Vienna Independent Film Festival

History

Winners

2025

• Best Feature Film

• Best Director

• Best Actor

• Best Actress

• Best Short Film

• Best Short Film Director

• Best Art Direction

• Best Music Video

• Best Cinematography

• Best Experimental Film

• Best Unproduced Screenplay

• Best Song

• Best Documentary

• Best Animation

• Special Mention - Unproduced Screenplay

2024

• Best Feature Film

• Best Actor

• Best Actress

• Best Director - Short Film

• Best Director - Feature Film

• Best Short Film

• Best Art Direction

• Best Cinematography

• Best Screenplay

• Best Documentary Film

• Best Animated Film

• Best Music Video

• Best Song

• Best Experimental Film

• Best Unproduced Script

2023

• The Whirlpool — Directed by Denis Kryuchkov

• W — Directed by Anna Eriksson

• Deirdre Lorenz — Return to New York

• Graham Streeter — Unfix

• 8-Ball — Original Screenplay by Adrien Marquet

• Have a Nice Apocalypse — Directed by Dávid Géczy

• My Two Lives — Directed by Sarita Gold

• Little Planet 7406 — Directed by Goran Šporčić

• Fearless — Music by J Edna Mae

• Vampire — Directed by Persia White

• Wolfgang Cerny

• An Occurrence — Directed by Dien Vo

• Touching Moon — Edited by Sophia Liu

• La Pietra — Cinematography by Michael Bradley

• W — Film Score by Anna Eriksson

• Stay With Me — Written by Zsolt Pozsgai

  2022

• Playing Through – directed by Balbinka Korzeniowska

• Playing Through – directed by Balbinka Korzeniowska

• Balbinka Korzeniowska – Playing Through

• Živa – directed by Nataša Stearns

• Frozen Heart – directed by Nina Guseva

• Ballymanus – directed by Patrick Sharkey, Séan Doupe

• Blue Delusion – directed by Guan Fang

• Big Boss – directed by Keke Palmer

• Hot Mess by Evelyne Tollman

• Me and My Winter Games-Perfect Holiday – directed by Haoling Lee, Ming Zhong, Zhe Zhang, Liwen Wang

• Julia Rae – Playing Through

• Brandon Sklenar – Futra Days

• Rosanna Arquette – Futra Days

• Long Flat Balls “Broken Promises” – music by Zach Robinson

• Molly’s Rainbow – by Katie Hardyman

• Other Side of the Mountain – directed by Markus Otz

• JIZO-Evangelist – written and directed by Tokoroten Nakamura

• The Violin and its Shadow – directed by Greg Babalas

• The Faerie Rings – written by Zina Brown

• Change of Course – directed by Andreas Ortner

  2020

• Grand Cancan — Directed by Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov

• ' — Directed by Toma Enache

• Grand Cancan'' — Cinematography by Dmitriy Ulyukaev

  2019

• Doing Money — Directed by Lynsey Miller

• M — Directed by Anna Eriksson

• Doing Money

• Murder on the Road to Kathmandu — Original Screenplay by Rupalee Verma

• Dark like the Night. Karenina-2019 — Directed by Radda Novikova

• Three Scenes of a Wedding — Directed by Jason Tovey

• Fragmented Dreams — Directed by Tonatiuh Garcia

• Theresa's Groove — Directed by Aleksey Igudesman

• Atul Kulkarni

• Konstantin Khabensky

• The Lossen — Directed Colin Skevington

• M — Cinematography by Matti Pyykkö

• Hinge — Film score by Diana Ringo

  2018

• I May Regret — Directed by Graham Streeter

• NO-ONE — Directed by Lev Prudkin, Vladimir Prudkin

• I May Regret

• Rosemarie — Original Screenplay by Adonis Floridis

• Father of the Man — Directed by Tommy Creagh

• Ballad of a Righteous Merchant — Directed by Herbert Golder

• Ghosts on the Road to Camalt — Directed by Jason Tovey

• The Sea — Directed by Hisanori Tsukuda

• Danny Glover

• NO-ONE — Cinematography by Ziv Berkovich, David Stragmeister

• Krieg — Directed by Jeff Fry

  2017

• Million Loves In Me — Directed by Sampson Yuen

• Platonov — Directed by Andreas Morell

• Ebrahim Hatamikia

• Million Loves in Me — Original Screenplay by John Yiu, Tiong Wooi LIM, Jeremy Tan

• Forgiveness — Directed by Rima Irani

• Chasing Stars — Directed by Markus Eichenberger
• The Writer with No Hands — Directed by William Westaway

• Je Suis Le Ténébreux — Directed by Rank Amateur, Christopher Chaplin

• Nara - alt-J — Directed by Jasmin Selen Heinz

• John Yiu

• Babak Hamidian

• Bodyguard — Directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia

• Platonov — Cinematography by Felix Cramer

  2016

• Let's dance to the rhythm

• Imperfect Sky — Directed by Graham Streeter

• Dito Tsintsadze

• The Closer — Original Screenplay by Eli Hershko & Isaac Broyn

• After Truth — Directed by Nicolas Ehret

• “Parade” de Satie — Directed by Kōji Yamamura

• Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust — Directed by Lance Shultz

• The Calling — Directed by Chris Boyd

• Let's dance to the rhythm — Directed by Bardroy Barretto

• Tiësto / The Chainsmokers - Split — Directed by Joe Zohar

• Blake Lewis

• Robert Berlin

• After Truth — Directed by Nicolas Ehret
• Let's Dance to the Rhythm — Directed by Bardroy Barretto

• God of Happiness — Cinematography by Ralf M. Mendle