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• 2025 MAIN PRIZE WINNER PROJECT

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• Directed by Ian Curtis
• United Kingdom

• Best Indie Feature Film

• More Than One Story

• Directed by Chris Sonnex
• United Kingdom

• Best Indie Short Film

• Help Yourself

• Directed by Hedvig Andersson
• United Kingdom

• Best Indie Super Short Film

• A COLORFUL WORLD

• Directed by Fabrizio Nota, Giovanni Negro
• Italy

• Best Feature Film

• THE BLACK SPIDER

• Directed by Markus Fischer
• Switzerland

• Best Short Film

• 20 Euros

• Directed by Alexander Machlouzarides-Shalit
• Cyprus

• Best Feature Documentary

• Dwarf Story

• Directed by Riccardo Servini
• United Kingdom

• Best Short Documentary

• MEN-TAL

• Directed by Miguel Gutierrez
• United Kingdom

• Best Music Video

• I'm Flying High

• Directed by S. J. Jananiy
• India

• Best UK Feature Film

• Six Inches of Soil

• Directed by Colin Ramsay
• United Kingdom

• Best UK Short Film

• The Soldier on Smithdown Road

• Directed by Barney Pell Scholes, Thomas Harnett O'Meara
• United Kingdom

• Best Experimental Feature

• The Father Who Stayed

• Directed by Jeremy David Schonfeld
• United States

• Best Experimental Short

• SUBTUNES

• Directed by Anthony Sylvester
• United States

• Best Student Film

• Skin

• Directed by Orla Harrison
• United Kingdom

• Best First Time Filmmaker

• Confess

• Directed by Ajit Mann
• United Kingdom

• Best Horror Feature

• Dinner To Die For

• Directed by Diana Mills Smith
• South Africa

• Best Horror Short

• She Talks In Her Sleep

• Directed by Paul Taylor
• United Kingdom

• Best Action Film

• Ultimatum

• Directed by Timothy Nguyen
• United States

• Best Trailer

• Breathing Underwater

• Directed by Gabriella White
• Netherlands, United Kingdom

• Best Producer

• Heatstroke

• Directed by Nolen Scott
• Canada

• Best Female Director

• Why Us?

• Directed by Maria Springis
• United Kingdom

• Best Male Director

• Grindavik

• Directed by Garðar Örn Arnarson
• Iceland

• Best Female Student Director

• sola

• Directed by Clàudia Orriols
• United Kingdom

• Best Actress

• Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men

• Actress Lesley Manville
  (Directed by Lorien Haynes, Barbara van Schaik, Maryam d'Abo, Susannah Harker, Jodhi May, Erin Richards, Katie Flynn, Laura Merians, Amy Gardner, Gia Carides, Kate Sumner, Tara Fitzgerald, Kate Danson, Sienna Guillory, Saffron Burrows, Lucy Brown)
• United Kingdom

• Best Actor

• Real Mother

• Actor Case Walker
  (Directed by Tobin Carter)
• United States

• Best Male Student Director

• Alone Together

• Directed by Tobin Carter
• United States

• Best New Actress/Actor

• 四十九 - SEEK

• Masaki Miura
  (Directed by Shane Kosugi)
• Japan

• Best Inspirational Film

• The Katinas - Love God / Love People

• Directed by Michael Everett
• United States

• Best LGBTQ Film

• EMPTY

• Directed by Giovanni Carpanzano
• Italy

• Best Mobile Phone Short

• The Bunny Detectives

• Directed by Marilyn Lee Swick
• United States

• Best Acting

• pops

• Tibu Fortes
  (Directed by David Thackeray)
• United Kingdom

• Best Mobile Phone Feature

• Delta County

• Directed by Gloria Iseli
• United States

• Best Editing

• WHITE WOLVES – GHOSTS OF THE ARCTIC

• Directed by Oliver Goetzl
• Germany

• Best Cinematography

• Moisture

• Directed by Duda Gorter
• Brazil

• Best Screenwriting

• Grief

• Written by Kyle Gray
• United Kingdom

• Best Production Design

• Laura, 29 Old Compton Street

• Directed by Weiqi Cai
• China, United States

• Best Sound Design

• Wrinkles of her Smile

• Directed by Suzan van Eck
• Netherlands

• Best VFX

• The Red Stone

• Directed by Jaime Jasso
• Mexico

• Best Sci-Fi Film

• War of the Worlds - The Attack

• Directed by Junaid 'Jay' Syed
• United Kingdom

• Best Feature Script

• A tribe, a priest and baseball

• Written by Garrison Wells
• United States

• Best Short Script

• 73 Seconds

• Written and Directed by Stacy Gardner
• Canada

• Best Super Short Script

• Surviving us

• Written by Chris Dann
• United Kingdom

• Best Drama Script

• Michael Collins: My Generation

• Written by Patrick O'Sullivan Greene
• Ireland

• Best Comedy Script

• Good

• Written by Monte Albers de Leon
• United States

• Best Horror Script

• Bittersweet

• Written by Metecan Erol Duren
• Germany

• Best Action Script

• Othello

• Written by Samuel Benjamin Books Negin
• United States

• Best Original Script

• The Age of the Empath

• Written by Steve Brown
• United States

• Best Screenwriter

• Snowdrop

• Written by Judith Bunting
• United Kingdom

• Best Unoptioned Script

• Perry

• Written by RJ Watson
• United States

• Best Web Series

• Dick Bunny

• Directed by Katie Locke O'Brien
• United States

• Best Television Series

• Unsung

• Directed by Andrea Fiorentini Del Río
• United States

• Best Production

• The Ceremony

• Directed by Samuel Kaperski
• France

• Best European Film

• Au delà de l'hygiène

• Directed by Pierre Descamps
• France

• Best Animation Film

• Inner Polar Bear

• Directed by Gerald Conn
• United Kingdom