Awards of October 2025
Standard Categories
Best Film: Mantis Te Vidit – Nicolò Tonani – Italy
Best International Film
Winner: L’Autre – Cyril Ferment – France
Honorable Mention: Dying to Deliver – Brianna Joy Neowhouse – Australia
Best European Film
Winner: Hellwriting – Abril Garcia, Guilliana Ramirez – Spain
Honorable Mention: Time’s Up! – Ivan Krapivin – Serbia
Best Asian Film
Winner: Picking Up DionySOS – Dongho Ahn, Jihwan Yoo – South Korea
Honorable Mention: Esli Mozhno – So Many Fools Around – Anton Evdokimov – Uzbekistan
Best American Film
Winner: Secluded – Ethan Guetta – United States
Honorable Mention: The Devil’s Rocking Chair – Sam LaFrance – United States
Best Italian Film
Winner: Greed of Glory – Antonio Malfitano – Italy
Honorable Mention: Scomparso – Walter Bellapianta – Italy
Best Lombard Film
Winner: Almiro – Francesco Azzini – Italy
Honorable Mention: Bazelik – Duilio Forte – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
Winner: Kiesler’s Body – Ganaël Dumreicher – Austria
Honorable Mention: There’s a Robbery in Progress – Morgan Miller – United Kingdom, United States
Best Super Short (under 15 minutes)
Winner: Paranoid – Junda Wu – United States
Honorable Mention: The Shallow End – Eddie Kisfaludy – United States
Best Medium Length (under 60 minutes)
Winner: Speed Dates – Alexandr Leonidovich Onufriev – Ukraine
Honorable Mention: Hoofenanny – Adno Gibl, Ari Lyon – Canada
Honorable Mention:
Best Low Budget Film
Winner: Cüda – Ahmet Şerafettin Kavurmacı – Turkey
Honorable Mention: Nod – Doug Kruse – United States
Best Original Idea
Winner: Arctophile – Louis Watterson – United States
Honorable Mention: A Dawgs Imagination – Montana James Miller – United States
Best Debut Film
Winner: When the Curtain Falls – Dominique Pierre Lüthi – Switzerland
Honorable Mention: Ilyukha’s Coffin Wouldn’t Open. Thank God – Alexandra Sher – Israel
Best Title
Winner: Attack of the Coat – Lola Rose Maxwell – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Forbidden Soul – Baidar Bakhat – Pakistan
Absurd Genre Awards
Best Absurd Film
Winner: Soul Trader – Geneviève Lowe – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: The House On Cox Curve – Eamon O’Rourke – United States
Best Drama
Winner: Empty Bottles – Joseph D Robinette – United States
Honorable Mention: Benefits Bailiffs – Graeme Rennie – United Kingdom
Best Experimental Film
Winner: Repeat – Marlon Royal Reid – United States
Honorable Mention: It Isn’t Sweet – Olívia de Moraes – Brazil
Best Comedy/Parody
Winner: Puppets in Paradise – Brian Duss – United States
Honorable Mention: Mein Surname – Adam Cowie – United Kingdom
Best Horror/Mystery
Winner: Pleased to Kill You – Adolfo Vico – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Analogue: A Horror Anthology – Jacob Ethan Tanner – United Kingdom
Best Action/Thriller
Winner: Parsec One – Kevin CorSan – Spain
Honorable Mention: Almost Normal – Matthew Simon – United States
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy
Winner: The Data Is Wrong – Austin Charlesworth – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Anywhere But Here – Kennedy Kacik – United States
Best Documentary
Winner: Libero Dentro – Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo – Italy
Best Animation
Winner: The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot – Duncan Rudd – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Superblood – Sawyer Thurber, Carter Thurber – Canada
Best Music/Musical
Winner: The Chronovisor – Mario Mariani – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Devil Walks at Midnight: Hide Your Demons – Valerie Denise Jones, Phillip A Driskell – United States
Best Romance
Winner: Once Upon a Dream – Stephen K Bess – United States
Best Crime/Violence
Winner: Becoming a Serial Killer – Ru Benjamin Revolver – United States
Honorable Mention: Felpato II – Pasquale Fresegna – Italy
Best Silent Film
Winner: Heaven in Blues – Maurizio Vincenzi – Italy
Honorable Mention: Fat or the Reluctant Butcher – Tathagata Chowdhury – India
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Winner: A Message – Mama Ganuush – Palestine
Honorable Mention: I Dreamed of Corn Cakes – Edward Blamoh, Jairí Gereda – Ecuador
Technical Awards
Best Director
Winner: What to Expect – Guja Quaranta – United States
Honorable Mention: O Infinito Que Antecede o Nada – Lucas Marques – Brazil
Best Young Director
Winner: 4teen – The Movie – Owen Myre – United States
Honorable Mention: Snakes Are Offal With Dreams – Scott Litts – United States
Best Soundtrack
Winner: Lucifer – Jan Pieter Smith – Netherlands
Honorable Mention: Street Muse – Beth Cloutier – United States
Best Editing
Winner: The Apple Picker’s Son – Shiyi Xie – United States
Honorable Mention: Hi – Dan Alexander Newton – United Arab Emirates
Best Screenplay
Winner: Resurrection – Sam Zaslow-Braverman – United States
Honorable Mention: Coke and Oil – Sean Gunnell – United States
Best Cinematography
Winner: One Last Show in Taghmon – Fiona Graham – Ireland
Honorable Mention: Share – Abdullah Özdemir – Turkey
Best Vfx
Winner: Tape – Marceline Keedle – United States
Best Actor/Actress
Winner: Ghost Talk – Jennifer Buttell – United States
Honorable Mention: The Resurrection of Ophelia – Lyndsay Smart – United States
Best Producer
Winner: The Path to Oblivion – Ali Marwan Chekki – Tunisia, United Arab Emirates
Honorable Mention: Heaven in Blues – Maurizio Vincenzi – Italy
Best Arthouse
Winner: Elemental Studies – TJ Norris – United States
Honorable Mention: Hamsa – Aram Abdulrahim – Syrian Arab Republic
Best Movie Poster
Winner: The Sixth Stage – Devin Nikki Thomas – United States
Honorable Mention: Precipitação – Vic Kings – Brazil
Special Award
Rebel Vision Award
Winner: Slap – Grant Barbeito – United States
Honorable Mention: Seams in My Socks – Yonit Kosovske, Justin Grounds – Ireland
Best Wannabe Absurd
Winner: Fortunata – Max Oliva Bartolozzi – Italy
Honorable Mention: Do You See Me? – Mo Sati – Palestine
Best You Have a Good Pusher Winner: A Feast of the Damned – Johnny “Sev” Fotschky, Alex Fotschky, Kimberly “Xavia” Fotschky – United States
Honorable Mention: Pitypot – Karl Crossley – United Kingdom
Best It Deserved an Award So We Created One
Winner: Flowers from My Garden – Denver Dan – United States
Honorable Mention: This Is Not an Experiment – Karl Crossley – United Kingdom
Best WTF Plot Twist
Winner: Soulmates – Anaira – Slovenia
Honorable Mention: Will of Fortune – John Sweeney – Ireland
Best Don’t Watch It When You’re Eating
Winner: Eggsecution – Japhet Velazquez – United States
Honorable Mention: Mother Said So – Nelly Barreto – United States
