Edition 2025

Best Short Film

The Way Home

Directed by: Zhao Xiaolong

Best Feature Film

One Night Only

Directed by: Avery Maycock

Best Short Documentary

America's Radical Women: Forgotten Voices of History

Directed by: E. Philip Brown

Best Feature Documentary

The Birth of Your Divinity

Directed by: Joao de Carvalho

Best Animation

Metal Flower

Directed by: Seoyun Kim

Best Micro Short Film
Best Experimental Film
Best Editing

Closeness

Directed by: Aleksy Roman Kostka Zawadzki

Best Director

El Poder del Diálogo

Directed by: Miguel García Bernal

Best Director Debut

Perpetual Love

Directed by: Danny L Lee

Best Student Film
Best Sound Design

too slow

Directed by: Samuele Mangiò

Best Actress - Gaia Riposati

GAMBLERS

Directed by: Ettore Zito

Best Actor - Igor Rubashkin
Best Black & White Film

The Last Wish

Directed by: Ilya Noyabrev

Best Producer
Best Original Song
Best TV Series

ROCKOLANDIA: Las Cabritas

Directed by: Cristina Carrión

Best Short Screenplay

The Rivals

Written by: Fraser James MacLeod

Best Original Screenplay

The Beauty and the Best

Written by: Oscar De Jesus Yema

Best Feature Screenplay

SYVERTSEN'S COMPLEXritas

Written by: Marni Sullivan

Best Unproduced Screenplay

Last Chance

Written by: Johnny Thomas Stroud Jr

Best Television Script

The Green Machine - Part 1

Written by: John P Martinez

Best Comedy Screenplay

PARA-SITES

Written by: Lee Townson

Best Young Director

Between Thoughts

Directed by: Audrey Whiteford-Woods

Best Cinematography
Best Fantasy Film
Best Costume

The Crone

Directed by: Catherine Kasima Kanda

Best Music Video
Best Director Of Photography

Wait in the Car

Directed by: Damien Hyde

Best VFX

LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution

Directed by: Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo

Best LGBTQ+ Film

Why We Pride

Directed by: Natalie Scarsbrook

Best Sci-Fi

Echo

Directed by: Richard Jones

Best Horror

The Collector

Directed by: Samuel Hernández

Best Thriller

The King's Slayer

Directed by: Djamel Bennecib

Best Comedy

Super Turbo Jet Boats

Directed by: Daniel Stuelpnagel

Best Dark Comedy
Best No-budget Film

Good Advice

Directed by: Barbara de la Fuente

Best Absurd Comedy

Staten Island Ghost Story

Directed by: Vincent J Mazella

Best Drama

Aria, Making Life Live

Directed by: Cleinaldo Marinho

Best Dance Video

WIND LINES

Directed by: Janire Etxabe

Best Original Score

Shade of You

Composed by: Teona Lagvilava

Best Composer

Frankenstein

Composed by: Eric B. Sirota

Best Artificial Intelligence Film
Best Trailer
Best Experimental Film
Best Sound Design

Chthonic (Teaser)

Directed by: Tremayne LaMont

Best Historical Film

Fedelta: Soldiers. Prisoners.

Directed by: Stephen Mancini

Best War Film

Hunting Jack

Directed by: Hidde de Vries

Best VR

Back To The Past

Directed by: Dario Melo Maciel

Best No-Dialogue Film

Broken

Directed by: Joffre Faria Silva

Best Covid Film

Everyone In

Directed by: Mark Webster

Best Mobile Film

Bra Top

Directed by: Akiko Matsumoto

Best Symbolic Film

Where the Roses Bloom

Directed by: Jordyn Jacobson

Best Poster

Outlaws to the end

Created by: Andrea Petrosino

Best Indie Film

Strangers Invitation

Directed by: Teddy Joseph

Best Inspirational Film

NORITA

Directed by: Jayson McNamara, Andrea Tortonese

Best Educational Film

The Gift in Adversity

Directed by: John Robertson Spender

Best Screenwriter Debut

Pilot: The Stained-Glass Window

Written by: Kris Francoeur