January 2026
Award Recipients
Best Feature Film
KARLOVY VARY
YONGSEUK LEE
Best Feature Film, German Production
LINN WYLER
Theodor Boder
Best Documentary
TACHELES, A Berlin Story
Andy Cohen
Best Short Film
Hidden Steps
Brent Steen
Best Short Film, German Production
Leave in the Wind
Young-Shin Kim
Best Actress - Short Film
Katrin Katz Köbbert
Fresh Powder
Best Actor - Short Film
Antonio Rosello
We are not the same
Best Mobile Short Film
The Great Divide
Nadia Townsend
Best Director - Feature Film
Giuseppe Ivan David Di Giorgio
Under the stars of Rome
Best Director - Short Film
Chuck Griffith
Ghost in the Glass
Best Director - Documentary
Fumie Matsubara
In Their Own Words
Best Actress - Feature Film
Kristina Klebe
Noxturne
Best Short Documentary
ISABEL
Louis Lam
Best Music Video
Iridescence
Adrien Lhoste
Best Student Film
Unfinished
Emily Almagro Birkholtz
Best Experimental Film
Elizabeth, traviling 15388 kilometers to find you
Ka Long Daniel Ng
Best Animation
The Shield
Oren Cohen
Best Director - Short Documentary
Valerie von Boehn
Vakily
Best Health and Medicine Subject Related Film
Prism
AMAR BHARAT DEOKAR
Best Travel Film
In Between Rivers
Tuca Paoli
Best Artist Film (Short)
Patient 0527
Tingxue (Corinna) Du
Best Comedy Short Film
Wax, Whips and My Hairy Bits
Michelle Devadas
Honorable Mention
Duck, Actually
Hania Pikulska
Best Artist Film (Feature)
Touched
Stine Gonsholt
Best Green & Environment Film
Gardens of Fez
Heidi Vogels
Best Fashion Film
BLACK DANDY
Iclic Collective
Best Horror Film
Sleep
Nicolas Heinzel
Best Editing
AVRUPA - and things in between
Joshua Maciejok
Best Cinematography
JULIAN
Oved Gadkar
Best Original Score
Fiancé
Kyra Le Roux
Best Historical Film
Enemy Heroes
Joel Christopher Payne
Best First Time Director, Feature
Pachy Banks-Cabral
Chord of Silence
Best First Time Director, Short Film
Sofie Løvereide
MORTAL
Best First Time Director, Documentary
Patrick Josef Hamm
Would you care for me?
Best War Theme Film
Enemy Heroes
Joel Christopher Payne
Best AI-generated Film
The Last EDEN
Yu-kyung Kang
Best First Time Director - Short Documentary
Lenny Rothenberg
You can choose how you go down