Director, Writer & Producer // Cameron Monaghan
Producers// Nika Burnett, Maya Donato, Grant Rosenmeyer, Maria Prieto, Sara Eklund, Lily Darragh Harty
Country of origin // United States
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative & Best Art Direction
Synopsis //When a career-criminal (Cameron Monaghan) returns wounded to his wife (Kelli Berglund) and 6-year-old son after a failed robbery, what follows is a hallucinogenic thrill-ride where stakes are high, and bodies are piled even higher.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Short Narrative & Best Art Direction
Director, Writer & Producer // Kit Harington
Producers// Nick Howard, Daniel West
Country of origin // United Kingdom
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Director, Best Cinematography & Best Actor (Harry Melling)
Synopsis //Harry’s a desperate man who’s decided to end his own life with the help of hired assassin Liam. This black comedy follows the unlikely pair’s road trip to what will be Harry’s ultimate resting place, taking in a series of significant locations from Harry’s past. The events of Harry’s final day don’t go exactly as planned, but a budding friendship develops and Liam begins to sense that Harry’s making the wrong choice. As Harry weighs his existential crisis, has he left it too late to realise that his past doesn’t have to dictate his future?
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Director, Best Cinematography & Best Actor (Harry Melling)
Director, Writer & Producer // Aaron Karls
Producers // Karl-Friedrich Groß, Leopold G., Paul Rositzka
Country of origin // Germany
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Music Video
Synopsis //In everyday spaces such as waiting rooms, bedrooms, and showers, the video shows the gradual disintegration of external order — a reflection of the character’s mental state. The world becomes narrower, more skewed, more surreal. Reality and thoughts blur. In the end, Nobody is stranded in no man’s land: an empty space with no direction, no way out.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Music Video
Director, Writer & Producer // Duško Mazalica
Producer // Jovan Narančić
Country of origin // Bosnia and Herzegovina
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Documentary
Synopsis //Nikola is an elderly man who lives alone in the village and maintains the cemetery. All his relatives are buried in the cemetery and he has not been able to walk to it for a long time. The road is steep and there is snow. He decides to buy a horse so that, when harnessed, he can go to the cemetery with it. In his search for the horse, he encounters many obstacles and interesting situations.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Short Documentary
The Other Half
Ritajit Raychaudhuri
Director & Writer // Ritajit Raychaudhuri
Producer // Rajesh Chaudhary
Country of origin // India
Synopsis //Animesh, an ordinary man from Kolkata, is thrust into the unimaginable when he discovers that his shadow has gone missing. In disbelief, he files a missing diary with a skeptical police force, only to find his life spiraling out of control. What seems at first to be an absurd anomaly quickly becomes a public spectacle as the media swarms him like a sideshow curiosity.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best First-Time Filmmaker
Director // 博予(BOYU) 邓(DENG)
Writer//嘉愉(JIAYU) 潘(PAN)
Producer // 诗琪(SHIQI) 张(ZHANG)
Country of origin // China
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Animation
Synopsis //A protagonist who is frustrated in life and feels depressed tries to come to a seaside town to find spiritual comfort. As a result, he encounters a typhoon. He gets into a dilapidated taxi and embarks on a journey full of accidents and troubles with weird carpool passengers and taxi drivers. But in the end the protagonist still finds his own happiness in this imperfect journey.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Animation
Director, Writer & Producer // Fabrizio Fenech
Producer // Amelia Violet Prouse
Country of origin // Malta
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Editing/Post-Production
Synopsis //‘Honour, Fame and Glory’ tells the story of Pawlu, a former
boxing coach who is forced to confront overwhelming grief, guilt,
and loss after a tragic accident during a championship boxing fight.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Editing/Post-Production
Director & Writer // Liam Arnold
Producer // Amelia Violet Prouse
Country of origin // United States
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Acting Ensemble
Synopsis //After the death of their father, brothers Leonard and Clyde clash when Clyde decides to leave the family cult
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Acting Ensemble
Director & Writer // Ivo Wejgaard
Producer// June Chin
Country of origin // Thailand
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Feature Narrative
Synopsis //The life of a mute homeless takes a dramatic turn when he meets a mysterious working girl, eerily resembling his deceased mother.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Feature Narrative
Director & Producer // Michael Eibl
Country of origin // Germany
Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Feature Documentary
Synopsis //Christl Eibl, born in 1940 in Chodský Újezd (Heiligenkreuz) in the Czech Republic, tells of loss. A traumatic experience – especially for a six-year-old child: the loss of familiar surroundings, of home. In the film “60 Pounds of Home” (30 Kilo Heimat), she, the grandmother, tells her grandson, the director, about her fate as a displaced person from the Sudetenland.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Feature Documentary
Garbage Rex
Steve Hunyi
Writer // Steve Hunyi
Synopsis // Ophelia is trapped in a suffocating marriage and haunted by prophetic visions, dismissed by her controlling husband as symptoms of illness. When she foresees the death of a homeless man named Patrick, she defies her husband for the first time and ventures into the streets, driven by a need to understand what her visions are trying to tell her.
There, she meets Rex, a poet-philosopher and guardian of the homeless, who believes in her gift and encourages her to trust it. As Ophelia’s prophecies continue to unfold — warning of murder, betrayal, and imminent danger — she is drawn deeper into a hidden world where truth is elusive and every choice carries consequences.
Caught between fear and awakening, Ophelia must decide whether to keep denying her visions or embrace them fully. As the boundaries between control, belief, and freedom begin to collapse, she is forced to confront a reality that will change her life forever.
Season Awards #17 Shortlist:
Best Screenplay
