Best Indie Short: Acorn, Iowa by Madison Wolfe (USA)
Best Drama Short: Fireside by Xiaopei Wang (China)
Best Documentary Short: Jaliya – A Storytelling of Jali Kunda by Timothy Francisco Lima (Portugal)
Best Comedy Short: #ÇaGeth’s by Jerome Jacob (France)
Best Student Short: Tarde Noche by M. Fernanda Ramos-Francia Y. (USA)
Best Animation Short: The Lost Amulet Of Sonora by Brenna Powers (USA)
Best Children Short: A Stranger by Dipen Choudhury (India)
Best Women Short: Hamsa by Aram Abdulrahim (Syria)
Best LGBTQ Short: Longing Bayshore by Bobby Pan and Orion Zhang (Canada)
Best Music Video: Victoria – We Don’t Get Along (Crumbs of a Modern Tragedy) by Victoria Karakoleva (Bulgaria)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Smudge Episode 2 – The Unfiniverse Pt. 1 by Brenna Powers (USA)
Best Male Director: Pedram Sadough for Dokhtar’am – My Daughter (Germany)
Best Student Female Director: Yijiao Liu for The Ship of Theseus (China)
Best Student Male Director: Dojin Kim for Where the Rain Stops (South Korea)
Best First Time Female Director: Anne Williamson for Bridget (Ireland)
Best First Time Male Director: Ben Heller and Daniel Calcagne for The Self Starter (USA)
Best Young Filmmaker: Salar Korangy for Choosing Our Religion (USA)
Best Actor: Massud Rahnama for Dokhtar’am – My Daughter (Germany)
Best Supporting Actress: Elizabeth Broeder for Behind The Blackened Heart (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Raul S. Julia and Mark Angelo Thurner for The Self Starter (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Vicky Maher, John Peter Morris, Cathal Fahey, Eugene O Meara, Ed Ryan, Toddy McNamara, Gerry Dorney, Kevin Fahey, Vincent Jasper Murphy, Deirdre Bourke, Peggy O’Brien, Labhaoise McNamara, Debbie Duggan, Anastasia Blake, Esther Byrne, Trevor Somers, Sinead Clancy, Jim Malone, Declan Ryan, John Hennesy, and Joe Strappe for Bridget (Ireland)
Best Cinematography: Adam Kaiser-Lynch for Dokhtar’am – My Daughter (Germany)
Best Editing: Kyle Sanborn for Queen of the Underworld (Canada)
Best Production Design: Jiayi Li for Fireside (China)
Best Sound Design: Jiho Jeon for Where the Rain Stops (South Korea)
Best Original Score: Thomas LaVoy for Smudge Episode 2 – The Unfiniverse Pt. 1 (USA)
Best Original Story: Madison Wolfe for Acorn, Iowa (USA)
Best Short Script: Curb Appeal by Elijah Bradley (USA)
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