WINNERS LONDON UNDERGROUND FILM CRITICS AWARDS 2025

2025 September 29

WINNERS LONDON UNDERGROUND FILM CRITICS AWARDS 2025

63Geminorum

By Laura Calderini

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST EUROPEAN WRITER

Malibu Madam

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Gold, Glory & Nobility

By Phoebe von Satis

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENPLAY

Full Circle

By Colleen Fuglaar

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE WRITING STYLE

You Are Here

By Dylan Brody

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER

Josh’s Employment Agency of Brooklyn/the Hereafter

By Nancy Kimmel

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER (Category: International Feature Script)

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

The Mountain

By Ruth Finnegan

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE MOVIEMAKER

Asherah’s Colors

By Gary Mazeffa

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST ACTING

Monument To Love

By Jacob Comforty

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DOCUMENTARY 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER (Category: Documentary)

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY, BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER (Category: Comedy) & BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR

Forevermore

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

Sequoia Spirits

By Cherie Carson

BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE MOVIE 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL SONG, BEST SONG WRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2025, BEST BIOGRAPHICAL FILM & BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER

Something ain’t right

By Susan Downs

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY 2025, BEST STORYTELLING & BEST ORIGINAL MOVIEMAKER

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

By Kai Fischer

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER

Fear not, my child

By Michaela Kuti

BEST INDIE SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGN

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE, BEST LGBTQ+ & BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST ACTOR 2025 & BEST INDIE COMEDY 2025

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER 2025 & BEST VIDEO POETRY

Fire Flies

By Larry Gene Fortin

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE FANTASY SCRIPT

Effata

By Anaya Music Kunst 

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Boxed In

By Steve Hunyi

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INTERNATIONAL ART FILM 2025

Katabasis

By Samantha Casella

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST ARTHOUSE FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature) & BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS

Life Is Beautiful

By Dhanashree Ganatra

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG 2025 & BEST SOUND DESIGN

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR 2025, BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST ORIGINAL MOVIE OF THE YEAR, BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

Routine

By Russell Emanuel

BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER 2025, BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST EDITING

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

By Russell Emanuel

BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SHORT FILM & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

In a Whole New Way

By Jonathan Fisher

BEST EDITING, BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MOVIEMAKER

Chateau De Tarot

By Reid Barwick

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

 The Dead Ringer

By Suzanne Lutas

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR, BEST MUSICAL, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Musical)

Precious the Baby Dragon

By Dawn Menge

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL WRITER & BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

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

By Florence Cazebon-Taveau

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER & BEST HISTORICAL SCREENPLAY

I Just Want To Be With You

By Jeremy and Christine Stork

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST ORIGINAL SONG 2025

Queen: checkmate for the king

By Luca De Giorgi 

BEST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE ACTING

Urban Eats MTL

By Ioannis Koutroubis

BEST WEB/TV SERIES OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: Web/Tv Series)

Heat and Love

By Michał Kucharski

BEST FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR (Category: Music Video), BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE MUSIC VIDEO

Get out Breathing

By Nathan Benham

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE DIRECTOR 2025

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

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

The G-Files

By John Johnson

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

Black Wolf

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

The Edge “Into The Past”

By Gary St. Martin

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Pilot TV)

The Duchess

By Arnold Curry

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER (Category: Drama)

I Waited for You

By Jennifer Glee

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Experimental Film)

Louie (KR.ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ

By Eirini Alligiannis

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Ghost Town, N.M.

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER WRITER (Category: FEATURE SCRIPT)

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SCRIPT & AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Borderline Justice

By Lynn Elliott

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIP 2025

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

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV

Passacaglia

By Ryosuke Handa

BES ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION COMPANY & BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIEMAKER

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST ACTOR 2025

A Child’s Voice

By Karen Matthews

BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: International Television Script)

Lucky in Long Island

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST AMERICAN ACTRESS 2025

Silver Lights

By Michelle Lynn

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER & BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK/MANUSCRIPT 2025

The Ghost and the Gold Louis

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE TV SERIES OF THE YEAR

Unmaskyourlife

By Bruno Marro

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE SONG

Medea

By Andronica Marquis

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOSUE SCREENPLAY

Croix – The Prequel: Kiss The Ring

By Charli Brown

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

Dancing with Spies @Goddess

By Francis Billingsley

BEST INTERNATIONAL EDITOR & BEST ARTHOUSE INDIE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT 2025

The Golden Years

By Joe Starzyk

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2025, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Narrative Short Film)

Walking With God

By Lois Banks

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST MOVIEMAKER & BEST SCREENPLAY

Flashes of Light (Bagliori)

By Mattia Paone

BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER

The Devil Wind

By Jamie Sutliff

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature)

Water

By Gary Beeber

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Documentary Feature)

Nossos Caminhos

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST INDIE DRAMA SCRIPT

Brothers of Babylon

By Gabriel Womack

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Hollywood Elite Podcast Episode 2 Sir Earl Toon Jr Apr 2025

By Tommy Anderson & Sherry Severs

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Web/Tv Series)

The Invitation

By Thorsten Schade

BEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Horror)

Dinner With Dance

By Katherine Schimmel

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT OF THE YEAR, BEST WRITING STYLE & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

Searching for Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY

Cassandra Venice

By Hugo Teugels

BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld

By Alexander Senicki

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL 2025

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

By Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST EDITING (Category: International Super Short Film) & BEST SUPER SHORT 2025

Downriver

By Andea Boll

BEST DANCE FILM 2025 & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: International Dance Film)

I Swear

By Richard VanOverbroeck

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Music Video)

The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST EDITING, BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM

A Lady’s Love

By Sonia Machado Hines

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Narrative Feature Film)

Bert the Singing Cat

By Darla Zuhdi

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS MUSIC VIDEO & BEST AMERICAN SINGER 2025

A Long Journey

By Mira Kim

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Experimental Film) & BEST ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM

I Know What You Do When I Go to School

Written and illustrated by Siona Talekar

Published by Story Monsters Press

BEST ORIGINAL BOOK OF THE YEAR

The Days of Knight: Chapter 1

By John Martinez

BEST BEST VISUAL EFFECTS & BEST THRILLER SHORT