ABCDETC INT'L ARTS FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION & AWARDS
3rd Edition, July 17-19, 2026, Bucharest, Roumanie (Updating)
Abcdetc Trophy 2026 - Ioulia Lymperopoulou
Best Director - Rolland Moldovan
Jury Award - Traian Păsculescu
Gold Award - Sergiu Vâlcu & Cornelia Calaidjoglu (Feature Screenplay)
Special Jury Award - James Fitzmaurice
Best Indie Movie - ZAP! director - Philip Sedgwick
Best Screenwriter - Hannah Elizabeth Augenstine
Short Movies
Pietro Aretino at the Pearly Gates director James Fitzmaurice
ZAP! director - Philip Sedgwick
The Creative Block director Maya Shoshani - Finalist
six hundred and fifty-seven director Özgür Candemir
Black vs White (Romanian Trailer) director Constantin Mircea Rosu
Chiyo (Official Romanian Trailer) director Constantin Mircea Rosu
Einar Olafsson (Official Romanian Trailer) director Constantin Mircea Rosu
Sasaky Kumbei (Official Romanian Trailer) director Constantin Mircea Rosu
Sharab and Malia (Official Romanian Trailer) director Constantin Mircea Rosu - Best Trailer
The Patch director Ioulia Lymperopoulou
The Man in the Second Story Window
Children at the rooftop cinema by 侑紀 刷場 - Gold Award
Indian Drift director Erika thomas - Best Documentary
The Witness director Louie Hawkins-Ney - Semi-Finalist
Tsismosa (Gossiper) director Mark David Daoang
When Everything Disappears director Matei Daniel - Nominee
40 Seconds director Alexandru Dan Albulescu - Jury Special Award
Detachment I director Rolland Moldovan
A Girl Called Alice director Tristan Loraine
POETRIX director Ioulia Lymperopoulou
Vivere per lavorare - Live to work director Alfonso Gordillo
Worldlines IV director Karlos Alastruey
The Journey is the Destination director Sandra Staples
Without You I'm Nothing director Sara Maria Tugearu - Gold Award
Bellissima Sicilia director Namo Safideen
Nadia director Kinan Kotrash
Home is where heart is director Shihyun Wang
The Cure director Trix StarT
The Pathos of Hamlet director Sean Gregory Tansey - Diamond Award
The Stones of Rome director Sean Tansey - Platinum Award
Mrs Baseema director Sara Mohamed Elbortokaly
Fear director Vlad Matei Sando
Everything, Nothing and I... director Vlad Matei Sandor
The Third Day director Vlad Matei Sandor
INVESTIGATION director Marwan Chiguer - Jury Award
ZAP! director Philip Sedgwick
Elvira's Transformation director Jerzy P. Suchocki - Gold Award
OLD TINN QUARANTINO director Traian Păsculescu
The thing I was afraid of director Jhonatan Luiz
Are you lost? director Rodrigo Reyes Fabre
An island where only good wind blows director Gema Ganza
Lorca lives in Nerja director Rafa Villén "Fali"
Iter Vitae director Dragan Milenković
Micro Movies
Hunted director Darko Kokic
Stay Cool director Evvie Kyrozi
Adrift director Amir Pooya
Bakkes director Lucas Van Caeneghem
Front of memories director Mara Liliana Apopei - Diamond Award
I Hear a Monster Under the Bed director Lucas Subirats - Best Micro Movie
RetroLuce director Cecilia Danesi
The Patch director Ioulia Lymperopoulou - Best Indie Director
Periods Are Brutal director Isa Geblescu - Jury Award
After A Long Day director Lidya Esmelioglu
Leave in the Wind director Young-Shin Kim
I'll Wake Up When I'm Done Sleeping director Sigi Golan
DeadTalk director Florence Winter-Hill - Best Student Micro
Gaza’s Lost Horizon director Mo'men Ghanim Hasanain - Special Jury Mention
Tumult director Anja Pirtovšek - Mention
Cycles of Love Framed by Risks of War director finn harvor
Key director Anne Ciecko
Death of a Lonely Atheist director Martin Hans Schmit - Best 3D Micro Movie
Student movies
Bakkes director Lucas Van Caeneghem - Finalist
The Places We Cannot Return director Muhamad Teguh Nurpalah
A Travel Checklist director Shaghayegh Yassemi
The Witness director Louie Hawkins-Ney
Reaching Seventeen director Maria Kovaleva - Gold Award
Vending Machine director Hanting Wang - Best Student Movie
Work in progress director Debo Ondet - Special Mention
Fear director Vlad Matei Sandor - Jury Award
Everything, Nothing and I... director Vlad Matei Sandor
The Third Day director Vlad Matei Sandor
Smartphone Films
The Cherry Kids director Paul Seling
Face Your Fear director Andy Winward
Tiger Goni - Sundarbans Saga directors Max Schleser, Abdul Kabil Khan - Best Documentary
Altar director Danny Lee - Finalist
Work in progress director Debo Ondet - Best Experimental
Leave in the Wind director Young-Shin Kim - Best Smartphone Film
Music Videos
...CUT! director Evann Chantrel - Special Jury Award
Sharab and Malia (Official Romanian Trailer) director Constantin Mircea Rosu - Jury Award
Back directors Cole Buche, Devin R Stahlnecker
I Pick Up Dreams director Paul Seling - Gold Award
Docto Zero director Fabian Castro
Iridescence director Adrien Lhoste - Best Music Video
Feminist director Publio César de la Vega García - Best Lyrics
We will die out from stupity director Publio César de la Vega García - Best Song
Valkirias director Virginia Mercedes - Diamond Award
Short Screenplays
Change of Track writer Angela Doval - Best Short Screenplay
MAR writer Angela Doval - Nominee
COME WITH US writer Vincenzo Napolitano - Finalist
Night Without End writer Lee Musson
Ashlee Knows writer Tommy Britt - Diamond Award
Today While Resting writer Tommy Britt - Semi-finalist
Matty writer Matthew Valerie - Gold Award
Like You writer Jacqueline Rae McCauslin
Trudy writer Joseph Frew-Miller
Cold Love writer M.J. ZAMANI
By the moonlight mate writer Ric Lum
The Kiss of the Jellyfish Girl writer Jerzy P. Suchocki
Beneath the Veneer writer Avichal Shourya
Mianmoto writer Jerzy P. Suchocki - Jury Award
Photography
Holy Journey by Jason Hioe - Jury Award
Ukraine by Emma Sywyj
La Dolce Fa Niente: Part 2 by Emma Sywyj
China by Emma Sywyj - Best Photgrapher
Mannequin Ladies by Gabriela Petraglia Ferraro - Gold Award
The Forgotten Lives by Trial & Error Acting
Unforgiving smoke by Trial & Error Acting
Stop before.. It reaches you... by Trial & Error Acting
Justice..for...Ankita...still..Awaited...! by Trial & Error Acting - Special Jury Award
Devastation of Life by Trial & Error Acting - Jury Award
Path to Heaven by Trial & Error Acting
Life Lines by Trial & Error Acting
When Human...Nurtures Nature..! by Trial & Error Acting
Abandoned.. Lives.. &..Soul... by Trial & Error Acting
Art in Storing Winter food ...for Livestock by Trial & Error Acting
Abortions by Bouge Alexandra - Diamond Award
Feature Screenplays
Review writer Jonathan Zarantonello
The Last Tear of Man writer Javier Hinojosa Allely - Best Sci-Fi
I Wanna go to Heaven with you writer PH Silva - Finalist
'The Winter Dance Party Tour-1959' writers L J Coon, Donna L Cleaves
Rise of the Elementals writer Robert Leo Cox - Best Feature Screenplay
Parlay writer Brian Spatz
Hettingen, the foreign prince writer Octavian Florescu - Honorable Mention
My tango with Nicolae writer Al Naffah
Holera writers Sergiu Vâlcu, Calaidjoglu Cornelia - Gold Award
TV/WEB screenplays
Priority One writer Hannah Elizabeth Augenstine - Best TV Screenplay
The Disappearance Of...Dorothy Arnold writer Brian Spatz - Best Historical Screenplay
Miyagi writer Brian Spatz
Hell That Rolls writer Kobi Mccarthy
Pantheon writers Tayfun Uçar, Deniz Uçar, Güneş Çavuş - Gold Award
Remember Me writer Francesca Fox - Jury Award
Trial Run writer Haley Martin
Featurette Screenplays
The Trial of Abisal writer Angela Doval - Gold Award
Spirit of the Roller-Boot writer Hannah Claire Richardson - Best Featurette Screenplay
Good Girl writer Inna Beskorovaina
Micro Screenplays
I never learned to swim. writer Angela Doval - Best Micro Screenplay
Red writer Siddharth Kumar
Sand writer Gretza Pineiro - Jury Award
Your call is important to us writer Kobi Mccarthy - Jury Special Award
Beneath the Veneer writer Avichal Shourya - Gold Award
Fashion Film
Venus director Maria Nazarova - Best Fashion Film
TV/WEB Episode
Dark Arcadia director Sally McLean - Best TV/WEB Episode
Student screenplays
I'm Porn writer Simone Guglielmi - Diamond Award
KINTSUGI writer Nüman Noomén - Jury Award
Bisre writer Shradha Menon Parakkal
Is this life? writer Yassin Mbinga - Honorable Mention
Perspective writer Ali Malakouti Khah
Like You writer Jacqueline Rae McCauslin - Best Student Screenplay
Beneath the Veneer writer Avichal Shourya
Joaquim e Call Pilot writer Antônio Soares - Finalist
Short story
Like You Writer Jacqueline Rae McCauslin
Echoes of Color Writer Rami Ibrahim Shtaiwi - Best Short Story
Good Girl Writer Inna Beskorovaina
Beneath the Veneer Writer Avichal Shourya - Silver Award
Theatre play
Him Writer Joyce Bofenda
Upper hall of the house Writer Mehdi Mehraban - Gold Award
Poetry
Untitled Writer Bouge Alexandra - Best Poem
2nd EDITION, December 7th, 2025, 13:00, Bucharest, Roumanie
in collaboration with the ROMANIAN NATIONAL FILM ARCHIVE
UNION CINEMA, 21 Ion Câmpineanu Str., Bucharest
ABCDETC HONORARY AWARD
dist. prof. JAMES RAGAN, PhD, LittD (USA)
dist. prof. JAMES RAGAN, PhD, LittD (USA) reading at Carnegie Hall (2001)
POETRY Official Selection
to the loving memory of Michael Hutchence
dist. prof. JAMES RAGAN, PhD, LittD (USA) ABCDETC HONORARY AWARD
IOULIA LYMPEROPOULOU (Gre) Special Jury Mention
OANA ANGELO (Rou) Special Jury Mention
ANGYE GAONA (Col)
TUDOR VOICAN (Rou)
Guest writer IRINA FORGO (Rou) Special Jury Mention
Short Movies
13 Strokes... by Ioulia Lymperopoulou (Greece) Gold Award
Letitia by Acacia Khonji (UK) Best Short Film
The Trash Punx by Rayce Snyder (US) Jury Award
Before by Florentina Angelo (Romania)
The Smith by Desislava Chuturkova (Bulgaria) Special Mention
Fashion Films
Before by Florentina Angelo (Romania)
No-Land: No-Landers by Lei Jiang (UK) Best Fashion Film
Micro Movies
F r a g m e n t e d by Ioulia Lymperopoulou (Greece) Jury Award
Tomorrow by Bella Karis Gilliom (US)
Before by Florentina Angelo (Romania) Gold Award
Not Invincible by Tyson Kaup (US) Special Mention
the game just got real by bellopropello (Switzerland) Special Mention
Smartphone Film
Life Path by Ioulia Lymperopoulou (Greece) Jury Award
À Volonté by Shaun Rylee (France) Best Smartphone Film
Case File 11 by Andrea R Ciobanu (UK) Best Director
Student Movies
A warm night by Andreea Ștefănescu Best Student Movie
Music Videos
Not Invincible by Tyson Kaup (US) Best Music Video
Xera - Crystal Corals by Carlos Diaz Sanchez (Spain)
I dream My dream by Monique van Kerkhof, Bo Oudendijk (Netherlands) Gold Award
Mastiyaan (Joy) by Swati Chugh (India) Jury Award
Student Theatre
Dreamin' by Carla Oncescu (Romania) Special Jury Mention
Cast: Constantin Stochița, Antonia Croitoriu, Elena Voicu, Florina Maria, Alexandre Noël
Short Screenplays
Meat Eater by Jerzy P. Suchocki Special Mention
Welcome to Concrete ep 01 by Jeffrey Townsend (US) Jury Award
Not For Everyone by Lesley C. Lillywhite (US) Best Short Screenplay
Halloween in Javelina Crossing by Philip C. Sedgwick (US) Gold Award
Withstanding by Ana Maria Popescu (Romania)
Featurette Screenplays
Dead Hearts by Jerzy P. Suchocki
The Tower by Coale Coleman (Ireland) Best Featurette Screenplay
Indentured by Autumn Libengood Gold Award
Feature Screenplays
Of Dream & Darkness by Andrea R. Ciobanu Gold Award
Once Upon a Time in Pachuca Jerzy P. Suchocki
The Birds of Ballylare Coale Coleman Best Feature Screenplay
Clementine by Bill Bradshaw Diamond Award
Movie Reviews
Fantastic Four by Rayce Snyder (US) Best Review
Student Screenplays
White Christmas by Rayce Snyder (US) Best Student Screenplay
ABCDETC INT'L POETRY FESTIVAL OFFICIAL NON- COMPETITIVE SELECTION
1st EDITION, June 19th, 2025, Bucharest, Roumanie
to the loving memory of Nichita Stanescu
IOULIA LYMPEROPOULOU (Gre)
OANA ANGELO (Rou)
ANGYE GAONA (Col)
TUDOR VOICAN (Rou)
MIHAI IRIMESCU (Rou)
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Monday - Friday
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