Awards of January 2026

STANDARD CATEGORIES

Best Film Winner: Il gusto del pompelmo – Nicolò Donatello Milano – Italy

Best International Film Winner: Bound – Vikram Dasgupta – Canada
Honorable Mention: It’s a Rewrite… – Fintan Kearney, Paul Copeland – China
Honorable Mention: Spring – Dagur Kári Gnarr – Iceland

Best European Film Winner: Sole nero – Angelo Armiero – Italy
Honorable Mention: Death Of Fles – Zechen Huang – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Time – Nikolai Antonov – Netherlands

Best Asian Film Winner: The Left hand – Mehdi Ahmadpanah – Iran
Honorable Mention: Rding Shoutgun – Yaoming Guo – China
Honorable Mention: Life Is Not Data – kasamacuea – Japan

Best American Film Winner: Face Value – Julie Cordell-Seamons – United States
Honorable Mention: Open House – Julie Fergus – United States
Honorable Mention: The Lone Angler – Giselle Calderon – United States

Best Italian Film Winner: Rats and demons – Michał Stenzel, Miguel de Brito – Italy
Honorable Mention: L’acqua fa male – Antonio Malfitano – Italy
Honorable Mention: Cronache del nulla – Davide Serra – Italy

Best Lombard Film Winner: The Day the Strawberries Will Arrive – Omar Cremon – Italy
Honorable Mention: Dead Star – David Milesi – Italy

Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes) Winner: Untitled – Davide Serra – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Cereal Bag – David Aledo Yanguas – Germany, Spain
Honorable Mention: Decidiamo poi – Giovanni Matola – Italy

Best Super Short (under 15 minutes) Winner: No holidays in August – Filippo Pino – Italy
Honorable Mention: Pharmakon – Kissel Hiram Bravo – Mexico
Honorable Mention: Albino Cannibals – Ryan Cavalline – United States

Best Medium Length (under 60 minutes) Winner: Cindy – Al Chang – United States
Honorable Mention: Blinded Eyes – Roberto Leite – Brazil
Honorable Mention: Glitter Tang – Chris Whalen – United States

Best Low Budget Film Winner: Out of the frame – Franciszek Kizinski – France
Honorable Mention: Caccia grossa – Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti – Italy
Honorable Mention: A History of Prehistory – Matt Bissett-Johnson – Australia

Best Original Idea Winner: Chirps – Jenn O’Brien – United States
Honorable Mention: Church Lane – Joshua Aaron Bywater – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Tormentum velka – wolfstar – United States

Best Debut Film Winner: Karaí October – Braian Lopez – Argentina
Honorable Mention: One Shot At A Time – Michael Horaney – United States
Honorable Mention: Grahan – shariq Ali Khan – India

Best Title Winner: La fine del cosmo – Davide Fraternali – Italy
Honorable Mention: Leeches – Carla Linda Vitagliano – Italy
Honorable Mention: Walk The Walk – Brad Rushing – United States

ABSURD GENRE AWARDS

Best Absurd Film Winner: Narrenturm – Nicolò Serri – Italy
Honorable Mention: Masks – Alan Garrigan – Ireland
Honorable Mention: Violet Leaf – Corey Ringsell – United Kingdom

Best Drama Winner: The Good Samaritan – Takashi MIYATANI – Japan
Honorable Mention: Gaza’s Lost Horizon – Mo’men Ghanim Hasanain – Palestine
Honorable Mention: Live And Tell – Nina Kazé – United States

Best Experimental Film Winner: Viva – Daniela Garcia – Mexico
Honorable Mention: Rain – Jody Dobson – United States
Honorable Mention: The Other Side of Desire – Isabel Torres – Italy, United Kingdom

Best Comedy/Parody Winner: For the Love of Money – Joseph Kowalski – United States
Honorable Mention: Human Relations – Thomas Michaelson – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Out of the Coffin – Karl J Niemiec – United States

Best Horror/Mystery Winner: Black Arroio – Lucas de Lima Silva – Portugal
Honorable Mention: My Dad the Alien – Gareth Hofmeyr Green – South Africa
Honorable Mention: I Exist – Martin Del Carpio – United States

Best Action/Thriller Winner: You’re Next – Lauren Marshall – United States
Honorable Mention: Ladies T Party – Fragrance Francique – United States

Best Sci-fi/Fantasy Winner: Higher – Michael Carlo Allen – Italy
Honorable Mention: Blade Echo – Branden Arnold – United States
Honorable Mention: Devil:Error_001 – kasamacura – Japan

Best Documentary Winner: Betrayed Italians – Tito Giliberto – Italy
Honorable Mention: Salò: The Republic of Silence – Max Palmer – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Gaza’s Rain – Mo’men Ghanim Hasanain – Palestine, State of

Best Animation Winner: SWiM – Ivo Venkov – United States
Honorable Mention: How We Hamsters Die – Phoebe Burdick, Mio Gribskov – United States
Honorable Mention: One Last Song – Isaac Cayden Kannigan – South Africa

Best Music/Musical Winner: The Greatest Show Off – Paul Copeland – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Fashion Kills – Benjamin Brooks – Canada
Honorable Mention: Lucifer Train – Marcus Schütz – Germany

Best Crime/Violence Winner: Lola – Quentin Overtoom – France
Honorable Mention: Unseen – Lisa Marie Pezik, William Robert Lyle Porter – Canada

Best Silent Film Winner: Taste Like Chicken – Jay Lincal – France
Honorable Mention: Through in Between – Chase Bradburn – United States
Honorable Mention: Silent Night – Angela Roxanne Lazar, Julie Cordell-Seamons – United States

Best LGBTQ+ Film Winner: I Love You With All My Teeth – Gilles Geary – United States
Honorable Mention: No Moral Distance – Marina Shemwell – United States

TECHNICAL AWARDS

Best Director Winner: It’s a Rewrite… – Fintan Kearney, Paul Copeland – China
Honorable Mention: A Nest in My Heart – Mira Kim – South Korea
Honorable Mention: Intervention – Debradawn Shockey – United States

Best Young Director Winner: Butterfly Effect – Aglaya Semenova – United States
Honorable Mention: Invaluable – Faith Hutson – United States
Honorable Mention: I hear what you see – Tanya Belyanina – Germany

Best Soundtrack Winner: Eleutheria – Brendan Void – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Love You – Martha Nabila – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Eternal Home – Yorgos Keramydas – Greece

Best Editing Winner: How To Hide A Dead Body – Ilyas Dey – United States
Honorable Mention: Metamorphosis – Yorgos Keramydas – Greece
Honorable Mention: Born of Blood – Shaun Piccinino – United States

Best Screenplay Winner: Savage Season – Crystal Boyd – Nardeep Khurmi – United States
Honorable Mention: Chandler the Handler…You Can’t Bully Me! – Kem Frasier, Charles Caestecker – Kem Frasier, Warren Michael – United States
Honorable Mention: When It’s Gone – Manyu Dubbyreddy – United States

Best Cinematography Winner: The Last Ride – Vijesh Rajan, Yashoda Parthasarthy – India
Honorable Mention: The Five Stages – Jessica Orcsik – United States
Honorable Mention: Where She stayed – James Linmar Satterthwaite – United States

Best VFX Winner: Nonexistent – Connor Beveridge – Hunter Leech – Australia
Honorable Mention: Dys Is Me – Stacha Hicks – United Kingdom

Best Actor/Actress Winner: I Am Not Your Dusky Maiden – Nora Aati – Vea Mafile’o – New Zealand
Honorable Mention: Reset – Ivy Nix – Shanti Deva – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Almost Bomb Squad – Jonathan Sedgwick – Jonathan Sedgwick – United Kingdom

Best Producer Winner: Uprise – Juan Zuluaga, Nelson Ochoa – Alessandra Greco, Jonathan Arredondo, Maria Sky – United States
Honorable Mention: The Heist Job – Owen McCord – Christian Taliaferro – United States
Honorable Mention: Missing – Jovana Elek – Jovana Elek – Serbia

Best Arthouse Winner: Våknet – Shahrokh Nael – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Boy Likes Girl – Neo Katsapas – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Die Before You Die – Triggered – Rafael Maria Friebe – Germany

Best Movie Poster Winner: Til Death Do Us Part – Ilyas Dey, Grace Culwell – United States
Honorable Mention: Bloom – Chris Shields – United States
Honorable Mention: Screen Time – Julian Tre Means – United States

SPECIAL AWARD

Rebel Vision Award Winner: Ketchup – Tjeerd Dam – Netherlands

Best Wannabe Absurd Winner: I Love You, Too, You Stinky Elephant – James D Bowen – Indonesia

Best You Have a Good Pusher Winner: Hairball – Josh Hundermark – South Africa
Honorable Mention: The Parody News Network Presents Gladiator! – Stephen Lomer – United States

Best It Deserved an Award So We Created One Winner: La bambola in giallo – Leonardo Settimelli – Italy
Honorable Mention: Disjointed – Marlene Szczesny – United States
Honorable Mention: The Eden Trials – Stephanie Kirves – United States

Best WTF Plot Twist Winner: Émouvoir – Don Gage – United States
Honorable Mention: Tale & Bones – Dark Princess – Daniella Meggoe, Benson Jackson – United States