Best Short Film
September 2025 — May 2026 Winners
Don’t forget to smile
Directed by: David Dulev
Best Feature Film
Best Feature Film Director
Best Actress — Abigail Cubilla
Best Producer
Best Cinematography
Best War Film
Best Original Score
Best Costume Design
BE BRAVE.
Directed by: Marcelo José Torcida
Best Experimental Short Film
Data Shadows
Directed by: Oliver Page, Jacob van der Beugel
Best Micro Short Film
Best Black&White Film
SHADOW DOCKET
Directed by: Kevin B Ploth
Best Short Documentary Film
The Great Warning
Directed by: Juan Carlos Salas Tamez
Best Feature Documentary Film
DEZO HOFFMANN — PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE BEATLES
Directed by: Laura Sivakova-Passova, Patrik Lancaric
Best Short Documentary Film Director
I CHOSE
Directed by: Tomasz Skibicki
Best Short Film Director
A-MORS
Directed by: Giulia Brazzale
Best Animation
The Encounter
Directed by: Eszter Szoboszlay
Best Actor — Joe Nuzzolo
Best Editing
The Ashes of A Dream
Best Actor Debut
Diamond Dust
Directed by: Ann Huang
Best Feature Screenplay
Garbage Rex Screenplay
Written by: Steve Hunyi
Best Unproduced Screenplay
THE BOX — Short Script
Directed by: Philippe MARION
Best Original Screenplay
GOLD MINE
Written by: Andrzej Ciesielski
Best First-Time Director
Best First-Time Screenwriter
Laceless Sneakers
Directed by: Jeny Poquet, Oscar Gómez
Best Student Film
Oh My God, It’s Her!
Directed by: Sai Man (Simon) Zhao
Best Music Video
Walk With Me Through The Fire — The Curse of KK Hammond
Directed by: K.K. Hammond
Best Dance Video
Leap of Faith
Directed by: Andromeda Graziano, Jack Elliott Hobbs
Best Drama
El Poder del Diálogo
Directed by: Miguel García Bernal
Best Horror
The Collector
Directed by: Samuel Hernández
Best Comedy
Who’s There?
Written by: Sandra Cropsey
Best Dark Comedy
Kill the girl
Directed by: Olga Kostyanova
Best AI Film
The First Shapeshifter
Directed by: Raúl Coria Martínez
Best LGBTQ+
Why We Pride
Directed by: Natalie Scarsbrook
Best Sport Film
Best Feature Documentary Film Director
RugbyTown Season 2
Directed by: Patrick Guthrie
Best Inspirational Film
The Wind Once Whispered
Directed by: Johan Swinnen
Best ECO FIlm
OFF THE MARK
Directed by: Wera Uschakowa
Best Educational Film
The Pride of Paterson
Directed by: Thomas E. Franklin
Best Independent Film
ARGOR (Decadencia)
Directed by: Gerardo Castañeda
Best Mobile Film
Who is “me”?
Directed by: Diana Iulia Pap
Best 360/VR
Back To The Past
Directed by: Dario Melo Maciel
Best Original Soundtrack
NORITA
Directed by: Jayson McNamara, Andrea Tortonese