MUBI Sweeps Nominations for the British Independent Film Awards 2025
MUBI, the film distributor, global streaming service and production company, has received 24 nominations across 6 of their films for the upcoming British Independent Film Awards, taking place at the Roundhouse in London on Sunday, 30 November 2025.
My Father’s Shadow, the debut feature from Akinola Davies Jr., has received the highest amount of BIFA nominations this year, for a total of 12 including for Best Director, The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director), Best Screenplay, Best Debut Screenplay and Best British Independent Film. Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love received 8 nominations, including Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Lead Performance for Jennifer Lawrence.
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest is also nominated for Best Production Design.
In the Best International Independent Film category, MUBI received 3 nominations for: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling.
Further information can be found below on the nominated MUBI films and where you can watch in advance of the 2025 British Independent Film Awards:
MY FATHER’S SHADOW
A semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. The story follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the massive city while political unrest threatens their journey home.
12 BIFA nominations including: Best British Independent Film; Best Director and The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director) for Akinola Davies Jr; Best Screenplay and Best Debut Screenwriter for Wale Davies (also co-written by Akinola Davies Jr); Best Cinematography for Jermaine Edwards; Best Editing for Omar Guzmán Castro; Best Sound for CJ Mirra, James Ridgway, Joe Jackson, Adele Fletcher and Pius Fatoke; Best Production Design for Jennifer Anti and Pablo Anti; Best Costume Design for PC Williams; Best Make-Up & Hair Design for Kehinde Are and Feyzo Oyebisi; Best Original Music for CJ Mirra and Duval Timothy.
In cinemas 6 February 2026
DIE MY LOVE
A hopeful young and loving couple (Grace and Jackson) move from New York to an inherited house in the country. Grace tries to find her identity with a new baby in the isolated environment. Yet as she begins to unravel, it’s not in weakness but imagination, strength and a stunning untamed vivacity that she discovers herself anew.
8 BIFA nominations including: Best Director for Lynne Ramsay; Best Lead Performance for Jennifer Lawrence; Best Cinematography for Seamus McGarvey; Best Sound for Tim Burns, Paul Davies, Linda Forsén, Andrew Stirk and Ron Osiowy; Best Production Design for Tim Grimes; Best Effects for Victor Tomi; Best Music Supervision for Ian Neil and Raife Burchell; Best Make-Up & Hair Design for Colleen LaBaff and Miho Suzuki.
In cinemas 7 November 2025
HARVEST
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Tsangari’s spellbinding period piece, townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world.
1 BIFA nomination for Best Production Design for Nathan Parker
Available on MUBI now
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
Nominated for Best International Independent Film
In cinemas 26 December 2025
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
When auto mechanic Vahid unexpectedly encounters the man who may have been his torturer in prison, he kidnaps him with the intention to exact vengeance. But since the only clue to Eghbal’s identity is the distinct squeak of his prosthetic leg, Vahid turns to a loose circle of other now-freed victims for confirmation. And the danger only escalates. As they deal with their past and diverging worldviews, the group struggles to decide: Is this him, without a doubt? What would retribution mean, in actuality?
Nominated for Best International Independent Film
In cinemas 5 December 2025
SOUND OF FALLING
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past.
Nominated for Best International Independent Film
In cinemas 2026
