December 2025
ANTIOCH – On the trails of history — Lucas Yalaza
Best Student Film
8 Seconds at the Three Sisters — André Silva
Best Experimental Film
60 Pounds of Home — 60 Pounds of Home
Best History Film
60 Pounds of Home — 60 Pounds of Home
Best Family and Children Friendly
An Eleven-Year-Old’s Arari — YongNam Lee, YoonHee Kim
Human Rights
Story Time — Jody Oberfelder
Best Dance Film, Short
Merry Christmas Mithras — Trix StarT
Best Artist Short Film
After the Freeze, Final Cut — Tenley E. Raj
Best Feature Film
Familiar Stranger — Hendric Weiner
Best Director – Short Film
Threatening letter on hold — Thomas Schuster
Honorable Mention
Breaking our Curse — Maximilian Franz Klampfl
Best Short Film
After the Freeze, Final Cut — Tenley E. Raj
Best Feature Film
U 977 — Nadine Poulain
Best Documentary
I CHOSE — Tomasz Skibicki
Best Short Documentary
A Man, A Hobby, A Whole Life — SHUMPEI SASAKI
Honorable Mention
The Last Impression — Milan Büttner
Honorable Mention
WATU – An Essayfilm — Tobias Bernt
Honorable Mention
EIGHT MORE HOURS — Marius Schwingel
Honorable Mention
November 2025
The Quest For The Golden Dragon — Tom Whiteley
Best Comedy, Short Film
Beyond The Horizon — James Peter Rowat
Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
The Super-Honeymoon of Fred Demmler and Alexander James — Charles Kaufmann
Best War and Peace Theme Film
The Only Universe For Us — Xirui Wang
Best Mobile Short Film
Namenlos — Julia Klumpe
Best Gender Equality, Issues and Rights Film
My Husband the Child Soldier — Tom Peppiatt
Best Human Rights Film
The Super-Honeymoon of Fred Demmler and Alexander James — Charles Kaufmann
Best History Film
The alchemist’s dance — Arantxa Vela
Best Dance Film, Feature
Telepathic Letters — Edgar Pêra
Best Artist Feature Film
Freier Fall — Lenny Scheibner
Best Actor – Short Film
What should I see — Jan-Christoph Schultchen
Best Documentary
She Was — Abril Andrea Arnauda Appel
Honorable Mention
Ten to One Rum “One For the Curious” — Mustafa Mahdi
Best Commercial & Advertising
Pinarello – We Ride — Thomas Rösing
Honorable Mention
The Only Way — Fabian Wolfgang Linz
Best Director – Short Film
Waga — Fabian Wolfgang Linz
Honorable Mention
Atelier Radical — Emília Simão, Samuel G. Barbosa
Best Director – Feature Film
My Last Words — Adam Kiss
Honorable Mention
See You, Palestine — Jürgen Baums
Best Short Documentary
The Endless Caravan “The Roma of Northern Syria” — ibrahim Omran Issa
Honorable Mention
TORNADO TASTES LIKE ALUMINUM STING — Harmon dot aut, James Rutenbeck, James Rutenbeck
Honorable Mention
I Was Still Here. — Dennis Büschemann
Best Short Film
Waiting For Nia Short Film — Maurice Simmons
Honorable Mention
Syntax Error — Worathiti Manosroi
Honorable Mention
October 2025
The Answering Machine — Ivon Mateljan
Best Actress – Feature Film Ex Aequo
How To Survive Hollywood — Monica Keena
Best Actress – Feature Film Ex Aequo
Juliet & the King — Ashkan Rahgozar
Best Animation
The Answering Machine — Jose Cortes
Best Director – Feature Film
The Grim & The Dark — Breen Daniel Lowman
Honorable Mention
ALONG THE RIVER — Gerburg Rohde-Dahl
Best Documentary
The Automotive Human — Reinhard Seiss
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
DYNAMICS — Teo Baehler
Honorable Mention
In This Room Everywhere — Sometimes Alicia, Watson Andrew
Best Experimental Film
LE MANI DELLA MODA Episodio 2 — Anna Setliff, Eavan Iredale, Karim Farekh
Best Fashion Film
The Color Of Exile — Azlarabe Alaoui
Best Feature Film
Black Sheep — Paul Schwind
Honorable Mention
“THE SILENCE WITHIN (Lautlos) ” — Christian Peschken
Best Health and Medicine Short Film
I Will Never Forget You — Kalina DeMoura
Best Human Rights Film
Testimonies of Pain and Hope — Ayelet Bargur
Honorable Mention
That Thing That Makes You Win — Jeeve Ducornet
Best Music Video
Solar Neighbor — Austin Cole
Best Science Fiction
Asemwald — Moritz Schmieg
Best Short Documentary
NOBODY HOME — İlker Zor
Honorable Mention
To Belong. A documentary — Juan Felipe Bohorquez
Honorable Mention
SPIEGELBERG – A german village — Adrian Sagolla
Honorable Mention
Asemwald — Moritz Schmieg
Honorable Mention
Mia 米娅 — Aiyun Yin
Honorable Mention
Über den Tellerrand — Laura Latka
Honorable Mention
feeling free — Cora Jessica Pereghy, Tobias Becker
Honorable Mention
Happy Places — Nich Frost
Honorable Mention
VIER — Sebastian Eppinger
Honorable Mention
Portrait of a Daughter — Hannah Swart
Best Student Film
NO — Ahmed Alameldeen
Best War and Peace Theme
I’M NOT WORK ANYMORE — Gernas İslam Abışka
Best Short Film
Corpus Mysticum – Seelenbilder der Unendlichkeit — Victoria Knobloch
Best Artist Film
September 2025
The Answering Machine — Ivon Mateljan
Best Actress – Feature Film Ex Aequo
How To Survive Hollywood — Monica Keena
Best Actress – Feature Film Ex Aequo
Juliet & the King — Ashkan Rahgozar
Best Animation
The Answering Machine — Jose Cortes
Best Director – Feature Film
The Grim & The Dark — Breen Daniel Lowman
Honorable Mention
ALONG THE RIVER — Gerburg Rohde-Dahl
Best Documentary
The Automotive Human — Reinhard Seiss
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
DYNAMICS — Teo Baehler
Honorable Mention
In This Room Everywhere — Sometimes Alicia, Watson Andrew
Best Experimental Film
LE MANI DELLA MODA Episodio 2 — Anna Setliff, Eavan Iredale, Karim Farekh
Best Fashion Film
The Color Of Exile — Azlarabe Alaoui
Best Feature Film
Black Sheep — Paul Schwind
Honorable Mention
“THE SILENCE WITHIN (Lautlos) ” — Christian Peschken
Best Health and Medicine Short Film
I Will Never Forget You — Kalina DeMoura
Best Human Rights Film
Testimonies of Pain and Hope — Ayelet Bargur
Honorable Mention
That Thing That Makes You Win — Jeeve Ducornet
Best Music Video
Solar Neighbor — Austin Cole
Best Science Fiction
Asemwald — Moritz Schmieg
Best Short Documentary
NOBODY HOME — İlker Zor
Honorable Mention
To Belong. A documentary — Juan Felipe Bohorquez
Honorable Mention
SPIEGELBERG – A german village — Adrian Sagolla
Honorable Mention
Asemwald — Moritz Schmieg
Honorable Mention
Mia 米娅 — Aiyun Yin
Honorable Mention
Über den Tellerrand — Laura Latka
Honorable Mention
feeling free — Cora Jessica Pereghy, Tobias Becker
Honorable Mention
Happy Places — Nich Frost
Honorable Mention
VIER — Sebastian Eppinger
Honorable Mention
Portrait of a Daughter — Hannah Swart
Best Student Film
NO — Ahmed Alameldeen
Best War and Peace Theme
I’M NOT WORK ANYMORE — Gernas İslam Abışka
Best Short Film
Corpus Mysticum – Seelenbilder der Unendlichkeit — Victoria Knobloch
Best Artist Film
August 2025
Harar – The Forgotten Islamic City — Dhia Ben Naser, Ouissem Satouri
Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
Music of our Neighbors — Juniper Hill, Cornelia Günauer, Steffen Boseckert
Best Culture Film
The Burn — Wiliam Marques Concolato
Best Environment and Climate, Short
GILBERT & GEORGE DAYTRIPPING FOREVER! — Iain B. MacDonald
Best Artist Short Film
BARVINSKY — Sofiya Boyko
Best Director – Short Film
yourbunnywrote – ty vir meni — Tymur Haiovyi
Best Music Video
The Great Massacre of Alimos — ATHANASIOS TOMMY SKLAVOS
Best Feature Film
Across the field — Dean Murphy
Best Mobile Short Film
Bra Top — Akiko Matsumoto
Honorable Mention
My Shadow — Astra Silver Burke
Best Experimental Film
Paper Garden — HARAN KIM
Honorable Mention
Na Trí Céilithe — Rhys Ryan
Best Dance Film
DAVID CASSIDY — Lauren Shiells Edson
Honorable Mention
The Farewell Night — Jun Li
Honorable Mention
When the curtain falls — Dominique Pierre Lüthi
Honorable Mention
Best Mom Ever — Chaewon Suh
Honorable Mention
MODUS — Miriam Ghobrial
Honorable Mention
Tao — Giselle Herzog
Honorable Mention
A Day In His Life — Aaron Turadj Omidi-Sabet
Best Short Film
Jade Earrings of the Last Empress — Lin Zuo, Marlin Darrah
Best Short Documentary
The Deep Dive — Blair Murphy
Honorable Mention
NOTHING BUT BLUE — Sebastian Bechtel
Honorable Mention
Reverence — Charles Evans, Jr
Honorable Mention
GRAND OLD PARTY — Keith Ervin
Honorable Mention
Tumaini Festival — Rupert Poeschl
Honorable Mention
I Am Gitxsan — Hossein Martin Fazeli
Best Documentary
Following in the footsteps of my ancestors An Ute Köhler Documentary — Ute Koehler, Katherin Wermke
Honorable Mention
The Gift in Adversity — John Robertson Spender
Best Documentary
HUMAN — Debora Bergamini
Best VR and 360 Film
THE ONE YOU CANT SE — Haonan ZAHNG
Best Student Film
The Great Massacre of Alimos — ATHANASIOS TOMMY SKLAVOS
Best Feature Film
July 2025
Complete sense of freedom — Karlo Mitok
Best Travel and Discovery, Short Film
The Child Within — Daniel Troia
Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
Ida Rolf – Mother of Fascia — Ale拧 Urbanczik
Best Health and Medicine Feature
Menopause Menopaws — Akiko Matsumoto
Bwat Mobile Short Film
Altrove – Elsewhere — Ettore Zito
Best documentary
Debate — Nikolai Geffele
Best Human Rights Film
Uprising of Youth — Simon Marian Hoffmann
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
The Sound of Memories — Gonghee Lee
Best Artist Feature Film
Empathy — Steffi Alte
Best Artist Short Film
CLOCKING OUT — Joshua Mueller
Best Director – Short Film
All Just Borrowed — Bjoern Rolf Sickel
Best Music Video
Imi Oughlad — Andrea Lazzari
Best Short Documentary
Bittersweet Çay — Demet Şener
Honorable Mention
Daydreaming — Aleksandra Szczyrek
Best Student Film
Vanitas — Tomaz Standeker
Honorable Mention
CLOCKING OUT — Joshua Mueller
Best Doirector, Short Film
The Dreaming Man — Christian Reina
Best Experimental Film
KARL – The Man Behind The Mask — Gero von Boehm
Best Documentary
reEarth …Rights of Nature — Dhama Pundarika
Honorable Mention
ENESCU, skinned alive — Toma Enache
Honorable Mention
A Dinner to Remember — Leonardo Re
Honorable Mention
Enna Vilai — Sajeev Pazhoor
Best Feature Film
A Garden over the Sea — Ziying WU
Best Short Film
BARTHES from MABRES — Elisabet MABRES
Honorable Mention
Woman in a Bottle — Baonan Wang
Honorable Mention
An excess baggage — Sophie Verbeeck
Best Actress – Short Film
Break Up to Make Up — Chang OU
Honorable Mention
This Is Our Apocalypse — Piaera Lauritz
Honorable Mention
Zero Feet Zero Inches — Timothy James Nohe
Honorable Mention
[Un]becoming (#felt cute won’t delete later) — Dawn Woolley
Best Dance Film, Short
June 2025
WiRSiNN — Riu Lohri, Christof Bünter
Best Labor and Social Film
No Man’s land — Vincent Wittich
Best War and Peace Theme Film
Menopause Menopaws — Akiko Matsumoto
Best Mobile Short Film
Wurst Case Szenario — Patrick Praschma
Best Science Fiction Film
LOST PAGES OF WAR — Maik Giessler
Best History Film
ECHO BLOOM — Kasumi Hiraoka
Best Fashion Film
Suburban Safari: A Backyard Wildlife Adventure — James Edward Porter
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
Rapunzel Red — Ben Crompton
Dance Film, Feature
Shrimp — Boya Gao, Yan Yang, Qiaozhi Xiong, Huijuan Cheng, Yuwen Zhang, Xintong He, Yutang Wang, Qirui Hua, Minjie Zhou, Zhuangyi Li, Zixian Tan, Zhiyi Pan, Zi Lin, Hongjin Mou, Wenyu Li, Yiqing Shen, Xiaoyu Liu, Hanle Yi, Laura, Yifan Sun, Xitong Guan, Jialu Wang
Dance Film, Short
The Bytes Dreams are Made of — Alessandro Amaducci
Best Artist Feature Film
Turbulences — Helene Pierrette Mukhtar
Best Artist Short Film
Tricorder.Zero™ Online Ad — Marcus C.B. Soori
Best Commercial & Advertising
HOT ELEPHANT — Anna Senan
Best Actress – Short Film
Changing Sides — Loraine Blumenthal
Best Documentary
THE MUSLIM — ILIR HARXHI
Best Feature Film
Nave — Mortimer Steffen
Honorable Mention
The Crown of Exhaustion — Philipp Kowalski
Best Student Film
Art History / as told by logos — Greg Gersch
Best Short Documentary
The Banned — Haman Vaferi
Best Short Documentary
Dream Man — Harald Takke, Steven Takke
Best Director – Short Film
Les filles et les garçons de mon âge (It, Can) — giovanni princigalli
Honorable Mention
Hot Mess Express — Chao Niu
Best Short Film
Folie À Deux — Helen Collien
Honorable Mention
To Belong — Mats Landström
Honorable Mention
Art History / as told by logos — Greg Gersch
Honorable Mention
The Banned — Haman Vaferi
Best Short Documentary
May 2025
Each Day Feels The Same — Lisa Reinerth
Best Health and Medicine Short Film
amniotic artheraπ — Konrad Mihat
Best VR and 360 Film
Burn Ceremony — Alexander Girav
Best Experimental Film
SACREBLEU – Chapter 1 — Clement Oberto
Best Environment and Climate, Short
Johannes Fröhlich — Mary, Mother of God
Best director, Short Film
BREAK THE SILENCE — Dax Phelan
Best Commercial and Advertising
Bayadere — Peter Gellén, Áron Gasztonyi
Best Dance Film, Short
Rojo clavel (Red carnation) — Roser Corella
Best Dance Film, Feature
Mary, Mother of God — Emily Kusche
Best Actress – Short Film
Mary, Mother of God — Brigitte Urhausen
Best Actress – Short Film
Mary, Mother of God — Caroline Hartig
Best Actress – Short Film
Make it to Munich — MARTYN ROBERTSON
Best Documentary
Rain On The Wind — Brian Tobin
Honorable Mention
The Diamond Girl — Joachim H. Böttcher
Honorable Mention
Work hard, have fun, make history. — Zabi Tajik
Honorable Mention
Serious Comedy — Jiaozi
Best Short Film
April 2025
“Das Sinnieren eines glücklosen Mochileros ” — Carlos Stöver
Best Travel and Discovery, Feature
Back To The Past — Dario Melo Maciel
Best VR and 360 Film
Humans, Weightless — Chan Ting-kin
Best Experimental Film
SOMNAMBUL — Benno Blome
Best Gender Equality, Issues and Rights
By the Shore — Rojin Aslan Vesek
Best Environment and Climate, Short
dust — Noelle Kayser
Best Dance Film, Short
One Night Only — Avery Maycock
Best Artist Feature Film
DAS — Natia Nikolashvili
Best mmercial & Advertising
I dare you to climb Mount Matutum — Dan Razvan Coman
Best Travel and Discovery, Short Film
What do you believe in? (Matosinhos) — Nelson Carvalheiro
Honorable Mention
Tell me what foot you’re dancing on — Philippe Ménard
Best Documentary
Who but When, How — Yehuda Sharim
Honorable Mention
The Border Within Us — Knutte Wester
Honorable Mention
Meet the Makers — Lars Möller, Manja Schröder
Best Short Documentary Ex-Aequo
The Dissident Club – Taha Siddiqui’s Journey — Muhammad Owais Khan
Best Short Documentary Ex-Aequo
The Land Of The Nowhere — Tenglin PENG
Best Short Film
Single Malt Sadness — Xiaohan Zhang
Honorable Mention
The heaven in the shower — Gino CERIACHI
Honorable Mention
The End of Summer — Donnie Cai
Honorable Mention
My Valley of Draughts — Neringa Naujokaite
Honorable Mention
Borderland — Ines Sebalj
Best Artist Short Film
The Hunter — Diego Ospina Melo
Honorable Mention
March 2025
Bluebells — Marc Gaudet
Best Comedy, Short Film
Worship — Fredrik Carlsson
Mobile Short Film
Posh Boy — Robert Andrews Wood
Best Student Film
IN HER SKIN — Kazım Mutlu
Best Science Fiction Film
AI Ferrari Commercial — Jaeyong Choi
Best Commercial & Advertising
Die Unterhaltung — Marian Bruchholz
Best Director – Short Film
NEXT UP — Hervine De Boodt
Best Actress – Short Film
Maria — Abdelhakim majed abudaqen
Best Short Documentary
RAIN — Mark Limburg
Best Documentary
Crossing through the Highlands of Iceland — Dan Razvan Coman
Best Travel and Discovery, Short Film
Last climber on Three Peaks — Dan Razvan Coman
Honorable Mention
Why – The Music Video — Lucas W
Honorable Mention
CONNY – Warum es nicht so bleiben kann wie es war — Vick Polok
Best Music Video
Wildfire Smoke – Sky Swallower — Rodolfo Pérez-Luna
Best Experimental Film
Tangle — Carla Hoogewijs, Frank Stevens
Semi-Finalist
Directions To The Other Side Of The World — Derrick Belcham
Semi-Finalist
Imagine Ocean — Imagine Ocean
Honorable Mention
Seeking Tranquility — Ysabelle Taylor
Best Dance Film, Short
Pictures of a negative chair — Magdalena Bermudez
Honorable Mention
Rewriting a Memory and Different Rooms — Anna Persson
Best Artist Short Film
Touchless — Zhongze Li
Honorable Mention
La valse des adieux version allemande — Louis Salvatore Bellanti
Best Short Film
Ancress — Liam “Lilo Ghul” Doheny
Honorable Mention
The Crow’s Shadow — Evan T Mack
Honorable Mention
February 2025
ARK TAROKO — Adrian Lee
Best Director - Short Film
Atlantic Narratives — Kostiantyn Mishchenko
Honorable Mention
BONES — Christian Glatzel
Best Comedy, Short Film
Dawson Island, a Song in the Adversity — Pablo Guzmán
Honorable Mention
Emperica — Ron Chiers
Best Experimental Film
FOUR MOTHERS — Inbal Abergil
Best War and Peace Theme Film
Go To Hell Goliath — Andrij Smirnov
Ice Breath — Leonard Alecu
Honorable Mention
MY OWN WORST ENEME — Nicola Napoli
Environment and Climate, Feature
Mimosa — Theresa Müller
Honorable Mention
Musical Angels — Saul Pincus
One Hundred Percent — Leona Klocke
Best Student Film
Patriots — Yura Vavilov
Honorable Mention
Paul Jannowski — Björn Warns
Best History Film
Prisoners of Fire: The Dude Fire Story — scott briggs
Honorable Mention
Raindrop - The Journey of Water — Marco Graf
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
THE FLAME OF A CANDLE — Rua Escura Filmes
Best Feature Film
The First Train — Orestes Fiedler
Best Actor - Feature Film
The First Train — Gero Brötz
Best Science Fiction Film
The Gospel According to Parajanov — Vivyen Bastajyan
The Outlaw Gardeners - Giardinieri d’Assalto — Guerrilla Gardening Club Productions
Honorable Mention
Where Blue Meets Red — Tamás Patrovits
Honorable Mention
Where You Go I Will Go — Joseph Franciosa
Best VR and 360
Whispers Of Magic — Sara Seyed Azizi
Best Animation
Zeppelin oben rechts — Olli Duerr
Best Documentary
January 2025
Where You Go I Will Go — Joseph Franciosa
VR and 360
The First Train — Gero Brötz, Markus Veith
Best Science Fiction Film
The First Train — Orestes Fiedler
Best Actor – Feature Film
ARK TAROKO — CHEN-TANG LEE
Honorable Mention – Documentary
ARK TAROKO — CHEN-TANG LEE
Best Director – Short Film
The Gospel According to Parajanov — Vivyen Bastajyan
Best Actress – Short Film
The Gospel According to Parajanov — Vivyen Bastajyan
Best Short Film
The Gospel According to Parajanov — Vivyen Bastajyan
Honorable Mention
Musical Angels — Saul Pincus
Best Music Video
BONES — Christian Glatzel
Best Comedy, Short Film
Paul Jannowski — Björn Beton Warns
Best History Film
Paul Jannowski — Björn Beton Warns
Honorable Mention – Comedy
FOUR MOTHERS — Inbal Abergil
Best War and Peace Theme
Patriots — Yura Vavilov
Honorable Mention
One Hundred Percent — Leona Esther Klocke
Best Student Film
Whispers Of Magic — Sara Seyed Azizi
Best Animation
Where Blue Meets Red — Tamás Patrovits
Honorable Mention
Raindrop – The Journey of Water — Marco Dominik Graf
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
The Outlaw Gardeners – Giardinieri d’Assalto — Angelo Camba
Honorable Mention
MY OWN WORST ENEME — Nicola Napoli
Best Short Documentary
Mimosa — Theresa Müller
Honorable Mention
THE FLAME OF A CANDLE — André Gil Mata
Best Feature Film
Ice Breath — Leonard Alecu
Honorable Mention
EMPERICA — Kris De Meester, Ron Chiers
Best Experimental Film
Prisoners of Fire: The Dude Fire Story — Scott E Briggs
Honorable Mention
Dawson Island, a Song in the Adversity — Pablo Ignacio Guzmán
Honorable Mention
Zeppelin oben rechts — Zeppelin oben rechts
Best Documentary
Atlantic Narratives — Kostiantyn Mishchenko, Valeriy Zayets
Honorable Mention
Go To Hell Goliath — Andrij Smirnov, Luis Janßen
Honorable Mention