BISF Berlin International
Screenwriting Festival

Winners of Spring 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

    An Escape

    Written byMaya Siobhan Post

    United States14 pages

  • Best feature screenplay

    Ashes

    Written byKevin Stuart Brodie

    United States105 pages

  • Best Television Screenplay – Pilot

    The Accidental Terrorist

    Written byStewart A Fergus, Geoff Lewis

    United Kingdom64 pages

  • Best drama screenplay

    The Tree With No Heart

    Written byAaron Huckleberry

    Spain102 pages

  • First time screenwriter (feature script)

    Collector of Sounds

    Written byRupert Miles

    United Kingdom90 pages

  • First time screenwriter (short script)

    Parthenope’s Island

    Written bySarah Pearce

    France23 pages

  • Best screenwriter

    Lucid

    Written byIna Mertesacker

    Germany115 pages

  • Best comedy screenplay

    Mommy’s Little Boy

    Written byRyleigh Kennedy

    United States97 pages

  • Best LGBTI screenplay

    A Name for People Like Me

    Written byGuy Castonguay

    Canada126 pages

  • Best historical screenplay

    The Acting Tsar

    Written byPeter Armitage

    United Kingdom85 pages

  • Best American screenplay

    A tribe, a priest and baseball

    Written byGarrison Wells

    United States128 pages

  • Best horror screenplay

    NATALIA

    Written byRosalyn Rosen

    United States105 pages

  • Best stage play

    ANGELIC the musical

    Written byNicholas D Hafner, John E Coates

    United States94 pages

  • Best SCI-FI screenplay

    Final Timefall

    Written byIvanhoe Flighter

    Serbia77 pages

  • Best psychological screenplay

    Mecca

    Written byMonte Albers de Leon

    United States118 pages

  • Best war theme screenplay

    Stalag of the Bush Moons

    Written byL Morris

    Canada110 pages

  • Best thriller screenplay

    The Case Officer

    Written byRonald McQueen

    United Kingdom94 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.