After an exorcism that doesn´t turn out well, Renata, a young evangelist country woman, will begin to receive different signs that will put her faith and her life to the test.


Best Short Film (Main Category)
Best Short Screenplay (Main Category)


Directed by: Ricardo Fontana Leivas

A couple celebrates their fifth anniversary, but something isn't right. The love that was so strong back then, five years ago, has now seemingly vanished. What happened? Can the relationship be salvaged?


Best Short Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Anton Svantesson-Helkiö

A little boy, fascinated by the legend that the white keys on the old Steinway piano, which "lives" in his parents' house, are made of elephant tusks, dreams every night of meeting the gray giants one day and never being separated from them…This desire grows from day to day along with the lullaby that his mother sings to him, because there are words in it: "You are special!"
The fate of the hero of the film turned out to be such that his life turned out to be full of hopes and disappointments…
He is not old yet, but the meaning of life gradually fades into the distance and loneliness becomes a sad reality…
The only "friend" who never cheated on him, an ancient instrument – the keeper of the white keys, and the memory of the "gray giants", still lives in his house…
Who will Steinway get to when he is gone?
And one day everything changes: the hero accidentally enters a small bar to drink the usual glass of absinthe, and pays attention to the lack of music. He offers the bartender an adventurous venture, he agrees, and the very next day the antique instrument moves to the bar.
Now every evening our hero plays for visitors trying to fill his life with meaning and desires again. One evening, he remembers his mother, her lullaby, and his fingers begin to play familiar chords themselves…
Suddenly, a young woman appears from the semi–darkness of the hall, sits down next to him and ... his mother's song with the words "You are special" bursts into his tired heart, bringing with it both pain and comfort…
Life is slowly fading away, but now he knows exactly to whom he leaves "his elephants" and his Steinway…


Best Short Film (Main Category)
Best Actor (Main Category)
Best Director (Main Category)


Directed by: Ilya Noyabrev

After carrying a heavy burden throughout his life, Bruno, who is now elderly, recounts an incident from his adolescence in 1942, when an innocent game between boys turned into a great tragedy.


Best Short Film (Main Category)
Best Drama (Additional Category)


Directed by: Maurizio Barbarossa

A woman from African country of Rwanda started an IT company in IRISO, Japan. While she experiences lots of difficulties such as sabotage from rival company, incompetence of employees as well as racial discrimination and she is always haunted by the memory of the genocide in 1994 in which her parents were killed, she manages to overcome those problems and strongly lives in IRISO.
The movie includes scenes shot in African country of Nigeria.


Best Feature Film (Main Category)
Best Actress (Main Category)
Best Producer (Additional Category)


Directed by: Mitsuo Kurihara

Zoé exists between starkly contrasting realms: the glittering facade of the virtual world and the raw, unfiltered reality. In the digital sphere, she shines as a celebrated influencer, while in the tangible world, she is an immigrant actress confronting the harsh truths of life and self. Zoé's journey through these opposing landscapes is a relentless pursuit of the elusive essence of true happiness


Best Actress (Main Category)
Best Best Editing (Main Category)


Directed by: Sisy M Gomez Peña

An android looking for the code for love meets a hunter sent to kill her. Together they search for answers, fall in love and uncover a mystery that changes everything. An indie romantic sci-fi fantasy.
Bladerunner meets Alice is Wonderland through the eyes of Mullholland Drive with the romance of Chungking Express.


Best Feature Film (Main Category)
Best Actress (Main Category)


Directed by: Jack Davies

A man suffers loss and defies the laws of nature in an attempt to win back his lost love.
However, things go sideways when the woman he gets back doesn’t quite function like an ordinary woman.
She gives birth to a new man, and our first man regrets everything and wants to kill this new creation.
This is yet another violation of the laws of nature, and the woman takes power and kills both men.


Best Experimental Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Frida M. Martinsen

A man embarks on a journey to decipher the chaos within his mind with the aid of his therapist, a compassionate and insightful woman. Plagued by surreal and nonsensical dreams, he struggles to make sense of his inner world and finds it challenging to truly hear those around him. As the sessions progress, he delves deeper into his subconscious, uncovering layers of meaning and confronting the enigmatic nature of his thoughts and dreams.


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


Directed by: Luc Leclerc

Flâneurs, wandering figures, moving swiftly yet remaining still, roam aimlessly through the uncertainty, without apparent purpose or destination, merely seeking or escaping from themselves. Automatons in ceaseless motion, they are caught in a perpetual competition driven by a restless society. A juxtaposition of opposites, they look like black and white pawns on the vertical chessboard of the cityscape, unmoved by fleeting encounters and only transient loves. The rapid flow of single frames mirrors the chaotic and obsessive, almost tribal, rhythm of the urban jungle, symbolizing the irreversible process of human disintegration and the fading of emotions. Vulnerabilities are laid bare, like the transparencies of an x-ray, offering a glimpse into our shared humanity, where self-recognition and rediscovery may still reside.


Best Experimental Film (Main Category)
Best Director (Main Category)
Best Editing (Main Category)
Best Black & White Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Ivano Lollo

In the stirring documentary Chained Silence Speaks, we delve into the harrowing world of human trafficking, with a piercing focus on the heartrending tale of a child sold into this shadowy industry by his own parents. This film masterfully interweaves the potent dramatization of a stolen childhood with the raw, authentic narratives of individuals who have endured and survived the trafficking nightmare.
Each frame of Chained Silence Speaks is meticulously crafted to not only educate but also to evoke a profound emotional response, compelling viewers to look beyond the surface of what they believe they know. The survivor interviews are a testament to the indomitable human spirit, serving as both a somber reminder and an inspiring beacon of hope.


Best Short Documentary Film (Main Category)
Best Director Debut (Additional Category)


Directed by: Edwin Leon Rose

She Walks a Line is a gripping documentary that reveals the harrowing journey of thousands of young Nepali women and girls who are coerced across the border into India each year.
Once across the notoriously porous 1,000-mile frontier, most are sold into the sex industry, forced into domestic servitude or subjected to organ and skin harvesting. This border has become one of the world's most prolific human trafficking routes.
Amidst international indifference, one Nepali woman, Shanta Sapkota, has taken a courageous stand to combat this humanitarian crisis. Driven by heartbreak and a fierce determination, she leads a team of female anti-human trafficking operatives at the Mahendranagar crossing, a critical checkpoint where the fate of many young lives hangs in
the balance.
This exclusively nonwhite, female-led documentary takes the audience deep into the heart of this mission. Through the eyes of rescuers, victims, and traffickers, we witness the raw
emotions, heart-wrenching struggles, and moments of triumph that define this battle against human trafficking.
At its core, She Walks a Line is a story of empowerment—of women fighting for justice, of traffickers manipulating the vulnerable, and of a divine calling that has inspired one woman
to stand her ground in the face of adversity. This film not only tells a story; it ignites a movement.


Best Feature Documentary Film (Main Category)


Directed by: TIMOTHY STUART LOVELL

Between 2015 and 2024, Leonard Alecu filmed the melting icebergs off Greenland's East coast. Sailing dangerously close to icebergs, Alecu handled his camera to record the ice masses yielding to the ruthless ocean. Filmed in black and white, Ice Breath is a cinematic poem whose only elusive actor is the filmmaker's gaze. In 43 minutes, a sequence of flat pictures turn into dynamic tableaux, an existential journey from genesis to extinction. The hypnotic feature of the film is enhanced by the soundtrack Become Ocean, a haunting composition by John Luther Adams suggestive of a relentless tidal surge, of melting polar ice and rising sea levels. Become Ocean received critical acclaim, earning the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the 2015 Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. More than an environmental documentary, Ice Breath and Become Ocean is an experimental fusion exploring the vast, inscrutable meanings of climate change.


Best Feature Documentary Film (Main Category)
Best Cinematography (Main Category)


Directed by: Leonard Alecu

For nearly two decades, Grizzly #399 has been a fixture in Grand Teton National Park. Known only by her research number, #399 has captivated photographers since 2007, becoming the world's most famous — and photographed — grizzly in the world. Our narrative follows #399 as she struggles to raise an unusually large litter in the face of human encroachment and a rapidly changing climate.


Best Feature Documentary Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Elizabeth Leiter

Boris Jollivet, an acoustic ecologist, with whom we travel through remote areas so as to know whether there are still silent zones in France, zones where the noise of men is not heard any longer.


Best Feature Documentary Film (Main Category)


Directed by: Julien Guéraud

A girl and her hands, while learning to play the piano, gradually lost the ability to “play”. Playing is no longer a game, she and hands seemed in dissonance with each other.


Best Animation (Main Category)


Directed by: Emi Yining Sun

A creature made of light escapes the house where it had been imprisoned for decades, only to be met with a world very different from the one it remembers.


Best Animation (Main Category)


Directed by: Anna Palmtag

In a story of survival and revenge, Parker, the new girl in town, unknowingly becomes the target of her charming but dangerous neighbor, James. Lured into his trap, she ends up locked in his dark basement, where he plans to make her his next horrifying artwork. As fear takes hold, Parker's determination grows; she must outsmart James and turn her nightmare into a chance for revenge, leading to a thrilling confrontation that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats.


Best Short Screenplay (Main Category)
Best Screenwriter Debut (Additional Category)


Written by: Hannah Avery Cronk

A Hulder, a mystical human-like creature with a cow’s tail, famous from Scandinavian folklore, has to go to Earth on a dangerous mission to con an orphan teenage boy in order to save her young brother from dying.


Best Feature Screenplay (Main Category)


Written by: AEG Guaaker

Opening line to novel: "Seemed harmless at first for Momma to keep Bunk's amputated leg in the freezer."
Who’s There? is an absurd comedy about a family with a lion’s share of peculiarities. Momma, Sister, Ivylee and Bunk live on a chicken farm in the rural south. Each day the women have a memorial service for Bunk’s severed leg, which they otherwise keep in the freezer. Bunk lost his leg ten years earlier when he went berserk and started wringing the necks of all their chickens. Momma fired a warning shot but closed her eyes when the gun went off and accidentally blew Bunk’s leg off. Bunk became so peculiar that he was banished from the house and lives outside as the family pet, “Precious.” Each day the women wait—Momma waits for Bunk to return or for God to fetch her home; Ivylee waits for her imaginary lover, Mr. Robinson; Sister waits for relief from the drudgery of running the farm and maintaining the family.
Momma manages life through make-believe and is always looking for signs. Although they are all around her, she cannot see them. There are several knocks at the door, but Momma cannot answer. A rock with a note appears on the front porch, and each of the women thinks the message is meant for her. When Meter Reader knocks, Momma thinks he is Christ come to carry her home. When Bunk knocks, he must first enter as Mr. Robinson. Later, when he knocks on Momma’s bedroom door, he enters as himself. Bunk explains that while there is always a knock at the door, each person must open that door for himself.
Bunk convinces Momma to bury the leg, and during their most bizarre service, Meter Reader returns to marry Ivylee, and they bury his “bag of wife” in the coffin along side Bunk’s leg. In their most bizarre yet somehow sweet service, each person comes out of the darkness of their individual life to the light of a new one. Momma learns that “who” she has been waiting for these many years has been there all along if she could have only opened the door. At story’s end, as all carry the coffin to its final resting place, they sing “In the Garden,” and as the lights fade to dark; the only remaining light is from the single candle on the credenza where the coffin once sat.
Who’s There could probably best be described as an absurd cross between Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, but with a southern flavor.


Best Original Screenplay (Main Category)


Written by: Sandra Cropsey

In a nondescript near future, a grief stricken, neophyte print journalist embarks on a journey of self-discovery while working on a story about a new psychedelic drug.


Best Original Screenplay (Main Category)
Best Unproduced Screenplay (Main Category)


Written by: Adam Goudchaux

A couple, Mason and Avery, reunites after a 6-month break to see if they can salvage their relationship through a secluded, private weekend in the forest. Their plans hit an obstacle when they arrive to find their StayBNB hosts, an older couple named Joseph and Tara, are there when they aren’t supposed to be. This is only the first of many odd occurrences that test the strained couple’s growth and trust in each other, ultimately leading to their hosts’ disturbing truth.


Best Unproduced Screenplay (Main Category)


Written by: Alex Havens

An absurdist short film featuring a man, a coat hanger and a ladder; they converse against the backdrop of the rise of Communist Russia.


Best Micro-Short Film (Main Category)
Best No-Budget Film (Additional Category)
Best Black & White Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Ugrin Vuckovic

A teaser music video conceptualized for the feature-length sci-fi film "AIIA’s Cleaning Service"


Best Micro-Short Film (Main Category)


Directed by: SEO HOTAEK

"The Red Sound"
from "After Kandinsky: three Impressions" for piano
Film and music composition by ELISA QUARELLO


Best Original Score (Main Category)


Composed by: Elisa Quarello

A woman’s dissociative episode triggers a chain of events, leading to a deadly secret.


Best Cinematography (Main Category)
Best Thriller (Additional Category)


Directed by: Gary F. Saul

It's a dark comedy about the fight against the inner child. This film combines mysticism, allegory and horror elements.
They look like a harmonious couple. But for the common good, his wife needs to grow up. What if we start a battle with the inner child? Who will win?
What is the Movie about:
The solid Husband urges his charming Wife to destroy her inner child. It must be made for the common good. It's time to take life seriously and stop getting caught up in some frivolous nonsense. And so they dared to confront this mythical entity. But for some reason, the spirited girl keeps coming back to life again and again.


Best Dark Comedy (Additional Category)
Best Director Debut (Additional Category)
Best Young Actress (Additional Category)


Directed by: Olga Kostyanova

In a crumbling world where climate crisis, human trafficking, child abduction, and the ruthless greed of urbanization intersect, one forgotten elderly soul during pandemic 2020 becomes a mirror to humanity’s downfall.
This surreal, dystopian yet poetic cinematic journey dives deep into themes of displacement, ecological destruction, and the profound loneliness that festers in a society obsessed with artificial connections and material gain.
The story follows an elderly person abandoned amidst the neon lights of urban prosperity. Their isolation gradually turns into a haunting symbol of collective loss — showing how, in the name of progress, we are losing everything: rivers, forests, livelihoods, homes, families, identities, and our very dignity.
This film serves not just as a cautionary tale, but also as an elegy — a quiet reminder of what we are letting vanish forever.
This film blends elements of poetic realism, social commentary, and dystopian allegory to evoke deep reflection.


Best Covid-19 Film (Additional Category)
Best Director Debut (Additional Category)


Directed by: Mitra Mazumder

Embark on a captivating journey where academic science meets cultural wisdom. "LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution" is a groundbreaking animated film that breathes life into a comprehensive scientific manuscript. This two-hour and fifty-minute feature is a new genre, blending the intricacies of psychotherapy research with the timeless sagacity of ancient and modern wisdom.
Dive into an exploration of how cultural evolution mirrors biological evolution, highlighting emergent phenomena that define both our scientific endeavors and our collective consciousness. The film delves into the profound impact of psychotherapy on personal and societal transformation, advocating for the integration of relational science into everyday practices.
Guided by a compelling narrative, "LOOK UP" takes viewers on a Viking raid through the realms of psychotherapy, uncovering the unique specialties that contribute to human development and interconnectedness. It emphasizes the ancient practice of healing through unconscious cultural agreements, manifesting in the form of placebo effects and shared human experiences.


Best Director Debut (Additional Category)
Best Educational Film (Additional Category)
Best Inspirational Film (Additional Category)
Best Producer (Additional Category)


Directed by: Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo

"Between Frames" is a university project exploring the theme: "We see what we do not see." The film visualises the inner, unseen sides of individuals, portraying life as a theatre where our faces are the stage and emotions are the actors. Through the metaphor of masks, the film reveals how we conceal and reveal our true selves daily. It delves into the hidden emotional experiences behind our outward performances, offering a profound glimpse into the depths & complexity of human identity.


Best Student Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Mahsa Zarififar

In a story of survival and revenge, Parker, the new girl in town, unknowingly becomes the target of her charming but dangerous neighbor, James. Lured into his trap, she ends up locked in his dark basement, where he plans to make her his next horrifying artwork. As fear takes hold, Parker's determination grows; she must outsmart James and turn her nightmare into a chance for revenge, leading to a thrilling confrontation that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats.


Best Screenwriter Debut (Additional Category)


Written by: Hannah Avery Cronk

“Dear Mr Williams” follows the story of an elderly man, Anthony, who has recently lost his wife and has become withdrawn from life, resigned to his grief and loneliness. Concerned for her father's well-being, and unable to provide proper care, Anthony’s daughter, Flora, decides to take action. She hires Isabella, a vibrant and compassionate woman in her twenties, to be his caregiver.
Initially resistant to Isabella's efforts to bring joy back into his life, Mr Williams remains grumpy and closed-off. However, Isabella's persistence and infectious spirit gradually begin to break through his walls. Through a series of funny and heart-warming moments, Isabella shows Mr Williams, that there is still beauty and joy to be found in life, even in the midst of loss. In the end, "Dear Mr Williams" is a poignant reminder that even in our darkest moments, love and connection have the power to heal and bring light back into our lives.


Best Supporting Actress (Additional Category)


Directed by: Stefania Aronica

"Mon Orage" is a simple and poetic visual experience, a moment of reflection on the importance of spending time with those who are dear to us, a celebration of the friendships and loves that emerge in our lives and can change everything, an invitation to remember the people who have counted for us or the moments that have marked our existence...


Best Symbolic Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Loïc Suty

In a dystopian future, a lone man wakes up from cryogenic sleep in a decaying, futuristic environment. Guided by a mysterious scientist appearing through a video feed, he learns that an alien race has imprisoned humanity, leaving them as the only conscious survivors. Tasked with a suicidal mission to destroy the barrier trapping the planet, the man grapples with the weight of saving humanity, especially his family, who wait in cryo-stasis. As he embarks on a dangerous flight to launch the warhead that could free the world, he must confront the possibility of his own death.


Best Sci-Fi (Additional Category)


Directed by: Tobias Marcellus Huber

A family is diverted from their destination route, by road, until they end up in an abandoned and ruined town. Their terrifying legends soon come to life, trapping them in an unprecedented hell.


Best Horror (Additional Category)


Directed by: Gerard Bertomeu

In 2026, fugitive journalist Emilio Borges tells the story of Cometa 1600, a group of scientists dedicated to studying the consequences of environmental degradation on our mental health and who were forcibly disappeared due to their environmental activism. Through a device called the Kaleidoscopic Camera, they discovered that human dreams depend on Monarch butterfly migrations, which are threatened by ecological damage. These scientists have solutions and Emilio is the only one who can share them.


Best ECO Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Alejandra Díaz Olvera

"2023 a Requiem" is an immersive VR odyssey that takes the viewer on a profound journey through the duality of existence—contrasting the chaos of human conflict with the serenity of cosmic order. The film commences in the quietude of an apartment, focusing on a picture of a young couple that symbolizes both the intimacy of personal history and the universality of human relationships.
As the evening tranquility is shattered by the distant cacophony of explosions, the boundaries of the apartment dissolve in a maelstrom. The room's windows explode, and amidst the swirling debris, the camera—a proxy for the viewer's consciousness—is drawn inexorably toward a television screen, the portal through which we transition from terrestrial turmoil to the silent vastness of space.
In orbit, the viewer encounters astronauts maneuvering an enigmatic object—a conduit to revelation. With the majestic Earth transitioning from night to day, Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' heralds the emergence of a celestial visage, the serene countenance of Antonello da Messina's 'The Virgin Annunciate.' Her gaze, once confined to canvas, now adorns the cosmos, a silent sentinel amidst the stars.
This moment of sublime beauty is abruptly juxtaposed with the second image: the aftermath of destruction on Earth, where the same face is rendered on a mural amidst ruins. This stark contrast embodies the film's central theme, underscored by the haunting words of Alexis de Tocqueville: "When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness." It's a meditation on the consequences of human actions, a requiem for what has been lost and a reflection on what endures.
Through the cutting-edge medium of Virtual Reality 360 stereoscopic viewing, "2023 a Requiem" offers not just a narrative to be observed but an experience to be lived. It invites audiences to navigate the interplay of light and darkness, sound and silence, presence and absence—engaging with the film as active participants in a journey that questions, commemorates, and transcends.


Best 360º (Additional Category)


Directed by: Ragnar di Marzo

Lyrics focus on a child's misfortune of being raised in a country that only knows war.


Best Music Video (Additional Category)


Directed by: Alex Visani

1 in 3 women are victims of violence during their lifetime, or 1 billion women across the world. Their names are Myriam, Adèle, Clémence, Aya… They are 20, 35, 48, 62 years old or more… They are victims but do not always have the words to talk about it and find help…Since January 1, 2024, 121 women died killed by their spouse or ex-spouse. Broken is a dance fiction produced by Olivia N'GANGA and Mikaël DINIC


Best Dance Video (Additional Category)


Directed by: Olivia N'Ganga, Mikaël Dinic

George Hobbs, a contemporary artist and patriot, rediscovers his love of art through stick figures.


Best Original Song (Additional Category)


Directed by: Armin Nasseri

It happened in 1979 at the end of the Soviet past of one of the industrial towns. Galina, a woman who is rapidly losing her youth, fell in love with the police chief - she can no longer live in secret. She is very ashamed in front of her husband. She is haunted by the suspicions of her husband and those around her. One evening she can't stand it and decides to kill her husband. Her lover helps to hide the crime. Meanwhile, karma does not wait for justice and decides to punish her lover by taking his wife's life. Karma is satisfied and disappears, taking away Galina's mind. Our heroine, crushed by terrible events, is looking for a way out on the railway tracks.


Best Sport Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Maks Stupak

We're all main characters in a movie of extras


Best No-Dialogue Film (Additional Category)
Best Original Soundtrack (Additional Category)


Directed by: Lorenzo Catapano

Mike's dream of finding love comes true when he meets Cindy, changing his life forever.


Best Independent Film (Additional Category)
Best No-Budget Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Michael Parks

A short AI film exploring morals in medieval Japan. During that time, samurai practiced a custom known as "tsujigiri" (辻斬り). This film is a brief sketch of how such an event might have unfolded.


Best AI Film (Additional Category)


Directed by: Pavlo Karusenko

What is a myth? What is a legend? What is a story, a fable, a lore? Something to ponder forevermore. Hearing chatter and gossip. Hearing light whispers leaving sensual lips. They are doing this, they are doing that. They say this happened at night. They say that happened on this fateful day. All these rumors and old wives' tales. That what they say. Whispers coming from the underground. Riding the wind saying something that might be profound.


Best AI Film (Additional Category)
Best Sound Design (Additional Category)
Best Trailer (Additional Category)


Directed by: Tremayne LaMont

In a near-future world where thoughts shape reality, a compassionate scientist and a group of extraordinary empaths must fight a covert, militarized faction bent on controlling humanity's consciousness.
Think INCEPTION meets BLADE RUNNER 2049.


Best Television Script (Additional Category)


Written by: Steve Brown

Eva lives in a shared house. Her partner, Mateo, visits her regularly. When there is a free room, Eva calls her friend from school, María.
Eva's parents visit her often, giving their opinion on the state of the apartment and its inhabitants.
Mateo is attracted to María and suggests to Eva that they have a threesome.
Thus, Eva, Mateo and María on one side, Eva and her parents on the other, and the couple who lives in the other room and has a baby, form three unstable trios.


Best Web-Series (Additional Category)


Directed by: Antonio Orbe