September 2025
Standard Categories
Best Film: Lights Camera Carnage – Logan Weisberg – United States
Best International Film
Winner: L’Autre – Cyril Ferment – France
Honorable Mention: Magoric – Isaias Zai Gallardo – United States
Best European Film
Winner: Antanaclasis – Evi Tzortzi – Greece
Honorable Mention: By the Cover – Orsolya Farkas – Hungary
Best Asian Film
Winner: It’s Yummy. – Lisa Siera – Japan
Honorable Mention: The Jade Palace’s Lament – Xiaoxiao Ma – China
Best American Film
Winner: El Jardín – Ben Labadia, Olivia Wezdenko – United States
Honorable Mention: Athena’s Wisdom – Laurie E Tanner, Nathan Aaron – United States
Best Italian Film
Winner: Genesi 2:21;22 – Riccardo Charlie Marino – Italy
Honorable Mention: Coming Soon – Antonio Malfitano – Italy
Best Lombard Film
Winner: Beyond the Sea – Vladimir Scavuzzo – Italy
Honorable Mention: Kintsugi – Chiara Rivosecchi – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
Winner: Aurora Oscillans – Refugia at the Intersection: Entropy, Exposure, and Emergence – Tristan Zand – Iceland
Honorable Mention: In Captivity of a Finger+2 – Zahra Shafiei Dehaghani, Mohammadali Taheri, Ali Akbar Ardeshir, Ismail Mokhtarian – Iran
Best Super Short (under 15 minutes)
Winner: Amor a L’art – Ezequiel Casamada – Spain
Honorable Mention: I Will Forget You Name – Stuart Lynch – Denmark
Best Medium Length (under 60 minutes)
Winner: Moth Hotel – Brian Luff – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Christmas Card – Kel Owens – United States
Best Low Budget Film
Winner: Chris Henson’s Constantine Directors Cut – Chris Henson – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Eagles & Crows, A Fable – JZ Murdock – United States
Best Original Idea
Winner: Asmr Hr – Ella Glasscock – United States
Honorable Mention: Lipstick: The Mr S Story – Sonny Michael Chohan – United Kingdom
Best Debut Film
Winner: No Big Deal – Katalin Burns – Hungary
Honorable Mention: Scherzo N 5 – Alexander Vovk – Finland
Best Title
Winner: One Crawls Over the Spider’s Web – Dhananjay Nachar – Canada
Honorable Mention: High Strung (Escalator to Hell) – Daniel McDougall – Canada
Absurd Genre Awards
Best Absurd Film
Winner: Ghost Talk – Thomas C Baker – United States
Honorable Mention: Go Down, Diller – Andrew Bateman – United States
Best Drama
Winner: Nice to Meet You – Noah Kurdi Kara – Sweden
Honorable Mention: Yard Saleing – Tom Logan – United States
Best Experimental Film
Winner: Pixel Rot – Rob Winward – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: What Remains – Vadim Lasca – United States, Venezuela
Best Comedy/Parody
Winner: Puppets in Paradise – Brian Duss – United States
Honorable Mention: Johnny and Jenny Take a Shortcut – Gino Isaacs – United Kingdom
Best Horror/Mystery
Winner: Gramophone – Arif Emsen – Turkey
Honorable Mention: Dark Places I Have Known Episode Three “Too Far Too Close” – Juergen Hirsch – Germany
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy
Winner: Adventures of Kitty and Randle – Brendan Joel Hildebrandt – Australia
Honorable Mention: In the Ocean of Time – Korinna Krauss – Germany
Best Documentary
Winner: Refugees – Adam Knott – Australia
Honorable Mention: Kozlov Mitya, 81+ – Yulia Ruzmanova – Russian Federation
Best Animation
Winner: Great Googly – Julia Gordon – United States
Honorable Mention: The Final Exam – Surapong Wetsuwanmanee – Thailand
Best Music/Musical
Winner: Boston Rhapsody – An Vedi – Russian Federation, United States
Honorable Mention: Johnny Boy Got His Drum – Kevin Davis – United States
Best Romance
Winner: Take-Out – Poramet Ariyakusonsuthi – Australia
Best Crime/Violence
Winner: Quack Quack – Nico Sorrentino – Canada
Best Silent Film
Winner: Bra Top – Akiko Matsumoto – United States
Honorable Mention: Amistà – Donato Leoni – Italy
Technical Awards
Best Director
Winner: Legacy – Amirmehdi Tavakolian – Iran
Honorable Mention: Bigfoot in the Park – Adam John Daveline – United States
Best Young Director
Winner: Heart & Soul – Donagh Joseph Walsh – Ireland
Honorable Mention: Omomori – Regina Del Gaudio – Italy
Best Soundtrack
Winner: Umm – Maximillian Wood – United States
Honorable Mention: Xing – Rosa Costanza – United States
Best Editing
Winner: You of Distance Me of Distance – Angie Contini, Penelope Daw, Joan Gillison – Australia
Honorable Mention: Legends & Leftovers – Matthew Simon – United States
Best Screenplay
Winner: Oz Doesn’t Exist – Mikel Capriano, Callum Chiplin – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Fossil Record – Karla Weber – Canada
Best Cinematography
Winner: Food Chain – Truls Valen Aasland – United States
Honorable Mention: Kill Switch – Brent Katz – United States
Best Visual Effects
Winner: Dreambrew – Ben Bayliss, Anthony Hampshire – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: How To Survive a Bean Man Attack – Marceline Keedle – United States
Best Actor/Actress
Winner: Delusion – Angel Somarriba – United States
Honorable Mention: Citizen’s Arrest – Zoe Canner – United States
Best Producer
Winner: Once (In My Life) – Francesco Colangelo – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Mermaid – Iman Afsharian – Cyprus, Iran
Best Arthouse
Winner: Sensus Mori – Sydney Rincón – United States
Honorable Mention: The Exorzist Prayer – Marcus Schütz – Germany
Best Movie Poster
Winner: Magpie – Corey Joseph Millar – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: The Stranger – Corey Millar – Ireland
Special Award
Rebel Vision Award
Winner: Coming Soon – Antonio Malfitano – Italy
Best It Deserved an Award So We Created One
Winner: The Chocolate – Michael Ringdal – Spain
Best WTF Plot Twist
Winner: Hitman Ex – Jamon Holmes – United States
