New York Movie AwardsInternational Monthly Film Festival

WINNERS - August 2025

Official results as published by the festival.

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  • Best Picture

DYNAMICS

Teo Baehler

Netherlands

(tie)

  • Best Picture
  • HELD

Ollie McFalrane

Liam Obrien

United Kingdom

(alphabetical order by Film's title)

  • Silver Award: Web/Tv Series

ABNORMAL FIXATION

John Kenneth Muir

United States
  • Best Super Short Film

ADAPTATION

Alexander Shingurov

Kazakhstan
  • Gold Award: Music Video

ALICE DANGER - STUBBORN BONES

Ciaran Behan

United States
  • Best Short Documentary

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS

Carl Hunter

United Kingdom
  • Best Web/Tv Series

AMBER OAK: THE TIME TRAVELER'S DILEMMA

Ceara Comeau

United States
  • Best Thriller

ANFAAS/BREATHS

Hana Ashraf Saleh

United Arab Emirates
  • Best Comedy
  • Best Actor (John Clarence Stewart)
  • Best Cinematography (Garland McLaurin)
  • Best Editing (Luqi Zhao)
  • Best Sound Design
  • Silver Award: Screenplay (A. Cooper)
  • Silver Award: Original Score (Xueshen Qiu)
  • Gold Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Actress (Rejena J Taylor)

AUGUST & EBONY

Sunyin Zhang

United States
  • Best Experimental
  • Best Cinematography (Li Bo)
  • Best Screenplay (Bai Huiyuan & Chen Jingjing)
  • Best Original Score (Fan Tiangu)
  • Gold Award: Producer
  • Gold Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Actress (Chen Jingjing)
  • Gold Award: Editing (Chen Jingjing)
  • Gold Award: Sound Design (Li Zeyang)

BESPOKE ART

Jingjing Chen

China
  • Silver Award: Feature Documentary

BORDER CROSSING

Sam Rider

United States
  • Gold Award: Animation

BRUSHSTROKES-REV

Ken Kimmelman

United States
  • Gold Award: Original Score

BY ANY STRETCH

Danny Rio

United States
  • Silver Award: Indie Short Film

CACEROLADA

Teresa Ruiz Velasco

Spain
  • Silver Award: Web/Tv Series

CALLBACKS (PILOT)

Samuel Daniel Miller

United States
  • Gold Award: Short Script

CASE OF CHOICE

Written by Daniel Arreola

United States
  • Best Original Score (Thomas Yamada)

CAT-TASTROPHE

Morgan Seigler

United States
  • Silver Award: Horror

CATHARSIS

Felix Alberto Nolasco

United States
  • Silver Award: First Time Director

CATHARSIS

Felix Alberto Nolasco

United States
  • Honorable Mention

CHRISTMAS KILLERS

D. Emmet Wilson

United States
  • Gold Award: Short Script

COME SEE WHAT SPECIAL MEANS

Written by Mario Luis Telles

United States
  • Best First Time Director
  • Best Actor
  • Silver Award: Director

DANTE'S INFERNO - THE ASCENSION

Sofian Francis

United Kingdom
  • Best Actress (Lillian Lamour)

DERANGE

Lillian Lamour

United States
  • Best Music Video

DERNIERE PLAGE

Alessandro Onorato

Italy
  • Gold Award: Web/Tv Series

DICE & DESTINY: NATURAL ONE - PILOT EPISODE

James G. Maynard

United States
  • Silver Award: Student Film
  • Gold Award: First Time Director

DOORS

Jamie Larsson

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: First Time Director

ECHOES THROUGH TIME

Elise Wells

United States
  • Silver Award: Experimental Film

EYESOLATION

Damiano Rossi

Italy
  • Gold Award: Feature Script

FAITH,MARRIAGE AND LOYALTY

Gang Chen

China
  • Silver Award: Director
  • Silver Award: Cinematography
  • Silver Award: Original Score
  • Silver Award: Editing
  • Silver Award: Sound Design (Zoltán Vadon)
  • Gold Award: Actor (Kálmán Németh)
  • Gold Award: Screenplay

FATHER TO SON

George Perrin

Hungary
  • Best Indie Short Film

FELT

Joseph Rossi

Canada
  • Gold Award: Feature Documentary
  • FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MY ANCESTORS AN UTE KOHLER DOCUMENTARY

Ute Koehler

Katherin Wermke

Germany
  • Silver Award: Thriller

GARBAGE REX

Steve Hunyi

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Student Film

GHOSTS OF THINGS TO COME

Germano Sardinha

Sweden
  • Gold Award: Comedy

HOW'S THAT WORKING FOR YOU?

Brian Reilly

United States
  • Gold Award: Screenplay

IL SOGNO DISEGNATO

Andrea Corazza

Italy
  • Best Horror

INSIDE THE CLOSET

Roger Betancourt

United States
  • Gold Award: Indie Short Film

ISRAEL UND SARA

Tim Gralke

Germany
  • Silver Award: Animated Film

JOURNEY IN CALDECOTT

Mitch Greer

United States
  • Silver Award: Director
  • Silver Award: Cinematography (Awais Gohar)
  • Gold Award: First Time Director

KAREEM

Abdul Majid Abbasi

Pakistan
  • Silver Award: Thriller

LAST PLACE ON EARTH

Joel Maquera

United Kingdom
  • Best Feature Script

LAST STOP TOKYO

Written by Nancee LaFayette

United States
  • Honorable Mention

LE JARDIN | THE SECRET STORY OF SAFI

Will Bendix

Morocco
  • Silver Award: Director

LEAVING'S NOT EASY

William Samson

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Comedy
  • Silver Award: Actress

LOVE ON MARS

RK Israel Tamang

Japan
  • Gold Award: Experimental

LYMPH DANCE FOR THE PLANET REACH OUT TO THE NATURE.

Carlo Magrì

Italy
  • Gold Award: Drama

MACAU IN-BETWEEN

Sergio Basto Perez

Macao
  • Best Producer

MARABU'

Fabio Teriaca & Juan Pablo Etcheverry

Italy
  • Silver Award: Short Film

MOM

Alise Sandri

Latvia
  • Silver Award: Director

MONDAYS

Siroos Hemati

Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Gold Award: Horror

MONSTER

Fabio Dellazzari

Brazil
  • Silver Award: Drama

MOTHER MOTHER

Micki Dickoff

United States
  • Silver Award: Cinematography

ON PURPLE

Joe Quartararo

United States
  • Gold Award: First Time Director

PELEAS FRATERNALES

Jerry Morales

Mexico
  • Gold Award: Indie Feature Film

PIECE FOR SOLO SOLITUDE

Jefferson Bittencourt

Brazil
  • Best Feature Documentary
  • Best Director
  • Best Editing

POINT WASHINGTON OUTLAWS

Kirby Clements

United States
  • Honorable Mention

POINT WASHINGTON OUTLAWS

Kirby Clements

United States
  • Honorable Mention

POKROVA

Alexandre Bertella Rodrigues

Brazil
  • Silver Award: Short Documentary
  • POMPEII - THE CITY WHERE TIME STOOD STILL
  • Jaeyong Choi

Hwanjuhg Lee

Jisook Kim

Republic of Korea
  • Silver Award: First Time Director

PRETTYFACE

Marcelle Guilbet

United States
  • Honorable Mention

RAHYAB

Kamal Weiss Rahyab

Afghanistan
  • Gold Award: Inspirational Film

ROSITA

Gerardo Castañeda

Mexico
  • Silver Award: Inspirational Film
  • Silver Award: Original Score (Nawid Orokzai)

SAMSARA

Ramona Taylor

United States
  • Best Short Script

SINGO

Ashkan Chavoshi

Not Specified
  • Best Music Video
  • Best Original Song

SLUDGE (THE WATER BARONS' SHOW) - SYNTH FARMERS

Grant Hunter

United Kingdom
  • Gold Award: First Time Director

SPIRAL

Annabelle Fernando

United Kingdom
  • Honorable Mention

SUBURBAN SAFARI: A BACKYARD WILDLIFE ADVENTURE

James Edward Porter

United States
  • Gold Award: Student Film

TAKE IT EASY MAN

David Denić

Serbia
  • Silver Award: Super Short Film

TAKE-OUT

Poramet Ariyakusonsuthi

Australia
  • Best Feature Film

TELL - A HUNTER'S TALE

Luke Gasser

Switzerland
  • Honorable Mention

THE BAD BOY OF GOSPEL EXPERIENCE

Neil Carr

United States
  • Best Drama
  • Gold Award: Short Film

THE BLANK CANVAS

Fabio Riccobono

Italy
  • Gold Award: Thriller

THE BUTCHER

Jackson Stewart

Canada
  • Silver Award: Director

THE CLASS ANALYSIS

Webb Pickersgill

United States
  • Honorable Mention

THE CONSTANT GARDENERS

David Hradetzky

Austria\United Republic of Tanzania
  • Gold Award: Super Short Film

THE FAREWELL MELODY

Francisco Jose Bassignana

Chile
  • Gold Award: Inspirational Film

THE FOREST ECSTATICS

Jeff Grupp

United States
  • Silver Award: Feature Script

THE FOURTH NIGHT

Written by Mike Briock

United States
  • Honorable Mention

THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER - THE HIDDEN SIDE OF THE STORY

Philippe Carillo

United States
  • Silver Award: Original Song

THE GIPSY

Anaya (AnayaMusic) Kunst

Brazil
  • Best Animated Film

THE GIVETAKER

Jack Nagle

United States
  • Best Indie Feature Film

THE GREAT MASSACRE OF ALIMOS

Athan Tom Sklavos

Greece
  • Gold Award: Feature Film

THE RED FRAME

Al M. Hemphill

United States
  • Gold Award: Feature Script

THE SILENCE OF THE MOUNTAINS

Written by Hans Sluijter

Netherlands
  • Gold Award: Cinematography

THE SILENCE WITHIN (LAUTLOS)

Christian Peschken

Germany
  • Best Short Film

THE TENDER ONES WILL TRIUMPH

Francisco Bassignana

Poland
  • Silver Award: Short Script

THE YELLOW BIRD

Written by Reham Ozjan Yeshar

Saudi Arabia
  • Best Inspirational Film
  • Silver Award: Indie Short Film

THEORY

Aydogan Rayman

Turkey
  • Gold Award: Short Documentary

THREE MINUTES. THE STORY OF SILVIA RUOTOLO

Adriano Natale & Sara Camardella

Italy
  • Silver Award: Feature Film

TIME REWIND

Lincoln Fenner

Australia
  • Silver Award: Feature Script

UNPROTECTED WITNESS

Written by Beverly Louise Gandara & Jack Knight

United States
  • Silver Award: Music Video
  • Gold Award: Original Song

WE ARE

Rafael Maria Friebe

Germany
  • Silver Award: Feature Film
  • Silver Award: Indie Feature Film
  • Silver Award: Producer
  • Silver Award: Director
  • Silver Award: Actress (Irene Gualerzi)
  • Silver Award: Cinematography
  • Silver Award: Editing
  • Silver Award: Sound Design
  • Gold Award: Actor (Patrizio Recchioni)
  • Gold Award: Original Score

WHATEVER HAPPENS

Filippo Ruggieri

Italy
  • Silver Award: Feature Documentary

WOMEN OF PINOT

Bruce M Jaqua

United States
  • Honorable Mention

WOMEN OF PINOT

Bruce M Jaqua

United States
  • Best Student Film

YOUR CHOICE

Ana-Isabel Cantera

United Kingdom