WINNERS Monaco Film Meeting 2025

Walking With God

By Lois M Banks

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Film)

How to Make Amends

By John Angell Grant

BEST SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST SCREENPLAY SUPER SHORT

Tom and Luce

By Muxel Paule

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Drama) & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM) & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE PRODUCER

6 Minutes

By Nancy Kimmel

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

The Solomon Project

By Nancy Kimmel

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

See Me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT 2025

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ACTOR 2025 & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM

As predicted in prophecies

By Shihyun Wang

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Documentary Feature) & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

A Model Life

By Cathie Boruch

BEST INDIE COMEDY 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER (Category: International Indie Comedy)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DRAMA OF THE YEAR

Wave Man

By Anna Morelli

BEST EUROPEAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY 2025

Rise of The Accenniri – Part I

By Charli Brown

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Sequoia Spirits

By Cherie Carson

BEST DANCE FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER (Category: Dance Film)

The Edge “into The Past”

By Gary St. Martin

BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025 & BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: PILOT TV)

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST WRITER (Category: INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT) & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY 2025

Union

By Whitney Hamilton

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature)

Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding

By Roger Paradiso

BEST ORIGINAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & BEST MOVIEMAKER

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM)

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: MUSICAL), BEST POETRY SHORT FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL COREOGRAPHY, BEST INDIE SONG & BEST SPIRITUAL AHORT FILM

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST WRITING STYLE

Planetary Rebellion

By Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER, BEST INDIE SONG & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: Music Video)

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST AMERICAN FILM, BEST HORROR, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: European Project)

The Queen of Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR & BEST ARTHOUSE CAST

The Jaguar and the Dragonfly

By Pam and Ken PerryGoulardt

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST EDITING, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Super Short Film)

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY, BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER, BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary)

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY 2025

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST EUROPEAN SONG WRITER & BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO 

Nelle Sue mani

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SPIRITUAL SONG 2025

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST MOVIEMAKER (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST EDITING

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025 & BEST LGBTQ+

The Reasons of time

By Pierpaolo Rospo

BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER 2025

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR, BEST POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST ACTRESS (Category: Experimental Film)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER (Category: Inspirational Film)

Garbage Rex

By Steve Hunyi

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

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

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE WRITER & BEST SOCIAL SCREENPLAY

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Animated Short film) & BEST ANIMATION

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

Malibu Madam

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Gold Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: International Feature Script)

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Potato Family

By Lori Hamilton

BEST INDIE ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING

Chasing Truths

By Dennis Manning

BEST INTERNATIONAL LGBTQ+ FILM

Catalogue of Top International Titles 2025

A
Alone – Shaun Guzman
Alta California – Lynn Elliott
Am I a painter? / Czy jestem malarzem? – Michał Kucharski
American Money – Timothy A. McGhee
Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times – Tom Gallagher
An Ever After Drama – Michelle Lynn
A Melody in the Bronx – Frank Mancuso
A Model Life – Catherine Boruch
A Pilgrimage Into Tibet – Marc Gould
Artists and Aliens – Jaymz Bee
As predicted in prophecies – Shihyun Wang
Asherah’s Colors – Gary Mazeffa

B
Bagliori – Flashes of Light – Mattia Paone
Ballad of the Millennial Dream – Yuliya Levashova
Because We Are Too Many – Eve Leonard

C
Calamity & Mercy – Daniel W. Smith
Calamity Jane: Queen of Spades – Pamela PerryGoulardt
Cassandra Venice – Hugo Teugels
Cataclysm Down Under – Hero – Akal Demir
Change The World – Angelena Bonet
Chasing Truths – Dennis Manning
Christmas Card – Kel Owens
Cock Robin – Frances Barth
Colombano e la 21esima Fetta – Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti
Credo – Don Pasquale Ferone
Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring – Charli Brown

D
Dancing with Spies @Goddess – Francis Billingsley
Dirty Revenge – Gary St. Martin
Doctor Hyphoteses – Vicentini Gomez

E

Eye of the Storm – Brooke Wolff
Effata – Anaya Music Kunst
Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld – Alexander Senicki
Everland – John Johnson
Eyesolation – Damiano Rossi

F
Fear not, my child – Michaela Kuti
Fire Flies – Larry Gene Fortin
Forevermore – Danilo Del Tufo
Free Birds – Olaf Lenz
French Broad – Reid Barwick
Fractures in Time – Lesley Ann Albiston

G
Garbage Rex – Steve Hunyi
Garden Court Guardians – Yankee Zhou
Get Out Breathing – Nathan Benham
Ghost Town, N.M. – Lynn Elliott
Gold Glory & Nobility – Phoebe von Satis
The Good Americans – Robert Tobin
The G-FILES – John Johnson
The Green Mill – Michelle Lynn

63Geminorum – Laura Calderini

H
Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 1: Salute to the 2025 Oscars – Tommy Anderson, Sherry Severs
Hotel Purgatorio – Joey Agbayani
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana – Ken Kimmelman
Hope! – Shaun Guzman

I
I/O (Input-Output) Proof of Concept – Molly Vernon
I Swear – Richard VanOverbroeck
I Waited for You – Jennifer Glee
Indie Jax Grind – Royce Freeman
In a Whole New Way – Jonathan Fisher
In Search of A P-I-G – Keith Szarabajka
Iriso – Mitsuo Kurihara
Is He Cheating? – Bill Morton

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

K
Katabasis – Samantha Casella

L
Lambada: The Dance of Fate – Kai Fischer
Le Café de Mes Souvenirs – Valto Baltzar
Legends of the Land of Quails – Dr. Dawn Menge
The Legend of the Bum-Barian – Kel Owens
The Little Sea of Hope – Walid Salhab
The Lost Rings – Geoffrey Gould
Love Is My Gun – Valérie Verseau

M

Mercy – Laura Calderini
Malibu Madam – Phoebe von Satis
Man in a Can – Henk Pringels
Mecca – Monte Albers de Leon
Michelangelo and Me + Da Vinci and Me – Colleen Fuglaar
Mine – John Johnson
Monument to Love – Jacob Comforty
Mother, Mother – Micki Dickoff
Mourning Coffee – Denise Mack

N
NeverWere: A Lycan Love Story – Chris Ross Leong
Nelle Sue mani – Don Pasquale Ferone
Nice To Meet Tou – Noah Kara
Noise – R. Scott MacLeay
No Mas – Stephen Kelly

O
Omnipotent Resolution – Uniqueness Heiress & Azia
Only in Malibu – Phoebe von Satis
Out of Control – Bellopropello
Out of State – A Gothic Romance – Victoria Bugbee

P
Paco – Cresencio Medina
The Pathos of Hamlet – Sean Gregory Tansey
Pirandello’s Life – Lynn Elliott
Planetary Rebellion – Fabrizio Fuochi
Potato Family – Lori Hamilton
Power of Intimate Touch – Les Dotson
Precious the Baby Dragon – Dr. Dawn Menge

Q
Q1 – Silvano Perozic
The Quisling – Lynn Elliott

R
Revisited – Life is Short – TerryLee Whetstone
Ricerca – Don Pasquale Ferone
Roll the Dice – Federica De Stasio
Roses Are Blind – Wendy White
Running Out of Time – Jeremy & Christine Stork

S
Sanctuary – AnayaMusic Kunst
Sands of Time – Kevin Wang
Searching for Camelot – Roger Paradiso
Seasoning of the Soul – Charli Brown
See Me – Anton Svantesson-Helkiö
Secrets of Montmartre – Michelle Lynn
Sheldon Mashugana Gets Stooged – Dean Morgan
Sinestesìa – Gianni Salamone
SOLDIERS – Six Stories, Six Wars – Tony Villani
Something Ain’t Right – Susan Downs
Sonnets (Words in Despair) – Larry Gene Fortin
Soularis – Janja Rakuš
Staycation – Russell Emanuel

T
Theater 8 – John Martinez
The Aesthetics of Failure – Lena Mattsson
The Arcangel of Death – Vincenzo Amoruso
The Ballad of Wonderhussy and Other Desert Tales – Michael Mayhan
The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy – Linda Harkey
The Days of Knight: Chapter 1 – John Martinez
The Dead Ringer – Suzanne Lutas
The Duchess – C. Arnold Curry
The Girl Made of Earth and Water – Pamela PerryGoulardt
The Golden Years – Joseph Starzyk
The Hallmark Couple – Phoebe von Satis
The Mountain – Ruth Finnegan
The New Immigrant – Hong Kongers – Vivian Tsang
The Pathos of Hamlet – Sean Gregory Tansey
The Priory of Sion and the Treasure of Abbey Saunière of Rennes-le-Château (France) – Florence Cazebon-Taveau
The Reasons of Time – Pierpaolo Rospo
The Rorschach Test – Lena Mattsson
The Sea of Hope – Walid Salhab
The Second Coming – Keith Szarabajka
The Shakespeare Plays – Martin Keady
The Sicilians – Frank Mancuso
The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd – Uwe Schwarzwalder
The Stones of Rome – Sean Gregory Tansey
The Sun Never Sets in Happenstance – Joe Territo
Think Tank – Olaf Lenz
Thinking – Valerie Knill
TOKYO STRANGE TALE / 僕を呼ぶ声 (Boku wo Yobu Koe) – Fumitaka Otoguro

U
Uncle Franco’s Birthday Suit – Lynn Elliott
Union – Whitney Hamilton
Urban Eats MTL – Ioannis Koutroubis

V–Z
Virulence – Christopher Pennington
Voyage in the Desert – ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΑΜΙΤΣΗ
Wacko – Matthew Roch
Walking With God – Lois M. Banks
Water – Gary Beeber
We Are Rivers – Graciela Cassel
What Is Wrong With This Country – Olaf Lenz
Wild Blooms – Cassandra Hodges

WINNERS International Society of Film Critics Awards (ISFCA)

A Melody in the Bronx

By Frank Mancuso

BEST AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT 2025 & BEST AMERICAN INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd

By Uwe Schwarzwalder

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM 2025

6 Minutes

By Nancy Kimmel

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Short Script)

Malibu Madam

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT

Only in Malibu

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

Gold Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: International Feature Script)

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Calamity & Mercy

By Daniel W Smith

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: DOCUMENTARY FEATURE)

I Just Want To Be With You

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG 2025

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT 2025

SOLDIERS, Six Stories, Six Wars

By Tony Villani

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER 2025 & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

Whispers in the Walls

By Ioannis Koutroubis

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Cock Robin

By Frances Barth

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CAST (Category: Original Comedy)

Union

By Whitney Hamilton

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST SOUNDTRACK & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Black Wolf

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SHORT & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER (Category: Short Film)

A Survivor Amongst Survivors Pt.1

By Alfred Samuels

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025

Revisited – Life is Short

By TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: MUSIC VIDEO)

Swords & Feathers

By Harold Brown

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

The Quest For Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER 2025

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ANIMATION, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Animated Short Film)

Walking With God

By Lois Banks

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, BEST CAST, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER & BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT

The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST EDITING (Category: Student Film)

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

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY 2025

The Edge “into The Past”

By Gary St. Martin

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV/TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER 2025

America Boxed In

By Casey G. Williams e Ian S. Williams

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

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Feature Script)

Out of Control

By Bellopropello

BEST INDIE ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Jaguar and the Dragonfly

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Super Short Film) & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Flashes of Light (Bagliori)

By Mattia Paone

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

By Akal Demir

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER, BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST EDITING (Category: Short Film)

Heat and Love

By Michał Kucharski

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO, BEST PRODUCER & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: MUSIC VIDEO)

Eyesolation

By Damiano Rossi

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER & BEST INDIE CINEMATOGRAPHER

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST PICTURE 2025, BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST SUSPENSE & BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST ACTING & BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

The Legend of Ranger: The Reindeer Who Couldn’t Fly

(Animated Adaptation) By Major General Alan B. Salisbury

BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATED ADAPTATION

Come un fiume

By Don Pasquale Ferone

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

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING

Planetary Rebellion

By Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL MUSICIAN

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST AMERICAN COMEDIAN 2025, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ACTING (Category: Comedy)

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST WRITER 2025 (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST INDIE MUSICAL 2025, BEST ORIGINAL DANCE FILM, BEST SOUND DESIGN & BEST INTERNATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER & BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST CAST (Category: AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE)

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST SPIRUTUAL SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR OF THE YEAR

Doctor Hypotheses 2 – The Breakdown

By Vicentini Gomez

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

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST FILM 2025, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST CAST & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST ORIGINAL SINGER 2025, BEST SOUND DESIGN & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video)

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST LGBTQ+ & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY

Sequoia Spirits

By Cherie Carson

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: DANCE FILM) & BEST EDITING (Category: DANCE FILM)

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST WRITING STYLE

Pirandello’s Life

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN INDIE WRITER

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

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

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST ORIGINAL EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST ACTRESS

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST ARTHOUSE ACTING

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INSPIRATIONAL ACTOR & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER

WINNERS SWEET DEMOCRACY FILM AWARDS 2025

Mikey Blue Eyes

By Stephen Kelly

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

No Mas

By Stephen Kelly

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST EDITING, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

Mercy

Laura Calderini

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

63Geminorum

Laura Calderini

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT SCRIPT 2025

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST CAST & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE DIRECTOR

Precious the Baby Dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL WRITER & BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST CAST (Category: Narrative Feature)

The Duchess

By Arnold Curry

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST DRAMA

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST VOICE 2025 & BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Everland

By John Johnson

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER (Category: Feature Script)

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Feature Script)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST POETRY FILM

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST EXPERIMENTAL 2025

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST LGBTQ+ & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

BEST ARTHOUSE SONG 2025 & BEST MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL & BEST SPIRITUAL SHORT FILM

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER 2025

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST COMEDIAN, BEST ACTING & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL IDEA

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST EUROPEAN SONG WRITER, BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST ARTHOUSE SINGER

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: International Super Short Film) & BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT 2025

Calamity Jane: Queen of Spades

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Unmaskyourlife

By Bruno Marro

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

The Hallmark Couple

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER 2025

Gold,Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INDIE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR 2025

Forevermore

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Pirandello’s Life

By Lynn Elliott

BEST AMERICAN INDIE WRITER

Nossos Caminhos

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Drama)

Monument to Love

By Jacob Comforty

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers

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