WINNERS OCTOBER 2025

BEST PICTURE
Still Fire (France)
Dir: Ines Dupont

BEST FEATURE FILM
Elisa (Turkey)
Dir: Sinan Sertel

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Still Fire (France)
Dir: Ines Dupont

BEST SHORT FILM
Snow Whisper (USA)
Dir: Esther Zhang

BEST FOREIGN SHORT
A Voiceless Summer Day (Japan)
Dir: Norikazu Oda

BEST BRITISH SHORT
Off the Record (UK)
Dir: J. B. Holland

BEST ACION/CRIME SHORT
Block Tales (UK)
Dir: Jeremie Brivet

BEST DRAMA SHORT
Withdrawn (UK)
Dir: Shona Catherine Lena Ingall Randolph

BEST ANIMATION SHORT
The High King’s Daughter (USA)
Dir: Joël Gibbs

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Aibrushed (USA)
Dir: Jo Griffin

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Super-Honeymoon of Fred Demmler and Alexander James
Dir: Charles Kaufmann

BEST STUDENT FILM
Sickness (China)
Dir: Xueying Wang, Xinglan Wei, Yanbing

BEST DRAMA SHORT STUDENT
Monochroom (The Netherlands)
Dir: Lindsay Frelink

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT STUDENT
Leave Only Footprints
Dir: Philip Denvir

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FEATURE
Gold Mine
by Andrzej Ciesielski

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT
Cold Tea
by James Falter

BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR
Ines Dupont
‘Still Fire’

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
J. B. Holland
‘Off the Record’

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Lucas Bertrand
‘Still Fire’

BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Single for Life
Dir: Luke Orlando