WINNERS WILD FILMMAKER Awards – Special Event at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival

2025 February 14

WINNERS WILD FILMMAKER Awards – Special Event at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival

The Days of Knight: Chapter 3

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: Narrative Short)

The Sicilian

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTION SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: Action Script)

Angel

BEST ARTHOUSE DRAMA

Chosen Family

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

Rough Shot

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Hummel

BEST WRITER (Category: Short Script)

K Bender (The Bloody Benders)

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Short Script)

Adelaide’s Magic Sunglasses

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT

The Wood Ranch Country Club

BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT SCRIPT

The Insomnia Experiment

BEST ORIGINAL WRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Short Script)

The Mint

BEST INDIE SHORT SCRIPT 2025

Split Endz

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITING STYLE

NEVERWERE: a Lycan Love Story

BEST ORIGINAL INTERNATIONAL WRITER & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

Eye of the Storm

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

Hot Afternoons

BEST INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY

Atlas of Uncertainty

BEST INTERNATIONAL SOUND DESIGN

The Duchess

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA 2025 & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR

The Alien and The Border Guard

BEST SCI-FI OF THE YEAR & BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: SCI-FI)

Moomtaz Khatoon: A gender fluid queer Muslim

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER (Category: Documentary

Short)

The Hallmark Couple

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Only in Malibu

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR

 Gold Glory & Nobility

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER (Category: International Feature Script)

Something ain’t right

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR (Category: Documentary)

I Can’t Save You

BEST ARTHOUSE SUPER SHORT FILM 2025

Brothers of Babylon

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

La sposa nel vento

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE EDUCATIONAL FILM

In the Blood

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

Sons & Broken Noses

BEST FILMMAKER (Category: International Indie Narrative Short Film)

Luzinete

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER (Category: Arthouse Drama Short)

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

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT OF THE YEAR

Prima del giorno dopo

BEST ARTHOUSE FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY

Lambada The Dance Of Fate

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER

The Broken Road

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: Feature Script)

The Priory of Sion

BEST EUOROPEAN WRITER 2025 & BEST HISTORICAL FEATURE SCRIPT

True Friend

BEST AMERICAN INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Drama)

Cassandra Venice

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

Iriso

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY (Category: Drama)

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

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

Routine

BEST INDIE PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, BEST INDIE SHORT FILM & BEST SOUND DESIGN

Canta la gioia

BEST MUSIC VIDEO, BEST ORIGINAL SONG WRITER & BEST EUROPEAN SINGER

When the Withered Leaf Awakens

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE

Doctor Hyphoteses

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDIAN

Katabasis

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST CAST, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Riding on Duke’s Train

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY 2025

Omnipotent Resolution

BEST MUSICAL, BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM & BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

The Demon

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ACTOR OF THE YEAR

Destination Marfa

BEST PICTURE, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE

Hard To Swallow

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM 2025 (Category: Arthouse Animation)

Monument to Love

BEST EDITING & BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Dragul and Forbes

BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT

Drowning

BEST MUSICIAN & BEST SONG OF THE YEAR

Static

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER & BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT 2025

The Hourglass

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST CAST, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST FILMMAKER (Category: Arthouse Narrative Short)

Mind Over Matter

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA & BEST EDITING (Category: International Super Short Film)

Ye Ole Glorya

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Big Momma Earth

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST SCRIPT (Category: Comedy)

Over Exposed

BEST COMEDY 2025

Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR

The way of Mizoguchi

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER, BEST EUOPEAN PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY

Thankful

BEST WRITER 2025 (Category: Feature Script)

La San Giocosa

BEST EUROPEAN ARTHOUSE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Dojo

BEST ACTION MOVIE, BEST EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category Action)

L’Amour est temps de reflets

BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM & BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2025

2020: life and death of a virus

BEST FILMMAKER & BEST EDITING (Category: International Experimental Film)

Amen-Amen-Amen: A Story of Our Times

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Lifes Mapped Out

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

Mashuga Wedding  and Sheldon’s Jewish Christmas

BEST AMERICAN COMEDY & BEST EDITING

L’Amour est temps de reflets

BEST INSPIRATIONAL FILM & BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2025

Trouble In Paradise

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM 2025

NOI Crusaders – 30 anni di football americano in Sardegna

BEST INTERNATIONAL SPORT FILM OF THE YEAR & BEST EUROPEAN PRODUCER

Remnant

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: Film)

In Search of A P-I-G

BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: Web/Tv Series)

The Dinner Party

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST SOUNDTRACK

Alta California

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INDIE WRITER OF THE YEAR

Pirandello’s Wife

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT & BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCRIPT

Roses are Blind

BEST FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGNER (Category: International Thriller)

I’ve Fallen

BEST AMERICAN SINGER 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Out of State-A Gothic Romance

BEST FILMMAKER, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, BEST CASTING DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION COMPANY

Two Fridges

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM

The Dragonfly Dreaming Project

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Cabaret Cuba

BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING (Category: Documentary)

The Addends

BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Fascino d’altri tempi

BEST EUROPEAN NARRATIVE SHORT OF THE YEAR

Der Rote Klang

BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INDIE ACTRESS

Sam and Dukes Big River Adventure

BEST ORIGINAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Walking With God

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025

Asherah’s Colors

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR, BEST ORIGINAL IDEA, BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE PRODUCER & BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

Sequoia Spirits

BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE MOVIE

Vessel – 2024

BEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR OF THE YEAR & BEST SUSPENSE

The G-Files

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE OF THE YEAR

Dogma

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Everland

BEST AMERICAN FEATURE SCRIPT

Boxed In

BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR

Wave Man

BEST EUROPEAN FEATURE SCRIPT

Revisited – Life is Short

BEST ORIGINAL AUTHOR (Category: International Music Video)

The Second Coming

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST SOUND DESIGN & BEST ORIGINAL CAST

In a Whole New Way

BEST INDIE PRODUCER, BEST FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR & BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM

Homeless Street Artist Documentary

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Not Without Gloves

BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM, BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR & BEST SPIRITUAL FILM

The Rorschach Test

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

Edgar

BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR 2025 (Category: Animated Film)

A Perfect Love

BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FILMMAKER & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING (Category: International Indie Documentary Short)

I am God

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST CAST & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: International Narrative Short)

Anything You Lose

BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER & BEST INDIE PRODUCER (Category: International Indie Documentary Feature)

Effata

BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO, BEST ORIGINAL SINGER & BEST SOUND DESIGN

Ice Hockey Orphans

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Ciccillo

BEST EUROPEAN DRAMA & BEST EUROPEAN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Luck Court

BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: International Comedy)

Princess Zarabanda

BEST ANIMATION 2025 & BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR (Category: Animated Short Film)

The Dead Ringer

BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE WRITER OF THE YEAR (Category: International Feature Script)

Something ain’t right

BEST CAMERA OPERATOR & BEST INDIE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY

Is He Cheating?

BEST INTERNATIONAL LGBTQ+ FILM

Riding on Duke’s Train

BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE VIDEO POETRY

Sheldon Mashugana gets Stooged

BEST ARTHOUSE COMEDY

The Waiting Room

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

THE BLANKET -Die schwarze Decke

BEST FILMMAKER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Animated Short)

Revisited – Life is Short

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

Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE WRITER

Guardians of the Flame

BEST INDIE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

YOU ARE HERE – a dylan brody project

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST CAST & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Category: International Film)

Antiquarius

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, BEST EDITING & BEST CAST (Category: International Short Film)

Giulietta e Romeo?

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER, BEST ORIGINAL SHORT FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

The Stones of Rome

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT FILM, BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE ACTOR

The Pathos of Hamlet

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST ORIGINAL ACTING

Planetary Rebellion

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR & BEST ARTHOUSE MUSICIAN

Louie (KR ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR

Chateau De Tarot

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER & BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Life is Beautiful

BEST SONG OF THE YEAR

Precious the Baby Dragon

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK 2025

BLIND FAITH: Moments of Missed Understanding

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

Can’t Figure It Out

BEST ORIGINAL PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Turtle On A Fence Post

BEST SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: Indie Feature Script)

Running Out Of Time

BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ARTHOUSE PROJECT (Category: International Music Video)

Ageless

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST SOUNDTRACK

Enipheres

BEST INDIE FILMMAKER (Category: Arthouse Narrative Short)

Willow’s Journey

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT

Blooming Sisters

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTRESS

The Age of the Empath

BEST PILOT/TV

Ghost Executioners 2

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER (Category: Comedy)

Flint&Ema

BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR (Category: International Animated Short)

The Carpet

BEST INDIE ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Hot Air Hippo

BEST ARTHOUSE ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Belles Paroles

BEST INDIE HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT