FICIMAD Honorary Award 2026

Hemat Mohseni

FICIMAD Don Quixote Award for Best Picture

FICIMAD Golden Helmet of Mambrino for Best Director

FICIMAD Grand Jury Prize

FICIMAD Grand Audience Award

FICIMAD Sancho Panza Award for Best Documentary 

FICIMAD Rocinante Award for Best Cinematography

FICIMAD Balsam of Fierabrás for Best Film Editing

FICIMAD Maese Pedro’s Puppet Theatre Award for Best Animated Film 

FICIMAD Knight of the Mirrors Award for Best Actor

FICIMAD Maritornes Award for Best Comedy Performance

FICIMAD Clavileño Award Best Upcoming Actor 

Lanyi Jing  Lingering Day

Micro Movies

NARRATIVE

-Best Picture  Mama  Denise Moreno 

-Best Director  Evvie Kyrozi  Stay Cool

-Best Actress  Gabriela Pomi, Lucía Loureiro  La Entrevista

-Best Actor  Leonardo Verni  IeriNeroDomani (YesterdayBlackTomorrow)

-Best Supporting Actor  Guillermo Calero, Alberto Conde  Piso Bro

-Best Supporting Actress  Maryem ElOrainny  From and to Nature, We Return

-Best Screenplay  Мария Лапшина (Maria Lapshina)  Аплодисмент (A single applause)

-Best Cinematography  Azul Fernández  Aleteos (Flapping)

-Best Film Editing  Facundo Martínez  CAM1L0

-Best Sound Peter Whittenberger  And The Wise Soil Smiles

-Best Art Direction  Christian Meyer, Anne Schiekel  AGATHA

-Best Costume Design  Jérémy Guéci Marin, Theodore Fivel  FUTSUKAYOI

-Best Makeup  Manwella Gamal  the monkey

-Best Original Score  Ohara Hale  Fish

-Best Comedy  Ape Shit  Dahlia Jane Kressler

-Best Indie Film  The Screen Marco Galluccio

-Best Animated Film  Human Layers  Fatemeh Zare   

-Best Thriller  Voyeur  Maryam Hashempour

-Best Poetry Film  Renewal  Vince Breheny

-Best Horror Film  The Screeching  Ashley Nicole

-Best Experimental Film  LIGHT  Katarzyna Zabłocka

-Best First Time Filmmaker  God Dam  Abigail Hill

-Best Visual Effects  Ernesto Rodriguez Cruz  The Discovery

-Best Film Noir  Out of Sight  Nathan Tosoni

-Best Sci-Fi Film  Der Musikalisch Industrielle Komplex (The Musical Industrial Complex)  Falko Seidel

-Achievement in Casting Award  Heydar Hojat  دستِ باد (Hand of Wind)

-Best Video Art  The Lost Coordinates  Mohammadhossein Shariati

-Best AI-Generated Film  Echoed in Water  Yossi Galanti

-Outstanding Achievement  Sweet Sorrow  Parisa Zandbaf

DOCUMENTARY

-Best Documentary  Ars Animalis for Troubled Times, only traces of me here  Anne Ciecko

-Best Director  Andrew Payne  Sunlight on leaves 3 

-Best Film Editing  Elin Johnston  Anthems Of Obsidia

-Best Cinematography  Parya Moazami  شنوانش (Audiolysis)

-Best Animated Film  درخت برای درخت (Tree for Tree)Soheil Paryani

Student Movies

NARRATIVE

-Best Picture  El Consuelo  Elena Papakonstantinou 

-Best Director  Nina Vink  Oditi (Elsewhere)

-Best Actress  Leyli RashidiIn Few Words

-Best Actor  Yannick Barbara  SYNDROME 

-Best Supporting Actor Seo Wonho  The Farewell Night

-Best Supporting Actress  Wenqing Qi  房间 (Twin Flowers) 

-Best Screenplay  Dunyasha Althaus  The Ambrose Finch

-Best Cinematography  Katja Rivas Pinzon تَناثُر البحر (Scattered Sea) 

-Best Film Editing  Qianyu Ji  当它来临时 (When It Comes)

-Best Sound He Zichen  Burning for the Departed

-Best Art Direction  Pourya Rahimi Minus 18 Degrees Celsius

-Best Costume Design  Masiha Aslani, Azadeh Pirani  The Shepherd

-Best Makeup  Sahar Mirzaei  Supplementary Judgment

-Best Original Score  Kero Nashaat  Departure

-Best Comedy  Man Meat  Iñaki Herrera Tamez

-Best Indie Film  Next Station  Shuhrat Davlatov, Laura Saidova, Yasmina Ayupova

-Best Thriller  کوشْتَن (HOMICIDE)  Nima Tabandeh

-Best Fantasy Film  تاش (La Tache)  Parya Moazami

-Best Horror Film  اَبْدان (Corpusruptus)  Saeed Amiri Fard

-Best Experimental Film Rastros (Traces)  Juan Ballesteros

-Best LGTBIQ+ Film  鬼才要當花車女郎 (Neon Life)  Miranda Wan

-Best First Time Filmmaker  El Puto AmoSergio Sánchez-Palencia, Bruno Sánchez-Palencia

-Best Visual Effects  Mohamad Dehbashi The Ground Floor

-Best Film Noir  Boutique  Pouya Dastgiran

-Best Original Song  Pido al tiempo que no te lleve  Mario Reyes

-Achievement in Casting Award  Parsa Farjadmanesh  ker

-Best Upcoming Actor Sergej Totić  Cats

-Best Upcoming Actress  Artemis Bakhshi  Cow Killer

-Outstanding AchievementYa Hanouni  Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib

DOCUMENTARY 

-Best Documentary  Incontri (Encounters), Little Anonymous Mobile Phone UsersVittorio Caratozzolo, Class 2 A (2022-23) & Eugenia Lombardo Meneses

-Best Director  Parisa Zandbaf  Stand by Me

-Best Screenplay  Students of the Cinematic Art Program at Flagler College  A Book of Freedom: The Confessions of Francisco Menéndez 

-Best Cinematography  Rashad Khalil Elhusseini  عدس فلسطين (Adas Falasteen)

-Best Film Editing  Marcus Vinicius Diniz  O que as formigas me contaram (Things the Ants Have Told Me)

-Best Sound  Yehia Rizk  141

Short Movies

-Best Picture POETRIX  Ioulia Lymperopoulou

-Best Director  Ines Serrano de Haro Perez  Young Wild Things  

-Best Actress  Camila Arteche  Boxeadora

-Best Actor  Nolan Gould  The Liars of Black Mountain Road

-Best Supporting Actor  Otto Lotz  Dinner plate

-Best Supporting Actress  Clémentine Karadjov, Victoire Julien  Victoire

-Best Screenplay Madeline Watkins  The Modern Woman

-Best Cinematography  Vasco Araújo  Picture Break

-Best Film Editing  Changwen Dong  Jian Yu Zhen (Jane and Zhen)

-Best Sound Ian Chase  Hell

-Best Art Direction  Sara Azampanah  The Dots of a Case

-Best Costume Design  Saharnaz Omran  Ramy

-Best Makeup  Maedeh Bahrami  Uninterrupted

-Best Original Score  Maria Bukharaeva, Natalia Yablokova  “L i OVE”

-Best Experimental Film un deux trois  Brooke Dooley

-Best Comedy  The Miracle  Dannzel Escobar

-Best Indie Film Vintage Journey  Philip Sedgwick

-Best Animated Film  FILKOOL  MARAL FOROUZESH, NASER REZAEIYAN  

-Best Thriller  Home  Sara Mokhavat

-Best Fantasy Film  Paper’s Sweet Scent  Sina Hadadi

-Best Horror Film  Camera of Death  Atefeh Shaygan

-Best Western  Dinner plate  Alexis Sebastian Komselis

-Best Video Art  1000 O  Barbara Peikert

-Best First Time Filmmaker  Zeynab Mousavi, Houri Shafieioun  هیس (Silenced) 

-Best Essay Film  The Scroll That Stole Time  Kaushik Sharma

-Best Visual Effects  Saeed Rashvand, Mohammad Reza Shateri  Metaverse

-Best Poetry Film  Four Haikus  saba hasan

-Best Original Song  Humaro Pahada – Basanta Devi  (Ballad of the Mountain)

-Best Film Noir  shadow like  saeed dadgar

-Best Upcoming Actor  Behnia Bagheri  Giraffe

-Best Upcoming Actress  Roghaye Niko, Shahla Rahmani  The Sweet Perfume

-Achievement in Casting Award  Ömer Yıldırım  SESSİZ PLAN (SILENT PLAN)

-Outstanding Achievement The Case of the Missing Platypus  Bryce Mackie

DOCUMENTARY

-Best Documentary  Koki, Ciao  Quenton Miller

-Best Director  Anna GrigorianԹԵՒԱՎՈՐԼԱՐԵՐ (FIBERS)  

-Best Screenplay  Aïda Sánchez, Maite Blasco, Marta Arjona  Dolors

-Best Cinematography  Melvin Vazquez  Martorell Sculpting a Poem

-Best Film Editing  Noir Taher Lulu  حدود (Hodoud)

-Best Sound  Shady George  فراشه باندورا (Pandora’s Butterfly)

Featurette Movies

NARRATIVE

-Best Picture  山与灵 (Elves in the Valley)  Tenglin Peng 

-Best Director  Hadi Shatat  Zahra

-Best Actress  Yajun Wu  如果当时 (What If)

-Best Actor  Nejib Balkadhi  Casting

-Best Supporting Actor  Mehdi Bajestani  A Good Day Will Come

-Best Supporting Actress  Giulia D’Ancona  BROKEN

-Best Screenplay  Ana Vučićević  Bazen-rupa (Pit-pool)

-Best Cinematography  Yang Chen  Dream Wakes

-Best Film Editing  Chen Jialing  Hiding in the Bubble

-Best Sound Junyi He  小霏 (FayeWell)

-Best Art Direction  Zhang Wei Lin Nan

-Best Costume Design  Nazanin Tavasoli, Setareh Belon  Manuscripts

-Best Makeup  Canjinyi Zhou, Xizi Lin Finger

-Best Original Score  Dolores Nemi Caldentey, Marcos Mariano Perretta  La Complejidad del Amor y la Tristeza (The Complexity of Love and Sadness)

-Best Comedy Normal Situation  Peyman Naji

-Best Indie Film  یوتوری (Yutori) Alireza Shakeri

-Best Action Film  Code 133 Omid Barzegar

-Best Thriller  خواب سوم (The Third Dream)  Mohammadhossein Nikzad

-Best Fantasy Film  No Harissa  من غير هريسة  Saifeddine Lahmar

-Best Horror Film  هیچ (Nothing)  Amir Niyakam

-Best Experimental Film  Spectacles (Missguided Perceptual Realism Of True Images) – عینک (واقعگرایی اشتباه تصاویر حقیقی)  Erfan Vahidi

-Best LGTBIQ+ Film Merhaba Anne, Benim, Lou Lou (Hi Mom, It’s Me, Lou Lou) Atakan YILMAZ

-Best First Time Filmmaker  The Nemesis Zin Ataş

-Best Visual Effects  Mahmood Najafi  بچه گلادیاتور (Gladiator Baby)

-Best Original Song  Hasta en la Luz  Felipe Fournier

-Best Film Noir  Muse  Jianfeng Qin

-Best Sci-Fi Film  Colisión  Juan Antonio Rodríguez

-Best Video Art  Belief  Parsa Yousef

-Achievement in Casting Award  Forough (Fatemeh) Azizi  Daar

-Best Upcoming Actor  Muhammadyusuf Yoldoshev Kabutar

-Best Upcoming Actress Renata Trejo  Hasta en la Luz

-Outstanding AchievementThe Birth of a Girl Mohammad Kazemzadeh Mojdehi

DOCUMENTARY 

-Best Documentary  Het Medicijn (The Medicine)  Sarah Dienaar

-Best Director  Tan Qiao Mei The true face 

-Best Screenplay  Alexandra Kumala  Ita (The Prayer)

-Best Cinematography  Cicely Hadman (and her former lover) Stamp On My Threshold Like A Cowboy  

-Best Film Editing  mehdi ghanavati  penosar

-Best Sound  Jota Marciano  Aprendiz de xamã Mukunã

–Best LGTBIQ+ Film  Transformation Saeed Mayahy, Miriam Carlsen

Feature Movies

NARRATIVE

DOCUMENTARY

-Best Documentary  از گهواره تا گور (FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE)  Davoud Abdolmaleki

-Best Director  Andrea LodovichettiCARTAPESTA: CARNIVAL OF FANO – THE MOVIE

-Best Screenplay  Laura Bondarevsky, Luciano Bertone  Un Mundo Recobrado

-Best Cinematography   Patricia Bova  La gravedad no espera 

-Best Film Editing  Kenji Sonoda  MR.YELLOW HIPHOP

-Best Sound  Jason Soo  Al Awda  

-Best Original Score  Ahmadreza Safarian  غروب بلوط ها (Twilight of the Oak)

-Best Experimental Film  HEIDEGGER  Юрий Владимирович Кузин 

Music Videos 

-Best Music Video  Soap&Skin – Girl Loves Me  Ioan Gavriel, Anja Franziska Plaschg  

-Artist of the Year  Tamara Flores  Chingona

-Song of the Year  Technophobia  Rio Wolta

-Band of the Year  BIG FOOT MAMA  Goodbye Butterfly

-Best Voice  Fernandache  Rumbo

-Best Songwriter Jocelyn Jane Fee Miller  I’m Rhyme

-Best Dance / Choreography  Jiyun HYUN  New Midlife Disco

-Classical Visionary Award  3/4  Baptiste Leydecker

–Best Piano Performance Award Pia Bose, Antonio Pastor  3/4 

–Best Director  Barnali Ray Shukla  Saath Tera (Yours Truly)

-Best Actor  Eloy Cándido Rivera Hernández  Chingona

-Best Actress  Sarah Tsukisima  社畜 Shachiku

-Best Secundary Actress  Zoë Muro, Abby Muro  newborn – Archetype (ft. Flor)

-Best Secundary Actor  Kenjii Benjii  Croccante – Protopapa

-Best Screenplay  Mark Rozhenstejn  newborn – Archetype (ft. Flor)

-Best Art Direction Bornajeans, Protopapa, Robi Tuono  Croccante – Protopapa

-Best Cinematography  Juli Wycisk  Hellfire (Anti-Corpos)

-Best Indie Film  Burnin’  Bernadine Van Renne   

-Best Animated Film  Doorcase Mummy  fauxquaker (Jorge Miranda Lucas)   

-Best Costume Design  Kozue Kido  社畜 Shachiku

-Best Horror Film  The Vampire  Yiannis Christidis

-Best Experimental Film  HEART FAILED Diana Näcke

-Best Makeup  Maria Quinn  The Vampire

-Best Film Editing  Ven Jemersic  BIG FOOT MAMA-Goodbye Butterfly, Siddharta – Na nebu

-Best AI-Generated Film  Ljudski – Zbogom Rastko Šejić, Žaklina Crnobrnja

-Outstanding Achievement  Pacific Fiction – What About Love?  Philip Steven Harvey

TV & Web Series

-Best Series  MILLENNIALS  Ludovica Lirosi 

-Best Director  Molly Daniels Displaced

-Best Actress  Laleh Marzban  Aban

-Best Actor  Matteo Germinario  MILLENNIALS

-Best Supporting Actor  Gabriel Ordoñez  Trópico del Chance

-Best Supporting Actress  Aleksandra Milyoshina  Паль (Knockoffs)

-Best Screenplay  Sally McLean  Dark Arcadia

-Best Cinematography  Bagdat Arginov  1286

-Best Film Editing  Asaad Abboud  Паль (Knockoffs)​

-Best Comedy  ROASTED  Katharine McNair

-Best Sci-Fi Film  The Girl from Tomorrow : Chapters of Parallel Universe  WEI CHUN JEN

-Best Indie Film  BUSTED  Julia Liu, Keith Heyward

-Best Sound Stanislav Ignatyev, Marina Ignatyeva  Паль (Knockoffs)

-Best Art Direction  Tábata Briceño  Trópico del Chance

-Best Costume Design  Jill Johanson  Dark Arcadia

-Best Makeup  Alena Strekozova  Паль (Knockoffs)

-Best Original Score  Robert Ziganshin​  1286

-Best Visual Effects  WEI CHUN JEN  The Girl from Tomorrow : Chapters of Parallel Universe

-Best Original Song  Chicory Roast  Michel Gallant

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