By Editorial Staff

It has been the most prolific year ever for independent filmmakers’ creativity: with over 30,000 new works added to our database, our Movement has achieved many milestones in 2025 — and even greater, more ambitious goals await us in 2026. One major victory for us is the presentation of the “Golden Anthology: The Year’s Best Authors” during the AFM in Los Angeles.

We are proud to have supported artists who had the courage and perseverance to express themselves through cinema outside the traditional industry, confirming that we are living in a golden age for those who want to create art without censorship.

Your cultural and social triumph is a victory for anyone who loves art as a form of free expression — and it is also a good omen for the future, since the most important chapters in the history of cinema were written by independent authors, and we believe it will be no different in the year to come.

Here is the Golden Anthology: The Year’s Best Authors:

High Screams – Matt Townsend

Ndazkoh – Tracey Cochrane

Ctabka – Edward Bryson

Silent Plan – Ömer Yıldırım

Unmaskyourlife – Bruno Marro

Stay With Me – Zsolt Pozsgai

Days Like These – Megan Rigoni

Antiquarius – Jacek Krawczyk

A Pilgrimage Into Tibet – Mark Gould

Hide – Ian Sciacaluga

Ragzi & The Danseuse – Kevin Irvine

The Flaming Cats of Sohan – Mark Hammond

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths) – Carla Di Bonito

Plumeria and her lost Green Knit Mouse Doll – Lilith Ivy von Satis

Plumeria Aesthetics – Lilith Ivy von Satis

Plumeria has a Tea Party With Friends – Lilith Ivy von Satis

Tubs loves pats – Lilith Ivy von Satis

Tom and Luce – Muxel Paule

Mother, Mother – Micki Dickoff

Something ain’t right – Susan Downs

Wacko – Matthew Roch

Poo Pookudhu (From RAIL Movie) – S. J. Jananiy

Noise – R. Scott MacLeay

Hotel Purgatorio – Joey Agbayani

Potato Family – Lori Hamilton

TinMan – Kevin Tudor

Get out Breathing – Nathan Benham

Eyesolation – Damiano Rossi

Thinking – Valerie Knill

TOKYO STRANGE TALE / 僕を呼ぶ声 Boku wo Yobu Koe – Fumitaka Otoguro

Paco – Cresencio Medina

63Geminorum – Laura Calderini

AMERICA BOXED IN – Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

The Legend Of The Bum-Barian – Kel Owens

Christmas Card – Kel Owens

Walking With God – Lois M. Banks

A Pilgrimage Into Tibet – Marc Gould

Thankful – Earnest Diaz

SOLDIERS, Six Stories, Six Wars – Tony Villani

Cock Robin – Frances Barth

The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy – Linda Harkey

Nice To Meet You – Noah Kara

The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd – Uwe Schwarzwalder

I Swear – Richard VanOverbroeck

French Broad – Reid Barwick

A Model Life – Catherine Boruch

American Money – Timothy A McGhee

Out of control – Bellopropello

A New You – James Dubbeldam

Bagliori – Flashes of Light – Mattia Paone

The Sun Never Sets in Happenstance – Joe Territo

Because We Are Too Many – Eve Leonard

I Waited for You – Jennifer Glee

As predicted in prophecies – Shihyun Wang

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers – Vivian Tsang

Eye of the Storm – Brooke Wolff

What is Wrong With This Country – Olaf Lenz

Free Birds – Olaf Lenz

Think Tank – Olaf Lenz

The Rings – Geoffrey Gould

Chasing Truths – Dennis Manning

The Shakespeare Plays – Martin Keady

I/O (Input-Output) Proof of Concept – Molly Vernon

Everland – John Johnson

Mine – John Johnson

Planetary Rebellion – Fabrizio Fuochi

Calamity & Mercy – Daniel W Smith

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero – Akal Demir

Garbage Rex – Steve Hunyi

Asherah’s Colors – Gary Mazeffa

Revisited – Life is Short – TerryLee Whetstone

Ricerca – Don Pasquale Ferone

Meraviglie – Don Pasquale Ferone

Nelle Sue mani – Don Pasquale Ferone

Credo – Don Pasquale Ferone

Power of Intimate Touch – Les Dotson

Soularis – Janja Rakuš

Man in a Can – Henk Pringels

Union – Whitney Hamilton

Is He Cheating? – Bill Morton

Josh’s Employment Agency of Brooklyn/the Hereafter – Nancy Kimmel

Theater 8 – John Martinez

A Melody in the Bronx – Frank Mancuso

The Sicilians – Frank Mancuso

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times – Tom Gallagher

Roses are Blind – Wendy White

The Priory of Sion and the treasure of abbey Sauniere of Rennes the Castle France – Florence Cazebon-Taveau

Running Out Of Time – Jeremy and Christine Stork

Iriso – Mitsuo Kurihara

The Mountain – Ruth Finnegan

The Girl Made of Earth and Water – Pamela PerryGoulardt

Calamity Jane: Queen of Spades – Pamela PerryGoulardt

Q1 – Silvano Perozic

In a Whole New Way – Jonathan Fisher

Lambada The Dance Of Fate – Kai Fischer

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta – Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

Omnipotent Resolution – Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

The Dead Ringer – Suzanne Lutas

The Arcangel Of Death – Vincenzo Amoruso

Precious the baby dragon – Dr Dawn Menge

Legends of the Land of Quails – Dr Dawn Menge

Mecca – Monte Albers de Leon

Staycation – Russell Emanuel

Seasoning of the Soul – Charli Brown

Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring – Charli Brown

The Little Match-Seller – Danilo Del Tufo

Forevermore – Danilo Del Tufo

Fractures In Time – Lesley Ann Albiston

You Are Here – Dylan Brody

Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld – Alexander Senicki

The G-FILES – John Johnson

Sequoia Spirits – Cherie Carson

Indie Jax Grind – Royce Freeman

An Ever After Drama – Michelle Lynn

Secrets of Montmartre – Michelle Lynn

The Green Mill – Michelle Lynn

The Good Americans – Robert Tobin

Malibu Madam – Phoebe von Satis

Only in Malibu – Phoebe von Satis

Gold Glory & Nobility – Phoebe von Satis

The Hallmark Couple – Phoebe von Satis

Dancing with Spies @Goddess – Francis Billingsley

The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales – Michael Mayhan

In Search of A P-I-G – Keith Szarabajka

The Second Coming – Keith Szarabajka

Roll The dice – Federica De Stasio

Out of State-A Gothic Romance – Victoria Bugbee

Urban Eats MTL – Ioannis Koutroubis

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story – Chris Ross Leong

See me – Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

Dirty Revenge – Gary St. Martin

Wild Blooms – Cassandra Hodges

Fear not, my child – Michaela Kuti

Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 1 Salute to the 2025 Oscars – Tommy Anderson, Sherry Severs

Brothers of Babylon – Gabriel Womack

Virulence – Christopher Pennington

The Aesthetics of Failure – Lena Mattsson

The Rorschach Test – Lena Mattsson

Not Without Gloves – Lena Mattsson

The Duchess – C. Arnold Curry

The Golden Years – Joseph Starzyk

The Stones of Rome – Sean Gregory Tansey

The Pathos of Hamlet – Sean Gregory Tansey

Pirandello’s Wife – Lynn Elliott

Water – Gary Beeber

Le Cafe De Mes Souvenirs – Valto Baltzar

Mission – John Alden

We are Rivers – Graciela Cassel

Full Circle – Colleen Fuglaar

Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me – Colleen Fuglaar

Sanctuary – AnayaMusic Kunst

Effata – Anaya Music Kunst

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged – Dean Morgan

No Mas – Stephen Kelly

Mikey Blue Eyes – Stephen Kelly

Sonnets (words in despair) – Larry Gene Fortin

Fire Flies – Larry Gene Fortin

Voyage in the desert – Ελπίδα Αμιτσή

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana – Ken Kimmelman

Doctor Hyphoteses – Vicentini Gomez

The Sea of Hope – Walid Salhab

See Me Once More, My Dear Kid – Geyang (Elizabeth) Wang

Calamity & Mercy – Daniel W Smith

Love Is My Gun – Valérie Verseau

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem? – Michał Kucharski

Monument to Love – Jacob Comforty

Cassandra Venice – Hugo Teugels

Pirandell’s Wife – Lynn Elliott

The Quisling – Lynn Elliott

Alta California – Lynn Elliott

Katabasis – Samantha Casella

Sinestesìa – Gianni Salamone

Searching for Camelot – Roger Paradiso

Mourning Coffee – Denise Mack

Wave Man – Anna Morelli

Change The World – Angelena Bonet

Hope! – Shaun Guzman

Alone – Shaun Guzman

Ballad of the Millennial Dream – Yuliya Levashova

Artists and Aliens – Jaymz Bee

Garden Court Guardians – Yankee Zhou