These are the winners of awards December 2022 – January 2023:
BEST FILM – Stationheads – Stu Gamble – Hungary
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM – Le Poussin et les Sourcils – Rami Samir Salloum – Lebanon
BEST EUROPEAN FILM – La mécanique des tournesols – Albane Bisleau, Sarah
El Karkouri, Valentine Gaffinel, Rokiatou Konaté, Marie Schnakenbourg – France
BEST ITALIAN FILM – Alea – Niccolò Buttigliero Junior – Italy
BEST AMERICAN FILM – Dream Girl – Jeremy Max – Usa
BEST ASIAN FILM – The future in our hands – Shihyun Wang – Taiwan
BEST MICRO SHORT (under 5 minutes) – Cargo – Steve Simmons – United Kingdom
BEST SUPER SHORT (between 5 and 10 minutes) – Good For Nothing – Katherine Press – United Kingdom
BEST LOW BUDGET FILM – Wald – Christian Groen – Usa
BEST DOCUMENTARY – Soul Pending – Erik Showacy – Usa
BEST ANIMATION FILM – Jewel of the Dragon’s Skull – Josh Minnie – Usa
BEST INCLUSIVE FILM – DL? by Tutt Jones – Daffy London – Usa
BEST DIRECTOR – The Muse – Max Karpylev – Usa
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR (under 25yo) – Before We Break – Jake Alexander Williams – Usa
BEST EDITING – Fire Sky Creek – Aaron Livingston – Usa
BEST SCREENPLAY – Ellie – Fernando Bonelli – Spain
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Icarus – Christian Griffith – Usa
BEST SOUNDTRACK – The Lonely Child Project – Scott Good – Canada
BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS – Tumble – Charlie Santore – Usa
BEST MOVIE POSTER – Closed – Dan Marmor, Tim O’Hanlon – Usa
BEST MUSIC VIDEO: – Consensual – Jeff Hilliard, Joey Danger – Usa
Script Awards:
BEST SCRIPT – While My Sex Doll Gently Weeps – Blake Blake Hoss – Usa
BEST EUROPEAN SCRIPT – Cauldron Moon – Kathrin Woodtli – Switzerland
BEST ABSURD SCRIPT – Le Bassin – Henry P. Gravelle – Usa
BEST SUPER SHORT SCRIPT (under 10 pages)
Absurd Awards:
BEST WANNABE ABSURD (we know reality can be absurd) – Parent Movie – Wyatt Thompson – Usa
BEST YOU’RE LUCKY (RANDOM AWARD) – Drown – Benjamin Hollinger – Usa
BEST YOU HAVE A GOOD PUSHER – Headtrip in the Boudoir – Valeria Kosmidis – Ukraine
BEST IT DESERVED AN AWARD SO WE CREATED ONE – There is exactly enough time – Oskar Salomonowitz – Austria
BEST ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA – Paleface – Matt Long – Usa
BEST ITALIANS DO IT BETTER – Indagine su un uomo insopportabile – Lorenzo Baldi – Italy
BEST FEMALE CHOICE (we all have PMS) – Mansplaining – Manolo Castro – Mexico
BEST FONT – Sisters’ Sunday Funday! – Storm Garner – Usa
BEST DR. CALIGARI – Frame Fumble – Alexander Griffin – Usa
BEST BACK TO THE FUTURE – To Ana – Ivy Padmos – Canada
PLOT TWIST – The Devil’s Avocado – Kees-Jan Mulder – Netherlands
BEST LE GRAND BUFFET – A Taste of Strawberry – Luka Tomic – New Zealand
BEST VILLAIN – Ruby Baby – Lee – United Kingdom
BEST FRIENDZONE – Hidden Lives – Abraham Lopez – Usa
BEST WES ANDERSON – At the Dentist – Jason Kelly Lee – Usa
BEST PHYSICAL REACTION – Love Story – Michael Lester – Usa
BEST THE PEN IS ON THE TABLE – Birdy – Cristina Ballesteros – United Kingdom
BEST DISNEY MOMENT – Pippin and the Bead – Lumi Barron – Usa
BEST WOODY APPROVES – On/Off – Jurg Slabbert – South Africa
BEST THE BOOGIEMAN IS REAL – Highway to Hell – Craig Knowles – Usa
Honorable Mention
Abandon – Jeff Hilliard – Usa
The Devil’s Smoke Alarm – Luis Tovar, Daniel O’Reilly – Usa
Speaker – Alan Hamwan – United Kingdom
VELVET: Blue Assassin – Robert J. Butler – Usa
Garbage People: The Gingerbread Traphouse – Brit Tobin – Usa
Brenda’s Damn Good Day – Jesse Cooper – United Kingdom
Dull Boy – Zuri Shafer – Usa
Lunarcode: hell is just a place – Vincenzo Carubia, Jessica Gillette – Usa
Finger Bang Your Day – Jeff Hilliard, John Orphan – Usa
Home Again, Home Again – Avery Warsaw – Usa
Silicone Wave – Jeff Hilliard – Usa
La vie en roses – Patrice Cordonnier – France
Deadline To Death – Elliot Stanton – United Kingdom
The New Girlfriend – Pierre Langenegger – Australia
A Night In Charlotte With Sweeney Ty – Ty Brueilly – Usa