Winners of the 5th CRAFT AnimFest 2025 Announced!
Skwigly
After 5 amazing days full of screenings, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, masterclasses, positive emotions and other attractions, we know the winners of the 5th CRAFT International Animation Festival in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. And we know something else! That both the jury and the audience had the same tastes, awarding the same professional films in both competitions!
Professional Craft Award for the Best Professional Movie – LES BÊTES -directed by Michael Granberry
Jury of the International Competition of Traditional/Classical & Stop-Motion Animation (Heri Dono (Indonesia), Hassan Muthalib (Malaysia), Nyan Kyal Say (Myanmar)) decided to award the Professional Craft Award for the Best Professional Movie to the stop-motion LES BÊTES (United States 2024, 11:38), directed by Michael Granberry. The CRAFT audience agreed with this decision and also awarded LES BÊTES.
Jury Special Award for the Professional Movie in the International Competition went to the hand-painted animation SWEETER IS THE NIGHT (France 2024, 18:25), directed by Fabienne Wagenaar.
Strong Craft Basis Award for the Best Student Movie went to the puppet animation DETLEV (Germany 2024, 12:50), directed by Ferdinand Ehrhardt (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg), while Jury Special Award for the Student Movie in the International Competition went to the stop motion MOTHER OF DAWN (Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Portugal 2024, 08:09), directed by Clara Trevisan (Re:Anima Joint Masters Programme).
The same situation of consent occurred between the Jury of the Southeast Asia Competition (Ekaterina Gardener (Belgium), Julia Hazuka (Poland), Yoshiharu Ashino (Japan)) and the Audience. THE BELL (Philippines 2024, 11:01), directed by Mark Mendoza, was awarded the Professional Craft Award for the Best Professional Movie, as well as the Audience Award.
Strong Craft Basis Award for the Best Student Movie in the Southeast Asia Competition (covering all digital and non-digital animation techniques) went to BURGER (Cambodia 2025, 06:57), directed by Seraktepy KANN (Phare Visual & Applied Arts School), which also won the Jury Special Mention for the Best Designed Poster.
Of course, the youngest audience also chose their favorite movie. In the SHORTS FOR KIDS COMPETITION (stop-motion and traditional animation techniques, without dialogues), the winner was puppet animation HOOFS ON SKATES (Lithuania 2024, 12:24), directed by Ignas Meilūnas.
The complete list of the winners can be found HERE
The fifth edition of the CRAFT International Animation Festival took place from 28/10 to 01/11/2025 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for the last time in a biennial format. From now on, CRAFT will be an annual event. The 6th edition of CRAFT will take place in the second half of 2026.