The 2025 Sundance Film Festival awards were presented over the weekend at a ceremony at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah. The awards ceremony honored the winning projects ahead of the conclusion of the event, where 94 feature-length and episodic works and 57 short films — curated from a total 15,775 submissions — screened for audiences in Park City, Salt Lake City, and online.
“We have such admiration and respect for all of the films in this year’s program, and we want to congratulate everyone who had a hand in creating the works being honored at our Awards Ceremony today,” said Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “Our programming team is so thrilled to have introduced these moving and impactful works to our audiences this Festival, and we look forward to following the journeys of each of these talented artists and their projects.”
The full list of award-winning films is available here.

The winner of the Short Film Jury Award: Animation — one of several Oscar-qualifying prizes award by the festival — was writer-director Natalia León for Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado (France; producer: Luc Camilli). Sundance presented the World Premiere of the film, whose title translates to “As if the earth had swallowed them.”
Logline: Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.
The jury specifically praised the film’s “immersive and deeply intimate approach to a tragic epidemic, using the craft of animation in surprising and poignant ways.”
Watch the Sundance Institute’s interview with León:

In addition, British animator May Kindred-Boothby received a Short Film Special Jury Award for Animation Directing for The Eating of an Orange (U.K.) Kindred-Boothby wrote and directed the piece, which made tis International Premiere at Sundance 2025.
Logline: Convention and sexuality are explored through slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange.
The special recognition was awarded “for the intricate crafting of a deeply emotional tale told without dialogue and traditional narrative structure, and for a fresh take on female empowerment,” the jury stated.
Watch Kindred-Boothby’s festival interview: