Here are the nominees and award winners for each month. Please note that the ceremony is a limited screening of award-winning films and will be scheduled twice per year.
January:
Best Short:
Award Winner – U=Me – By Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Selected – 1 AM Heroics – By Henry Severe
Selected – Closing the Gap – By Maura Smith, Kate Smith
Selected – Cognition – By Ravi Ajit Chopra
Selected – Depending on the music… – By Hugo Brument Scuderi
Selected – Homebound – By Lefteris Koutinas
Selected – There’ll Be No Divorce – By Noelle Clarke
Best Feature:
Award Winner – THE FLY BACK: Restoring Territorial Rights in the Ucayali Basin – By Reynaldo Antonio Morales
Selected – We The People – By Edwin Maker Jr.
Selected – With You – By Evan Doll
February:
Best Short:
Award Winner – HER – By
Selected – ACROSS THE OCEAN – By Peter Webber
Selected – Love Stuck – By SANDRO DEMELAS
Selected – Put Them Down – By Lucas Krost
Selected – Sigur Rós – Andrá – By Katya Gimro, Alexey Krupnik
Selected – Sweeping Glass – By Maximilian Tenzin Sheni Czerski
Selected – UNDERCURRENT – By Mary Fix
Selected – We Need a Break – By Brenden Davis
Best Feature:
Award Winner – BREAKDOWN – By Raffaele Lamorte
Selected – Operation Star – By Vasileios Tsikaras
March:
Best Short:
Award Winner – shadowland – By bellopropello
Finalist – Mobius – By Zexi Liu
Selected – Goodnight Irene – By Matty Killen, Laura Mac
Selected – HUNGER – By Gopalarao Boddepalli
Selected – Itsy Bitsy Problems – By Kenneth Cassidy Tyner
April:
Best Short:
Award Winner – The Walking Forest – By Rose Casella, Floris Leeuwenberg
Finalist – All We Have – By HAO-HSIANG HU
Selected – Cascade – By Matt Surridge
Selected – Microalgae and the Green Future – By Jimin Youn
Selected – Spark Soul – By Juan Burgaleta
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Shimokita Blazer – By KOZO ANDO
May:
Best Short:
Award Winner – on the edge of hope – By Sukhvir Parmar
Selected – HADIA – By Utku Yasavul
Selected – Menism – By Neha Srivastava, Akshat Kishore
Selected – Mia, Just Eat The Fry! – By Hallie Eliza Friedman
Selected – One world at a time – By Bing Cui
Selected – But I Want to Leave the Party – Gilles Plouffe
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Chasing The Midnight Sun – By Dario Di Agostino
Selected – Where Olive Trees Weep – By Benazzo
Selected – April is Missing – By Eamonn Larsen