2025 Healthy Workplaces Film Award winners
Wishful Filming
Sarah Vanagt
Belgium / 2025 / 37'
A pedestrian (the filmmaker) equipped with a tiny pocket camera wanders through Brussels and encounters Polish, Iranian, Brazilian, Belgian and Moroccan workers.
They slip small pieces of paper into the columns, the walls, and the floors of construction sites: secret wishes intended for future generations.
As she roams the city, filming the messages hidden behind bricks, under cobblestones, on traffic poles and at the bases of statues, the wanderer wonders: “You may be walking on a builder’s wish.”
Special mention by the jury:
The Long Road to the Director’s Chair
Vibeke Løkkeberg
Norway / 2025 / 70'
The First International Women’s Film Seminar, organised by filmmakers Claudia von Alemann and Helke Sander in 1973, can be regarded as one of the very first feminist film festivals.
Norwegian filmmaker and former actress Vibeke Løkkeberg attended it, bringing a camera crew to document this pivotal event.
Unearthed nearly 50 years later, the forgotten footage reveals a treasure trove of stories that capture the struggles, ambitions and dreams of women entering a male-dominated industry.
Nominations:
Pride & Attitude, Gerd Kroske, Germany, 2025
Inventar (Inventory), Ivan Marković, Serbia, 2025
Bull's Heart, Eva Stefani, Greece, 2025
Series of Action, Chanasorn Chaikitiporn, Thailand, 2024
Seablindness, Tereza Smetanová, Slovakia, 2025
The Seasons, Maureen Fazendeiro, Portugal, France, Spain, Austria, 2025
Bulakna, Leonor Noivo, Portugal, France, 2025