Official Selections
Autumn 2022
Official Selections List
Best Short Film
"Pastiche" by  Shivaan Makker
"Best Short Film"
After a home invasion, a depressed father must save his family, or they'll be premiered in the prime time news.
"The whistle" by Adil Abdolmajeed Yusf
"Best Short Film"
Three children want to hunt, attend World Peace Day celebrations, they hunt for the symbol of peace.

"Where he is" by Chloe Belloc
"Best Short Film"
A crossing in the Parisian night with a sister and her autistic brother . A stealthy complicity. A slip of vision. She invites him into her world ... he invites her into his own universe.
"False Dawn" by Remco Texer
"Best Short Film"
Who benefits when a human life could be extended by our improving medical science? Is getting older becoming barbaric these days? Or does life extension only have meaning when your life has already been meaningful?

"Blindsight" by  Amy Susan Guggenheim
"Best Short Film"
An aspiring musician’s heroic struggle with loss of vision uncovers a hidden truth as her life spirals around her.

"O BE, OR...?" by Pozsgai Zsolt, Kerekes András
"Best Short Film"
“Let me introduce myself. I am the managing director of the undertaking centre of Székesfehérvár City Maintenance Ltd. By the right of the winners, Fehérvár got the opportunity to host this competition this year. …Dear colleagues! The fourth national grave-digger contest is over. I think we have seen heroic work…We thought, the most beautiful tomb was made by the Omega Funeral Ltd. “
The other: dummy silence. No synopsis. It’s a cryptic short film.
"Sorin (Silent screams)" by Fatih Yiğit
"Best Short Film"
Sixteen-year-old Xezal lives in a small village in the Sinjar region of Iraq. An attack is organized on her village by the radical terrorist organization ISIS and many people are killed in the village.
She witnessed another massacre during his exile journey with his family. Seven months after the massacre, another Kurdish woman, who was also captured, will help Xezal to escape from captivity. Xezal was raped by an ISIS emir and became pregnant. He is found by two young people when he is about to die of hunger and thirst on the mountain. Afterwards, not a single word comes out of Xezal's mouth, he is going through a severe trauma. Xezal is living the past over and over again with the sound of some objects in daily life. She remembers the cruelty she saw and the bad moments he experienced and disappears in the shadow of the past.
"100,000 Miles a Second" by Jeremy Bandow
"Best Short Film"
A Woman with multiple sclerosis goes to a local coop at the end of a busy workday. After fighting to find a parking spot in the crowded lot, she gets a call from her boyfriend. They talk about the neurology appointment she had earlier that day, and how the doctor dismissed her, she's experiencing problems walking. They hang up. She has a meltdown in her car. She pulls herself together enough to go into the store. A homeless musician plays mandolin outside the entrance. He saw her pull in the lot and watches her walk up to him. She digs a few coins out her purse to give him. He takes the opportunity to talk to her about how fast we are traveling through the Universe. His tall-tale reframes the way she's been thinking about her situation. She realizes she's been blocking her own momentum with negative thoughts about herself.
"For the Greater Good" by Michael Gavino
"Best Short Film"
When three people are introduced to The Better Earth Program, they learn that one of them must make the ultimate sacrifice.
"The Good Deed" by Eugene E~NRG
"Best Short Film"
Do Black Lives Matter?
Tyrone, a homeless Aboriginal boy is arrested by the LAW…
Again !!
But this time...
It’s going to take his uncle Lucky’s traditional LORE to fix the mess.
"GOLF - Tee Shot" by Zeff Lawless
"Best Short Film"
Rocko & Dickie go ducking and diving like a couple of wannabe entrepreneurs. Everybody is on a drive to become Captain of the Golf Club. But, has Rocko got the balls for it?
"What do we do?" by Roderick Fenske
"Best Short Film"
Some employees of a massive corporation make the mistake of actually questioning their purpose.
"Under Tension" by Mireille Fiévet
"Best Short Film"
Carole and Paul live with their three children in a magnificent Parisian apartment. Over the years, Carole discovers a husband who has become possessive, jealous and paranoid. Keeping the family under the yoke and authority of the father is more and more difficult and dangerous for the balance of the family.
"SCRIPT" by Piero Cannata
"Best Short Film"
Two screenwriters, a ghost story, the night that goes on. Who will put an end to this?
"THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME" by Marc Saez
"Best Short Film"
A man, a woman, a payback.
"FOLLOW THE ARROW" by Marc Saez
"Best Short Film"
A man, a Woman, a hunt.
"I Wish for You" by Stuart Rideout
"Best Short Film"
A woman finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong emotive memories as well as a love and hope for the world around us that transcends time.
"Bullshit" by Borys Shusterman, Mykhailo Ozerov
"Best Short Film"
Conventional wisdom - with a touch of joking undertone - suggests that the shortest fling can become the most significant one for a man; this is when it is unambiguously supported by a paternity test result. Of course, such a "literary work" is usually based on, albeit accidental, but ... Treason. So what should the heroes, husband and wife, mother and father with three children, do? Should they raise the concern, should they reveal the whole truth? But it can hurt deeply the one you love, even cause a breakup. So should they cover up the truth? Should they cover up it forever and would bear this burden for the rest of their lives? But it is not that easy to handle the pressure. Still, there is a way out, and the heroes of the film have found a solution - it turns out that they can do neither. It is enough just to love each other. Indeed, it seems that having such explosive characters our heroes won’t definitely be able to manage it without the help of this tool.
"#BLUE_YELLOW" by Kostiantyn Mishchenko
"Best Short Film"
Blue and yellow are the colors of the national flag of Ukraine (My Motherland). Blue means sky. Yellow means wheat. The combination of these two colors in nature is also found.
"TROUBADOURS CELESTES" by Hervine De Boodt
"Best Short Film"
"Marie-Luise" by Hervine De Boodt
"Best Short Film"
"Silent Night" by Emmanuel Delabaere
"Best Short Film"
December 25th. A fire has broken out in Santa Claus' factory. Most of the elves have died and Santa is missing ...
A few hours earlier. During his tour, Santa enters a house where he finds a mysterious gift for him ...
"If you play with fire" by Lucía Vega Díaz
"Best Short Film"
A young dysfunctional couple sees how their day-to-day life is altered after the arrival of an undesired guest.
"Rat Tail" by Chad Sogas
"Best Short Film"
Rat Tail explores director Chad Sogas’ battle with depression in this short autobiographical documentary. What begins as a comedic story about the rat tail he had for nearly ten years (that his parents still keep in the storage room of their basement) transcends into a journey of unexpected self-discovery and healing.
"DAGGERS AND ROSES. THE SPIRIT OF SHADOWS" by Juan manuel Fagetti, Alejandro Maidana
"Best Short Film"
THE SPIRIT OF THE SHADOWS, introduces us to the young Ameba and Ambar, imposing their will of order in Ciudad Paraiso.
Night Angel turned into the most respected and feared assassin by those who have confronted her.
Clans, hitmen, and conspiracies with Director Kraft are made in the shadows of the city....
"Remember This Voice" by Jeff Chan
"Best Short Film"
He was given a chance to make himself heard.
A Los Angeles transplant from Venezuela, who believes that his broken English is an insurmountable hindrance to achieving his own American Dream, is about to give up on his passion for Hollywood when a single defining moment launches his accomplished career as a Spanish-commercial voice actor. REMEMBER THIS VOICE is based on the real life story of Hernán de Béky, who has recorded trailers/promos for over 500 film titles and won multiple Emmy Awards.

"Two Hitmen from Gonzago" by Peder Trusiak
"Best Short Film"
Two newly partnered coworkers confront the absurdities of life while waiting for their boss to arrive.
"Changing with the Seasons" by Ashley Seybolt
"Best Short Film"
"Changing with the Seasons" traverses a family's mundane and repetitive road to recovery after the mother suffers a stroke.
Following several months in the hospital, life has become exhausting and the aftermath impacts everyone on a physical, mental, emotional and financial level.
With just a year to relearn as much as she can, will the mother be able to find her way back to a normal life? Or will she be dealing with the struggles the diagnosis has dealt the family for years to come?

"Windows" by Katherine Velikhova
"Best Short Film"
A short mocumentary film about a couple, who tries to get through a grief. The whole film is shot through the windows. It is a symbiosis of fiction and documentary material.

"The Wheelchair And The Trap" by Bilal Hussain
"Best Short Film"
Michelle Pedersen is a young detective who is working on a weapon’s smuggling case and one day she receives important information by a colleague Farhad Kazami that a shipment is arriving at a closed garage area but when Michelle arrives, she is shot multiple times in a shootout and bullets hit her hip that fractures her pelvic bones leaving her legs paralyzed. 
Michelle moves in with her mother but living under the same roof is a difficult task because they have a distance in their relationship. Michelle struggles with a daily routine of pain and depression. Most days go by, drinking and sitting with loneliness. One day Susan tells Michelle her big secret, which is the reason why there is a distance in the relationship. Michelle forgives Susan and Susan as a loving mother helps Michelle get back to her feet again by training her.
Ten Year’s pass, Michelle fully recovers and one day gets a tip from Mie Jørgensen from the intelligence unit that Farhad is a corrupt cop who is working for weapon’s smuggler Roya Rostami. Michelle is heart broken by the news and asks Mie to arranges a weapon’s deal at the Esbjerg harbor but Farhad doesn’t show up. Instead he calls Michelle, explains everything and tells her that he knows Mie arranged the deal and he will be arrested. Michelle replies wherever you are, I will find you and kill you for what you put me threw.

"Dance of the Porcelain Demons" by Cat Watson
"Best Short Film"
Once upon a time...
There was a little girl named Clara and her parents loved her very much. Her mother doted on her and her father treated her as his little princess, but things were not as they appeared... 
​ 
One fateful Christmas morning, Clara receives a pair of beautiful porcelain dolls, a soldier and ballerina. Clara slowly begins to lose control of herself, acting out in ways neither she nor her parents understand. Her parents frantic attempts to help only push Clara further into the dolls cold porcelain embrace. As Clara's world unravels she is left with one question, whether to fight her demons or dance with them. 
​ 
Finally, their world shatters forever...


"Love is All that Matters" by Svetlana Cemin
"Best Short Film"
Artist Laura Kaplan in her agonizing world. Thorn apart between her inner demons and the pieces of art that can't find a home an artist tries to remember who she really is.
"THE CONJUGACY" by Anastasia Kalinovskaya
"Best Short Film"
Lonely 12-year-old Girl, thoughtfully walking along the railroad. She meets a handsome 18 year old Guy who seems to be lost in the woods. The Guy decides to join her and find out who she is and what she hides in her suitcase. The Girl tells him stories from her difficult life, full of sadness and fear. She opens to him the world of memories of her family, through fantastic images.. 
Each of the stories involves the Guy in its own original atmosphere, opening the doors to a child's fantasy for him, which is able to transform familiar forms and events into metaphorical symbols. 
But suddenly, the Girl runs away. Having caught up with her, the Guy finds out what could bind them... 
"CoronaFAUST" by Nicole Felden
"Best Short Film"
Germany is in the first lockdown winter. Clubs and theaters are closed. Social and cultural life has dropped below the freezing point. 
Warming up for better times, an independent theater group goes on with rehearsals despite strict restrictions. 
Turning for solace to Goethe’s “Faust” all those involved are bringing their anger, fears and worries on the stage.
"Night Talk" by Samer Mahmoud salim
"Best Short Film"
what will we gonna do? 
shall we believe in our love , shall we keep going in our relation which no one can have , shall we walk in dark ?? 
or facing the reality especially after what happened yesterday? 
A Dialogue between leil and her lover
"A Haircut for the Hina Doll" by Minoru MIZOGUCHI
"Best Short Film"
The man who is an assistant hairstylist makes an effort to keep his promise by cutting his first love's hair as his first customer. But she has little time to live due to her severe illness.
"The Problem With Time Travel" by Mike Kearby
"Best Short Film"
A young woman visited by two time-travelers is shocked to learn that in matters regarding climate change, humans will never change even when presented with facts that would push their species to extinction.
"THE DREAM CATCHER" by Piotr Szkopiak
"Best Short Film"
Psychological thriller about a young girl who builds a peculiar relationship with an AI robot.
"The Sunrise" by Mansoor Ahmed
"Best Short Film"
A multi-genre experimental film depicting a tragedy, disguised as a comedy, disguised as a horror film. This is a story about age-old loneliness, unquenched thirst and waning abilities to sustain life.
"LOCA" by MARÍA SALGADO GISPERT
"Best Short Film"
Sofía works as a cleaner for a TEA in a school. She doesn’t want to go back to her home, her daughter doesn’t live with her anymore. 
Iván works as a skating teacher, teaching during extracurricular hours. Every Wednesday at 16:45, he crosses the school corridor skating. 
Sofía and Iván know each other but they’ve never spoken to each other. She secretly observes his class. He knows.
Sofía always leaves before Iván finishes his class. But today it started raining and the class had to be canceled. 
One average day transforms into an extraordinary time.

"Queen Regent" by Scout Tafoya
"Best Short Film"
A woman mourns the great love of her life in the company of a stranger.
"Ghosts That Cry in the Dark" by Kain Baigent
"Best Short Film"
An ex special forces French military man is on a mission to expose a dark secret in his chosen country of retirement - Australia. However, his old nemesis has travelled across the globe to stop him. This could be a futile operation, as he knows the Frenchman will stop at nothing to expose the truth.
"Boombox (The God of The Dance) - Cartoon Version" by Christian Candido
"Best Short Film"
An engineering student (Pepi) works as waitress in a pub in Turin. After her shift, on the way home, she meet a boombox radio, who is appears out of nowhere and talk to her ... 
Pepi finds out the radio embody a spiteful and irreverent “God of The Dance”... This short is a cartoon version of Boombox (The God of The Dance)
"Surprise in the Night" by Sam Bhat, Aaron Rothermund
"Best Short Film"
High-powered Business Executive, Jacqueline Simpson confronts the male gaze, questions female stereotypes, and patiently leads a crew of hung-over employees to success without breaking a sweat.
"The Mermaid's Journey" by Alexandra Torterotot
"Best Short Film"
A perfect day at the beach spent between an immigrant mother and daughter takes a drastic turn when they are pulled over on their way home.
Official Selections List
Best Feature Film
"Dissociating Vulnerability" by Nobuo Nakagawa
"Best Feature Film"
The main character "Shinya" lost her mother in a traffic accident. A woman appears in front of Shinya. The woman can only be seen by Shinya. Fairy? Ghost? Shinya must know.
"Rose of Blood" by Klaudia Lanka
"Best Feature Film"
In the nineteenth century, WLADISLAS is the last vampire. Alone for almost two hundred years, he dreams of becoming human again because his solitude weighs on him. Supported by TOBIEC, his faithful servant, he hires a young peasant girl, LUCYLLIA.
Gradually, she and Wladislas fall in love. After making love with Lucyllia without killing her, Wladislas recovers his humanity. But soon the two lovers die, leaving behind them a rose born from the mixture of their blood.
"The Anger" by Marie Surae
"Best Feature Film"
The plot unwraps in Lebanon. A young Muslim girl Ida flees her small village to escape her drinking mother and start over in the city. There she meets a charismatic older European man Hans thinking she has found salvation, peace and love in him. At first, they seem like a perfect couple. Hans proposes to Ida and moves in with her. Ida is happy. She is in love and can’t see how Hans is slowly changing. The climax of the film is Ida renouncing her religion. "Will everything go back to normal if I do it?” Ida asks. "Of course, dear, it will be even better," says Hans. After that the events of the film are developing rapidly and unexpectedly.
The originality of the idea comes from the story being told through a prism of a Middle Eastern country. The film touches upon a very relevant topic of East vs. West through the relationship between an Eastern girl and a Western man.
"A Fire in Africa" by Gerhard Uys
"Best Feature Film"
The OvaHimba of the Namib Desert are descendants of the Ancient Egyptians from the era of Queen Nefertiti, and was once the richest nomadic tribe in Africa. Now, however, they find themselves on the brink of extinction. Trapped in the 1904 Herero-Nama war, they settled in the godforsaken wastes of Kaokoland after fleeing genocide at the hands of the German army and marauding Nama gangs. Having grown weary of the name 'OvaHimba', which means 'beggars', reigning Chief Nguzu believes their only hope for survival lies in the hands of his grandson, Omusuverua [the protagonist].
"Darking Way" by Zsolt Pozsgai
"Best Feature Film"
6 October 1849
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner.
"Zu den Sternen" by Nicolai Tegeler
"Best Feature Film"
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall Singer Marco
Hoffmann has reached the height of his popularity.
Suddenly, the ex-frontman of the East German rock combo DIE KOSMONAUTEN is accused of being by his former band colleague Volker Hinze, that "IM singer" who betrayed him to the Stasi at that time.
Hinze demands a meeting, otherwise he threatens his evidence
to the press and destroying Hoffmann's life like him
destroyed his life.
Although Hoffmann assures his innocence, he still relies on the conspiratorial Meet with Hinze.
Between the former "blood brothers" a bill arises on life and
Death.
"All short films about the work & the exhibitions of "BrückenKunst" from 2014 to 2019, a group of unrecognized artists in Berlin." by Gilbert Brüning
"Best Feature Film"
These short films show how difficult it is to achieve recognition in our world as an unknown and unrecognized artist. The short films shows that exactly and if they don't, then the films are not good!
"Trouble Is My Business" by Tom Konkle
"Best Feature Film"
Private Investigator Roland Drake falls for two sisters from the Montemar family. One woman is dead and the other wants to kill him.
Starring Vernon Wells (Mad Max) and Brittney Powell (Xena)
A dark tale of love and betrayal, told in the classic style of film noir. TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS is a true, hard-boiled noir. Private Detective Roland Drake has fallen on hard times in a harsh world. Drake is being evicted from his office and disgraced by a missing persons case, which has ruined him in the public eye and with police officials. It seems like it's all over for him. Then, redemption walks in... with curves. The owner of those curves is a sexy, dark haired beauty named Katherine Montemar. She wants his help. The chemistry is immediate and her concern for the disappearance of her family members pulls him into her case... and into bed.
"UNION" by Whitney Hamilton
"Best Feature Film"
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. With the help of Indians hiding in the mountains 'Henry' is reunited with the widow, Virginia, who saved his life at the battle of Antietam and marries her to rescue Virginia from an unfortunate arranged betrothal. They keep each others secrets and forge an unusual family. It is the alchemy of gratitude.
"The World Cruzer" by Yorick Niess
"Best Feature Film"
The World Cruzer travels through a future of nature pollution and climate chaos. Mankind is organized more democratically fighting for the survival of their own species. We share moments of insights with the World Cruzer on his mission to save the planet. His crew supports him with familiar voices, speaking about the many facets of being human. A modern movie with contemporary electronic music from Berlin clubs. It wants to change our point of view and to call upon mankind to find a global agreement - a new common sense pact.
"Fakov in Amerika" by Vladimir Lyubushko
"Best Feature Film"
A farmer, played by Ukrainian-born actor, Ilia Volok, arrives in the United States seeking the American dream in this comedy spoof with a heart of gold.
"Workforce - The Pilot" by Phil Kwarta
"Best Feature Film"
Mired in losses dating back several years, and desperate to turn things around, owners of Protocol Industries hire Anthony Scolari to rescue the company. Experienced and anecdotally funny, but wrestling with his own myriad demons, Scolari learns early, NOTHING will be easy in his latest professional setting. Conflict is everywhere, inside the organization and out. Set in the greater Philly area during the recession of 2007-2009, Workforce is the tale of white and blue collar workers trying to work together, find common ground and unearth a little of the lighter side of humanity in the process.
"Swamp Dragon" by Ruben Swart
"Best Feature Film"
When Sarah gets a school assignment to research the nickname of her hometown ('s-Hertogenbosch), she discovers that the nickname Moerasdraak (Swamp Dragon) might have a different meaning than the historic one. Through mysterious signs while making a documentary, the question raises if something actually lived near her town. Sarah and her group of students go to search for answers behind these clues, while they risk their lives doing so.
"The Chalice of Blood" by Jarno Elonen
"Best Feature Film"
The Chalice of Blood is set in the final years of World War II and tells the story of a Finnish sergeant Myllykoski, who is forced by the lack of money to join in the search of a mysterious medieval chalice, as a part of the Germans' infamous Waffen-SS.
As the story progresses, it becomes clear that numerous other parties are also looking for the cup, such as the mysterious Vatican bishop Agentino with his Catholic priests and Stalin's secret police NKVD. Myllykoski would just like the war to end and live in peace on his farm and marry his childhood crush Kaarina. But when the war destroys the chance for a good and peaceful life on a farm, the valuable offer to go in search of a chalice in the Soviet Union becomes too tempting. So the journey towards the heart of darkness begins.
"KALRAV - The sound of running water" by Jagdish Gupta
"Best Feature Film"
In india religion in its all dimension and diversities is the very base of the life line. Recently when out of nowhere corona pandemic came and spreads all over the world, death came crawling everywhere . No country , no town and no neighbournood escaped its deathly impact. Since Indian psyche is deeply rooted in religious belief, it is natural that most of the Indian seeks refuge in various religious practices along with whatever medical help came their way. 
When in times pandemic effects got milder, age old traditional 'Kumbh Mela' was anounced- it is a centuries old traditional gathering of various Hindu sect on the bank of river ganga at holy city of Haridwar. Rakesh with no experience of film making on his own whim decided to make a film on the theme of river Ganga and Kumbh Religious fair. So he got hold of a amateur camera person 'Siddharth' and started to shoot the documentary film, with no story line and no prior written script and any plot. 
And this is the very theme of this musical film 'KALRAV -The sound of running water'. How frame by frame a story is born and characters came into being and how the making of the documentary spiritually transformed the makers and also the various characters in their own ways..
"The Ace and the Scout" by Aaron Huggett
"Best Feature Film"
Inspired by the heroics of Ace pilot Billy Bishop and his 72 dogfight victories, two young men from small town Ontario join the late war effort, landing on the front lines of Northern France in August 1918. Within hours they find themselves cut off from resupply and reinforcements, as ally forces are delayed arriving to begin the 100 Days Offensive to end the Great War. For 3 days they must hold the line at all cost, as the fate of the Great War hangs on their shoulders. Fighting alongside legendary Anishnaabe sniper Francis Pegahmagabow, they face an overwhelming force while counting down the last of their ammunition with each shot.
“An intense, Canadian, Band of Brothers showing what it was like for our great-grandfathers in the trenches of WW1”
“Great mix of story and action!”
“…Incredible that this story was still a best-kept secret”

"ONCE UPON A TIME ON ALL HALLOWS' EVE" by JAROSLAW GOGOLIN
"Best Feature Film"
It's All Hallows Eve - the day of the year when the dead can come back to our world; a Girl is awaiting her partner to come.
"Searching for Camelot: The Queen of Camelot" by Roger Paradiso
"Best Feature Film"
In the dark days after President John F. Kennedy’s murder, did you ever wonder what was going on with Jackie and Robert as they grieved over the greatest murder mystery of our history?
Our chorus of Millennials and Elders wants to know the answers and they express their memories and opinions of this tragic period. I also express my memories of this revolutionary period in our history.
In this film we try to understand why Jackie used the Camelot mythology as a metaphor for her husband's presidency. We search for the reasons why Robert ran for the Presidency even when he knew 'there was a gun between me and the White House''. In our search for Camelot, we discover an epic time in our history full of blood, tears and a romance that will last forever

"Tom and Luce" by Muxel Paule
"Best Feature Film"
A couple in crisis is about to renovate an apartment. The state of the walls is like the state of their relationship.

"Fabulous Hansel and Gretel" by Arnaldo Galvão
"Best Feature Film"
What if the Witch didn't wait for the kids to get lost in the forest and caused the financial troubles so the kids have to asking for her help? What if the Witch were someone so pleasant that everyone would allow her to enter their homes?

"Epigenesis" by Scout Tafoya
"Best Feature Film"
Shane, a hustler-turned-blackmailer, has an encounter with an extra-terrestrial. It imprints on him, reads his thoughts and begins assaulting the people he's angry with, leaving a trail of bodies and trauma in its wake.

"Agilem or Fragments of a Life of Head" by Ilkka Leva
"Best Feature Film"
Two adventurous researchers starts their voyage to find the surviving papers and data files in hard drives of a late artist Aartje Aeria Agilem in the years 2030-2047. After finding them they start to gather the fragmentary information as an assemblage but it starts to live it’s own life and change as a some kind of caleidoscope as they try to compile it. In the fragments of files there is one story line where galactic refugee has come to earth to tell the people of the world that they still can make a change in their spending habits and in their relationship with nature. In the second fragmentary story line there is an advertisement singer who wanted to be real actor but didn’t quit succeed in it. There are also several other lines of story. In one of them there is a bunch of consultants who try to prep up a group of potential new winners of the future world in several uplifting ways. There is also one story line that tells the story of a dysfunctional family that prepares themselves in the life of post-apocalyptic world which is about to start at any minute. In the end we will find out what happens to galactic refugee and the disappointed advertisement singer in the oeuvre of godardian and jodorowskian-lynchian spirit.

"The cold race" by Said Abdunasirovich Tulyaganov
"Best Feature Film"
Inspired by a real history, the story of the first ever solo travel on foot in Antarctica. “The cold race” is an adventure feature film about the rivalry between two great modern-day travelers. But over time, the test of cold and hunger turns into a test of honor and conscience.

"Santa Guerra" by Samantha Casella
"Best Feature Film"
A woman falls down into a timeless place where her subconscious tries to process the trauma that crushes her. While a part of herself is stucked in a ghostly mansion and her double wanders in an ancestral place, the woman will reach a painful awareness.
Official Selections List
Best Director
"Pastiche" by  Shivaan Makker
"Best Director"
After a home invasion, a depressed father must save his family, or they'll be premiered in the prime time news.
"Rose of Blood" by Klaudia Lanka
"Best Director"
In the nineteenth century, WLADISLAS is the last vampire. Alone for almost two hundred years, he dreams of becoming human again because his solitude weighs on him. Supported by TOBIEC, his faithful servant, he hires a young peasant girl, LUCYLLIA.
Gradually, she and Wladislas fall in love. After making love with Lucyllia without killing her, Wladislas recovers his humanity. But soon the two lovers die, leaving behind them a rose born from the mixture of their blood.
"Sorin (Silent screams)" by Fatih Yiğit
"Best Director"
Sixteen-year-old Xezal lives in a small village in the Sinjar region of Iraq. An attack is organized on her village by the radical terrorist organization ISIS and many people are killed in the village.
She witnessed another massacre during his exile journey with his family. Seven months after the massacre, another Kurdish woman, who was also captured, will help Xezal to escape from captivity. Xezal was raped by an ISIS emir and became pregnant. He is found by two young people when he is about to die of hunger and thirst on the mountain. Afterwards, not a single word comes out of Xezal's mouth, he is going through a severe trauma. Xezal is living the past over and over again with the sound of some objects in daily life. She remembers the cruelty she saw and the bad moments he experienced and disappears in the shadow of the past.
"Zu den Sternen" by Nicolai Tegeler
"Best Director"
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall Singer Marco
Hoffmann has reached the height of his popularity.
Suddenly, the ex-frontman of the East German rock combo DIE KOSMONAUTEN is accused of being by his former band colleague Volker Hinze, that "IM singer" who betrayed him to the Stasi at that time.
Hinze demands a meeting, otherwise he threatens his evidence
to the press and destroying Hoffmann's life like him
destroyed his life.
Although Hoffmann assures his innocence, he still relies on the conspiratorial Meet with Hinze.
Between the former "blood brothers" a bill arises on life and
Death.
"Darking Way" by Zsolt Pozsgai
"Best Director"
6 October 1849
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner.
"A Fire in Africa" by Gerhard Uys
"Best Director"
The OvaHimba of the Namib Desert are descendants of the Ancient Egyptians from the era of Queen Nefertiti, and was once the richest nomadic tribe in Africa. Now, however, they find themselves on the brink of extinction. Trapped in the 1904 Herero-Nama war, they settled in the godforsaken wastes of Kaokoland after fleeing genocide at the hands of the German army and marauding Nama gangs. Having grown weary of the name 'OvaHimba', which means 'beggars', reigning Chief Nguzu believes their only hope for survival lies in the hands of his grandson, Omusuverua [the protagonist].
"Queen of the Dead" by Justin Head
"Best Director"
A female author retreats to her family home and discovers she is being watched by members of a cult that want to make her their leader.
"UNION" by Whitney Hamilton
"Best Director"
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. With the help of Indians hiding in the mountains 'Henry' is reunited with the widow, Virginia, who saved his life at the battle of Antietam and marries her to rescue Virginia from an unfortunate arranged betrothal. They keep each others secrets and forge an unusual family. It is the alchemy of gratitude.
"Surreal Reality" by Dr. Teresa Mular
"Best Director"
This documentary focuses on the impact of the COVid19 pandemic on the frontline workers of a community hospital in New York.
"FOLLOW THE ARROW" by Marc Saez
"Best Director"
A man, a Woman, a hunt.
"Meadows' Disturbance" by Antoine POUILLY
"Best Director"
A girl's going to see a friend of her in the country. Her road is made of different meetings.
"The Donbass children" by Lubomir Dankov
"Best Director"
This is a movie about the Donbas war, first-person stories. You will hear the stories of so-called "ordinary people". These people suffered from irrational from a military point of view strikes on civilian targets. They are victims of someone's desire to wage war on their territory at all costs.
There are no author's comments in this movie and no censoring of the thoughts of the local people. This film was made especially for spectators in Europe, who do not know what is happening in Eastern Ukraine.
The purpose of the film is to arouse interest in the ongoing six-year armed conflict and to make people to start to think about the responsibility of each of us for peace in Europe.
Update from March 2022: The above was written in September 2019. Now the war is being waged throughout Ukraine and the fate of the people of Donbass is shared by many people in the country. But while the "democratic world" was aggressively indifferent to the lives of the people of Donbass, a wave of empathy has now broken out. Not bad, on the contrary, but there remains a bad taste of double standards. This large-scale war had to be stopped in its infancy, but apparently the interest in its expansion was too strong. We, the people who fought for peace during those eight years, have failed because our voices have been muffled. But we did what we could.

""The Wind breathes where he wills"" by Olga Antimony
"Best Director"
"The Wind Breathes Where He Wills" is a film about the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, an event that deeply affected the life of a Crimean priest known among people as Father Ivan, and his family. When the “little green men” took over Crimea in 2014, Father Ivan openly condemned the invasion. It was impossible for him just to calmly observe what was happening, and just keep quietly living in his house with a garden, an apiary, and a church that he built with his own hands. From this point on the lives of Father Ivan, his wife Svetlana and their four children, two of whom are also priests, became forever divided into "before" and "after"... As it turned out, what happened in Crimea in 2014 was just a “rehearsal” for what we are witnessing in Ukraine today.
"THE DREAM CATCHER" by Piotr Szkopiak
"Best Director"
Psychological thriller about a young girl who builds a peculiar relationship with an AI robot.
Official Selections List
Best Editing
"I Wish for You" by Stuart Rideout
"Best Editing"
A woman finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong emotive memories as well as a love and hope for the world around us that transcends time.
"UNION" by Whitney Hamilton
"Best Editing"
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. With the help of Indians hiding in the mountains 'Henry' is reunited with the widow, Virginia, who saved his life at the battle of Antietam and marries her to rescue Virginia from an unfortunate arranged betrothal. They keep each others secrets and forge an unusual family. It is the alchemy of gratitude.
"The Wheelchair And The Trap" by Bilal Hussain
"Best Director"
Michelle Pedersen is a young detective who is working on a weapon’s smuggling case and one day she receives important information by a colleague Farhad Kazami that a shipment is arriving at a closed garage area but when Michelle arrives, she is shot multiple times in a shootout and bullets hit her hip that fractures her pelvic bones leaving her legs paralyzed. 
Michelle moves in with her mother but living under the same roof is a difficult task because they have a distance in their relationship. Michelle struggles with a daily routine of pain and depression. Most days go by, drinking and sitting with loneliness. One day Susan tells Michelle her big secret, which is the reason why there is a distance in the relationship. Michelle forgives Susan and Susan as a loving mother helps Michelle get back to her feet again by training her.
Ten Year’s pass, Michelle fully recovers and one day gets a tip from Mie Jørgensen from the intelligence unit that Farhad is a corrupt cop who is working for weapon’s smuggler Roya Rostami. Michelle is heart broken by the news and asks Mie to arranges a weapon’s deal at the Esbjerg harbor but Farhad doesn’t show up. Instead he calls Michelle, explains everything and tells her that he knows Mie arranged the deal and he will be arrested. Michelle replies wherever you are, I will find you and kill you for what you put me threw.

"Approaching the Book of Changes" by Su Ting
"Best Director"
The documentary“Approaching the book of changes” is a popular humanities documentary which analyzes the cultural phenomenon of the book of changes from all aspects and angles, and traces the inheritance and development of the book of changes with many historical celebrities, as well as with Confucianism, neo-confucianism and Sinology, from the angle of history, culture, philosophy, science and so on, this paper expounds the whole process of the origin, development, change and extension of the book of changes according to logic.

Official Selections List
Best Actor
"Pastiche" by  Shivaan Makker
"Best Actor"
After a home invasion, a depressed father must save his family, or they'll be premiered in the prime time news.
"Everything I Could" by Christopher Armienti
"Best Actor"
A father tries to explain his wife's mental illness to his daughter
"Trouble Is My Business" by Tom Konkle
"Best Actor"
Private Investigator Roland Drake falls for two sisters from the Montemar family. One woman is dead and the other wants to kill him.
Starring Vernon Wells (Mad Max) and Brittney Powell (Xena)
A dark tale of love and betrayal, told in the classic style of film noir. TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS is a true, hard-boiled noir. Private Detective Roland Drake has fallen on hard times in a harsh world. Drake is being evicted from his office and disgraced by a missing persons case, which has ruined him in the public eye and with police officials. It seems like it's all over for him. Then, redemption walks in... with curves. The owner of those curves is a sexy, dark haired beauty named Katherine Montemar. She wants his help. The chemistry is immediate and her concern for the disappearance of her family members pulls him into her case... and into bed.
"UNION" by Whitney Hamilton
"Best Actor"
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. With the help of Indians hiding in the mountains 'Henry' is reunited with the widow, Virginia, who saved his life at the battle of Antietam and marries her to rescue Virginia from an unfortunate arranged betrothal. They keep each others secrets and forge an unusual family. It is the alchemy of gratitude.
"Silent Night" by Emmanuel Delabaere
"Best Actor"
December 25th. A fire has broken out in Santa Claus' factory. Most of the elves have died and Santa is missing ...
A few hours earlier. During his tour, Santa enters a house where he finds a mysterious gift for him ...
"Blood Type: RAGU" by Ted Sod
"Best Actor"
Blood Type: RAGU is a wonderfully funny and genuinely moving one-man filmed stage play exploring an immigrant child’s delicate dance between culture and identity. Writer/Performer Frank Ingrasciotta gives a tour-de-force portrayal of over 20 characters who live, love and laugh, in this fast-paced journey that is not just a comedy, not just a drama - It's family -- and we all have one!
Official Selections List
Best Actress
"Darking Way" by Zsolt Pozsgai
"Best Actress"
6 October 1849
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner.
"THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME" by Marc Saez
"Best Actress"
A man, a woman, a payback.
"Queen Regent" by Scout Tafoya
"Best Actress"
A woman mourns the great love of her life in the company of a stranger.
Official Selections List
Best Supporting Actor
"Silent Night" by Emmanuel Delabaere
"Best  Supporting Actor"
December 25th. A fire has broken out in Santa Claus' factory. Most of the elves have died and Santa is missing ...
A few hours earlier. During his tour, Santa enters a house where he finds a mysterious gift for him ...
Official Selections List
Best Supporting Actress
"CARPE DIEM" by MIGUEL ANGEL CASTILLO GARCIA
"Best Supporting Actress"
Synthesis: the setting of the film is a current rural area, whose characters are ranching businesswomen. Two of them are dedicated to cattle and the other to sheep.
Each rancher develops a love story, with people not suited to her rank. But the businesswoman of the sheep, affected by other people's circumstances, goes into depression.

"TROUBADOURS CELESTES" by Hervine De Boodt
"Best Supporting Actress"
"CIRCLE" by Jon Saqipi
"Best Supporting Actress"
The movie is about a cursed camera that shows the real emotions and the feelings of the person in front of it.
Official Selections List
Best  Original Screenplay
"Child of the Disappeared" by Michael Thomas Holliday
"Best Original Screenplay"
During Argentina’s infamous ‘Dirty War,’ a pregnant Maria de Quinto is dragged from her home, torn from the arms of her husband, imprisoned and brutally tortured. Separated during their detention, her husband soon becomes one of the 30,000 people who “Disappeared” under a harsh military junta.
"ASIMETRICA" by Shubhanjan Das
"Best Original Screenplay"
A painter fighting his inner demons survives a fatal accident entering into his own strange asymmetrical world. With an insecure wife and a dedicated but eccentric lady psychiatrist with a traumatic past of her own, can he finally wake up to reality?
"La Hacienda" by Patricia Fox
"Best Original Screenplay"
An interracial Latino/White couple arrives in Mexico during the Day of the Dead holiday to renovate a dream hacienda owned by her white parents, but they soon discover it's haunted by its former occupants, and the couple has to figure out how to "remember" them, so they aren't doomed to repeat the spirits' murderous past.
"Dissociating Vulnerability" by Nobuo Nakagawa
"Best Original Screenplay"
The main character "Shinya" lost her mother in a traffic accident. A woman appears in front of Shinya. The woman can only be seen by Shinya. Fairy? Ghost? Shinya must know.
"A Royal Marines Disposition" by John Alden
"Best Original Screenplay"
Good Morning, This screenplay written professionally is based on my published book: The Falklands war from defeat to Victory by John Alden. The screen play is 92 pages in length and tells the true story of a group of Royal Marines, who in 1982 defended the Falkland Islands against overwhelming odds only to be captured and taken prisoners of war. A few weeks later they join the task force to recapture the islands from the invading Argentinian forces, eventually raising the union jack once again over Stanley. It’s a very personal view of the conflict which is nearing its 40th anniversary.
"Hallelujah" by  Zeff Lawless
"Best Original Screenplay"
Logline:
The Nuns, the Trans & the Seniors wage an unholy war for human desires!
Synopsis:
When John, a ruthless senior, sees an opportunity to make 50k he turns his ballad group into a “Choir” to enter the “International Choir Factor”.
“The Angels”, a choir of nuns from the local church, rehearse the traditional Hallelujah Chorus, hoping to win the prize and help the homeless, and themselves.
Trixie, a pre-op Trans, needs some cash for her final operation. Her boss, Cassidy, decides to shake things up and bring a Hip-hop version of “Hallelujah” to the spectacle.
But John will do whatever dirty tricks he needs to for victory and the money.
John wasn’t expecting his past to come back to haunt him until he is confronted by the twins Margo and Cyclone. John gets more, or less, than he bargained for.
"Underwater Hazards" by Pamela PerryGoulardt
"Best Original Screenplay"
While searching for a great story, a young journalism student swims into the lair of a cannibal Merman Wizard deformed from water pollution.
"Lions of Florence" by Ken White
"Best Original Screenplay"
In the arena of Renaissance art, Leonardo was the undisputed heavyweight champ; Michelangelo the brash, talented contender.
In 1503, master manipulator Niccolo Macchiavelli orchestrated an artistic competition between the middle-aged, refined Leonardo and the up-and-coming, roughshod Michelangelo. They were commissioned to paint competing frescoes in the Council of the Hall of 500 inside the Palazzo Vecchio in their native Florence. And, it was witnessed first-hand by a 21-year-old phenom named Raphael.
This titanic battle, one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Renaissance, changed the world of art forever.
There is a sidebar of interest to this true story. The Italians have taken a page from director Jim Cameron's book of hi-tech tricks to help illuminate the ghosts of the past. The City of Florence, with financing from the Kalpa Group of Switzerland, is underwriting art detective Maurizio Seracini's quest to prove that Leonardo's unfinished fresco, "The Battle of Anghiari," still exists in the Hall of the 500 behind a wall and fresco built and painted by 16th Century artist and biographer, Giorgio Vasari.
The search continues.

"It Really Is About Me" by Ken White
"Best Original Screenplay"
"It's Only Death" by James P Brosnahan
"Best Original Screenplay"
In a world he no longer recognizes, a young man suffering from dissociative amnesia searches for his identity only to discover that it was better off left forgotten.
"Little Things Mean a Lot" by Michael Monteith
"Best Original Screenplay"
The truly unique story of "pretty" Kitty Kallen, including her rise from humble origins to most popular U.S. singer, is revealed in flashback amid news of her untimely death.
"Riding on Duke's Train - DDD" by Ken Kimmelman/Mick Carlon
"Best Original Screenplay"
Set on the cusp of WWII, an 11-year-old African-American boy is orphaned when his Granny dies and he heads north from Georgia until one moonlit night he comes upon an ethereal sight--Duke Ellington’s private, silver train. Discovered as a stowaway, Danny is “adopted” by Duke Ellington and his band, and his adventures with the “Ellington family” begins.
"Blackberries in the Dream House" by Patrick Towne
"Best Original Screenplay"
A deep intuition sweeps a young couple in present-day San Francisco back to a beautiful blue-tiled bath house in 1850s Kyoto, where a young geisha is making passionate love with a client who is also her lover. When he leaves her for an arranged marriage, our geisha seeks out and falls in love with a youthful Buddhist monk who has never known a woman’s touch. Tenuous and then passionate lovemaking becomes their gateway to a deeply spiritual union. Their love affair cut short by an earthquake, the couple in present-day San Francisco awakens to their previous life connection and realize that they have found each other once again.
"Nesselrode" by Jim Norman
"Best Original Screenplay"
As the only heir of the Grand Duke of Nesselrode, Charles-Edward must find a wife and produce an heir before his grandfather dies. A college internship sends him to an Oklahoma cattle ranch, where his challenge seems nearly impossible.
"Ghost Warrior III: Band of Sisters" by Michael John Chase
"Best Original Screenplay"
A CIA Agent tasked with sending an Unofficial Team to assist with the Fight against ISIS alongside the Kurdish Brigade, recruits the Best Female Special Forces Soldiers from around the World, Codenamed: ‘Band of Sisters’ the Team Leader discovers none of them have operated in Syria & need a Guide. Pulling some Strings, the CIA Agent discovers Natasha within a Maximum Federal Penitentiary & offers her a chance to join the Mission to gain a shorter Prison Sentence. Natasha agrees & meets the Team, some she has previously worked with or trained. Once deployed in Syria the ‘Band of Sisters’ rescue the Kurdish Brigade & are taken to their Village on the outskirts of Ar-Raqqah. The Kurdish Brigade Commander tries to convince the Syrian Democratic Forces & the Peshmerga to attack the City together fails, the Men will not fight alongside Women. Leaving the Brigade & the Band of Sisters to assault the City alone, Natasha tasked with a Side Mission to extract an Mi6 Operative within ISIS to an SAS Extraction Team, Natasha safely gets the Mi6 Agent to safety & returns to help her Teammates, overwhelmed by the vast number of ISIS Fighters. Natasha becomes mortally wounded saving her Teammates, the C.I.A Agent convinces the President to send in Air Support, eventually the S.D.F & Peshmerga invade the city & destroy ISIS. In the Aftermath Ar-Raqqah is liberated, the ‘Band of Sisters’ survive the Battle, but does Natasha survive?
"The Grand Jury" by Suzanne LUTAS
"Best Original Screenplay"
A small random group gets a chance at an interview for a sought-after position and endures a long wait in a room where the test truly begins.
"High Water" by Caitlin Brands
"Best Original Screenplay"
After a dead body is found on the farm, 17 year old greaser, Johnny’s, underground drag racing circuit becomes compromised. With the help of Daniel, the unpopular jock, and Edith, a brilliant pre-med, the trio must escape the seedy underground of illegal drag racing and the turbulence
"Watermelon Sugar Land" by Daniel Noah Goldberg, Catherine Weingarten
"Best Original Screenplay"
In New York City, Melissa manipulates her way into a group of spiritually inclined individuals to appear more holy to the object of her lust, Miyamoto.
"SUPPOSED TO BE" by Dr. Beth-Anne Blue
"Best Original Screenplay"
In purgatory after an attempt to take her own life, a young woman must decide if her life is worth fighting for with the help of an unlikely healer.
"Gold" by Marcus Gorman
"Best Original Screenplay"
When 19-year-old Frankie discovers that her late grandfather had hidden years of infidelity, she goes on a cross-country road trip to meet his mistresses.
"And We Were Left Darkling" by Lynn Elliott
"Best Original Screenplay"
In the aftermath of WW2, in an undefined place, two men play chess, using humans as pawns. Each represents the extreme of man’s humanity and inhumanity to man.
"Silent Night" by Emmanuel Delabaere
"Best Original Screenplay" 
December 25th. A fire has broken out in Santa Claus' factory. Most of the elves have died and Santa is missing ...
A few hours earlier. During his tour, Santa enters a house where he finds a mysterious gift for him ...
"A Christmas To Remember" by Tiffany Colling
"Best Original Screenplay" 
A look back at what Christmas used to be like.
"Shampoo Horns" by Daniel Falcone
"Best Original Screenplay" 
In 1995, twenty-year-old Dante arrives in New York City during a severe winter. He is a gentle soul, somewhat of a thief, and hopes to start a new life as an apprentice to a renown tattoo artist. The apprenticeship and plans to stay with a friend backfire. Dante stumbles upon work as a production assistant at a photography studio. Here, he meets Ryan, a twenty-year-old bad-boy who is stunning, charismatic, and shrouded in mystery. Ryan becomes Dante’s mentor and lets him stay in his gorgeous loft. Both get fired from the studio and Dante finds adventure living a marginalized life with Ryan.
"HOLY CITY" by Terri Thomas
"Best Original Screenplay" 
HOLY CITY is a story of time and place surrounding the real events of the Mother Emanuel shootings in Charleston, SC exploring attitudes and motivations from diverse members of its community, inclusive of age, gender, orientation, race, and abilities. The narrative is told through the main character of RAYMOND, a defeated 65-year-old blind Black man looking for a second chance at happiness, who mentors NATHAN, a gay White teenager through his personal trauma. The story is embellished with Raymond’s circle of family and friends, including the narrator, VELVET, a White middle-aged Geechee woman.
HOLY CITY is a vivid portrayal of identity and culture with the transcendent healing of forgiveness. This message of hope challenges us to make our path forward together.


"Alone" by Santiago Larrauri
"Best Original Screenplay" 
An ex-marine forms a web of reluctant alliances to survive in a post-apocalyptic world against a fortified settlement of murderous thugs.
"Perry" by RJ Watson
"Best Original Screenplay" 
A mother and daughter from Connecticut and a victim of sex trafficking from Haiti are drawn into a dangerous web of exploitation on the streets of San Francisco.
While not based on a true story, the characters are amalgams of real people and documented cases. It is the tragic story of love and innocence destroyed by dark forces and contains echoes of the Persephone and Demeter myth.
Perry (15) and her mother Julia are estranged and, in an effort to repair their relationship, Julia sets up a vacation in San Francisco. Her plans are quickly overturned, however, when her plane is delayed and Perry is left on her own in the city. There she meets Bea, an exploited youth from Haiti.
"Comeback in Vienna" by Marc Baron, Richard Wolf
"Best Original Screenplay" 
Classic Hollywood meets classic Vienna in a romantic tale of reconciliation and forgiveness.
On the eve of a festival honoring an aging female Hollywood star, her presumed-dead, ex-co-star, ex-husband shows up, steals the attention, professes his love, and pitches a film to reunite them on-screen and off.
"NOTRE DAME IS IN FLAMES" by Michael David Sollars, Geoffrey Durand Sollars, Eric Gerard Sollars
"Best Original Screenplay" 
Resourceful Gendarme Margaux is joined by her former beau after the Notre Dame fire as they follow clues left centuries earlier by Napoleon and Victor Hugo, ultimately leading them to the lost Charlemagne's Crown.
"A Ghastly Sight" by David Wang
"Best Original Screenplay" 
The victim endured hardships and sought for the murder for ten years.When it's almost done,did not think,The mantis catches the cicada, and the Yellow sparrow is behind, the hunter reappeared again with a gun...
"Alien Gunslinger" by Alec Cuddeback
"Best Original Screenplay" 
Space aliens transport to the 1880s wild west and discover they can read minds and implant thoughts. One becomes a racial crusader – the other degenerates into a megalomaniac “Alien Gunslinger”.
"Down and Out in Vampire Hills" by Craig Railsback
"Best Original Screenplay" 
A pending eviction forces a vampire queen to get a job to pay for a new home. A campy, absurd romp through the job markets of Southern California.
"A Haircut for the Hina Doll" by Minoru MIZOGUCHI
"Best Original Screenplay"
The man who is an assistant hairstylist makes an effort to keep his promise by cutting his first love's hair as his first customer. But she has little time to live due to her severe illness.
"JUST LIKE YOU" by Brian Spellman
"Best Original Screenplay"
A young, psych ward gadfly-poet sets on a mission to stop her doctor who tests women with a date-rape drug.
"The Grand Jury" by Suzanne LUTAS
"Best Original Screenplay"
A small random group gets a chance at an interview for a sought-after position and endures a long wait in a room where the test truly begins.
"Bad Love Tigersl" by Kevin Schewe
"Best Original Screenplay"
It is New Year’s Eve, 1974, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the fun-loving and adventurous teens of the Bad Love Gang are ambushed by a Russian KGB agent. This propels them to use the White Hole Project Time Machine to time travel back to World War II. The gang meets with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who guides them on their mission to protect a mysterious alien spaceship and America’s top-secret Area 51.
On their perilous mission, the gang must deal with Russian, Chinese, and Indian espionage forces who stand in their path. Along the way, the gang encounters danger, intrigue, betrayal, and a little romance. Ultimately, the intrepid Bad Love Gang triumphs over their adversaries to protect the alien spaceship and maintain the security of Area 51. It's Stand by Me Meets Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Official Selections List
Best Adapted Screenplay
"Gray Zone" by Veronica R. Tabares
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
The victim of a cyber-prank gone viral, Autumn is forced to transfer schools, not exactly what she wants to do as a sophomore. But what choice does she have when all her personal information is posted all over the web for anyone to see? With all those threatening comments, the police say her only chance to avoid stalkers is to move schools and start over.
"A Fire in Africa" by Gerhard Uys
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
The OvaHimba of the Namib Desert are descendants of the Ancient Egyptians from the era of Queen Nefertiti, and was once the richest nomadic tribe in Africa. Now, however, they find themselves on the brink of extinction. Trapped in the 1904 Herero-Nama war, they settled in the godforsaken wastes of Kaokoland after fleeing genocide at the hands of the German army and marauding Nama gangs. Having grown weary of the name 'OvaHimba', which means 'beggars', reigning Chief Nguzu believes their only hope for survival lies in the hands of his grandson, Omusuverua [the protagonist].
"Michael is Coming" by P James Norris
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
A transgendered homeless woman, who makes uncanny prophecies, restores the faith of a Catholic priest with the help of the Archangel Michael after predicting that local homeless man will be killed.
"The Tragical History of Juliet and Romeo (Part One)" by J. Aldric Gaudet
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
“The Tragical history of Juliet and Romeo” is a fresh look at an old story beloved by millions.
"Approaching the Book of Changes" by Su Ting
"Best Original Screenplay"
The documentary“Approaching the book of changes” is a popular humanities documentary which analyzes the cultural phenomenon of the book of changes from all aspects and angles, and traces the inheritance and development of the book of changes with many historical celebrities, as well as with Confucianism, neo-confucianism and Sinology, from the angle of history, culture, philosophy, science and so on, this paper expounds the whole process of the origin, development, change and extension of the book of changes according to logic.

Official Selections List
Best  Animation
"EXIT" by Artur Muharremi
"Best Animation"
A Pencil inside the pencil factory gains consciousness and tries to find the exit to his freedom but as he roams about the factory and finds out the terrible truths of it's functioning he soon realizes that there's never been an exit.
"There is exactly enough time" by Oskar Salomonowitz
"Best Animation"
Oskar Salomonowitz, the 12-year-old son of filmmakers Anja Salomonowitz and Virgil Widrich, had drawn 206 frames of a flip book when he died in an accident. Using the remaining blank sheets, his father continued drawing the film.
"Roses in the Night" by Pencho Kunchev
"Best Animation"
A story of a young girl in ancient Greece between ripening and mystery of first love. Based upon "Les Chansons de Bilitis" by Pierre Louys (1875-1920).
"ATLANTIS 1" by Misaki Asamie
"Best Animation"
This is a story of the Atlantisians in 9593 B.C.
The people of Atlantis live desperately through the repeated wars and many earthquakes.
Marissa who loves her hometown meets a scholar foretelling the ruin of the Atlantis.
He says that he want to evacuate as many people as possible before it's too late.
But, soon after that, he is arrested by the government of Atlantis and he is sentenced to death.
Marissa and her childhood friend try to save him.
This is the message from Atlantis beyond 10, 000 years.
"Fake News" by Joachim Weber
"Best Animation"
Two microprocessors converse in a park, sitting on a bench. This is Willy and Jimmy, two personalized microprocessors.
Willy and Jimmy are old microprocessors from 1998 that have been retired for 20 years, growing old, but also slowly becoming senile.
"US" by Nelson Fernandes
"Best Animation"
"Us" is a short film of animation which mixes several Stop Motion techniques, proposing a journey through the conflicted human condition. War, loneliness, nature, crossings, fallen dreams are some of the recurring aspects in this animated poem on paper.
"Solir the Aliens" by Paul Miller
"Best Animation"
In space, not too far away, there is a moon. Living on this moon is an alien called Solir. Solir spends a lot of time watching over planet Earth, and is always on the hunt for rare and unique items.
One day, the little alien spots a young boy and girl who seems to communicate differently to the other children. Solir is not able to communicate, so it decides to steal what is important to the young boy and girl - all just to get what it needs.
Will Solir get away with it?


"Don't Cry" by Hisham Zreiq
"Best Animation"
A Palestinian girl, a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman meet at a celestial lake, the meeting triggers a conflict between the man and the woman caused by previous encounter, the girl tries to mediate. Will she succeed? Would it be possible to bridge between them?

"Clowning Around" by Robert Brown
"Best Animation"
A Clown dreams of being a Circus performer, but soon learns that practice makes perfect!

"I LOST THE WAY" by Panagiotis Rappas
"Best Animation"
Two parallel monologues. 
Two men of different ages, talk about their lives and what haunts them. 
One, almost middle-aged, feels he has lost his way. Full of anxiety and metaphysical agony, he desperately seeks to find the path of return that will lead him to his paternal home and the years of innocence. At the point where he started his impasse, so far, wandering. The route looks like a strange dream. People, animals, machines, change form, properties, and actions in a nightmarish cluster full of paradoxical images, charged with passions and unacknowledged guilt. 
"And this is my body" by concha vidal vidal
"Best Animation"
This is a videoanimation created from one of my paintings.This is part of my Phd Research about what happens when I give life to a painting through videoart and performance.
"Paint On Paint # 1-8" by Vasco Diogo
"Best Animation"
Paint On Paint # 1-8 is an experimental animation film that brings together eight autonomous films, produced and made between March 2020 and October 2021, marked by the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and that follow some common structural principles: each film explores a different animation technique related to the use of color and digital brushes; each movie is 3 minutes and 33 seconds long; each film was set to music and sounded by a different young composer/sound designer, with the exception of nº8 which starts from a soundtrack created by Vasco Diogo himself, for which a montage was made using images from the previous films. As a whole, the film, with an eminently abstract character, expresses interior visions, concepts and perceptions linked to the ideas of contamination, recording emotions, freedom and enclosure, delirium and hope for a better world.
Official Selections List
Best Original Score
"Christabel Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra" by Albert Syeles
"Best Original Score"


"FOLLOW THE ARROW" by Marc Saez
"Best Original Score"
A man, a Woman, a hunt.
"Entanglement" by Lliane Clarke, Kaye Tuckerman, Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
"Best Original Score"
We asked First Nations and Diverse Women across the globe what the word Entanglement meant to them. How do we connect? Over 300 women submitted their story.
12 women writers.
12 personal stories
Heroic. Humorous. Powerful. Raw.
From across the globe.
12 points of view
12 performers
all entangled
yet all have never met.
The film includes leading and emerging actors, and a world premiere film score.

"The Revolution" by Jonathan Verleysen
"Best Original Score"


Official Selections List
Best Cinematography
"Dissociating Vulnerability" by Nobuo Nakagawa
"Best Cinematography"
The main character "Shinya" lost her mother in a traffic accident. A woman appears in front of Shinya. The woman can only be seen by Shinya. Fairy? Ghost? Shinya must know.
"Sorin (Silent screams)" by Fatih Yiğit
"Best Cinematography"
Sixteen-year-old Xezal lives in a small village in the Sinjar region of Iraq. An attack is organized on her village by the radical terrorist organization ISIS and many people are killed in the village.
She witnessed another massacre during his exile journey with his family. Seven months after the massacre, another Kurdish woman, who was also captured, will help Xezal to escape from captivity. Xezal was raped by an ISIS emir and became pregnant. He is found by two young people when he is about to die of hunger and thirst on the mountain. Afterwards, not a single word comes out of Xezal's mouth, he is going through a severe trauma. Xezal is living the past over and over again with the sound of some objects in daily life. She remembers the cruelty she saw and the bad moments he experienced and disappears in the shadow of the past.
"I Wish for You" by Stuart Rideout
"Best Cinematography" 
A woman finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong emotive memories as well as a love and hope for the world around us that transcends time.
"THE RIVER OF SEVEN NAMES" by Sergi Ricart
"Best Cinematography" 
Traveling with a river is like traveling with life.
For nine months, photographer and mountain guide Sergi Ricart followed alone the Mekong river from the Tibetan plateaus, where he explored and climbed several virgin mountains, to the Delta in Vietnam, after cycling about 3000 km, living along the way the awesome metamorphosis of its nature and humanity.
But he missed one chapter in that journey: reaching the sources.
So, one year later, and this time with some friends, he went back to Tibet to try to close the circle.
Official Selections List
Additional Categories
"The Onara Marshes Park" by Gianluca Doremi
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best Opening Credits", "Best Director Debut"
A journey through the Onara Marshes Park, highlighting the naturalistic aspects and describing what can be found in these habitats with a little attention, as well as highlighting some little-known historical aspects of this place, home of the historical Ezzelini family.
"Maria's Silence" by Cesare Bedogne
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Sound Design"
This film is based on documentary material but is not, strictly speaking, a documentary film. Nor it is a work of fiction. The film rather appeared to us like a dream, not a nocturnal dream, but one which unfolded day by day while shooting. A dream shared between the photographer-director and the actress (or, better, the woman portrayed in the feature), which nevertheless seemed to follow its own, enigmatic necessity through which the daily shots joined almost magnetically, interweaving in a pattern of superimposed layers that unceasingly merge and dissolve one in another, in the constant flux, crystallization and reshaping of psychic interior. At a certain point, this dream seems to end but in fact it only opens up to another dream, or hallucination, where the film itself abruptly starts to burn, unleashing new and old visions - fragments of reality - until it is put out by a sudden storm and dissolves in a twilight of sea-waters. In this sense, the film is also a meditation on the elements, Water and Fire, Wind, Earth and Skin, inspired by a Sun-Eye that appeared almost by itself in one of the first shots and took possession of the narration, in the endless flow and unfathomable metamorphosis of all things and beings.
"On the Beat - From the Street to a Star" by Carl Eneroth
"Best Feature Documentary"
The competition is decided in dance battles. Here, contestants are pitted against each other to improvise, on the beat, to a song they don't know beforehand. We go backstage to meet winners and hopefuls, DJs, MCs, choreographers, judges, researchers and organizers on a rhythmic journey from exclusion to inclusion, as they bring their own crowd and artistry to the international scene.

ON THE BEAT is both a get-up-and-dance documentary and an inspiring snapshot of a passion driven subculture that offers an alternative route to crime and violence in troubled suburbs, building self-esteem through dance with courage, respect and love.

As inner dramas are released on the dance floor, the question of how dancers find their rhythm becomes an exploration of the enigmatic hip hop culture itself. The answers point towards the ’cypher’ where street dancers in a circle take turns to show off their talent, the way humans have built a community since the dawn of civilization. Form a circle and beat a drum. Here, we all belong.

The result is a tribute to the unifying power of dance with ’Each One Teach One’ as the battle cry for these dancing soldiers in a peaceful war. But above all, they celebrate each other.
"Pastiche" by  Shivaan Makker
"Best Sound Design", "Best Poster"
After a home invasion, a depressed father must save his family, or they'll be premiered in the prime time news.
"Creators" by Shamil Aliev
"Best Feature Documentary"
The film"Creators"tells about the study of the cruel impact of the communist-bolshevik ideology on the cultural heritage and the way of thinking of Azerbaijan against the background of the life and work of Mikayil Huseynov and Sadyq Dadashov -the great Azerbaijani architects of the 20th century.
During the repressions of 1937, the overwhelming majority of the intelligentsia from among their relatives were exiled or executed, which caused irreparable damage to the nation's gene pool.
Mikayil Hüseynov and Sadyq Dadashov had to live the rest of their lives in fear and emotional turmoil.
"Phoenix: David’s dream" by Vinicius Donola, Roberta Salomone and João Rocha
"Best Feature Documentary"
After helping to fight the fire that destroyed the National Museum, in Brazil, a firefighter decides to look for wreckage to transform them into art. The musical instruments are made with the help of artists such as Gilberto Gil, Paulinho da Viola and Hamilton de Holanda.
"FOR WAAD" by Manuela Morgaine
"Best Feature Documentary"
An archival film from Syria before the war dedicated to Waad Al Kateab, director of FOR SAMA.
"Inspiration" by Alberto Martín-Aragón
"Best Experimental Film"
A woman writer tries to regain her lost inspiration through a strange pill. Is that pill real or a projection of her pride and will?
"Rose of Blood" by Klaudia Lanka
"Best Director Debut", "Best Original Soundtrack", "Best Costume Design", "Best Makeup", "Best Opening Credits"
In the nineteenth century, WLADISLAS is the last vampire. Alone for almost two hundred years, he dreams of becoming human again because his solitude weighs on him. Supported by TOBIEC, his faithful servant, he hires a young peasant girl, LUCYLLIA.
Gradually, she and Wladislas fall in love. After making love with Lucyllia without killing her, Wladislas recovers his humanity. But soon the two lovers die, leaving behind them a rose born from the mixture of their blood.
"Soutien de Famille" by Maxime Berthou
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best Director Debut"
ISoutien de Famille is a cinematographical essay based on the artistic project Hogshead 733 that includes a journey, a sea adventure, a story of heritage, friendship & whiskey. The process follows the restoration of a typical 1941 wooden fishing boat, her last 733 miles sailing journey, and the final transformation of the boat, soaked with sea and adventure into two whisky barrels. Every specially chosen stage gives a possibility to research the poetics of specific manual labor expertise: boat building, sailing, barrel making, and whisky production.
A journey from Trebeurden Brittany to the island Islay in Scotland was undertaken with 20 stops en route, from 23 August until 21 September 2015.
"Deoch Dance" by Orlagh Heverin
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Student Film"
Deoch Dance centres around Sheila who is weighed down from the effects of living with active addiction.
"Ascension To Love" by Anaya Music
"Best Composer", "Best Original Soundtrack", "Best Music Video"
This musical work is about spiritual evolution, transcendence and Ascension To Love in order to elevate the vibration in the Universe.
"Precursor" by Marco Castiglione
"Best VFX"
Gea, who survived with other refugees, lives in the shelter away from robot that hunt and kill men. From her escape she will discover her father still alive. But her tenacity will cost her the life. And from her life a hope will be born. A new robot.
"Zé do Telhado" by Luis Dias
"Best Music Video"
One Man Show project interpreted and composed by João Morais, the author (PT)
The project artist with the name O GAJO, have the particular guitar campaniça, who have been forgotten through the ages.
O GAJO have been recover the peculiar sounds on this guitar, originaly from Andaluzia, the old Celtas people, Arab influence and portuguese guitar, of course.
This videoclip with the name Zé do Telhado, was inspired by the history of the man with the knick name Zé do Telhado, one military man who became one of the most historical portuguese thieves, from the 19th Century, who used to "steal from the riches to give to the poor ones",
"Moving History" by Jennifer East
"Best Short Documentary"
Look through the windows of the the first settlement home in the Crane Creek area of Melbourne, Florida, built by freed slaves, as many generations have done since the 1800s, until a small group of dedicated volunteers acted quickly to save this original, historical shotgun house from demolition and share its history surrounding it with the world.
"Sorin (Silent screams)" by Fatih Yiğit
"Best Color Editing", "Best Poster"
Sixteen-year-old Xezal lives in a small village in the Sinjar region of Iraq. An attack is organized on her village by the radical terrorist organization ISIS and many people are killed in the village.
She witnessed another massacre during his exile journey with his family. Seven months after the massacre, another Kurdish woman, who was also captured, will help Xezal to escape from captivity. Xezal was raped by an ISIS emir and became pregnant. He is found by two young people when he is about to die of hunger and thirst on the mountain. Afterwards, not a single word comes out of Xezal's mouth, he is going through a severe trauma. Xezal is living the past over and over again with the sound of some objects in daily life. She remembers the cruelty she saw and the bad moments he experienced and disappears in the shadow of the past.
"El Antifaz (the counterface)" by Claus Deimel
"Best Short Documentary"
he Tarahumara in northwestern México are among the poorest native peoples in Latin America. Not often you may find peoples like them living in a kind of cultural resistance but even though in an unespectedly peacefull manner.
"Leisure Machine" by Jim Batt
"Best Music Video"
A Retro futuristic vision of the isolation caused by a society which values the artificial over the real. Inspired by themes raised in Hans Christian Anderson’s morality tale ‘The Emperor and the Nightingale’ & Phillip K. Dicks dystopian novel “Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep”.

Music Recordings, Photos & Film Footage were captured in 2015 then held in a time capsule as part of an ongoing collaborative multimedia project Clare St Clare’s TIME MACHINE.

The Leisure Machine Film Clip directed & filmed by Jim Batt film release date is 2021.
"The Good Deed" by Eugene E~NRG
"Best Producer", "Best Original Soundtrack"
Do Black Lives Matter?
Tyrone, a homeless Aboriginal boy is arrested by the LAW…
Again !!
But this time...
It’s going to take his uncle Lucky’s traditional LORE to fix the mess.
"Lucy Palustris: The Dinner Party" by Patricia Coates
"Best Experimental Film"
“I love him who works and invents to build a house for the Overhuman and prepare for it earth and animal and plant." "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" Friedrich Nietzsche
The film creeps into issues of the Anthropocene while moving deeper into the psychological landscape of Lucy Palustris, the artist’s alter-ego. A solitary woman in the wetlands of southern Ontario, Lucy is a manifestation of our human psyche and our animal selves. Her role is ambiguous: Is she an agency of care, a psychologically (de)-stabilizing force or an intrusive presence? Illogical associations convey the strangeness and intensity of a dream. Disjuncture and incongruity colour the protagonist’s actions and costume within her surroundings, revealing the beauty and brutality of a degraded landscape and our transient existence within it. The film attempts to uncover something about who we are and how we have come to a tipping point of crisis. Fecundity, violence and death interweave. A call for restitution plays out like a Sisyphean gesture where tenacity and futility reign.
A subplot speaks to notions of gender, race and class. Costume performance plays to the stereotype of the middle-class white woman, while simultaneously subverting it. Trying to make sense of Hollywood film stereotypes embodied by her mother’s generation, the character both subverts and holds to ‘norms’ of a seemingly bygone era, lingering in her consciousness and, more generally, remaining pervasive today.

"Hector heat stroke" by Micke
"Best Experimental Film"
Hector and Marius are at the wedding of their sister Paulette; Hector is worried about his sister's departure from the family home; arrives late at the office and is forced to run to catch up with the procession but a great heat stroke wins him and decides to dive in the Adour
to refresh itself..!

"Wills" by Ignacio Ferreyra
"Best Experimental Film"
With an unspeakable femicide as a background, two women confront each other and themselves, they wander through a maze made up by memories, dreams, emptiness and conflicts, all from the vulnerability of their own nakedness, reappropriating their bodies in the process, which has been socially and culturally violated.
From this statement, and always haunted by an indecipherable fear, they reflect on the meaning of being a woman nowadays.
"Sum" by Elly Cho
"Best Experimental Film"
Island is a silent piece that depicts the life in an Island. Using island as a place and a metaphor for life, I interpret my own life in a dance piece. Inspired by all the islands I have lived in my life- London, Manhattan, and Jeju Island, I use dance as means of communication and hope. Under the pandemic I felt the urge to create a piece that relates to the repeated daily life cycle but at the same time, Island as a cross concept of reality and fantasy/paradise.
Set between the islands in three different countries, I compose the story of my journey to rediscover who I really am. In this deep and affecting journey of self-discovery, touching on issues of loneliness, isolation, and the perseverance of the human spirit.
"Forest Island" by Ryosuke Handa
"Best Experimental Film"
IIIn the midst of World War II, a young soldier escapes from an enemy plane that has crashed in the Boso Peninsula. A woman who lives in an isolated cottage in the forest rescued the injured man. When the unconscious man wakes up, he sees a hand-made cello in the room. "My dead son made it," she says. He asks if he can play the cello. She brings the cell to him and he begins playing sarabande from Bach's Suite No. 3 with his wounded hands.
The ghost of her dead son wanders in the forest and around his mother's cottage with a kettle to draw water, but only birds can see the ghost, not the mother.
One day the mother hears the sound of a kettle.
"Video Art Of Sculpture" by Ramin Hosseinpour
"Best Music Video", "Best Composer"
Video Art /Architectural Composition With Cinema &Rock Music.
Video art of sculpture is the real life story of Rumi (Mevlana) and Shams Tabrizi. Rumi and Shams are well known international poets of Persian language. One day, Rumi invites Shams Tabrizi to his house, Shams throws the book Of Mevlana into the pool of water and Rumi is worried and Shams returns the book to Rumi without any trace of water.
The lost half of the sculpture in the film is a representation of the same concept, in which the dance of Sama, the sculptor's mind and the role of the face are visible.
"Darking Way" by Zsolt Pozsgai
"Best Scenography"
6 October 1849
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner.
"A Fire in Africa" by Gerhard Uys
"Best Producer", "Best Scenography"
The OvaHimba of the Namib Desert are descendants of the Ancient Egyptians from the era of Queen Nefertiti, and was once the richest nomadic tribe in Africa. Now, however, they find themselves on the brink of extinction. Trapped in the 1904 Herero-Nama war, they settled in the godforsaken wastes of Kaokoland after fleeing genocide at the hands of the German army and marauding Nama gangs. Having grown weary of the name 'OvaHimba', which means 'beggars', reigning Chief Nguzu believes their only hope for survival lies in the hands of his grandson, Omusuverua [the protagonist].
"My Dear Quarantine" by Ewa Maria Wolska
"Best Director Debut"
"My dear quarantine" is a short, simple story from the time of pandemic–a poetic view of isolation, loneliness and boredom.
The inspiration for the film came during the complete lockdown, when many of us suffered from being closed up in concrete cubes. At the same time, however, something extraordinary happened: wild animals all over the world, intrigued by the sudden silence and peace, visited city centers. Animals walked the city streets, looked into the houses through windows and fences, got to know the charms of the playgrounds and–apparently–had a lot of fun. Their curiosity and innocence contrasted with our loneliness and fears, my dear quarantine portrays that special, poetic moment.
This project is the animation debut of puppeteer and theatre director Ewa Maria Wolska, who, as all theatre people around the globe, couldn’t work in live theatre, or meet with audiences during the last year. This film was made in her own apartment, which was converted into a home animation studio.

"Christabel Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra" by Albert Syeles
"Best Best Composer"


"Alter Ego - A Study in Empathy" by Carl Eneroth
"Best Feature Documentary"

As an actor, how do you a move into a new role? Join actor Thomas Hanzon during the preparations and premiere of Natthärberget at Dramaten, the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, in the spring of 2022. A study in empathy in two parts. Filmed and edited by Carl Eneroth, Sthlm Social Innovation Lab. More on Thomas Hanzon:
"Inside the ark or all the things that are getting lost" by Noemi Vasileiadou
"Best Student Film"

For a while. As long as a biblical disaster lasts. As long as an endless storm lasts. Or as long as a game lasts. For a while they will stay there. In an ark of their own. The survivors. The heroes. Pieces of the history, which is always written by others. Until the water covers everything on earth, they try to remember the world they left behind and to plan the world which coming. In a moment of transition. After the end. And just before the beginning.
"The Spring of lifet" by Borna Armanini
"Best Director Debut"
THE SPRING OF LIFE is a comedy movie about adolescence, and student life. It follows a double
cast story about two friends who live in center of Zagreb. They experience quest for identity and
longing for love as well as need to gain knowledge. In this struggle to obtain the knowledge,
which is put ironically - they do not shrink to system: they allow themselves to go beyond social
borders and get the all experience that they could possibly get trough various situation.
"UNION" by Whitney Hamilton
"Best Editing", "Best Costume Design"
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. With the help of Indians hiding in the mountains 'Henry' is reunited with the widow, Virginia, who saved his life at the battle of Antietam and marries her to rescue Virginia from an unfortunate arranged betrothal. They keep each others secrets and forge an unusual family. It is the alchemy of gratitude.
"THREADS" by David Bickley
"Best Experimental Film"
Created during a residency at Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre. Threads is a monomyth — the protagonist (the viewer) journeys downriver at night to the sea following the red thread — as they do so they also travel deep within, to their own memories; recalling folkloric traditions from childhood, from a time when pishogues and tradition ruled the hearts and minds of country people – themes of gain and loss, tree-lore, land and water, continuity and change. The visual narrative content of these filmed vignettes are short scenes balanced on symbolic and theatrical gesture. The narratives built from a number of sources; stories gathered locally, augmented extracts from collectors such as Gregory and Yeats and new narratives generated by the act of “making” within the workspace of the environment and the community. Although localised, through the gathered materials, these elements are also rendered transnational, through the underlying universal symbolic content, having therefore attributes that will continue to generate internal dialogue.
"Our Triumphant Holy Day" by Greg Di Roma
"Best Feature Documentary"

OUR TRIUMPHANT HOLY DAY chronicles filmmaker Greg Di Roma’s journey on a pilgrimage into the Holy Land in Israel and Palestine with 28 other pilgrims in January 2020. The film explores major sites of the Holy Land and their impact on Salvation History. The pilgrims follow the footsteps of Jesus Christ and discover the human side of His story that highlight the true meanings of Love, Faith and Suffering. Along the way, the trip leads to a deep conversion in Greg’s Catholic Faith and Life that he never thought possible.
"THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME" by Marc Saez
"Best Color Editing"
A man, a woman, a payback.
"FOLLOW THE ARROW" by Marc Saez
"Best Color Editing", "Best VFX"
A man, a Woman, a hunt.
"The World Cruzer" by Yorick Niess
"Best VFX", "Best Feature Documentary", "Best Producer", "Best Sound Design"
The World Cruzer travels through a future of nature pollution and climate chaos. Mankind is organized more democratically fighting for the survival of their own species. We share moments of insights with the World Cruzer on his mission to save the planet. His crew supports him with familiar voices, speaking about the many facets of being human. A modern movie with contemporary electronic music from Berlin clubs. It wants to change our point of view and to call upon mankind to find a global agreement - a new common sense pact.
"CARPE DIEM" by MIGUEL ANGEL CASTILLO GARCIA
"Best Producer"
Synthesis: the setting of the film is a current rural area, whose characters are ranching businesswomen. Two of them are dedicated to cattle and the other to sheep.
Each rancher develops a love story, with people not suited to her rank. But the businesswoman of the sheep, affected by other people's circumstances, goes into depression.

"Melody of Ceylon" by Arvind Appadourai
"Best Experimental"
The day after his arrival in France, Sri, A young Tamil refugee Finds a Babysitter job In a single-parent French family. The mother lives alone With her Child André. She travels a lot. Sri, the young Babysitter Takes care of the baby. After six years, He leaves this job and gets married. He has a daughter. Twenty Years Later, the latter, a student in sociology, tries to trace the His father's journey in France. She Discovers that he did babysitting. She meets André and organizes a meeting between his father and him.
Around This frame, A voice-over Tells this History by evoking the Tamil Culture and plays with the artifice of the ancestral theatre form.
"ANTENA DA RAÇA ( RACE ANTENNA )" by PALOMA ROCHA
"Best Feature Documentary"

The film comes to appropriate and re-discuss the Brazilian reality, based on the dialogues, excerpts and scenes from Glauber Rocha visceral films and his desire to "remove the masks", from ou third world saga. In this scenario where love and violence coexist in a state of inequality and often abandonment.
The language of the film dialogues with the style of the program ABERTURA showned in 1979 on Brazilian TV , during the end of the military dictatorship. Today, forty years later, our fragile democracy is once again at risk and, unfortunately Glauber's words are still very much alive, and the backdrop of his characters are the Brazilian people with their political and social contradictions. We aspired to bring forth the creative energy of Glauber, his nonconformist behaviour and desire to interfere in the Brazilian reality.
"Who I Am" by Dawn Young
"Best Music Video"
This music video is of a song written for use in our documentary on the subject of Alzheimer's disease.
"Dog" by Gizem Güvendag
"Best Music Video"
"Hund" is a thriving rap song by Das Ding Ausfm Sumpf. Its lyrics paint a picture of humanity. While working on the clip, I thought it was more than a song. Thanks to the power of social media, we can go deeper into the concept of refugees day by day. But, again, the same social media do not neglect to wear various masks. Perhaps the most painful of these is the "sensitivity" mask. I add to the lyrics some images like plastic bottles, stars, and flames carried on the shoulders to germination. Those settle like a stain on the faces who play the role of the so-called savior.
The concept of "sensitivity supports animations"; illuminates a world where we can see the places inspired by the lighthouse and all the seas, down to their deepest parts. But, on the other hand, the "Sea-Watch" association is the focal point of this lighting. Another concept that permeates the clip's story is the "nest." Every human being is a home, and each home is a human being. Even though we are unaware that we are living on a boat that has already gone extinct, without knowing when we will sink, even our canine friends, who are more sensitive than humans, can smell this so-called sensitivity from far away. That has penetrated the bones of those hiding behind the mask. However, it is helpful to remember; No death that washes ashore sinks.
"The Seventh Seal" by Jacek Krawczyk
"Best Experimental Film"
Disillusioned Knight Antonius returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Antonius sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling player Mia and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives. But Death is always around the corner, biding his time. Knight Antonius cannot escape his fate, and the two begin their game.
"Quarantine Chronicles" by Denise Khumalo
"Best Short Documentary"
A documentary that shows how the pandemic affected People of Colour in Los Angeles and how they navigated to keep themselves inspired and productive.
"The ANTI-WAR SONG" by Boris Rifkin
"Best Composer"
The song is against wars in every sense.
"A Survivor Amongst Survivors PT1" by Alfred Samuels
"Best Feature Documentary"
'Fighting For His Life' - The Journey from an Advanced Prostate cancer survivor to Advocating for Fellow Cancer Survivors...
A documentary about Advanced Prostate Cancer examined through the eyes of a patient, carer and medical professionals...
"Entanglement" by Lliane Clarke, Kaye Tuckerman, Otgadahe Whitman-Fox
"Best Feature Documentary"
We asked First Nations and Diverse Women across the globe what the word Entanglement meant to them. How do we connect? Over 300 women submitted their story.
12 women writers.
12 personal stories
Heroic. Humorous. Powerful. Raw.
From across the globe.
12 points of view
12 performers
all entangled
yet all have never met.
The film includes leading and emerging actors, and a world premiere film score.

"IO" by FRANCESCO SAMAS TRIBUZIO
"Best Experimental Film"
A conversation between a Soul and a Spirit about previous lives when they were incarnated in different bodies while being on Earth.
"Art Snippets in L.A." by Rick Meghiddo
"Best Short Documentary"
"Art Snippets in L.A." completed in 2021, condenses ten short documentaries on art-related events in Los Angeles during the 2016 and 2020 period. The film includes artworks by Jasper Johns, Anish Kapoor, Shirin Neshat, Black Power Art, and many avant-garde artists in painting, sculpture, installations, photography, film, performance art, and architecture.
"Imara" by Hal Hollingworth
"Best Short Documentary"
Hal a first time wildlife filmmaker created this film during a one month internship in South Africa. He trained in wildlife documentary film making and used his knowledge from film school and the internships wildlife documentary training to create a compelling story. Hal presents his first short wildlife documentary 'IMARA'.
This is a story of survival amongst lions showing the strength and fragility of family relationships and status within the pride.
"JUANA" by Fernando Alonso Montes de Oca Martin.
"Best Experimental Film"
Juana, a strong and independent woman is exiled from Spain in the civil war, embarks on a trip to Mexico.
Upon reaching her destination, she meets a man and creates a family, leaving two children as offspring.
Fernando, Juana's youngest son, faces the fortunes and misadventures of family life, suffers the loss of his father and awaits his mother's desired moment, turning one hundred years old. Devastating event that allows us to reflect on death.
"CIRCLE" by Jon Saqipi
"Best Student Film"
The movie is about a cursed camera that shows the real emotions and the feelings of the person in front of it.
"Dark Swan Lake" by Renpei Geng
"Best Experimental Film"
The movie is about a cursed camera that shows the real emotions and the feelings of the person in front of it.
"Unexpected" by Luc Godonou Dossou
"Best Short Documentary"
“Unexpected” relates the preparation and participation of Pierre-Adrien Lagrange, a track and field masters athlete representing Switzerland, in the 2022 Indoor Tetradecathlon World Championships, in Miramas (France).
The footage for the documentary was captured over a period of six weeks, documenting the run-up to the competition and culminating with the event held on March 26 and 27 2022.
Produced by Pierre-Adrien Lagrange and directed by Luc Godonou Dossou, the message of the film goes beyond physical exploits and focuses on some human aspects of the journey.

"Eliot George" by MIA CORAZON AJERO AUREUS
"Best Student Film"
Eliot George is a historical fiction story about Mary Evans, a female novelist breaking conventions by daring to write under a male pseudonym to be able to publish professionally in the male-dominated literary industry. She meets young Mr. Edward Dashwood whose prejudices against women writing challenges her resolve to stay anonymous.
"Because I'm Here" by Roméo Lefèvre
"Best Short Documentary"
For six months, twelve teenagers are brought together to live an extraordinary theatrical experience. The aim is to use their bodies to free their speech, so that they can express what they want, their dreams, their fears, their desires and say loud and clear who they are and above all who they are becoming. For Ilyès, Noa and Émile, this means questioning their own masculinity.

"BELLE-ILE IN ACADIE" by Phil Comeau
"Best Short Documentary"
Acadians from Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France, visit Canada to meet their "cousins" with whom they share a common culture and history. Descendants of the deported Acadians by the British from their original homeland, they walk on their ancestral lands and attend the international World Acadian Congress. This film is about exile, the power of memory and finding your roots. (354 awards received worldwide.)

"We Would All be Kings" by Márel Malaret
"Best Feature Documentary"
A reality of prison life is invisibility.
The Puerto Rican documentary "We Would All Be Kings" recovers the voice and humanity of a marginalized community and captures the beginning of a rehabilitation process, through the participation of 7 inmates in a creative writing workshop.
The motivation and transformation witnessed in the participants are the driving force of a documentary that intertwines their testimonies with fiction short films based on the autobiographical stories they wrote.

"Man with Shadow" by Ema Kugler
"Best Experimental Film"
A reality of prison life is invisibility.
The Puerto Rican documentary "We Would All Be Kings" recovers the voice and humanity of a marginalized community and captures the beginning of a rehabilitation process, through the participation of 7 inmates in a creative writing workshop.
The motivation and transformation witnessed in the participants are the driving force of a documentary that intertwines their testimonies with fiction short films based on the autobiographical stories they wrote.

"Heavens Enemy" by Sergei Patlai
"Best Experimental Film"
The history of the moon exploration is very interesting and exciting. But one of the most intriguing question is: Are there aliens on the moon? The most famous mission Apollo 11 makes more questions than answers.
"TROUBADOURS CELESTES" by Hervine De Boodt
"Best Sound Design"
"Marie-Luise" by Hervine De Boodt
"Best Producer"
"The Donbass children" by Lubomir Dankov
"Best Feature Documentary"
This is a movie about the Donbas war, first-person stories. You will hear the stories of so-called "ordinary people". These people suffered from irrational from a military point of view strikes on civilian targets. They are victims of someone's desire to wage war on their territory at all costs.
There are no author's comments in this movie and no censoring of the thoughts of the local people. This film was made especially for spectators in Europe, who do not know what is happening in Eastern Ukraine.
The purpose of the film is to arouse interest in the ongoing six-year armed conflict and to make people to start to think about the responsibility of each of us for peace in Europe.
Update from March 2022: The above was written in September 2019. Now the war is being waged throughout Ukraine and the fate of the people of Donbass is shared by many people in the country. But while the "democratic world" was aggressively indifferent to the lives of the people of Donbass, a wave of empathy has now broken out. Not bad, on the contrary, but there remains a bad taste of double standards. This large-scale war had to be stopped in its infancy, but apparently the interest in its expansion was too strong. We, the people who fought for peace during those eight years, have failed because our voices have been muffled. But we did what we could.

"A Burst of Song" by Lia Beltrami
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Poster", "Best Color Editing"
In the slums of Calcutta, three girls manage to rescue themselves by pursuing their dreams.
“When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy.
When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song.
Come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.” (R. Tagore)
This is Kolkata: it vibrates on Tagore's verses, it walks Gandhi's steps, it breathes the love of Mother Teresa. It’s right here where Bharati, Rahima and Sumita were born: under a bridge, along the train station, in the red light zone. Their stories intertwine in the home of the Sisters of Providence, where dreams come true. Rahima became a flight stewardess. Sumita left her abusive husband. Unfortunately Bharati left us before the editing of the film was finished, leaving behind a son.

"Preparing to Give" by Nathan Roderick
"Best Feature Documentary"
Journalist & best-selling author, turned ultra-endurance cyclist, Rupert Guinness embarks on his final training camp (commonly known as "Hell Week") in preparation for the world's toughest bike race: Race Across America (RAAM) 2022 with Crew Chief and friend Nathan Roderick Carter. The adventure starts with Revolve24; a 24-hour race in South Australia, before using the 24hr event fatigue loading to hit the open roads of southern Australia, along the Great Ocean Road, and finishing with a twist at the peak of Falls Creek in the snowy region of Victoria, Australia.
The story is an insight to the training camp showcasing determination, humanity, friendship, vulnerability, isolation on the road and the 'power of the pedal' that is connecting people and connecting minds.
"Pvt. Ravel's Bolero" by J Z Murdock
"Best Short Documentary"
"Pvt. Ravel's Bolero", is a "filmic poem" and historical documentary wrapped in WWI & the music of Maurice Ravel. it is based upon the poem of the same name by author and filmmaker, JZ Murdock. From LgN Productions, completed January 2022. It is essentially, an antiwar film. It wasn't planned that way. It evolved.
It is about France's one-time "world's greatest composer", Maurice Ravel's time in WWI as a truck driver. The poem is a musician/soldier's fantasy about creating his "Bolero" while in the trenches, and the effect it could have had upon all involved...living, and dead.
When WWI began, Maurice Ravel had a desire to serve, but also to experience adventure. He signed up. "Pvt. Ravel's Bolero", is also about Ravel's most famous musical piece, "Bolero". What if had come to be during his experiences in, "The Great War". Which was how that war was referred to until people found a need to number Earth's World Wars.
This film is also an "experience", presenting how war affects people. Just as war is often too fast to "read", or to assimilate at times, the viewer will find the experience moving too quickly, serving up too much, too fast. Or they may find what they see & hear is not beautiful, not perfect, as they are used to in documentaries. But not necessarily because they are too graphic to behold. There are scenes shown in this film that have likely never seen a public audience before this. Because they are not perfect, or pristine, and thus never used.
For such is War.

"By longboat to Samkar" by longboat to Samkar

"Best Short Documentary"
This rarely visited country is known as Myanmar these days, but many of us still know it as Burma. It's easily one of the most exotic and fascinating locations imaginable.
Most foreign visitors to Burma visit Inle Lake in Shan State in the country's east, but few have the time to make the 7-hour round trip by longboat to the remote and isolated village of Samkar.
As a consequence, when you arrive there, you're unlikely to encounter other tourists; indeed, the locality is sufficiently remote that many of the locals will have never met a foreigner.

"I Am Still Waiting" by Stephanie Liapis

"Best Experimental Film"
I Am Still Waiting, comes from the restless and still of isolation and a self-imposed attempt to rewild oneself back into life. The text prose by Elena Hecht and performance by Leslie Kraus express an untethering from memory and a dissolution into pastoral abyss. The work was filmed in residency on location in Longford, Ireland.
"The Water Wall" by Andrea Sambuccetti
"Best Short Documentary"
During the biggest illegal immigration ever registered by US Border Patrol in the Florida strait, Andy de la Torre, a 45-year-old Cuban tries for the 43rd time to reach the American dream in a rustic vessel. In the middle he will suffer deportation, incarceration, and will witness death. Will he make it?
"Silent Night" by Emmanuel Delabaere
"Best Color Editing"
December 25th. A fire has broken out in Santa Claus' factory. Most of the elves have died and Santa is missing ...
A few hours earlier. During his tour, Santa enters a house where he finds a mysterious gift for him ...
"Burn Out Love" by Joachim Glaser
"Best Student Film"
A young artist tries to adapt the scandalous play Reigen (Roundabout) as a film. The project increasingly becomes a self-experiment. The opportunities and freedom in love and art turn into a curse - everything seems possible and nothing is permanent.
"Deluge Day" by Marc Linnhoff
"Best Music Video"
The video clip DÍA DE DILUVIO (Deluge day) was produced for the electro music album "You're a woman, I'm a Fish" by Nocto & Elisa, in Meisenthal, in the north of Alsace, France and with the support of the CIAV, the International Center for Canopy Art.
The musical theme was composed on the basis of Mongolian women's traditional singing, the sound percussions built from sound extracts from Californian redwoods, and the viola improvisation inspired by an Indian raga structure (Hindustani classical music).
The lyrics are an adaptation of the homonymous poem by the contemporary Brazilian poet Leonardo Froes, describing in a very subtil manner a femenine orgasmic voyage, by using metaphorical images to express both the naive sensitivity and delicate sensuality of the principal character.
The progression of the voice color and vocal technique, reflect in a very precise way this transformation.
We chose a female character to tell the story of this video, inspired by 3 images from Latin American literature:
In the first part, a simply dressed woman walking under an eternal rain, crossing a small isolated village lost in the Colombian geography, the image inscribed in the literature of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Colombian writer, and the literature movement of which he is a precursor, Magical Realism. The specific character reference coming from his tale ISABEL VIENDO LLOVER A MACONDO (Isabel watching the rain under Macondo).
This woman, finding herself gradually and increasingly surrounded by a vegetal landscape in allusion to the search for her own true nature, her soul, plunges into this tropical cosmogony and begins to integrate herself into the landscape and to be absorbed by, until it becomes its own skin.
In the darkest of the night, under the glow of a fairy full moon descending towards her to illuminate her face, this woman finds herself facing a unique encounter, a love from beyond, who looking directly into her eyes, discovers and unveils her depth and transforms her forever into a kind of rainforest goddess, a magician initiated into the Divine Nature.
The literature artistic references for this second part are : La Maga, the magician, female character from the book novel RAYUELA by Belgian-Argentinien writer Julio Cortázar. And an image of a black African priestess in the work GENESIS by Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado.
"Eliot George" by MIA CORAZON AJERO AUREUS
"Best Director Debut"
Eliot George is a historical fiction story about Mary Evans, a female novelist breaking conventions by daring to write under a male pseudonym to be able to publish professionally in the male-dominated literary industry. She meets young Mr. Edward Dashwood whose prejudices against women writing challenges her resolve to stay anonymous.
"If you play with fire" by Lucía Vega Díaz
"Best Student Film"
A young dysfunctional couple sees how their day-to-day life is altered after the arrival of an undesired guest.
"Pit & Pendulum" by J. Aldric Gaudet
"Best Experimental Film"
“Pit & Pendulum” is a 27 minute experimental film based upon Edgar Allan Poe’s horror classic.
The film is an experiential experiment.
The words of the author provide the texture for the Audience’s imagination.
It is the terrorizing story of a person sentenced to death who becomes the plaything of their jailers. They are sent walking through a dark room in hopes they will fall into a pit. When that doesn’t happen they are tied down on a table to watch the painfully slow descent of a swinging pendulum with a sharp-edged blade aimed at their stomach. Escaping from the blade did not mean freedom. The walls of the dungeon grow blistering hot first, then squeeze together to push them to the brink of the pit, before being saved at the very last second.
Each horrific moment is shared with the Audience in simple images for them to flesh out under the spell of Poe’s words.
Black-Box Cinema means minimalistic sets and props illustrate the original words, in this case making use of Poe’s own technique – The Telegraph Mosaic (as Marshal McLuhan termed it) – in visual form.
The Audience’s imagination is the architect of the dungeon, its textures, and its smells, and can create far more terrifying images than any that can be made.
In this manifestation, the gender of the protagonist has been neutralized, and Poe’s text judiciously edited to remove references to time and place, making it universal.
"Workforce - The Pilot" by Phil Kwarta
"Best Director Debut"
Mired in losses dating back several years, and desperate to turn things around, owners of Protocol Industries hire Anthony Scolari to rescue the company. Experienced and anecdotally funny, but wrestling with his own myriad demons, Scolari learns early, NOTHING will be easy in his latest professional setting. Conflict is everywhere, inside the organization and out. Set in the greater Philly area during the recession of 2007-2009, Workforce is the tale of white and blue collar workers trying to work together, find common ground and unearth a little of the lighter side of humanity in the process.
"Swamp Dragon" by Ruben Swart
"Best Director Debut"
When Sarah gets a school assignment to research the nickname of her hometown ('s-Hertogenbosch), she discovers that the nickname Moerasdraak (Swamp Dragon) might have a different meaning than the historic one. Through mysterious signs while making a documentary, the question raises if something actually lived near her town. Sarah and her group of students go to search for answers behind these clues, while they risk their lives doing so.
"Kalashnikov Society" by Christophe Karabache
"Best Feature Documentary"
Beirut, right after the August 4th explosion….
Trails of life, torn out of a burdensome and peculiar daily existence, interweaving melancholia, wanderings, endurance and anger, of several people, living in a country on the edge of the abyss.
"The Chalice of Blood" by Jarno Elonen
"Best Cosstume Design", "Best Scenography"
The Chalice of Blood is set in the final years of World War II and tells the story of a Finnish sergeant Myllykoski, who is forced by the lack of money to join in the search of a mysterious medieval chalice, as a part of the Germans' infamous Waffen-SS.
As the story progresses, it becomes clear that numerous other parties are also looking for the cup, such as the mysterious Vatican bishop Agentino with his Catholic priests and Stalin's secret police NKVD. Myllykoski would just like the war to end and live in peace on his farm and marry his childhood crush Kaarina. But when the war destroys the chance for a good and peaceful life on a farm, the valuable offer to go in search of a chalice in the Soviet Union becomes too tempting. So the journey towards the heart of darkness begins.
"DAGGERS AND ROSES. THE SPIRIT OF SHADOWS" by Juan manuel Fagetti, Alejandro Maidana
"Best Makeup"
THE SPIRIT OF THE SHADOWS, introduces us to the young Ameba and Ambar, imposing their will of order in Ciudad Paraiso.
Night Angel turned into the most respected and feared assassin by those who have confronted her.
Clans, hitmen, and conspiracies with Director Kraft are made in the shadows of the city....
"MusArt" by Kevin Hanzlik
"Best Original Soundtrack"
Musician and painter, Randall Vemer, has once again expanded his talent pool; this time into filmmaking.
In a nearly 12-minute biographical documentary, Vemer reveals what happened when his ability to play his beloved viola was taken away.
The film is filled with striking portraits of the people and instruments by which he's been surrounded for much of his life. And always the educator, the hauntingly lovely music is scored and timed, not only to enhance the viewer's enjoyment of Vemer's classical style images but also to point out which instrument is highlighted within the rich and ethereal paintings.
Randall Vemer's musical bio-doc is a moving tribute to the creativity, discipline, and heart of this incredibly talented man.
If you need a pick-me-up, a gentle nudge in "the feels", or just a good old-fashioned American success story, you MUST watch this film.
Nina Massara: "Postcard to New Orleans" by Anders Helde
"Best Music Video"
In the dying echo of an intimate performance, a young artist sings a yearning love song to her boyfriend who is far away.
"BROKEN CLEW" by Ioannis Symeonidis
"Best Student Film"
Ariadne is a woman in her 40's living in a luxurious house in Athens, totally cut off from her family and acquaintances. On an ordinary morning, Ariadne will get out of bed and find that her baby is missing. Her suspicions will fall on her husband, whom she believes is going in and out of her house without her permission. Her baby's governess is also mysteriously absent. Ariadne, worried, decides to contact her sister.
"The Shack" by Ben Raschella, Harry Kellaway
"Best Student Film"
At a beachfront shack located on the coast of Western Australia, a young man has just committed an unthinkable act. Though his traumatising past and unorthodox upbringing could be to blame for his unsettling nature. His ever-growing insanity, as well as strange and unexplainable developments could lead one to believe that perhaps there is more to his actions than meets the eye.
"Villain Music Video" by Rebecca Maddalo
"Best Music Video"
"My name is Shaun" by Ann Topolsky
"Best Director Debut"
Short Documentary about life of a burnt out creative and slightly jaded hospitality worker trying to stay afloat in London.
"D Aeolian Contrabass" by Cole McLester
"Best Short Documentary"
Calin Matei meticulously crafting a bamboo flute and composing a soundtrack including the same flute that is in the project.
"Two Hitmen from Gonzago" by Peder Trusiak
"Best Original Soundtrack"
Two newly partnered coworkers confront the absurdities of life while waiting for their boss to arrive.
"Rinaldi - Instrumental Transcommunication To The Other Side" by Robert Lyon
"Best Feature Documentation"
For almost three and a half decades, a slight and unassuming Brazilian researcher has been bringing forth evidence of an Afterlife via various processes of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC). Using technological devices such as telephones, televisions, recorders, computers and cameras, Sonia Rinaldi has been able to record both voice messages and visual images of those who have passed on from this life providing comfort to those who have lost a loved one and helping to prove, definitively, that life continues after bodily death.
Over time, the quality and quantity of these voice messages and visual images have become increasingly clearer, and her work has caught the attention of many well-respected researchers. Hear from some of them, as well as from a small sampling of parents who have lost a child, who attest to the amazing influence Sonia Rinaldi's work has on current understandings of concepts such as life and death.

"Common Thread" by Frank Fazzio
"Best Short Documentation"
Common Thread project joins together global filmmakers speaking with children worldwide about the planet and their concerns for their generation's future ... These children and filmmakers are not celebrities or activists ... But the children have a Common Thread ... They all want a sustainable and livable planet and future for their generation.

"The Gift" by Alexander Genievsky
"Best Short Documentation"
The Gift is a story of kindness, tragicomedy, communication barriers and love. It centers around a couple, Iron (a hearing musician) and Tara (a deaf dancer). Iron rescues Tara from a train accident and falls in love with her. But it is a star-crossed love because Tara expects Iron to understand her by learning to sign, and this is something he finds difficult. The film also sheds light on American Sign Language and some technology (Cochlear Implant) that is controversial in the Deaf community. The plot ends with a tragicomic twist turning upside down the relationship between Tara and Iron.
"Changing with the Seasons" by Ashley Seybolt
"Best Director Debut"
"Changing with the Seasons" traverses a family's mundane and repetitive road to recovery after the mother suffers a stroke.
Following several months in the hospital, life has become exhausting and the aftermath impacts everyone on a physical, mental, emotional and financial level.
With just a year to relearn as much as she can, will the mother be able to find her way back to a normal life? Or will she be dealing with the struggles the diagnosis has dealt the family for years to come?

"Emergency Musical Response" by Cosmo Swevens
"Best Music Video", "Best Composer", "Best Director Debut"
LOGLINE: Emergency Musical Response Team 421 responds to distress calls using music as a healing therapy (EMR Part 1). What is initially perceived as a routine service call devolves into an existential challenge where the very fate of pop music hangs in the balance (EMR Part 2). 
SYNOPSIS: Emergency Musical Responders, Sage and her partner Cosmo, provide emergency music as a service to those in need of music as medicine. Ride with EMR Unit 421 as they help people in distress on their journey to Netherworld. 

"Overtura d'una Terra Blanca" by Jose Conejero
"Best Music Video"
"Ouverture" by Ioannis Koutroubis
"Best Music Video"
A teenage girl struggles with her thoughts as they battle she seeks guidance in the House of God.

"Breathing" by VIKTOR PETRENKO, MARIA PANKOVA
"Best Feature Documentary"
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Innocent 
Ukrainians came under fire from Russian missiles, bombs, and artillery. Millions 
families were forced to leave their homes and seek safety for themselves in other regions of Ukraine and abroad. 
The protagonists of this film are its authors, Victor and Maria. They were caught up in the war in 
the snow-covered Ukrainian Carpathians. The purpose of their expedition was 
to make a documentary about the mountain rescuers working at the White Elephant Observatory.
"Michel Majerus - Next Step" by Anne Schiltz
"Best Feature Documentary"
The documentary "Michel Majerus – Next Step" recalls the life and career of this prolific painter and raises the question of how the lifework of an artist can adequately be kept alive after the early death of the latter.
"The Mechanics" by Christoph Janetzko
"Best Experimental Film"
"THE MECHANICS" takes its viewers into the world of Chinese craft workshops on the streets of Phnom Penh in painterly compositions . The public space becomes a workshop next to barber shops. Mekong-Ship engines are carefully and precisely overhauled by oil-smeared hands. Right next door barbers gently shave and cut hair and all of this in the middle of busy traffic. Neatly arranged Confucian altars create a private oasis juxtaposed in the chaotic hustle and bustle. All of this arranged and assembled as a musical collage. Congenial accentuated by the sound artist Makin Fung Bin Fai from Hong Kong. A gentle flow of a song, almost like a requiem to a changing world. 
"The Wheelchair And The Trap" by Bilal Hussain
"Best Original Soundtrack"
Michelle Pedersen is a young detective who is working on a weapon’s smuggling case and one day she receives important information by a colleague Farhad Kazami that a shipment is arriving at a closed garage area but when Michelle arrives, she is shot multiple times in a shootout and bullets hit her hip that fractures her pelvic bones leaving her legs paralyzed. 
Michelle moves in with her mother but living under the same roof is a difficult task because they have a distance in their relationship. Michelle struggles with a daily routine of pain and depression. Most days go by, drinking and sitting with loneliness. One day Susan tells Michelle her big secret, which is the reason why there is a distance in the relationship. Michelle forgives Susan and Susan as a loving mother helps Michelle get back to her feet again by training her.
Ten Year’s pass, Michelle fully recovers and one day gets a tip from Mie Jørgensen from the intelligence unit that Farhad is a corrupt cop who is working for weapon’s smuggler Roya Rostami. Michelle is heart broken by the news and asks Mie to arranges a weapon’s deal at the Esbjerg harbor but Farhad doesn’t show up. Instead he calls Michelle, explains everything and tells her that he knows Mie arranged the deal and he will be arrested. Michelle replies wherever you are, I will find you and kill you for what you put me threw.

"Haruan: The Snakehead" by Razli Dalan
"Best Experimental Film"
Do bad deeds always beget badness?
A dark tale of a magical fish and its flawed human friends.
10-year old Ikan lives with his older sister Salomah and their stepfather Deris. Ikan adores his sister and loves all fish, especially his pet snakehead fish Haruan. Some snakeheads eat their young. Apparently, some humans do too. Like the snakeheads, hungry Deris has no natural predator. Like the snakeheads, Salomah is a survivor. Ikan and Haruan will do anything to save their beloved Salomah. Deris must be stopped, at whatever cost...

"From within" by Cezary Grzesiuk, Krystian Kamiński, Tomasz Szwan
"Best Feature Documentary"
Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005), is one of the most recognisable Polish painters of the 20th century. To this day, his surrealist, visionary painting arouses wide interest among audiences and remains an inspiration for successive generations of artists. For a decade – between 1987 and 1997 – Beksiński documented his family life and artistic process on video. FROM WITHIN consists in its entirety of footage shot by the artist himself and his immediate family. This unique, intimate journal, is at once a chronicle of social changes in Poland, the fall of communism and the first years of democracy. 
The makers have tried to remain objective chroniclers of the approximately 300 hours of video material that Beksiński left behind him. FROM WITHIN can be seen as the artist’s last work, a last attempt to stand up to the relentless passage of time.

"The Ace and the Scout" by Aaron Huggett
"Best Costume Design", "Best Supporting Actress", "Best Cinematography"
Inspired by the heroics of Ace pilot Billy Bishop and his 72 dogfight victories, two young men from small town Ontario join the late war effort, landing on the front lines of Northern France in August 1918. Within hours they find themselves cut off from resupply and reinforcements, as ally forces are delayed arriving to begin the 100 Days Offensive to end the Great War. For 3 days they must hold the line at all cost, as the fate of the Great War hangs on their shoulders. Fighting alongside legendary Anishnaabe sniper Francis Pegahmagabow, they face an overwhelming force while counting down the last of their ammunition with each shot.
“An intense, Canadian, Band of Brothers showing what it was like for our great-grandfathers in the trenches of WW1”
“Great mix of story and action!”
“…Incredible that this story was still a best-kept secret”

"Under the clouds" by Ziyi Wang, Guanxing Ren
"Best Student Film", "Best Color Editing"
A look at the impact of the epidemic on students from the perspective of Chinese high school students, as well as the students' own thoughts on the epidemic and the search for positive solutions
"SAVING MINDS" by Catherine Mullins
"Best Feature Documentary"
Myriam Anouk and Alo have spent years seeking effective treatment within a mental health system that has medicated them but failed to address the roots of their suffering. Saving Minds captures their intimate stories as they navigate their way to recovery. With added insights from experts in the field, and the candid testimony of author Joanne Greenberg (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), the film gives viewers a ringside seat as a new approach to mental health care emerges; one that moves beyond the biological-medical model towards a more therapeutic and empathetic approach that puts the patient first and uses medication cautiously.
"La Variante Gamma" by Ramiro Díaz, Juan Dauquen Chabeldin
"Best Director Debut"
The outbreak of a new variant of Coronavirus unknown so far surprises 
Damian and Vera during the first day of their long-planned vacation. Damian ends 
up isolated in a hotel, Vera in a hospital. Damian can’t wait for them to get back 
together.
"Cosmic Echoes" by John Leslie Hulcombe
"Best Director Debut"
Cosmic Echoes is a celestial journey powered by stunning visuals and stellar guitar riffs. Both capture the grandeur and vast expanse of a beautiful universe that has infinite wonders to explore.
"Down and Out in Vampire Hills" by Craig Railsback
"Best Original Soundtrack" 
A pending eviction forces a vampire queen to get a job to pay for a new home. A campy, absurd romp through the job markets of Southern California.
"Fire & Iceland" by April Anderson, Martin Chytil
"Best Feature Documentary" 
Iceland is literally built on a hot bed of volcanoes, and the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption fascinated the rest of the world, with thousands of people making the pilgrimage to experience it during the six months it was active. This is the story of the people who live in the shadows of these events as a part of their lives in Iceland, talking about the science and the magic of volcanic life.
"THE CONJUGACY" by Anastasia Kalinovskaya
"Best Director Debut", "Best Opening Credits"
Lonely 12-year-old Girl, thoughtfully walking along the railroad. She meets a handsome 18 year old Guy who seems to be lost in the woods. The Guy decides to join her and find out who she is and what she hides in her suitcase. The Girl tells him stories from her difficult life, full of sadness and fear. She opens to him the world of memories of her family, through fantastic images.. 
Each of the stories involves the Guy in its own original atmosphere, opening the doors to a child's fantasy for him, which is able to transform familiar forms and events into metaphorical symbols. 
But suddenly, the Girl runs away. Having caught up with her, the Guy finds out what could bind them... 
"A Haircut for the Hina Doll" by Minoru MIZOGUCHI
"Best Original Soundtrack", "Best Producer"
The man who is an assistant hairstylist makes an effort to keep his promise by cutting his first love's hair as his first customer. But she has little time to live due to her severe illness.
"The Cat Sat On The ..." by Lars Magnus Holmgren
"Best VFX"
Challenging media complacency and the 'blanding' out of culture (and 'cancel culture' toxicity at the more polar end of the spectrum), the film explores big-cheese-corporate-media backed manipulation, monopoly and collective (from fringe to society at large) control and the relentless associated 'brain feed' of new and age old dogma forming a digital era gridlock to the collective neural networks of bland formulaic franchise media and entertainment output. 
With tongue firmly in cheek the film uses metaphor including a 'birthing sequence via ear canal' to showcase what is seen as a toxic codependent relationship and the choice to free our minds from this toxic engineered algorithmic stream of doldrum via a means of inner alchemy proactively reshaping the effects on us in a mindful way opening the doors to new insight once again.

"So Much More to Offer" by Cullen Burt, Grant Cosko, Xingyu (Vicky) Gu, Hunter Hartz, Aliiv Jiao, Saleen Lee, Alison Ma, Brisa Parra, Shelby Pine, Lyndzi Ramos, Tricia Saputera, Hanyu Sun, Kaan Ust, Elaine Wong, Rosemary Wu, Ella Zhou
"Best Student Film"
Lyndzi uses her own experience of being treated unfairly as a plus-sized person to raise people’s attention toward body positivity.
"Switch" by Desiree Faust, Stefana D. Brancastle
"Best Student Film"
A dark love letter to the critic, from the artist. ‘Switch’...the one who is both slave and master…(in BDSM), questions the limits imposed on filmmakers.
"secant" by Timothy David Orme
"Best Music Video"
"lava flow" by Manfred Neuwirth
"Best Short Documentary"
A volcano’s eruption as both a familiar, and a dramatic event – a fascinosum of colours, forms and sounds. 
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lava flow is a series of slow cross-fades of landscape views around a magma spewing volcano near Reykjavik, recorded in May 2021. With graphic precision, Neuwirth records the viscous, reptile-like flow of lava; its fire shimmering through the cracks in cooled-off, solidified rock; the spray of red-hot eruptions. He focuses on contrastive pairs, juxtaposing heat with cold, blaze with rain, organic with inorganic, close-ups with wide shots — the dramatic with the familiar.
"THIS COULD BE" by Eddy Falconer
"Best Experimental Film"
An abstraction in three parts. A questioning, hypothetical mood prevails in the soundtrack as a quasi-psychedelic presentation of analog-originated images under digital effects sets the viewer forth on an inquiry, perhaps into the nature of sight. In the second part, we are in somewhat more representational territory, the almost more certain world where we wake to birdsong. The third act resumes with more dramatic, less drifty effects on the abstraction and a joyful conviction in the music that yet hints at the ever increasing possibility of the search.
"The face of Fatima" by Luis Vargas Santa Cruz
"Best Experimental Film"
El rostro de Fátima es un cortometraje que narra el impulso, la acción creativa y el deseo incontrolable por la pintura en el que las emociones son un espejo para adentrarnos en la psique de una artista plástica.
"Secret superstars the hidden history of the Kennedy cup" by Tom O'Flaherty
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Director Debut', 'Best Color Editing"
They say truth is stranger than fiction.
In the case of the Kennedy Cup, there’s no doubt 
this remarkable, but untold story would otherwise 
be regarded as a very tall tale, were it not all too 
fantastically true.
Imagine some of the best professional footballers 
of the 1960s in Britain and, indeed, Ireland coming 
to the picturesque little shoreside pitch of a rural 
Irish town – often in disguise – for matches with 
local amateur players.
Well, that’s the Kennedy Cup. And it’s only the half 
of it.

"RETARDATION" by Nils Agdler
"Best Experimental Film"
RETARDATION is the second short film in the Male Nature Studies series. The first film, REBIRTH, was produced in 2018. In these films, Nils Agdler examines alternative approaches to what is popularly called ”toxic masculinity”. In today's society, it has a great impact as a negative male role model, which could be expressed as a desire to constantly compete against and to dominate, both other people and the non-human.
RETARDATION takes its starting point in the emerging research field "Ecological masculinities", which is influenced by masculinities politics, deep ecology, ecological feminism and feminist care theory. ”The Great Acceleration” gained momentum in the 1950s with the Western man at the wheel. The growth curves turned sharply upwards and so did, and still do, the human impact on the biosphere. But what if this man begins to see himself as a small part of nature instead of striving to "conquer" it? What if he abandons the pursuit of status and the ever-expanding claims to power? What if he slows down and throws his paralyzing yoke? Is he still a Man then?
In RETARDATION, Nils Agdler visualizes ideas of another future man – the resigned man, the regressed man, the liberated man, and possibly – the last man.

"Brazilian Beats" by Tiago Arakilian
"Best Feature Documentary"
Brazil is known around the world for being a musical country. Most people think that Bossa Nova is the essence of their music, but Brazil is continental, with multiple cultures, and the diversity of its rhythms and beats remains unknown. The movie Brazilian Beats proposes to take you on a journey through several Brazilian capitals, immersing yourself in different rhythms and cultures, both traditional and contemporary, and making you feel the true Brazilian soul. 
"Santa Guerra" by Samantha Casella
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Scenography"
A woman falls down into a timeless place where her subconscious tries to process the trauma that crushes her. While a part of herself is stucked in a ghostly mansion and her double wanders in an ancestral place, the woman will reach a painful awareness.
"In a Whole New Way" by Jonathan Fisher
"Best Short Documentary"
Ensnaring almost four million Americans, probation has evolved from a second chance to avoid prison to a sanction actually feeding mass incarceration. Supported by neighborhood allies, some people of color set out in a whole new way to change all this—equipped only with cameras.
"Prufrock" by Gerald Varney
"Best Experimental Film"
A surreal visual interpretation of T.S. Eliot's poem "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
"Agniyogana - Lower the head, Invoke the fire" by Emma Balnaves
"Best Feature Documentary"
AGNIYOGANA is a meditative inquiry into the lost art of classical Hatha Yoga. 
Offering an experiential collage of action and stillness, light and darkness, sound and silence, AGNIYOGANA explores the richness of traditional Hatha Yoga teachings and the deeply connected states of heart, mind, and freedom these practices deliver to sincere truth seekers. 
AGNIYOGANA takes the viewer on a journey through time and space to rediscover the inner dimensions of Hatha Yoga and reconnect the human spirit to the true meaning of “yug,” the connecting root of all yogas.
"Ina's Circle" by Emma Balnaves
"Best Feature Documentary"
A documentarian is shocked to learn that the two paintings hanging in his childhood home were created by a relative born in 1888. This kicks off a four year journey chronicling the life of California artist Ina Perham Story (1888-1979) -- to understand her artwork, her independence, and her famous friends from the early 20th century. (Including the artists Hans Hofmann, C.S.Price, and the Bruton Sisters.)
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