A celebration of imagination
The Night of Stars™
Live Ceremony Program™
Every category, every presenter, every performance — in sequence.
01 · T+0m
Best Screenplay
Presented by Naima Sow — Three-time IQStar nominee
A Roomful of Sundays
Luna Park · South Korea
Letters from the Last Hour
Idris Halevi · Israel
The Cartographer of Dust
Amara Okafor · Nigeria
Listening Stations
Maren Hólm · Iceland
Eleven Roads to a Bakery
Paolo Greco · Italy
02 · T+7m
Best Documentary Feature
Presented by Joaquín Errazuriz — Cinematographer, Lifetime Honoree 2024
The Loom Remembers
Sofia Marchetti · Italy
After the Forge
Hye-Jin Bae · South Korea
Wind Over Salt
Adaeze Nnamdi · Nigeria
Quiet Cartography
Anders Holm · Norway
★ Special performance — Cellist Yana Petrov · Suite for the Unrecorded
03 · T+15m
Best Animated Feature
Presented by Tomás Iriarte — Animator, founder of Tinta Studio
The Garden That Remembered
Rin Takahashi · Japan
Paper Sky
Hae-Won Min · South Korea
A Long Way Home
Clémence Roux · France
04 · T+22m
Best AI-Assisted Feature
Presented by Dr. Mei Watanabe — IQStar Foundation Ethics Chair
Threshold Signals
Elias Vance · Iceland
The Quiet Algorithm
Júlia Costa · Portugal
Coastline
Tomás Iriarte · Argentina
05 · T+29m
Best Direction
Presented by Wren Adebayo — Editor, four-time IQStar nominee
The Hours Beneath
Elias Vance · Iceland
The Cartographer of Dust
Amara Okafor · Nigeria
A Roomful of Sundays
Luna Park · South Korea
Salt Year
Mira Khoury · Lebanon
★ Special performance — Choir of the Lisbon Opera · Chorale for the Unmade Film
06 · T+38m
Best Original Feature
Presented by Sir Idris Coltrane — Founding Chair, IQStar Foundation
The Cartographer of Dust
Amara Okafor · Nigeria
The Hours Beneath
Elias Vance · Iceland
A Roomful of Sundays
Luna Park · South Korea
Inland Light
Femi Okafor · Nigeria
Salt Year
Mira Khoury · Lebanon