2025 WINNERS

SEASON 1

  

BEST SHORT FILM

By the Roadside

Directed by Adrien du Chouchet (France)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

ChildHood life

Directed by Md. Imran (Bangladesh) 

BEST ACTOR & ACTRESS

Picture Break

Directed by Pedro Nogueira (Portugal)

BEST FEATURE FILM

The Old Man and the Demon Sword

Directed by: Fábio Powers (Portugal)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO 

Realize

Directed by BENNETT R. BOYLE (United States)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

HUT

Directed by Kate Tiuri (Ukraine)

BEST LOW BUDGET SHORT FILM

The old chairs

Directed by Pit Serrig (Luxemburg)

BEST ART SHORT FILM

Sumarsólstöður

Directed by Amélie Ravalec (France)

BEST DIRECTOR

I Made The Time Machine

Directed by Luke Walters (United Kingdom)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Atlantic Poems - La Force

Directed by Florian Felix Koch(Germany)

BEST DRAMA SHORT FILM

The Ferris Wheel

Directed by Victoria Mukhonko (Russian Federation)

 BEST MOBILE PHONE SHORT FILM

Life Path

Directed by Ioulia Lymperopoulou (Greece)

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM

Tiny Teaching Tales

Directed by Julie Anne Burch (United States)

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Anatta

Directed by SONG WANG (China)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Hares - Smoke Snake

Directed by Killian Charton (France)

BEST BLACK & WHITE SHORT FILM

 REFLECTION

Directed by Yana Toyber (United States)

BEST ACTION SHORT FILM

Jackal and Hide

Directed by Andy Gray, Nick Sneath, Lee Alan Donaldson (United Kingdom)

BEST COMEDY SHORT FILM

I Made The Time Machine

Directed by Luke Walters (United Kingdom)

BEST HORROR SHORT FILM

"A Vampire's Kiss"

Directed by Mark Francis (United States)

BEST INDIE SHORT FILM

THE UNSEEN WOUND

Directed by PARAG CHHAPEKAR (India)

BEST SCIFI SHORT FILM

LEVEL

Directed by: Martin O'Donoghue (Ireland)

BEST EDITING

Breaking Out

Directed by David Glass (United States)

BEST DANCE SHORT FILM

DANIELA

Directed by Noam Kaestner (Germany)

BEST PRODUCTION

An Ever After Drama

Directed by Michelle Lynn (United States)

BEST TRAILER

Father's Blade - Trailer

Directed by Thomas Husband (United Kingdom)

BEST COSTUME

An Ever After Drama

Directed by Michelle Lynn (United States) 

 

HONORABLE MENTION

Researcher, Directed by Mikhaill Romanov (Russian Federation)

El Poder del Diálogo, Directed by Miguel García Bernal (Spain)

Nakhatya, Directed by Bishwas Bajracharya (Neapal)

Release, Directed by Zoltan Gergely Szabo (Hungary)

Hopes - Music Video, Submitted by Roni Skaly (United Kingdom)

Be Like Angel Pardalos, Directed by Angeliki Pardalidou (Greece)

OSIYO, Directed by MUHAMMADALI MUZAFFAR O'G'LI SAMADOV (Uzbekistan)

Tinseltown's Queer: 30 Years Later, Directed by Nicholas Snow (United States)

What is Love? Directed by Martina Herzog, Reinhard J. Steiner (Switzerland)

Prisoners of Fire: The Dude Fire Story, Directed by Scott E Briggs (United States)

LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution, Directed by Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo (Norway)