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SHORT to the Point – May & June 2025 Nominees

Adventure / Action   

Painful, Director: Vova Kornienko

Lola Grey, Director: Caine Sinclair

NYX, Director: Bulent Ozlarusso

NIGHT SHIFT, Director: LYNDA D’ALEXIS

All Individual Awards            

WIND, Director: Mingyi Jing

Confrontation, Director: Marie Abbenanti, Sandy Pujol Latour

FRECKLES, Director: Nevena Nikolova

LIGHT WAS A BREAK, Director: Luís Costa

Reciprocal Causation, Director: Luyao Xue

The love of Sin , Director:  Shuai Zhang

Happy Day of the Dead, Director: Luka Štigl

Moonflower, Director: Maximilian Jonas Müller

Animation     

Where Blue Meets Red, Director: Tamás Patrovits

Forever, Director: Jiaxing Yang, Xiaoxi Zhang

Bangs, Director: Dora Kvež

Croak Show, Director: Suresh Eriyat

Desi Oon, Director: Suresh Eriyat

Bullet Time, Director: Eddie Alcazar

Children Film 

TROPICAL FISH, Director: Shirley Xie

Bound, Director: Mason Garner, Nadia Koolina

Cubosee – The Secret Garden, Director: Filip Gašparović Melis

Brightest Summer Darkest Night, Director: Zewen Wu, Dongcheng Jiang

Smoke fingers, Director: Jorge Antonio Estrada

The Other Planet, Director: 10 Children

Comedy         

Retrouvailles, Director: Killian Longwani

A Face, Director: Natalia Plascencia

The Tooth And The Rock, Director: Kostis Alevizos

A Film by Roland Wehap, Director: Roland Wehap

Bullet Time, Director: Eddie Alcazar

Commercial / Ad / TVC

Triumph, Director: Josh Kirk

Omi, Director: Josh Kirk

Welcome to the 70s!, Director: Gretta-Garoliina Sammalniemi

Dance / Musical

How the Earth Must See Itself (a Thirling) , Director: Lucy Cash

Do You Have Kids?, Director: Tom Gentle

Documentary

Siam Pronti Alla Morte, Director: Basilio Maritano Sailer

OLEG, Director: Vladimir Valentinov Velichkov

In the Dark, I See, Director: Cansın Güven

Postman, Director: Ibadylla Khalilovich Adzhibaev

Half past one, Director: Katarzyna Ewelina Bogucka

Reflections of Mythology in the Bosphorus, Director: A. Haluk Manav

The Broken Goddess, Director: Ximena Andrea Pereira

Enough Enough, Director: Julia Novacek

Remembering Mill Creek: When We Were There, Director: Khalid Abdulqaadir

Artists of survival, Director: Jaan Tootsen

Drama            

Achari – The Teacher, Director: Dhisal Kapuge

Waiting Room, Director: Takudzwa Zibengwa

Give Yourself A Try, Director: Alexander Ronsdorf

Danka Priscilla Danka (2025) , Director: Inaki Velasquez

Experimental

Autopsía, Director: Philipp Kowalski

Everything is fine, Director: Felipe Baréa Prado

Placenta, Director: MJ Golzari

I Wish I Could Blame It on Someone, Director: Mathilde Brandi

Fantasy / Sci-Fi          

Fireprayer, Director: Yuexiang LIN

ECHO BLOOM, Director: Kasumi Hiraoka

Mini Short     

Masai Mara, Director: Andrea Bufi

A Losing Game, Director: Kyra Owers

The Ring Box, Director: Thibault Gilles

Music Video  

Love in Yanbian, Director: Tong Nian

Company Culture – Lambrini Girls, Director: Al Brown

WINONA, Director: Nico Poalillo

Fresh Blood Fresh Pussy, Director: Stian Andersen

Ieva’s Polka, Director: Elina Oikari

No / Low Budget       

I love ABC, Director: JIA WU

Sexy Time Soup, Director: Gabrielle Pfeiffer

Cusp, Director: Shahrokh Nael

Tapes Of Gratitude, Director: Ofer Yakov

For How Long?, Director: Daw’ud Yasin Muhammad-Spaulding

Lullaby for Clémence, Director: Fabrice Drocco

Departures, Director: Gordon (Hei Yuen) Chan

Anything At All, Director: Jamie A. Chalmers

Just One More , Director: Bingqing Liu

Underneath your skin, Director: Montserrat Merlo

Maude, Director: Peter Venne

Phone-Saudade, Director: Csongor Attila Tóth-Lederhaas

INSTINCTS, Director: Lucie Cabon

The little girl who wanted to be white, Director: Alexandra Mignien

CONFERENCE OF THE MOTHS, Director: Samhita Sunya

The Paradox Of Choice, Director: Liliana Berman

The Archivist, Director: Antonio Sergio Spagnol

PSIQUÊ, Director: Antonio Amorim

Time Run Backwards, Director: Antonio Amorim

Balagan, Director: Mélina Krempp

Brushed Dreams, Director: Itorobong (IB) Joan Asanga

Stop-Motion / Time-Lapse   

Boudoir Doll, Director: Dandan Luo

Flipbook Fox, Director: Robert Naranjo

Maya Time, Director:  alberto José Doctorovich

Student

SILVIA, Director: Luca Salvi, Rasha Kabso

Why Are You Still Here?, Director: Leonardo Cross

Wallaby Drew’s Wild Adventures, Director: Luke Stagg

Those Who Love Me Will Follow Me, Director: Alessandro Giovanni Lunghi

HAVE A NICE DREAM, Director: Jonathan Kirkpatrick

DOUBLE OR NOTHING, Director: Tokay

Even If It’s Here or There, Director: Zheng Chen

Skin on Skin, Director: Simon Schneckenburger

Life, Death & Pickles, Director: Lotta Schweikert

There is an End in Friend, Director: Sander Lea Eikaas

The Land of Immortality, Director: Mostafa Saeed

Masquerade, Director: Ivan Kudriashov

Mute, Director: Jorge Esteban Verdugo Jarrín

Rumors, Director: Rastislav Kupšo

The Gift Card, Director: Danny Seggelke

Yet Another One, Director: Karla Jelić

Three days in a life of a single Death, Director: Uroš Felix Krulj

Burnt Toast Theory, Director: Ioanna Giannakopoulou

The Catch, Director: Kang (Andrew) Tian

Freshwater, Director: Olivia Wilyman

Enjoy This Day, Director: Zhicheng Zhang

The Cat Ice, Director: Hang Y ANG

The Temptation of an Ordinary Thought, Director: Thomas Pappas

Changing Room, Director: Paul Mertins

CRUSH TEST, Director:            Daria Sollertinskaia

The Knight, The Mage, & the sandWitch, Director: Mahum Farooqui

“Walk With the Devil”, Director: ZuYe Liu

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