Films That Inspire

🍿🎉FILMS THAT INSPIRE 2025 – WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

We’re thrilled to celebrate the outstanding winners of this year’s festival. Each of these films moved us deeply and stood out in their ability to inspire, uplift, and transform. Congratulations to all the filmmakers for sharing your heart and vision with the world.

🏆 Most Inspiring Short
Rustworthy – Wes Greene

🏆 Best Narrative Film
Born to Fly – Byoung-Don Lee

🏆 Best Music Video
We Are the Earth – Zoë Rose & Thierry Gaudin

🏆 Most Magic Film
The Maker – Timothy Edgerton

🏆 Most Moving Film
One Second at a Time – Tim Searfoss

🏆 Best Documentary
A Man Called John Hurt – Alex Oliver & Jamison Stalsworth

🏆 Most Inspiring Film
Conquer 100 – Nick Nanton

Thank you to all the filmmakers, and to everyone supporting Films That Inspire. Let’s keep sharing stories that move the spirit and light up the world. 🌟

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Ukraine Guernica - Art Not War' is about artists waging a war on war in the context of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces. It is an anti-war film in the tradition of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ and Jon and Yoko’s ‘War is Over’. Australian's George Gittoes and Hellen Rose travel to Ukraine in the first weeks of the war to collaborate with Ukrainian artists. They process the destruction they witness into art over 2022 and into 2023. The bombed and gutted House of Culture in Irpin Ukraine is brought back to life with exhibitions and performances as proof the artistic spirit cannot be destroyed. Locals who have lost their homes and loved ones in Irpin join with the artists forming a creative and optimistic community. An 8-year-old girl, Eva, who once learnt ballet in the House of Culture collects memories in a cardboard box to be able to show her children when explaining what she endured.
The journey includes the tragedy of a farmer shot while protecting his daughter, Punisher Palace where Russian soldiers r***d and tortured, a child’s room hit by a missile, the Bridge of Death at Irpin where families were slaughtered in their cars and a meeting with one of the heroes of the siege of Mariupol, before his return to the frontline.
The efforts of Gittoes and Rose are linked to their ongoing project in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where they run a creative centre and art school.
This film is filled with the optimism that humanity can end violent conflict and embrace peace through creativity.

Directed by
George Gittoes

Jack’s been paralysed, physically and as a result mentally. Whilst he’s trapped in the hospital his nurse Rylee is trapped in her own way. Together they force each other to face the truth of their situations and find new possibilities. Directed by Emily Quattrocchi

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In a world crushed by pollution, conflicts, eco anxiety, alienation of the individual and fear of the future, a human being is lying down, hopeless and surrounded by shadow. Yet, anger and refusal of the disaster to come will ignite in him/her - and in us all - a flame of life, carrying the hope of a better tomorrow.

Directed by
Zoé Rose