Winners November 2025

BEST PICTURE
Borrowed Umbrellas (Japan)
Dir: Tanaka Haruto

BEST FEATURE FILM
Borrowed Umbrellas (Japan)
Dir: Tanaka Haruto

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Last Train (China)
Dir: Zhao Chenxi

BEST SHORT FILM
Left On Read (USA)
Dir: Greg Jones

BEST FOREIGN SHORT
In Pursuit of the Loong (China)
Dir: Jacky Xiao

BEST ACTION/CRIME SHORT
Defence Strategy (UK)
Dir: Phillip Hockley

BEST ANIMATION SHORT
The Third File (USA)
Dir: Benji Foster

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Trials: Jamila Bouhired (Qatar)
Dir: Ahmed Aboulfotouh

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Peering into Fate
Dir: Xiuhua

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FEATURE
Peeping Maureen
by Samantha Shaber

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT
Wildwood
by Kaz Ryder

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Zhao Chenxi
‘Last Train’

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Silently Into The Wild
Dir: John L Ehrenfeld