees embrace:
Greatest UK Brief Movie
- The Launch (Steven Orange Eniraiyetan)
- Sunshine (Manu Kurewa)
- Softy (Joshua Reeves)
Greatest Worldwide Brief Movie
- Rise (Jessica J. Rowlands)
- The Untying (Meagan Noel Fulps)
- Lola (Grace Hanna)
Greatest Actress in a Brief
- Titana Muthui ( Sunshine )
- Ronkè Adékôluêjó ( The Launch )
- Diém Camille (No Place for a Child)
Greatest Actress in a Function (The Blessing Anyiam-Osigwe Award)
- Sitsofe Tsikor (Letters to Goddo)
- Endurance Dedzo (The Fisherman)
- Stella Damasus (Water Woman)
Greatest Actor in a Brief
- Joseph Obasohan ( Softy )
- Oliver Samuels (Sugar Dumplin)
- Karl Collins (The Final Dance)
Greatest Actor in a Function (The Anthony Adjekum Award)
- Solomon Fixon Owoo (Letters to Goddo)
- Nicholas Pinnock (Heavyweight)
- Elijah Baker (Tapped)
Greatest Worldwide Function
- Letters to Goddo (Harry Bentil)
- Water Woman
- The Fisherman (Zoey Martinson)
Greatest UK Function (The Victor Adebodun Award)
- Heavyweight (Christopher M. Anthony)
- Tapped (Teoman Sayin)
- An Enemy Inside (John Kennedy)
Greatest Soundtrack
- Sunshine (Giles Lamb)
- Lola (Johan Macaraeg)
- Struggle or Flight (Tessa White)
Greatest Documentary
- Inmates With Expertise (Johnny Collins, Joel Jerome Dant)
- Shoot The Folks (Andy Mundy-Fortress)
- Skategoat (Van Alpert)
Greatest Animation
- Bubble Boy (Cameron Carr)
- The 12 Inch Pianist (Lucas Ansel)
- Two Black Boys in Paradise (Baz Sells)
Greatest Script Supervision (Profitable recipient)
Greatest Reside Scripts (Profitable recipients)
- Mailman (Robin Scovill)
- Blood Sufficient (Saeid Ghasemi)
- The City (Al Mertens)
Honorary Recipient
The Greatest Actor Award has been renamed in honour of Anthony Adjekum, whose sudden passing final 12 months shocked friends and colleagues throughout the business.
Since 2020, the British City Movie Pageant has been a qualifying pageant for British brief movies and British brief animation movies chosen and screened at BUFF. As of 2025, BUFF is one in all 86 qualifying festivals (together with 31 British) which permit for movies to be eligible for a BAFTA movie award within the Greatest British brief and/or Greatest British brief animation class.
This 12 months’s award ceremony will happen on Friday twenty fourth October 2025 on the Genesis Cinema, Stepney Inexperienced, London. The occasion shall be hosted by Linda E (That is My Home), with visitor presenters Lisa Maffia (So Strong Crew) and Producer Teddy Nygh (Rocket Gasoline, Pru), plus a particular visitor look by actor Aml Ameen (Rustin, A Man in Full).