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WINNERS - September 2026

Official results as published by the festival.

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  • Best Picture

BFF

Paul Yoshio Steinwachs

Germany

(alphabetical order by Film's title)

  • Best Drama

A SILENT SCREAM

Oliver Granillo

Mexico
  • Silver Award: Feature Script

ASTROLOGY FOR GODDESSES

Written by Zack Van Eyck

United States
  • Silver Award: Student Film
  • BACKFROOOMS
  • Nikola Ianković,
  • Andrija Jerković
  • Anamarija komadina
  • Karlo Madiraca
  • Nikola Manicardi
  • Zita Ortner
  • Oliver Pribačić
  • Toma Ribičić
  • Cvita Ukić
  • Gabriela Vidović

Leon Vučković

Niko Vučković

Croatia
  • Best Music Video

BIZARRE

Vanessa Philippe

France
  • Silver Award: Original Song

BREAKTHROUGH

Clare Steffen

United States
  • Best Thriller

CARESSING VIOLENCE

Boris Wolffgardt & Felix Liebald

Germany
  • Gold Award: Experimental

CELLOPHANE REV

Jennifer Glee

United States
  • Best Short Documentary
  • Best Sci-Fi
  • Silver Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Original Song (Joi Barua & Susan Lim)

CONFETTI STAR-ION: THE NASA COSI & COSMIC RHAPSODY INITIATIVE

Susan Mey Lee Lim

United Kingdom
  • Gold Award: Comedy

CSI: CRUMB SCENE INVESTIGATION

Annarie Boor

United Kingdom
  • Best Indie Feature Film
  • Best Producer
  • Best Actress (Stella Egitto)
  • Silver Award: Feature Film
  • Silver Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Actor (Gabriele Vitale)
  • Gold Award: Original Score (Lino Zimbone)
  • Gold Award: Cinematography (Filippo Arlotta)
  • Gold Award: Editing (Francesco Santocono)
  • Gold Award: Sound Design (Lino Zimbone)

DESTINI AVVERSI (ADVERSE DESTINIES)

Francesco Santocono

Italy
  • Best Experimental

DISSOLUTION

Mimi Garrard

United States
  • Best Action

DOUBLE PAYDAY

Taro Donatella

Germany
  • Best Animated Film

DRAWN HOME

Camy De Mario

United States
  • Best AI Animated Film

FANGS - THE VEGGIE VAMP

Ivan Barretta

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Sci-Fi

FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY

Barry Ferrier

Australia
  • Best Short Script

GAMED THE SYSTEM

Written by Lennie Graves

United States
  • Best Feature Documentary

GRAY PHAM'S FULL THROTTLE

Gray Pham

United States
  • Gold Award: Indie Feature Film

HAIFA - ITALIA

Avinoam Amizan

Israel
  • Silver Award: Indie Feature Film

HIT CLASSIC

Octavian DB Pooh Moore & Kenneth Peters

United States
  • Best Super Short Film

I'M BETTER HERE (AQUÍ ESTOY MEJOR)

Juan Ortiz Portas

Mexico
  • Best First Time Director
  • Best Comedy
  • Best Actor (Liam Milligan)
  • Best Screenplay
  • Silver Award: Director
  • Gold Award: Student Film
  • Gold Award: Producer

ISOLATED: A SHORT FILM

Linken Ryan

United States
  • Silver Award: Music Video

JAHIT DUNIA

Soegimitro soegimitro

Indonesia
  • Gold Award: Feature Documentary

KERN OIL

Rickey Bird

United States
  • Gold Award: Feature Film
  • Gold Award: Actress (Samantha Casella)

LA TENEREZZA DEL SERPENTE - THE SERPENT'S CARESS

Samantha Casella

Italy
  • Gold Award: Action

LEGEND OF THE INWOOD CAVES

John Galligan

United States
  • Silver Award: Animated Film

LOW DOWN LARRY VERSUS THE GIANT REPTILE

Sammy Verni

United States
  • Silver Award: Actress

MORNING AFTER

Keya Kalyan

United States
  • Silver Award: Indie Short Film

MY FATHER USED TO SAY

Oswald Gschliesser

Paraguay
  • Best Feature Film

NO EXPECTATIONS

Bob Jones

United States
  • Best Student Film

NOISE

Nikolai Huston

United Kingdom
  • Silver Award: Short Film

ONLY THE WHITES OF OUR EYES

Jeno Hodi

Hungary
  • Silver Award: Super Short Film
  • Gold Award: Animation
  • Gold Award: AI Animated Film

PAWS PYJAMAS SEAT WARMERS & FOOD CRITIC

Mike McLaughlin

Australia
  • Best Indie Short Film
  • Best Director
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Original Score
  • Best Sound Design
  • Silver Award: Producer
  • Silver Award: Editing
  • Gold Award: Short Film
  • Gold Award: Screenplay (In-hwa Lee, Han-gyeol Kim, Eun-gyeong Lim & Ah-jung Choi)
  • Gold Award: AI Film

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE DRUMS OF SILLA

Aria Jun

South Korea
  • Gold Award: Inspirational Film

RABBIT STUDIO

Emile B LaCerte Jr

United States
  • Gold Award: Web/Tv Series

RIBEIRA DE PENA - WE ARE HERE

João Pedro Marnoto

Portugal
  • Best Short Film

ROMANTIC PLOT LINE

Jonathan Oliver Stone

United States
  • Gold Award: Thriller

RUN DOWNTOWN

Damir Mrkulic

United States
  • Gold Award: Experimental

SARABANDA

Nicoleta Simon

Romania
  • Silver Award: Web/Tv Series

SEASON 2 EPISODE 8 -- VIS VITALIS -- THE 2 MINUTE SHOW

Dik Lee

Canada
  • Best Feature Script

STAND UP AND DIE

Written by Amy Etra & Michael Etra

United States
  • Silver Award: Short Documentary

STEPHEN DAVID AND PHIL

Astrid Riecken

United States
  • Silver Award: Short Film
  • Silver Award: Cinematography
  • Silver Award: Screenplay
  • Silver Award: Sound Design
  • Gold Award: Indie Short Film
  • Gold Award: Sci-Fi
  • Gold Award: Director

TALE OF THE DIVIDED TIDES - THE BEGINNING

Mattia Simbolotti

Italy
  • Silver Award: Drama

THE BENTO ON A HOT SUMMER'S DAY

Yusuke Ishide

Japan
  • Silver Award: Drama

THE COFFEE SACK POET

Matheus Morais

Brazil
  • Silver Award: AI Film

THE FUTURE WORTH LIVING IN

Soegimitro soegimitro

Indonesia
  • Best Inspirational Film

THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS MEMORIES

Syam Manohar

United Arab Emirates
  • Gold Award: Feature Script

THE MARTYR

Written by David Underwood

United States
  • Silver Award: AI Animated Film

THE MENEHUNE

James Parente

United States
  • Best First Time Director

THE OMEGA CONNECTION

Doug Abel & Kenneth Robinson

United States
  • Silver Award: Comedy

THE SESSION

Tom Lovegrin

United States
  • Gold Award: First Time Director

THE SHEEP

Tien Chi Fu

United States
  • Silver Award: Feature Documentary

THE SMUDGING REVISITED: 10 YEARS OF URBAN NATIVE HORROR

Mike J. Marin

United States
  • Gold Award: Feature Script

THE VIRGIN CAR THIEF

Written by Bruce Hickey

United States
  • Gold Award: Comedy

TOPLESS

Eric Bravo

United States
  • Silver Award: First Time Director

VENDETTA

Emiliano Betancourt

Mexico
  • Best Editing

VOODOO PARTY

Richard Anthony Dunford

United Kingdom
  • Best Web/Tv Series
  • Best AI Film

WALKERS DESTRUCTION

William M Mesa

United States
  • Gold Award: Short Documentary

WALL OF PEACE

Jo√£o Lucas Pedrosa

Brazil
  • Gold Award: Drama

WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT

Elizabeth Arends

United Kingdom
  • Gold Award: Indie Short Film

WHILE MY HEART BEATS FURIOUSLY

Luiz Villasboas Maudonnet & Iuri Salles

Brazil
  • Silver Award: Experimental Film

YOU MUST BE _____

Ruchita

Brazil
  • Gold Award: Super Short Film

私

Pavel Pazukhin

Japan
  • Best Original Song
  • Gold Award: Music Video

अधूरे सपने (UNFULFILLED DREAMS)

Ajit Suryabhan Vahadane

India