Award Winners Season 2025

01

Best Documentary Feature

Nafkot - Yearning

Malka Shabtay

Israel

02

Best Feature Film

Kipkemboi

Charles Uwagbai

Canada

03

Best Action / Crime

Black Harvest

James Amuta

Nigeria

04

Best Actress

CIAO ANITA

Anita Ekberg (directed by Jacques Lipkau Goyard, Marco Kuveiller)

Italy

05

Best Actor

Season of Rain

Ego Mikitas (directed by Sergei Talybov)

Belarus

06

Best AI-Generated Film

CELIO

Tawd B Dorenfeld

United States

07

Best Animated Film

Metamorphoses

Aitolkyn Almenova

Kazakhstan

08

Best Australian Film

The Sea Remembers

Barry Ferrier

Australia

09

Best Asian Film

IRISO

Mitsuo Kurihara

Japan

10

Best Child/Young Actress

MAKTOUB as it is written

Rylan Healey (directed by Ron Weisberg)

United States

11

Best Cinematography

UMBRA

Harrison Pfeiffer, Jay Heyman

United Kingdom, United States

12

Best Comedy Screenplay

The Worst Wedding Ever

Adam Sandel

United States

13

Best Comedy

CPA

Gabriela Revilla Lugo

United States

14

Best Debut Filmmaker (Feature)

ANKH

Patrick John Angele Knight

Belgium

15

Best Debut Filmmaker (Short)

Nothing Personal

Beege Barkette

United States

16

Best Director – Music Video

Love´s worst nightmare (ft. Liz Kretschmer)

Philippe Funk

Luxembourg

17

Best Director

A September to Remember

Sam Gollestani

United States

18

Best Documentary Short

INKOMU - A child's promise

Gautier Courquin

France

19

Best Drama Screenplay

ODESSA

Amy Lyndon

United States

20

Best Drama

The Deserter

Christoph Baumann

Germany

21

Best Editing

Right in the Sight of God

Terrence Ward

United States

22

Best Ensemble Cast

The Storm

Pamela Jikiemi

United Kingdom

23

Best Experimental Film

Museum Closed

Brice Bowman

United States

24

Best European Film

Theatre Without Audience

Pawel Kocambasi

Germany

25

Best Fantasy

ELUSIVE

ERIK R HUSKA

United States

26

Best Female Director

Love Of An Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee

Delvene Delaney, Victoria Baldock

Australia

27

Best Feature Screenplay

The Language of Wolves

Nan Schmid

United States

28

Best Film on Social Justice

Headshot

Natalie Scarman, Aron Giagu

Australia

29

Best Film on Technology/Future

The Dreamers and I

Kenji Yamamoto

United States

30

Best Horror

Hi: Part One

Monte Albers de Leon

United States

31

Best Historical / Period Film

Zone of Shards

Dániel Bóta

Hungary

32

Best Indie Feature (Low-budget)

Dead Mom Card

Steven P Perkins

United States

33

Best Indie Short

Steal The Movie

Richard Duryea

United States

34

Best Male Director

What Liba felt

Frank Nesemann

Germany

35

Best LGBTQ+ Film

Rainbow Girls: 10 Years of Protection and Prejudice

Julia Gunther, Velisa Vee Jara

Netherlands

36

Best Micro Short (Under 5 min)

Pigasus: The Lost Paradise - Battle for Evermore

Sean Patrick O'Reilly

United States

37

Best Music Video

PLOW

Aly Aleigha, Carlos Mendoza Guillén

United States

38

Best Score / Soundtrack

Timeless : A Symphony in Motion

Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia

United Kingdom

39

Best Original Song in a Film

PRIKOSYMPHONO

Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Alejandra Diaz, Leonardo Dal Fabbro

Greece

40

Best Short Film

Mary Can I Have Ur Shirt Please?

jennifer lim

United Kingdom

41

Best Short Screenplay

The Stalker

Brandon D. Reid

Canada

42

Best Student Film

Body

Silvia Muzzioli

Spain

43

Best Sound Design

ATLAS OF UNCERTAINTY

Massimo Vito Avantaggiato

Italy

44

Best Super Short (Under 1 min)

FLEETING LOVE

Txus Angulo

Spain

45

Best Thriller Screenplay

The Case Officer

Ronald McQueen

United Kingdom

46

Best UK Film

Mother's Day

Theo Kaufman

United Kingdom

47

Best TV Pilot Script

NICKY NEWARK

Rhyan St. Clair

United States

48

Best Visual Effects (VFX)

The Contact

Barış Tolga Ekinci

Turkey

49

Best Web Series / Episodic

Single & Thriving…Kind Of

Ananda White

United States