WINNERS NEW WAVE Cinema Festival – Hollywood/Paris 2025

2025 April 8

WINNERS NEW WAVE Cinema Festival – Hollywood/Paris 2025

Because We Are Too Many

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR (Category: Arthouse Drama 2025)

Etnoragù

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST CAST (Category: Narrative Short Film)

Homeless Street Artist

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST EDITING, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY (Category: International Documentary Short)

NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story

SPECIAL AWARDS “YOUNG CRITCS” BEST SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

The Arcangel Of Death

BEST ORIGINAL ACTING & BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR 2025

Out of State A Gothic Romance

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST MAKE-UP (Category: Narrative Feature)

Gold Glory & Nobility

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

Malibu Madam

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITER

The Insomnia Experiment

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The Mint

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST SHORT SCRIPT

Flint&Ema

BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATION, BEST PRODUCER, BEST EDITING & BEST MOVIEMAKER (Category: Animated Short Film)

Lambada The Dance of Fate

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Brothers of Babylon

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Dancing with Spies @Goddess novel manuscript

BEST WRITER (Category: Book/Manuscript) & BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR

What If

BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING & BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR

Thankful

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURE SCRIPT 2025 & BEST INDIE WRITER OF THE YEAR

Colombano & La 21Esima Fetta

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE FILM, BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY & BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER

Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM, BEST PRODUCER & SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST DIRECTOR (Category: ANIMATION)

I Waited for You

BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Arthouse Experimental Film) & BEST INDIE MOVIEMAKER 2025

Katabasis

BEST ORIGINAL FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST ACTRESS & BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER 2025

Something ain’t right

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY, BEST EDITING, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST MOVIEMAKER (Category: Arthouse Documentary)

Hot Afternoons HaveBeen in Montana

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST AMERICAN FILMMAKER & BEST HUMAN RIGHTS SHORT FILM 2025

Prodigio

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST SINGER, BEST SONG WRITER, BEST EUOROPEAN ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST MUSICIAN

An Ever After Drama

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ORIGINAL ACTRESS, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

Alta California

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Ghost Town, N.M.

BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER 2025

The Days of Knight: Chapter 3

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CAST & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Bag

BEST FILMMAKER, BEST PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Animated Short Film)

Cassandra Venice

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

Cactus Run

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY 2025 & SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

Eye of the Storm

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Documentary Feature)

The Duchess

BEST ARTHOUSE DRAMA, BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Drama) & BES INDIE ACTOR

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

Princess Zarabanda

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Animation) & BEST INDIE ANIMATED SHORT FILM

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

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST MOVIEMAKER

Routine

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM, BEST INTERNAIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Monument to Love

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST EDITING (Category: Documentary)

Omnipotent Resolution

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO, BEST SINGER, BEST SOUND DESIGNER, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST PRODUCER (Category: International Music Video)

The Rorschach Test

SPECIAL AWARD “YOUNG CRITICS” BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

In Search of A P-I-G

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES, BEST CAST, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST SOUND SESIGN (Category: Web/Tv Series)

Nossos Caminhos

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER, BEST DRAMA SCRIPT & BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Deci – La base aerea di Decimomannu

BEST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY & BEST CAMERA OPERATOR (Category: International Arthouse Documentary Feature)

Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR, & BEST EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Planetary Rebellion

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SONG OF THE YEAR

I Swear

BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Indie Music Video)

The Stones of Rome

BEST ACTING (Category: Experimental Film)

The Pathos of Hamlet

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST AMERICAN ACTOR 2025

Anything You Lose

BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: International Arthouse Documentary Feature)

Free

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER