Awards of JULY 2025
Standard Categories
Best Film: Atlante degli errori – Luca Bozzoli – Italy
Best International Film
Winner: 2nd Day & the End of the World – Sara Koppel – Denmark
Honorable Mention: Doom Scroll – Chantal Claret – New Zealand
Best European Film
Winner: Catch You Later – Michael Joaquim Matias – Portugal
Honorable Mention: Bust and Hustle – Nick Malakhov – United Kingdom
Best Asian Film
Winner: Bubba – Sari Azoulay Turgeman – Israel
Honorable Mention: Bound – Moe Hosseini – Israel
Best American Film
Winner: Breach – Ross Langill – Canada
Honorable Mention: A Day Later – Timothy Boissey – United States
Best Italian Film
Winner: Plumbing adv: a guide to promoting your business – Daniele Bagolin – Italy
Honorable Mention: H. Pippi Lovecraft – Valentina Battorti – Italy
Best Lombard Film
Winner: Where is your soul? – Manuele Granelli, Jacopo Zuccarella – Italy
Honorable Mention: Mary’s Odyssey – Omar Cremon – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
Winner: Undefined register – Antonio Malfitano – Italy
Honorable Mention: Ed Roman “I Found God” (illustrated) – Paul Ribera – Canada
Best Super Short (under 15 minutes)
Winner: Rose – Philippe Turcotte – Canada
Honorable Mention: In Sunshine and in Shadow – David Air, Dustin Wonch – United States
Best Medium Length (under 60 minutes)
Winner: Human factor – Damien Morel – France
Honorable Mention: Karma Coma – James McErlean – United Kingdom
Best Low Budget Film
Winner: Foxhollow – Tom Hughes – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Picture This – Olivia Hinks – United Kingdom
Best Original Idea
Winner: Shift – Martin Bannon Beaudet – United States
Honorable Mention: Coming Home – Jamie Wilson – Australia
Best Debut Film
Winner: The experiment – Pedro Esteves – Brazil
Honorable mention: Ballad of the Millennial Dream – Yuliya Levashova – Ukraine
Best Title
Winner: Stefano il Tramontana – Mario Blasi – Italy
Honorable Mention: Meditieren mit Störung – Steve Windels – Germany
Absurd Genre Awards
Best Absurd Film
Winner: The (Last) Station – Evgenia Zeller – United States
Honorable Mention: Diamonds Are? – Lisa Crawford – Canada
Best Drama
Winner: Separate ways – Oscar Bermudez – United States
Honorable Mention: Gamblers – Ettore Zito – Italy
Best Experimental Film
Winner: Come as you are – Zhuoxuan Li – Italy
Honorable Mention: Finnish and paranoid dream – Jimena Aguilar – Argentina
Best Comedy/Parody
Winner: Heavy is the Head – Débora Rocha – United States
Honorable Mention: A Texas Trilogy – Robert Marshall Tartell – United States
Best Horror/Mystery
Winner: The Harpies – Rogan Lovse – Canada
Honorable Mention: Tantibus – Ángel M. Pecci – Spain
Best Action/Thriller
Winner: Remote death – Kevin Jones – United States
Honorable mention: Shadow on the earth – Ricardo Morales Aldahondo – Puerto Rico
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy
Winner: Closure – Ashley L. Canfield – United States
Honorable Mention: Card Game – Isaac Middleton – United States
Best Documentary
Winner: The Forbidden Files: The Witches – Rachel Allignet – France
Honorable Mention: Miracle à Maiori – Anouk Phéline – France, Italy
Best Animation
Winner: Snacktime – Alphonse Ferrari – France
Honorable Mention: P – Tatiana Skorlupkina – Spain
Best Music/Musical
Winner: Pick You Up at 6: Be Here – Zoë Love Smith – Netherlands
Honorable Mention: Goodbye / Nevesoma – Anastasia Bezhan – United States
Best Romance
Winner: Bench – Gareth Brierley, Fiona Creese – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: A Nossa História de Amor – Alisson Resende – Brazil
Best Crime/Violence
Winner: Hen Night – Ángel M. Pecci – Spain
Honorable Mention: Xiu Xiu – T.D.F.T.W. – Hudson Lewis Scott – Canada
Best Silent Film
Winner: Boiling Point – Ryan Russo – United States
Honorable Mention: Day of the Catch – Jared Engel – United States
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Winner: Revenge – Omar Beretta – Argentina
Honorable Mention: Echo – Teekay Adegbenro – United Kingdom
Technical Awards
Best Director
Winner: The Lighter Game – Callum Anthony Thomas – Australia
Honorable Mention: Tucked In – Lar Collicott – Canada
Best Young Director
Winner: Operation: Hunting Putin – Annabel Piirma, Oliver Valk – Estonia
Honorable Mention: The coffee break – Asklipios Vrachnos – Greece
Best Soundtrack
Winner: Sludge (The Water Barons’ Show) – Synth Farmers – Grant Hunter – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Time Dust – Paola Cantachin – Italy
Best Editing
Winner: Conjured Clowns – Keely Jones – Australia
Honorable Mention: Nightjar – Aaron Garcia – United States
Best Screenplay
Winner: The Composition Of An Oyster – Jon Campbell Rose – United States
Honorable Mention: The date – Nicola Fierro – Italy
Best Cinematography
Winner: Chair – Kaori Ito – Japan
Honorable mention: Matter! – Samuel Feron – France
Best Vfx
Winner: Holzläufer – Philipp Krautschick – Germany
Honorable Mention: Zombie Jesus Vampire Hunter – Gustavo Aviles – United States
Best Actor/Actress
Winner: Butterfly – Nanda Tomás – United States
Honorable Mention: Best Friend (Mother Ukraine—Layers of War) – Linda Pallotta – United States
Best Producer
Winner: Good Dog – Will Davies – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Siblings – Coco Nicole Marshall – United States
Best Arthouse
Winner: The Encarne Trilogy – SI Reasoning – United States
Honorable Mention: The End in Slow Motion – Joshua Kaufman – United States
Best Movie Poster
Winner: I Wish I Could Blame It on Someone – Mathilde Brandi – United States
Honorable Mention: Mint In Box – Mike Logan – Canada
Special Award
Rebel Vision Award
Winner: Michele Fraternali – Devil’s Cry – Michele Fraternali – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Stranded Warrior – Chris T Moore – United States
Best Wannabe Absurd
Winner: Sendung wurde zugestellt – Arthur Wiechmann – Germany
Best It Deserved an Award So We Created One
Winner: Ariel Cerebral City – Kitty Wallace – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: The Yellow Mug Mystery – Steve Windels – Germany
Best Don’t Watch It When You’re Eating
Winner: Sin – Gui Merlino, Juliana Lourenção – Brazil
Honorable Mention: I Am Nothing – Jacob Kresak – United States
