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WINNERS - July 2026

Official results as published by the festival.

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  • Best Picture
  • Best Original Song

STAY

Wooseung Jung Heesoo Oh

South Korea

(alphabetical order by Film's title)

  • Gold Award: Experimental

A DREAMER'S DREAM

Ale Cetrangolo

Argentina,China,Italy,United States
  • Best Fantasy

A TREE ONCE GREW HERE

Johnnie Semerad

United States
  • Best Experimental

ALEPH

Joao Butoh

Brazil
  • Best Super Short Film

BEAR IN MIND

George Kouvaras

Greece
  • Silver Award: Comedy

BEN & TONY

Sascha Schneider

United States
  • Gold Award: Sci-Fi

BETWEEN THE SCREENS

Olga Neff

Cyprus
  • SA: AI Film

BLUE BUDDHA

syam manohar

United Arab Emirates
  • Best Short Documentary

BRINQUEDOTECA MAURO'S MAGICAL WORKSHOP

Marcio Rosario

Brazi
  • Silver Award: Feature Film
  • Silver Award: Original Score
  • Silver Award: Original Song

CARBON MEN SALVATION: THE SENATOR'S DILEMMA

Roger James Kuhns

United States
  • Best Comedy
  • CHERUBS

Anna Pieri Zuercher

Pietro Zuercher

Switzerland
  • Best AI Film

CHOICE

Stanislav Skricka

Czechia
  • Gold Award: Feature Film

CHOSEN RECLAIMING HER TIME

Nicole Howard & Vernard Kam Howard

United States
  • Silver Award: Experimental Film

COME BACK

Kaihang Ye

China
  • Best Producer (Joel Hogan)
  • Best Sound Design (Maui Holcomb)
  • Silver Award: Director (Tom Michaels)
  • Silver Award: Actress (Jade Warwick)
  • Silver Award: Cinematography (Benjamin Steeper)

COME THE NIGHTFALL

Tom Michaels

United States
  • Gold Award: Super Short Film

CRISIS

Alberto Mart√n-Arag√≥n

Spain
  • Best Drama

DATA NOT DRAMA

David Ramer

United States
  • Best Short Script

DIARY OF A MADMAN

Eugene Hatting

United States
  • Gold Award: Feature Script

DOING TIME ON HOLLAND ROAD

Written by Jennifer Barton, Jack Carter Barton & Taylor Barton

United States
  • Silver Award: Music Video

DRAMA FAME GOSSIP - VIDEO

Anindgita Dasgupta

India
  • Best Feature Film

DZUD

Chinguun Balkhjav

Mongolia
  • Gold Award: AI Film

雷咬龍 / SUGARU /// A DRAGON BITING INTO LIGHTNING

Hiroaki Hirakata

Japan
  • Best Student Film

EDUCACÃO

Sandra Fanha

Portugal
  • Best Feature Documentary

ESEUSEU

Zaya Benazzo & Maurizio Benazzo

Kenya\United States
  • Best Animated Film

EXIT PENCIL LAND

Artur Muharremi

France
  • Best Indie Feature Film

FABIO'S JOURNEY

Simon Schlömer

Germany
  • Gold Award: Animation

FIDO

John Norris Ray & Maria Victoria Sanchez

United States
  • Silver Award: Actress (Natasha Coppola-Shalom)

HEAVY WEAPON

Jimmy Drain

United States
  • Silver Award: Actress (Iuliia Elkhimova)

I AM A WOMAN

Alexandra Tomilina

United States
  • Gold Award: Feature Documentary

JOHN JOHNSON REPORTING

Brian Calfano

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

LOST INSIDE A GIANT

Bo

South Korea
  • Honorable Mention

MALFEASANCE

Paul Corricelli

United States
  • Best Feature Script

MR. POLO LOUNGE: A COMEDY PART II

Kevin Michael Irvine

United States
  • Gold Award: Short Script

OBEDIENT

Pablo Catalan

Spain
  • Best Sci-Fi
  • Gold Award: Drama

ORION

Ariel Turobiner

United States
  • Silver Award: Short Documentary

POLICE STORY

Bob Jones

United States
  • Honorable Mention

POMPEII: BURNING SILENCE

Gwang Yeol Lee

South Korea
  • Best Web/Tv Series
  • Silver Award: Actress (Selma Guirau)

QUIMERA

Fernando Corta & Andrés López

Spain
  • Gold Award: First Time Director

SHEPHERDS

Ashland Thomas

United States
  • Silver Award: Fantasy
  • Gold Award: LGBTQ

SUREIYA: THE EIDOLON PLANE

Shervonne Brown

United States
  • Silver Award: Feature Documentary

THE ANGEL OF BUENOS AIRES HISTORY OF FILIPPO DI BENEDETTO

Enrico Blatti

Italy
  • Best Original Song (Jonny Houlihan)

THE BRIDGE

Jim Peacock

United States
  • Silver Award: Animated Film

THE FIRST TEAR

Bo Kim

South Korea
  • Gold Award: Student Film

THE GOLDEN AGE

Sean Martin

United States
  • Silver Award: Web/Tv Series

THE GRAVES GO TO MEXICO -- THE MONSTER SHOW EP. 3

James G. Maynard

United States
  • Gold Award: Comedy

THE IMPOSSIBLE FRIEND

Kyle Allen & Anders Jay Ravenstad

United States
  • Best Short Film
  • Best Indie Short Film
  • Best Director
  • Best Thriller
  • Best Actress (Karen Tusa)
  • Best Actor (Adrian Mclean)
  • Best Cinematography (Denis Ankrah)
  • Best Original Score (Tom Koroluk)
  • Gold Award: Screenplay (Karen Tusa)
  • Gold Award: Sound Design (Tom koroluk)

THE LAST CALL

Virgo Velasquez

Canada
  • Best LGBTQ

THE LITERARY WORK OF IMAGINARY POETS

Taylor Berberich

United States
  • Gold Award: Web/Tv Series

THE LITTERBOX

Ross Jr Mendigorin

Canada
  • Best Director
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Screenplay (Jérémie Cahen)
  • Best Editing
  • Silver Award: Short Film
  • Silver Award: Original Song (Mâthâ)
  • Gold Award: Indie Short Film
  • Gold Award: Producer
  • Gold Award: Actor (Damien Carion)
  • Gold Award: Original Score (Sébastien Gerard)

THE MONSTER OF THE VALLEY

Gaultier Barra

France
  • Silver Award: Editing
  • Gold Award: Inspirational Film

THE POWER OF COMPLETION

Gary Mazeffa

United States
  • Silver Award: Drama
  • Silver Award: Producer
  • Silver Award: Actor (Nikolai Egel)
  • Silver Award: Screenplay (Dia Taylor)
  • Silver Award: Original Score (Miguel Artigue)
  • Silver Award: Sound Design (Daniel Bucknell)
  • Gold Award: Fantasy
  • Gold Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Actress (Cassidy Dunn)
  • Gold Award: Cinematography (Chris Bennett)
  • Gold Award: Editing (Sydney Lewis)

THE RED LIGHTS OF TOWN

Dia Taylor

Australia
  • Silver Award: Student Film

THE SCRIBBLES BETWEEN US

Arnav Vaidyanathan

United States
  • Gold Award: Original Score (Kelly Joe Richardson)

THE SEVEN TALES OF POE

Doug Clyde

United States
  • Gold Award: Thriller

THE STONE VILLAGE

George Katsimichas

Greece
  • Silver Award: Feature Documentary

THE STREET PASTOR

Ákos Wéninger

Hungary
  • Honorable Mention

THE THIRD TIME I MET THE DEVIL

Written by Eric Lotter

United States
  • Gold Award: Indie Feature Film

THE TRANSITION OF Z

Darren & Abi Jasper

Australia
  • Silver Award: Indie Feature Film

THE YELLOW BALLOON

Jason D. Morris

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

TREE OF LIBERTY

Rick Revel

United States
  • Best Inspirational Film
  • Gold Award: Short Documentary

UNDER THE ICE

John Martin

Canada\South Africa
  • Silver Award: Feature Script

WHISPERS OF MONTANA

Written by Michelle Lynn Taubman

United States
  • Silver Award: Original Song

WITHIN THE BOTTLE

Teresa Marie Warwick

United States
  • Best First Time Director

WONDERFUL MACARON

Chris Suqiasyan

Armenia
  • Silver Award: Super Short Film

WORTH KEEPING

Paul J Mailath

Australia
  • Gold Award: Short Documentary

Y ANHEMBI

Vicentini Gomez

Brazil
  • Gold Award: Short Film

YARD SALEING

Tom Logan

United States
  • Silver Award: Thriller

YOU CAN TRUST YOUR NEIGHBOR

Patrick Devaney

United States
  • Silver Award: Short Script

YOU NEXT TO ME

Daniel McEwan & Emma Guess

United States