September – October 2025
These are the winners of September – October 2025:
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Best Film – Winner: L’arte della bandiera bianca – Riccardo Pittaluga – Italy
Best International Film
Winner: Sensus Mori – Sydney Rincón – United States
Honorable Mention: Pledge – Kristian Iliev – Bulgaria
Honorable Mention: The Riverside Ghost With Long Braids – Lizixia Zhang – China
Best American Film
Winner: The Drive – David Arrow – United States
Honorable Mention: Beginning of Light – Michael Pescasio – United States
Honorable Mention: Sunshine & Kitty – Sam Solomon – United States
Best European Film
Winner: Ultraviolent – Olga Volodina – Bulgaria
Honorable Mention: The Little One – Gala Botero, Byron Broadbent – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Mental Hellth – Anaira, Ana Roza Cimperman – Slovenia
Honorable Mention: Far away – Kassiani Maglara – Greece
Best Asian Film
Winner: Kareem – Abdul Majid Abbasi – Pakistan
Honorable Mention: Apsare – Mahesh Raj – India
Honorable Mention: No One to Rely On – Wang Huihua – China
Best Italian Film
Winner: Sabbia e Cenere – Federico Cadamuro – Italy
Honorable Mention: Instruction: Required – Tobia Berti – Italy
Honorable Mention: 9,99 – Rosa Maria Roccatagliata – Italy
Best Lombard Film
Winner: Il rumore del mare – Alessandro Piga – Italy
Honorable Mention: A Normal Walk – Ian Nardelli – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 minutes)
Winner: Room 6 – Jacek Kadaj – Poland
Honorable Mention: Tea. – Jack Marshall – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: The Pen – Xiaoyi Li
Best Super Short (between 5 and 10 minutes)
Winner: Mors certa est, hora incerta – Marco Fratini – Italy
Honorable Mention: One Crawls Over the Spider’s Web – Canada
Honorable Mention: Siblings – Coco Nicole Marshall, Matthew Elton – United States
Best Standard Short (between 10 and 20 minutes)
Winner: Paranoid – Junda Wu – United States
Honorable Mention: The Dandelion Girl – Rogan Lovse – Canada
Honorable Mention: Mutat – Mustafa Gültekin – Turkey
Best Medium Length (under 60 min)
Winner: Blinded Eyes – Roberto Leite – Brazil
Honorable Mention: Aftershock – Janie Hurley – United States
Honorable Mention: St. Mother Cabrini – Honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Patrick Dillon – United States
Best Low-Budget Film
Winner: Tiger Hunt – Brian McCole – United States
Honorable Mention: No big deal – Katalin Burns – Hungary
Honorable Mention: Forever Yours – Léa Kandl-Zhang – United States
Best Original Idea
Winner: Bhoom Shankara – Mahesh Raj – India
Honorable Mention: Euclidean Man – Sebastian Pappalardo – Netherlands
Honorable Mention: Proving Time Travel is Possible Tomorrow – Tommy Duncan – Iceland
Best Debut Film
Winner: Until the Last Visitor – Andrey Pyryev – Germany / Russian Federation
Honorable Mention: Stalk(h)er – Sandra Lee Ramsay – Australia
Honorable Mention: End of Day – Charlotte Conquest, Alexia Georgeac – United Kingdom
REALITY AWARDS
Best Realistic Film
Winner: Ghosts from Past Life – Minjae Kim – South Korea
Honorable Mention: Water Vapor – English – Martin Haag – Brazil
Honorable Mention: No Words – Martin Haag – United Kingdom
Best Drama
Winner: Yard Saleing – Tom Logan – United States
Honorable Mention: My Day With Parker – Xayne Allen – United States
Honorable Mention: Gömü – Sukru Gursoy – Turkey
Best Experimental Film
Winner: I Will Forget You Name – Stuart Lynch – Denmark
Honorable Mention: No 34915 – robin antiga – United States
Honorable Mention: 3 Seconds – Ville Mäkäräinen – Finland
Best Inclusive Film (LGBTQ+)
Winner: Forbidden soul – Baidar Bakhat – Pakistan
Honorable Mention: L’amore e basta – Daniele Catini – Italy
Honorable Mention: Hunger – Olga Prokot – Germany
Best Documentary
Winner: The Lute – Manos Sfyrakis – Greece
Honorable Mention: Kâhin – Şükrü Gursoy – Turkey
Honorable Mention: Casting Dreams – LT Weese, Alek Sabin – United States
Best Animated Film
Winner: Anywhere But Here – Kennedy Kacik – United States
Honorable Mention: Cauge – Zhang Yaxuan – China
Honorable Mention: The North Pole’s Got a Brand New Beat – Samantha Pillay – Australia
Best Social Drama
Winner: Sul vivo – Sore Point – Francesco Finarolli – Italy
Honorable Mention: February Eternity – Şiyar TUĞRUL – Turkey
Honorable Mention: Proceed to Rescue – Enrico Bachmann – Switzerland
Best War/Western/History
Winner: Out of Control. Reports on the Atomic Bomb – Beatriz Caravaggio – Spain
Honorable Mention: The Life of Nikitaras – Theodoros Kolovos – Greece
Honorable Mention: The Girl With Red Hair – Eli Lev – United States
Best Family Drama
Winner: Nada sin ti – Miguel García Bernal – Spain
Honorable Mention: My Guardian Angel – Nya K Chambless – United States
Honorable Mention: The Sixth Stage – Devin Nikki Thomas – United States
Best Female Drama
Winner: Metamorfosi – Angelo Piccione – Italy
Honorable Mention: Mental Hellth – Anaira, Ana Roza Cimperman – Slovenia
Honorable Mention: Ringo Juice – Alin Bijan – United States
Best Comedy/Irony
Winner: Time Between Us – Ayden Trinder – Australia
Honorable Mention: Not on My Watch – David Kline – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: La porta rotta – Antonio Bonagura, Giuliano D’Acunzo – Italy
Best Horror/Mystery
Winner: The Harpies – Rogan Lovse – Canada
Honorable Mention: Proyecto Génesis III: Un nuevo amanecer – Miguel García Bernal – Spain
Honorable Mention: Walker’s Game – Proof of Concept – Luke David Ollerton – United Kingdom
Best Action/Thriller
Winner: Hidden Endangerment – Ella May, Tia Wilson – Canada
Honorable Mention: Urges – Joshua Idusohan, Brandon Falzon – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Vermilion – Lorenzo Leonardi – Italy
Best Web/TV Pilot/TV Series
Winner: Once (in my life) – Francesco Colangelo – Italy
Honorable Mention: My Lovely Therapist – Igor Moreira – Brazil
Honorable Mention: Oh My Beautiful Country: Journey to the West – Nan Zhang, LuYao Zhang, Peter Sherman Crosby – United States
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy/Futuristic
Winner: Astronaut – Brian McCole – United States
Honorable Mention: Parsec One – Kevin CorSan – Spain
Best Romance
Winner: Edges – Delaney Hathaway – United States
Honorable Mention: Once Upon a Dream – Stephen K Bess – United States
Honorable Mention: Staged Limerence – Nadia Hope – United States
Best Music/Musical
Winner: 1000 Carat – Gaspar Avedisyants – United States
Honorable Mention: A Soul Never Lost – Gabriella Hanna – Australia
Honorable Mention: Soul of Aadya – Goutham A – India
Best Crime/Violence Drama
Winner: Purple. – Xayne Allen, Marlo Martini – United States
Honorable Mention: Rope on Fire – Eugene Anthony D’Arcy – Ireland
Honorable Mention: Gangsta to Grace – Letitia Scott Jackson, Valerie Denise Jones – United States
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Director
Winner: Anything for Her – Gerardo Gouverneur – Venezuela
Honorable Mention: The Other – Cyril Ferment – France
Honorable Mention: Lipstick: The Mr S Story – Sonny Michael Chohan – United Kingdom
Best Young Director
Winner: Smoke Signal – Hyunkoo (Justin) Kang – South Korea
Honorable Mention: Behind Closed Doors – Emilia Neher – France
Honorable Mention: 4teen – Owen Myre – United States
Best Soundtrack
Winner: When the Curtain Falls – Dominique Pierre Lüthi – Switzerland
Honorable Mention: The Family Photo – John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez – United States
Honorable Mention: Delusion – Luke Doggett – United States
Best Editing
Winner: The Apple Picker’s Son – Yang Zimik – United States
Honorable Mention: Boulevard de la mort – Benedek Koszorus – Hungary
Honorable Mention: Fossil Record – Karla Weber – Canada
Best Screenplay
Winner: Zavata – Fernando Antonio Maffei – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: 1 Minute 54 Seconds – Zekai Wang – China
Honorable Mention: Last Caravan – Colin Burden – United Kingdom
Best Cinematography
Winner: Blinded Eyes – Roberto Leite – Brazil
Honorable Mention: Then I Heard – Keishi Ichikawa – United States
Honorable Mention: Phineas & Ferb: The Nightmare-Inator (storyboards) – Unknown Director – United States
Best Vfx
Winner: DreamBrew – Ben Bayliss, Anthony Hampshire, Joel Dutton – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Quack Quack – Unknown Director – Canada
Best Actor/Actress
Winner: Shards of Time – Victor Anagnostopoulos – Greece
Honorable Mention: Do’s and Don’ts -Polina Pakhomova – Israel
Honorable Mention: Those Cabaret Girls – Queca Gordillo – United States
Best Producer
Winner: Fino al mare – Martina Romanello, Roberto Todisco – Italy
Honorable Mention: 2 Scotts 1 Cup – Philip John Trossarello, Ali Ramsaier – United States
Honorable Mention: Questioni Meridionali – Antonio Malfitano – Italy
Best Movie Poster
Winner: It’s Just Business – Alex Bindschadler – United States
Honorable Mention: Walker’s Game – Proof of Concept – Luke David Ollerton – United Kingdom
Honorable Mention: Non stare al gioco – Michela Sartori – Italy
Best Title
Winner: Bigfoot in the Park – Adam John Daveline – United States
Honorable Mention: Inspiration in the Midst of Horror – Michael Bergmann – United States
Honorable Mention: Colombano & la 21esima fetta – Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti – Italy
