The 25th Innsbruck Nature Film Festival has announced its winners!

For the 25th time, the Innsbruck Festival, held at the Metropol Cinema, celebrated nature, the environment, and the careful stewardship of the planet. The event was complemented by excursions into Tyrol’s unique natural landscapes.

Please find all winners here:

Best ANIMATION SHORT FILM

Directed by Bára Anna

A deadly shrimp and a blind fish try to overcome their differences in a vibrant ocean paradise.

CHRISTIAN BERGER CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD

Directed by David Bim

A mesmerizing black-and-white portrait of family survival in the remote wetlands of Cuba.

Best Film Stories of the Alps

Directed by Meike Hollnaicher, Tom Schäfer

A designer and a chef explore the future of food through visionaries transforming agriculture.

Best Film Green Fiction Feature

Directed by Joaquín del Paso

A Haitian family seeks a new life in a Mexican forest threatened by encroaching illegal logging.

Wildlife Award

Directed by Wayne de Lange

Rescued from poachers in Zimbabwe, a baby pangolin gets a second chance at life in the wild.

Best Film Respecting Mountains

Directed by Daniela Pulverer

High in Peru's Andes, the vast Colca Canyon reveals ancient terraced oases and soaring condors.

Best ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTARY

Directed by Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman

This film explores polar bear conflicts in Churchill, asking who belongs in a shifting Arctic.

Best Short Green Fiction

Directed by Xinge Li

A botanist traces ancient plant roots to blend science, childhood memory, and Chinese symbolism.

Best NATURE DOCUMENTARY

Directed by Eleanor Mortimer

As deep-sea mining looms, scientists race to discover unknown species in Earth's largest habitat.

Best SHORTFILM FOR KIDS

Directed by Sophia Dimke

Filmmaker Sophia Dimke journeys across Iceland to capture the Arctic fox and its rugged wildlife.

Best Film on the Topic of BIODIVERSITY

Directed by James Damer Dawson

In Devon, two neighboring farmers named Derek clash when one turns his land over to wild nature.

Women Award

Directed by Otilia Portillo Padua

Two Indigenous mycologists in Mexico blend ancestral knowledge and science to protect mushrooms.

Best Film on the Topic of SOIL

Directed by Nikos Pantermarakis

On Crete, farmers fight soil degradation through regenerative agriculture in a poetic film.