Best of RPM 2025

Sun, Dec 7

Sun, Dec 7

2:00 pm

Run Time: 90 min.

Shorts Program!

RPM Festival wrapped up another extraordinary year of experimental cinema. During 2025 RPM Festival presented 10 artists’ retrospectives, 3 large scale performances, over 30 events across venues throughout Boston–Cambridge, including national touring programs that reached audiences well beyond New England.

Through Spring RPM in Motion and Fall RPM25 we curated 20 shorts programs that surveyed the current status of short-form experimental films, animation, essay documentaries and digital frontiers.

RPM Festival and the Brattle Theatre are delighted to invite you to our End-of-Year Screening: Best of 2025! Join us for a special presentation of standout short films of the year—hand-picked highlights that inspired us, challenged us, and brought filmmakers, scholars, and audiences together.

Program Schedule:

Awards:

The Best Animation from RPM in Motion25: Les Bétes – Michael Granberry

The Best of RPM in Motion25: Slideshow – Janie Geiser

The Critical Mass award of RPM25: Full Out – Sarah Ballard
Co-presented with UMass Boston Cinema Studies Program

The Emerging Artist Award of RPM25: entre le feu et le clair de lune – Dominic Yarabe
Co-presented with UMass Boston Cinema Studies Program

The Best of RPM25 (tie): Monument – Jeremy Drummond, I Carry the Universe With Me – Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
Co-presented with Cinelab Boston

The International Award of RPM25: Sulfur – Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes (Portugal)

Congratulations to all the filmmakers. This program is our way of honoring the exceptional dedication, community, and passion that shaped this year’s programming.

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