BISF Berlin International
Screenwriting Festival

Winners of Winter Season 2026

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 screenwriter

    Tattoo

    Written byKonrad Maximilian Piotrowski

    United Kingdom129 pages

  • First time screenwriter (short script)

    A Truth

    Written byJaaered Brown

    Canada19 pages

  • Best thriller screenplay

    The Language of Wolves

    Written byNan Schmid

    United States106 pages

  • Best SCI-FI screenplay

    Faltered State

    Written byK.T. Roth

    United States120 pages

  • Best historical screenplay

    Jazz On A Wave

    Written byRobert Merz

    United States93 pages

  • Best drama screenplay

    Rock, Paper, Scissors

    Written byChristine M DeBoer

    United States88 pages

  • Best Television Screenplay

    Gutenberg

    Written byDonna Hall

    Not Specified377 pages

  • Best Feature Screenplay

    Burn Her Slowly

    Written byEdith Storm

    Sweden116 pages

  • Best psychological screenplay

    The Thin Place

    Written byStuart Lachlan Bennett

    United Kingdom97 pages

  • Best war theme screenplay

    The Death Factory

    Written byTimothy Aaron Hastings

    Not Specified95 pages

  • Best American screenplay

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    Written byMonte Albers de Leon

    United States97 pages

  • Best horror screenplay

    Dark Twinkle Holiday

    Written byGenevieve Sipperley

    United States108 pages

  • Best comedy screenplay

    A series of fortunate events

    Written bySpencer David Shackleton

    United Kingdom40 pages

  • Best Short Screenplay

    H(a)unted

    Written bySydonie Calvert, Sara Alves

    United Kingdom13 pages

  • First time screenwriter (feature script)

    Legacy of the Eclipsed

    Written byShashank Upadhye

    United States96 pages

  • Best LGBTI screenplay

    By Some Chance

    Written byVincent Marano

    United States12 pages

  • Best stage play

    The Peasants’ Revolt

    Written byPeter Gartner .

    United Kingdom60 pages

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