Congratulations to the award-winning artists of the
2025 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

Best of Show
Gyrograph
Gitte Le Bruyn
Antwerp, Belgium


Best Space Theme Award
No Matter What
Carolyn Lambert
New York, US


Best Experimental Award
The Hungry Ghost & The Earthshaker
Takahiro Suzuki
Portland, US


Best Documentary
DIN 18035
Simona Obholzer
Austria

Best Experimental Documentary
underneath it flickers
lau persijn
Brussels, Belgium


Best Narrative Short
The Circle Children
J. Cody Spellman
Pittsburgh, US


Best Animation
The Girl with the Occupied Eyes
André Carrilho
Portugal


Best Student Award
You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer
Max Ferguson
Brussels/Hong Kong


Best of West Virginia
Marble Madness
Zack Harold
Charleston, WV, US


Best VR Award
Fragments of Space [WaterLab]
Barry Anderson
United States


Best Two-Channel Video Installation
Infinite Infants
Tianming Zhou
Boston, US


Best WVU Student
As the Sunflower Whispers
Samuel Felinton
Morgantown, WV, US


Runner-Up
Infestation
Ana Phillips
Morgantown, WV, US


Runner-Up
Anywhere But Here
Kennedy Kacik
Morgantown, WV, US


Audience Choice Award
The Death of a Boba Tea
Christian Safford
Morgantown, WV, US