Welcome to the Hamilton Film Awards
Hamilton Film Awards is an international competition with public screenings and an exclusive awards ceremony designed to recognize the best talents of the independent film industry selected at the most prestigious competitions around the world. This award is dedicated exclusively to short films, indie films, experimental films, and films set to music.
Applications for 2025 will be open soon!Our annual event will take place in 2026.
Applications will be accepted on December 1, 2025
Every month we will select the finalists who will make it to the finals!
The OVE "Ode Visual Excellence" statuette, presented by the Hamilton Film Awards, fulfills the mission of identifying and preserving those acts of cinematic creation where form becomes a revelation and mastery reaches the degree of spiritual achievement. It is a living symbol of what lies at the heart of this great cinema: the love of creativity and cinema. The OVE holding this gift becomes the guardian of the eternal. She is not just an inspiration, but a guide between the world of the creator and immortality. In her hands, the director's diamond heart is a pledge of loyalty, a promise that even when the director himself leaves, his love will remain, as diamonds remain, sparkling in the darkness of eternity.
The "OVE" statuette is encrusted with a real 4 carat diamond heart, of exceptional purity and cut, and covered with 24 carat gold.
To financially embody this supreme value, the award awards the laureates with a unique trophy — a gold statuette with a real diamond. This is not just a prize, but a multifaceted symbol: a diamond embodies the very "quintessence of eternal values", the imperishable beauty and purity of a creative act, and gold — the highest degree of recognition and mastery.
The presentation of such an exceptional trophy — a gold statuette with a diamond — raises the bar of prestige to an unprecedented level, turning the victory into a historic event in the author's career.
A gold statuette with a diamond becomes not just an award, but a cultural artifact, material evidence that this work is recognized as a masterpiece worthy of eternity.
Stars and celebrities
We will definitely have them, but let it remain an intrigue for now.
We believe that authentic art is the quintessence of eternal values, embodied in a momentary frame. Our goal is to present cinema to the world, which brings out emotions, incites conflict, is deep and eternal, like a true feeling, unique, like a marriage proposal.
Competition
The festival's jury, consisting of 8 members from the film and music industries, as well as other artistic and cultural fields unrelated to the films in the competition, will award the best films in each category through private screenings
The films selected by the jury will be presented to the public at the main award ceremony in Moscow
These votes are counted once a year
Note: "Hamilton Film Awards — does not require a world premiere, but appreciates information about whether your film is a world premiere, an international or Russian premiere (your premiere is outside your country of origin) or a national premiere.
Monthly competition
Nominees
Finalists
Winners
"Ode to Visual Excellence" - Ode to visual Excellence
The OVE award is not a prize, but an initiation into the knights of vision, a sign of communion with the brotherhood of those who have shown the world not just a film, but a visible proof of the immortality of the soul.
The statuette is in production, and a photo of it will appear here soon.
