Hongsik lives in a redevelopment village.
The home where family memories exist is everything to Hongsik and a space he cannot leave.
Hong-sik always misses his son, but is cautious about contacting him because he feels like it will be a burden to him.
Hong-sik, who was preparing for death as if he were organizing his life alone, takes a picture of his face reflected in the mirror with his cell phone and leaves a memorial photo.
And he meets the son he has longed for so much.


Best Short Film (Main Category)


Directed by: SE KWON SEO

During a cold autumn night, a depressed lawyer finds a friendship that makes him review his life during his return home.


Best Short Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Vinicius de castro gomes, Filipe coelho

Julia faces challenges that will bring about big changes and it will all start when she puts on her laceless sneakers.


Best Short Film (Main Category)
Best Original Screenplay (Main Category)
Best Actress (Main Category)
Best Original Score (Main Category)


Directed by: Jeny Poquet, Oscar Gómez

The short film script offers a detailed insight into the daily struggle of homeless people, highlighting their resilience in a cold and unfriendly environment, with an unexpected ending that brings a surprise element. It is a story that conveys emotion and reflects on humanity in various social contexts.


Best Short Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Diana Iulia Pap, Ovidiu Roteliuc

An uprising stirs when a Sheriff raises taxes and uses violence to punish those who can’t pay. The oppressed seek support from the dangerous Wood Elves, who have their own designs on the city they were once banished from.


Best Feature Film (Main Category)
Best Composer (Additional Category)
Best Costume Design (Additional Category)


Directed by: Stuart Brennan

The author of the film decides to leave the country where she lives, in connection with the outbreak of the dramatic events, and return home to Armenia in search of a worthy example and solutions on how to live on. Paradjanov’s house becomes a place of inspiration and a point of no return to toxic reality.
Through the life and work of Paradjanov, clarifying and interpreting the theme of human freedom in non-free conditions, where freedom is limited both by the borders of the totalitarian state and by the barbed wire of the camp fence.


Best Experimental Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Zara Jian

The film PRIMORDIAL establishes an inner dialogue between poetry and a timeless landscape. Through cinema, word and music the film reflects nature’ s abandonment, spiritual emptiness and end times through the eyes of a woman, who could be nature, history, an idea or just a human being of our times.


Best Experimental Film (Main Category)
Best Symbolic Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: George Zorbas, Nana Papadaki

In a world saturated by social media, a young influencer obsessed with the perfect image and absolute control over her virtual life finds herself trapped in her own addiction. Her fixation on regaining her ex’s attention— a relationship that fell apart due to her obsessive nature—leads her to cross paths with a mysterious 60-year-old taxi driver. What begins as an improvised alliance to get back what was lost quickly spirals into a dangerous web of manipulation and secrets that will lead her into a dead-end, putting her life at risk. Through a romantic satire with thriller elements, loaded with absurd situations, Sombras Chinas examines the cost of obsession, betrayal, and deceit in the digital age.


Best Experimental Film (Main Category)
Best Director Debut (Additional Category)


Directed by: Sebaztian Baz

Ornithologist and artist Dr. Rob Butler explores the complicated and beautiful lives of crows while looking back on a lifetime of corvid obsession.


Best Short Documentary Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Mike McKinlay

Harga Rue de la Mort is an independent report on human rights abuses in Tunisia following the election of Kais Saied in October 2019. The documentary focuses on the regime change following the soft coup by Saied in July 2021 and ignored by the Western press. The film includes many unpublished testimonies taken in hospitals in Sfax, in refugee camps on the border with Libya and during transhipments on rubber boats in the Strait of Sicily. The testimonies that emerge from the documentary show a civil cross-section that can hardly be combined with the concept: Tunisia Safe country.
The topic is very topical these days, given the signs of repression of
information to the detriment of many Tunisian journalists and the imprisonment of representatives
of civil society who are dealing with human rights in the country.


Best Short Documentary Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Elena Beninati

„OFF THE MARK” is documentary about climate change, the “Green Shift” and plastic pollution in the Norwegian Finnmark.
Temperatures in Northern Norway are rising steadily and the destruction of the environment is increasing.
For years, the German dog mushers Willem and Steffi Betzel have felt the big changes in the wilderness first-hand. So, they decided to become active themselves to protect the fragile Arctic nature.
A first starting point is microplastic, because this clearly shows the influence of humans on the environment. Knowing how much pollution there is and where it comes from is the cornerstone of a nature conservation approach.
The people most affected by microplastics and climate change in the North are the Sámi,
one of the last indigenous peoples in Europe.
For the Sámi, living with nature means using nature.
The Arctic is warming three times as fast as the global average and it has already devastating consequences on wildlife, but also on cultural practices, like reindeer herding.
The Norwegian government believes that with the so called “Green Shift” the country will challenge energy security and climate change. The quest towards a low-carbon society requires the development of more renewable energy and the mining of more minerals.
But when the “Green Shift” becomes just an extraction of resources in Sámi areas it creates an existence-threatening situation that pushes the Sámi people to their physical and mental limits!


Best Feature Documentary Film (Main Category)
Best Cinematography (Main Category)
Best Editing (Main Category)
Best ECO Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Wera Uschakowa

Feel Proud Walk Tall goes inside the life and work of Australia’s
commercial photographer & filmmaker, Matt Reed. From farm boy, to music shop owner, to image maker. This short film focuses on his unique view of the talent, passion and resilience required as a freelance creative in the past 15 years.


Best Feature Documentary Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Matt Reed

This Animated Action Comedy which takes place in the groovy era follows a sunshine rock band called Apology None that has always struggled to make a hit record. A promising demo gives them hope but is stolen by a rival record company. A raunchy band called The Hoglies takes their song toward the top of the record charts. Apology None, with the guidance of their genius keyboardist, attempts to reclaim their song using methods seen in espionage action films.


Best Animation (Main Category)


Directed by: Tim Ross

Three young misfits, fresh from a successful theft, find themselves seeking shelter from a storm near a cave where a young girl is taking refuge with them. Two are convinced they have had luck again, while the third doesn't think it's the right thing to do, but perhaps this time the prey is the wrong one.


Best Short Screenplay (Main Category)


Written by: Guido Pecorelli

In the mystical realm of the Vale, where elves and vampires hold dominion, an ancient prophecy foretells impending destruction unless two unlikely heroes unite. A courageous elf and a reclusive vampire must overcome deep-seated prejudices and personal demons to fulfill their intertwined destinies. As they embark on a perilous journey, they confront formidable adversaries, unravel hidden truths, and discover a profound connection that could alter the fate of their world. "Child of Dawn" is a spellbinding tale of magic, love, and destiny, weaving a narrative that transcends reality and invites audiences into a world where ancient magic converges with contemporary challenges.


Best Feature Screenplay (Main Category)


Written by: Leslie A Lee

Felicia, a trendy millennial, receives a necklace from the 1920s in the mail from her grandmother. Putting it on, she slowly transforms into Cassandra, who moved to Stockholm in 1924 expecting it to be a haven for free-spirited young women. Instead, she ends up abused by the married man she has started a relationship with and falsely accused of his death, committing suicide in prison. 100 years later she seeks redemption through Felicia, seducing and avenging men who remind her of the man who deprived her of her freedom.
Cassandra Insköld’s Last Word (its title also alluding to the popular 1920s cocktail) is a visual love letter to a forgotten era in Stockholm – the 1920s. It's full of vibrant hues, flappers, art deco locations and glowing neon signs. At the same time the film serves as a reminder that everything wasn’t better in the past, that the veil of nostalgia hides dark secrets and grave injustice (especially for young women).


Best Original Screenplay (Main Category)
Best Actress (Main Category)
Best Original Song (Additional Category)
Best Thriller (Additional Category)
Best Opening Credits (Additional Category)


Directed by: Dan Asenlund

It's 1962. Five Avon ladies go head to head with the local sheriff as they cover up a brutal murder.


Best Unproduced Screenplay (Main Category)


Written by: Pete Hewitt, Ally Hamilton

Un commerçant d'abat-jour à Paris décide de se suicider à cause de ses dettes, quand à la dernière minute tout change pour lui...


Best Micro-Short Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Alastair Romãno

In the 1990s, an archaeologist ventures to an abandoned Greek island in search of a tomb from the Homeric era. What begins as an expedition quickly descends into a world where myth and reality collide in ways no one could have imagined.


Best Actor (Main Category)
Best Actress (Main Category)
Best Fantasy Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Alastair Romãno

A forgotten goddess wanders the desert only to realize we are never truly alone. We are the angels we seek.


Best Editing (Main Category)
Best Director Debut (Additional Category)
Best Symbolic Film (Additional Category)
Best Mobile Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Starry Venus

A man, a plan, and a code, on June 22, 1991, a night where the smell of gunpowder began to imbrute him.


Best Student Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Edison Sun

A long-awaited reunion of two estranged stepsisters after 20 years unearths old wounds and dark family secrets. The younger sister is thrilled to see her elder sibling, but their conversation takes an unexpected and tense turn when the older sister begins to share painful memories involving her stepfather—the younger sister's biological father. As the story unfolds, the shocking revelation threatens to shatter everything the younger sister believed about her family. In a room filled with memories and conflicting emotions, the two sisters must confront the question: how can they move forward with a truth that changes everything?


Best Drama (Additional Category)


Directed by: Natalia Arjona

A prequel to JUMPING AT SHADOWS.
Also, the origin story for the character "Agent Nixon".


Best Sci-Fi (Additional Category)


Directed by: Locky Boaretto

A dream, in which, everything our hero sees may or may not have happened. A game of heads or tails opens the gate to the fifth dimension where Nick enters. His fate is in the hands of Mr. George, who does not know if Nick is having a dream or a nightmare.Will he get out of the vicious cιrcle or not?


Best Horror (Additional Category)


Directed by: Sotiris George Kappos

Two farm workers are tasked with moving a cryptic scarecrow one day, which unbeknownst to them, has been afflicted with a powerful curse.


Best Horror (Additional Category)


Directed by: Markham Samuels

The documentary is in Sign Language with subtitles in English language and voiced by deaf and hard of hearing people. Our film is not about deaf people. Our film is for all.
Two people speak Sign Language in a rural library. Kolya, who is hard of hearing, and Tanya, who is deaf. They are professional guides and invite viewers on a unique journey. The camera pulls back and the audience sees the entire film crew. The journey begins...
The film crew does not hide behind the scenes. The group finishes filming the scene, gets on a bus or a plane and goes to the next filming location in Italy, in Russia, in Mongolia.
This documentary in Russian Sign Language looks at the Russian Prince Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (1220 - 1263), famous for his campaigns, travels through the Mongol Empire and correspondence with the Pope. Tracing the hagiographic story of Alexander’s life, the film attempts to recreate an amazing picture of the world between East Asia and the Mediterranean in the time of Alexander. It also focuses on Giovanni da Pian del Carpini, a Franciscan monk, missionary and the first European traveller to Mongolia.
The film features a selection of unique items, such as a paiza of Uzbek Khan of the Golden Horde (mid-14th c.), the sword of Prince Daumantas of Pskov (late 13th c.), the manuscript of The Vita of St Alexander Nevsky (late 13th c.), on display in Russian museums; two letters from Pope Innocent IV to Prince Alexander (1248), a letter from Great Khan Guyuk to Pope Innocent IV (1246) at the Apostolic Archive of the Vatican and and an old copy of Carpini’s History of the Mongols (14th c.) from Biblioteca e Centro di Documentazione Francescana in Assisi.


Best Historical Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Anna Turchaninova

Four wildly different co-workers arrive and get ready for the morning meeting. However, their thoughts are on anything BUT work. These are their inner resentments, insecurities, worries, and feelings.


Best Comedy (Additional Category)


Directed by: Breanne Nicole Wilson

"The Chameleon Man" plunges us in the wake of Alfred, a young man whose
existence seems punctuated by a succession of romantic ephemeral conquests,
all built on a foundation of lies about the real nature of his intentions and commitments. The story takes a turn when it develops sincere feelings for one of them, Giulia. However, the truth comes out, revealing his duplicity and leading to their rupture. In an attempt to regain his confidence and her affection, Alfred volunteered for the film festival that she is organizing, and was entrusted with the delicate task of finding patrons.
Faced with the refusals, he chooses to use his talents of seducer with a potential patron, winning. Yet, unable to give up his old habits, he continues to navigate between his different relationships, multiplying unfulfilled promises. The film is inspired by real events, which anchor its message in a contemporary resonance.


Best Dark Comedy (Additional Category)
Best Independent Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Jonas Alfred Marcel Graf

"Somewhere.. between reality and dreams, The Artist begins his Descent... towards the light"
"Devil's Cry" is a short film that blends visual art and music.
All Music and Sound Design were Composed and Performed by Michele Fraternali using only electric bass.
This Opera and the Caracters were inspired by the timeless journey of Dante's Divine Comedy and the magical world of Devil May Cry.


Best Music Video (Additional Category)
Best Original Score (Main Category)


Directed by: Michele Fraternali

creation is timeless..
Commissioned by English Heritage and National Youth Ballet, Beyond The Plaques is a dance film inspired by the lives of four female Pioneers; sculptor Eleanor Coade, author Frances Burney, poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and astronomer Annie Maunder. These women's overlooked achievements provoke a contemporary response from four young female artists, weaving themes of cultural ephemerality, societal expectations of women, and exploration amidst isolation.
The film celebrates endeavour and creativity, highlighting the enduring need to amplify the voices of women in history, as we venture Beyond their Plaques.


Best Dance Video (Additional Category)


Directed by: Joeley Anne, Amy Groves, Hannah George, Catherine Sleeman

In the multiverse, an umbrella meets vastly different fates in each world: in one universe, it is the deadly weapon of an assassin; in another, it is a tool of a boy’s dreams…


Best AI Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Zhang Yiban

Set in 1940s New York City – ONCE UPON A CRIME is an homage and tongue-in-cheek parody to the gritty black-and-white film noir crime dramas of the past, featuring snappy, fast-paced dialogue, intrigue and melodrama, peppered with some comedic performances and chock full of twists and turns. It tells the story of a jaded private detective who is hired by an alluring femme fatale who suffers from amnesia and is engaged to an arrogant socialite, whom she doesn’t completely trust. Her fiancé’s diabolical master plan nearly comes to fruition but not before a number of suspicious events take place at a secluded mansion over the course of the reading of an eccentric billionaire’s last will and testament. Throw in an impromptu séance where spirits of the deceased are summoned and things from there start to unravel and go sideways. Several suspects emerge but who really had the means, motive and opportunity to murder this billionaire? Only after a last-minute wedding ceremony and a final showdown will life-changing revelations come to light.


Best Web-Series (Additional Category)


Directed by: Doug MacDougall

When a rogue physiatrist, abducts one of his patients and coerces her sister into a satanic ritual, he must navigate the twisted path his grandfather began, leading to a harrowing battle for sanctity and sanity.


Best Trailer (Additional Category)


Directed by: Francis Juarez