WILD FILMMAKER Awards – Special Event at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

2025 February 21

WILD FILMMAKER Awards – Special Event at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

Not Without Gloves

BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE BLACK & WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR

Wave Man

BEST EUROPEAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

The Days of Knight: Chapter 3

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST CAST, BEST SOUND DESIGNER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Narrative Short)

I’ve Fallen

BEST AMERICAN MUSIC VIDEO 2025

Antiquarius

BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT 2025

Mind over Matter

BEST ARTHOUSE SUPER SHORT FILM 2025

Remnant

BEST DIRECOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST SOUNDTRACK & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: International Narrative Feature)

Walking With God

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025

The Duchess

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: International Drama), BEST DRAMA & BEST ARTHOUSE PROCUCTION COMPANY

Static

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER & BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT

Routine

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER

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

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING & BEST LOCATION

Boxed In

BEST NARRATIVE MYSTERY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

The Demon

BEST INDIE ACTOR & BEST ORIGINAL & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL ACTING

Dojo

BEST ACTION MOVIE, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST SOUND DESIGNER (Category: Indie Narrative Short)

Eye of the Storm

BEST INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY & BEST AMERICAN PRODUCER

Lifes Mapped Out

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Walk In My Shoes

BEST INDIE ACTOR

I am a God

BEST ISPIRATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST EDITING (Category: Narrative Short Film)

This is Our Time (duet)

BEST INDIE SONG

Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR 2025

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Omnipotent Resolution

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL SHORT, BEST POETRY FILM, BEST ORIGINAL DANCE SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT

The Order

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Experimental Film)

Monument to Love

BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST PRODUCER, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Indie Documentary Feature)

Giulietta e Romeo?

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST INDIE EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT

Greta Gar Bitch A true story of loss light and love

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2025 & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER (Category: Book)

In a Whole New Way

BEST SOCIAL FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FILM 2025

The Bag

BEST SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: International Super Short Film)

Sheldon Mashugana gets stooged

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Comedy)

Canta la gioia

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN & BEST SPIRITUAL SONG WRITER

Katabasis

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDE FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST CAST (Category: Narrative Feature)

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Luzinete

BEST INDIE DRAMA SHORT

Whispers of Love

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST ROMANDE SCRIPT

An Ever After Drama

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTRESS

Secrets of Montmartre 2

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT

Doctor Hyphoteses

BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR

Love Is My Gun

BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

The Hallmark Couple

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Only in Malibu

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SCREENWRITER

The Hallmark Couple

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

BEST ANIMATED PROJECT & BEST PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Animated Short Film)

BLIND FAITH: Moments of Missed Understanding

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST POETRY SHORT FILM 2025

Super mashugee and freeky passover

BEST AMERICAN COMEDY 2025

Moomtaz Khatoon: A Gender Fluid Queer Muslim

BEST CAMERA OPERATOR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary Short)

Riddled Rubies

BEST PILOT/TV SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Sky Walker

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

The White Chronicles: The Beginning?

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER & BEST AMERICAN ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Drowning

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG & BEST INDIE SINGER OF THE YEAR

Thankful

BEST WRITER & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Feature Script 2025)

Something Ain’t Right

BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary)

Ye Ole Glorya

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCRIPT, BEST CAST & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING (Category: International Comedy)

Big Momma Earth

BEST ARTHOUSE COMEDY 2025

The Stones of Rome

BEST HISTORICAL NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL ACTOR 2025

The Pathos of Hamlet

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL ACTING, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Inspirational Narrative Short)

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times

BEST DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: International Documentary Feature) & BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY

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

BEST ORIGINAL TELEVISION SCRIPT

Rodeo

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Alta California

BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

Can’t Figure It Out

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST EDITING (Category: Experimental Film)

Belles Paroles

BEST INDIE HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT