FICIMAD Honorary Award 2025

Neus Asensi (María de las Nieves Asensio Liñán)

FICIMAD Don Quixote Award for Best Picture

TRANS LOS ANGELES Kase Peña

FICIMAD Golden Helmet of Mambrino for Best Director

Lolita Naranovich WITHOUT FAMILY, The Reunion

FICIMAD Grand Jury Prize

اسپایدر زن (Spider-Zan) Maryam Khodabakhsh

FICIMAD Grand Audience Award

Será el serrín (Sawdust Eyes) Marta Lario

FICIMAD Rocinante Award for Best Cinematography

David P. Núñez Cómo desaparecer completamente (How to Vanish Completely)

FICIMAD Dulcinea del Toboso Award for Best Acting Performance

 Paula Vicario  Mai parlarem de nosaltres

FICIMAD Clavileño Award Best Upcoming Actor 

  Eita Shimura  Gift 

Micro Movies

NARRATIVE

-Best Picture  La muerte de Andrés (The death of Andrés)  Ana Loig 

-Best Director  Manuel Fernández Ferro Los Amantes De Avignon (The Lovers Of Avignon)

-Best Actress  Clara Ruiz  Entusiasta vital

-Best Actor  Juan Scheller  Corre, Pedro, ¡corre! (Run, Peter, run!)

-Best Supporting Actor  Kim André Muir Skjermet (Seclusion)

-Best Supporting Actress  María Veloso  Amiguis (Reel friends)

-Best Screenplay  Vince Breheny  Leaf Peeping

-Best Cinematography  Nuno Alexandre Serrão  Entanglement 

-Best Film Editing  Laia Ricart, Leo Palmestål  STAINLESS

-Best Sound  Messaoud Bouzid  La mouche et l’araignée (The fly and the spider)

-Best Art Direction  April Nicole  Lullaby

-Best Costume Design  Devra Salas  Si no es (If it is not)

-Best Makeup  Berta Sallent A cenar (To dinner)

-Best Original Score  Lino Ocando  Wanderer

-Best Comedy  Coruscant  Jean-Marie Marçais

-Best Indie Film  Zap On John Dawson

-Best Animated Film  Le Charade  Erika Totoro    

-Best Fantasy Film  Vienna, the three legged cat  Jan Schmitz

-Best Horror Film  Eleanor  Elise Middlemiss

-Best Experimental Film  F r a g m e n t e d  Ioulia Lymperopoulou

-Best First Time Filmmaker  حضور (Presence)  nasim dehghannayeri

-Best Visual Effects  Val Nabilskiy  My Melody

-Best Film Noir  Last Call  Mohanad Suwaed

-Best Sci-fi Film  Copilot  Jeremiah Hammerling, Robert Devine

-Best Thriller  Room 7  Jaden Sauls

-Outstanding Achievement  ANOTHER LIFE-CHANGING EVENT Kate Pelling

-Honorable Mention  Distancia  Sergio Martínez Rubio

DOCUMENTARY

-Best Documentary  Patria (Homeland)  Thor Echevarría

-Best Director Martin Lisius  The Chasers of Tornado Alley: Touching the Sky

-Best Film Editing  Khalil Charif  Arena

-Best Cinematography  Mahmut Taş The Island

-Best Sound  Konstantin Mednikov  Sea Launch

-Best Screenplay  Efi Amanatidou  The World is not the Planet

Student Movies

NARRATIVE

-Best Picture  La Impostora (The Imposter)  Yangxi Chen

-Best Director Ismael Lawrence  Storage

-Best Actress  Margarida Bento  Uma Mãe Vai à Praia (A Mother Goes to the Beach)  

-Best Actor  Gao Tianshi  Burn after Writing

-Best Supporting Actor  Geoffrey Tiquet  Lilith

-Best Supporting Actress  Damla Sönmez  Rehber (The Contact)

-Best Screenplay  Fausto Bonilla  A veces es Finlandia (Sometimes it’s Finland)  

-Best Cinematography  Lorena Godínez Cuaxiloa  En Ciernes (Blooming)

-Best Art Direction  Miriam Moros Cristobal Harina y Chocolate

-Best Film Editing  Ștefan Chișcaru  fisheye

-Best Costume Design  Sun Qian  Chill Ravine

-Best Makeup  Nidia Aragón  Señora (Madam) 

-Best Sound  Zohreh Aliakbari  Govah (Witness)

-Best Original Score  Malnas  Zoé

-Best Visual Effects  Hamideh Motavali Zadeh  قفس (The Cage)

-Best Experimental Film  Storiella di Donne e Lupe (Tail of Women and Wolves)  Giuia Pandolfini

-Best Sci-fi Film  VIDA  Louis Schwartz

-Best Child Artist  Nilram Ranjbar  Cat & Fish 

-Best Horror Film  Speak No Evil  Bryan LaSof, Karla Guzman

-Best Animated Film  Vestige  Yu-Hsuan Teng

-Best Fantasy Film  The Sunset of Green Snails  Mohammad Hasani

-Best Indie Film  (un)seeliefae  Jay Mendoza

-Best Thriller  The Past is Calling   Perla Geagea

-Best LGTBTQIA+ Film  NINI  ZI YING LIN

-Best First Time Filmmaker  3 Sisters  Jeremy Lavon

DOCUMENTARY 

-Best Documentary  أمنا حواء (Mother Eve)  Lama Jamjoom

-Best Director  Yesmine Fersi, Lina Hamouda, Minyar Mrabti  Ye rayt (Exile)

-Best Screenplay  Vittorio Caratozzolo & Class 2 A (2022-23), Luca Nicolini Pestis Muliebris (Stories of Female Resilience)

-Best Film Editing  Arturs Voblikovs  Anomālija (Anomaly)

Short Movies

NARRATIVE

-Best Picture  La Compañía (The companions)  José María Flores

-Best Director  Brett Gregory  Franz Kafka’s ‘Before the Law’

-Best Actress  Irene Rojo  Óbito

-Best Actor  Jacob Utzon Krefeld  KUTLING 

-Best Supporting Actor  Eirik Hallert  Moon Brothers

-Best Supporting Actress  Irene Corbelle  Ella es una sensación (She’s a sensation)

-Best Cinematography  Jonas Schmieta  Ich will nicht laut sein müssen (I don’t want to have to be loud) 

-Best Film Editing  Yossi Galanti  Axis of Echoes

-Best Art Direction  Soore Vahe  Zaxme

-Best Screenplay  James Barry Fitzmaurice  The Mark

-Best Sound  Pierre Carlier  Enfin Bref (Anyway) 

-Best Original Score  Alexander Shamaluev  به من لبخند بزن (Smile at me)

-Best Costume Design  Eleonora Manca the lucid dream of the last poets

-Best Makeup  Karolina Żukowska  Hush

-Best Animated Film  Mi juego (My game)  David Bravo

-Best Thriller  Crimson  Kabelo Maaka

-Best Experimental Film  Animal  Patrick Moser

-Best Comedy  Ballerina Soheil Babaei, Farima Khalili

-Best Indie Film  Roxy! The Beginning  Ashley Nicole

-Best Fantasy Film  Forbidden Fruit  Kayla Whittaker

-Best Sci-fi Film  Deform  Alireza Nouri

-Best LGTBTQIA+ Film  Shideh  Nazanin Vahed

-Best War Film  The Steak Kiarash Dadgar

-Best Horror Film  Immortal Reflections  Andrea R. Ciobanu

-Best First Time Filmmaker  Help Yourself  Hedvig Andersson

-Honorable Mention  Cafunè  Carlos F. De Vigo, Lorena Ares

-Outstanding Achievement  ROPE  Ramin Kazemi

DOCUMENTARY

-Best Documentary  Zeitschenkerin (Time Giver)  Lars Smekal, Katarzyna Karpinska

-Best Director  Lucy Adams  Coywolf

-Best Cinematography  AYOUB ABOUIZZA  AMAZIGH

-Best Film Editing  Barbara Peiker  L’ombre du Cormoran (The Cormorant’s Shadow)

-Best Original Score  Liam Colomer  Viento apacible (Gentle Wind) 

Featurette Movies

NARRATIVE

-Best Picture  Nada que Perder (Nothing to Lose)  Natalia García Cortés

-Best Director  Mikheil Gabaidze ვაზომოტორული რინიტი (Vasomotor Rhinitis) 

-Best Actress  Masha Zhuravleva  Bedtime

-Best Actor  Gabriel Quintella  You Can Only Blink Once 

-Best Supporting Actor  Claude Musungayi  Tudo o que quiser (Everything you want)

-Best Supporting Actress  Sophia Natania Rubin  Unbridled

-Best Cinematography  Pep Buades  Cuerpos Sintéticos (Synthetic Bodies)   

-Best Film Editing  Samantha Hernández, Andrea Flores Cerwinka  El Club de las Manzanas (Eden’s Play) 

-Best Screenplay  Txema Ballano  Lo que no nos decimos (What we don’t say)

-Best Sound  Alejandra Sánchez, Juan Salinas  La Pepa

-Best Original Score  Mandy Hoffman  As Easy As Closing Your Eyes 

-Best Indie Film  Brother’s Horn  Majid Asadi

-Best Comedy  You Know It Ain’t Easy  George Adams

-Best Art Direction  Vuslat Koç  Şöyle Anlatayım (Let Me Put It This Way) 

-Best Makeup  Zahra Babaei  Stateless

-Best First Time Filmmaker  دادرسی (claimant)  nadereh sadat serki

-Best Film Noir  The Plan  Angelo Donzella

-Best Thriller  Brno  Soheil Soheili Seresht  

-Best Experimental Film  Long Ago  Alessandro Amaducci

-Best Horror Film  Sandy Grave  Aliyeh Hodaei, Sepideh Rezaei

-Best Sci-fi Film  Мусор (Garbage)  Алексей Митягин

-Outstanding Achievement  Backseat  Elaheh Dezhpasand

DOCUMENTARY 

-Best Documentary  KINDERFREI (CHILDFREE)  Antonia Meile

-Best Director  André Lô Sánchez  Coronas Negras (Black Crowns)

-Best Cinematography  David Všetička, Rama Abdi, Hazar Yazji, Amira Abdel-Fadil, Karim El-Mubarak  Biophilia

-Best Film Editing  Anahi Alviso-Marino  Monumenting

-Best Screenplay  Yary Guirado Alejo  La culpa fue de la salamandra (It was the salamander’s fault)

-Best Sound  Mariusz Bielecki, Sławomir Pietrzyk, Mateusz Andrzejewski, Dominik Pawliszewski , Przemek Jaworski NIEWYPOWIEDZIANE (UNSPOKEN) 

Feature Movies

NARRATIVE

-Best Picture  Better Tomorrow  Sharvi M

-Best Director  Alejandra Díaz Olvera Cometa 1600

-Best Actress  AKINA  不死鳥の翼 (Wings of the Phoenix)

-Best Actor  Stefan Radu  Timing

-Best Supporting Actor  Roohollah Zamani  In the Arms of the Tree 

-Best Supporting Actress  Carmen Carrera  TRANS LOS ANGELES

-Best Cinematography  Vinicius Dratovsky  O MUNDO DOS MORTOS (The World of the Dead)

-Best Film Editing Claudio Capello  Prima del giorno dopo (Before the next day)

-Best Art Direction  Luigi Maghari  Under A Piaya Moon

-Best Sound Zohreh Aliakbari 9 Nights

-Best Comedy  A Lab Story  Carlo Gallen Obispo

-Best Screenplay  Oleksandra Basko  Oleksandra Basko’s A Non-Fictional War 

-Best Makeup  Cheryl Cabanos  Pushcart Tales

-Best First Time Filmmaker  پرویزخان (Parviz khan)  Ali Saghafi

-Best Original Score  Mario Grigorov  The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd

-Best Horror Film  Sister II  Colin Robert Denhart

-Best Crime Film The Almighty Jagdish, Rahul

-Best Thriller  Asediados (Besieged)  Lucero González Pasarán 

-Best Sci-fi Film  Itu Ninu Itandehui Jansen

-Best Experimental Film  Лев Толстой: по ту сторону фотографий 3 D (Leo Tolstoy: Beyond photography 3D)  Dmitry Novikov

-Best Animated Film  PAPmusic – Animation for Fashion  Leikié

DOCUMENTARY

-Best Documentary  Los Mamboniks Lex Gillespie  

-Best Director  Huw Caspar Turner Wahl  Wind, Tide & Oar  

  

Best Trailer 

–Hallucinations of War  Nath Milburn

Best TV/WEB Episodes

NARRATIVE

-Trumpet Player  Felino Dolloso 

DOCUMENTARY

–Da Boca ao Mundo (A Mouthful of Stories)  Bernardo Bibancos, Lara Dias

-Best Original Score  Shantanu Moitra, Tanveer Ghazi, Rashi Harmalkar  Tiger Anthem

Best Music Videos

-Best Music Videos  Tu mens  Alba Camarero

-Song of the Year  Si es que tiene que doler Susana Ballesteros

-Outstanding Achievement  Adrien d’Elzius – Bukowski’s raw take on himself  Marshall & le Sherif