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WINNERS - September 2025

Official results as published by the festival.

← All winners71 titles
  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor (John Bruner)
  • Best Director
  • Gold Award: Screenplay (Amanda Richards)
  • Best Actress (Amanda Richards)
  • Best Producer
  • Best Original Score (Stephen Freeman Moore)
  • Gold Award: Original Song (Amanda Richards)
  • Gold Award: Cinematography (Gregor Mahon)
  • Best Editing (Montetre)
  • Best Sound Design (Jason Wells)

WHISKEY DIXIE & THE BIG WET COUNTRY

Amanda Richards

United States

alphabetical order by Film's title

  • Honorable Mention

20.10.20 - FLUGTEN FRA HERSTEDVESTER

Tara Salas

Denmark
  • Silver Award: Indie Short Film

ALL THE KINGS HORSES

Kiel Robinson

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Short Film

ANTI-LOVE

Eduardo Hypolito

Brazil
  • Silver Award: First Time Director

ARGOR (DECADENCIA)

Gerardo Castañeda

Mexico
  • Best Indie Short Film

BEFORE THEY FORGET

Teresa Garza

United States
  • Gold Award: Experimental

BOB

Alberto Martín-Aragón

Spain
  • Best Experimental

æ - Ⅲ WHOLENESS AND BODY

Reiko Yonezawa

Japan\United States
  • Gold Award: Drama
  • CALLIGRAPHER - TO DIE BEFORE DYING

Denizhan Ayar

Ahmet Serhat Ak

Turkey
  • Gold Award: Student Film

COLOR OF REGRETS

Yiguo Song

Canada
  • Gold Award: Thriller
  • Silver Award: Actor
  • Silver Award: Screenplay
  • Silver Award: Actress
  • Silver Award: Cinematography
  • Silver Award: Sound Design

CYBER-PSYCHO CHRONICLES

Harry Keane

United States
  • Honorable Mention

DAUGHTER VS THE SWINDLERS

Written by Toni Hills

United States
  • Best Feature Script

DEATH BY NIGHT

Written by Kristian James

United States
  • Silver Award: Indie Feature Film

DO YOU SEE HER?

Matthew Villescas

United States
  • Gold Award: Horror

DRACELLA

Brian Smith

United States
  • Honorable Mention

DRUNKEN BLADE

Bingyuan Li

China
  • Silver Award: Experimental Film
  • Honorable Mention

DYNAMICS

Teo Baehler

Netherlands
  • Gold Award: Animation

ENERGY CRISIS

Jackson Mielnicki

United States
  • Honorable Mention

EPILOGUE

Tom Madden

United States
  • Gold Award: First Time Director

FANUS

Aydogan Rayman

Turkey
  • Best Drama

FRANKIE'S OKAY

Kat Lindsay

United States
  • Silver Award: Original Score
  • Silver Award: Cinematography

GO FOR IT

Victor Mirch

United States
  • Gold Award: Indie Short Film

HI

Dan Alexander Newton

United Arab Emirates
  • Gold Award: Indie Feature Film
  • Gold Award: Actress (Charissa Palmer & Marie France Louis)
  • Silver Award: Original Score (Pierce Martin)
  • Silver Award: Cinematography (Busola Adeboyejo)

HOWL OF THE BLUE MOON

Marie France Louis

United States
  • Silver Award: Sci-Fi

JUST THINGS

Brianna Lee

United States
  • Gold Award: Short Script

KILLING TIME

Written by Glenn Pollard

United States
  • Gold Award: Indie Short Film
  • Gold Award: Short Film
  • Best Student Film
  • Best Super Short Film
  • Best First Time Director
  • Best Comedy
  • Silver Award: Director
  • Best Screenplay
  • Gold Award: Producer
  • Best Cinematography
  • Silver Award: Editing

LANYARD

Biz Thompson

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Feature Documentary

MAKING MEGAFORCE

Bob Lindenmayer

United States
  • Silver Award: Producer

MASTERS AND VICES

Gregory Mallard

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Short Script

MOTHER UKRAINE - LAYERS OF WAR

Written by Linda Pallotta

United States
  • Gold Award: Horror

MR. BROWN

Abdul Majid Abbasi

United Arab Emirates
  • Gold Award: Horror

MR. TAPS

Kristian James

United States
  • Silver Award: Feature Script

NEVER GIVE UP

Written by Mark Buerck

United States
  • Gold Award: First Time Director

NO

Ahmed Alameldeen

Italy
  • Silver Award: Student Film

NOESIS

Tyana Rendiƒ?

Slovenia
  • Honorable Mention

NUCLEAR NYMPHS

Petra Brnardic

Croatia
  • Silver Award: Short Documentary
  • Best Original Song (Ron J Danziger & Christina Teenz Tan)

PIE IN THE SKY

Susan Mey Lee Lim

United States
  • Best Drama

PINGA FOGO

Vitória Mantovani

Brazil
  • Best Indie Feature Film

PROPHET THE STORY OF NAT TURNER

Kenya Cagle

United States
  • Silver Award: Actor
  • Silver Award: Actress

PS LOVE ROBBY

Brian Thomas

United States
  • Best Short Script

R.E.M

Written by John P Martinez

United States
  • Honorable Mention

RAHYAB

Kamal Weiss Rahyab

Afghanistan
  • Gold Award: Feature Film
  • Best Actor (Jon Betti)
  • Gold Award: Director
  • Best Screenplay (Chrystal Rose)
  • Best Actress (Funso Foluso-Henry)
  • Gold Award: Producer
  • Best Original Score (Analia Lentil)
  • Gold Award: Original Song (Chrystal Rose)
  • Gold Award: Cinematography (Francesco Carlucci)
  • Gold Award: Editing (Kant Pan /Mory Jelokhani)
  • Best Sound Design (Ivan Drudi / Bernardo Hita)

REPARATIONS

Chrystal Rose

United Kingdom
  • Best Short Documentary
  • Gold Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Screenplay (Yuta Noguchi)
  • Gold Award: Original Score (Takaki Nakadai)
  • Best Cinematography (Yuta Noguchi)
  • Gold Award: Editing (Hiroaki Hotta)
  • Gold Award: Sound Design (Takaki Nakadai)

RETURN TO MY BLUE

Yuta Noguchi

Japan
  • Silver Award: First Time Director

RUMSPRINGA

Finn Jackson Drozjock

United States
  • Silver Award: Comedy

SAVE THE DATE

George Orallo

Canada
  • Honorable Mention

SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1 - EL CHEAPO -- THE 2 MINUTE SHOW

Dik Lee

Canada
  • Silver Award: Music Video

SEING THINGZ - QUESTION WHO

De Ville

France\United States
  • Silver Award: Thriller

SHADOW DOCKET

Kevin B Ploth

United States
  • Silver Award: Animated Film

SKOLL AURORA

Mahamat Souleymane

United Kingdom
  • Best Horror

SOCRATES

KEN SAGOES

United States
  • Best Music Video

SOLITUDE - OBERBAUM

Gilles de Voghel

Belgium
  • Silver Award: Experimental Film

SOULARIS

Janja Rakuš

Slovenia
  • Gold Award: Short Documentary

SPIRIT OF THE WEST - TALES FROM THE OLD GHOST ULTRA

Pedro Pimentel

New Zealand
  • Best Thriller

STALK(H)ER

Sandra Lee Ramsay

Australia
  • Best Feature Film

STALKER JANE

Roger Glenn Hill

United States
  • Gold Award: Super Short Film

THE ARCHIVIST

Jacek Kadaj

Poland
  • Silver Award: Super Short Film

THE COLOR OF STILLNESS

Roman Vlasov

United States
  • Best Animated Film

THE FAMILY PHOTO

John Norris Ray & Maria Victoria Sanchez

United States
  • Honorable Mention

THE FIT

Carlo fusco

United States
  • Best Feature Documentary

THE LIT-UP CALM

Hisashi Arima

Japan
  • Gold Award: Actor

THE LOVE SUCKERS

Jim Politano

United States
  • Best Sci-Fi

THE PATH

Shirod Greene

United States
  • Gold Award: Feature Documentary

THE SEARCH FOR ANCIENT GIANTS

Christa Rivington

Canada
  • Silver Award: Feature Film

THE SETTLEMENT (WATER THRUST SEQUEL)

Vincent Krah

United States
  • Gold Award: Comedy

THE SUPERINTENDENT

Evan David Dominguez

United States
  • Best Short Film

THE WAY NORTH

Mitch Greer

United States
  • Gold Award: Music Video

WAIL

Terry Ulick

United States
  • Gold Award: Sci-Fi

WAKING CONUNDRUM

Dale Loon & Alyssa-Rose Hunt

Canada
  • Silver Award: Short Script

WISDOM'S TEETH

Written by Daniel Taimanglo

United States
  • Silver Award: Horror

ZOMBIE KID

Johnny Lektrik

Canada