WINNERS Foreign Press Prize Autumn in Cannes

2025 October 28

WINNERS Foreign Press Prize Autumn in Cannes

Mother, Mother

By Micki Dickoff

BEST INDIE SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER 2025

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST SCREENPLAY 2025, BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST WRITING STYLE

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Comedy), BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST MUSIC VIDEO 2025, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SONG & BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER

Life’s Mapped Out

By Akal Demir

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR 2025, BEST PRODUCER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Christmas Card

By Kel Owens

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: SUPER SHORT FILM)

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST VOICE OF THE YEAR & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: INDIE MUSIC VIDEO)

The Legend Of The Bum-Barian

By Kel Owens

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Hotel Purgatorio

By Joey Agbayani

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2025

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER, BEST CAST, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST AMERICAN INDIE SCREENWRITER

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL FILM 2025

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST EDITING, BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM & BEST INDIE EDITOR

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

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

By Chris Ross Leong

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG FILMMAKER

The Edge “Into The Past”

By Gary St. Martin

BEST INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST PRODUCER, BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST EDITING

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, BEST HORROR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Thriller)

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM, BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST ORIGINAL INSPIRATIONAL FILM 2025

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

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

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL TELEVISION SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

S2 E1 Premiere: Halloween Hotness with Brian Sikoff

By Tommy Anderson Sh

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES 2025

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATION

Chasing Truths

By Dennis Manning

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE 2025 & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST ACTING, BEST EDITNG & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Secrets of Montmartre 3

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Silver Heels

By Michelle Lynn

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER (Category: Book/Manuscript)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Inspirational Film) & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR 2025, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL WRINTING STYLE

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST WRITING STYLE

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST INDIE WRITER & BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY