January 2025

BEST PICTURE
Meduza (Italy)
Dir: Gianni Ricci

BEST FEATURE FILM
Meduza (Italy)
Dir: Gianni Ricci

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Pégame (Mexico)
Dir: Dylan Verrechia

BEST SHORT FILM
Diabolicum (France)
Dir: Alain GOMEZ

BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Esther (Poland)
Dir : Dam Jankiewicz

BEST COMEDY/DRAMEDY SHORT
Once Upon a Time (USA)
Dir: Katy S.

BEST HORROR/THRILLER SHORT
Run Over (Taiwan)
Dir: Vincent Soberano, Hengyou Jen

BEST SCI-FI SHORT
Not Bad (China)
Dir: Zoe Peng

BEST ANIMATION SHORT
Tiny Teaching Tales (USA)
Dir: Julie Anne Burch

BEST WEB SERIES/TV PILOT
Friends Not Food (USA)
Dir: Peter Stray

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Absolutely Amazing, Wonderful, Frightening, Threatening Edge of Tomorrow (USA)
Dir: Springna Zhao, Hayden McComas

BEST STUDENT FILM
Forgot (China)
Dir: Jiahe Guo

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FEATURE
Forever in the Past
by Jack Knowles

BEST DIRECTOR SHORT
Taylor John
‘Sagdid’

BEST ACRESS
Hervine De Boodt
‘Next Up’

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Life of Us (China)
Dir: Housom Xu

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Maybe I’m a Queen
Dir: Jacques Naudé