Official Selections
Autumn 2025
Official Selections List
Best Short Film
"TV Man" by Leonardo Valenti
"Best Short Film"
While getting ready for a date with the girl of his dreams, Marco is visited by a man in the TV who starts talking to him. And he has a request to make... Hallucination or reality? That’s what Marco will have to figure out in this absurd and slapstick comedy.
"ROSITA" by Gerardo Castañeda
"Best Short Film"
Rosita, a little 5 year old girl, keeps a tradition: visiting her grandmother’s grave. During each visit, she brings a very special gift—a white rose plucked from Margarita’s garden. However, this innocent and loving gesture sets off unexpected consequences.
"RAPACE" by Nina Schuchman
"Best Short Film"
Four young people enter into a bar. Unfortunately, they still don't know that their lives are threatened.
"REBORN" by Aida Korman
"Best Short Film"
"ReBorn" follows a woman escaping the noise of the city to reclaim the lost pieces of herself. In an abandoned sock factory, its graffiti-covered walls become an open-air museum, whispering stories of identity, rebellion, and style. Wearing ReBorn street couture, she immerses herself in the colors, textures, and rhythm of the asphalt.

Her journey leads her high into the mountains, to the nomadic village of Lukomir. Here, where the wind carries the whispers of ancestors and medieval stećak stones guard forgotten tales, she finds silence. Draped in haute couture inspired by traditional folk costumes, she reconnects with her true self.

"ReBorn" is a visual and emotional journey — from graffiti to stećaks, from urban grit to mountain serenity. A story of escape, encounter, and rebirth.
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"PARSEC ONE" by Kevin CorSan
"Best Short Film"
A group of renowned scientists and engineers is linked to a secret military project, dubbed P-1, and the theft of highly valuable technological material. This prompts an intelligence agency to pursue them to uncover the true nature of the project and its intentions. What they don't know, however, is the dangerous terrain they will enter when they discover what the P-1 really is.
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"BURIED" by Sukru Gursoy
"Best Short Film"
Waking up in a forest in Thrace, two treasure hunters, Mesut and Sahin, are left with gold—and the memory of two lost friends. On their way home, greed casts a shadow over their path. An impulsive decision changes everything. Buried tells the quiet, irreversible moment when a man faces his conscience, and regret echoes louder than gold ever could.
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"Good Advice" by Barbara de la Fuente
"Best Short Film"
Amanda is in a relationship that has her running off her feet and leaves her physically battered. Georgie, a stranger and well-intentioned busybody, encourages Amanda to share her pain in an earnest discussion that devolves into a comedy of errors.
"Terra 84" by Freddie Saj
"Best Short Film"
Two women from another dimension where society is matrilineal meet again in a version of earth similar to ours.
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Best Director
"The Ashes of A Dream" by Joe Nuzzolo
"Best Director"
Randy Lupo returns to Staten Island to find his mother drifting into the quiet shadows of age. She compels him to right the wrongs she believes were done to her and left to fester in the silence of passing years. As he navigates the still streets of his past—from weathered boardwalks to long-forgotten corners of his youth—Randy is pulled into a reckoning with the life he left behind, where old debts linger, memory blurs with regret, and redemption may lie in the spaces between what was lost and what remains.
"BURIED" by Sukru Gursoy
"Best Director"
Waking up in a forest in Thrace, two treasure hunters, Mesut and Sahin, are left with gold—and the memory of two lost friends. On their way home, greed casts a shadow over their path. An impulsive decision changes everything. Buried tells the quiet, irreversible moment when a man faces his conscience, and regret echoes louder than gold ever could.
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"LOSING ACE" by Sally Dora Clack-Manning
"Best Director"
Confessional rap song - Dark love story rap “As Rapper Shampagne, I want everyone to know that ‘Losing Ace’ comes straight from real life. I met him in Miami—cool as ice in a Lamborghini, neon lights bouncing off his shades—and in that moment I felt the raw pulse of danger and desire. That encounter lit the spark for this track; his story demanded to be told.”On her deathbed in Miami, a woman recounts the fatal allure of a Lamborghini-driving gangster who stole her heart. In a hushed, slow-burn narrative rap, she recalls the rush of first love, the sting of betrayal, and the moment a gun pressed to her temple. Each verse peels back layers of passion and violence—late-night fights, whispered apologies, and the intoxicating thrill of danger. As blood paints her final world in vivid colour, she confronts the question that haunts her last breath: why did she love someone who only knew how to break her?“ this is a slow burn narrative rap Miami love gone wrong”
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Best Feature Film
"The Ashes of A Dream" by Joe Nuzzolo
"Best Feature Film"
Randy Lupo returns to Staten Island to find his mother drifting into the quiet shadows of age. She compels him to right the wrongs she believes were done to her and left to fester in the silence of passing years. As he navigates the still streets of his past—from weathered boardwalks to long-forgotten corners of his youth—Randy is pulled into a reckoning with the life he left behind, where old debts linger, memory blurs with regret, and redemption may lie in the spaces between what was lost and what remains.
"GATWICK GANGSTERS" by Sally Clack-Manning
"Best Short Film"
When banker Shampagne murders Diamond Larry (Bobby George) in a ruthless race to buy a bank from King El Sahara, the king’s deadly secret explodes — he’s a terrorist plotting to blow up Gatwick Airport. Borrowing $100 M from volatile mob boss Large, she’s hacked and robbed by the king, plunging into lethal debt. MI6 takes interest after a tip that Sir Jack Cole’s daughter is dealing with an extremist. As London’s underworld war spills to Corfu, East End George (Garry Bushell) plots to steal the king’s gold, Ray Razor (Dave Courtney) swipes Large’s cocaine, La Mano Negra arrives to seize both empires, and IRA robbers snatch diamonds from The Beast (Willie Thorne). All hurtles toward a sea showdown where MI6 intercepts a bomb‑laden ship — king’s gold and mob money end up in the British Treasury. 
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Best Actor
"The Ashes of A Dream" by Joe Nuzzolo
"Best Actor" — Joe Nuzzolo
Randy Lupo returns to Staten Island to find his mother drifting into the quiet shadows of age. She compels him to right the wrongs she believes were done to her and left to fester in the silence of passing years. As he navigates the still streets of his past—from weathered boardwalks to long-forgotten corners of his youth—Randy is pulled into a reckoning with the life he left behind, where old debts linger, memory blurs with regret, and redemption may lie in the spaces between what was lost and what remains.
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Best Editing
About My Father by Sumit Sisodiya
"Best Editing"
Despite everything breaking down around him – my father started nurturing a dream. A dream to reconcile, repair his relationship with my mother and to unite his two families. But the scars of the past are so deep for the families…that it seems impossible. 
And yet, for some reason, I believe in him and his dream.
"The Neighbors, the last Witnesses of the Ukrainian genocide of Poles (episode 1 "Prelude")" by Jacek Mateusz Międlar
"Best Editing"
The first episode (1/3) of the documentary series on the Ukrainian genocide against Poles. The main narrative of the film is created by Witnesses to Genocide. The first episode covers the history of the causes of genocide during and after World War II.
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Best Cinematography
"The Ashes of A Dream" by Joe Nuzzolo
"Best Cinematography"
Randy Lupo returns to Staten Island to find his mother drifting into the quiet shadows of age. She compels him to right the wrongs she believes were done to her and left to fester in the silence of passing years. As he navigates the still streets of his past—from weathered boardwalks to long-forgotten corners of his youth—Randy is pulled into a reckoning with the life he left behind, where old debts linger, memory blurs with regret, and redemption may lie in the spaces between what was lost and what remains.
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Best Animation
"Bebere Hasta Olvidarte" by David Martos Korvo, Jonatan Martos Korvo
"Best Music Video", "Best Composer"
What happened after an Earth astronaut left a family photo on the moon fifty-plus years ago? This animated short explores the butterfly effect of such an action. How will it affect us all?
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"The Family Photo" by John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez
"Best Animation"
What happened after an Earth astronaut left a family photo on the moon fifty-plus years ago? This animated short explores the butterfly effect of such an action. How will it affect us all?
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"Brush me" by Nikolaus Jantsch
"Best Animation"
In a bustling bathroom, amidst the chaos of everyday life, two toothbrushes, find themselves drawn to each other. "Brush me" is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, and the resilience of the toothbrush spirit.

Brush Me is a quirky and hilariously absurd stop-motion short that transforms everyday toothbrushes into the stars of a playful and provocative narrative. With its janky yet charming animation style, the film delivers a wild tale of flirtation and passion, amplified by perfectly chosen tango music and humorous voice acting that moves from suggestive foreplay to full-on comedic action.

The clever use of simple props and unexpected scenarios keeps viewers laughing while exploring an offbeat, risqué humor that feels both bold and delightfully uncomfortable. The toothpaste twist and cheeky ending add a final touch of hilarity, cementing Brush Me as a unique, entertaining gem that’s equal parts absurd, daring, and fun. It’s an unforgettable ride that showcases the filmmaker’s creativity and leaves audiences eager for more.
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Best Original Screenplay
"SYVERTSEN'S COMPLEX" by Marni Sullivan
"Best Original Screenplay"
When a neurologically-altered man bonded to a wealthy family’s son loses the child to terminal illness, he develops a deadly mental condition that he must overcome by finding the only person known to survive the syndrome.
"La città delle anime reiette" by Timothy Keller
"Best Original Screenplay"
"UNRAVELLED" by Brett Bower
"Best Original Screenplay"
BASED ON A TRUE STORY. A high school student's world is turned upside down when he survives a near death experience. As he struggles with short-term memory loss with opening night of his play rapidly approaching, his teacher coaches him past his fears while his friends help him piece together the mysterious events of the wreck he walked away from with hardly a scratch.
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"Let’s go! Love Ishinomaki “United smiles across the world”" by Tomohisa Ishigami
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
This documentary film follows Tokyo-based Ishinomaki Tourism Ambassadors Miyuki Shigeta, who have been working to bring about a "smile recovery" following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The film follows them as they work as symbols of smile recovery at the annual Ishinomaki River Opening Festival, alongside university students from Tokyo, outside Miyagi Prefecture. With full cooperation from Ishinomaki City Hall, they are spreading smiles from Ishinomaki to the world. This year's event kicks off with a "prayer for smiles" at Kashima Miko Shrine.
"Spoon-fed Addiction" by Silvano Williams
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
A haunting psychological drama dissecting trauma's afterlife and the myths it births.
In 1995 Houston, dealer Adiran fractures after accidentally killing girlfriend Veronica in a peyote ritual. Two years of guilt erupt in a hallucinatory night of vengeance—targeting Jessica's corrupt sheriff father—culminating in "enlightening" her sheltered sister Angela with toxic intimacy.
Through Angela's diary, Adiran's collapse reassembles as tragic romance: She romanticizes his violence without witnessing it, completing his cycle. Told in four acts mirroring trauma's wound, descent, delusion, and infection, Spoon-fed Addiction dismantles redemption via shadows, silence, and fragmented memory.
Perspectives warp truth—Adiran's memory, Jessica's witness, Angela's imagination—proving pain outlives its carriers through retellings. The film ends where the next myth begins: Trauma doesn't die with the body, only with silence.
"The Ashes of A Dream" by Joe Nuzzolo
"Best Director Debut"
Randy Lupo returns to Staten Island to find his mother drifting into the quiet shadows of age. She compels him to right the wrongs she believes were done to her and left to fester in the silence of passing years. As he navigates the still streets of his past—from weathered boardwalks to long-forgotten corners of his youth—Randy is pulled into a reckoning with the life he left behind, where old debts linger, memory blurs with regret, and redemption may lie in the spaces between what was lost and what remains.
Hope for Ukraine by Andreas Langvatn
"Best Short Documentary"
A docudrama with an important message. Vitaly, a father of two has to leave his family to a land they supposed to meet. If they ever meet there remains to see. On the way he ends up on the street and needs help to get back on the road.
"The Truth is a Lie, the Lie is the Truth" by Dex Hannon & Dexuality Valentino
"Best Experimental Film"
An abstract, experimental animation that explores the breakdown of truth, society, and personal identity in an era of rising extremism and disinformation. Created from a single image and transformed through relentless manipulation, the film mirrors the way reality is reshaped and distorted beyond recognition. Fractured geometric forms collide, dissolve, and reform in an unsettling rhythm, reflecting a world where stability has eroded, and nothing feels certain.

Accompanied by an, improvised spoken word from Dexuality Valentino, the film is a fragmented response to an age of deep uncertainty—where truth is no longer absolute, and the familiar has become alien.
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"WiNTERHOLLOW" by Roxanne Ducharme
"Best AI Film"
Winterhollow is a haunting forest where beauty conceals danger, and strange, eerie forces lurk. Travelers, drawn by its glow, face surreal trials and chilling legends, with few ever escaping its grip.
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"Mama Vlada" by Ellina Graypel
"Best Short Documentary"
Join Vlada Von Shats, the spirited owner of a beloved New York City gay bar, as she shares her remarkable path into human rights activism. This powerful 32-minute documentary, directed by award winning director, composer and vocalist , who holds Christal Star awards, Global music awards, as well as Intercontinental Music Awards and more , Ellina Graypel, blends vibrant storytelling and original music to address critical issues such as suicide prevention, AIDS hysteria, and homophobia—both within small cultural communities and on a global scale.
Through a rich, musical lens, Mama Vlada challenges our understanding of humanity, offering profound insights into the struggles and triumphs of marginalized voices.
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"RAPACE" by Nina Schuchman
"Best Director Debut"
Four young people enter into a bar. Unfortunately, they still don't know that their lives are threatened.
"Changing Sides" by Loraine Blumenthal
"Best Feature Documentary"
Thomas “Eichi” Eichstätt, coaches the FC Pio soccer team in Eastern Germany. Many of the young players have fled their home countries and are struggling with finding a job, acceptance and their past. For many, Eichi is a father figure, but he also looks back on a dark time as a right-wing extremist.
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"PARSEC ONE" by Kevin CorSan
"Best Director Debut"
A group of renowned scientists and engineers is linked to a secret military project, dubbed P-1, and the theft of highly valuable technological material. This prompts an intelligence agency to pursue them to uncover the true nature of the project and its intentions. What they don't know, however, is the dangerous terrain they will enter when they discover what the P-1 really is.
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"DREAM IT, MAKE IT - Athalie Haubois-Egeler" by Tony Nuon
"Best Director Debut"
Athalie's love for dance fell into her life almost unintentionally when she was a child. From her budding passion to the prospect of making it her career, she paves her way with determination and boldness.
But she doesn't have just one passion in life, so how can she choose between her two loves?
DREAM IT, MAKE IT embarks on a journey to uncover Athalie's personal story and artistic talent!
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"EGRI ERBSTEIN: One Step Ahead of the Game" by Ryan Bensen
"Best Feature Documentary"
Forgotten by history but unforgettable in spirit, Ernő Egri Erbstein was a father, husband and football coach who always put the lives of others before his own. A Hungarian Jew who survived two world wars and went on to lead 'Il Grande Torino', one of Italy’s greatest football teams of all time. He left a legacy of courage, resilience, and quiet heroism that continues to inspire generations.
"The Family Photo" by John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez
"Best Sound Design", "Best Closing Credits"
What happened after an Earth astronaut left a family photo on the moon fifty-plus years ago? This animated short explores the butterfly effect of such an action. How will it affect us all?
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"UNRAVELLED" by Brett Bower
"Best Trailer"
BASED ON A TRUE STORY. A high school student's world is turned upside down when he survives a near death experience. As he struggles with short-term memory loss with opening night of his play rapidly approaching, his teacher coaches him past his fears while his friends help him piece together the mysterious events of the wreck he walked away from with hardly a scratch.
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"DREAM IT, MAKE IT - David Parjov" by Tony Nuon
"Best Short Documentary"
There's no specific age when you should be taking on challenges and showing your work to the public. Even when you are still a young fashion designer. David realised this early on, and this experience now drives him to work hard to develop his own creative universe where colours and materials meet.
David Parjov, one of the new designers to watch, is featured in DREAM IT, MAKE IT...
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"DREAM IT, MAKE IT - Athalie Haubois-Egeler" by Tony Nuon
"Best Short Documentary"
Athalie's love for dance fell into her life almost unintentionally when she was a child. From her budding passion to the prospect of making it her career, she paves her way with determination and boldness.
But she doesn't have just one passion in life, so how can she choose between her two loves?
DREAM IT, MAKE IT embarks on a journey to uncover Athalie's personal story and artistic talent!
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"The Season of Wild Plums" by Tamar Maare
"Best Short Documentary"
In a small Georgian village, summer is the season of wild plums - tkemali. It’s also when grandmothers host their children and grandchildren, who visit from the capital city and abroad. My grandmother Ketevan, blessed (or perhaps burdened) with only daughters and granddaughters, spends the summer perfecting her tkemali sauce while her well-meaning but city-spoiled granddaughters try to help - or at least not get in the way…

Between simmering pots and village gossip, and with Russia’s war against Ukraine casting a shadow of unease over Georgia, the film follows Ketevan and her neighbors, all elderly women living on their own, as they pick, cook, and bottle the green and red plums with their grandchildren.

The film explores generational gaps and the fading culture of Georgian village life, as the younger generation leaves in search of better opportunities, while those who remain hold onto traditions that feel more precious - and more vulnerable - than ever.
"ENCOUNTER" by Jae Youn Song
"Best AI Film"
In 1959, an unidentified flying object crashes in Nevada.
Special forces from Area 51 recover an alien, but when all interrogation fails, Air Force operative Bob Thomas launches Project CIRCLE.
As chaos erupts and America’s pride is on the line, Bob must make a fateful decision—can he end the mission before it ends him?
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"LOSING ACE" by Sally Dora Clack-Manning
"Best Music Video"
Confessional rap song - Dark love story rap “As Rapper Shampagne, I want everyone to know that ‘Losing Ace’ comes straight from real life. I met him in Miami—cool as ice in a Lamborghini, neon lights bouncing off his shades—and in that moment I felt the raw pulse of danger and desire. That encounter lit the spark for this track; his story demanded to be told.”On her deathbed in Miami, a woman recounts the fatal allure of a Lamborghini-driving gangster who stole her heart. In a hushed, slow-burn narrative rap, she recalls the rush of first love, the sting of betrayal, and the moment a gun pressed to her temple. Each verse peels back layers of passion and violence—late-night fights, whispered apologies, and the intoxicating thrill of danger. As blood paints her final world in vivid colour, she confronts the question that haunts her last breath: why did she love someone who only knew how to break her?“ this is a slow burn narrative rap Miami love gone wrong”
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"No Man's Land" by Philipp Langer
"Best AI Film"
Set in a shattered future, an assassin and his target clash over the fate of a mysterious child — whose humanity changes everything.

What began as a simple test to create consistency with Runway’s Gen-4 References turned into the most ambitious and complex AI project I’ve tackled so far.

It is not really short film but rather the effort to create something slightly challenging in the AI space.

One continuous, long scene at the same consistent location with the same consistent characters, using a wide range of camera angles and shot types to create tension.
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"Embryom Chronicles: Ashfall" by Giulio Fulchignoni
"Best AI Film"
In a world poisoned by its own ambition, a rebel, a seer, and an inquisitor descend into the depths of a ruined planet. Drawn by fractured visions and ancient warnings, they uncover a forgotten power buried beneath the ashes, one that was never meant to wake.
A bleak and atmospheric descent into prophecy, decay, and the illusion of control.
"The Neighbors, the last Witnesses of the Ukrainian genocide of Poles (episode 1 "Prelude")" by Jacek Mateusz Międlar
"Best Feature Documentary"
The first episode (1/3) of the documentary series on the Ukrainian genocide against Poles. The main narrative of the film is created by Witnesses to Genocide. The first episode covers the history of the causes of genocide during and after World War II.
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"Terra 84" by Freddie Saj
"Best Director Debut"
Two women from another dimension where society is matrilineal meet again in a version of earth similar to ours.
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