WINNERS AMDb Arthouse Movie Database Critics’ Choice Awards 2025

2025 March 14

WINNERS AMDb Arthouse Movie Database Critics’ Choice Awards 2025

Remnant

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, BEST SCENOGRAPHY & BEST CAST (Category: International Narrative Feature)

Omnipotent Resolution

BEST MUSICAL, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Experimental Short Film), BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM & BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Precious the Baby Dragon

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR

In a Whole New Way

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST EDITING & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: Educational Film)

Artists and Aliens

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST SOUNDTRACK & BEST CAST (Category: International SCI-FI)

Cactus Run

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

The Days of Knight: Chapter 3

BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Narrative Short)

Canta la gioia

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SINGER

Prodigio

BEST SPIRITUAL SONG WRITER

Precious the Baby Dragon

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER (Category: International Book)

The Rorschach Test

BEST POETRY FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM)

Boxed In

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL INDIE PRODUCER & BEST EDITING

Doctor Hyphoteses

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE ACTOR

Cock Robin

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE COMEDY OF THE YEAR

On My Special Day

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCENOGRAPHY (Category: International Indie Narrative Short Film)

The Duchess

BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS, BEST FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING (Category: Drama)

Something ain’t right

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY 2025

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ARTHOUSE BIOGRAPHICAL PROJECT

The Quest for Camelot

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST AMERICAN PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

The Esteemed Priority

BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Animation)

Nostalgia

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE SCREENPLAY

Brothers of Babylon

BEST FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR & BEST AMERICAN ORIGINAL WRITER

You Are Here – A Dylan Brody project

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SOUDTRACK

French Broad

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT/TV OF THE YEAR & BEST SCREENWRITER (Category: Television Script)

Running Out Of Time

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SOUND DESIGN & BEST EDITING (Category: International Music Video)

The Order

BEST ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Monument to Love

BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: International Documentary Feature)

Ye Ole Glorya

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST CAST (Category: International Comedy)

L’Amour est temps de reflets

BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT OF THE YEAR, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Hitched

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: Pilot TV)

Hiding Bodies

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE SOUNDTRACK

The Arcangel Of Death

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST POETRY SHORT FILM

True Friend

BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR 2025 & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SHORT FILM

Dancing with Spies @Goddess novel manuscript

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE BOOK/MANUSCRIPT OF THE YEAR

The Sea of Hope

BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATION 2025

Thankful

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER, BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST IDEA OF THE YEAR (Category: Feature Script)

Colombano e la 21esima Fetta

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR (Category: Indie Narrative Feature)

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST PRODUCER (Category: International Super Short Film)

Mind over Matter

BEST SUPER SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR

Alta California

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INDIE WRITER OF THE YEAR

Pirandello’s Wife

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCRIPT

Revisited – Life is Short

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SINGER & BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Can’t Figure It Out

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST EDITING (Category: Experimental Film)

Union

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR

Déjà Vu On The Ledge

BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025

Katabasis

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

Giulietta e Romeo?

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

Krazy Dead

BEST COMEDY SCREENPLAY UNPRODUCED OF THE YEAR

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

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Routine

BEST AMERICAN INDIE SHORT FILM, BEST ORIGINAL CAST & BEST SOUND DESIGN

Cabaret Cuba

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER & BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

BEST ARTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Luzinete

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SHORT FILM & BEST SOCIAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

NOI Crusaders – 30 anni di football americano in Sardegna

BEST INTERNATIONAL SPORT FILM & BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Eye of the Storm

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM (Category: International Documentary Feature)

A Mystery Woman: The Message – The main one, in the STORM Trilogy

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DRAMA OF THE YEAR

Cataclysm Down Under – Hero

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Music Video)

Louie (KR.ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR

Destination Oscar

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

I swear

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Tasered featuring THE HAPPINESS ANGEL

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM