2024 – 2025

ANNUAL NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

Crease by Demitri Zujew
Cura Sana by Lucía G. Romero
Father’s Letters by Alexey Evstigneev
La Herida Luminosa by Christian Avilés
Punter by Jason Adam Maselle
Roadtripper by Christophe Granger
The Unknown Painting by Niklas Poweleit

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Crease by Demitri Zujew
Cura Sana by Lucía G. Romero
First Wednesday of the Month by Mélodie Adda, Adrien Rozé
La Herida Luminosa by Christian Avilés
Punter by Jason Adam Maselle
Roadtripper by Christophe Granger

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

All is Fine in ’89 by Matthew Lupis
Invelle by Simone Massi
Lena and Vladimir by Igor Aleksov
Rage of Stars by Lukasz Rog
Silent Notes by Toni Comas
Savanna And The Mountain by Paulo Carneiro

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Crush by Simone Marino
Io Vivo Qui by Filippo Ciccone
Shuhari – Finding my way through Japanese calligraphy by Tatsuya Ino
Sheperding by Biruk Mola
To Kendima by Eleonora Soteriou
The Unknown Painting by Niklas Poweleit

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Echo of sunken flowers by Rosa Maietta
Let Them Be Naked by Jeff Garner
Mountains In Harmony by Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada
Sama: To Listen by Darek Mazzone
The Shrovetide Devil by Diogo Varela Silva
The Eternal Song by Zaya Ralitza Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Dagon by Paolo Gaudio
Father’s Letters by Alexey Evstigneev
Né una né due by Lucia Catalini
The Unknown Painting by Niklas Poweleit
Unstoppable Beat by Luke & Rufus Dye-Montefiore
Veils of Landscape by Chihiro Yamanaka

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Kalos by Yasmine Elwageeh
I Remember When I Was a Window by Paolo Ferrante
Twin Falls, 2001 / 2024 by Marco Mazzi
I Feel Like A Piece Of Meat by Yalın Çağdaş Eşsiz
Waterfull by Tatyana Yaneeva
Una teoria che ho sognato a Londra by Fulvio Risuleo

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Bibiza – Discoschnupfen (ft. Nicholas Ofczarek) by Roland Schafek
Dan Kye – Moving by Luke & Rufus Dye-Montefiore
Good Nightmare by Yas Wadi
Kananaye – Cimetre by Jacob Londry Bonkian, Djibril Ouattara
Morphine by Jonatan Fenu
Timelines by Nishan Malinda Arangala

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Dead End Rides by Adrian Cabrie
Laundry Heroes by Vincenzo Malara
Match Point by Joslyn Rose Lyons
Mine Over Matter by Katrina Layman
The Gliwensbourg Chronicles – Season 1 by Emilie Tommasi

BEST TRAILER

 

Bid Farewell To by Liu Fengkai
Hold Me by Andrew L Tingle, Terezia Benova
Limited Slip by Clint Calvert, Caleb Johnson
Savanna And The Mountain by Paulo Carneiro
Silent Notes by Toni Comas
The Pants Trial by Maxime Chefdeville

BEST POSTER

 

A Rain by Jiacheng Li
Floaters by Aurélie Garon
Grinch by Yunpeng Wang
Paradox by Chin Yu Chang
Punter by Jason Adam Maselle
Savanna And The Mountain by Paulo Carneiro

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Daytona by Mattia Colucci
Fortunata by Max Oliva
Glimpses of life by Nino Grillo
It’s A Reel Mother For Ya by Kent Flaagan
My son is shorter by Lorenzo Carapezzi
Zero Calories by Elizabeth Kapsa

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

American Vigilantes by Adam Jay Crawford
Chinese Canary by Betty Jiang
Flowers Bloom In October by Mitzee Ruth Mandocdoc
Made It by David Gregory
Taking it Easy by Anton Ballard
The Switch by Victor Dean

BEST DIRECTOR

 

Christian Avilés for La Herida Luminosa
Christophe Granger for Roadtripper
Demitri Zujew for Crease
Jason Adam Maselle for Punter
Lucía G. Romero for Cura Sana
Mélodie Adda, Adrien Rozé for First Wednesday of the Month

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Alexey Evstigneev for Father’s Letters
André Hayato Saito, Luigi Madormo, Tatiana Wan for Amarela
Andrea Ibarra Rocha for Totò
Christian Avilés for La Herida Luminosa
Geoffroy C. Dedenis for Abaddon
Gillie Cinneri for Allégresse

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Jujiao Zhang for Akun’s life
Duarte Domingos for Savanna And The Mountain
William Douglas for Punter
Nabeeh Samaan for Axed Weekend
Manuel G. Romero for La Herida Luminosa
Tara-Jay Bangalter for First Wednesday of the Month

BEST EDITING

 

Ailin Huang for Hui Ling
Anais Manuelli for Roadtripper
Ilenia Zincone for Una teoria che ho sognato a Londra
Jason Adam Maselle and Nay Tabarra for Punter
Jiacheng Li, Qihang Wang for A Rain
Sebastian Kwidzinski for Mother

BEST SOUND

 

Gepe Arcos, Sergio Cetz for Old Well
Herman Granlund for Axed Weekend
Jimmy Solórzano for La Herida Luminosa
Mehdi Saadi for My Angel
Rodrigo Gomes for The Shrovetide Devil
Vinicius Bellemo for Neon Lights

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Benjamin Ribolet, Arthur Lavandier for The Pants Trial
Darko Spasovski for Lena and Vladimir
Joy Sengupta, Avinav Saha for Made in Paradise
Konstantin Poznekov for Crease
Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi for Enescu, skinned alive
Yuanou Tan for Life After Life

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Joana Chaves for Silent Notes
Júlia Kassay for Zone of Shards
Julie Alvernhe for Vestiges
Lukasz Rog for Rage of Stars
Marta Rosmeri for La Herida Luminosa
Stefano Nicolao for Enescu, skinned alive

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Billie Blain for Confrontation
Magdalena Maścianica for Mother
Melissa Uehara for Amarela
Mélodie Adda for First Wednesday of the Month
Naia Pindas Sandoval for Totó
Roser Rendon Ena for Cura Sana

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

George Siatidis for Allégresse
Marlon Verrin and Stefan Crepon for First Wednesday of the Month
Rafaël Rajabian for My Angel
Théo Augier for Roadtripper
Tiago Marques for Punter
Tobbias Nuytten for Balam Balam

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Alice Allwright for See you soon
Anna Andreotti for Since It All Begins
Khelga Filippova for Crease
Maria Shtofa for People
Rasvely Lissette Donaire Restituyo for Cura Sana
Theodora Sandu for Enescu, skinned alive

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Cezary Pazura for People
Deniz Abdula for Lena and Vladimir
Eric Savin for February 7
Li Weimin for I Am Not Picky
Lue Støvlebæk for Fading Colors
Sandor Funtek for The Experiment