Winners 2023/24 Summer Edition

Grand Prix: Best Feature Documentary
Life of Mohéli (Martin Kováč, Richard Krebs)
Honorable Mention
Chernobyl on Wheels ( Eva Toulová)
Human Forever ( Justus Jonathan de Jong)

Grand Prix: Best Short Documentary
Outdoor Film Festival ( Denis Matúš)

Grand Prix: Short Documentary
Lombard Woman ( Simone Vrech, Sandra Lopez Cabrera)

Grand Prix: Best Short Film
Aunque es de noche (Guillermo García López)
Honorable Mention
The House in the Middle of the Sea ( Marcel Ruizendaal)
Through Our Thorns ( Tsvetoslav Tsonev, Lyubomir Petkov)
Sports Day ( August Adrian Braatz)
Leasing ( Sivert Lendorph)
NOAH'S CHAPTER ( Roni Zorina)
Black Lilac ( Olga Hajnosz)

Grand Prix: Best Feature Film
Two Words as the Key ( Dan Svatek)
Honorable Mention
 Die Before Death ( Ahmed Imamovic)

Grand Prix: Best Student Film
Waiting Room ( Katarina Zrinka Šarić)
Honorable Mention
Melantrope ( Vibe Stalpaert)
Online ( Bianka Bereczky)

Grand Prix: Best Music Video
Honorable Mention
Tick Tick ( Glen Mountford, Iona Kohler Alven)

Best Slovak Short
Selfmotion (Martin Bystriansky)
Honorable Mention
Tapping Black Boots ( Kaoru Furuko)

Best Indie Short Film
Padre ( ML Post)

Best Indie Feature Film
Block (Todor Matsanov)

Best Director Short Film
Honorable Mention
Unconquered (John Parr)

Best Female Director
Ka me kalu ( Flonja Kodheli)

Best First Time Director (Short)
Grinta (Nils Vanderwaeren)
Honorable Mention
Dead Ed (Paul Mortlock)
 Couple´s Therapy ( Arman Mirhadi)
"Lament" ("Lamentation") ( Monika Mrońska)

Best Director Music Video
Ramirez - The Dungeon ( ABOVEGROUND)
Honorable Mention
They Are Watching You ( Quentin Bernard)

Best Director Student Film
Honorable Mention
Mask ( Daniel Le Hai)

 Best Drama
Big Noise ( Andrea Antonio Vico)

Best Animation
Thw (W)hole ( Jiansu Wang)
Honorable Mention
Morrow ( Vladyslav Kalenskyy) A BOAT IN THE RAIN ( Yoana Atanasova Atanasova)

Best Action
Honorable Mention
Ribbon and Dagger ( Lukan Zakrzewski, Arek Detmer)

Best Inspirational
The Sugar Experiment ( John Tornblad)

Best Comedy
The Art of Love ( Philippe Weibel)
Honorable Mention
Disconnected (Diego Rougier)
Ten out of Ten (Imre Mazlo)
 Expectations and Other Products ( Dali Rust)

Best Thriller
1984 (Milan Ligač)

Best Fantasy
Bunny Guard ( Ho Chung Tang)
Honorable Mention
Seige Of Paris (Darren O'Mahony)

Best Sci-Fi
Pur Sang ( Hugo Poisson)

Best LGBTQ
Of Living Without Illusion ( Katharina Lüdin)

Best Cinematography
A Cross In The Dessert ( Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic)

Best Experimental
 Origines -Genesis ( Amir RA)

Best Sound Design
Conti (Julie Minichová)

Best VFX
Boy Wonder - From hell ( Erik Oslanec)

Best Actor Short Film
The First Night (Ctirad Gotz)

Best Actress Short Film
Passion Fruit ( Max Standford)

Best Editing
Between The Words ( Louis Welti)

 Best Web/Tv Series
The Uninvited Guest (VLAD KOVALOV)

Best Production
Woman in the mirror ( Karoline Vielemeyer)

Grand Prix: Best Short Script
The Loss of Innocence (Donatella Corrado)
Honorable Mention
The French Kiss (Mike Patrick Johnston)

Grand Prix: Best Feature Script
Christmas Witch (Dalea Cherie Faulkner, Martina Beate Webster)

Grand Prix: Best Television Screenplay - Pilot
Clementine ( Emily Hale)

Best Comedy Screenplay
HARRY'S END ( Chris Dann)
Honorable Mention
Drugs Cost Time ( Lukas Reinke)

Best Drama Screenplay
The Bard ( Jay Apking, Amanda Cifaldi)

Best Horror Screenplay
Morituriosis ( Jesse Dorian)

Best LGBTQ Screenplay
 #instaboys (Matthew Rodney Chess)

 Best First Time Screnwriter
Cornerstone (Chris Arnold)

Winners 2022 Winter Edition

Best Feature Film
Together (Martin Muller, David Laňka, Czech Republic)
Honorable Mention
Shreds (Beata Dzianowicz, Poland)
Perfect Number (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
Daddy of Ferika Herner (Gábor Attila Kovács, Hungary)

Best Short Film
Island of Freedom (Petra Janschka, Czech Republic)
Honorable Mention
Last Summer (Ihar Chyschenia, Poland)

Best Feature Documentary
Howling Like We Do (Asia Dér, Slovakia)
Honorable Mention
Take Your Space (Karolína Alvarez, Czech Republic)
Following the Traces of The Past: Novobystřicko in the Shadow of the War (Ondřej Adler, Czech Spublic)

Best Short Documentary
Awohali (The Eagle) (Dominika Kováčová, Slovakia)
Honorable Mention
Seeds of Goodness (Josef Dvorak, Czech Republic)
Late? Never! (Éva Füzesi, Hungary)

Best Super Short Film
Not an ordinary Mechanic (Jurijs Kruze, Latvia)

Best Student Film
Rybár (The Fisher) (Marek Tomajka, Slovakia)
Honorable Mention
A Prison of Sunlight (Yara Matilda Melki, Czech Republic)
Parabens (Michael Bukovanský, Czech Republic)

Best Director Short Film
AA (Jana Bučka, Lena Kušnieriková, Slovakia)

Best Director Super Short Film
Oh Yes: Gay (Charif Ouni, Germany)

Best Director Student Film
Resting Fog (Nikolett Fábián, Hungary)

Best First-time Director (Short Film)
Dragonfly (Artur Radzko, Poland)
Honorable Mention
Memoirs of Métiers - About coal and love (Krisztian Egry, Hungary)

Best First-time Director (Feature)
Hroznova Lhota - A Life in a Traditional Czech Village (Adam Vitkovský, Czech Republic)

Best Drama
The Last Day (Sander Blom, Denmark)
Honorable Mention
SISTER (Emma Balcazar, Denmark)

Best Comedy
A New Beginning (Daniel Szajdek, Poland)

Best Animated
Once means Forever (Katarzyna Bińko, Poland)
Honorable Mention
C'est laVie (Jacek Olejnik, Rafał Sankiewicz, Wojciech Sankiewicz, Bartosz Terlicki, Poland)
Fox Tossing (Zénó Kristóf Mira, Hungary)

Best Indie Short Film

Queen (Przemyslaw Kulikowski, Poland)

Best Web/TV Series
LOVING GRASSLANDS: Full Series (Brendan Joseph Guerin, Australia)

Best Horror
Tradition (Sabrina Ariss, USA)

Best LGBT
Momo or Moses (Charif Ounis, Germany)

Best Mobile Phone Film
When Music Tells the Story (Kateřina Koutná, Czech Republic)

Best Inspirational Film
Resolution to Fashion (Christian Anthony Escobar, Australia)

Best Slovak Short Film
Beekeeper (Barbora Otrubová, Jonáš Boroš, Anna Motýľová, Slovakia)

Best Actor Short Film
Secret Santa (Luca Jonas Müller, Germany)

Best Actress Short Film
1313 (Amandine Benoit, France)

Best Actor Feature Film
The Eaglets: Grodno '39 (Feliks Matecki, Poland)

Best Original Screenplay
Together (Martin Muller, David Laňka, Czech Republic)

Best Editing
Logged out (Tobuasz Walkiewicz, Poland)

Best Sound Design
Splinter (Grzegorz Molda, Poland)

Best Cinematography
Signal ( Krzysztof Rymsza, Patryk Dróżdż , Poland)

Best Experimental Film
UMBRA/Eclipde of the Moon (Urszula Nawrot, Poland)

Best Production
Forgotten Song (Monika Grzybowska)

Best Music Video
Destructive Behaviour
(Niklas Hugo Schwärzler, Austria)

Best Short Script
Shalken the Painter (Andrew Horne, Czech Republic)

Best Feature Script
Hard Candy Christmas (Nick Abdo, UK)
Honorable Mention
The Impairer (Zsolt Pozsgai, Hungary)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Short)
WINTER (Roberto Romano, Italy)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Confessions of a Horny Teenager (Nick Abdo, USA)

Best Drama Screenplay
BOSS TWEED (JAMES B SAUNDERS, USA)

Best LGBTQ Screenplay
TWINKS (Keith Soforic, USA)

Best Television Script - Pilot
Cursus Honorum Pilot (Seamus Sullivan, USA)

Winners 2022 Autumn Edition

Grand Prix: Short Documentary
Dreams, effort and pandemic (Jakub Šipoš, Slovakia)

Grand Prix: Student Film
UNSPOKEN (Manzanon, Czech Republic)

Grand Prix:: Best Documentary Film
Chernobyl on Wheels (Eva Toulová, Czech Republic)

Best Feature Film
DARKING WAY (Zsolt Pozsgai, Hungary)

Best Feature Documentary
Michael Kocáb - rocker versus politician (Olga Sommerová, Czech Republic)

Honorable Mention:  Feature Documentary
Breathing (Viktor Petrenko, Maria Pankova, Ukraine)
Mountains and heaven in between (Dmytro Hreshko, Ukraine)

Best Short Film
Interlude (Peter Čermák, Slovakia)

Honorable Mention: Short Film
EXIT (Oriana Ng, France)
Rich Bitch (Margaryta Lukich, Ukraine)

Best Short Documentary
Solus (Frederic Siroul, Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium)

Honorable Mention: Short Documentary
ANJELA (Vilma Kartalska, Bulgaria)

Best Super Short Film
Nothing´s Left (Davide Pellino, Italy)

Best Student FilmYin and Yang (Yana Kulynych, Ukraine)

Best Director Feature Film

The Master of Silence (Ovidiu Georgescu, Romania)

Best Director Short Film
Burial (Jerzy Czachowski, Poland)

Honorable Mention: Director Short Film
Flying Turtle (Daniel Golovnya, Ukraine)

Best Director Super Short Film
Are YOu Going to Wait for The Next One?! (Emilio Guizzetti, Italy)

Best Director Student Film
War in Ukraine (Yana Skydan, Ukraine)

Best Director Music Video
Zadig/Človek (Andrea Pátková, Adam Čurko, Viktoria Voržáčková, Slovakia)

Best Music Video
Don't Be Afraid (David Geczy, Hungary)

Honorable Mention: Music Video
Koala Voice - Spaghettification (Miha Šubic, Slovenia)

Best First-time Director (Short Film)
IDI (Neo Apelian, United Arab Emirates)

Best First-time Director (Feature)
Noémie Says Yes ( Geneviève Albert, Canada)

Best Drama
To Father (Jae-Feel Hwang, Republic of Korea)

Best Comedy
Carrotism (Yann Chen, Taiwan)

Honorable Mention: Comedy
Entropy of Things (Sean Wirz, Switzerland)

Best Animated
The Mantis Case (Eva Trundová, Czech Republic)

Honorable Mention  Slovak Animation Film
Mercy (Ivana Laučíková, Slovakia)

Best Indie Short Film
Landmines (Angelina Stepanenko, Ukraine)

Best Web/TV Series
My Life as a Doormat (Pilot) (Anthony Robert Grasso, USA)

Best Horror
Hunger (Manu Herrera, Spain)

Best Sci-fi
Operation 1414 (Carl-Victor Krüger, France)

Best Fantasy
Daydream (Zhang Heng, China)

Best LGBT
Jean Fell in Love (Romain Roellet, France)

Honorable Mention: LGBT
Our Home (Bogdan Alecsandru, Romania)

Best Slovak Short Film
Dreams, effort and pandemic (Jakub Šipoš, Slovakia)

Best Actor Short Film
Yellow Star (Skobun Skobun, Gruber Maksym, Ukraine)

Best Actress Short Film
Abigail (Claudio Cirri, Italy)

Best Actor Feature Film
It's Spring… (Alexander Khachatryan, Armenia)

Best Original Screenplay
BENCHED (Josefine Pil Grangaard Olesen, Denmark)

Best Editing
It's Spring… (Roman Musheghyan, Armenia)

Best Sound Design
Happy Birthday, Loser! (Dan Alexandru Hosu, Romania)

Best Cinematophraphy
The Healing (Vittorio Rifranti, Italy)

Best Production
1939 (Zsolt Magyari, Claudia Benkő, Hungary)

Best Short Script
The Tribute (Max Avdeev, Germany)

Best Feature Script
The Secret Codex (Kevin Pike, Hans Sluijter, Netherlands)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Short)
Again (Katarzyna Müller, USA)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature)
THE HARD WAY (Gabriele Maria Grassl, Germany)

Best Drama Screenplay
Steph (Oksana Prysiazhniuk, Ukraine)

Best Thriller Screenplay
Theatre of Death (JAMES B SAUNDERS, USA)

Honorable Mention: Thriller Screenplay
The Peeper (Sergiy Pudich, Ukraine)

Best Horror Screenplay
Glow In The Dark (Luke Anthony Walker, USA)

Best Sci-Fi Screenplay
Moonscope (David Hunter Fein)

Best Student Screenplay
Still Waters ( James Everett, UK)

Best LGBTQ Screenplay
Gold (Marcus Gorman, USA)

Best Television Script - Pilot
Gay Best Husband (Dyann, Tai-En Chiang, Taiwan)

Winners 2022 Summer Edition

Grand Prix: Feature Documentary
(nominated for awards Best Feature Film on Golden Art Film Academy)
IDENTITY ES (Alena Cincerova, Czech Republic)

Grand Prix: Student Film
(nominated for awards Best Feature Film on Golden Art Film Academy)
Teuner (Ondřej Veverka, Czech Republic)

Grand Prix: Music Video
(nominated for awards Best Feature Film on Golden Art Film Academy)
The Rasmus - Jezebel (Jesse Haaya, Finland)

Best Feature Film
“Slovo” House. Unfinished Novel
(Taras Tomenko, Ukraine)

Honorable Mention: Feature Film
Atlas
(Niccolò Castelli, Switzerland)
Three Wishes (Yu Weng, China)

Best Feature Documentary
Besko (Ciril Tscheligi, Switzerland)

Best Documentary Film
REMEDY (Jakub Sipos)

Best Short Film
Sideral
(Carlos Segundo, France)

Honorable Mention
Just A Minute/Chwila Moment/ (Maciej Szkonter, Poland)

Best Short Documentary
Women - a documentary about the status of women in the society
(Kateřina Wiecková, Czech Republic)

Honorable Mention
Lamai Muay Thai Camp (Marian Peciar, Slovakia)
MATKA / POLKA [MOTHER / POLE] (Joanna Suchomska, Poland)
La Motera (The Biker) (Luis Galán, Spain)

Best Documentary About A Person
Granpa Viliam (Aneta Stokrova, Czech Republic)

Best Travel Documentary
"Úspešná" rakúska výprava (Jakub Piga, Slovakia)

Best Super Short Film
Threshold
(Egemen Kum, Turkey)

Honorable Mention
Pizza d'Amour (Elsa van Damke, Germany)

Best Student Film
Fox Child
(Ján Čapar, Germany)

Best Director Feature Film
The Year Before The War
(Dāvis Sīmanis, Latvia)

Best Director Short Film
Spiritus Dei
(África Muñoz López, Spain)

Best Director Super Short Film
Booksmart
(Côme Ferré, France)

Best Director Student Film
MARA
(Jenny Elisabeth Kleine, Pia Mozet, Germany)

Best Director Music Video
TENZIJA
(Timna Tomiša, Serbia)

Honorable Mention
Reminiscence
(Jia Zhao, China)

Best Drama
BE RIGHT BACK
(Frauke Havemann, Germany)

Best Comedy
Fencer
(Calum Bradshaw, UK)

Best Animated
RVUCA
(Lucia Troppová, Slovakia)

Best
SLOVAK ANIMATION FILM
The Knife (Timotej Lukovič, Slovakia)

Best Experimental
The One I Keep
(Merli V. Guerra, USA)

Best Indie Short Film: Indie Short Film
Captain George Moves (Jack Graham, UK)

Best Indie Feature Film
Pierogi stories with stuffing
(Marcin Wokan, Poland)

Best Horror
Chalk
(Malcolm Badewitz, USA)

Best Sci-fi
The Last One
(Lukáš Vízner, Slovakia)

Best Fantasy
The Lord of the Woods
(Julia Bui, Poland)

Best LGB
TQ
For I Am Dead
(Patricia Delso Lucas, Belgium)

Best Inspirational
Minha Mãe Fazia
(Andrei Smoler, Brazil)

  Best Slovak Short Film
The Last One
(Lukáš Vízner, Slovakia)

Best Trailer
The Year Before The War (Dāvis Sīmanis, Latvia)

Best Actor Short Film
Whip, Shackles & Rash
(Jamie Sparker, Czech Republic)

Best Actress Short Film
Secret Trouble
(RUIYI YANG, China)

Best Actor Feature Film
THE UGLY TRUTH
(Krishna Ashu Bhati, Germany)

Best Actress Feature Film
Redux
(Heimir Bjarnason, Iceland)

Best Original Screenplay
Away from the shore
(Kostadin Bonev, Bulgaria)

Best Editing
Booksmart (Côme Ferré, France)

Best Sound Design
Threshold (Egemen Kum, Turkey)

Best VFX
NEOSHIN
(Sebastian Selg, Germany)

Best Cinematophraphy
Resina - A Crooked God
(Tamas Levardi, UK)

Best Production
The Year Before The War
(Dāvis Sīmanis, Latvia)

Best Short Script
Colosseum
(Adam Jay Crawford, USA)

Best Feature Script
Centurions
(Sally Claire Stubbs, Canada)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Short)
SCREENDDICTED
(Chaitanya Vyas, India)

Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature)
Dear Eszter (Alex Balassa, Marisol Mijares, Alejandro Orozco, Mario Pacheco Szekely, Chile)

Best Drama Screenplay
Amy and Angel (Julia Verdin, Deedee Benkovich, USA)

Best Thriller Screenplay
Taser
(David M Hinds, UK)

Best Horror Screenplay
Mincemeat Manor
(Hedley Harlan, USA)

Best Student Screenplay
Still Waters ( James Everett, UK)

Best LGBTQ Screenplay
SHAMPOO HORNS (DANIEL FALCONE, USA)

Best Television Script - Pilot
Drinking Things Clear
(Michael S.U. Hudson, UK)