DECEMBER 2025

NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

Bob Wanna Kill by Y Yang
Candy Bar by Nash Edgerton
Little Captain by Illia Freiman
My Boyfriend, a Mannequin by Dmitry Nikolenko
The Call of The Sea by Thiago Sampaio
The Shape of Sound by Dahee Han

 






BEST SHORT FILM

 

Bob Wanna Kill by  Y Yang
Candy Bar by Nash Edgerton
Little Captain by Illia Freiman







BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Ext. Friendship – Night by Mehdi Ahmadpanah
My Boyfriend, a Mannequin by Dmitry Nikolenko
The Form of Ideal by Weiping Zhang

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Ensemble by Manuel Cundari, Eugenio Piluso
The Call of The Sea by Thiago Sampaio
The Rebel Reef: Seeds of Hope by Brynne Eliza Rardin, Patrick Joseph Krum

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Bloody Vegans by Fabrizio Gammardella
Chronicles of the Inconvenient Truth by Kaloian Nikolov
Torn by Kullar Viimne


BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Mom’s wish by Jing Wen, Xiaodan Huang
The Archivist by Antonio Sergio Spagnol
The Last Forest by Rabia Rahou

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Synthetic Era by Vincenzo Bafaro
The Shape of Sound by Dahee Han
Us by Manuel Zaffiro

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Iijack – No Error by Alex Semikopenko
Janie May – Holy War by Lucas Kai Solem
Valérie de Montmollin – Plus Jamais by Hugo König

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Not enough project for this month. See you the next one!


BEST POSTER

 

Chronicles of the Inconvenient Truth by Kaloian Nikolov
My Boyfriend, a Mannequin by Dmitry Nikolenko
Sarà by Philipp Berezin



BEST TRAILER

 

Behind The Sun by Kevin Moussaoui
Reason To Fight by Hiram Johnson
Watergate Secrets and Betrayals by George J. Bugatti, Marc Wishengrad

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

My personal bully by Alessandro de Filippis
Sei e un giorno by Sim Levi Tezel
Warsaw during the Great War by Robert Benn

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

How Timmy Became a Bear by Timothy Webber
Harrison by Victor Quinton, Emma Malouff
The Bad Life by Massimiliano Degli Esposti

BEST DIRECTOR

 

Y Yang for Bob Wanna Kill
Nash Edgerton for Candy Bar
Dmitry Nikolenko for My Boyfriend, a Mannequin 


BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Damon Herriman for Candy Bar
Aygul Utyaganova for My Boyfriend, a Mannequin
Alice Pataxó for The Call of The Sea 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Sigurd Neby for Bob Wanna Kill 
Grigoriy Maykov for My Boyfriend, a Mannequin
Dahee Han, Rodrigo Canas for The Shape of Sound

BEST EDITING

 

Y Yang for Bob Wanna Kill
Duda Bertho for The Call of The Sea
Dahee Han for The Shape of Sound 


BEST SOUND

 

Sam Fan for Bob Wanna Kill
Aleksey Kobzar for My Boyfriend, a Mannequin
Igor Goda for The Call of The Sea

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Elizaveta Monschova for Bob Wanna Kill
Rory Chenoweth for Movement, Light, and Life 
Michael McGlynn for Torn 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Zhang Ruiqi for Assimilation
Kaylin Cassidy for Movement, Light, and Life
Anna Kavtaskina for My Boyfriend, a Mannequin 

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Micheal Gilhooy for Bob Wanna Kill
Damon Herriman for Candy Bar
Eric Roberts for My Last Best Friend 


BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Valentina Karoleva for Bob Wanna Kill
Anastasia Tace for Little Captain 
Anastasiya Panova for My Boyfriend, a Mannequin 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Jonny Phillips for Bob Wanna Kill
Raresh Dimofte for Little Captain
Sergey Sotserdotskiy for My Boyfriend, a Mannequin

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Nanna Bengston for Bob Wanna Kill
Zumi Edgerton for Candy Bar
Mihaela Dobrea for Little Captain