OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2025

OFFICIAL SELECTION 

Narrative Short

"Love" Directed by Olga Polukhina (Italy)

"What Dance Am I?" Directed by Daniel S. Janik (United States)

"Switched" Directed by Andrew Wynn (United Kingdom)

"Gift" Directed by Rajat Kaushik (India)

"He/She/Us" Directed by Susan Kelejian (United States)

"Siblings" Directed by Coco Nicole Marshall, Matthew Elton (United States)

"Shortlisted" Directed by Rakshit D (India)

"Mystery in Chochis" Directed by Sandra Anahi Camargo (Bolivia)

"The Prey" Directed by Clara Casado (Spain)

"O'Sey Balamma" Directed by Raman Nimmala (United States)

"Ditto" Directed by Suresh G (India)

"Instructions on How to Embrace a Tree" Directed by Mauricio Díaz-Beltran (Colombia)

"Bubble United" Directed by Edward Russell (United Kingdom)

"Life between us" Directed by Alexandra Dubinina (Russian Federation)

"Hitman Ex" Directed by Jamon Holmes (United States)

"Caged" Directed by K3Di (India)

"Boutique" Directed by Pouya Dastgiran (Iran)

"The Leopard Goddess" Directed by Ringo Krause (Switzerland)

"Pakhi" Directed by Bijitesh De (India)

"Ring Ring" Directed by Adrian León (United Kingdom)

"Helezon Akışkan" Directed by Cihan Abdal (Turkey)

"Sanad" Directed by Noor Al-Nasr (Qatar)

"Traitor" Directed by Lawrence Bucher (United States)

"Dreaming Ric" Directed by Alex De Cortada

"La Carta De Irina" Directed by Adriana Davidova (Spain)

"Listen" Directed by Javi Prada (Spain)

Narrative Feature

"We Are Hunted" Directed by Isaak Jeffrey Rust (United States)

"Rudram" Directed by Srinivasa Sasikiran Chakravarthula (United States)

"Monongahela" Directed by Cayce Mell (United States)

"Rangaaa" Directed by Shrikant Mukund Choudhari (India)

"Code 133" Directed by Omid Barzegar (Iran)

"Honeymoonay Namah" Directed by Nishant Bhardwaj (India)

"Le Coruskan" Directed by Fred Eyriey (Mauritius)

"La Carta De Óscar" Directed by María Luz Zamora Abanades (Spain)

Best LGBTQ+ Film

"An Ordinary Couple 2.0" Directed by Jay Gianukos, Susan Barnes (United States)

"He/She/Us" Directed by Susan Kelejian (United States)

Documentary Feature

"Save Blasco!" Directed by Cayce Mell (United States)

"Galina Vasilievna vs." Directed by Egor Gavrilin (Russian Federation)

"The Eagle Obsession" Directed by Jeffrey Morris (United States)

"Ballroom Boom" Directed by Billy McGrath (Ireland)

"What Will People Say?" Directed by Rafina Khatun (India)

"Unspoken" Directed by Maciej Adamek (Poland)

"Hong Kong Mixtape" Directed by Hing Weng Eric Tsang (Hong Kong)

"The Captain" Directed by Ali Arkian (Tajikistan)

"The Joy of Curiosity" Directed by Kum-Kum Bhavnani (United States)

Documentary Short

"Impact - The Story of Oshane Drews" Directed by Sebastian Thomas Brune (Germany)

"Ray The Rug" Directed by Mohammad Ali Shakeri (Thailand)

"Souls Not Numbers" Directed by Mike Large (United States)

"Gutli Man" Directed by Chandan Priyadarshi (India)

"Set Free - Fighting Human Trafficking in America" Directed by Kalley Beatrice (United States)

"Buenos Aires: Tango of Passion" Directed by Kostiantyn Mishchenko (United States)

"The First Holidays™" Directed by La-Tonya Hatcher (United States)

"Iturralde" Directed by Jon Martija Leunda (Spain)

Animation Short

"No Worries!" Directed by Chris Dicker (Ireland)

"Stumbling Blocks" Directed by Tortor Smith (United Kingdom)

Experimental Short

"Super Hwy" Directed by Lucinda Luvaas (United States)

"Tipping Point" Directed by L. Scooter Morris (United States)

"Awakening the Christ within" Directed by Christina Tzidras (Australia)

"What Dance Am I?" Directed by Daniel S. Janik (United States)

"Life between us" Directed by Alexandra Dubinina (Russian Federation)

"MozikMoro" Directed by Cem Kâmil Dede (Turkey)

"Irul Vaan Mugil" Directed by Sakthivel Kalkona (India)

"Driving Creativity to Space,The Ferrari Orbit" Directed by Jinju Shin

"Analogue Digital Dead Alive" Directed by C M Taylor (United Kingdom)

"Level Dark" Directed by Anurag Chaudhary (India) 

"The New Creation" Directed by Seth Oliver Olson (United States)

"Le jeu des fusions" Directed by Yasha Vetkine (France, Montenegro)

Experimental Feature

"Level" Directed by Anurag Chaudhary (India)

"VJ Gang" Directed by Kankipati Deepankar (India)

Best Student Film

"VJ Gang" Directed by Kankipati Deepankar

Best AI Film

"Fail" Directed by Felipe Valério (Brazil)

"The Watcher" Directed by Scott Terry (United States)

"il programma" Directed by alberto zanigni (Italy)

"Railbound" Directed by Jonathan Perry (United States)

"Spoken For-The Movie" Directed by Jean-Yves "Jeeve" Ducornet (United States)

"Gentle" Directed by Alex Naghavi (United States)

"Her Voice Was a Sea" Directed by Hera Nam (South Korea)

"Shepherd" Directed by Alborz Poursayad (Iran)

"Servants in Disguise" Directed by Donghun Lee (Korea)

"All Power" Directed by Clint Sleeper

"Red Dot" Directed by Gyumin Kim (South Korea)

Best AI Music Video

"The Devil Walks at Midnight: Hide Your Demons" Directed by Valerie Denise Jones, Phillip A Driskell, II (United States)

"Curb Dolls - Queens Proud" Directed by James G. Maynard (United States)

"Keane Austin – What’s Going To Be" Directed by Mohd Shahran bin Daud (Malaysia)

"All my Love is You" Directed by Enrico Rudolph Famulari Valentino (United Kingdom)

Best First-Time Filmmaker

Srinivasa Sasikiran Chakravarthula (Film "Rudram") (United States)

Teo Baehler (Film "Dynamics") (Netherlands)

Emre Coskun (Film "Ask And Listen") (Turkey)

Rakshith Shivakumar (Film "Avalokana") (India)

Abhipsa Sahoo (Film "The Soiled Shawl") (India)

Dr. Amol Ajit Desai, and Kishor Patil (Film "The Undying Spirit Of Doctors") (India)

Leonardo Javier  Pons Buades  (Film "La escena perfecta") (Spain)

Best Director

Bryan Harris (Film: "SCP-Zombie") (United States)

Daniel S. Janik (Film: "What Dance Am I?") (United States)

Noor Al-Nasr (Film "Sanad") (Qatar)

Cem Kâmil Dede (Film "MozikMoro") (Turkey)

Anurag Chaudhary (Film "Level Dark") (India)

Kankipati Deepankar (Film "VJ Gang") (India)

Adam Kiss (Film "My Last Words") (United States)

Nishant Bhardwaj (Film "Honeymoonay Namah") (India)

Lavish Jindal (Film "Hizr") (India)

Kum-Kum Bhavnani (Film "The Joy of Curiosity") (United States)

Gaurav Chauhan (Film "Finding Ira") (India)

Best Music Video

"Curb Dolls - Queens Proud" Directed by James G. Maynard (United States)

"The Enemy" Directed by Tyler Evan Leyva (United States)

"Mirrors In My Mind" Directed by Allen Brooks (United States)

"Honeymoonay Namah" Directed by Nishant Bhardwaj (India)

"Birds of Amsterdam" Directed by Bruno Sãnto (Brazil)

"Stop Light Moon" Directed by Robert Benson Edgar (United States)

Best Music Composition

"Birds of Amsterdam" Directed by Bruno Sãnto (Brazil)

Best Trailer/ Teaser

"Follow The Dog" Directed by Cayce Mell (United States)

"Level Dark" Directed by Anurag Chaudhary (India) 

"The Grand Incredible Story" Directed by Cayce Mell (United States)

"K.A. Mulenga Storytime Adventures" by Kalenga Augustine Mulenga (South Africa)

"Honeymoonay Namah" Directed by Nishant Bhardwaj (India)

Best Thriller

"Level Dark" Directed by Anurag Chaudhary (India) 

"The Bottle" Directed by Ashutosh Trivedi (India) 

"Blau/Bad" Directed by Lukas Wolfgang Martin, Merlin Lüttger (Germany)

"Where The Shadows Wait" Directed by Riley Robbins (United States)

Best Comedy

"HEAD" Directed by Keith Ruggiero (United States)

"Time's Up!" Directed by Ivan Krapivin (Serbia)

"Honeymoonay Namah" Directed by Nishant Bhardwaj (India)

Best Drama

"Honeymoonay Namah" Directed by Nishant Bhardwaj (India)

"The Three Of us" Directed by Claudia Ventura

Best Actor

Anurag Chaudhary (Film "Level Dark") (India) 

Kovid Mittal (Film "Meri Maa") (India)

Max Rohland (Film "Blau/Bad") (Germany)

Emre Coskun (Film "Ask And Listen") (Turkey)

Bhuvnesh Chauhan (Film "Hizr") (India)

Best Supporting Actor

Bilge Topal (Film "Ask And Listen") (Turkey)

Best Cinematography

Merlin Lüttger (Film "Blau/Bad") (Germany)

Skye Borgman (Film "The Joy of Curiosity") (United States)

Rahul Suresh (Film "The Three Of us")

Best VFX

"The Discovery" Directed by Ernesto Rodriguez Cruz (United States)