Presenting the IFFR Pro awards and juries 2025
Presented on Wednesday 5 February 2025, the IFFR Pro awards celebrate talent and fosters bold cinematic visions. The awards recognise outstanding projects presented at IFFR Pro’s co-production market CineMart and work-in-progress platform Darkroom. Meet the esteemed juries behind each award.

Presenting four new Darkroom awards
This year’s edition introduces four new awards exclusively for Darkroom projects, expanding opportunities for work-in-progress initiatives that push the boundaries of storytelling:
- Outward Gaze Award: The PJLF Arts Fund offers the new award, worth €10,000, to an outstanding Darkroom project.
- Filmmore Work-in-progress Post-production Award: Filmmore, a leading full-service post-production, editing and visual effects facility based in Amsterdam, offers a new award, worth €5,000, to a Darkroom project.
- 4DR Studios Award for Best Immersive Project in Darkroom: 4DR Studios offers a volumetric video studio package to a Darkroom project.
- HBF Empowerment Award: The Hubert Bals Fund is granting an award thanks to a private donor, worth €10,000, to a Darkroom project – to empower filmmakers who come from politically challenging contexts or whose works addresses themes such as freedom of expression, displacement, human rights and/or underrepresented communities.
Continuing IFFR Pro awards
In addition to the new additions, several long standing awards continue to spotlight exceptional talent. IFFR Pro is grateful to all its award partners who continue to make the following prizes possible through their generosity:
- Eurimages New Lab Awards: Eurimages offers two awards, including an Innovation Award for CineMart projects in development, worth €20,000, and an Outreach Award for Darkroom work-in-progress projects, worth €30,000.
- 4DR Studios Award for Best Immersive Project in CineMart: 4DR Studios offers a volumetric video studio package to an outstanding immersive project presented at CineMart.
- Filmmore Post-production Award: Filmmore offers €7,500 to a CineMart project, dedicated to visual effects and post-production.
- ArteKino International Award: ArteKino offers a award, worth €6,000, to the producer of a standout project to support its development, sponsored by ARTE’s foundation for the promotion of arthouse cinema.
- VIPO Award: The Visual Industry Promotion Organization dedicated to supporting Japan’s content industry internationally offers an award, worth €3,000, to an outstanding project with budgets where the award can make the most impact.
Introducing our esteemed juries
Ensuring a fair and insightful selection process, the IFFR Pro juries comprise respected professionals from across the global film industry. Meet the jury members below.
Eurimages New Lab Awards (CineMart and Darkroom)
- Tupac Martir (Satore Studio, United Kingdom)
- Carole Kremer (Luxembourg Film Fund, Luxembourg)
- Nelleke Driessen (NINE FILM, Netherlands)
- Eurimages project manager: Sergio García de Leániz
Outward Gaze Award
- Olivia Stewart (Three Rivers Ltd, United Kingdom)
- Remi Bonhomme (Marrakech International Film Festival, Morocco/France)
- Gabor Greiner (Films Boutique, Germany)
ArteKino International Award & Filmmore Post-production Award
- Julie Savary (ARTE France Cinéma, France)
- Anton Scholten (24 FPS, The Netherlands)
- Amanda Livanou (Neda Film, Greece)
Filmmore Work-in-progress Post-production Award
- Igor Riabchuk (Filmmore Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Mimi Plauché (Chicago International Film Festival, United States)
VIPO Award (Visual Industry Promotion Organization, Japan)
- Yoshi Yatabe (VIPO)
- Kousuke Ono (VIPO)
- Mika Morishita (VIPO)
- Nahoko Yamashita (VIPO)
4DR Studios Awards (Immersive CineMart & Darkroom)
- Natasja Paulssen (4DR Studios, The Netherlands)
HBF Empowerment Award
- Vanja Kaludjercic (Festival Director IFFR)
- Susan Weeks (Industry veteran and HBF donor, US)
- Tamara Tatishvili (Head of Hubert Bals Fund, Netherlands)