Nominations & Winners 2025

We congratulate all of our winning & nominated films of this year’s festival edition!

Best of Festival Feature:

Not What You Think

Call Of Water (Winner)

Her Difference

Best Short Film:

Don’t Be Late Mayra

Mrs. Fleischer Wants to Die

An Excess Baggage (Winner)

Best Impactful Story

The Bleeding Tides

They Call Me the Tattoo Witch (Winner)

Her Difference

Best Director:

Mrs. Fleischer Wants to Die

Call Of Water

Don’t Be Late Myra (Winner)

Best Animated Film

Graveyard (Winner)

As if it could

Best Performance Feature

Her Difference - Jehnny Beth

Not What You Think - Hazal Türesan

Call Of Water (Cécile de France, Arthur Igual, Darius Zarrabian and Navid Zarrabian (Ensemble Cast) (Winner)

Best Performance Short

An Excess Baggage - Sophie Verbeeck (Winner)

When everything burns - Anabella Bacigalupo

Don’t Be Late Myra - Innayah Umer

Best Cinematography:

Grain of Life

Opla

Call Of Water (Winner)

Best Sound Design/Music:

Origin (Winner)

Honeymoon

Call of Water

Best Music Video:

Nica Unfug - No4

Millennium (Winner)

Utopce

Best Editing:

Origin (Winner)

Heather

Where in the hell

Best Screenplay:

Mrs. Fleischer Wants to Die (Winner)

Call Of Water

Not What You Think

Female Of Change Award:

SHIRINGA Fashion Regenerating Amazonia

Her Difference

The Bleeding Tides (Winner)

Unique Female Voice Award:

Where in the hell

Under the Weather (Winner)

Don’t Be Late Myra

She is on Fire Award:

Honeymoon

SHIRINGA Fashion Regenerating Amazonia

Where in the hell (Winner)

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

Not What You Think

Orange Blossom

Shaping Change

Madame Margaux

They Call Me the Tattoo Witch