The Paper Bag Plan directed by Anthony Lucero has won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Among Neighbors directed by Yoav Potash won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 27th anniversary edition of San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF IndieFest). The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos directed by The Agbajowo Collective won the Audience Award for Best International Feature
The Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature went to Encrypted directed by Miyoni Nelson), and Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature.
SF IndieFest 2025 included 55 shorts and 35 features from 15 countries, with 34 films local to the Bay Area.
SF IndieFest next presents the 24th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, which will run May 29-June 8, 2025.
A list of the awards for the 2025 San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF IndieFest) follows:
Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
THE PAPER BAG PLAN (Dir. Anthony Lucero)
Audience Award for Best International Feature
THE LEGEND OF THE VAGABOND QUEEN OF LAGOS (Dir. The Agbajowo Collective)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
AMONG NEIGHBORS (Dir. Yoav Potash )
Audience Award for Best United States Narrative Short
MANNEQUIN (Dir. Mark Tran)
Audience Award for Best International Narrative Short
BARA (Dir. chavo)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Short
MEET ME IN CHINATOWN (Dirs. Jerry Hsiao, Anna Sophie Loewenberg)
Audience Award for Best Animation
MAXXIE LAWOW: DRAG SUPER-SHERO (Dir. Anthony Hand)
Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature
ENCRYPTED (Dir. Miyoni Nelson)
Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature
PAVEMENTS (Dir. Alex Ross Perry)
Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short
UNIVERSE 25 (Dir. David Tappan)
Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short
BUTTS (Dirs. Clarissa Jacobson, Shayna Weber)
Staff Prize/ Honorable Mention
ANXIOUS (Dir. Nida Chowdhry)
Feature Screenplay Award Winner
THE SUM OF OUR PARTS, Brian Cox, $1000 prize
Short Screenplay Award Winner
AUPUNI, Erik Reis, $500 prize