BEST FILM: 

Octav – Director: Serge Ioan Celebidachi (Romania)

2ND BEST FILM:

What’s Left Behind – Director: Matt Walsh (United Kingdom)

BEST SHORT FILM:

Tides – Director: Ben Wicks (United Kingdom)

2ND BEST SHORT FILM:

Blue-eyed – Director: Jan-David Bolt (Switzerland)

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM:

Exit – Director: Matt Bilmes (United States)

2ND BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM:

Noah’s Wish – Director: Annie Hopkins (United Kingdom)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM:

ANAGNORISIS – Director: Ghada Youssef (Lebanon)

2ND BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM:

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Thieves – Director: Lorenzo Follari (United Kingdom)

BEST ANIMATION FILM:

Spanish Onion – Director: Brian Neong San (Australia)

2ND BEST ANIMATION FILM:

Watermelon: A Cautionary Tale – Director: Kefei Li, Connie Qin He (United States)

BEST ACTOR (MALE) :

Octav – Actor: Marcel Iures (Romania)

BEST ACTOR ( FEMALE ):

Tides: Patricia Loveland (United Kingdom)

BEST ACTOR (MALE – SPECIAL JURY AWARD):

A Lift Story – Actor: Anil Charanjeett (India)

BEST ACTOR (FEMALE – SPECIAL JURY AWARD):

Emotional Distress – Actor: Eleanor Burke (United Kingdom)

BEST PRODUCER/ PRODUCTION:

The Inuring – Producer: James Hughes, Emily Haigh (United Kingdom)

BEST DIRECTOR:

Octav – Director: Serge Ioan Celebidachi (Romania)

BEST NEW PRODUCER/ PRODUCTION:

D.A.T.E: Sai Deodhar Anand (India)

BEST NEW DIRECTOR:

A Lift Story: Viplav Shinde (India)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER/ DOP:

Desolation Follows: Burnham Arlidge (United Kingdom)

BEST EDITOR:

Deaffest 2017 Music Video: I Believe – Director: Bim Ajadi (United Kingdom)

BEST SHORT SCREENWRITER/SCREENPLAY:

SYMPTOMS MAY INCLUDE – Writer: Lewis Carter (United Kingdom)

BEST SCREENWRITER/SCREENPLAY:

• The Night Witches – Writer: Steven John Prowse (United Kingdom)
• A Corporate Christmas Carol – Writer: Robert Cox (United States)

BEST FILM SCREENWRITER/SCREENPLAY:

Octav – Writer: Serge Ioan Celebidachi, James Olivier (Romania)

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:

• Rembrandt’s etching – Director: Thomas Grascoeur (France)
• GAB – Director: Gazanfer BIRICIK (France)
• Internship – The Movie – Director: Angelina Winkler, Niclas Raab (Germany)
• Layton’s Mystery Journey – Director: Akihiro Hino (Japan)
• Aldrian – Director: Morny de Guzman (Philippines)
• INSOMNIA – Director: Andrii Andreiev, Olga Andreieva (Ukraine)
• Tin Foil – Director: Barnaby Nott (United Kingdom)
• Untouched Liuwa – Director: Richard Mcenery (United Kingdom)
• Multifacial – Director: Taz Skylar (United Kingdom)
• One – Director: Carlos Carrasco (United States)
• Where I was born – Director: Jungmin Cha (United States)