Month: July 2025

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST WRITING STYLE, BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST INDIE WRITER

Asherah’s Colors

By Gary Mazeffa

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST ACTING

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST AMERICAN COMEDY & BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Days of Knight: Chapter 1

By John Martinez

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST LOCATION & BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Forevermore

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER

Sequoia Spirits

By Cherie Carson

BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE MOVIE 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL PROJECT, BEST PRODUCER, & BEST EDITING

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO, BEST SPIRITUAL SONG & BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

BEST SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGN

Something ain’t right

By Susan Downs

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY 2025, BEST STORYTELLING & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST LGBTQ+ & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025

Monument to Love

By Jacob Comforty

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Documentary Feature)

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ACTOR 2025 & BEST INDIE COMEDY 2025

Boxed In

By Steve Hunyi

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST VIDEO POETRY

Fire Flies

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST FANTASY SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ACTION SCRIPT

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL VOICE

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INTERNATIONAL ART FILM 2025

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST INDIE FILM, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature) & BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR 2025, BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

Routine

By Russell Emanuel

BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER 2025, BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST EDITING

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

By Russell Emanuel

BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SHORT FILM, BEST CAST, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM 2025 & 2025 FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION PRIZE

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER

Chateau De Tarot

By Reid Barwick

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

 “Only You Can Save Her,” pilot teleplay of series THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST AMERICAN WRITER 2025

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INDIE DRAMA 2025, BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Musical)

Precious the Baby Dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL WRITER & BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

The Priory of Sion and the treasure of abbey Sauniere of Rennes the Castle France

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER & BEST HISTORICAL SCREENPLAY

I Just Want To Be With You

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST ORIGINAL SONG 2025

Queen: checkmate for the king

By Luca De Giorgi 

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary Feature)

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE ACTING

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. BEST EDITING & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Narrative Short)

A Long Journey

By Mira Kim

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Experimental Film) & BEST ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Heat and Love

By Michał Kucharski

BEST FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR (Category: Music Video), BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MUSIC VIDEO

Bert the Singing Cat

By Darla Zuhdi

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS MUSIC VIDEO & BEST AMERICAN SINGER 2025

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Get out Breathing

By Nathan Benham

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR 2025

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST ORIGINAL FILM 2025, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Black Wolf

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

The Edge “Into The Past”

By Gary St. Martin

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Pilot TV)

The Duchess

By Arnold Curry

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER (Category: Drama)

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: Web/Tv Series)

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Experimental Film)

The G-Files

By John Johnson

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Documentary Feature) & BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025

Louie (KR.ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ

By Eirini Alligiannis

BEST ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Nossos Caminhos

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY, BEST DRAMA SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Ghost and the Gold Louis

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE TV SERIES OF THE YEAR

Life Is Beautiful

By Dhanashree Ganatra

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGN

The Mountain

By Ruth Finnegan

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER

I Know What You Do When I Go to School

Written and illustrated by Siona Talekar

Published by Story Monsters Press

BEST ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE YEAR

Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring

By Charli Brown

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

Lucky in Long Island

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

Silver Lights

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK/MANUSCRIPT 2025

Medea

By Andronica Marquis

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: International Narrative Short)

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER WRITER (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCRIPT & AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Borderline Justice

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIP 2025

“Only You Can Save Her,” pilot teleplay of series THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST ACTOR 2025

A Child’s Voice

By Karen Matthews

BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: International Television Script)

Dancing with Spies @Goddess

By Francis Billingsley

BEST INDIE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT 2025

The Golden Years

By Joe Starzyk

BEST INDIE SHORT FILM 2025, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Narrative Short Film)

Walking With God

By Lois Banks

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY

Flashes of Light (Bagliori)

By Mattia Paone

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER

The Devil Wind

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature)

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Documentary Feature)

Passacaglia

By Ryosuke Handa

BES ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION COMPANY & BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER

Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 2 Sir Earl Toon Jr Apr 2025

By Tommy Anderson & Sherry Severs

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Web/Tv Series)

The Invitation

By Thorsten Schade

BEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Horror)

Dinner With Dance

By Katherine Schimmel

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT OF THE YEAR, BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

Searching for Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Medea

By Andronica Marquis

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST CAST & BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST (Category: Narrative Short)

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE, BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld

By Alexander Senicki

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL 2025

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST EDITING (Category: International Super Short Film) & BEST SUPER SHORT 2025

Downriver

By Andea Boll

BEST DANCE FILM 2025 & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: International Dance Film)

I Swear

By Richard VanOverbroeck

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Music Video)

The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST STUDENT FILM

A Lady’s Love

By Sonia Machado Hines

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature Film)

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Unmaskyourlife

By Bruno Marro

BEST EUROPEAN SONG OF THE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SINGER

Other Side Of The Lens

By Sofia Mavrou & Carl Staples

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Change The World

By Angelena Bonet

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY & BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT

The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG DIRECTOR & BEST STUDENT FILM 2025

Iriso

By Mitsuo Kurihara

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST DRAMA 2025

Get out Breathing

By Nathan Benham

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM

Chateau De Tarot

By Reid Barwick

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 2 Sir Earl Toon Jr

By Tommy Anderson & Sherry Severs

BEST WEB/TV SERIES 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL PODCAST OF THE YEAR

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FILM

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST ARTHOUSE WRITER 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST PICTURE, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER, BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Tic Tac

By Emilio Mercanti

BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Arthouse Short Film)

Big Momma Earth

By Jeffrey Kazanjian

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST CAST (Category: Comedy Short)

Ye Ole Glorya

By Jeffrey Kazanjian

BEST ARTHOUSE COMEDY 2025

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST LGBTQ SCRIPT 2025 & BEST AMERICAN ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

The Priory of Sion and the treasure of Abbey Saunière Rennes The Castle France

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST EUROPEAN FEATURE SCRIPT OF TE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Sanctuary

By AnayaMusic Kunst

BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE SINGER

Tom and Luce

By Muxel Paule

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DRAMA & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER

Black Wolf

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Indie Short Film)

Flashes of Light (Bagliori)

By Mattia Paone

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY 2025 (Category: Narrative Short), BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER

Soularis

By Janja Rakuš

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2025 & BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

Fishbowl

By Ugrin Vuckovic

BEST INDIE SUPER SHORT FILM 2025

Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY SCRIPT 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Comedy)

Medea

By Andronica Marquis

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Short), BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CAST, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE WRITER 2025

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST SOCIAL SCREENPLAY, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT & BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM 2025

Soularis

By Janja Rakuš

BEST EUROPEAN ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST EXPERIMENTAL INDIE FILM OF THE YEAR

Heat and Love

By Michał Kucharski

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER 2025

Something Ain’t Right

By Susan Downs

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY 2025

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST EDITING & BEST FILMMAKER

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2025

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Experimental Film)

Precious the baby dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST WRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST INDIE BOOK 2025

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SONG 2025, BEST EUROPEAN SONG WRITER & BEST SPIRITUAL MUSIC VIDEO

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Routine

By Russell Emanuel

BEST DIRECTOR 2025, BEST PRODUCER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST NARRATIVE SHORT 2025

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ACTING (Category: International Indie Narrative Short Film)

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY 2025, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER, BEST STORYTTELING & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Documentary Feature)

Sheldon Mashugana Gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025 & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Comedy)

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR 2025 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Indie Short Film)

The Days of Knight: Chapter 1

By John Martinez

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY

Colombano e la Ventunesima fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILM, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature)

The Call Center

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST PILOT TV

Sky Walker

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SCRIPT 2025

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST WRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Original Feature Script)

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR, BEST INDIE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM & BEST ACTING

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY FILM, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Experimental)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST SOUND DESIGN

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Gold,Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2025

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST SOUNDTRACK, BEST SOUND DESIGN, BEST INDIE MUSICAL & BEST INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY

The Lost Village

By Roger Paradiso

BEST AMERICAN PRODUCER & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN WRITER (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

Borderline Justice

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Waiting Room

By Damiano Rossi

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT

The Days of Knight: Chapter 1

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

In a Whole New Way

BEST SOCIAL FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Educational Film)

The Call Center

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT

Fire Flies

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

Homeless Street Artist

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT, BEST SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY & BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER

Omnipotent Resolution

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST PRODUCER

Monument to Love

BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER 2025, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING (Category: Documentary Feature)

Katabasis

BEST ARTHOUSE FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST ACTRESS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Film)

Lido Cimber

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT SCRIPT

Urban Eats MTL

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST PRODUCER & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Web/Tv Series)

Il Fuoco di Santa Lucia

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Documentary Feature)

Wacko

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST AMERICAN PRODUCTION COMPANY

A Fable Before Apocalypse

BES INTERNATIONAL YOUNG FILMMAKER

Marabu’

BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

Stalker Hair Twirl

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

In a Whole New Way

BEST INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FILM, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Revisited – Life is Short

BEST DIRECTOR (Category; International Music Video) & BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR

The Victims of Sundarbans

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Documentary Short)

The Musgrave Ritual

BEST ARTHOUSE FILM, BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST SOUND DESIGN & BEST CAST

On My Special Day

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Aunt Tilly’s Last Hurrah

BEST PRODUCER, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST SOUND LOCATION (Category: International Narrative Short Film)

Dragul and Forbes

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Attack Of The Snowbirds

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT (Category: Comedy) & BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER 2025

Mind Network

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 2025

Pantaneiro

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025

2 Million Bro

BEST EUROPEAN COMEDY OF THE YEAR

Into LA Art Show

BEST EDITING

Shout It Out

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: International Music Video)

Not a thing

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

Cock Robin

BEST FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Indie Comedy 2025)

The Priory of Sion and the treasure of Abbey Sauniere of Rennes the Castle France

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2025

Etnoragù

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST INDIE EUROPEAN MOVIEMAKER

America Boxed In

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY & BEST FILMMAKER 2025 (Category: Documentary Feature)

An Ever After Drama

BEST AMERICAN SHORT FILM OF YEAR & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

2020: life and death of a virus

BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER, BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITOR (Category: Indie Experimental Film)

Walking With God

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Film)

Cassandra Venice

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER (Category: Experimental Film) & BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Nossos Caminhos

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

Routine

BEST PRODUCER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST NARRATIVE SHORT 2025

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ACTING (Category: International Indie Narrative Short Film)

Virulence

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER 2025

Ambrogio The First Vampire

BEST INDIE ACTOR & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Phoebe’s Echo

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST SCREENWRITER, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

All My Tomorrows

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE DRAMA 2025, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST CAST (Category: International Drama)

YOU ARE HERE – a dylan brody project

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Eye of the Storm

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