May – June 2025
These are the winners of May – June 2025:
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Best Film
Winner: I Colori del Riscatto – Isabella Nwamaka Mascarin – Italy
Best International Film
Winner: All Kinds – Eslam Hozayen – United States
Honorable Mention: Chasing Memories – LT Weese – United States
Best American Film
Winner: Emma’s Dilemmas – Anya Migdal – United States
Honorable Mention: How To Get Rid of Spotted Lanternflies – Matthew A Haas – United States
Best European Film
Winner: Christmas Spirit – Nathaniel Charalambous – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Ritual for Crises – Åsa Rockberg – Sweden
Honorable Mention: Rinse at 590 – Georgina Willis – United Kingdom
Best Asian Film
Winner: Gaza Sound Man – Hosam Abu Dan – Palestine, Qatar
Honorable Mention: Quality control – Adem Ulaş Dönmez – Turkey
Best Italian Film
Winner: Asceso – Jacopo Iebba – Italy
Honorable Mention: Il custode del lago – Simone Bressello – Italy
Honorable Mention: Altrove – Ettore Zito – Italy
Best Lombard Film
Winner: Unfairy Tale – Letizia Zocco – Italy
Honorable Mention: Gym Classes – Gabriele Lippi – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
Winner: Almost love. – Sarah Hà Duyên Ngô – United States
Honorable Mention: Rear windows – Plamena Petrova Petrova – Bulgaria
Honorable Mention: Unravelled – Brett Bower – United States
Best Super Short (between 5 and 10 minutes)
Winner: Filon ktenidis – George Leontakianakos – Greece
Honorable Mention: Pillowtalk – Lola Hartland – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Bust and hustle – Nick Malakhov – United Kingdom
Best Standard Short (between 10 and 20 minutes)
Winner: El coleccionista – Samuel Hernández – Mexico
Honorable Mention: Signature – Nick Zerafa – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Die, die my darling – Julian Vincenzo Ricci – Italy
Best Medium Length (under 60 min)
Winner: Promised land – Jürgen Baums – Germany
Honorable Mention: Mutation – Carlo Ayhllón – Mexico
Honorable Mention: Searching for simorgh – Ambroise Prince – France, United States
Best Low-Budget Film
Winner: Nonostante tutto, tutto può cambiare – Nicola Dal Molin – Italy
Honorable Mention: A Doll’s House – José Vélez, José Antonio Alameda – Puerto Rico
Best Original Idea
Winner: Glutton – Reese Carmen Villella – United States
Honorable Mention: Dastgir is Disappearing – Khwaja Hamzah Saif – United States
Honorable Mention: Orange Like Me – Suzannah Samuel – United States
Best Debut Film
Winner: Last Gasp – Tom Cholmondeley – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: The Medicine – Sarah Dienaar – Netherlands
Honorable Mention: Lullaby for Clémence – Fabrice Drocco – Switzerland
REALITY AWARDS
Best Drama
Winner: For better or worse – Oswald Hunter – Sweden
Honorable Mention: Bushido. the choice. – Marcin Tomaszewski – Poland
Best Realistic Film
Winner: The Art of Being Seen – Martine Remi – United States
Honorable Mention: Elveda – Hüseyin Gürses – Turkey
Best Experimental Film
Winner: Exfil – Naseer Haider Siddiqui – United States
Honorable Mention: Ugly Pig – Aneta Kernova, Caroline Elise – United States
Honorable Mention: Alteration – Mats Landström – Sweden
Best Inclusive Film (LGBTQ+)
Winner: Smoke, smoke, smoke – Nando Caballero – Spain
Honorable Mention: Braids – Raegan Young – United States
Honorable Mention: Godspeed – Klāvs Liepiņš – Iceland
Best Documentary
Winner: Al-shifa hospital – Obada Albaghdadi – Qatar
Honorable Mention: Il lavoro sono io – Federico Massa, Raffaele Pizzatti Sertorelli – Italy
Honorable Mention: Flickan & hästen – Åsa Rockberg, Raitis Vulfs – Sweden
Best Animated Film
Winner: Panic switch – Cameron Red Howe – United States
Honorable Mention: The motives of the wolf – Laura Fuks – Argentina
Honorable Mention: »Fliehen um anzukommen« von Ahmad Al Bandakji – Ahmad Al Bandakji – Germany
Best Social Drama
Winner: Stefano il tramontana – Mario Blasi – Italy
Honorable Mention: Revelación – Emanuel Moreno Elgueta – Chile
Honorable Mention: Il forno dei profeti – Massimo Fersini – Italy
Best War/Western/History
Winner: A doctor of three wars – Vedat Yenerer – Australia, Turkey
Best Family Drama
Winner: Wish you were there – Janet Tyndall – United States
Honorable Mention: What ended it all – Nathan Weidner – United States
Best Female Drama
Winner: The other side – Olga Ushakova – Russian Federation
Honorable Mention: Outside of me – Halimah Iman – United States
Best Comedy/Irony
Winner: Blaue wunder – Esther Wenger – Austria
Honorable Mention: Badineries – Gabriel Schmidt, Clovis Traissard – France
Honorable Mention: The devil’s symphony – Andy Winward – United Kingdom
Best Horror/Mystery
Winner: Fairytale farm – Owen Coomber – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: It changes – Luke Anthony Halstead – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Spuds – Vance Mellen Mellen – United States
Best Action/Thriller
Winner: Breach – Ross Langill – Canada
Honorable Mention: The secret box – Nikhil Bharadwaj Vanamamalai, Sourabh Burgula – India
Best Web/TV Pilot/TV Series
Winner: Burns and song – Tendayi Nyeke – Zimbabwe
Honorable Mention: Don’t mind if i don’t – fashion week – Tom Dunn – United States
Honorable Mention: 26 seconds usa docuseries: episode 1, the border crisis – Kelly Galindo – United States
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy/Futuristic
Winner: Potato – Birgitta Liljedahl – Sweden
Honorable Mention: Spaceman – Luca Mib Paoloni – Italy
Honorable Mention: OF Robots and Rednecks – Kevin Davis – United States
Best Romance
Winner: Crush test – Daria Sollertinskaia – Russian Federation
Honorable Mention: Until Death Do us Part – Riccardo Spiga – Italy
Best Music/Musical
Winner: The diamonds – Amy Julia Rose, Garret Ryan, Alicia Kidman – United States
Honorable Mention: Monday’s blues dreaming of Tuesday Weld – Bruce Edward Radek – United States
Honorable Mention: Michele Fraternali – devil’s cry – Michele Fraternali – Italy
Best Crime/Violence Drama
Winner: The rift – Sichigea Paul – Romania
Honorable Mention: Down came the rain – AJ Sykes – United Kingdom
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Director
Winner: Cassandra insköld’s last word – Dan Asenlund – Sweden
Honorable Mention: Lost is my breath – Ehsan Aslani – Canada
Honorable Mention: Midwest ice age! – Douglas J. Corcoran – United States
Best Young Director
Winner: Spirit – Zoe Maturo – United States
Honorable Mention: Just a Plain Pizza Please – Easton Lilling – United States
Best Soundtrack
Winner: The Jacket – Sandra Noricks – United States
Honorable Mention: Tür… – Mathis Schuller – Germany
Best Editing
Winner: Tap – Zemario Sheppard – United States
Honorable Mention: Dragonfly mp, the pho michael story – Douglas J. Corcoran – United States
Honorable Mention: Whispers of a faith – John Pocino – United States
Best Screenplay
Winner: Alla Fine del Giorno – Julian Vincenzo Ricci – Italy
Honorable Mention: Josephine – Wayne Tunks – Australia
Best Cinematography
Winner: Belly Button – Chapter 2 Mezcal – Simon Reinert – United States
Honorable Mention: Blood On Your Teeth – Smit Patel – United States
Best Actor/Actress
Winner: In Sunshine and in Shadow – Taylor Rusch Box – United States
Honorable Mention: Speechless – Jakub Chmelar – Not Specified
Honorable Mention: Sea – Karen Vanparys – Belgium
Best Producer
Winner: Between Left and Right – Simone Terranova – United States
Honorable Mention: The Xmascist – Stuart Hunter – United Kingdom
Best Movie Poster
Winner: Wrong Address – John Simmons – United States
Honorable Mention: Apt 44 – Laura Musgrave – United States
Honorable Mention – Swine and Dine – Ronald Black – United States
Best Title
Winner: Legittima omertà – Antonio Malfitano – Italy
Honorable Mention: Produci, Consuma, Crepa – Julian Vincenzo Ricci – Italy
Honorable Mention: My friend is a giant – David R. Carter – Canada
