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2025 Disorient Film Festival Awards

Main Awards

AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE Narrative

Moloka’i Bound

Directed By - Alika Tengan

Nominated Films:

  • Heartstorm
  • Frog
  • THE MOTHERLOAD
  • ANXIOUS

AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

Home Court

Directed By Erica Tanamachi

Nominated Films:

  • Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement
  • Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
  • Chasing Cambodia
  • Making Waves: The Rise of Asian America
  • We Never Left

AWARD FOR BEST SHORT NARATIVE

Mannequin

Directed By Mark Tran

Nominated Films:

  • Beauty of Sorrow
  • Desync
  • Inheritors
  • Just Kids
  • Lola
  • Mirage
  • Places We Knew
  • Earboy
  • Kumar Kumar

AWARD FOR BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Dear Watsonville

Directed By Sondy Lucille

Nominated Films:

  • BECAUSE OF YOU: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo
  • Paramita
  • Dale
  • Isao
  • Ikigai

AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATION

Have I Swallowed Your Dreams

Directed By Clara Chan

Nominated Films:

  • Detours Ahead
  • Re:connection
  • Dancing Dhamaal!

JASON D. MAK AWARD FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement

Directed By Tadashi Nakamura & Quyên Nguyen-Le

Nominated Films:

  • Making Waves: The Rise of Asian America
  • Between Pictures:  The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
  • We Never Left

REFLECTIONS AWARD

Making Waves: The Rise of Asian America

Directed By Jon Osaki & Josh Chuck

Nominated Films:

  • Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement
  • Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
  • THE MOTHERLOAD
  • Beauty of Sorrow

Audience Choice Awards

Audience Choice Best Feature Narrative

Heartstorm

Directed By Jerry White Jr.

Audience Choice Best Feature Documentary

Home Court

Directed By Erica Tanamachi

Audience Choice Best Short Narrative

I Am

Directed By Tony Dia

Audience Choice Best Short Documentary

Dale

Directed By Justin Streichman

Audience Choice Best Animation

Dancing Dhamaal!

Directed By Nimisha Sanjeevani-Chandrashekhar Mahatme

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