October 2026
October 2026 Awards MAIN CATEGORIES Best Film: Questo Lago Non Ti Lascerà Andare – Johan Spirolazzi – Italy Best International Film Winner: IUS del tiempo – Roberto F. Canuto, Xiaoxi Xu – Spain Honorable Mention: BREAKING UP – Ian Butcher – Canada Honorable Mention: The Wish – Peter B Buckley – United States Best American Film Winner: Luz de Vida – Gregory Cherniavskii – Argentina Honorable Mention: SHECKY – Ally May – United States Honorable Mention: Tellurium vs Gold – Josias Ortiz – United States Best European Film Winner: #bog – Lorna Fitzsimons – Ireland Honorable Mention: Isle of the Dead – Alexandros Kouros, Panagiotis Pantazis – Greece Honorable Mention: Still Time – Marius Jensen – Spain Best Asian Film Winner: Unseen Bloom – Weiran Zhu – China Honorable Mention: It's Not Your Mother – Arsen Muratbayev – Kazakhstan Honorable Mention: The Soul of Earth – Tanu Sharma – India Best Italian Film Winner: I CIAVAI DE PAUL – Paolo Vinati – Italy Honorable Mention: Il Suono del Silenzio – Gaspare Damanti – Italy Honorable Mention: Daisies – Francesco Filippini – Italy Best Lombard Film Winner: Bad Review – Michela Menichelli – Italy Honorable Mention: Wartime Dream – Daniele D'Angelo – Italy Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes) Winner: Rewind – Patrick Sutherland, Scarlett Rivers – Canada Honorable Mention: Very Wild Boar – Tomas Mitkus – Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands Honorable Mention: As usual – Darya Semenova – Russian Federation Best Super Short (5 to 10 minutes) Winner: Mirror Mirror – Alyssa De Jesus – United States Honorable Mention: Birthday Cake – Jiaxin He Honorable Mention: DEVIANT – Josias Ortiz – United States Best Standard Short (10 to 20 minutes) Winner: Limit – Pavel Zaineyev – Kazakhstan Honorable Mention: Finding Goldfinger Part 1 – Willow Skye Joubert – South Africa Honorable Mention: Molly – Conor O'Mahony – Ireland Best Medium Length (under 60 minutes) Winner: Cenere al vento – Antonello Picciano – Italy Honorable Mention: Star Pavilion – Chris Gunnell – United States Honorable Mention: IL FANTASMA DEL BUSO – Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti – Italy Best Low Budget Film Winner: The Scholar's Mate – Ethan Twu – United States Honorable Mention: Dracella – Brian Smith – United States Honorable Mention: God's mistake – Goh Chun Keong – Singapore Best Title Winner: WHAT'S STILL MINE – Salman Siddique – United Kingdom Honorable Mention: To Have & To Fold – Mike L. Germaine – United States Honorable Mention: THE SHADOWPLAY – Türkiye Best Original Idea Winner: Via Paradiso n. 22 – Giuseppe Conti, Michela De Buono Filippelli – Italy Honorable Mention: Mick the Tick – Kara Perrin – Australia Honorable Mention: DEPRAVED – Josias Ortiz – United States Best Debut Film Winner: Agenda 2100 – Stéphanìe Habíb, Thais Guisasola – Brazil Honorable Mention: Somewhere Achromatic – Ewan Tasdelen – Denmark Honorable Mention: The Last Signal – Abubakar Siddique – India REALITY AWARDS Best Drama Winner: Dear Mirai – Manyu Dubbyreddy – United States Honorable Mention: Loss – North Macedonia Honorable Mention: STİCK – Bariş Cenk Canli – Türkiye Best Social Drama Winner: Refrenul copilăriei – Brancu Alin – Romania Honorable Mention: KAYAN – Mohamed Hassan – Egypt Honorable Mention: Table For Two – Tom Logan Best Family Drama Winner: ONA – Cyril Ferment – France Honorable Mention: Fragmentos de Silencio – Mariana García Ballesteros, Leonel Santamaría Corona – Mexico Honorable Mention: SEEN – Michael Molisani – United States Best Female Drama Winner: FIFTY – Amr Elnahla – United States Honorable Mention: Pinky Promise – Alyssa De Jesus – United States Honorable Mention: Thema con variationi: In spe – Ivan Schwarz – Slovakia Best Documentary Winner: Avanti con amore – Fabrizio Marinelli – Italy Honorable Mention: Back To Normal: A Cancer Survivor Documentary – Senon Davis – United States Honorable Mention: I CUSTODI DEL TEMPO L'ultimo Record – Flavio Cammerano – Italy Best Social Documentary Winner: Trump Toxic Legacy Disposal – William Richard Ross – United States Honorable Mention: Oltre le frontiere – Manlio Della Ciana – Italy Honorable Mention: Small Monuments – Anna Faroqhi, Haim Peretz – Germany Best Independent Documentary Winner: Creatures – Leopoldo Fernandez – United Kingdom Honorable Mention: The Pain Department – Paul Thomas – Ukraine, United Kingdom Honorable Mention: Binäre Windmaschine – Anna Faroqhi, Haim Peretz – Germany Best Experimental Film Winner: The Perfect Couple – Maya Wolery, Melody Ricketts, Stephen George – United States Honorable Mention: Escape – Hector Vargas – Mexico Honorable Mention: Despedida – Gloria Castro, María José Bolio – Mexico Best Experimental Arthouse Winner: The Subconscious Of The Consort – Cleo Patty Neale – Ireland, United Kingdom Honorable Mention: CORRUPT – Emre Ünverdi – Türkiye Honorable Mention: Redemption – Stephen R Barber – United States Best Animated Film Winner: Adventures Of Cashy The Hamster – Marbardan – United States Honorable Mention: Robot Time – Renee Christey Baldwin – Australia Honorable Mention: Listening Backwards – Jack Crisfield – United Kingdom Best Comedy & Irony Winner: Dinner Date Odds – Larry Rosen – United States Honorable Mention: Honey Do – Patrick Sutherland – Canada Honorable Mention: Ticket, Please – Rod Lara – Australia Best Horror & Mystery Winner: Dinner is ready – Paolo Orsini, Francesco Alceste Altamura – Italy Honarable Mention: Slow and Deceptive – Nate Buzelli – Brazil Honorable Mention: Bloodwork – Tristin Garvin – United States Best Crime, Action & Thriller Winner: Our DieNasty – Josias Ortiz – United States Honorable Mention: Yard Saleing – Tom Logan – United States Honorable Mention: When The Lights Went Out – Renee Christey Baldwin – Australia Best Web & TV Pilot Winner: Afghanistan: Inside the Taliban's country – Giacomo Casandrini – Afghanistan Honorable Mention: Battle of the dramatists – Daniele D'Angelo – Italy Best Sci Fi & Fantasy Winner: NOTHING – Tatiana Mikhailovna Aryzhakova – Russian Federation Honorable Mention: E.T.E.N.E.B.R.I.S - BENEATH THE LESSER GODS - – Liborio Savio Ciufo – Italy Honorable Mention: Moon Between Worlds – Deuandra T Brown – United States Best Romance Winner: Det snöar – Noah Kara, Oskar Fäldt – Sweden Honorable Mention: Slow Date – Mauro Stroppa – Italy Honorable Mention: À tout prix – Marc-André Decoste – Canada Best Music & Musical Winner: The Words At Play: Visual EP – Austria Honorable Mention: Unbroken – Kathy Moore – Australia Honorable Mention: Borrowed Skies – Josias Ortiz – United States Best Inclusive Film (LGBTQ+) Winner: Corazón danzante, cuando el amor es baile – Arturo Nicolás Dávila Zelada – Peru Honorable Mention: Our Bodies Ours – Sonali Gulati, Sanam Sheriff – United States Honorable Mention: I'll be the jester – Tina Rozen – France TECHNICAL AWARDS Best Director Winner: Whale – Lorna Fitzsimons – Ireland Honorable Mention: A Corner of the world – Zihang Zhang Honorable Mention: Wild Blackberries – Saxon Mitchell – United Kingdom Best Young Director Winner: Mirror – Jiarui Li – China Honorable Mention: Failurecide – Francesco Silani – Italy Honorable Mention: The Strive – Zoe C Westerlund – United States Best Actor & Actress Winner: Pink City Film – Mirijam Verena Jeremic – Germany (Mirijam Verena Jeremic) Honorable Mention: Tamalera – Jason Joe Angco-Barrera – United States (Claudia Espinoza Martinez) Honorable Mention: A Confession of a Raven Mocker – Christopher E. Knox – United States (Grant Stout) Best Screenplay Winner: Child Lock – Alessandro Gallus – Italy Honorable Mention: Shadowman – Claire Louise Huder – United States (Jake Schwartz) Honorable Mention: Peso muerto – Juanma Liceras – Spain Best Cinematography Winner: From a Small Town's Postman – Jasper Morrisey – United Kingdom Honorable Mention: While My Heart Beats Furiously – Luiz Villasboas Maudonnet, Iuri Salles – Brazil Honorable Mention: Brackish – Yi Yu – United States (Maria Egorova) Best Editing Winner: Sunrise – Sára Korbelová – Czechia (Anita Ullverová) Honorable Mention: The Boomerang Brick – Melpomeni Papageorgiou – Greece (Alexandros Kouros) Honorable Mention: UNA NOTTE, UN CINEMA – Stefano Tesi – Italy Best Soundtrack Winner: The Quiet Shore – Adam Alexander Pritchett – Italy Honorable Mention: In ricordo delle onde dorate – Andrea De Benedictis – Italy Honorable Mention: The Subconscious Of The Consort – Cleo Patty Neale – Ireland, United Kingdom (Roan Kelly) Best Producer Winner: OCTOBER 14 – Manolis Sirigos – Greece Honorable Mention: Legionnaire – Mohammad Jawid Hashemi – Afghanistan Honorable Mention: With Christ, We Press Toward The Goal – Abraham Vasquez – United States Best Movie Poster Winner: Traces of Light – Montse Villegas – Mexico Honorable Mention: Lady Mysterious – Luca Grimaldi – Italy Honorable Mention: Angels in the Sky – United States SPECIAL AWARD Best Realistic Film Winner: Domani – Silvia Delucchi – Italy Honorable Mention: The Buc Stops Here – Joseph Ruzer – United States Honorable Mention: The Silo – Jason Warnick – United States
