Winners RIMINI International Indie Film Awards

2025 November 21

Winners RIMINI International Indie Film Awards

The Greenstone Narrated By Orson Welles

By Kevin Irvine

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST INDIE DIRECTOR

Heat and Love

By Michał Kucharski

BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATED SHORT FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST SOUND DESIGNER

The Edge “Into The Past”

By Gary St. Martin

BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST PILOT TV

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times

By Thomas Gallagher

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR

Fractures In Time

By Lesley Ann Albiston

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

Life’s Mapped Out

By Akal Demir

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Arcangel Of Death

By Vincenzo Amoruso

BEST ORIGINAL ACTOR & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM

The New Immigrant- Hong Kongers

By Vivian Tsang

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR, BEST INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

By Dean Morgan

BEST COMPEDY SCRIPT, BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

The Rorschach Test

By Lena Mattsson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR 2025, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

Not Without Gloves

By Lena Mattsson

BEST POETRY FILM & BEST SPIRITUAL FILM

Virulence

By Christopher Pennington

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Potato Family

By Lori Hamilton

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER (Category: Animation) & BEST INDIE ANIMATED SHORT FILM

The Green Mill

By Michelle Lynn

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Feature Script)

An Ever After Drama

By Michelle Lynn

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT OF THE YEAR, BEST ACTRESS 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Secrets of Montmartre

By Michelle Lynn

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Thankful

By Earnest Diaz

BEST WRITER & BEST FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Omnipotent Resolution

By Uniqueness Heiress & Azia

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST EDITING (Category: Dance Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

By Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL SCREENWRITER  

The Queen of Camelot

By Roger Paradiso

BEST AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST WRITING STYLE

Nelle Sue mani

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST GUITARIST & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO)

Credo

By Don Pasquale Ferone

BEST SINGER 2025 

The Duchess

By C. Arnold Curry

BEST INDIE DRAMA 2025, BEST ROMANCE & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

By Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE FILM 2025 & BEST SCREENPLAY

Noise

By R. Scott MacLeay

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR, BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM, BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

By Carla Di Bonito

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SCRIPT

Staycation

By Russell Emanuel

BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST FILM 2025, BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

The Pathos of Hamlet

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR

The Stones of Rome

By Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025 & BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM

Eye of the Storm

By Brooke Wolff

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

Doctor Hyphoteses

By Vicentini Gomez

BEST COMEDIAN 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

Pirandello’s Wife

By Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT

Alta California

By Lynn Elliott

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT

The Little Match-Seller

By Danilo Del Tufo

BEST EUROPEAN MOVIEMAKER 2025, BEST EDITING & BEST ANIMATION OF THE YEAR

See me

By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Mecca

By Monte Albers de Leon

BEST BEST LGBTQ+ & BEST ORIGINAL WRITING STYLE

Wacko

By Matthew Roch

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST HORROR, BEST AMERICAN INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST