WINNERS Geneva International Critics’ Week Prize 2025

2025 December 1

WINNERS Geneva International Critics’ Week Prize 2025

High Screams

By Matt Townsend

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

Ndazkoh

By Tracey Cochrane

BEST FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: International Documentary)

Cock Robin

By Frances Barth

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Comedy)

The reasons of time

By Pierpaolo Rospo

BEST INTERNATIONAL FANTASY, BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Fantasy)

The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: Arthouse Screenplay), BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER 2025

Walk In My Shoes

By Akal Demir

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2025

Lifes Mapped Out

By Akal Demir

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST ORIGINAL STORY, BEST EUROPEAN CAST & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SCRIPT, BEST AMERICAN WRITER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Indie Feature Script)

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST SOUND DESIGN (Category: EXPERIMENTAL FILM), BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER & BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST VIDEO POETRY & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER 2025

The Second Coming

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST SCI-FI, BEST INDIE COMEDY & BEST NEW CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Arthouse Comedy)

In Search of A P-I-G

By Keith Szarabajka

BEST WEB/TV SERIES 2025, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

By Michał Kucharski

BEST INDIE ANIMATED SHORT FILM & BEST MOVIEMAKER (Category: Animation)

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST SCREENPLAY 2025, BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARACTERS & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER   

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025, BEST COMEDIAN & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Comedy)

Downriver

By Andrea Boll

BEST DANCE MOVIE 2025, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITING & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: International Dance Movie)

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST ACTING, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ARTHOUSE DRAMA, BEST EDITING & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Drama)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR & BEST EXPERIMENTAL WRITING STYLE

Meraviglie

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST RELIGIOUS SONG, BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG WRITER & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER (Category: International Music Video)

Secrets of Montmartre 2

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SCRIPT

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS Michelle Lynn, BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR Corey Landis, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST SOUNDTRACK

White Rose Wishes

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SHORT & BEST INSPIRATIONAL ACTOR 2025

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE ACTOR

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATIC VISION, BEST SOUND DESIGN & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Effata

By Anaya (AnayaMusic) Kunst

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SINGER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Indie Music Video)

Bagliori – Flashes of Light

By Mattia Paone

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER 2025 (Category: International Narrative Short) & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY SHORT

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST ORIGINAL PICTURE, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Arthouse Film) & BEST ORIGINAL CAST

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST AMERICAN FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR, BEST CINEMATOGRPAHY & BEST CAST (Category: Narrative Feature)

Monument to Love

By Jacob Comforty

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST SOCIAL MESSAGE (Category: International Documentary)

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST SOCIAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ANIMATION 2025, BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

American Money

By Timothy A McGhee

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Screenwriter)

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR, BEST ARTHOUSE ACTING & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Once There Were Stories

By Lynn Elliott

BEST CINEMATIC VISION (Category: Feature Script) & BEST AMERICAN DRAMA SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE WRITER & BEST HUMAN RIGTS SCREENPLAY

AMERICA BOXED IN

By Ian S. Williams & Casey Williams

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER (Category: Musical), BEST INDIE SONG, BEST POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Nossos Caminhos

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER 2025

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INDIE ACTOR 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER

Ragzi & The Danseuse

By Kevin Michael Irvine

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE WRITING STYLE