As voted for by our members!
2025 has seen a huge variety of films: from the return of Paul Thomas Anderson with One Battle After Another, Ari Aster’s Covid-themed Western Eddington, new films from Spike Lee (Highest 2 Lowest), Bong Joon Ho (Mickey 17) and Kathryn Bigelow (House of Dynamite), Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut Urchin, Laura Carreira’s revelatory On Falling, the raw emotion of Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident and at least six Josh O’Connor films.
Not to mention the likes of Nickel Boys, Hard Truths, A Complete Unknown, Babygirl and The Brutalist!
However, what did our members think were the films of the year?
As voted for by Film Hub South West’s members, including cinema programmers, film festival marketeers and more, we can now reveal their top indie choics of the years… plus their favourite commercial release of 2025. Spoilers: it’s not Predator: Badlands.