Silver Awards: August 2025

Best Indie Short: The Daughter’s Choice by Huimin Dong (China)

Best Drama Short: Almost Home by Menhaj Huda (USA)

Best Documentary Short: Resqueue by Radu Nastasia (Romania)

Best Comedy Short: The Meme Creators by Aodhan Guy (Canada)

Best Dark Comedy Short: The Self Starter by Ben Heller and Daniel Calcagne (USA)

Best Thriller Short: Thirty Seven Dollars by Ashish Sharma (Singapore)

Best Film Noir Short: Noir by Charlene Wango (UK)

Best Student Short: Sob Story by Cooper Jesse Silverman (USA)

Best Animation Short: The Apricot by Alex Z. Avila (Mexico)

Best Women Short: Bridget by Anne Williamson (Ireland)

Best Romantic Short: After Midnight by Joshua Washington (USA)

Best Microfilm: Peripheral by Alison Church (USA)

Best Music Video: Timeless: A Symphony in Motion by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, and Samudra Kajal Saikia (UK)

Best Screendance Short: Chorale by Sandrick Mathurin (Canada)

Best Female Director: Huimin Dong for The Daughter’s Choice (USA)

Best Male Director: Aram Abdulrahim for Hamsa (Syria)

Best Student Female Director: Niya Zhao for Forgetting and Reminiscence (China)

Best Student Male Director: Yixiang Wang for Memory Jar (China)

Best First Time Female Director: Megumi Lim for Night Shift (Ukraine)

Best First Time Male Director: Cooper Jesse Silverman for Sob Story (USA)

Best Young Filmmaker: Hannah Hope O’Briant for The Pink Skirt (USA)

Best Actress: Victoria Sheen for The Stranger (USA)

Best Actor: Robert James for The Pursuit Of Forgiveness (Ireland)

Best Acting Duo: Mafalda Lopes and Henrique Gomes for Nós (Portugal)

Best Ensemble Cast: Shuming Mo, Yu Fu, Xianzhe Zhang, Yuanqi Jia, Jinhan Chen, and Youxiao Sun for Fireside (China)

Best Cinematography: Bobby Pan and Orion Zhang by Longing Bayshore (Canada)

Best Editing: Losing Ace (UK)

Best Production Design: #ÇaGeth’s (France)

Best Original Score: Kelly Joe Richardson for The Cask of Amontillado (USA)

Best Original Story: Pedram Sadough for Dokhtar’am – My Daughter (Germany)

Best Short Script: 13 Steps by Loren Davis (USA)

The Daughter's Choice
Almost Home
Resqueue
The Meme Creators
Sob Story
The Self Starter
Thirty Seven Dollars
The Apricot
Noir
After Midnight
Peripheral
Timeless : A Symphony in Motion
Chorale
Forgetting and Reminiscence
Memory Jar
Night Shift
Sob Story
The Stranger
Losing Ace
ÇaGeth's
Nós
The Cask of Amontillado
Dokhtar'am – My Daughter

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