The 2025 UAE Student Film Festival

The 2025 UAE Student Film Festival has come and gone and with it another group of film students have engaged in the creation of works of art for the year! Once again, we had well-over 100 films entered into the festival, so the sampling of films that you get here are only a fraction of what was submitted for the year.

Very talented filmmakers abounded at the festival this year and the competition was tight! Below you'll find links to the nominees and winners, photos from the festival, the festival ceremony (with the supercut of all entries), and a whole lot more! 

Congratulations to all of the participants this year!

• Outstanding Drama - Paolo Molinari

• Outstanding PSA/Documentary -  Talia Younes

• Outstanding Comedy - Dylan Younger, Abay Sultanbek, & Paolo Molinari

• Outstanding Thriller/Horror - Sufia Hussaini

• Outstanding Music Video/Video Art - Amelia Schultze

        •       Outstanding Action - Jana Naman

• Outstanding Sci-Fi - Aya Shibel

• Outstanding Screenwriting - Jakob Mogensen & Ryan Ayoub

• Outstanding Director - Abay Sultanbek

• Outstanding Cinematography - Ryan Ayoub & Jakob Mogensen

• Outstanding Editing - Jakob Mogensen & Ryan Ayoub

• Outstanding Sound - William Andberg

• Outstanding Visual Effects - Cash Russell

• Reels Audience Award - Dylan Younger

• Best Intro to Film Production - Khalifa Al Mubarek

• Best in Show - Ryan Ayoub & Jakob Mogensen