Awards of October 2026
STANDARD CATEGORIES
Best Film: Needleteeth – Daniel Lewis Martin – United Kingdom
Best International Film
Winner: Nu9ve, Pierna Arriba – Paula Vergara – Canada
Honorable Mention: La beauté du geste – Vincent Hazard – France
Best European Film
Winner: Focus “Hokus Pocus” – Dmitry Kogan – Estonia
Honorable Mention: The King of Hungary – Gunnar Lindholm, Laszlo Schüszler – Sweden
Best Asian Film
Winner: Matahan – Homeira Yaseri – Iran
Honorable Mention: Mirage – Debjoy Mallick – India
Best American Film
Winner: Janus Effect – Debra Zarne – United States
Honorable Mention: 24 hours of happiness – Alisa Shereshkova – Costa Rica
Best Italian Film
Winner: La Ballata di Ludovico Patico – Rodolfo Gusmeroli – Italy
Honorable Mention: Una Notte, Un Cinema – Stefano Tesi – Italy
Best Lombard Film
Winner: Bad Review – Michela Menichelli – Italy
Honorable Mention: Battle of the dramatists – Daniele D’Angelo – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
Winner: sHEISTy – Jourdain Brown – United States
Honorable Mention: Vacant – Gareth S Fickling – United Kingdom
Best Super Short (5 to 10 minutes)
Winner: Warden – Aleksei Kolychev – Serbia
Honorable Mention: I’ll be the jester – Tina Rozen – France
Best Standard Short (10 to 20 minutes)
Winner: The Boomerang Brick – Melpomeni Papageorgiou – Greece
Honorable Mention: Mayor Momma – Joel Svendsen – United States
Best Medium Length (under 60 minutes)
Winner: La Presentosa – Cristiana Esposito – Italy
Honorable Mention: Delirium 13 – Hedwig Schreck – Australia
Best Low Budget Film
Winner: Graffiti – Anastasia Licciardello – Italy
Honorable Mention: Exposure – Matthew Wyatt Tussey, Izaak Schans – United States
Best Original Idea
Winner: Hey, Rosa! – Sonia Iacobone – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Day Of – Rachide N Jafar – United States
Best Debut Film
Winner: Via Paradiso n. 22 – Giuseppe Conti, Michela De Buono Filippelli – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Last Signal – Abubakar Siddique – India
Best Title
Winner: Cow Farm – Natasha Goulden – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Bathory – Julian Barris
ABSURD GENRE AWARDS
Best Absurd Film
Winner: The Man Who Saved Color – Robbie Milne – Australia
Honorable Mention: A Beautiful Day In Innsmouth – Cody McCullough – United States
Best Weird Absurd
Winner: My Corolla – Vlad Zokitch – Australia
Honorable Mention: Repast – Paul E Burke Jr – United States
Best AI Film
Winner: Fall of Man – Erkki Kirjalainen – Spain
Honorable Mention: Beat Down – Michael Wardner – United States
Best Drama
Winner: On I Love You – Joel Lopez – United States
Honorable Mention: Çomak – Bariş Cenk Canli – Türkiye
Best Experimental Film
Winner: The Last Judgement – Lorenzo Lello Carvelli – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Isle of the Dead – Alexandros Kouros, Panagiotis Pantazis – Greece
Best Experimental Arthouse
Winner: Moving Past – Stella DeRisio – United States
Honorable Mention: Off-Center – TJ Norris – United States
Best Comedy
Winner: Slow Date – Mauro Stroppa – Italy
Honorable Mention: Riff Raff – George Najsarek – United Kingdom
Best Horror
Winner: 11:11 – Jessica Tao – Canada
Honorable Mention: My Vampire – Mick Jay Houser – United States
Best Thriller & Crime
Winner: Maria – Julio Benck – Portugal
Honorable Mention: Slay Down – Jessica Lily Levin – United States
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy
Winner: Agenda 2100 – Stéphanìe Habíb, Thais Guisasola – Brazil
Honorable Mention: Copy/Paste/Undo – Marc-André Decoste – Canada
Best Documentary
Winner: Blue Memories – Homeira Yaseri – Iran
Honorable Mention: The Sounds of Raw – Nicholas Bryant – United States
Best Animation
Winner: Visualizing Hope – United States
Honorable Mention: The Cockroach Incident – Michael McLaughlin – Australia
Best Music Film
Winner: My Love – Marc Lotus – United States
Honorable Mention: Ann Helene Hagen – Altered – Mert Ertunç – Norway, Türkiye, United States
Best Romance
Winner: Lab Rat – Ethan Meuer – United States
Best Silent Film
Winner: Failurecide – Francesco Silani – Italy
Honorable Mention: Peso muerto – Juanma Liceras – Spain
Best Inclusive Film (LGBTQ+)
Winner: I’ll be the jester – Tina Rozen – France
Honorable Mention: Get Away – Chase Sansing – United States
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Director
Winner: For the Love of Murder – Floria Di Tella – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: 4 of a Kind – Ian Butcher – Canada
Best Young Director
Winner: Mirror Mirror – Alyssa De Jesus – United States
Honorable Mention: No Smoking – Eli Warnick – United States
Best Soundtrack
Winner: Louder Than Fear – Hawk Holman – United States
Honorable Mention: Aft3r L!fe / Aft3rmath – Noemi Lanari – Italy
Best Editing
Winner: Rodney Rideout – Joshua Leif Blodget – United States
Honorable Mention: Gal Pal Camp Massacre VII – Matthew Alan Schmidt – Canada
Best Screenplay
Winner: Lady Mysterious – Luca Grimaldi – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Circle – Sofia Merkulova – United States
Best Cinematography
Winner: Elixir – Alex Weiss – United States
Honorable Mention: Light in the Well – Ruben Barreto – United States
Best Actor/Actress
Winner: Ona – Patricia Spehar – France
Honorable Mention: At the Mercy of Faith – David Gamble Jr. – United States
Best Producer
Winner: In ricordo delle onde dorate – Andrea De Benedictis – Italy
Honorable Mention: Breaking Up – Ian Butcher – Canada
Best Movie Poster
Winner: A Tavola – Paolo Orsini, Francesco Alceste Altamura – Italy
Honorable Mention: Pigeonholes – James Skinner – United Kingdom
SPECIAL AWARD
Rebel Vision Award
Winner: SmellApp – Roberto Tomeo, Andrea Dba Di Bartolo – Italy
Winner: Det snöar – Noah Kara, Oskar Fäldt – Sweden
Honorable Mention: Doctor Ignatius Speculo in “Sayonara Ex Machina Monster Bikini” – Paul E Burke Jr – United States
SPECIAL MENTIONS
Best Wannabe Absurd
Winner: I Long for Cloudy Days – Colby Herbst – United States
Honorable Mention: Cataclysm Down Under – Akal Demir
Best Villain
Winner: Morning After – Keya Kalyan – United States
Honorable Mention: The Silence – Danil Dranenko, Svetlana Litvinovskaya – Russian Federation
Best Font
Winner: We Like It Here – Kr0wn – United States
Honorable Mention: Tamalera – Jason Joe Angco-Barrera – United States
Best It Deserved an Award So We Created One
Winner: As usual – Darya Semenova – Russian Federation
Honorable Mention: Whatever Happened to Calistra Zipper? – Craig Calman – United States
Best Creative Courage
Winner: Æther – Angie Contini, Penelope Daw, Joan Gillison – Australia
Honorable Mention: Until the Call – Stuart Wheeldon – United Kingdom
Best Don’t Watch It When You’re Eating
Winner: What If We Kissed on the Operating Table – Sydney Mills – United States
Honorable Mention: Silent Horror: Neck Tumor – Goh Chun Hoong – Singapore
Best Should Be Porn
Winner: La Fleur Pousse – Luca Csathy, Elizaveta Dyachkova – United States
