WINNERS

All the winning projects are listed below

Best Cambridge Filmmaker

UNWELL WOMAN
Daniella DeVinter
United Kingdom

Best Super Short Film (under 5 minutes)

I'M HERE
Directed by Vilma Kartalska
Bulgaria

Honorable Mention
Best Super Short Film (under 5 min)

KINOKARENINA
Directed by Andrii Makarchenko
Ukraine

Best British Film

Crossbar Challenge
James Oliver
United Kingdom

Honorable Mention
Best Super Short Film (under 5 min)
Now

Pat Collins
Ireland

Best Documentary Short Man of Arran

Directed by Paul McCambridge
Ireland

Best Indie Short Film (Low Budget)
Primordial

Directed by George Zorbas, Nana Papadaki
Greece

Best Short Film (under 40 minutes)

millie
Directed by Pedro Greig
Australia

Honorable Mention
Best Short Film (under 40 minutes)

Prism
Directed by Gina Hara
Canada

Honorable Mention
Best Short Film (under 40 minutes)

Next Up
Marion H von Loewenstern
United Kingdom

Best Animation

In Half
Directed by Jorge Morais Valle
Spain

Honorable Mention
Best Animation

Purga
Directed by Gintarė Valevičiūtė Brazauskienė,
Antanas Skučas
Lithuania

Best Comedy

Wild Eye Pub
Directed by Filip Nerold
Czech Republic

Best Drama/Best Feature Film

Hamlet Within
Directed by Ken McMullen
United Kingdom

BEST ROMANCE

Karma is a Hitch
Oliver Kahl
United Kingdom

Best LGBTQ

Transgression
Directed by Diana Szczotka
Poland

Best Horror

The Birdwatcher
Directed by Ryan Mackfall
United Kingdom

Best Thriller

The Soul Trader
Directed by Susan Dynner
United States

Best Action

La Mission
Directed by Arnaud Favre
Switzerland

Best Experimental Film

Moirai, Thread of Life
Directed by Ina Conradi, Mark Joseph Chavez
Singapore

Best Sci-Fi

The Stars My Destination
Directed by Keishi Suenaga
Japan

Best Fantasy

The Crone
Directed by Catherine Kasima Kanda
Poland

Best Experimental

Moisture
Directed by Duda Gorter
Brazil

Best Music Video

Nightwish-Perfume Of The Timeless
Directed by Ville Lipiainen
Finland

Best Actor

Espen Alknes
Camping in Paradise (directed by Eirik Tveiten)
Norway

Best Actress

Lydia Brayshaw
Twenty (directed by Jason Hogan)
United Kingdom

Best Short Script

FIDO
Written by John Norris Ray
United States

Best Screenwriter

AASMANI
Written by Sayani Gupta
India

Honorable Mention
Best Documentary Short

The Other Side of Despair
Directed by Varsy Buchmann
Switzerland

Best Student Screenwriter

28E: Last Stop Written by Jonathas Davi Gesteira

Best Television Script - Pilot

The Age of the Empath
Written by Steve Brown
United States

Best Original Screenplay

The Rabble
Written by Tim Polomani
Israel

Best UK Screenplay

FOXHOLE
Written by Adam Howes, Harry Arthur Davies United Kingdom

Best Comedy Screenplay

FADE TO FIFTY
Written by Kathryn Carmichael
United Kingdom

Drama Screenplay

Home Port
Written by Paul Michael Maher

Best Student Short Film

Amuse-Bouche
Directed by Matthew Turner
United Kingdom

Best Student Super Short Film

HomeComa
Directed by Jerry Guanzhi Chen
China

Best Student Documentary

Concrete Summer
Directed by Jacob Watson
United Kingdom

Best Student Animation

Bound
Directed by Mason Garner, Nadia Koolina
New Zealand

Best Student Director

A Guest from Elsewhere
Directed by Ethan Anderson
United States

Best Student Music Video

Emoti - Some Nights Music Video
Directed by Johanna Herzog
Germany

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

Refugium
Directed by Valerio Vittorio Garaffa
Italy

BEST MALE DIRECTOR

Benjamin K. Dyson
Ice Cream Headache
United Kingdom

Honorable Mention
BEST MALE DIRECTOR

Oliver Kahl
Karma is a Hitch United Kingdom

BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR

ESTHER CASAS ROURA
FLOCKY
Spain

Honorable Mention
BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR

Isabel Bernal
Leave Behind
Spain

BEST ART DIRECTOR

Chien-Ping Lin
Little Yellow Flower
Taiwan

BEST MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR

Space Table Symphony
Directed by Mayk Azzato
Germany

BEST BRITISH FILM

Twenty
Directed by Jason Hogan
United Kingdom

BEST CAMBRIDGE FILM

Hungry Like The Wolf
Directed by Kieran Dee
United Kingdom

BEST UK SHORT FILM

Hungry Like The Wolf
Directed by Kieran Dee
United Kingdom

Honorable Mention
BEST UK SHORT FILM

Pure
Bradley Peake
United Kingdom

Honorable Mention
BEST UK SHORT FILM

Francie
Zoë Ellender
United Kingdom

BEST UK DOCUMENTARY

The Yard
Directed by Maxwell Bamber, Jack Margerison
United Kingdom

BEST UK MUSIC VIDEO

The Mermaid Wife - The Apex Singers
Lydia Wonham
United Kingdom

Honorable Mention
Best UK Music Video

"Para Siempre" (FOREVER)
Directed by Tania Maria Rodrigues-Peters
Austria

BEST UK DIRECTOR (Short)

Zak Harney
The Time Machine
United Kingdom

BEST UK STUDENT FILM

STAG!
Directed by Elliot Taylor, Lucy Hilton-Jones
United Kingdom

BEST UK ANIMATION

Remote Postal Services
Directed by Jacob Thomas Varley
United Kingdom

Best Feature Script

Alta California
Written by Lynn H. Elliott
United States

Honorable Mention
Best Short Film (under 40 minutes)

Chambers Street
Scott Dempsey Keenan
United States

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