Golden Coconut Award

The Festival will award the following prizes in accordance with the decision of the International Jury:

1. The Best Picture, with the cash prize of 150,000 yuan;

2. The Grand Jury Prize, with the cash prize of 100,000 yuan;

3. The Best Director, with the cash prize of 100,000 yuan;

4. The Best Actor, with the cash prize of 80,000 yuan;

5. The Best Actress, with the cash prize of 80,000 yuan;

6. The Best Scriptwriter, with the cash prize of 50,000 yuan;

7. The Best Visual Effect, with the cash prize of 50,000 yuan;

8. The Best Chinese Contribution of the Year, with the cash prize of 50,000 yuan;

9. The Best Documentary Film, with the cash prize of 50,000 yuan;

10. The Best Short Film, with the cash prize of 30,000 yuan;

Awards
  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Picture

    Black Rabbit, White Rabbit

    Chinese Premiere 
    Tajikistan / United Arab Emirates|Tajiki / Persian / Russian|2025|Color|139min
    Director:Shahram Mokri
    Cast:Babak Karimi / Hasti Mohammai / Bezhan / Kibriyo Dilyobova

    Synopsis:A director is remaking a classic Iranian film in Tajikistan. The studio armorer is worried that the gun they intend to use is not a prop gun. A young woman arrives at the location insisting that she be given an audition. In another part of town, Sara, recently recovered from a car crash, realises her accident was a conspiracy. These people' s destinies inevitably intertwine.

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Grand Jury Prize

    Phantoms of July

    Chinese Premiere
    Germany|German / Iranian  |2025|Color|90min
    Director: Julian Radlmaier
    Cast:Clara Schwinning / Maral Keshavarz

    Synopsis:An East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm dream of another life and end up on a ghost hunt in the mountains.

    2025 Locarno International Film Festival
    2025 Hamburg Film Fest - Best German Film Award

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Grand Jury Prize

    A Dance in Vain

    Chinese Premiere 
    China|Mandarin|2025|Color|86min 
    Director:Lee Hong-Chi 
    Cast:Cici Wang 

    Synopsis:Monkey has spent years working in a theater company. Day after day, her life feels stuck on repeat. In 2020, her boyfriend, Leo, returned to his hometown and took his own life. Since then, his absence has lingered like a shadow, every breath she takes. She tries to reach out, but all she hears is: "You' re already so lucky." 

    2025 Venice International Film Festival, Critics' Week

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Director

    Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)

    Chinese Mainland Premiere
    USA |English / Spanish|2025|Color|101min
    Director:Joel Alfonso Vargas
    Cast: Juan Collado / Destiny Checo / Yohanna Florentino / Nathaly Navarro

    Synopsis:Rico' s summer is a wild mix of chasing girls and hustling homemade cocktails out of a cooler on Orchard Beach, the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place with his family, it' s only a matter of time before his rowdy, carefree days come spiraling down.

    2025 Sundance Film Festival, NEXT - Special Jury Award 
    2025 Berlin International Film Festival, Perspectives

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Actor

    NINO

    Chinese Premiere
    France|French |2025|Color|97min
    Director:Pauline Loquès
    Cast:Théodore Pellerin / Salomé Dewaels / William Lebghil / Jeanne Balibar

    Synopsis:In three days, Nino will face a major challenge. But first, his doctors have assigned him two vital tasks. Two missions that will lead the young man on a journey through Paris, compelling him to reconnect with the world and himself.

    2025 Cannes Film Festival, Critics' Week - Rising Star Award & Valbonne Audience Award
    2025 Toronto International Film Festival, Platform Competition
    2025 Rome Film Fest, Progressive Cinema Competition - Jury Grand Prize

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  • Golden Coconut AwardsThe Best Actress

    Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)

    Chinese Mainland Premiere
    USA |English / Spanish|2025|Color|101min
    Director:Joel Alfonso Vargas
    Cast: Juan Collado / Destiny Checo / Yohanna Florentino / Nathaly Navarro

    Synopsis:Rico' s summer is a wild mix of chasing girls and hustling homemade cocktails out of a cooler on Orchard Beach, the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place with his family, it' s only a matter of time before his rowdy, carefree days come spiraling down.

    2025 Sundance Film Festival, NEXT - Special Jury Award 
    2025 Berlin International Film Festival, Perspectives

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Scriptwriter

    Blue Heron

    Chinese Premiere 
    Canada / Hungary | English / Hungarian|2025|Color|90min 
    Director:Sophy Romvari 
    Cast:Ádám Tompa / Edik Beddoes / Eylul Guven / Amy Zimmer / Iringó Réti / Liam Serg / Preston Drabble 

    Synopsis:In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island. Their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behaviour from Jeremy, the family' s oldest child. 

    2025 Locarno International Film Festival, First Feature Award Competition - Best First Feature 
    2025 Toronto International Film Festival - Discovery Award 
    2025 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Zabaltegi - Special Mention

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Scriptwriter

    Brought with the Storm

    Asian Premiere
    Argentina|Spanish|2025|Color|121min
    Director:Miguel de Zuviría
    Cast:Jesús Catalino / Carolina Saade / Iván Moschner / Irune Porcel

    Synopsis:A film about surviving something that didn' t go as expected. Manuel is going through a breakup with Camila. He has to rethink the whole artistic project. To give Camila space to pack, he leaves for a seaside location, where he continues his preoccupation with recording sounds of all kinds. His inertia about the future will be challenged by something extraordinary on the beach.

    2025 IndieLisboa International Film Festival, International Competition

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Visual Effect

    Mare's Nest

    Chinese Premiere
    UK / France / Canada|English / Catalan |2025|B&W / Color|98min
    Director:Ben Rivers
    Cast:Moon Guo Barker

    Synopsis:Moon travels through a mysterious world free of adults. She meets a sage, and her translator, in a mountain hut, where she tries to understand what is happening. She meets many others who show her different possibilities for living. She observes and moves on into an unknown future.

    2025 Locarno International Film Festival, International Competition - Pardo Verde Award
    2025 Toronto International Film Festival, Wavelengths
    2025 Tokyo International Film Festival

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Chinese Contribution of the Year

    Eternal Summer

    World Premiere
    China|Cantonese|2025|Color|100min
    Director:Ye Zhenpeng
    Cast:Liang Faxuan / Chen Junlin / Wu Xue' er

    Synopsis:17-year-old Liang Kefeng was caught off guard by a cruel "coming-of-age ceremony". His father passed away suddenly, his mother was burdened with heavy debts, and he was forced to get involved in a cigarette smuggling ring in the wild town; he encountered a Tanka woman who made the sea her home, drifting like duckweed for life, and witnessed the collapse of his best friend' s family.

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Documentary Film

    Hair, Paper, Water...

    Chinese Mainland premiere
    Belgium / France / Vietnam |Rục / Vietnamese|2025|Color|71min
    Director: Nicolas Graux / Trương Minh Quý
    Cast: Cao Thị Hậu

    Synopsis:Cao Thi Hau was born in a cave more than 60 years ago. Now she lives in a village, with many children and grandchildren to look after. Sometimes, she dreams of her dead mother calling her home to the cave. The film captures fleeting moments of her daily life, its beauties and economic struggles, and the transmission of her people' s language, Ruc, to her grandchildren.

    2025 Locarno International Film Festival - Pardo d' Oro (Golden Leopard)

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  • Golden Coconut Award Documentary Film Special Mention By The International Jury

    I sing, I love, I exist

    World Premiere
    China |Mandarin|2025|Color|105min
    Director:Wang Yu
    Cast:Zhang Qianqian

    Synopsis:In the mid-1990s, female rock musician Zhang Qianqian rose to fame, only to suddenly disappear overnight. Against the backdrop of China' s 30-year wave of commercialization, her journey—marked by pursuit and resistance, gains and costs—offers a glimpse into the possibility of an alternative way of life.

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  • Golden Coconut Awards The Best Short Film

    L'mina

    Chinese Mainland Premiere
    France / Morocco / Italy / Qatar|Darija (MoroccanArab dialect)|2025|Color|26min
    Director: Randa Maroufi
    Cast: Amine Mkallech / Laid Erramly

    Synopsis:Jerada is a mining town in Morocco where coal extraction, although officially halted in 2001, continues informally to this day. L’mina recreates the current work in informal mining pits using a set design created in collaboration with the town’s residents, who perform in their own roles.

    2025 Cannes Film Festival, Critics’ Week - Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film

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  • Golden Coconut Award Short Film Special Mention By The International Jury

    āyí

    Asian Premiere
    China USA |Mandarin / English|2025|Color|13min
    Director:Li Jiayi
    Cast:Eleven Lee

    Synopsis:In a crowded dormitory in Flushing, NYC, an undocumented housekeeper, ayí, endures exploitation while striving for a better life. Her only escape is Baduanjin, a meditative Tai Chi practice that offers fleeting peace. But as hardships mount, she must choose between silence and resistance.

    2025 Tribeca Film Festival - Special Jury Mention for Student Visionary
    2025 Mar del Plata International Film Festival, International Short Film Competition - Special Mention
    2025 Hawaii International Film Festival

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