BISF Berlin International
Screenwriting Festival

Winners of Autumn Season 2025

Every award of the season, chosen by our jury from submissions sent in from all around the world.

The awards

Seventeen awards, seventeen screenplays

The screenplay, the writer, and the award it won.

  • Best short screenplay

    Saturday Girl

    Written byClare B. Perry

    United Kingdom20 pages

  • Best feature screenplay

    SYVERTSEN’S COMPLEX

    Written byMarni Sullivan

    United States109 pages

  • Best Television Screenplay – Pilot

    PRECURSOR

    Written bySteve Brown

    United States60 pages

  • Best drama screenplay

    two fates

    Written byKelsey Ann Wacker, Lori Lee Peters

    United States110 pages

  • First time screenwriter (feature script)

    Tailspin

    Written byLawrence Cremo

    United States123 pages

  • First time screenwriter (short script)

    ARTICHOKE

    Written byKaren Siff Exkorn

    United States18 pages

  • Best screenwriter

    The Urning - Life and Times of a Gay Rights Pioneer

    Written byChristopher M Halligan

    Not Specified60 pages

  • Best comedy screenplay

    The Weather Just Got Sexy

    Written byZoë Greenbaum

    United Kingdom87 pages

  • Best LGBTI screenplay

    Coming Out of the Blue

    Written bySuzanne Madeleine Spenceley-Burch

    United Kingdom91 pages

  • Best historical screenplay

    Mendoza the Jew

    Written byRobin Uriel Russin

    United States118 pages

  • Best American screenplay

    Eire We Go

    Written byTracy James

    United States120 pages

  • Best horror screenplay

    Demented

    Written byClaus Collstrup

    Not Specified105 pages

  • Best stage play

    Wicked Women and Their Men

    Written byMerrill Anway Jones

    United States114 pages

  • Best SCI-FI screenplay

    GOLD MINE

    Written byAndrzej Ciesielski

    United Kingdom133 pages

  • Best psychological screenplay

    Procreation

    Written byGenevieve Knights

    New Zealand106 pages

  • Best war theme screenplay

    The War Within Her

    Written byChristian Georges Bruyere

    Canada108 pages

  • Best thriller screenplay

    Snowdrop

    Written byJudith Bunting

    United Kingdom116 pages

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We accept submissions from writers of all levels of experience and from all around the world.

Every screenplay is read by our reviewers before the jury selects the Winners and Official Selected.