Winners
Winter Season
2023
Congratulations again to all the Winners and their projects!
- Best Indie Feature Film
- YOLO, you only live once
- Directed by Laurent Brard
- France
- Best Indie Short Film
- Hero of the Desert
- Directed by Lorena Sopi
- Kosovo
- Best Indie Super Short Film
- RETARDATION
- Directed by Nils Agdler
- Sweden
- Best Feature Film
- LA GRANDE GUERRA DEL SALENTO
- Directed by Marco Pollini
- Italy
- Best Short Film
- Hear Her Voice
- Directed by Emma Dickson
- United Kingdom
- Best Feature Documentary
- SIDELINED
- Directed by Ben Marlow, Jack Tompkins
- United Kingdom
- Best Short Documentary
- Mushy Peas to Green Tea Kulfi
- Directed by Michael Forrest
- United Kingdom
- Best Music Video
- The Swans
- Directed by Arthur Pereira
- France
- Best UK Feature Film
- THE LAST WITNESS
- Directed by Piotr Szkopiak
- United Kingdom
- Best UK Short Film
- CHROMA KEY
- Directed by Max Puglisi
- United Kingdom
- Best Animation Feature
- How Much for the Exam?
- Directed by Ivica Valentić
- Croatia
- Best Animation Short
- Echo
- Directed by Sergio Kotsovoulos
- Greece
- Best Experimental Feature
- Future Italian Frescoes
- Directed by Salvatore Garau
- Italy
- Best Experimental Short
- Ball-Pit. Wednesday. Lemonade.
- Directed by Daniel Howard-Baker
- United Kingdom
- Best Student Feature
- Starring Myself
- Directed by Sabine Koder
- Germany
- Best Student Short
- Kanatenhs - When The Pine Needles Fall
- Directed by Ellen Gabriel
- Canada
- Best First Time Filmmaker Feature
- A Love Worth Fighting For
- Directed by Toby Fountaine
- United Kingdom
- Best First Time Filmmaker Short
- Decisions
- Directed by Meletis Fourountzidis
- Greece
- Best Horror Feature
- Horny Teenagers Must Die!
- Directed by David Zagorski
- United States
- Best Horror Short
- Sampha
- Directed by Nathaniel Bertram, Ethosheia Hylton
- United Kingdom
- Best Producer
- The Blessing
- Directed by Per Gunnar Økland
- Norway
- Best Female Director
- Quiet
- Directed by Victoria Malinjod
- United Kingdom
- Best Male Director
- Black Quixotes
- Directed by Sandino Burbano
- Ecuador
- Best Female Student Director
- Pneumoconiosis
- Directed by Isabella Ma
- China
- Best Actress
- Sister
- Directed by Colin Denhart
- United States
- Best Actor
- In Absentia
- Directed by Charles Sharman-Cox
- United Kingdom
- Best Inspirational Film
- TALITA l'abbandono.
- Directed by Damiano Rossi
- Italy
- Best LGBTQ Film
- Kath Duncan -The untold struggle for civil rights
- Directed by Ray Barron Woolford FRSA
- United Kingdom
- Best Mobile Phone Short
- Far Away Man in Cannes
- Directed by Wil Allen
- Australia
- Best Acting
- I Don't Remember Why I Loved You
- Directed by Shanghai Vancouver Film School
- China
- Best Cinematography
- Mariuschenka
- Directed by Niccolò Palomba
- Italy
- Best Editing
- Walk Into the Water
- Directed by Aric Johnson
- United States
- Best Production Design
- The Eve
- Directed by Luca Machnich
- Best Sound Design
- The Captain's Heart
- Directed by Simon Bang
- Denmark
- Best VFX
- THE NINEVEH CONSTANT
- Directed by Maurice Micallef
- Malta
- Best Production
- "medèn àgan" NOTHING BEYOND MEASURE
- Directed by Alessandro Vantini
- Italy
- Best Feature Script
- Escaping Honour
- Written by Sean Hynes
- Ireland
- Best Short Script
- Admonition
- Written by Katelin Stack
- United States
- Best Super Short Script
- Baby Blue
- Written by Toby Smith
- United Kingdom
- Best Drama Script
- Death Exhibition
- Written by Julie A. Thornton
- Australia
- Best Comedy Script
- Tick Tock
- Written by Willow Hewett
- United Kingdom
- Best Horror Script
- M - Demon Killer
- Written by Mark William Hammond
- United States
- Best Action Script
- Bad Love Tigers
- Written by Kevin Schewe
- United States
- Best Original Script
- Unspoken Love
- Written by Martha Evans
- United Kingdom
- Best Screenwriting
- Deadline To Death
- Written by Elliot Stanton
- United Kingdom