November 2025

Camerimage 2025 Award Winners Announced on Closing Night

The audience at the Jordanki Cultural Centre erupted with enthusiastic applause as German cinematographer Judith Kaufmann won ENERGACamerimage’s top prize, the main competition’s Golden Frog, on Saturday evening in Toruń, Poland. For the 33rd edition of the annual cinematography festival, a jury led by Niki Caro praised Kaufmann’s work on Late Shift, writer-director Petra Biondina Volpe’s drama about a dedicated nurse (Leonie Benesch) navigating a shift in an understaffed surgical ward. The Switzerland/Germany co-production is also Switzerland’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar.Cinematographer Judith Kauffman earned the main competition's Golden Frog on closing night of ENERGACamerimage 2025. (Image courtesy of...more