First Cut Youth Film Festival Awards 2025

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Huge congratulations to the First Cut 2025 Award Winners!
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Film 2025: Rithsaor (Tim O’Leary)
First Cut Youth Council Award 2025: Flawless (Murinn Carty)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Director 2025: Abhaile (Emma Whelan)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Spotlight Award 2025: The Keeper (Martha Scanlon)
Best YMVC – Youth Music Video Competition Award 2024: Swimming Pool – Houseplants (Meghan O’Shaughnessy)
First Cut Youth Film Festival 2025 Cork International Film Festival Award: Slaps (Róisín Leavy-Sahin)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Animation 2025: Catastrophic (John Michael Hegarty)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Music Video 2025: Dopamine Miner – No Hassle (Amber Leah)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Documentary 2025: Live Fast, Live Free (Ciara Caitríona O’Connor)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Irish Language Film 2025: Uilíoch (Seosamh Mac Seoin)
First Cut Youth Film Festival 2025 Best International Film: Au Bout des Lèvres (Rick Van Oss)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Experimental Film: Samsara (Ashish Prasai)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Schools Film 2025: Gold iRush (ALFA Steiner School, Tuamgraney, Co. Clare)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Best Youth Project Film 2025: Frequency 208.4 (Neeva Lén, Karim Mbamba/Waterford Youth Arts)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Athrú Amháin 2025 Junior: Míle Bia (Food Miles) (Gaelcholáiste Dhún Dealgan)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Athrú Amháin 2025 Senior: Is Tusa an Fhadhb (You Are the Problem) (Mia Nic Oireachtaigh, Coláiste an Phiarsaigh, Glanmire)
First Cut Youth Film Festival Athrú Amháin 2025 Young Filmmaker: An Bhfuil Sé Thart? (Is it Over?) (Thomas McNamara)
First Cut Youth Film Festival 2025 Best Cork Young Filmmakers Film: Mighty Mouse (Kinsale Community School)
First Cut Youth Film Festival 2025 Best Cork Young Filmmakers Schools Film: Vicky, Vicky, Vicky (Bishop McEgan College, Macroom)