WINNERS International Society of Film Critics Awards (ISFCA)

2025 October 10

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