Criticker is honored to be sponsoring the Hidden Gem Category for the 2025 BASE Awards, being held this November in London! BASE is the British Association for Screen Entertainment, and their annual awards show honors the teams, companies, and people who've made an impact in the sector over the past year.
The Hidden Gem category is different to most others at the BASE Awards, in that it's chosen by film fans. First, the public was asked to choose from a long list about 1000 titles, and now that list has been narrowed to the finalists. These are all titles which were released transactionally in the UK between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025.
Which is your favorite among this group? Which do you think deserves to be celebrated as 2025's "Hidden Gem"? Head over to the submission form at base-awards.org and cast your vote!
Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
Queer (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
In 1950s Mexico City, writer William Lee wanders the clubs for a meaningful connection and becomes infatuated with discharged American Navy serviceman Eugene Allerton before venturing into the South American jungle in search of a rare psychedelic.
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed in this melodrama.
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
A fading celebrity decides to use a black-market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work.
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
The British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) has represented and facilitated the growth of the UK Home Entertainment industry for the past 45 years. The BASE Awards are a spectacular celebration of the innovation, creativity and passion that have shaped the sector over nearly half a century, honouring the year's best labels, distributors, titles, campaigns and more.
