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The Barn ° Jonathan Paul Brooker, Chichester Filmmakers ° Best Short Film 

            The Barn  ° Jonathan Paul Brooker, Chichester Filmmakers ° Best Director Short Film

    The Pathos of Hamlet  ° Sean Gregory Tansey ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

    The Pathos of Hamlet  ° The Pathos of Hamlet ° Best Experimental Film

    Hoodie: A Revenge Story ° Christopher Orangeo ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

            Hoodie: A Revenge Story ° Christopher Orangeo ° Best Drama 

    Out of control  ° bellopropello ° Best Animation Short Film

    Let It Go ° Siddharth Kumar ° Best Mobile Short Film

    Breech  ° Rebecca Lafon ° Best Female Director Short

    Breech  °  Rebecca Lafon ° Best First Time Director Short

    Joe Madders ° An impossible secret ° Best Actor Short Film    

          Sofia Mavrou ° An impossible secret ° Best Actress Short Film

    The Pig and the Society ° Lucas Duarte ° Best Short Documentary

    The Barn ° Ian Coulson ° Best Cinematography

    The Barn ° Jonathan Paul Brooker, Chichester Filmmakers ° Best Drama

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WINNER 102024

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                                                          Gunman ° Cris Tapia Marchiori ° Best Feature                                                                        TARA-The Journey of Love & Passion ° Kumar Raj ° Best Director Feature Film 

Fiabexit ° Lorenzo Giovenga, Giuliano Giacomelli ° Best Short Film 

The empty apartment ° Francesco Michele Mortati, Sara Masi ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

Rock N' Rolled ° John Fahy ° Best Director Short Film 

Back in Baby’s Arms ° Jackson Giuricich °Best First Time Director Short Film

Anne ° Lia Tasoudi °  Honorable Mention Best First Time Director Short Film

Built To Fight ° Joao Macedo ° Honorable Mention Best First Time Director Short Film

Blue - The Life and Art of George Rodrigue ° Sean O'Malley ° Best Documentary 

Stalin's Return ° Amos Chapple °  Best Short Documentary

The EKSPATS - We're Going to Africa ° Ron Myrick ° Best Animation Short Film 

shadowland ° bellopropello ° Honorable Mention Best Animation Short Film

Cali Lili ° Eve N' God ; This Female is Not Yet Rated ° Best Actress Feature Film 

Sean Tansey ° The Stones of Rome ° Best Actor Short FIlm

Nicole Gut ° Rock N' Rolled ° Best Actress Short film 

Markku Hakala, Ari Karema, Jaakko Niemelä ° Giant's Kettle ° Best Sound Design 

Lost Images ° Cesare Bedogne ° Best Experimental Film

FOUR MOTHERS ° Inbal Abergil ° Best War Theme Film

A Long Journey ° Mira Kim ° Best AI-generated Film 

Edson's Gravy ° Ryan George Kittleman ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated Film

OTSOG+ ° Mijoro ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated Film

How much for this? ° Johanna Viskar ° Ex aequo Best Student Short Film 

Your Song ° Mirela Araujo ° Ex aequo Best Student Short Film 

Révérence ° Rachel Hemsley ° Best Dance Short Film 

Territory ° Zachary Chant ° Honorable Mention Best Dance Short Film

Confront the sun  ° Honorable Mention Best Dance Short Film

DANCE SLAVE ° Nastassia Aleksiyevich ° Honorable Mention Best Dance Short Film

Staycation ° Russell Emanuel ° Best Trailer 

Our Grandparents Hunted Here ° Abdel Mandili, Julian Busquets Moura ° Best Short Documentary Netherlands Production 

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WINNERS 112024

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The Roots ° Omar Bermúdez ° Honorable Mention Best Feature

Natalie MacMahon ° The Meaning Of A Ritual ° Best Director Feature Film

Salieri/Mozart ° Yana Danilova ° Best Short Film Ex Aequo

Tiger Tiger ° Cyrus Duff ° Best Short Film Ex Aequo

Ipu Pogh Kikönöt: Water Brings Hope ° Tom Maher ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

Sex Pirates of 1931 ° Megan McGurk ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

A Certain Shape ° Harris Ahmed Ansari ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

Deodara and the Golden Leaf ° Doug Whitehead ° Best Animation Feature Film

Whispers Of Magic° Sara Seyed Azizi ° Best Animation Short Film

Open House ° Julie Fergus ° Best Mobile Short Film

Errkaa    ° Culture Talk on the Radio° Best Director Short Film

Rachael Houston ° Tea & Biscuit Crumbs ° Best First Time Director Short

To the summit ° Junce Ye ° Best Documentary

Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo° LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution ° Best First Time Director Documentary

Karitiana: Origin and Existence °Elisabete Christofoletti, Ariana Boaventura ° Best Short Documentary

Maria's Silence° Cesare Bedogne ° Best Experimental Film

Tim Whitney ° Storm Warning: Episode Two: Nazis In Power ° Best Editing

Greetings from San Francisco ° Peter Litwinowicz ° Best Dance Film Short

Tales Untold ° Eunsan Cho ° Best AI-generated Film Ex Aequo

Poem of Doom ° Hansl Von Kwon ° Best AI-generated Film Ex Aequo

Adam ° Yaniv Bloch ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated Film

Queen 1 ° Ryan Patterson ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated Film

Dark Skies All Around ° Barbara Fritz, Szilvia Adrienn Szakács ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated Film

Orange Blues 24 ° Alyssa Dann ° Best Music Video

Tea & Biscuit Crumbs ° Rachael Houston ° Best Student

The Outrageous Life of Henry Faulkner ° Jim Hall ° Best Feature Film Script

Red in the Wood ° Gerd Günter Witt ° Best Short Film Script

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WINNERS 122024

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North Sea Canal ° Oscar Laucke ° Honorable Mention Best First Time Director Feature Film 

Szélcsengő ° Bálint Tusor ° Best Short FIlm 

The Clay Horse ° Vishal Kumar Patil ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

Elsewhere ° Anne Thorens ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

Bad Friends ° Mikelle Virey ° Best Director Short Film 

Invisible Machines ° Yelena Gluzman ° Best Female Director Short Film

The Unseen Wound ° Parag  Chhapekar ° Best First Time Director Short

 Torkan Omari ° Will You Be My Levantine? ° Best Actress Short Film 

Dr. Parvinder Singh Lubana ° Sorry Maa ° Best Actor Short Film 

Ammamma Cheppe Neethi Kadhalu ° Bhanu Prakash ° Best Animation Short Film

Omotenashi ° Akiko Matsumoto, Roku Jingwen Long ° Best Mobile Short Film 

Interpreting Erik ° Donald D’Haene ° Best Documentary

Earth in 100 Seconds ° Daniel Raven-Ellison ° Best Short Documentary

Spacetime ° Jeroen Hoekstra ° Honorable Mention Best Short Documentary

Moisture ° Duda Gorter ° Best Experimental Film

Bokeh    ° Amirali Gerveei, Erfan Taherkhani ° Honorable Mention Best Experimental Film

Story for an Empty Theatre ° Aleksandr Balagura, Cesare Bedogne ° Best Artist Film 

Flammable Film  ° Thèophile Gay Mazas, Hèlène Clerc Denizot ° Best Sound Design 

Flammable Film ° Vèronique Lange ° Best Editing 

A_biography ° Alexander Schellow ° Best Dance Film Short 

The Ballad of Bobby Shin ° Gavin Irvine ° Best Comedy 

Fantasia ° Dian Wang ° Best Original Score 

Set Pieces ° Bentley Brown, Ibrahim Mursal ° Honorable Mention Best Original Score

Until the last minute ° Ilya Noyabrev ° Best Music Video 

Selma ° Davut Emre Yegin ° Best Student Short Film 

No Coriander for Alexander ° Don van Andel ° Honorable Mention Best Student Short Film

The Thought Of You ° Marv Hathim ° Honorable Mention Best Student Short Film

Atomized Tigers ° Kunnan Chen ° Best Feature Film Script 

 

 

WINNERS ​​012025

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MIA ° Luis Ferrer ° Best Feature

What´s left of us     ° Rafael Castro Lopes ° Best First Time Director Feature Film 

Frosting ° Ian Harvie ° Best Short Film 

Atlantic Narratives ° Kostiantyn Mishchenko, Valeriy Zayets ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

Me ° LEE min kyu ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

An American in Amsterdam ° Marcia Kimpton ° Best Female Director Feature 

Spectacle ° Shantelle-Ellysé English ° Best First Time Director Short Film

Issy MacDonald     ° Sisters ° Best Actress Short Film 

Vasudha Krishnamoorthy ° Echoes of the Heart ° Honorable Mention Best Actress Short Film 

Rita Duque ° End of the Line ° Honorable Mention Best Actress Short Film 

Taylor Rusch Box ° In Sunshine and in Shadow ° Best Actor Short Film 

Matilda and the Brave Escape ° Ash Reed ° Best Animation Short Film

Tiny Teaching Tales ° Julie Anne Burch ° Honorable Mention Best Animation Short Film

Snoubar Skatepark ° Jay B. Jammal ° Best Documentary

A beast touch the mountain ° James Mottern ° Best Director Documentary

Rucker in the Dark ° Joel Linger ° Best Short Documentary

ÑUÑUYACHIY: breastfeeding with affection and care ° Jose Miguel Soriano, Ricardo Macian ° 

Honorable Mention Best Short Documentary

Dance Tomorrow ° Dounia Zellou ° Best First Time Director Documentary

Happy Together ° Sebastiaan Verbeeten ° Honorable Mention Best First Time Director Documentary

You Never Hear    ° Andrej Antonič ° Best Experimental Film

Rewriting a Memory and Different Rooms ° Anna Persson ° Best Artist Short Film 

UMI NO OYA ° Ewen Chardronnet, Maya Minder ° Best Green & Environment Film

Andrej Antonič ° You Never Hear ° Best Sound Design 

Mark Doggett ° The Final Days of Ernest Larman ° Best Original Score 

Ashley P. Saunders ° Pops ° Best Editing 

Tom Spruce ° Her Name Was Lola ° Honorable Mention Best Cinematography

28 ° Hiroshi Kizu ° Best Dance Film Short Ex Aequo 

Directions To The Other Side Of The World ° Derrick Belcham ° Best Dance Film Short Ex Aequo 

Pops ° David Thackeray ° Best Comedy 

El Poder del Diálogo ° Miguel García Bernal ° Honorable Mention Best Drama

Sacred Mountain ° Ryan Patterson ° Best AI-generated Film Ex Aequo

Meatatarian ° 정선 방 ° Best AI-generated Film Ex Aequo

Project 2029 ° James jones ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated Film

Worship ° Fredrik Carlsson ° Best Mobile Short Film

Back to the Closet ° Alex Dashwood ° Best Student Short Film Ex Aequo 

The Engagement ° Xueqin Hao ° Best Student Short Film  Ex Aequo 

Sexy Santas ° Joseph Anthony Francis ° Best Feature Film Script 

Yuletide Reunion ° Joseph Anthony Francis ° Honorable Mention Best Feature Film Script 

Dead Cat ° Susannah Temko ° Best Short Film Script

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WINNERS 022025

 

Torch Song °Jeroen Houben ° Best Feature Netherlands Production 

Images of memory ° Ghatfan Ghanoom ° Best Short Film Ex aequo 

The Rivals ° Fraser James MacLeod ° Best Short FIlm Ex aequo 

Shanice Kamminga ° Everything Before Us ° Best Director Short Film

Miho Nishibata ° Beyond Escher Slope ° Best Female Director Short Film

Bella Glanville     The Playground ° Honorable Mention ° Best Female Director Short Film

Ann Tsintsadze ° The Seed of a Pomegranate ° Best First Time Director Short Film

Osh Noam ° Push to Unburden ° Honorable Mention Best First Time Director Short Film

Luke Skineki ° Clock Watchers ° Honorable Mention Best First Time Director Short Film

Marcia Kimpton °  An American in Amsterdam ° Best Actress Feature Film 

Roberta Seravalle ° Waiting for a Rainbow ° Best Actress Short Film Ex aequo

Yulia Göbel ° What goes around - Karma is a bitch 2024 ° Best Actress Short Film Ex aequo

Joseph Neibich Nybyk ° Feeling Blessed° Best Actor Short Film 

Whale of Rebirth ° Chih Hao Shen ° Best Animation Short Film

TAIBALE, story of a rescued child ° Gianni Torres ° Best Documentary

Beginning To See You ° Jan Gero ° Honorable Mention Best Documentary

Eight of Wands ° cesare bedogne ° Best Artist Film 

Caretaker ° Verónica Rose Wood ° Best Short Documentary

Zoltán Bognár ° Girls, Angels, Melodies ° Best Original Score

László Bús ° Girls, Angels, Melodies ° Best editing 

Zoltán Bognár, László Bús ° Girls, Angels, Melodies ° Best Sound Design

Smoldering-Smoldering ° Ilya Noyabrev ° Best Music Video 

TEST123 ° Toni Rodero ° Honorable Mention Best Music Video 

Self-talk to Siri - 4 years booster ° Claudia Christine Schillinger ° Best Experimental Film

Above the Clouds ° Richard Stark ° Best Dance Film Short 

The Bounty Hunter ° Ion Kion ° Best AI-generated 

The Dance of the Nain Rouge ° Eric Millikin ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated 

Foroshka ° Andy McNamara ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated Film

GOOD LUCK / RASTGELE ° Meltem Altay ° Best Mobile Short Film

The Playground ° Bella Glanville ° Honorable Mention Best Mobile Short Film

Gazing ° Suisui Luo ° Best Student Short film Ex Aequo 

A flower to you° Nelli Nádja Kovács° Best Student Short film Ex Aequo 

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WINNERS 032025

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Dwelling Among the Gods ° Vuk Ršumović ° Best Feature    

Central Europe ° Gianluca Minucci ° Honorable Mention Best Feature     

To The End ° Ruiying Sun ° Best Short Ex aequo     

Corona ° Lolo Martín ° Best Short FIlm Ex aequo     

FAHRENHEIT 2051 ° Hadrien Genest ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film    

Reminiscence ° Alexey Kolbekhin ° Best Director Short Film    

The Sisters of Briar Glen ° Lauren Clark ° Honorable Mention Best Director Short Film    

To The End ° Ruiying Sun ° Best Female Director Short Film    

Seed ° Sara L. Roberts, Suzy Shepherd ° Honorable Mention Best Female Director Short Film    

To The End ° Ruiying Sun ° Best First Time Director Short Film    

It's Not Me, It's You ° Coco Taylor ° Honorable mention Best First Time Director Short Film    

Feast of the Mind’s Eye ° Bianca Banilivi ° Honorable mention Best First Time Director Short Film    

Michelle Maldonado ° The Last Bee ° Best Actress Feature Film     

Lars Chittka ° The Last Bee ° Best actor Feature Film     

 Amelie Leroy ° Seed ° Best Actress Short Film    

Coco Taylor ° It's Not Me, It's You ° Honorable mention Best Actress Short Film     

Jaydie van den Berg ° Mom's Secret ° Honorable mention Best Actress Short Film     

Paul Krahmer ° Reminiscence ° Best Actor Short Film     

The game just got real ° bellopropello ° Best Animation Short Film    

¿Are We There Yet? A Compassionate Exploration of Contemporary Migration ° Thomas Andrew Hoebbel° Best Documentary    

VEUS DEL PALLARS SOBIRÀ ( VOICES OF PALLARS SOBIRÀ) ° LAIA RISSECH SANCHEZ, PERE MANRIQUE MARTI ° Honorable Mention Best Documentary    

Tenebroso ° Angela Duverger-Bobin ° Best First Time Director Documentary    

Found in Translation ° Frank Bakker ° Best Short Documentary    

Hands | Birds ° Christine Kettaneh ° Best Art Film     

American Comedy ° Brian Connors ° Best Comedy     

Carlo Rinaldi ° Central Europe ° Best Cinematography    

The Moonless Galant ° Mayur Hazarika ° Best Original Score    

Seed ° Sara L. Roberts, Suzy Shepherd ° Best editing     

Martin Gerigk ° Demi-Demons ° Best Sound Design    

Erick Jolley, Lisa K. Fowle, Lawrence Everson ° BREAK THE SILENCE ° Honorable Mention Best Sound Design    

I dream My dream ° Monique van Kerkhof ° Best Music Video Ex aequo    

Trust the Legehness °  Anna Verloren van Themaat ° Best Music Video Ex aequo    

Demi-Demons ° Martin Gerigk ° Best Experimental Film    

REIGNITED FIRE ° Jean-Louis DAULNE ° Honorable Mention Best Experimental Film    

Bayadere ° Peter Gellén, Áron Gasztonyi ° Best Dance Film Short     

Seeking Tranquility ° Ysabelle Taylor ° Honorable Mention Best Dance Film Short     

Place of Inaccessibility ° Hilde van Amelsvoort ° Honorable Mention Best Dance Film Short     

The Last Atlantis ° Chih Hao Shen ° Best AI-generated Short Film Ex Aequo     

The Last Spark ° Michelle Sarah Pfuhl ° Best AI-generated Short Film Ex Aequo     

MARKET °  ILYOU KIM ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated     

Vita Activa ° Marieke Dermul ° Best Green & Environment Film    

Berlin Fiction ° Zhivorad Milich ° Best Student Short Film   

 

WINNERS 042025

 

Ricardo Teixeira ° Film this! ° Honorable Mention Best First Time Director Feature Film 

BURIED ° Sukru Gursoy ° Best Short Film

To Fair Winds & Followed Waters ° Dalton Cole Turner ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

The Garden of Holland ° Sander Timans ° Honorable Mention Best Short Film

 Zoë Gallagher ° STILLTHING ° Best Female Director Short Film

Hyeongtae Kim ° Bad Blood ° Best first Time Director Short Film 

Jim van der Heijden ° The Garden of Holland ° Best actor short film 

The Story of Sugar ° Yoni Goodman ° Best Animation Short Film

Metamorphosis: Women’s Resilience to Oppression in Türkiye ° Aslihan Kas ° Best Documentary

Paloma Negra: The Queen of Amphetamines ° Jesús Pamplona, Javier Muriel ° Honorable Mention Best Documentary

NADO ° Daniele Farina ° Best First Time Director Documentary

Eddy Hamel - Gentleman from Auschwitz ° Krzysztof Baranowski ° Best Short Documentary

PAPmusic - Animation for Fashion ° Leikié ° Best Comedy 

 Eric B. Sirota ° Frankenstein ° Best Original Score

Bad Blood ° Hyeongtae Kim ° Best Sound Design

Glimpse ° Ulrike Swoboda-Ostermann ° Best Experimental Film

Playing House ° Jennifer Scully-Thurston ° Best Dance Film Short 

MULAN ° Zhao Tian ° Best AI-generated Short Film 

LOVE ° Francesca Fini ° Honorable Mention Best AI-generated Short Film 

Turtle Walker     ° Taira Malaney ° Best Green & Environment Film

Suburban Safari: A Backyard Wildlife Adventure ° James Edward Porter ° Honorable Mention Best Green & Environment Film

Lilia ° Marina dos Anjos Hardy ° Best Student Short film

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