WINNERS: July 2025 Virtual DOCUMENTARY Festival

A showcase of the best documentary short films in the world today.

AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Feature Film: Before Everest
Best Short FilM: Mayday
Best Micro-Short: Cold Isolation
Best Direction: Navigating the Clickety-Clack
Best Human Interest Film: JDZ Lab
Best Story: Manuel the Barber
Best Society Film: A Good Place to Be
Best Essay Film: Portrait of Kelly Gavinoser

BEFORE EVEREST, 90min., India
Directed by Kovid Mittal

We all once in our lifetime have dreamt of reaching top of the world, haven’t we?

Mount Everest the highest point on earth the most fearful mountain in the world, Kovid Mittal will have to battle this last 7000 meter mountain before he can attempt and be fully prepared for the monster Everest. A journey of young boy battling his own emotions & demons in hope one day he shall conquer Mount Everest. A motivational journey of human spirit of not giving up.

https://www.instagram.com/kovid_mittal/

Navigating the Clickety-Clack: How to Live a Peace-Filled Life in a Seemingly Toxic World, 22min,. USA
Directed by Keith Leon S.
Navigating the Clickety-Clack is a 24X award-winning
enlightening TV Series, based on the 4-volume award-winning international BESTSELLER book series with the same name. Producer / director, Keith Leon S. hosts this 7-episode series exploring topics that include, death, fear, job loss, money fear, family issues, relationship challenges, and how to stay peace-filled in a seemingly toxic world.

JDZ lab, 28min., Portugal
Directed by Miguel Gaspar
In September of 2019 we arrived in Jingdezhen (JDZ), China, for an artistic residency supported by a scholarship granted by the Fundação Oriente. Jingdezhen is a unique city in what ceramics are concerned, everything revolving around this activity.

COLD ISOLATION, 4min., Portugal
Directed by José Augusto Carvalho
We travel in the empty interior of ourselves,
meaningless passengers.

Manuel the barber, 7min,. Portugal
Directed by José Augusto Carvalho
One daughter and two grandchildren. He loves his daughter very much, but he hasn’t told her yet, maybe he’ll tell her today, after shooting this film.

A Good Place to Be, 14min., Denmark
Directed by Marcus Mandal
This film is produced for the Danish “Autism Center Storstrøm” to tell about their big effort to help people with autism.

Mayday, 7min., Portugal
Directed by Miguel Gaspar
From a report by a Portuguese volunteer who carried out maritime rescue missions on a ship of a German NGO during the current refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, “Mayday” builds a visual narrative, giving space to a reflection on the drama of this humanitarian issue

PORTRAIT OF KELLY GAVINOSER, 5min., Argentina
Directed by Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser
PORTRAIT OF KELLY GAVINOSER- DOCUMENTARY SHORT OF LIFE