July – August 2025

These are the winners of July – August 2025

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Best Film: Everybody Kills – Francesco Maria Puppini – Italy

Best International Film – The Black Silence – C.A. Cooper – United Kingdom
Honorable mention:
Fortysomething – Camilla Roman – Norway
The Last Guest – Colman Otunga – Uganda

Best European Film – Cassandra Insköld’s Last Word – Dan Asenlund – Sweden
Honorable mention:
Tell Her In The Sunshine – Dan O’Neill – Ireland
Islander – Margarida Saramago – Portugal
Vienna is calling – Alexander Bruckner – Austria

Best Asian Film – Normal Human – Joo Ye-jin – Republic of Korea
Honorable mention:
The Hatred – Almas Kaisar – Kazakhstan
Parking Lot – Mevlüt Şahin – Turkey

Best American Film – Hidden Endangerment – Ella May, Tia Wilson – Canada
Honorable mention:
The Principles of Mnemonics – Isabella Rose Jennings – United States
Pearl Boy – Roberto Jack Premutico – United States

Best Italian Film – Reset – Andrea Colussi – Italy
Honorable mention:
Sabbia e Cenere – Federico Cadamuro – Italy
Anime Gemelle – Alessio De Bernardi, Leopoldo Susio – Italy
Cinquanta Minuti – Mauro Casotti – Italy

Best Lombard film – Abuelo – Fred Cavallini, Marcos Piacentini, Titta Notarangelo – Italy
Honorable mention: Mianhae – Dav Cooper, Andrea Manfé – Italy

Best Micro Short (under 5 min) – Yahima – Rodolfo Enrique Lopez – United States
Honorable mention:
Hosting – Roberto Zorfini – Canada
E mo? – Omar Sandrini – Italy

Best Super Short (under 15 minutes) – Article 92 – Matthew “Gray” Strack – United States
Honorable mention:
Borealis – Jo Monteiro – Portugal
Pa Kouri – Grégory Foy – Martinique

Best Medium Lenght (under 30 min) – Fortunata – Max Oliva Bartolozzi – Italy
Honorable mention:
The Visit – Siraje Serunjogi – Uganda
Gamblers – Ettore Zito – Italy

Best Low Budget Film – Night Owls – Pepe Cuart – Spain
Honorable mention:
Unspoken Lines – Sasha Gitin – United States
Shape of Things to Come – Tony Savo – United States

Best Original Idea – The Rules Of The Night – Lorenzo Gennari – Italy
Honorable mention:
Mara – Ben Harl – United States
Zerene – Ella May – Canada

Best Animation – The Flock of Forgotten Faces – A.B. Osborne, Emily McBrayer Hogue – United States
Honorable mention:
Human Layers – Fatemeh Zare – Netherlands
Between Feathers and Wind – Pi Wang – Canada

Best Documentary – Free Fish – Bisan Owda – Palestine, State of
Honorable mention:
Voices of Inspiration – Ben Yew – Australia
Altrove – Ettore Zito – Italy

GENRE FILM AWARDS

Best Comedy – Attack of the Coat – Lola-Rose Maxwell – United Kingdom
Honorable mention:
Livin’ After Midnight – Joe Mitchell – United States
Almost love. – Sarah Hà Duyên Ngô – United States

Best Horror – Daisy – Peter Thorwarth, Butcher’s Brain – Germany
Honorable mention:
Leeches – Carla LInda Vitagliano – Italy
Gramophone – Arif Emsen – Turkey

Best Crime – Metamorfosi – Angelo Piccione – Italy
Honorable mention:
Gangsters Tea – Kiresh Bedhesi – South Africa
The crossroads – Gino Versetti – Italy

Best Thriller – Trapped – Greg Jeffs – Canada
Honorable mention: The Solution – John Klein, Steve Kniss – United States

Best Sci-fi – Qui Insieme – Fabio Langella – Italy
Honorable mention:
Card Game – Isaac Middleton – United States
The Data Is Wrong – Austin Charlesworth – United Kingdom

Best Fantasy – Il Nido – Daniele Fugarese – Italy
Honorable mention: Fiabexit – Lorenzo Giovenga, Giuliano Giacomelli – Italy

Best Action: Wukong Couriers – Peter Gabriel Gagnon – United States
Honorable mention: The Super Six – Naomi Clasohm – Australia

Best Musical – Interlude – Chris Elder – Australia
Honorable mention: Translucent Wings – Xiaonan Sui – United States

Best Romance: Se tu avessi parlato – Costanza Bigot – Italy
Honorable mention:
Shelter Me – Valeria Gaudieri – Italy
Forbidden Roses – Alex Henry – Kenya
Quando la storia finisce – Gabriele Gambacorta – Italy

Best LGBTQ+ – Anteros – Martina Maria Sergi – Italy
Honorable mention: Echo – Teekay Adegbenro – United Kingdom

Best Pulp – Boiling Point – Ryan Russo – United States
Honorable mention: Kalp Fiction – Siddharth Kumar – India

Best Noir – Afternoon Call – Maddalena Cellerino – Germany
Honorable mention:
The Man Within – Pierre de Mûelenaere, Antoine Veldekens – Belgium
Detour – Lóránt Hevér – Hungary

TECHNICAL AWARDS

Best Director – Terra Battuta – Marzio Breglia – Italy
Honorable mention:
God & Country – Arnav Agarwal – United Kingdom
13H – José Paulo Santos – Portugal

Best Young Director – The Last Song – Atina Miroslavova Dimitrova – Bulgaria
Honorable mention:
My Guardian Angel – Nya K Chambless – United States
Shards of Time – Alexandros Kouros – Greece
Ball is Life – Trevor Letourneau – United States

Best Soundtrack – Cap and Trade – Leo Grand – Canada
Honorable mention: Ally – Daniel Duque – Australia

Best Editing – Boulevard de la mort – Benedek Koszorus – Hungary
Honorable mention:
Dark Places I have known – Juergen Hirsch – Germany
The Bride – Jameson Cucciardi – Malta

Best Screenplay – Zone of Shards – József Andor Forgács – Hungary
Honorable mention:
The Announcer – Christian Dentico – Italy
And yet it moves – Antonio Malfitano – Italy

Best Cinematography – A Knife in the Moonlight – Manoj Koloth – India
Honorable mention: The Funeral – Nick Casal – United States

Best Vfx: Holzläufer – Philipp Krautschick – Germany
Honorable mention: Dressed for dinner – Andrea Verardi – Italy

Best Actor/Actress – Pedro’s Pedals – Bruno Enzo – Brazil
Honorable mention:
When the curtain falls – Christian Jankovski – Switzerland
Gum in Red – Chiara Avenia – United States

Best Producer: Chompers – Joe Gatto – United States
Honorable mention: Meeting in the Middle – Suzan Yumerova – Germany

Best Makeup, Hairstyling or Costumes: The Blossom and the Mountain – Kathleen Stevenson – United Kingdom
Honorable mention: Theory – Aydoğan Rayman – Turkey

Best Title – No Dice – Sagor Islam – Bangladesh
Honorable mention:
#Numb – Dean Wayne Evans – United Kingdom
Fires We Tend – Suzan Yumerova – Norway

Best Movie Poster – Shards of Time – Alexandros Kouros – Greece
Honorable mention:
The Threshold – Jacek Kadaj – Poland
Deja Vu – Michele Giardullo – Italy