DMFA 2025 Nominees and Winners
Notes:
- The nominees and winners will be announced online.
- We will invite the finalists before the physical screening event (usually December each year).
- See This page to submit your film.
January 2025:
Best Short:
Award Winner – Take My Hand – By Kelly Stephanie Bergsma
Selected – Decomposers – By Maddie Abdalla
Selected – Fragile – By Malak Quota
February 2025:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Family (from east to west) – By MJ Guerola
Best Short:
Award Winner – SOUTH GEORGIA. In the heart of the wild – By Andrii Andreiev
Selected – Clock Shop – By Jennifer Sklias-Gahan
Selected – Echoes in the Dark – By Victor San Martin-Diaz
Selected – Hello – By Lauren A Poole
Selected – Poor Poor Eldon – By Lorin Morgan-Richards
Selected – The Last Chance – By Tiecheng Gu
March 2025:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – The Peculiar Story of Nova Espero – By João Pedro Braun
Selected – American Foulbrood – By Christina Hodel
Selected – First Friday – By Joshua Ojeda
Best Short:
Award Winner – De Grens van Eigenheid (The Limit of Individuality) – By Joey van Rumpt
Selected – Days After – By Daehwan Cho
Selected – Passive – By Aaron R Dorey, Chris Muirhead
Selected – Sepulcher – By Brian Rivera, Walter Rivera
Selected – The Pianist – By Jan Wang
April 2025:
Best Short:
Award Winner – My Braid – By Patrick Pang
Selected – Like Father Like Son – By Ethan Porter
Selected – Onward Journey – By Paris Herbert-Taylor
May 2025:
Best Short:
- Award Winner – Moms Don’t Cry – By Ellie Nikoo
- Selected – See – By Erika Waldorf
Honorable Mention – meme™ REZEREX (2025) – By Joey Bargsten
June 2025:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Blestem – The curse – By Axel Loh
Best Short:
Award Winner – Blestem – The curse – By Axel Loh
Selected – My Grandma’s Story – By Sourthearak Duong
July 2025:
Best Short:
Award Winner – Cactus – By Brandon Geoffrey Fairley, Steve Wilson-Alexander
Selected – Sound Mind – By Mike Zverina
Selected – The Last Call – By Danny Szam
Selected – Youth’s Album – By Jia Yule
August 2025:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – I Remember Everything – By Brandon LaSan, Benjamin Fargen
Best Short:
Award Winner – WHEN WE WERE ALMOST CLOSE – By Jiaming Li
Selected – Fiabexit – By Lorenzo Giovenga, Giuliano Giacomelli
Selected – Simon Says – By Alex Steele
September 2025:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Masters and Vices – By Gregory Mallard
Selected – The Mine – By Alessandro Sivieri, Daniel Lama
Selected – Howl Of The Blue Moon – By Marie France Louis
Best Short:
Award Winner – ToWer – By SIQI WEI
Selected – Fractal Theory – By Gábor Klacsán
Selected – Indefinitely – By Aloha Lee
Selected – Lost Youth – By Jian Cao
Selected – The I-70 Faithful – By Owen H Destefano
October 2025:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – TURN UP THE NIGHT – By Melodie Roehrig
Selected – Willow’s Tree – By Darius L Francis
Best Short:
Award Winner – RED – By Borja Ros
Selected – Face Value – By Julie Cordell-Seamons
Selected – The Last Manicure – By Bella Le Reeves
November 2025:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – The 3100 – By Mark Fisher
Selected – The Blue Moon Rising – By Vic Quinton
Best Short:
Award Winner – The Last Commute: Climbing the Wrong Mountain – By Justin Robbins
Selected – Buried by Limberlost – By Karim Khorsheed
Selected – Time Out – By Douglas Steele
Selected – A Ghost’s Journey – By Isabelle Gascon
December 2025:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Zero to 8848 – By Niranjan Pandey, Balram Budhathoki
Selected – Sherlock Holmes and the Angels of Vengeance – By Ray Crew
Selected – TRACING ROOT IN THE MELODY – By Songyouyi Zhang
Selected – Ultra runner vs Antelope, Persistence hunting – Myth or a Lost art – By Robi Dattatreya
Best Short:
Award Winner – Kazbegi – By Yakiv Antypenko
Selected – Collateral Hunger – By Sara Bergamini, Daniele Zucchini
Selected – Dead Memories – By Kleyvson Xavier Da Silva, Nicolas Sutter
Selected – FRAME – By Andrew Akbari
Selected – Los Dos Hermanos – By Fernando ‘Max” Mora
Selected – Naamah: A Devil’s Dancers Story – By Jason Hough
Selected – The Morning Groove – By
Selected – UNACCEPTABLE (Short Film) – By Armin Dzafic, Joel Stephen Fleming
Selected – Until We Meet Again – By Darrel Pullie
