WINNERS Lights in the Shadow Film Awards

2025 February 11

WINNERS Lights in the Shadow Film Awards

Roses are Blind

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Thriller)

Tin Box

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT OF THER YEAR

Der Rote Klang

BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT OF THE YEAR & BEST INDIE ACTRESS

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM

Darker Realities

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

Remnant

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature), BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT

Gold Glory & Nobility

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Original Feature Script)

Only In Malibu

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

K Bender (The Bloody Benders)

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT

We are Rivers

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: International Documentary Short) & BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT OF THE YEAR

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

BEST INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025, BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING (Category: International Animated Short Film)

Thankful

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

Mashuga Wedding and Sheldon’s Jewish Christmas

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (Category: International Comedy)

Katabasis

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, BEST CAST, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream ~ Adapted by Cass Foster

BEST INDIE WRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Omnipotent Resolution

BEST MUSICAL 2025, BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG, BEST CHOREOGRAPHY & BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Eye of the Storm

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR (Academy Award Winner Robin Williams – Lifetime Achievement Award) & BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

The Duchess

BEST DRAMA OF THE YEAR, BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS (Category: International Drama)

The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST CAST & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Routine

BEST DIRECTOR 2025, BEST INDIE SHORT FILM & BEST SOUND DESIGN

Boombox (The God of THe Dance) – TV Series (pitch deck)

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Alta California

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Only You Can Save Her,” pilot teleplay of series THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC

BEST ORIGINAL TELEVISION SCRIPT 2025

Not Without Gloves

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM, BEST BLACK & WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST PRODUCER (Category: Experimental Film)

In a Whole New Way

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA OF THE YEAR & BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM

The Stones of Rome

BEST HISTORICAL SHORT FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE ACTOR & BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT

The Pathos of Hamlet

BEST ACTING (Category: Narrative Short) & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

On My Special Day

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT