2023
The Results
Best Feature Film
Nominations
The Performance
Director Stephen Wallis
Through life and death
Director Qing Chang
Skinjacker
Director David Izatt
Saving Grace
Directors Gareth Carr, David Sullivan
Four O'Clock Flowers
Director Peter Callow
Winner
Una Llave Hacia El Pasado (Key To The Past)
Mauro Mauad
Best TV Pilot / Webseries
Nominations
Walking Shadows Vol. 2
Director Sally McLean
Desire Untamed
Director Jonathan Daniel Williams
Just Us
Director Alexander Osman
H.O.E.s: The Bulge
Director Robin Leabman
Winner
The Unusuals
Director Lewis Clements
Best Short Film
Nominations
The Last Dinner
Director Marie-Ange Casalta
Midnight Ride
Director Alessandro Farrattini Pojani
In The Shadow of Darkness
Directors Manjeet Gill, Andrew Walker
Alma
Director Sebastian Salazar Claro
Ya Es Tarde (It’s Too Late)
Director Pedro Moraelche
Winner
In Too Deep
Director Chris Overton
Best Student Short Film
Pressure
Director Joshua Carver
Antes De Que Te Vayas (Before You Go)
Director Vicente Del Río Laya
White Feather
Director Benjamin Hovington
Ah-Ma: A Tale of Two Generations
Director Ying Chu
Boxing Day
Director Leigh Schilling
Birthmark of the Sky
Director Qing Yu
Winner
Father's Footsteps
Director Mohamad Ali
Best Experimental Film
Stated Tone
Director Xin Huang
The Lumberjack
Director Roberto Gazola
Space Ryder
Director Jeff Kenji Yamashita
Òran na h-Eala
Director Steve Exeter
Shivering wall .
Director Tseng Yu Chin
Winner
Time To Wake Up
Director Tom Gimlette
Best Feature Script
Love. Without a Trace.
Writer Sean Hynes
You Are My Oxygen
Writer Toby Smith
Bad Memories
Writer Martin Richmond
The Pickleball Killer
Writer Jim Carroll
Winner
Robot Asteroid
Writer Paul May
Best Feature Documentary
Peleamos (We Fight)
Noel Gálvez Rodríguez
Constantin Silvestri Avant-Gardist, Master Improviser, Homme Passionne
Director Nicolas Gaster
The Ragin' 13
Director Nicholas Campbell
Faces of war
Director Anton Zharov
Winner
Black Sugar Red Blood
Director Luigi Toscano
And
Oxigen
Directors Vitaly Lazo, Olga Borodina
Best Short Documentary
Borders
Director Lihueel Althabe
Unconquered
Director John Parr
Spitfire Overdue: The Story of Flying Officer Mervyn Wheatley
Director Paul Haans
Aris Demetrios: Sculpture From The Heart
Director Josh Aronson
Genius in Disguise: Demystifying Dyslexia
Director James Amuta
Winner
Our Ukrainian Sky
Director Bobby Roth
Best Student Documentary
The Story of 5.18 Gwangju Uprising
Director Eunchae Shin
If The Ask What It Is; It Is A Leaf
Director İdil Oğuzhan
Witch, Reborn
Director Maria Shevtsova
Rainbow After The Rain - LGBTQ In South Korea
Director Jaein Park
Winner
Red Black Green
Director Naphat Boonyaprapa
Best Original Song
Talk It Out (Ava Della Pietra)
Ava Della Pietra
Anatolia Ancient Nature
Yağız Oral
Arctic Land
Donatella Canepa
Edith's Theme
Alexandr Borecký
Aquarius
R. Djordan
Winner
Won't Be Around
Terry Blade
Best Short Script
ZIVA
Writer Cécile Vernant
Stoney Jack's Secret London
Writers Jim V Hart, David Long, Natasha Katherine Seery
The Night We Met
Writers Richard Hoggarth, Sam Hoggarth
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Writer Richard Clarke
Where the Wind Blows
Writer Deborah Melanie Hodgetts
Winner
Exodus
Writers Alex De Luca, Carl Staples
Best Animation
In Spate
Director Sarah Skyrme
What They Say.
Director Yong Wang
On / Off
Director Nicolas P. Villarreal
Winner
Besties
Directors Ada Napiorkowski, Kaido Strange
Best Short Animation
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Director Bomfor64
Woolly with Magic
Director Jo Jo Lau
Completionist
Director Ellie Rogers
Remembering Nearfield
Director Sean Alexander Carney
Love Bubbles
Director Marcel Hobi
Winner
Ghosts
Directors James Morris, Maria Tilt
Best Student Animation
1 2 3 Red light, Green light
Director Liangyu Chen
Completionist
Director Ellie Rogers
Lune and Soleil
Director Reine Bramhall
Winner
The Funlandia Incident
Director Ido Montaniez
Best Music Video
Talk It Out (Ava Della Pietra)
Director Adam Lukowski
Alex Exists - Never Christmas Without You
Director Agata Waclawska
Brooke Josephson - Good Kinda Tired
Director Michelle Bossy
The Saulep Village Chapel (a folk orchestra with a swing)
Director Rivo Laasi
Winner
Ego (Ava Della Pietra)
Director Adam Lukowski
Best One Minute Film
1 2 3 Red light, Green light-Trailer
Director Chen Liangyu
Transmission
Director Mikhail Parkhomenko
Content
Director Jay Dixon
Waterfall
Director Kazuya Ashizawa
The Cocoon Thread
Director Ivo Reis, Vanessa Fernandes
Winner
El Proceso (The Process)
Director Roberto I. Ercolalo
Best Photography
Salah Eddine Art
Salah Eddine Saadoun
No Ceilings
Jodie Keisel
Winner
Modernity Against Modernism
Amir Farhoud