2025 – 2026

ANNUAL NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

A Missed Call by Francesco Manzato
Candy Bar by Nash Edgerton
From Distance, Chickens Have Teeth by Rafka Maria Helou
No Skate! by Guil Seal
Push The Machine by Max Ward
Right Now by Svend Colding

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Bob Wanna Kill by Y Yang
Candy Bar by Nash Edgerton
From Distance, Chickens Have Teeth by Rafka Maria Helou
No Skate! by Guil Seal
Right Now by Svend Colding
The Tide by Haowen Geng

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Follow the Sun by Leonid Kulibaba
Ignition by Andrei Turcan
My Boyfriend, a Mannequin by Dmitry Nikolenko
Paperheart by Kristina Sarkyte
The Days with Granny by Alex Zheng
Whispers of Fire & Water by Lubdhak Chatterjee

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Bedouins of the Wind by Danish Farhan
Eleutheria by Brendan Void
Push The Machine by Max Ward
The Call of The Sea by Thiago Sampaio
The Last Standing Doctor by Ibrahim Saber, Abdulqader Sabbah
The Missing Post Office by Clement Lefer

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Boucan by Juliette Renard
Gommaar Gilliams – A Spark and a Blanket by Steve Brouwers
Little Singer by Zaya Ralitza Benazzo
Tin Hinan, the Last Nomad by Leila Artese Benhadj
The River At The Bottom Of My Garden by Guillaume Mazille
Torn by Kullar Viimne

BEST SHORT ANIMATION

 

Cardboard Heart by Catalina Ferreira Martin
On The Line by Matin Farhan, Roya Hmood
So, what is…? by Lian Sun
The Archivist by Antonio Sergio Spagnol
UPS! by Galvão Bertazzi, Luís Canau
Waltz for Ukraine by Loup Blaster

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

A Missed Call by Francesco Manzano
The City Was Sleeping and Dreaming of Us by Natalia Ashurovskaya
The Eyeire by Jiacheng Wang
The Shape of Sound by Dahee Han
The Smith by Desislava Chuturkova
The Weight We Carry by Christoph Kaar
Watchful Eyes by Gianluca Lasaracina

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Cure by Mélyssandre Manem
Darganite – Lemon at the Laundromat (feat. Ray Zade) by Eugene Zosimov
DECO Music Club – Quei rami pesanti by Rolando Danesi
Kmaiuscola & Fulo – Barbate by Giovanni Gallerini
Khauf by Arkish Aftab
Technophobia by Rio Wolta

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Koba by Nurzhan Yerkinuly
Holmes: The Myth Of Whitechapel by Nathan Bres
My 80-Year-Old-Roommate by Mickaël Gouin
Paper Cuts by Erika Mathieu
Puke Bitch: Episode One by Sam Tricomo
The Night of the Thousand Lights  by Gabor Lacza

BEST TRAILER

 

A Step Forwards by George Poupart
Beneath The Western Sky by Dimitri Luttrell
Conflict by Krstover Luaay
Hamdardi by Ashley Tabatabai and Stefan Fairlamb
One Lucky Day by Heon Jung
Reason To Fight by Hiram Johnson

BEST POSTER

 

A Mother’s Love by Harald Schwarzenbacher
Blink by Barto Muñoz
Good Morning Mom by Oben Yilmaz
Opera Posthuma by Naïm Merzouki
Sarà by Philipp Berezin
What We Carried by Carolina Pereira

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Angela by Chiara Sfregola
Be Kind, Be Brave by Olivia Rose Abella
Ettore’s Podcast by Carmelo Segreto
It’s Nice Here by Pietro Lamacchia
My Personal Bully by Alessandro de Filippis
Rolando by Alfredo Arvalli, Andrea Jean Varraud

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

Black Diamonds by Gabriella Niles-Ewen, Paul G Andrews
Emmaline by Nina Moyer
Ghostlight by Francesco Colangelo
How Timmy Became a Bear by Timothy Webber
Lesbian Fuckboy by Beatrice Yilin Jiang
Middlescence by Angela Manfredi

BEST DIRECTING

 

Francesco Manzato for A Missed Call
Guil Sela for No Skate!
Max Ward for Push The Machine
Nash Edgerton for Candy Bar
Rafka Maria Helou for From Distance, Chickens Have Teeth
Svend Colding for Right Now

BEST SCREENWRITING

 

Alison McDonnell for Unsung
Aygul Utyaganova for My Boyfriend, a Mannequin
Gregor Schmidinger for A Mother’s Love
Guil Sela, Joséphine Ha for No Skate!
Jacob Vaughan for Rodrigo
Lukas Daubjerg for Right Now

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Kevin Durbert for The Sting
Pauline Doméjean for No Skate!
Rachelle Noja for One Last Time
Sigurd Neby for Bob Wanna Kill
Zach Morrison for The Witch Pricker and the Hare
The Weight We Carry by Manuel Zoller

BEST EDITING

 

Andrei Turcan for Ignition
Bobby Pan, Kiran Lalani and Kai Mak for Longing Bayshore
Christoph & Pilipp Kaar for The Weight We Carry
Duda Bertho for The Call of The Sea
Filippo Patelli for Unscripted
Rafka Maria Helou for From Distance, Chickens Have Teeth

BEST SOUND DESIGN

 

Anatoly B. Asenov for The Smith
Carsten Fuhrmann for Rough_about the inner depths of fear
Igor Goda for The Call of The Sea
Jaden Sweeney and Sam Tricomo for Puke Bitch: Episode One
Sam Fan for Bob Wanna Kill
Thomas Gallicani for The Missing Post Office

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Alessandro Quarta for Paperheart
David Edmonds for Holmes: The Myth Of Whitechapel
Elizaveta Monakhova for Bob Wanna Kill
Johann Graham Engelhardt for The Weight We Carry
Michael McGlynn for Torn
Patrycja Betley for Waltz for Ukraine

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Avary Mitchell for The Witch Pricker and the Hare
Cai Yingwei for Sheathed
Eileen Stieger for A Day in April
Emily Pieters for Holmes: The Myth Of Whitechapel
Leonid Kulibaba for Follow the Sun
Sabrine El Hossamy for Dreams of Dendara

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Chelsea Choukeir for From Distance, Chickens Have Teeth
Kimberly Cruchon Brooks for Puke Bitch: Episode One
Gertrud Gøtterup for Right Now
Melissa Zijno for Elena
Raïka Hazanavicius for No Skate!
Zumi Edgerton for Candy Bar

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Damon Herriman for Candy Bar
Joseph Sassine for From Distance, Chickens Have Teeth
Julien De Saint Jean for The Sting
Micheal Gilhooy for Bob Wanna Kill
Michael Zindel for No Skate!
Victor Madsen for Right Now

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Carole Franck for The Sting
Giorgia Scialpi for Paperheart
Laynie Mitchell for The Witch Pricker and the Hare
Lou Bennett for An Excess Baggage
Mariacarla Casillo for Watchful Eyes
Mihaela Dobrea for Little Captain

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Alex Herrald for The Witch Pricker and the Hare
Elie Njeim for One Last Time
Marius Ragan Melbye for Right Now
Michael Hsu Rosen for Rodrigo
Roberto Renna for Elena
Sergey Migitsko for Follow the Sun