Award of September – December 2025

Films in the official selection:
Where The Shadows Wait – Riley Robbins – United States
Claire Doesn’t Sleep – Leo Wolfenstein – France
See You, Palestine – Jürgen Baums – Germany
Datura – Edward Ayala – United States
ONCE (in my life) – Francesco Colangelo – Italy

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Best International Film
Winner: The Final Exam – Surapong Wetsuwanmanee – Thailand
Honorable Mention: Menu-Morphosis – Flynn Arvythis – Australia

Best Italian Film
Winner: The art of the white flag – Riccardo Pittaluga – Italy
Honorable Mention: GAMBLERS – ettore zito – Italy

Best Lombard film
Winner: Mantis Te Vidit – Nicolò Tonani – Italy
Honorable Mention: kintsugi – Chiara Rivosecchi – Italy

Best European Film
Winner: Crowded – Nathania Rubin – Netherlands
Honorable Mention: What the Snow Carries Away – Alexandre GUITEL, Maïlys PORTIER – France

Best Asian Film
Winner: The Hatch – Alessandro Edward Pinto – India
Honorable Mention: Kabootari – Beybaar – India

Best American Film
Winner: The Lost Boys – Bryan Young – United States
Honorable Mention: Say Hello – David Graziano – United States

Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
Winner: The Feral Bird – Maxime LE TOULLEC – France
Honorable Mention: Footstep – Yaoming Guo – China

Best Super Short (between 5 and 10 minutes)
Winner: My roommate is a vampire!? – Azélie COUDERC, Youran HER, Alina THIRIAT – France
Honorable Mention: Pea and Carrot – Zoé RICHTER – France

Best Standard Short (between 10 and 20 minutes)
Winner: The Tower Protocol: Resurrection – Peter Giakoumis – United States
Honorable Mention: See Yourself In – douglas r esper – United States

Best Medium Lenght (under 60 min)
Winner: “A Vampire’s Kiss” – Mark Francis – United States
Honorable Mention: Mein Surname – Adam Cowie – United Kingdom

Best Original Idea
Winner: I am calabrese – antonio Malfitano – Italy
Honorable Mention: Just One Peek – MULAN FU – United States

Best Low Budget Film
Winner: Who Are You? – Kathleen Wilce – United States
Honorable Mention: The Legacy – Rachel Barrett – United States

Best Debut Film
Winner: Agathe Must Go – Dylan HALL – France
Honorable Mention: CHAMBRE NOIRE – Madé CASTEL, Lou CHEYMOL, Dora LECORDIER, Tristan MORTIER – France

Best Experimental
Winner: The little chair – Jean COURTOIS – France
Honorable Mention: REPEAT – Marlon Royal Reid – United States

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NIGHT AWARDS

Best Parody
Winner: The Seeing Eye Dog Who Saw Too Much – Eric Jackowitz – United States
Honorable Mention: Once Upon a Time – William Grodnick – United States

Best Dark Comedy
Winner: Julienne of Light Bulbs – Dave Lojek – Germany
Honorable Mention: The Christmas Hitlist – Jonathan Andrew Nettleton – United States

Best Satire
Winner: A Civil Civil Servant – Jonah Manibusan – United States
Honorable Mention: The Angel’s tears – AlchimyFilm Production – France

Best Nocturnal Film
Winner: Shadow under the rain – Fabio Solinas – Italy
Honorable Mention: The Aware Child – Rita Lemoine – France

Best Tragicomic Film
Winner: La porta rotta – Antonio Bonagura, Giuliano D’Acunzo – Italy
Honorable Mention: The substance of dreams – Geppi Di Stasio – Italy

Best Mockumentary
Winner: How to fall out of love – Varvara Zarytska – Poland
Honorable Mention: An afternoon with Niki-Revekka – Pavlina Marvin – Greece

Best Documentary
Winner: The Endless Shifts: Stories that Keep Care Alive – Felipe Andres Noriega – Canada
Honorable Mention: Tra Le Corde – Lorenzo Beneduce – Italy

Best Dystopian Sci-Fi
Winner: LOSTLAND – Ruslan Fradkin – Latvia
Honorable Mention: QUI INSIEME – Fabio Langella – Italy

Best Philosophical Film
Winner: Parallaxed – Neil armstrong – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: HIGH PRESSURE – Alexander Leontaritis Leontaritis – Cyprus

Best Existential Drama
Winner: To Charlie, From Kamryn – Kamryn Sands, Reed Vrooman – United States
Honorable Mention: Forever Home – Eric J Carlson – United States

Best Action Drama
Winner: Three in the frame – David Laurent – France
Honorable Mention: FACCIA A FACCIA (FACE TO FACE) – Roberto Pietro Repetti – Italy

Best Crime Drama
Winner: KADAMA – Charlie Roth – United States
Honorable Mention: The Mancunian Dragon – Ioannis Kantas – United Kingdom

Best Noir
Winner: Out of Sight – Nathan Tosoni – Switzerland
Honorable Mention: STAGED LIMERENCE – Nadia Hope – United States

Best Drama Thriller
Winner: Abyssal Gaze (Director’s Cut) – Oleksii Kopachynskyi – Ukraine
Honorable Mention: An Interference – Tamás Tarcsi – Hungary

Best Psychological Thriller
Winner: Garden Valley – Manuel Navarro – United States
Honorable Mention: WHITE RABBIT – MARCO ANTONACCI – Italy

Best Romantic Drama
Winner: Doomed to love – Andrei Kalesnikau – Lithuania
Honorable Mention: Duct Tape Doesn’t Fix Everything – Larry Rosen – United States

Best Family
Winner: Eve’s Christmas Eve Wish – Eva Montes – United States
Honorable Mention: Chandler the Handler…You Can’t Bully Me! – Kem Frasier, Warren Michael – United States

Best Horror
Winner: BERGAMOT – Hsu Chien – Brazil
Honorable Mention: MENACE – Theo Kaufman – United States

Best Surreal Film
Winner: Eggsecution – Japhet Velazquez – United States
Honorable Mention: Shift – Martin Bannon Beaudet – United States

Best Animation
Winner: The last memory – Nathan CHAMBERLIN, Lili DROT, Pablo VAUTOUR, Marion ZUCCONI – France
Honorable Mention: AOUKA – Alexandra TIESEN – France

Best LGBTQ+
Winner: RMH15 – Christian Vanover, Haiden Bentley – United States
Honorable Mention: Different – William Samson – United Kingdom

Best Music/Musical
Winner: Pam Ross – Doublewide – Michael Stover – Saint Barthélemy
Honorable Mention: Olivia Millin “TTYL” – Kevin Charge – United States

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TECHNICAL AWARDS

Best Director
Winner: Yard Saleing – Tom Logan – United States
Honorable Mention: Before the Freeze, Final Cut – Tenley E. Raj – United States

Best Young Director
Winner: Anywhere But Here – Kennedy Kacik – United States
Honorable Mention: ACB-223 – Quinn Topper Marcus – United States

Best Soundtrack
Winner: KABUL, CITY OF DREAMS – PAEMAN ARIANFAR – France
Honorable Mention: Eternal Home – Yorgos Keramydas – Greece

Best Editing
Winner: Is Joe Home? – Robert Tate – United States
Honorable Mention: Onbesproken Woorden – Danny Roger Snoek – Netherlands

Best Screenplay
Winner: JUST LIKE WATER – Manos Triantafillakis – Greece
Honorable Mention: Lov U Dead – Nitesh Marwaha – United Arab Emirates

Best Cinematography
Winner: Reach for the Stars – Dylan Randall – Australia
Honorable Mention: Hi – Dan Alexander Newton – United Arab Emirates

Best VFX
Winner: She’s Not There – Paul A. Levin – United States
Honorable Mention: Filter – Jennifer Prettyman, Alex Suszko – United States

Best Actor/Actress
Winner: Fjarran land – Andreas Wiker – Sweden
Honorable Mention: Phantom Theater – Theo Tajes – Brazil

Best Producer
Winner: Between Glances – ivann willig – Brazil
Honorable Mention: The Last Day – Michael Fantauzzi – Italy

Best Title
Winner: Onlooker – Stephen Love – United States
Honorable Mention: Quack Quack – Nico Sorrentino – Canada

Best Movie Poster
Winner: CHIMERA – Anne Lower – United States
Honorable Mention: It’s Not an Eating Disorder – Johnny Brindle – United States