No sooner does one awards season end than the next serving of celebrations (and commiserations) arrives. And this evening at London's Roundhouse Theatre, one year on from Kneecap 's riotous night at the 2024 British Independent Film Awards , the 2025 BIFAs was, well, dominated by Harry Lighton's Pillion . The BDSM biker dom-com, in which Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård star as a mild-mannered submissive and his inscrutable leather-clad dominant, scooped four awards on the night, including Best British Independent Film and Best Debut Screenwriter for Lighton.

Joint-top of the winners' list, in no small part helped by three wins in BIFA's newly instituted craft categories (for Editing, Sound, and Effects), was Alex Garland's immersive war movie Warfare , whose tight-knit c

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