Lili

Award

🌿 2025 Winners 🌿

~ Best Feature: Fuga

~ Best Documentary: Queer as Punk

~ Best Short Film: Two Black Boys in Paradise

Special Mentions

~ Feature: Dreamers

~ Documentary: Soul of the Desert

~ Short Film: Zagêro

Our awards for Best Feature, Best Documentary and Best Short Film are named after Danish transgender artist Lili Elbe, who was among the first people in recorded Western trans* history to undergo gender-affirming surgery in 1930. The Lili Award is granted to remarkable films in their category that challenge existing norms of sexuality and gender. These films are nominated by MIX's programmers and selected by our international jury panel.

Jury

Amalie Maria Nielsen (they/she)

Amalie Maria is a Copenhagen-based director whose films have been screened at leading festivals around the world, earning multiple nominations and awards. Their work is driven by a deep curiosity and a desire to explore human behaviour in a contemporary context. They are particularly interested in the evolving nature of sexuality, boundaries, and intimacy.

Kit Hung (they/ze)

Kit is a filmmaker, educator, and advocate with over 30 years’ experience in queer cinema, socially engaged storytelling, and secure filmmaking. Founder of the Secure Storyteller Network and a fellow of Berlinale Talents and the Yale-China Arts Programme, their work bridges activism and film, supporting marginalised voices across continents and diasporas.

Tara Brown (they/them)

Tara is a film curator and consultant who has worked with major festivals including BFI London Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest, Fringe!, and We Crip Film. Tara, who describes themself as a Black, fat, queer, non-binary, trans, disabled femme, works to ensure that cinema is as accessible, diverse, and brilliant as possible.

Lillian Crawford (she/her)

Lillian is a freelance film and culture writer. She is the Shorts Programmer for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and a co-founder of Stims Collective, which curates screenings for neurodivergent audiences. Her forthcoming publications include introductions to the collected screenplays of Terence Davies, to be published by Bloomsbury.

Samuel Girma (he/him)

Samuel is a cultural worker, film and art curator, activist, and co-founder of the anti-racist, intersectional, and feminist platform Black Queers Sweden. Born and raised in Ethiopia, and having moved to Sweden as a teenager, his perspective on Blackness and migration is deeply informed by lived experience. He is currently working on a short film inspired by James Baldwin.