Kerry International Film Festival (KIFF) celebrated its 26th edition from October 16-19, 2025, culminating in the KIFF 2025 Awards Ceremony, held at the Great Southern Hotel Killarney, which celebrated multiple categories, including the Screenwriting Award which went to Returns & Errors: Pets by Donna Bonilla Wheeler with a Special Mention to Good Boy by Kieran Murray.

KIFF 2025 Award Winners:

·       Maureen O’Hara Award: Fiona Shaw
 

·       Best Original Score (sponsored by Randles Hotel): ReRooted
 

·       Best of Kerry: Cogar
 

·       Trua Award (sponsored by Dan Linehan’s Bar and B&B): Refuge
 

·       Taking Flight Rising Talent Award (sponsored by Kerry Airport): Heather O’Sullivan – Heartsick, Trasna na Líne
 

·       Best Documentary Short: Who Loves the Sun
 

·       Best Animation: It All Comes Down
 

·       Best Student Short: The Time You Felt Like Your Parents Had Died
 

·       Best International Narrative Short (sponsored by Killarney Plaza Hotel): Synthesize Me
 

·       Best Irish Narrative Short (sponsored by the Great Southern Hotel Killarney): Mouse
 

·       Screenwriting Award:

·       Winner: Returns & Errors: Pets by Donna Bonilla Wheeler

·       Special Mention: Good Boy by Kieran Murray
 

·       Best Irish Language Short:

·       Winner: Tíolacadh

·       Special Mention: Oíche Cultúir
 

·       Best Music Video:

·       Winner: Of the Sorrows – For Those I Love

·       Special Mention: When a Good Man Cries – CMAT
 

·       Best Irish Narrative Feature (Audience Choice Award): Spilt Milk
 

·       Best International Narrative Feature: Omaha
 

·       Best Documentary Feature: In Time – Dónal Lunny