Badalona, October 25th, 2025
The 2025 FILMETS Badalona Film Festival closed its 51st edition with a La Nit de les Venus gala full of emotion and recognition. The animated short film I Died in Irpin (Anastasiia Falileieva, Czech Republic) won the award for Best Film of the festival, in an edition that once again surpassed 20,000 attendees from last year. The Audience Award went to a debut film, Prou bé (Anna Carbonell, Catalonia).
Title: I Died in Irpin
Country and year: Czech Republic, 2024 – 11’22” – Animation
Director and screenplay: Anastasiia Falileieva
Music: Petr Marek
Producers: Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasová, Juraj Krasnohorský
Production companies: MAUR Film, Artichoke
Synopsis: At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Falileieva and her boyfriend leave Kyiv to visit his parents in Irpin. The city becomes a battlefield, but the danger is not only outside their home.
Frame from I Died in Irpin, Best Film winner
FILMETS 2025 AWARDS
Frame from Prou bé, Audience Award winner – La Vanguardia
The Official Jury of this 51st edition was composed of Isaki Lacuesta, Isa Campo, Roser Aguilar, Gloria Fernández, and Takuro Takeuchi.
During La Nit de les Venus, the third Venus of Honour of this edition was presented—an award FILMETS grants to personalities who have made an outstanding contribution to the world of cinema. In this case, it went to Catalan actress, director, screenwriter, and producer Aina Clotet.
Clotet’s latest feature as a director, “Oh, Nora”, is currently in post-production and was partially filmed in the city of Badalona. In fact, in 2016, the FILMETS festival screened her first short film as a director, “Tiger”, which was selected at festivals around the world and nominated for the Gaudí Awards.
As a complete creator, she recently premiered “Esto no es Suecia”, a series that received the prestigious Prix Europa for Best Fiction, where she is creator, director, producer, and lead actress. From her early work in front of the camera to her consolidation as a filmmaker, she has combined talent, honesty, and a curious and daring gaze.
The ceremony, hosted by Òscar Dalmau and broadcast by Televisió de Badalona, La Xarxa+, and more than twenty local TV stations, marked the end of more than ten days of activities. However, the festival still offers two special sessions: this Sunday, the Awards screening, and on Monday, the premiere of the documentary “From Badalona to Brooklyn”, about the career of Catalan coach Jordi Fernández, the first Spanish head coach to reach the top tier of the NBA.
