2025 Winners

Best Short Film

ISLAND FOR RENT

Directed by: SALVATORE CUBEDDU, ELIO TURNO ARTHEMALLE

Best Feature Film

The Ashes of A Dream

Directed by: Joe Nuzzolo

Best Experimental Film
Best Actress — Jingjing Chen
Best Director Debut

Bespoke ART

Directed by: Jingjing Chen

Best Short Documentary

Parker & Sammy

Directed by: Guto Barra, Peter DiMario

Best Feature Documentary

I Am Gitxsan

Directed by: Hossein Martin Fazeli

Best Animation

Metal Flower

Directed by: Seoyun Kim

Best Script Unproduced

The Battle of the Fishermen

Written by: PABLO ANDRÉS FERNÁNDEZ

Best Short Screenplay

The Mint

Written by: Phoebe von Satis

Best Feature Screenplay

Perpetual Love

Written by: Danny Lee

Best Adapted Screenplay

Drops of Sunlight

Written by: Kristy Lee

Best Micro Short Film

THE FLOOD

Directed by: David Tessier

Best Music Video

Sludge (The Water Barons’ Show) — Synth Farmers

Directed by: Grant Hunter

Best Director
Best Actor — David Howard Thornton
Best Costume
Best Poster

Jokers Wild

Directed by: Aaron William Bennett

Best Cinematography

I’m just here.

Directed by: Rasmus Kaessmann

Best Director Of Photography
Best Inspirational Film
Best Composer

NORITA

Directed by: Jayson McNamara, Andrea Tortonese

Best Original Score

The Mirror (Kepler 62 Experiment — Episode #9)

Composed by: Michael Ross Catania

Best Dance Video

MIHI : At the center of our gaze

Directed by: Cyril Durand-Gasselin

Best Student Film

Totó

Directed by: Andrea Ibarra Rocha

Best Producer
Best Horror
Best Comedy
Best Color Editing

A Very Flattened Christmas

Directed by: Shane Wallace

Best Drama
Best Black&White Film

Lucien

Directed by: Simon Catillon

Best Sci-Fi

Terminal Emulator

Directed by: Benjamin Capps

Best Dark Comedy

Left out!

Directed by: Alexander Hall

Best No-Dialogue Film

Summoned

Directed by: Srđan Pavlović

Best LGBTQ+

Why We Pride

Directed by: Natalie Scarsbrook

Best Historical Film

Inherited Shame

Directed by: Fruzsina Skrabski, Sándor Kiss

Best Covid-19 Film

2020 RPWT, Inc Services

Directed by: Ron Perrin

Best Symbolic Film

FUGUE for a Spiritual Life

Directed by: Thomas Wohlmut

Best Sport FIlm

The Silver Team and the ’38 World Cup Final

Directed by: István Borsody

Best Erotic Film

Succubi

Directed by: Luca D Pellicoro

Best Educational Film

Dead or Alive — The Vaccine Paradox

Directed by: Bert Ehgartner

Best Independent Film

The JUSTICES

Directed by: Yahn Kawamoto

Best Mobile Film

Bra Top

Directed by: Akiko Matsumoto

Best Family Film

ROBIN HOOD: A MUSICAL — (CINEMATIC VERSION)

Directed by: Effie Hatzikosmidis

Best No-budget Film

Fedelta: Soldiers. Prisoners.

Directed by: Stephen Mancini

Best AI Film

OUROBOROS

Directed by: Mathieu Samson

Best Editing

4 ayes

Directed by: Richard Philpott

Best Original Song

See Me

Composed by: Sandra Cropsey

Best Sound Design

Semitjov — Dreams for a Better World

Directed by: Micke Engström

Best VR

Back To The Past

Directed by: Dario Melo Maciel

Best 360°

The Golden Thread

Directed by: Alexandra Love, Brian Robert Goodwin

Best Web-Series

Pay Your Bill

Directed by: Anne Bio

Best Showreel

Showreel

Directed by: Andrea Rose Sandell

Best Trailer

«DON’T» Trailer

Directed by: Devin Coonradt