Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal's Girls Will Be Girls wins big at Independent Spirit Awards 2025, All We Imagine as Light loses

The John Cassavetes Award is given to the best feature made for under $1 million. The other films nominated in the category include Big Boys and Jazzy.

Girls Will Be Girls, directed by Shuchi Talati, won the John Cassavetes Award at the 40th Independent Spirit Awards. Anora emerged as the winner of the Best Feature award. The nominations in this category were-- I Saw the TV Glow, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, and The Substance. (Also Read | Girls Will Be Girls director Shuchi Talati wanted to tell story of first romance, desire minus judgement, slut-shaming)

Girls Will Be Girls wins at Independent Spirit Awards

Still from Girls Will Be Girls (L) and All We Imagine as Light.

The John Cassavetes Award is given to the best feature made for under $1 million. The other films nominated in the category were Big Boys, Ghostlight, Jazzy, and The People’s Joker.

Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal's debut film production also earned a nomination for Best Supporting Performance for Kani Kusruti. She was nominated alongside Yura Borisov and Karren Karagulian for Anora, Joan Chen (Dìdi), Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson), Carol Kane (Between the Temples), Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw the TV Glow), Clarence Divine Eye Maclin (Sing Sing), and Adam Pearson (A Different Man). Kieran Culkin won it for A Real Pain.

About Girls Will Be Girls

Girls Will Be Girls revolves around a 16-year-old girl Mira (Preeti Panigrahi), whose rebellious awakening is intertwined with her mother's (Kani) unfulfilled coming-of-age experiences. Girls Will Be Girls had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival where it received two awards in August and multiple awards at MAMI recently. It premiered on Prime Video on December 18.

All We Imagine As Light loses