Award of July – October 2026!

Films in the official selection:

My Friendly Sleep-Paralysis Demon – Cameron Faulkner – Canada
Screen Time – Andrea Ross – Canada
SAKANA – Yun-Rei CHUANG – Taiwan
Death is a Favor – Cecilia Kim – United States
Blind Pursuit – Desmond J Brown – United States

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Best International Film
Winner: The Widow – Louis Mateu – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Green Mist – Julia Kostiukevich – Russian Federation

Best Italian Film
Winner: Out Of Time – Julian Vincenzo Ricci – Italy
Honorable Mention: Lo Sconosciuto – Lorenzo Perilli – Italy

Best European Film
Winner: Paper Porn – Sandrine Lambert – Belgium
Honorable Mention: Forgotten Letters – Shiva Boloorian – Austria

Best Asian Film
Winner: Vaelena – Kenneth Ching – Singapore
Honorable Mention: Dear, All Robots – AIJI KOMALA – Taiwan

Best African Film
Winner: Sending – Mohamed Dahshan – Egypt

Best American Film
Winner: Perfect Game – Christopher C Avent Sr. – United States
Honorable Mention: Dead Air – D.G. Allstrum – United States

Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
Winner: TANUKI FOODS: Got Enough MP? – Pai Chen – Taiwan
Honorable Mention: Less is More – André RODRIGUES LOPES – France, Switzerland

Best Super Short (between 5 and 10 minutes)
Winner: Saibā Riot – Neon Masquerade (Episode 1) – Carène Jonathan – France
Honorable Mention: Il buio non esiste – Alessio Coccia – Italy

Best Standard Short (between 10 and 20 minutes)
Winner: Stellar Rounin – Cheng-Hsun LIN – Taiwan
Honorable Mention: Kör Ses (Blind Vocie) – Oğuzhan Denizol – Türkiye

Best Medium Lenght (under 60 min)
Winner: What goes around comes around – Jan Smykowski – Germany
Honorable Mention: We Who Wither – Camilo Gonzalez – United States

Best Original Idea
Winner: One Year – Adam Michael – United States
Honorable Mention: ONA – CYRIL FERMENT – France

Best Low Budget Film
Winner: The Dinner Date – Michael Rogers – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: The Legend of Spearfinger – Christopher E Knox – United States

Best Experimental
Winner: Heaven’s Dark Side – Margaret Fisher, Jim Cave, Robert Grove Hughes – United States
Honorable Mention: domestic CIRCADIAN – paolo pollo rodighiero – Italy

Best Debut
Winner: MARE NEVE – Gianmarco Spina – Italy
Honorable Mention: My Vampire – Mick Jay Houser – United States

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NIGHT AWARDS

Best Dark Comedy
Winner: The One Arm Bandit – Rich Allen – United States
Honorable Mention: The Moron – Youssef Masri – Canada

Best Tragicomic Film
Winner: Very Wild Boar – Tomas Mitkus – Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands
Honorable Mention: Vida perra – Publio César de la Vega García – Spain

Best Mockumentary
Winner: Hey, Rosa! – Sonia Iacobone – Italy

Best Documentary
Winner: Shared Space – Donal Boyd, Emma Romeijn – Netherlands
Honorable Mention: The Pain Department – Paul Thomas – Ukraine, United Kingdom

Best Dystopian Sci-Fi
Winner: The Banquet – Sooyoung Kim – South Korea
Honorable Mention: El Dios más severo – Publio César de la Vega García – Spain

Best Comedy Sci-Fi
Winner: How to Prepare for Time Travelers in the Workplace – Lily Lachance – Canada
Honorable Mention: Space Dad – Bryce Mackie, Tom Mackie – United States

Best Philosophical Film
Winner: Inside Hurricane Melissa | Jamaica Strong – Aleca King – Jamaica
Honorable Mention: La última vez – Publio César de la Vega García – Spain

Best Existential Drama
Winner: Human – Steve – United States
Honorable Mention: Stars in the well – Paolo Carboni – Italy

Best Crime Drama
Winner: Child Lock – Alessandro Gallus – Italy
Honorable Mention: Light of Life – Gregory Cherniavskii – Argentina

Best Drama Thriller
Winner: Dawn at Dominion – Carl Bailey – United States
Honorable Mention: Short Fuse – Louis Mateu – United Kingdom

Best Psychological Thriller
Winner: Red omen – Anna Maria Szewczak – Poland
Honorable Mention: KONKA – Alessandra Medici – Italy

Best Fantasy Drama
Winner: No Wind to hold – MICKAEL ABBATE, CHRIS CONTI – France
Honorable Mention: Judas – Natasha Gudermane – France, Latvia

Best Romantic Drama
Winner: Tagmond – Jayson Cakar – Switzerland
Honorable Mention: Silenciado – Publio César de la Vega García – Spain

Best Family
Winner: One Last Glance – Joe Ronca – United States
Honorable Mention: Until the Rain Stops – Pai Chen – Taiwan

Best Horror
Winner: SIRENS From the Movie 6 SONGS – Felice Santulli – Italy
Honorable Mention: Chilli – Gareth Hofmyer Green – South Africa

Best Surreal Film
Winner: The Color Larry – Sean Repplier – United States
Honorable Mention: The Subconscious Of The Consort – Cleo Patty Neale – Ireland, United Kingdom

Best Animation
Winner: The Followers – Hsiang-Wen LU, Wei-Hsuan CHEN – Taiwan
Honorable Mention: Lomime – Wan-Chu CHIU, Ya-Jung CHOU, Ching-Yu HO, Chi-An CHEN – Taiwan

Best LGBTQ+
Winner: Only the Whites of Our Eyes – Jeno Hodi – Hungary
Honorable Mention: War Paint – William Kowanec – United Kingdom

Best Music/Musical
Winner: Zagara miele e sale – ANGELA NOBILE BARBARA CATERA – Italy
Honorable Mention: Gilded Gutter – Hellen Rose – Australia

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TECHNICAL AWARDS

Best Director
Winner: Lobo: Christmas special – Alan Maldonado – Mexico
Honorable Mention: Glitchy Mina – Deon Michael Donovan – United States

Best Young Director
Winner: Blind Stares – Tristan Krenz – Germany
Honorable Mention: The Ancient Summer – Alberto Bernardini – Italy

Best Soundtrack
Winner: The Puppets of the High Seas – Dylan Randall – Australia
Honorable Mention: Chispa = Spark: Connecting Neighbors in Southeast San Francisco – Naomi Garcia Pasmanick – United States

Best Editing
Winner: Visions – Shadows of Evil – Marc Spencer – Germany
Honorable Mention: Love You More – Aliyah Rose – United States

Best Screenplay
Winner: Clueless Pilot Episode – Joshua Kent – New Zealand
Honorable Mention: STAGE OF FLESH – Guibert Najarian – Lebanon, United Kingdom

Best Cinematography
Winner: The Last Stagecoach West – Martin Moll – Germany
Honorable Mention: Brackish – Yi Yu – United States

Best VFX
Winner: SOL INVICTUS – The Invincible Sun – Tommaso Giusto – Italy
Honorable Mention: What’s Locked Behind That Door? – John Gardner – United States

Best Actor/Actress
Winner: Time will tell – Andrés López – Spain
Honorable Mention: A Latina in DC – Diana Noris – United States

Best Producer
Winner: Inn for a Wild Night – Emily Valentin, Dylan Buyskes, Nate White – United States
Honorable Mention: Something Pointless – Asa Bailey – United Kingdom

Best Title
Winner: Threads of Gold – Randall W Vemer – United States
Honorable Mention: Kalafon – Vuk Bogdanović – Serbia

Best Movie Poster
Winner: SPEED or PERISH – Seth Ickerman – France
Honorable Mention: Commis – Henry J. Wilson – United States