June 2025
Award Recipients
Best Labor and Social Film
WiRSiNN
Riu Lohri, Christof Bünter
Best War and Peace Theme Film
No Man’s land
Vincent Wittich
Best Mobile Short Film
Menopause Menopaws
Akiko Matsumoto
Best Science Fiction Film
Wurst Case Szenario
Patrick Praschma
Best History Film
LOST PAGES OF WAR
Maik Giessler
Best Fashion Film
ECHO BLOOM
Kasumi Hiraoka
Best Environment and Climate, Feature
Suburban Safari: A Backyard Wildlife Adventure
James Edward Porter
Dance Film, Feature
Rapunzel Red
Ben Crompton
Dance Film, Short
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,
Best Artist Feature Film
The Bytes Dreams are Made of
Alessandro Amaducci
Best Artist Short Film
Turbulences
Helene Pierrette Mukhtar
Best Commercial & Advertising
Tricorder.Zero™ Online Ad
Marcus C.B. Soori
Best Actress – Short Film
HOT ELEPHANT
Anna Senan
Best Documentary
Changing Sides
Loraine Blumenthal
Best Feature Film
THE MUSLIM
ILIR HARXHI
Honorable Mention
Nave
Mortimer Steffen
Best Student Film
The Crown of Exhaustion
Philipp Kowalski
Best Short Documentary
Art History / as told by logos
Greg Gersch
Best Short Documentary
The Banned
Haman Vaferi
Best Director – Short Film
Dream Man
Harald Takke, Steven Takke
Honorable Mention
Les filles et les garçons de mon âge (It, Can)
giovanni princigalli
Best Short Film
Hot Mess Express
Chao Niu
Honorable Mention
Folie À Deux
Helen Collien
Honorable Mention
To Belong
Mats Landström
Honorable Mention
Art History / as told by logos
Greg Gersch
Best Short Documentary
The Banned
Haman Vaferi