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Sundance Film Festival 2025 – Winners

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic
Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby”

Sundance Film Festival
Cutting Through Rocks
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages.
Directors S. Khaki, M. Eyni
2025 Iran/Germany/United States/Netherlands/Qatar/Chile/Canada

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Brides
Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.
Director(s) Nadia Fall
Principal Cast Ebada Hassan, Safiyya Ingar
2024 United Kingdom

April & Amanda
Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history; and Amanda Lear, who has consciously denied and obfuscated her history for decades. Their divergent paths reveal disparate but intertwined legacies.
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All That’s Left of You (اللي باقي منك)

After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.

Director(s) Cherien Dabis
Producers T. Karathanos, M. Hampel,
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