BEST OF FEST
Abaddon by Geoffroy C. Dedenis
Allégresse by Gillie Cinneri
Amarela by André Hayato Saito
Axed Weekend by William Jon Hunter Fostvedt
Beaks by Xavier Demoulin
Crease by Demitri Zujew
Cura Sana by Lucía G. Romero
Father’s Letters by Alexey Evstigneev
First Wednesday of the Month by Mélodie Adda, Adrien Rozé
Hair Tie by Bo Wang
Hui Ling by Peijin Li
La Herida Luminosa by Christian Avilés
My Angel by Sophie Monks
Punter by Jason Adam Maselle
Roadtripper by Christophe Granger
Totó by Andrea Ibarra Rocha
The Unknown Painting by Niklas Poweleit
BEST SHORT FILM
Abaddon by Geoffroy C. Dedenis
Allégresse by Gillie Cinneri
Amarela by André Hayato Saito
Beaks by Xavier Demoulin
Crease by Demitri Zujew
Cura Sana by Lucía G. Romero
First Wednesday of the Month by Mélodie Adda, Adrien Rozé
Hair Tie by Bo Wang
Hui Ling by Peijin Li
La Herida Luminosa by Christian Avilés
My Angel by Sophie Monks
Punter by Jason Adam Maselle
Roadtripper by Christophe Granger
Totó by Andrea Ibarra Rocha
BEST FEATURE FILM
All is Fine in ’89 by Matthew Lupis
4 Faces by Fikret Sanal
Enescu, skinned alive by Toma Enache
The Ninth Order by Nick John A’Hern
Silent Notes by Toni Comas
Savanna And The Mountain by Paulo Carneiro
Numbered Lives by J G Clarke
Lena and Vladimir by Igor Aleksov
Rage of Stars by Lukasz Rog
WMuozzart! by Sebastiano Rizzo
Invelle by Simone Massi
BEST SHORT DOC
The Mirror Parajanov by Jerome Amimer
Living by the sea by Zhenze Zhao, Yubo Sun
Tibetan Weavers by Jiao Zhiwei To Kendima by Eleonora Soteriou
Crush by Simone Marino
Traditional Chinese Culture in Courtyard by Heyan Zhang
A Silent Hymn by Tianming Zhou, Xianglong Gao
Shuhari – Finding my way through Japanese calligraphy by Tatsuya Ino
Io Vivo Qui by Filippo Ciccone
Sheperding by Biruk Mola
To Kendima by Eleonora Soteriou
The Unknown Painting by Niklas Poweleit
BEST FEATURE DOC
Urraca, cazador de rojos by Pedro De Echave García, Felip Solé
The Perpetrator by Sándor Laczkó
1/10 Listening to Fukushima 2023 by Yo Kohatsu
Mountains In Harmony by Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada
Let Them Be Naked by Jeff Garner
Marcho – The Last Flag by Marco Fabbro
Echo of sunken flowers by Rosa Maietta
Cento – Assalto al moro (Assault on the Moor) by Matteo De Liberato
The Shrovetide Devil by Diogo Varela Silva
The Eternal Song by Zaya Ralitza Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo
Sama: To Listen by Darek Mazzone
BEST ANIMATION SHORT
Dagon by Paolo Gaudio
Father’s Letters by Alexey Evstigneev
Né una né due by Lucia Catalini
Nwavu, the Blind Man by João Petit Graça
Pyan by Hillary Soe Naung
Shaped by Hsin-Ju Wu
Neon Lights by Vinicius Bellemo
The Singing of Birds and What is Drifting Away by Lezhi Yu
The Unknown Painting by Niklas Poweleit
Undertow by Justin Taylor
Unstoppable Beat by Luke & Rufus Dye-Montefiore
Veils of Landscape by Chihiro Yamanaka
What is left by Bianca Costanzo, Federica Tornaghi, Gaia De Napoli, Cristina Capoano
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Kalos by Yasmine Elwageeh
Since It All Begins by Gabrielle Le Bayon
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
The Human Voice by Iphigenie Worbes, Andreas Schröder
The Autotelic Notebook by Francesc Font Andreu, Jordi Márquez Puig
From Behind the Teeth by Mox Mäkelä
Eight of Wands by Cesare Bedogne
Una teoria che ho sognato a Londra by Fulvio Risuleo
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
A Dream In the Sahā World by Sabrina REN
Bibiza – Discoschnupfen (ft. Nicholas Ofczarek) by Roland Schafek
Crescent Heights by Yiannis Margetousakis
Dan Kye – Moving by Luke & Rufus Dye-Montefiore
Good Nightmare by Yas Wadi
Jhonatan Ospina – Mistery by Mateus Rigola
Kananaye – Cimetre by Jacob Londry Bonkian, Djibril Ouattara
Musical Angels by Saul Pincus
Morphine by Jonatan Fenu
Realize by Bennett R. Boyle
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
Ruffle by Sara Farzadfard
Savanna And The Mountain by Paulo Carneiro
She Grew Up at Midnight by Jeanett Espedal
Silent Notes by Toni Comas
Socrates by Ken Sagoes
The Pants Trial by Maxime Chefdeville
The Tale of Sang Kancil (Dongeng Sang Kancil) by Ahmad Razuri Roseli, Nik Ahmad Rasyidi Nik Othman, Zulhilmi Md Rozali
The Uptown Chronicles by Steven Goard, Alonge Hawes
BEST POSTER
A Rain by Jiacheng Li
Floaters by Aurélie Garon
Forever With You by Mohammad Hossein Shokrgozar
Genetic Art by Mustafa Güneşoğlu
Grinch by Yunpeng Wang
Paradox by Chin Yu Chang
Playground by Yaxing Lin
Punter by Jason Adam Maselle
Savanna And The Mountain by Paulo Carneiro
Song of Impermanence by Chih Hao Shen
Veradens by Tomás Pedro
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
Blind Freedom by Craig Wyhoon
Chokehold by Alexa Carle-Hébert
Daytona by Mattia Colucci
Fortunata by Max Oliva
Glimpses of life by Nino Grillo
Heavy Hitter by Liesel Galletly
Invisible String by N. Storino
It’s A Reel Mother For Ya by Kent Flaagan
My son is shorter by Lorenzo Carapezzi
Scoops by Ross Greenlees
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
Jazz On A Wave by Bob Merz
Made It by David Gregory
My Not-So-Righteous Life by Elisa Salem Herrmann
Programs by Irina Vysotskaya
Reflections by Manuel Freedman
Taking it Easy by Anton Ballard
The Angel of Sligo by Steven Trotter
The Switch by Victor Dean
BEST DIRECTOR
André Hayato Saito for Amarela
Bo Wang for Hair Tie
Christian Avilés for La Herida Luminosa
Christophe Granger for Roadtripper
Demitri Zujew for Crease
Ermir Keta for The Champ
Geoffroy C. Dedenis for Abaddon
Jason Adam Maselle for Punter
Lucía G. Romero for Cura Sana
Mélodie Adda, Adrien Rozé for First Wednesday of the Month
Simone Marino for Crush
Sophie Monks for My Angel
William Jon Hunter Fostvedt for Axed Weekend
Xavier Demoulin for Beaks
BEST SCREENWRITER
Alexey Evstigneev for Father’s Letters
André Hayato Saito, Luigi Madormo, Tatiana Wan for Amarela
Andrea Ibarra Rocha for Totò
Ariana Andrade Castro, Eduardo M. Esperanza for Sara
Christian Avilés for La Herida Luminosa
Geoffroy C. Dedenis for Abaddon
Gillie Cinneri for Allégresse
Jules Renault for See you soon
Lena Dana for Butterflies
One Poem, One Song
Sophie Monks for My Angel
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Xavier Demoulin for Beaks
Li Hongkai for Sonata Finale
Bai Jing Quan for Flying Low
Jujiao Zhang for Akun’s life
Issy Chan for Hui Ling
Duarte Domingos for Savanna And The Mountain
Natalia Butova for Crease
William Douglas for Punter
Alexandra de Saint Blanquat for Our Loyalties
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
Andrés Hernández Covarrubias for Old Well
Cesare Bedogne for Eight of Wands
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
Méloé Poillevé for The Champ
Mona-Lise Lanfant for Beaks
Arnold de Parscau for Salamander
Sebastian Kwidzinski for Mother
BEST SOUND
Alix Clement for Transylvanie
Gepe Arcos, Sergio Cetz for Old Well
Herman Granlund for Axed Weekend
Jimmy Solórzano for La Herida Luminosa
Jingcong Guo for A Rain
Mark J D’Angelo and Paul Van Nimwegen for Numbered Lives
Mehdi Saadi for My Angel
Rodrigo Gomes for The Shrovetide Devil
Vinicius Bellemo for Neon Lights
Wang Xirui for Reunion
Xavier Remy for Sunflowers at Night
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Benjamin Ribolet, Arthur Lavandier for The Pants Trial
Carlos Libo, Diego Placeres for Savanna And The Mountain
Darko Spasovski for Lena and Vladimir
David Thomas for Being at home
Guanyu Xie for A Palm Tree in the Distance
Joy Sengupta, Avinav Saha for Made in Paradise
Konstantin Poznekov for Crease
Olaf Hund for Since It All Begins
Ronan Maillard for Confrontation
Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi for Enescu, skinned alive
Yuanou Tan for Life After Life
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Amèlia Vereerstraeten for Allégresse
Christelle Santabarbara for Last round
Emanuele Mancini for It happens in one night
Karishma Sharma for Genesis
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
Rade Vasilev for Lena and Vladimir
Stefano Nicolao for Enescu, skinned alive
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Billie Blain for Confrontation
Chi Rong for I Am Not Picky
Jiajia Yang for Lion Spirit
Lucien Le Ho for Transylvanie
Magdalena Maścianica for Mother
Manon Gauthier for The Pants Trial
Melissa Uehara for Amarela
Mélodie Adda for First Wednesday of the Month
Naia Pindas Sandoval for Totó
Nurcan Yegin for Selma
Perrine Trébal for Since It All Begins
Roser Rendon Ena for Cura Sana
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Artem Ostreyko for Heart of the Forest
Bill Caple for Selby Love
Ezel Akay for 4 Faces
François Papineau for Being at home
George Siatidis for Allégresse
Kevin Garnichat for See you soon
Marlon Verrin and Stefan Crepon for First Wednesday of the Month
Matthijs de Koning for Outside
Quentin Delcourt for Sunflowers at Night
Rafaël Rajabian for My Angel
Rosario Mucaria for Last Round
Théo Augier for Roadtripper
Tiago Marques for Punter
Tobbias Nuytten for Balam Balam
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alice Allwright for See you soon
Almaz Papatakis for Under my skin
Anna Andreotti for Since It All Begins
Cristiana Oliveira for Ocean of Mothers
Khelga Filippova for Crease
Maria Shtofa for People
Nergis Nikprelaj for The Champ
Pippa Winslow for Don’t Forget Me
Rasvely Lissette Donaire Restituyo for Cura Sana
Theodora Sandu for Enescu, skinned alive
Yuan Tian for Not That Rich
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
Makhaola S Ndebele for The Last Ranger
Noah Tinwa for Unspoken
Pierre Nisse for Allégresse
Prashant Siddi for Rhythm of Dammam
Rui Shang for Manor of Darkness
Sandor Funtek for The Experiment