Golden Pier: Short Film
Winner
OKMO (Lola Dubettier, Romain Perset, FR)

Nominees
Reggie (Jake Elliott Horvitz, USA)
The Livestock at the Manger (Julie Vanlerberghe, Breyten Van Der Donck, Belgium)
The Exam (Xiaofei Liang, China)
The Bridges We Cross (Iris van Dongen, UK)
Lux in Tenebris (Luis Lambert, Argentina)
IT'S TOO LATE (PEDRO MORAELCHE, ES)
Ballsed Up (Teri Murkin, UK)
The first (Yuriy Mezhevich, Russia)
RPG (Mary Reynard)
PARDON (SAHDEV GHOLAP, India)
Intoxication (Tara Salas, UK)

Honorable Mention
Call Me Matthew (Remy Cayuela, France)
À LA DÉRIVE /A Drift (Célia Pyamootoo,FR)
YOU KAI (Frédérique BUCK, Luxambourg)

Official Selection (Screening)
OKMO (Lola Dubettier, Romain Perset, FR)
Call Me Matthew (Remy Cayuela, France)

Golden Pier Short Docu
Winner
hoplove - a journey through the hop year at Lake Constance (Sebastian Bauer, DE)

Nominees
Private View: William Mackinnon (Felipe Sanguinetti, FR)
The bus (Piotr Bogdan Michalak, PL)
Spoken Reflections: One Punch to Break Free (Antony Popov, UK)
Shaking Hands With The Devil (Olz McCoy, UK)

Official Selection
Private View: William Mackinnon (Felipe Sanguinetti, FR)
hoplove - a journey through the hop year at Lake Constance (Sebastian Bauer, DE)


Golden Pier Indie Short
Winner
The Trees are Blue (Mélanie Grancourt, FR)

Nominees
BRIGIE (Stéphanie MARAVAL, Sylvain BEGERT, FR)
Burning Moon (Ziwei Li, China)
See You on the Other side (HAEJI JUNG, Rep of Korea)
It Just Happened (Steven Lloyd Bennett, USA)
The Memory Album (Cameron Ryan Soedi, Canada)

Honorable Mention
Lucid (Nick ter Beek, Netherlands)

Official Selection
La Grinta (Ilan Zerrouki, FR)
BRIGIE (Stéphanie MARAVAL, Sylvain BEGERT, FR)
Lucid (Nick ter Beek, Netherlands)

Golden Pier Feature Film
Winner
Encontro (François Manceaux, FR)

Nominees
Willie and Me (Eva Hassmann, USA)

Honorable Mention
WOLFPACK (Cédric Peyster, FR)

Golden Pier Feature Docu
Winner
MY TIME DANCES WITH ME (Józef Romasz, Poland)

Nominees
King of Kings : Chasing Edward Jones (Harriet Marin Jones, FR)
500 Meters Beeline (Edwin Wiegele, Austria)
Family Fate (Angela Sofia Spörri, Switzerland)
Hyphen (Reine Razzouk, Lebanon)
Kim Carnie Out Loud (Maureen Macleod, UK)
17 DAYS OF NOVEMBER (VALENTÍ FIGUERES JORGE, Spain)
Burden of debt (Elisabeth Krez, Bulgaria)
L U C Y - A PIONEER DESTINY (Roberto Pili, IT)
VERITY CIRCLE (Robert Hofferer, Austria)

Honorable Mention
PETIT SUISSE (Olivier Sautet, FR)

Golden Pier Indie Feature
Winner
Sweetwater (Martin Guigui, USA)

Nominees
SDI: Secret Department of Intervention (Sébastien BACCALA, FR)
A Time For Summer (Jacek Raginis, PL)
Itzia, Tango & Cacao (Flora Martinez, Colombia)
Touch me (Boris Kazhdan, Israel)
Velo Gang (Alex Kälin, Switzerland)

Golden Pier Music Video
Winner
KAS:ST - 2084 (KAS:ST, ENTREFAMILIA, FR)

Nominees
Contaminado (Léna Charlon, FR)
Pesto - Vespa (Pawel Stokajlo, Piotr Smolenski, PL)
Farvæl/Goodbye (Dawn Florinda Wall, Faroe Islands
St Louis - DEBUT (Andy James Taylor, UK)
SMARANAYIL (Achu Vijayan, India)

Honorable Mention
Live (Thierry Vergnes, FR)

Official Selection
Farvæl/Goodbye (Dawn Florinda Wall, Faroe Islands)
KAS:ST - 2084 (KAS:ST, ENTREFAMILIA, FR)

Golden Pier Student
Winner
Free Edge (Nicolas Gonzalez, FR)

Nominees
GRAU (David Pohlus, DE)
Nix's Symphony (Karina Xiao Loerchner, CANADA)

Honorable Mention
7 hours (Vittorio Amodeo, IT)

Golden Pier Best French Film
Winner
Renaissance (Brice Zephir, FR)

Nominees
UNCLE EDOUARD (David MALTESE, Patrick JORGE, FR)
Declared Missing (Morgan Cini, FR)
A DRIFT (Célia Pyamootoo, FR)

Official Selection
À LA DÉRIVE / A DRIFT (Célia Pyamootoo, FR)
LA VIE EN ROSES (Patrice Cordonnier, FR)
Renaissance (Brice Zephir, FR)

Golden Pier Best French Director
Winner
A taxi in the middle of the night (ILKAY DEMIR, FR)

Nominees
Paradox (Simon Brocard, FR)
Call Me Matthew (Remy Cayuela, France)

Golden Pier Cannes Filmmaker
Winner
Good Vibes (Janet De Nardis, IT)

Nominee
Neurosis (Dekoven Riggins, Marcus Brown, US)


Golden Pier Feature Screenplay
Winner
The Stranger In Our Bed (Samantha Lee Howe, UK)

Nominees
The Language of Wolves (Nan Schmid, USA)
A Drawer Full of Socks and Not a Single Pair (Gareth Meadows, UK)
The Pickleball Killer (Jim Carroll, USA)

Honorable Mention
#instaboys (Matthew Rodney Chess, US)

Golden Pier TV Screenplay - PILOT
Winner
Tangled Spirits - Pilot (Eric P Granger)

Honorable Mention
Two Harbors Pilot ( Brian Lange Stemmler, USA)


Golden Pier Medium-Length Script
Winner
L'anesthésiste (Jean-Gabriel Perromat, FR)

Golden Pier Short Script
Winner
Paps' Trace (Cécile Vernant, FR)

Golden Pier Super Short Script
Winner
LOST HAPPINESS (Lou Ma Ho, FR)

Honorable Mention
Dying on the Pass (Zoi Emmanouil, FR)


Best First 10 pages
Winner
The Match (Crystal Rivers, US)

Honorable Mention
Tony, Ody, or Homer? (V.P. Evans, US)


Best Director Short (fic/Doc)
Winner
In Pursuit of the Absolute (Clara Mirabel, FR)

Nominees
Breakdown (Gabriel Tibi, FR)
Karma is a Hitch (Oliver Kahl, DE)
Grinta (Nils Vanderwaeren, Belgium)

Official Selection
In Pursuit of the Absolute (Clara Mirabel, FR)

Best Director Feature (Fic/Doc)
Winner
One Pint at a Time (Aaron Hosé, US)

Honorable Mention
A Time For Summer (Jacek Raginis, PL)


Best First Time Director (Short/Feature)
Winner
AMOUR NOIR - MUDDY LOVE (Victor Herault, FR)

Nominees
ZODI (Hubrecht L. Brand, Luxembourg)
Not Today (Ayesha Sheikh, Canada)
Itzia, Tango & Cacao (Flora Martinez, Colombia)
[MADO] (MAO, Japan)
Kiloherz (Jakob Gessner, DE)
Bonding (Luke Rex, USA)

Official Selection
Archive DPT (Nicolas Fauconnet, FR)
Juste au Corps (Romain Forêt, FR)

Best Second-time Director (feature)
Winner
Cowardly Courage (Yin Yuzhou, China)

Best Second-time Director (short)
Winner
disConnect (PETER CM CHIN, Malaysia)

Honorable Mention
12th of april (antonello deidda, IT)


Best Young Filmmaker
Winner
The Take (Joshua Gwynne, FR)

Honorable Mention
Carousel of Time (Adrien Harpelle, Canada)

Official Selection
The Take (Joshua Gwynne, FR)

Best Director Student Film
Winner
The Little Hole (Rocco Ferrante, FR)

Nominees
Membran (Pascal Rosengardt, DE)

Honorable Mention
Flowers Before You Die (Hanna Frieda Lange, DE)

Official Selection
The Little Hole (Rocco Ferrante, FR)

Best Director Super-short Film
Winner
The little romance of Will-o'-the-Wisp and Raindrop (Baptiste Denuit, Johan Denis, Belgium)

Nominees
Melodia: a short film in rondo form (A T Beaune, Taiwan)
LA STANZA IN FONDO ALLA NOTTE (Marco Benincasa, IT)

Honorable Mention
The inconsolables (Hugo Roblin, FR)

Official Selection
The inconsolables (Hugo Roblin, FR)

Best Female Director
Winner
Out of My Comfort Zone (Ivy Vale, USA)

Nominees
AI vs Deep State (Katalin Weith, HU)
My cruel friend (Karina Luchinina, Latvia)
Jacques (Charlie Bellarose, US)
Derin Mevzular (Eccem Lawton, Turkey)

Best Male Director
Winner
2 Rue des Tilleuls (Yann DUBOIS, FR)

Honorable Mention
Passengers of the Night (Ludovic Bontemps, Belgium)

Best Drama
Winner
Under Tension (Mireille Fiévet, FR)

Nominee
Jimmy Comes Marching Home (Frederick Keeve, US)

Best Director Drama
Winner
Hold Me Tightly (Ilya Tilkin, Israel)

Best Comedy
Winner
Hot Sauce (Yacine Saadi, FR)

Nominees
The Life of Lester Wink (Cassidy C Harrison, US)
Spot The Indifference (Paul Rodriguez, UK)

Official Selection
Hot Sauce (Yacine Saadi, FR)

Best Director Comedy
Winner
2 FLAWLESS (LEVY CLAUDE, FR)

Nominees
CUT! (Marie Lazović, Léo Holderbaum, FR)
The Window Washer (Robert Marshall Tartell, US)

Official Selection
2 FLAWLESS (LEVY CLAUDE, FR)

Best Animation
Winner
8 Rooms (Anita Louise Lebeau, Canada)

Nominees
Monsters With Garlands (qi yuan, China)
Goodbye, Woojoo (Dahyun Jeon, Rep. of Korea)
Lands Of Steel (Cyril Vracken, Belgium)

Honorable Mention
Goro Goro (Ryotaro Sawada, Agatha Tiara Christa, US)

Best Director Animation
Winner
Fiego and the Magic Fish (Joe David Murray, Belgium)

Nominee
Candy Apple (Luke Tianxiang Liu, US)
Goodbye, Woojoo (Dahyun Jeon, Rep. of Korea)

Best Animation for Kids
Winner
10 x 10 - I just want to ride alongside (Vision Desire, Hong-Kong)

Best Short for Kids
Winner
Snakes & stairs (Delia Luna Couturier, Mexico)
Honorable Mention
Yuri's Galaxy (Noemie Biegeleisn, Israel)

Best Director Short for Kids
Winner
Snakes & stairs (Delia Luna Couturier, Mexico)

Best Experimental
Winner
Jae-Bot (Tina Ljubenkov, Croatia)

Honorable Mention
17 DAYS OF NOVEMBER (VALENTÍ FIGUERES JORGE, Spain)

Best Director Experimental
Winner
I Am Not Your Black Girl (Ricki Nelson, Jacqueline Mangrum, US)


Best Horror
Winner
My Baby (John Dada, FR)

Best Thriller
Winner
REVERSE (Christophe Lenoir, FR)

Honorable Mention
Hide and Seek (Pengyu Lyu, China)

Nominee
INFINITY (Greg Francis, UK)

Official Selection
The Little Hole (Rocco Ferrante, FR)
Hide and Seek (Pengyu Lyu, China)

Best Director Thriller
Winner
Behold the moon has risen (Charif Ounis, DE)

Best Sci-fi
Winner
Archive DPT (Nicolas Fauconnet, FR)

Best Western
Winner
Harsh Treatment (Johnathan Paul, Josh Gilbert, US)

Best Human Rights
Winner
Our Voice, Our Heart (Laurens Goud, Justin Grant, Australia)

Honorable Mention
Yuri's Galaxy (Noemie Biegeleisn, Israel)


Best LGBTQ Film
Winner
Free Edge (Nicolas Gonzalez, FR)

Nominee
Where Are All the Gay Superheroes? (Tom Paul Martin, UK)
Kim Carnie Out Loud (Maureen Macleod, UK)
Concerto for Abigail (Jan Miller Corran, US)

Honorable Mention
MEMORI (Nicola Garzetti, Italy)

Official Selection
Free Edge (Nicolas Gonzalez, FR)

Best Inspirational
Winner
Inspire & Conte-me (Ingrid Queiroz, Brasil)

Honorable Mention
H.O.O.V.E.S. Healing Our Veterans (Josh Nagel, US)
Hysterical Sisters - A short film about Adenomyosis & Endometriosis (Chiara Schreder, Austria)

Best Female Film
Winner
Il dito e la luna/The finger and the moon/El dedo y la luna (Rossella Bergo, IT)

Honorable Mention
Coal In Their Veins (Dalit Merhav, UK)

Best Action
Winner
Dead Drop (Jason Gosbee, Canada)

Nominee
Combat Zone (Matt Routledge,UK)

Crime
Winner
HIGH-WAY (ARMAND WATTEL, FR)

Nominees
SOLD (Jennifer Li, Canada)
Artery (Marek Suchenia, Poland)

Official Selection
HIGH-WAY (ARMAND WATTEL, FR)

War
Winner
The Power of Propaganda (UK)

Best TV Series
Winner
Mille (Arnaud de Grandry, Cédric Fleury, FR)

Honorable Mention
Poscoito (Héctor Rodríguez, Spain)
WordLotto - Pilot (Johnny Baca, UK)

Official Selection
Mille (Arnaud de Grandry, Cédric Fleury, FR)

Best E uropean Film
Winner
Melodie Raum 222 (Anton Pichler, DE)

Nominee
Turn Off My Heart (Bjørn Olav Edvardsen, Jostein Vedvik, Norway)

Best European Director
Winner
THE ROOTS OF EVIL (Cindy Stenberg, Sweden)

Best American Film
Winner
A Year to Life (Nikki Hevesy, USA)

Best American Director
Winner
Blub Blub (Eddie Yukun Long, US)

Best Asian Film
Winner
Together，forever (王佳樱, China)

Best Australian Film
Winner
Our Voice, Our Heart (Laurens Goud, Justin Grant, Australia)

Best African Film
Winner
RUKA (Fungai Sarah Muzoroza, Zimbabwe)

Nominees
Ngarannam: The Homecoming (Joel 'Kachi Benson, Nigeria)

Honorable Mention
Angie's Love (Bayo Lambo, Nigeria)

Official Selection
RUKA (Fungai Sarah Muzoroza, Zimbabwe)

Best African Director
Winner
BOMPOETSE: A story of redemption (Vincenté Kabo Baker, Botswana)

Best Director Music Video
Winner
Answer Me (Gaultier Durhin, Yohan Granara, FR)

Nominees
Sean Reyes - Won't (W.T.D) (Kareen Mallon, Canada)
THE ENTROPY INSIDE THE WORDS (Gianni Salamone, IT)
La Danza Estelar (Christian Suau, Puerto Rico)
Mirage (Jad Rahmé, Lebanon)

Honorable Mention
Soda Blonde - Bad Machine (Adam O´Regan, Ireland)
Kadjavsi - Fever Dream (Norbert Fodor, Romania)
Panico (Lisa Mazzei, Leonardo Fiori, IT)

Official Selection
Answer Me (Gaultier Durhin, Yohan Granara, FR)

Best Experimental Music Video
Winner
The Cabinet (Silvia Sardellaro, IT)

Director Experimental Music Video
Winner
Lakna - Solo de Sax (Luca Perrin, Switzerland)

Best Animation MV
Winner
ALCEST - L'Envol (Yoann Lossel, FR)

Nominees
Farewell Glacier (Simone Maria Hooymans, Norway)
Hey, Boy! (Damian Noguerias, Spain)

Official Selection
ALCEST - L'Envol (Yoann Lossel, FR)

Best Director Animation MV
Vinny (Declan Boyle, Ireland)

Best Dance MV
Winner
EarthLove (Felicia Konrad, Johan Haugen, Sweden)

Nominees
New Vibration (Amit Mehta, Canada)
Kaylo - Ciecho (Pawel Stokajlo, Piotr Smolenski, PL)

Best Director Dance MV
Winner
Everyone is Guilty "Fake Cowboy" (Caroline Poisson, Belgium)

Best Original Song
"Heart Shaped Box" The Curse of KK Hammond (KK Hammond, UK)


Best Low Budget MV
Winner
Váthos - Burning Red (Bîrcă Ramona Marianti, Romania)

Nominee
Peccato (Lisa Mazzei, Leonardo Fiori, Italy)

Best Director Low Budget MV
Winner
TALK (Zishan Sun, US)

Nominees
Same Old Grace (Paolo Tresoldi, IT)
Ride a Cloud (Jamie Johnstone, UK)
TALK (Zishan Sun, US)

Official Selection
TALK (Zishan Sun, US)

Best Pop Music Video
Winner
Contaminado (Léna Charlon, FR)

Honorable Mention
Thieves (Dariy Mambetov, Switzerland)

Official Selection
Contaminado (Léna Charlon, FR)

Best Director Pop MV
Winner
Paralleli (Lisa Mazzei, Leonardo Fiori, IT)

Nominee
Give Me One More Night (Yeimy Daza, Canada)


Best Actor
Winner
Behold the moon has risen (Luca Jonas Müller, DE)

Nominees
The Chat (Artie Brennan, US)
Jimmy Comes Marching Home (Frederick Keeve, Frederick Keeve, USA)

Best Actress
Winner
Big Noise (Andrea Antonio Vico, Carlotta Parodi IT)

Nominees
CRY OF SILENCE (Charlot Daysh, Canada)
BRIGIE (Stéphanie MARAVAL, FR)


Best Cinematography
Winner
OKMO (Lola Dubettier, Romain Perset, FR)

Best Editing
Winner
Blue Roots (Gabriela Dominguez, Colombia)


Best Producer
Winner
Sweetwater (Martin Guigui, USA)

Best Post-Production
Winner
Mom told you so (Cécile Cournelle, FR)


Best Detective Film
Winner
Imbroglio (Ian Sciacaluga, UK)

Best Costume
Winner
RUKA (Fungai Sarah Muzoroza, Zimbabwe)

Best  Education Film
Winner
Invisible Interviews: Graham's Story (John Lee Taggart, UK)

Best Dark-Comedy
Mr. Winslow's Bell (Jimmy Martin, UK)

Best Musical
Winner
Out of My Comfort Zone (Ivy Vale, USA)

Honorable Mention
Spaghettieis (Katharina Dolle, DE)

Best Silent Film
Honorable Mention
Run For Your Life (Lars B. Farhm, Denmark)

Best Commercial
Winner
Flacon by Phil Ramcke (Phil Ramcke, DE)


Best Drone
Winner
Turn Off My Heart (Bjørn Olav Edvardsen, Jostein Vedvik, Norway)

Best Fight Choreography in Film
Winner
BUON APPETITO (Tanguy Guinchard, Switzerland)

Best New Generation: Virtual Reality/VR
Winner
Warsaw Rising (Tomasz Dobosz, PL)

Best First Time Screenwriter (Feature Screenplay)
Winner
The Academy of Kings (Marine Claire Puel, FR)
Nominees
The Match (Crystal Rivers, US)
Master Guns' (Peter R Herlan, US)


Best First Time Screenwriter (Short Screenplay)
Winner
Baby Mine (Christine Longoria, US)

Original Screenplay (Short/Feature)
Winner
RoY (Konrad Maximilian Piotrowski, UK)

Best Drama Screenplay
Winner
THE UNSEEN TERROR (Barry Siskind, Canada)
Honorable Mention
The Pickleball Killer (Jim Carroll, US)
Nominee
Ban the Bullet (Salvatore Klezmer Riggio, US)



Best Comedy Screenplay
Winner
Take This Faux Turkey and Shove It! (Mia Rivera, US)
Honorable Mention
Proud Girls (Leslie Flannery, US)
Me'n Gus (Leslie Flannery, US)

Best Thriller Screenplay
Winner
The Stranger In Our Bed (Samantha Lee Howe, UK)

Nominees
THE CASSANDRA MURDERS (MADELINE DALY PUCCIONI, US)
Room Service - Script (Nieves Garcia Perchin, US)

Best Horror Screenplay
Winner
Just Watch Me (Henry Sarwer-Foner, Canada)

Best LGBTQ Screenplay
Winner
The Makeover Man (Adam Sendel, US)

Nominees
F***boys (Adam Sandel, US)
Thankful (Earnest Diaz, US)