Awards of DECEMBER 2024 – JANUARY 2025

These are the winners of awards of Awards of DECEMBER 2024 – JANUARY 2025

STANDARDN CATEGORIES
Best Film: Lattanti / Sucklings – Gabriele Redaelli – Italy

Best International Film
WINNER: The Final Meow – Herman Dahl – Norway
HONORABLE MENTION: Grotto – Ariane Lippens – Belgium

Best European Film
WINNER: Things about gender – Angelo Sateriale – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: We Caught A Burglar – Will Holyhead – United Kingdom

Best Asian Film
WINNER: A Whisper – Takashi Miwa – Japan
HONORABLE MENTION: Two – Zhe Li – China

Best American Film
WINNER: With Your Life – Miguel Martinez – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Fatal Second Time – Kyle Stocking – United States
Best Italian Film
WINNER: Il mondo è nostro – Marco Vinz Pinnavaia, Gabriele Aldo Lo Cascio – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Sospetti su un sospettato al di sotto di ogni sospetto – Giorgio Zingone – Italy
Best Lombard film
WINNER: Service – Cloè Chabert, Luca Galliano, Domenico Matteo Orlando, Claudio Santagostini – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Salus – Monica Buriola – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 min)
WINNER: Methuselah – Nathan Sellers – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Revolution or Bust – Simon Jones, Joe Bilton – United Kingdom

Best Super Short (under 15 minutes)
WINNER: The Ballad of Bobby Shine – Gavin Irvine – Ireland
HONORABLE MENTION: The Flat Earther – Peter Chidiac – Australia

Best Medium Lenght (under 60 min)
WINNER: Make No Mistake – Ryan Nah – Hong Kong
HONORABLE MENTION: Goonies in Agony – Maximillian Wood – United States

Best Low Budget Film
WINNER: Disintegration – Walter Holland – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Tatzelwurm – Aline Savioz – Switzerland

Best Original Idea
WINNER: Alma – Maurício Valentino Borges – Portugal
HONORABLE MENTION: Nicotine – Alberto Martin-Aragon – Spain

Best AI Film
WINNER: Fragmented reality – dr walker – Portugal
HONORABLE MENTION: Fire warning – Kissel Hiram Bravo Hernández – Mexico

ABSURD AWARDS

Best Wannabe Absurd (we know reality can be absurd)
WINNER: There’s something wrong with Bartholomew – Ferdinando Lercari – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Mahsa – Woman Life Freedom – Shahrad Fredotti – United States

Best You’re lucky
WINNER: Guzzle Blood – Christy Karacas, Luca Depardon – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: The Killing Of A Strange Human – Francesco Gelardi – Italy

Best You have a good pusher
WINNER: Waiting for the man – Toby Cooper – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Sheriff Station’s Diner & Amusements – Jacob Alexander Sitowski – United States

Best It deserved an award so we created one
WINNER: One Night Stand – Orwa Alahmad – Syrian Arab Republic
HONORABLE MENTION: Whit prejudice – Gary Rollinson – United States

Best Font
WINNER: Today I Said “Hi” to Someone on the Street – Noah Ginex – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Lucifer Sam – United States
Best Plot twist
WINNER: Namaste, Starseeds – Victoria Duncan – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Close Up Cycle – Dominic Dragonetti – United Kingdom
Best Villain
WINNER: Inspector Salami – Loric de Coulon – Switzerland
HONORABLE MENTION: Killing Horse – David Laurent – France
Best Lie
WINNER: The Inevitable – Giuseppe Nasca – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Blooming Shadows – Nadiia Hryhorchuk – Germany
Best Don’t watch it when you’re eating
WINNER: The Cake – Adriana Denkova – Bulgaria
HONORABLE MENTION: Meat Un – Daniel Wilson – United States
Best It should be porn
WINNER: Objet #0001 – Petra Von Schatz – France
HONORABLE MENTION: Meat Deux – Daniel Wilson – United States

FILM STYLE AWARDS
Best Wes Anderson
WINNER: Please die later – Jules-Emile Vanhalle – Switzerland
HONORABLE MENTION: Shards of Fortune – Simon Latzer, Annelie Straub – Austria, Germany
Best Ken Loach
WINNER: Isaia 1:18-20 – Maria Rosaria Dell’Orto – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: For You – Emanuele Gualdoni – Italy

Best Stanley Kubrick
WINNER: Revenants – Jedric Villar – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Stone Age – Antonio Malfitano – Italy

Best Quentin Tarantino
WINNER: The Truth Between Us – Larry Rosen – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Sisters of Vengeance – George Louis Monteiro – United States

Best Federico Fellini
WINNER: Lo strano spettacolo di Mr. Ortis – Michele Catelani – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Speechless – Melissa Bronski – United States

Best Hayao Miyazaki
WINNER: Devil – Hye-min Park – Korea, Republic of
HONORABLE MENTION: Joe Schmoe – Wilson & Michael Ogberefor – United States

Best Sam Raimi
WINNER: Last Zombie – Lucas Spaulding – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: ClownEaters – Paul Hart-Wilden – United States

GENRE AWARDS
Best Absurd
WINNER: COPE (Illustrations of the Mind) – Snovonne ‘Sno’ Drake – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION:
Girl Carrying Books – Patrick Burchell – United Kingdom
The kid – Tamara Aalto – Finland, Spain
Best Drama
WINNER: Mother – Sebastian Kwidziński – Poland
HONORABLE MENTION: Greta – Charo Anaya – Spain
Best Experimental
WINNER: Blessed Are Those Who Grieve – Zora Arose Ritz, Evgenia Chetvertkova – Not Specified
HONORABLE MENTION:
We Are Strange – Han Hoezen – Netherlands
Sepulcher – Brian Rivera, Walter Rivera – Mexico
Best Comedy/Parody
WINNER: Mystery of Faith – Gabriel Vaz, Ricardo Cardoso – Portugal
HONORABLE MENTION: The Auge – Rudolf “Ronny” Augenheimer – Germany
Best Horror/Mystery
WINNER: Reflexos – Sarah Galantini – Brazil/Norway
HONORABLE MENTION: Dead Butterflies – Andy Lowe – United Kingdom
Best Action/Thriller
WINNER: Hammer, Wrench & Screwdriver – Gabriel Vilandré – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Leech – Pier Mazzi – Australia
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy
WINNER: Tragedium – Gastón Diego Haag – Spain
HONORABLE MENTION: Emily’s Mountain – Tal Somech – Israel
Best Documentary
WINNER: RicorDanze – Salvo Presti, Emanuele Torre – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: The Food That Fuels – Life’s Interpretation, Ed Porter – United States
Best Animation
WINNER: Rendezvous – Lydia Stone – Ireland
HONORABLE MENTION: Cuisine Dream – Boyao Chai – United States
Best Web/TV Pilot/Tv Series
WINNER: The Last Lighthouse – Marco Antonio Gosálvez, Mercè Mairal – Spain
HONORABLE MENTION: Jananot – The PrimaDonnas – Daniel Hassine – Israel
Best Music/Musical
WINNER: No Vex – Maximillian Wood – Not Specified
HONORABLE MENTION: Rieban – The Fox – Sara Margrethe Oskal – Norway
Best Romance
WINNER: Strange Love – Filip Miovski – North Macedonia
HONORABLE MENTION: Shadows of Desire – Lucio Luna – Brazil
Best Crime/Violence
WINNER: Her Motive – Kyle Stocking – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Sunset Phenomena – Linda Pallotta – United States
Best Silent Film
WINNER: Plop – Michael Röse – France
HONORABLE MENTION: Martha – Marcel Barelli – Switzerland
Best LGBTQ+
WINNER: Boy Mom – Reese Carmen Villella – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: In The Valley: A Cosmic Queer Abduction – Adam Van Dyke – United States

TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Director
WINNER: She Came From Outer Space! – Simon King – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Gym Bros – Deon Michael Donovan – United States
Best Young Director
WINNER: Next Steps: How to Live Your Life and (Maybe) Even Like It – Natasha Luttjeboer – South Africa
HONORABLE MENTION: The Lemmings of Bailey Manor – Hayden Eick – United States

Best Soundtrack
WINNER: Phase 4Andreas Häuserer – Austria
HONORABLE MENTION: The Girl from Fedamore – Matthew Rockett – Ireland

Best Editing
WINNER: From Earth to Earth: The Lost Art of Dying in America – Maxwell Schweik, Alyssa Beebe, Chess Cabrera, Reed Freedman, Mikayla Hall – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: The Waltz of the Hands or Something Like That – Bruno Sorc – Brazil

Best Screenplay
WINNER: Granny Smith – Jonathan Nolan – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION: D is for David – Matthew Thomas Komorowski – United States

Best Cinematography
WINNER: Bocal – Antoine Coulon, Dorian Vinai – France
HONORABLE MENTION: Aval – Vimal Mohan – United Arab Emirates

Best Vfx
WINNER: Neon Hell – Dave Thomas, Juan Emilio Veliz – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Justice Viper and the Cosmic CrystalsRyan Rakes, Julien DesRoches – United States

Best Actor/Actress
WINNER: Boring Is Underrated – Patty Sway – Spain
HONORABLE MENTION: Jetlag – Vadim Kovalevskii – Israel
Best Producer
WINNER: Pomme – Quentin Overtoom – France
HONORABLE MENTION: What’s that white thing, daddy? – Federico Forlani – Italy

Best Makeup, Hairstyling or Costumes
WINNER: Maroon Fist – Volenté Lloyd – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Free The Scalp! – Melanie Kaklamanis – Canada

Best Title
WINNER: Texttrapment – Donnel Johnson – United States
HONORABLE MENTION: Psychedelic Delusion – Wilson & Michael Ogberefor – United States

Best Movie Poster
WINNER: Fantasia – Dian Wang – China
HONORABLE MENTION: Anomia – Marco Cini, Emi Cuomo – Italy