Official Selections
Spring 2023
Official Selections List
Best Short Film
"Somebody's Baby" by Mervyn McCracken
"Best Short Film"
A homeless woman who, driven by grief, snatches a baby.
"Dull Boy" by Zuri Shafer
"Best Short Film"
A young man alone on a Friday night is badgered by his friends to come out on a night on the town.
"Untitled 1.1, 2022" by Saskia Takens-Milne
"Best Short Film"
Drawing on philosophy and psychology, Takens-Milne’s art pieces are thought-provoking invitations to engage with urgent contemporary political questions. With a particular interest in Lacan and Mark Fisher, she searches for moments of freedom from the ideological capture of dominant cultural norms.

Untitled 1.1 (video 2022) is a compilation of hundreds of moments in films when no people are present and no action takes place - just the backdrop and eerie incidental sounds remain. The tone is one of anticipation, suspense and dread and the viewer loses their grip on quotidian anchors. Using the manufactured image as a metaphor for our experience in Capitalist Realism, Takens-Milne isolates moments that appear unaffected by the conceptual framework of the film, on a quest for glimpses of the Real.
"Why Are You Silent, Peter?" by Fedor Shade
"Best Short Film"
Peter ties a 15-kilogram kettlebell to his head and dives into the tub. His girlfriend and flatmate do not understand what is happening, and Peter himself does not say anything.
"SAVE SKIN SAVE LIFE" by Dinesh Shukla
"Best Short Film"
Cancer is not one disease but many more types with different conditions each with its own name and treatment. Skin cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the skin.
Every year about 16000 people have diagnosed with Melanoma a dangerous form of skin cancer in Australia.
Around 2000 people in Australia die from skin cancer each year.
SKIN CHECK CHAMPION The charity group from Sydney, Australia raises awareness for and access to early detection services for communities most at risk of skin cancer.
They delivered a few thousand free skin checks since 2013. During National Skin Cancer Action Week [ 20 to 26 November 2022] in Australia, Skin Check Champions organized free skin check camp at Bondi beach Sydney. Scott Maggs CEO of Skin Check Champions teamed up with American artist photographer Spencer Tunick who is famous for photographing people in the nude in different parts of the world. They organize the STRIP OFF for SKIN CANCER events for awareness and fundraising at Bondi Beach Sydney.This film is made only to creat awareness of Skin cancer.
"TU SAIS QUEL JOUR ON EST AUJOURD'HUI ?" by Myriam Tangi
"Best Short Film"
Marguerite and her sisters Ida, Dora and Paulette, were children hidden during the war, their parents deported to Auschwitz, their mother Chana was murdered there. With their daily, intimate and painful words, we follow their hesitations to find the words to say the permanent emptiness, the disappearance of their mother remaining enigmatic. The film, an oratorio in four voices, tells the story of simple people touched by the destructive rays of history.
"The Power of Choice" by Anton Algrang
"Best Short Film"
Bettina Mumm from Wiesbaden is one of the few remaining contemporary witnesses. She reflects on her childhood in the mid-1930s. The Nazis seize power and nothing is the way it used to be. The radical new attitudes put friendships to the test. Pastor Franz von Bernus, as well as many young parishioners of the Bergkirche put up resistance and took a clear stand, each in his own way. They
turn to the "Confessing Church" and fight for humanity and freedom. They are faced with the burning question: Is this God's will what is happening out there?
"Once means forever" by Katarzyna Bińko
"Best Short Film"
"Once means forever" is short animated film, which shows us, without delusion, story of young women. Girl who could be any other women. Looking by her's eyes, we will be troubled by her one day. The day which will change her life forever.
"MONTERANO'S TALES" by Marika Vannuzzi
"Best Short Film"
a dialogue, sometimes conflicting, between living and colorful bodies, and dead, gray stone. there's no winner.... diffent stories, short and intense meeting
"Tap" by Tristan Corrigan
"Best Short Film"
After his mother’s untimely death, Oliver and his father try to live their lives as best they can. When Dad gets Oliver a used car for his birthday, cleaning out the garage leads to the discovery of something sinister his Mom left behind.
"Transcendent" by Janelle Christa
"Best Short Film"
In the serene realm of a mystical planet, RoRo, an elemental being, thrives in harmonious unity with others and the natural world. But one fateful day, RoRo's closest friend, LoLo, introduces him to an enigmatic concept: "Earth" – a place where existence is entwined with darkness, pain, and profound suffering.
Enveloped in a cosmic elixir bearing an uncanny resemblance to LSD, RoRo embarks on a journey into the human realm. He traverses the spectrum of human experience from birth to an untimely end, each encounter unveiling increasingly somber and disquieting realities. Ultimately, RoRo finds himself adrift in a desolate void, engulfed by a profound sense of isolation and separation.
"The Corner Store" by Alexander Leonidovich Onufriev
"Best Short Film"
A small convenience store on the outskirts of the city. Luba has been working here as a clerk for years. For her all days are the same. Life is dull and uninteresting, but today she will get a visit from one special customer - a little girl with a very big dilemma.
"August" by Eli McGowan
"Best Short Film"
Henry is shocked by the appearance of German P.O.W.s in his rural farming community, and makes a decision that will impact his family for a generation.
"Meet Cute" by Shawn Patrick Tilling
"Best Short Film"
Inspired by the silent films of the 1920s, Meet Cute tells the story of a fateful day between two people waiting for the bus.
"REVERSE" by Christophe Lenoir
"Best Short Film"
With the help of her alters, an ex-spy with dissociative identity disorder hatches a plan to get revenge on the one-eyed, the man who tried to kill her.
Morgane has many characters who live inside her, and with their help she develops a plan to track down her target: a one-eyed double agent. As each day their identity is alternated, the alters use a Dictaphone to record their days and share the information of their daily investigations. But along the way they are betrayed by one of their own, Louise, who joins forces with two thugs to be freed from this life under control, who agree to help her in exchange for a fortune. The two men manipulate the identities, pretending to be the man they are looking for -the one-eyed. But soon the trap closes on them, and they become the victims of the obsession of this woman with many faces.
"BELIEVE" by Edward Monge
"Best Short Film"
A young man who has been through difficult times in life since he was a kid. Years later he loses his job, after searching for an open position al over his city in New Jersey, he finds himself at a Christian book store. Wanting to buy a book called "The Prayer Of Jabez" but he didn't have enough money.
Somehow he runs into a stranger older man, who through a simple game bring back his sense of hope and faith.
"The Messenger * Hermes Remembers" by Algis Kemezys
"Best Short Film"
Hermes, the most human-like of all the Olympian gods, is now old. On this day he remembers himself as a younger transgendered man, irrepressible but needy of his father Zeus and his aunt Aphrodite. He roams the world, on a quest for love and self-validation. He misbehaves it's true, but this is not a cautionary tale, he is after all a god and can do as he pleases.
Remembering Hermes is also a 4th dimensional being so he views time via eternal recurrence.
You see, TIME is circular and in layers for a 4th dimensional being. Memories are also seen both clear or hazy depending on their importance.
"Every'nparty...Nalivadi?!?" by Mr. Nalivadi
"Best Short Film"
A call, a hat, and a strange man. The party was cool...but the hardware?
"Full Moon" by John Vo, Ken Yoffe, Ellen Weisberg
"Best Short Film"
Full Moon tells a story about a little girl and her big sister celebrating Halloween. The little girl wonders about the man who she believes lives on the moon, who she also believes might need her help. Her big sister helps the little girl carry out her well-intentioned deed.
"paths" by Olof Thiel
"Best Short Film"
A dreamscape with three scenarios in the form of a visual Haiku poem depicting an evolution of escalating events projected onto nature...
"Dixon Mason - The Scent of The Woman" by Rey Janjua
"Best Short Film"
On a stormy night in Sun Down City, legendary detective Dixon Mason chases the stalker of famed actress Rita Munroe. The mysterious being know as Shadow Grin may be his most deadly adversary yet.
"The Strategists" by Fabricio Centorbi
"Best Short Film"
A cornered woman who suffers domestic violence, will unknowingly devise a strategy together with a blind announcer and her operator, to protect herself, unleashing an unexpected ending.
"Can you hurry" by Igor Lewicki
"Best Short Film"
This is the story of Mia, a woman in her thirties about to commit an act of suicide by jumping off a roof in Chicago. She hesitates for a moment when she hears the voice of a man (Thomas) who asks her: "can you hurry?"
"Dark Room" by Rogelio Robles
"Best Short Film"
After losing everything, a man slowly and painfully loses his mind right before your eyes. Becoming the serial killer he was destined to be.
"The Reporter from Chattanooga with Love" by Peter Boiadzhieff
"Best Short Film"
The Reporter is delivering the news about inspiring speaker at the secret club control by Rob the founder of The Secret Project 53!
"Naked to the Night" by Henry Myers, Matthew Toffolo
"Best Short Film"
After serving 15 years for a murder he did not commit. a one-time infamous after-hours club operator fights to find a way to reclaim his life and avoid returning to the life he left behind.
"FRIED" by Richard Goss, Jessica Crooks
"Best Short Film"
A psychotic call-centre worker and a depressed waiter struggle with minimum wage life in London, delving deeper into their alcohol and drug-fuelled violent fantasies, blurring the lines between reality and madness.
"Vilomah" by Katerina Cecilova
"Best Short Film"
A grieving mother remembers her daughter’s birthday. Living in the past, she goes through the day as if her beloved daughter and husband were still with her.
"Helezon Değişken" by Cihan Abdal
"Best Short Film"
Helezon - Değişken ( Spiral - Shifting ) is the second installment of a four episode short film. Its thesis is " The warmth you seek in nature is within yourself". The element of the film is "fire", and the prominent colour is red.

Helezon Değişken tells the story of two rebels who struggle with cold, a bear and enemy soldiers. During the film, the emotions and behaviours of the characters change in accordance with the shifting nature of fire.
"Gabrielle" by Aygul Abizgildina
"Best Short Film"
The recurring idea is to show women’s development, which divided into four stages.
The first trailer shows a childhood of a girl. There are only round forms, which shows simplicity. The feather is the center of the idea about Gabriell’s childhood. She have met a death when she was too little. Moreover, this emotions start to affect her brain and all her inner world.
The second trailer is about the next stage of a Gabriell’s life. It is an adulthood. The scenes shows both forms: sharp and round. There is also a complexity and a chaos in a grown up mind of a girl. She found herself as a mortician. The job helps to her to forget about the past and her mental problems.
The third trailer is when Gabriell found herself. The lines are sharp which represents independence and clarity about her life.
"Bitter Brownies" by James Carman
"Best Short Film"
In this dark comedy, a devious thief pilfers lunches from the company refrigerator. Staff employees are out for blood. Where will the food bandit strike next?!!!
"ABULIVIA" by Michele Pinto
"Best Short Film"
Abulivia is a neologism that means "away from the olive trees".
Since Italy was unified, things have not been very good for the south of the nation.
It has been plundered of all its wealth and has gradually become the poorest area of the country.
So for about 160 years many people have been seeking fortune in the rich north of Italy where they are sometimes exploited, but abandoning their beautiful homeland.
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Short Film"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
"Clean Slate" by Johanne Kristine Udnes Hansen
"Best Short Film"
A rumor about a substitute teacher is spreading among the children at a primary school.
"Bat Diary" by Silvano Plank
"Best Short Film"
In the parallel universe, men are on the verge of extinction! In their curiosity and in their longings, they take a mysterious drug that will be their undoing....
"Death in a digital sense" by Thomas Hogge
"Best Short Film"
Memories of a lost loved one in the post-internet age. Images flash before us and we are given their online context in the effort of creating a story through WhatsApp chats, which aren't too dissimilar from dreams it seems. Grief is one of life's great hardships, but does our hyperreal world help us or make it worse when dealing with someone close to us dying?
"Fish don't sleep" by Ricardo Emmanuel Hernández
"Best Short Film"
Arturo, a lonely young man, is determined to never sleep again. Three things keep him awake: the recent death of his mother, the end of his relationship, and the creature that haunts him.
"The Birthmark" by Xiaoxiao Chen, Haiyue Li, Zixuan Qi
"Best Short Film"
A mother stumbled upon a girl's purplish birthmark on her left cheek. It reminded her of the infant she had abandoned in Lost and Found seventeen years ago. The girl had a birthmark so similar to her own child. The mother thought it was a gift of fate to have her abandoned daughter reappear in her life. She decided to cherish it and from then on, decided to give the girl a gift every year on her birthday as an atonement. However, in the girl's mind, these presents were just items lost by strangers. It was not until the girl's seventeenth birthday that her mother happened to see the girl put the ukulele she had given her into the Lost and Found. However, the mother did not know that seventeen years earlier, the baby with a purplish birthmark on her left cheek had died in cold swaddling clothes six days after being abandoned ......
"MIRTILLO - numerus I" by Desiderio Sanzi
"Best Short Film"
1346. The Black Death has arrived in Europe. Andruccio is fleeing his village Coccorone (Italy) in search of salvation. Among the woods and paths he meets a rather singular character who will accompany him to Triora, the 'village of witches', to find the cure.
A metaphysical journey that will lead the protagonist to live a unique experience between dream and reality where death will become his travelling companion.
"Brownies" by Joshua Basili
"Best Short Film"
Actor/Comedian J just wants one day to relax and bake some Brownies but his annoying neighbors keep bothering him all day.
"303.77" by Thuy Vu
"Best Short Film"
A young private is called in with his unit to cross a river for reinforcement in a battle, where they know and about to predict their deaths, as almost all of their comrades from the other troops who have crossed the river to aid in the battle the other nights, never come back.

Phan Co Gang - a first class private of Unit 303, a brave soldier who seems to stay as a cold-blood and a weirdo in his peer's eyes as he always keeps himself out of circle. When Captain Trung rushes to call out a command unexpectedly that all of them is called in for reinforcement in Quang Tri Citadel battle in urgent as they lose far many men, leaving them only 15 minutes to get ready and move. Gang and his squad all know that they may face their deaths as for the past nights, everyday there would be a big troop with hundreds of soldier being called in to cross Thach Han river to aid in the battle in Citadel. Unfortunately, almost none of them would come back.
"The cleaner" by Damien Douchez
"Best Short Film"
Cendra must erase the traces of a crime. Will she find the man for the job?
"Counterpart" by Ethan Grover
"Best Short Film"
A composer facing writer's block finds inspiration through an otherworldly counterpart.
"Maimulu" by Andrea Vacca
"Best Short Film"
Maimulu, a young Nuragic warrior, has a nightmare, a terrifying vision. Danger is coming from the sea. As soon as he wakes up he sees the fire signals, the alarm raised by his people. He must leave his wife and son and begin his silent journey; an arduous journey but also a spiritual one.
"Existere" by Héctor Calvillo Hernández
"Best Short Film"
Brief-Horacio, a lonely young man, cornered between his routine and disturbing dreams, stops and isolates, revealing a vital message.
Long- Horacio is a lonely young man trapped between a repetitive routine and his allegorical dreams that do not let him rest. In these circumstances, he makes the decision not to continue with his routine. But through this act his observation of common things reveal a profound message of vitality.
"OFF SESSIONS" by Omar Sandoval
"Best Short Film"
Arthur, a young man in his twenties who has been struggling with nightmares all his life, has finally got the chance to see April, a recently hired regression psychologist therapist, to try and help him and look into what is going on inside his mind. After a couple of visits, April feels that Arthur is finally ready to go through regression therapy to help him see what is happening inside his consciousness or past lives that could be affecting him.
"ZAUBERWEGE - On the path to music" by Francesca Canali
"Best Short Film"
Salzburg, the city of Mozart, of music and of musicians: who are they, what do they do and why? what is music to them? what is behind the beauty and the emotions of their concerts? Where and how does the path to becoming a musician begin?

The documentary film Zauberwege (Magical Paths) follows the young flutists of a music school in Austria and their teacher, the Italian musician Francesca Canali, who lives in Salzburg, through various everyday life situations (lessons, preparation for concerts and exams, concerts), giving voice through their interviews to the thoughts, feelings, emotions that accompany their paths (Wege) of life and musical development.
Official Selections List
Best Feature Film
"Trust Me" by Leonard Martin
"Best Feature Film"
A crazy couple,Noel and Maria,in their forties,lose a baby in a late miscarriage and soon after ,a younger professional couple,Sarah and Rob,move into the apartment below them expecting a baby. Noel and Maria plan to be friends with them and gain their trust, and steal the baby when it’s born.
"ULTIMATE DESTINATIONS ( DESTINATIONS FINALS)" by Bruno Tarallo
"Best Feature Film"
Seven women, each on their own, lose their way in a forest in the Abruzzo Apennines, arriving at an ancient farmhouse that appears to be uninhabited. After managing to enter it through a maze of rooms, they encounter three enigmatic women dressed in black who invite them to a table already set for seven, with an eighth place empty. Frightened and angry, they try to escape, discovering, however, that whatever route they take will always lead them back to the cottage. A "strange woman " will appear to occupy that empty eighth place, who apparently will not let them leave until each of them has made a kind of public catharsis of their most secret vices that seem to correspond to the "seven deadly sins."
"The Life Of A Snowflake" by Kazım Öz
"Best Feature Film"
During the last days of autumn, snow falls like never before in Trabzon and the roads are blocked. Miase and Adar, who attend the same school but have never met before, meet that day at a bus station, while they are waiting for the bus which is late. They fall in love at first sight. Miase, who is the daughter of a Turkish family from Trabzon and Adar, who is the son of a Kurdish family from Hakkari skip classes, they meet up everyday, walk for hours and they live a romantic love story for thirty-one days. On the night of New Year’s Eve, Adar disappears.
Miase hits the road and heads to Dersim in order to find Adar. This movie tells the story of Miase looking for her lover in Dersim for a week, of her fluctuating emotions, and of her gloomy and broken love story, which we witness beneath the snow.
"Voiceless" by Jonathan Placide
"Best Feature Film"
Lola is a young influencer who wants to shoot a video in one of the most famous haunted houses in France, for Halloween: The House of Sin. But the night she is going to spend there might be fatal for her...
"Think Back Movie" by Bumba Ibrahim
"Best Feature Film"
Prince Zoe returns from the United States of America after many years of studies and launches a crusade against foreign exploitation and Africa corruption.
"Water Thrust " by Vincent Kojo Krah
"Best Feature Film"
An Ancient South Saharan Africa Mbanti warriors tribe had to migrate due to severe drought that affected their village. They had to face strenuous conditions to avert extinction while in search for a fertile land to dwell.
"IMPENDING CATASTROPHE" by Yoram Marcus
"Best Feature Film"
What was the mysterious event at the villa? Then the consequences?
A genius researcher - The millionaire Dr. Gerry Frank, divorced, no children - informs his guests at his villa that he has created here, in his laboratory, by genetic engineering, a universal vaccine against all human pathogenic viruses. The virus that biologically engineered and used becomes - later - lethal, threatens to destroy the human race, and Dr. Gerry Frank infected with it is doomed to die. Live on Facebook, from the villa's yard, He reveals all this asks for forgiveness from everyone he hurt, and announces that he will set the house on fire while inside so that the lethal virus will be eliminated and will not spread to the world.
A woman he had an affair with, Julie Dar, calls him from the beach after watching the live broadcast, informs him that she just now got divorce, like him, and urges him not to kill himself: not to give up on their shared future together.
"MUJINA Pass" by Hiroshi Toda
"Best Feature Film"
In the early Edo period, when the Warring States period was over, the monk "Enshin" visited a village.
Genta, the son of a poor farmer in the village, hates peasants and works hard to become a samurai, but gradually becomes isolated from the villagers.
Genta's family visits Enshin and tries to get advice ...
"TRUE COLORS" by Charles Dekker
"Best Feature Film"
As the victim of a hit & run accident, a man has lost faith in humanity, until 30 years later, he falls in love with a woman who carries a dark secret.
"Butterscotch Chocolate" by Dap Paxton
"Best Feature Film"
Roni is a beautiful and classy hot shot lawyer who seems to have it all together. However, her constant battle with a mental illness and sexual addiction causes her career and life to be altered in a way she never imagined.
Official Selections List
Best Director
"The Mountain" by Fedor Shade
"Best Director"
Tired of the noise of the city, a girl starts a journey to find silence.
"MASCHA" by Muriel Brunier
"Best Director"
A young Russian skateboarder falls in love with a Ukrainian dancer in the streets of Paris
"MUJINA Pass" by Hiroshi Toda
"Best Director"
In the early Edo period, when the Warring States period was over, the monk "Enshin" visited a village.
Genta, the son of a poor farmer in the village, hates peasants and works hard to become a samurai, but gradually becomes isolated from the villagers.
Genta's family visits Enshin and tries to get advice ...
"BELIEVE" by Edward Monge
"Best Director"
A young man who has been through difficult times in life since he was a kid. Years later he loses his job, after searching for an open position al over his city in New Jersey, he finds himself at a Christian book store. Wanting to buy a book called "The Prayer Of Jabez" but he didn't have enough money.
Somehow he runs into a stranger older man, who through a simple game bring back his sense of hope and faith.
"REVERSE" by Christophe Lenoir
"Best Director"
With the help of her alters, an ex-spy with dissociative identity disorder hatches a plan to get revenge on the one-eyed, the man who tried to kill her.
Morgane has many characters who live inside her, and with their help she develops a plan to track down her target: a one-eyed double agent. As each day their identity is alternated, the alters use a Dictaphone to record their days and share the information of their daily investigations. But along the way they are betrayed by one of their own, Louise, who joins forces with two thugs to be freed from this life under control, who agree to help her in exchange for a fortune. The two men manipulate the identities, pretending to be the man they are looking for -the one-eyed. But soon the trap closes on them, and they become the victims of the obsession of this woman with many faces.
"Can you hurry" by Igor Lewicki
"Best Director"
This is the story of Mia, a woman in her thirties about to commit an act of suicide by jumping off a roof in Chicago. She hesitates for a moment when she hears the voice of a man (Thomas) who asks her: "can you hurry?"
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Director"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
"Bon In Dolpo" by Andrea Heckman
"Best Director"
Ancient Zhang Zhung Kingdom in remote Dolpo, Nepal where Tibetan Bön practices have persisted for centuries in an unbroken lineage.
"Bi The Way" by Prerna Saraff Chauhan
"Best Director"
"Bi The Way" follows a young woman's daunting task of coming out to her father. Despite summoning the courage for a difficult conversation, her father's confusion and prejudices threaten to strain their relationship. Will he come to accept her for who she truly is? Find out by watching the film!
Official Selections List
Best Editing
"13 Driver's Licenses" by Ryoya Terao
"Best Editing"
he discovery of 13 confiscated driver’s licenses from 1938 leads a small German town to face its horrendous and regrettable past. With no other clue but those licenses, a group of high–school students with their tenacious teacher research the fates of the town's former Jewish citizens. A year later, an unexpected turn takes place. The modern-day Germans and some of the Jewish descendants from overseas gather in “their hometown,” and a fortuitous friendship begins.
"TRUE COLORS" by Charles Dekker
"Best Editing"
As the victim of a hit & run accident, a man has lost faith in humanity, until 30 years later, he falls in love with a woman who carries a dark secret.
"FRIED" by Richard Goss, Jessica Crooks
"Best Editing"
A psychotic call-centre worker and a depressed waiter struggle with minimum wage life in London, delving deeper into their alcohol and drug-fuelled violent fantasies, blurring the lines between reality and madness.
"Benmentor" by Onur Akın
"Best Editing"
"Benmentor" tells the story of transformation in the life of Ben, a man dissatisfied with his life and plagued by depression. Ben, unhappy due to the difficulties and wrong choices in his life, encounters a mysterious and wise figure named Mentor one day. Mentor teaches Ben to make healthier and more positive choices in his life, which dramatically improves Ben's quality of life. However, a confrontation with Ben's sister reveals that Mentor is, in fact, a character created in Ben's imagination.
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Editing"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
Official Selections List
Best Actor
"BELIEVE" by Edward Monge
"Best Actor"
A young man who has been through difficult times in life since he was a kid. Years later he loses his job, after searching for an open position al over his city in New Jersey, he finds himself at a Christian book store. Wanting to buy a book called "The Prayer Of Jabez" but he didn't have enough money.
Somehow he runs into a stranger older man, who through a simple game bring back his sense of hope and faith.
"Can you hurry" by Igor Lewicki
"Best Actor"
This is the story of Mia, a woman in her thirties about to commit an act of suicide by jumping off a roof in Chicago. She hesitates for a moment when she hears the voice of a man (Thomas) who asks her: "can you hurry?"
"Brownies" by Joshua Basili
"Best Actor"
Actor/Comedian J just wants one day to relax and bake some Brownies but his annoying neighbors keep bothering him all day.
"DEDUCTION" by Patrick Fawcett
"Best Actor"
In a dystopian world where the government aims to rid the streets of the undesirable and bad, we meet Jason as he gets home from work, only to be confronted by a clone of himself in his kitchen. The clone has only one mission: to deduct Jason and replace him in society.
"Bi The Way" by Prerna Saraff Chauhan
"Best Actor"
"Bi The Way" follows a young woman's daunting task of coming out to her father. Despite summoning the courage for a difficult conversation, her father's confusion and prejudices threaten to strain their relationship. Will he come to accept her for who she truly is? Find out by watching the film!
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Actor"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
Official Selections List
Best Actress
"Ofelia" by Fabiola Stevenson
"Best Actress"
A love story between 2 older people. She realizes that only the taste of a special wine can bring lucidity to her husband, who is suffering from Alzheimer. But the bottle is almost empty…
"The Last Knight" by Olexander Onufriev
"Best Actress"
Vasily is a classic example of a man living under his wife’s thumb. His bossy, grumpy wife is nagging at him from morning till night for no apparent reason. Poor guy has accepted his fate, however, today, on the way to a birthday party, he gets a chance to find out, what it feels like to be a real man, a knight of sorts, and to do something heroic.
"REVERSE" by Christophe Lenoir
"Best Actress"
With the help of her alters, an ex-spy with dissociative identity disorder hatches a plan to get revenge on the one-eyed, the man who tried to kill her.
Morgane has many characters who live inside her, and with their help she develops a plan to track down her target: a one-eyed double agent. As each day their identity is alternated, the alters use a Dictaphone to record their days and share the information of their daily investigations. But along the way they are betrayed by one of their own, Louise, who joins forces with two thugs to be freed from this life under control, who agree to help her in exchange for a fortune. The two men manipulate the identities, pretending to be the man they are looking for -the one-eyed. But soon the trap closes on them, and they become the victims of the obsession of this woman with many faces.
"Burn It" by Steven Fairman
"Best Actress"
n post apocalyptic Europe, two millennial witches document their end of days and a quest for an awakening through drugs, the occult and 2 iPhones.

At the precipice of the end of the world, they lie in the sun, burying their mental health issues in drugs and wine while striving to take their consciousnesses to a higher plane (and film it all for his memoire). On the night that they run out of antidepressants, they go to the beach and experience a new intangible energy with them. One of them is fascinated, ready for a new experience, bored of the apocalypse, but the other is terrified of this dark force, which follows them home from the beach.
Unexplainable things start to occur as their depression spirals, telekinesis, pyrokinesis and a massacre of their only food source.
In a last desperate attempt to rid the house of the evil energy, they perform one last ritual...
"Can you hurry" by Igor Lewicki
"Best Actress"
This is the story of Mia, a woman in her thirties about to commit an act of suicide by jumping off a roof in Chicago. She hesitates for a moment when she hears the voice of a man (Thomas) who asks her: "can you hurry?"
"TRUE COLORS" by Charles Dekker
"Best Actress"
As the victim of a hit & run accident, a man has lost faith in humanity, until 30 years later, he falls in love with a woman who carries a dark secret.
"Desire Untamed" by Jonathan Daniel Williams, Qituwra Anderson
"Best Actress"
A successful writer risks her life and career after accepting a proposition to seduce her client's husband in exchange for a kidney to save her dying mother.
Official Selections List
Best Supporting Actor
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Supporting Actor"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
Official Selections List
Best Supporting Actress
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Supporting Actress"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
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Best  Original Screenplay
"Yetis" by Ștefan Marcu
"Best Original Screenplay"
Love & Monsters meets A Quiet Place, in which a group of millennials converging on a secluded research lab during a FOMO-inspired live social network event unwittingly release a few dozen legendary Yeti creatures that then terrorize a mountain town in the Sierra Nevada.
"Holiday Help" by Karl Ryan Erikson
"Best Original Screenplay"
A soon to be dad, begrudgingly and secretly, begins working a retail job during the holiday season ,while fending off devious coworkers, intruding in-laws, and the surmounting cost of the holidays.
"The Volunteer" by Robert Allen Nelson, Jason Morwick
"Best Original Screenplay"
In an effort to track down the Nazi Lieutenant who murdered his parents during the aftermath of WW2, a German orphan enlists in the infamous French Foreign Legion and finds himself thrown into a deadly conflict in Southeast Asia.
"The Bobbsey Twins Go to Hell" by Gil Luna
"Best Original Screenplay"
To break a family curse, descendants from the present-day attempt to escape hell with their dead relatives from the 1930s and 1980s by saving them from their discriminatory ways when Lucifer traps them in the underworld.
"Henry's Stare" by A.M. Vasquez
"Best Original Screenplay"
After her stalker goes missing and is presumed dead, Violet McBride's dreams suggest that he may still be alive, threatening to shatter her newfound peace.
"Camden Street Station" by Dennis Lee Snider
"Best Original Screenplay"
Washington DC is threatened by attack, conspirators plot assassination of a newly elected president, and deep animosity divides the population. The defense of the Capitol and the preservation of the nation's democratic heritage hang in the balance.
"Revelation2" by Jonah Jones
"Best Original Screenplay"
Although they have had since the time of the dinosaurs to prepare for it, the Day of Judgement has become the Month of Judgement.. The angels and demons trying to administer the separation of souls are so far behind schedule that even the executive classes of Heaven and Hell are being brought in to cover up the chaos.
One particular foul up, amongst so many, involves the placing of God's mark upon two humans - Jake and Sarah, who are apparently destined to be set on His right hand, whereas Harry and Mary are for the left, if not the other place. A herald cherub, Tweetiel, who has been given the task of delivering God's favour to Jake and Sarah, collides with a purging demon, Azimodes, over the Ecuadorian jungle and the wrong pair (Harry and Mary) is carried off by a demon clean-up squadron. This apparently simple error begins to snowball as the angels try to cover it up, simply to maintain the good names of their various departments.
As Azimodes and his colleagues try to get Sarah and Jake to the judging grounds, the hosts of Heaven start throwing everything they have at them, including the MRW (mighty rushing wind, to you). Mid-air dog-fights between angels and demons abound as does the introduction of the beasts from Revelation - the book, remember? Things are also getting sticky amongst the upper echelons of Heaven and Hell as the various departments and factions dance the dance of blame and blame avoidance. The higher up you go, the dirtier the dealing seems to get. Angelic Civil Service officers begin behaving in an increasingly demonic manner as the stakes are raised. Tweetiel, the less than innocent cherub, is meanwhile convincing Harry and Mary that if they play ball, they will get to Heaven, sending their colleagues to the other place. Having achieved his goal, he is dismayed to discover that his superiors have done the dirty on him and dropped him into that which "is downright unmentionable in these parts, my dear Tweetiel".
"CornStalkers" by Michael L Bayouth
"Best Original Screenplay"
Jessica McDuffie’s world is upended when she learns she’s adopted and that her real father was just seventeen years old when he died. He was murdered by a dark arts practitioner named Tarantula, the leader of a notorious hot rod car club. With only a tattered album of photos, she follows leads to an abandoned corn maze but accidentally awakens a deadly paranormal energy in the doing. This haunted corn maze is where her newly-acquired grandfather, as payback, mysteriously drove Tarantula and her entire possie to their graves so many years ago on Halloween night! A perilous clearing ritual will have to be executed or this high-octane horror will continue to penetrate her and her friends’ lives, offing them one by one.
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Original Screenplay"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
"Shoulder Dreaming" by Stephen John Karnaghan
"Best Original Screenplay"
Barry has looked after his aged father who cannot do anything for himself. When his father falls, he is taken to a Nursing Home because of his injuries. There Barry meets Jennifer whose father has also fallen and admitted to the same room as Barry’s father.
Although attracted to each other Barry and Jennifer have a responsibility to their fathers. Barry is an artist and when Jennifer sees his work, she is shocked. Jennifer has a gallery and knows that she can sell Barry’s painting.
Jennifer’s best friend Lisa reminds Jennifer that she promised her that once free of her father for a while they would go on holiday together. Barry is devastated when Jennifer goes to Paris for a holiday. When depressed Barry paints and does so until he collapses from lack of food and exhaustion.
While in Paris Jennifer realizes that she is in love with Barry. When checking on her father she is told that Barry has not been to the Nursing Home for a few days. She rushes back to find Barry collapsed on his living room floor. She saves his life and they are joined as a couple.
"The Monster in Mummy" by Steve Sloan, Donia Youssef
"Best Original Screenplay"
Success means everything to Donia; to be fair, she’s one of life’s winners. A doting mother to two young girls, happily married and, through graft and guile, she’s the owner of a thriving Agency.
Then she gets the call, the news no one ever wants. She’s terminal.
Donia goes into a tailspin; what about the business she’s worked so hard to build up? What about her husband? How will he cope?
And her children… her young, innocent children.
Monster in Mummy follows Donia’s courageous story as she deals with her world crumbling around her whilst she remains steadfast in being the ‘strong woman.’
As those around her she thought she could rely on start to drift away, she meets Chrissy, a young woman cursed with a similar fate. Their bond and wildly different coping strategies enable Donia to make sense of the car crash her life has spiralled into.
With the bonds of love and friendship urging her along, she confronts her biggest fear… how does she tell her children she’s not going to be there for them? She won’t see them graduate, get married, or have their own children. And then the worst thing possible happens…
But, from despair comes hope, and sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t always on your final journey.
"The Case of the Notorious Roboticist" by David Hearne
"Best Original Screenplay"
Set in a future where matriarchy has toppled patriarchy, Moroz is a flawed, old-fashioned gumshoe fighting for equality in a society where human-form androids are the norm.

Notorious roboticist and artificial intelligence whiz Isadora is h inis greatest adversary yet his only hope to restore justice between the sexes. Yet her own plans are to keep men under her thumb.
"The Scarecrow" by Iam Typn
"Best Original Screenplay"
When British oppression threatens the freedom of Colonial America, an emancipated English doctor -- with everything to lose -- dons the mask of The Scarecrow and uses its dark, supernatural powers to defy The Crown's occupational forces. But the Hessian assassin hunting him has ideas of his own - to discover who he is and hang him for treason.
"If It Ain't Broke..." by Doug Ellerbusch
"Best Original Screenplay"
Lily Kamura was a golf prodigy who won pro tournaments as an amateur and reached world number one on the LPGA. But with the fame came more attention, more responsibilities, a team of people, and a new club deal, all of which contributed to Lily dropping out from number one and all the way down to 50th in the world.

After Lily's umpteenth caddy quits, her father enlists the aid of Terry Osterling, his former college roommate and a golf prodigy himself who fell off the world after his former girlfriend, now Lily's mother, left him.

Terry's loosey-goosey, out-there approach to the game (sizing down her golf bag, not using a yardage book, and slipping Lily's old clubs back in the rotation) definitely rubs Lily the wrong way, but his abrasive style gets results, so the pair form a reluctant alliance in order to get Lily back on top, each teaching the other a few things about life and golf along the way.
"Down Memory Lane." by Nada Serhan
"Best Original Screenplay"
In the near future where social classes have been redefined, procreation is limited to the upper class, and AI replacing the third class, third class citizens with good behaviour are offered a
merciful killing before their 41st birthday in which they have the opportunity to watch their memories before their consciousness is uploaded onto Pleasant Dimension. Yasmeen, a Palestinian refugee coder, who is turning 41 and as a well behaved citizen third class citizen , is given a session to watch her memories before her merciful killing . While watching her memories, she begins to notice something is weird about her memories. The details are not adding up. In a light slumber and watching her memories form, she decides to figure out why.
"Sushi Loves Sake" by Nelson Beltran
"Best Original Screenplay"
Romantic Comedy Coming of Age Drama of 2 Comedy Actors and Screenwriters who run an Improvisational theatre troupe on Community TV inside the dying Michigan Film Industry and fall in love. They begin to rebuild their lives from Divorce amidst Suicide, Drug Addiction And write a sold screenplay in New Hollywood together.
"New Blood" by Joshua T Scafidi
"Best Original Screenplay"
Something strange is happening in the small town of Harmony. Dana Daniels, who lives at home with her father, and little brother, can't wait to leave for college. That is, until her father and little brother are held captive by the ancient, and powerful vampire living next door. Now, its up to Dana and her two best friends to save them, or die trying. This time, evil messed with the wrong girl.
"Aar Paar" by Saleem Dad
"Best Original Screenplay"
Once a successful tech entrepreneur, now a convicted cyber criminal, the fearless woman was determined to prove her innocence. She had been fighting a losing battle against the powerful cybercrime mafia that had framed her. To make matters worse, her paranoid husband and the ruthless legal system around her made her journey more arduous.
"About Gabriel" by Janna Jones
"Best Original Screenplay"
After a Fed Ex truck drops the archangel Gabriel at her house, a smart, popular high school senior confronts the realities of her dysfunctional family, finds the power of her voice, and falls in love.
"The cleaner" by Damien Douchez
"Best Original Screenplay"
Cendra must erase the traces of a crime. Will she find the man for the job?
"Prophet" by Daniel Corey
"Best Original Screenplay"
A gunslinging drifter braves a post-apocalyptic wasteland to save a young girl from a ruthless warlord.
"Italy, Newark (Nevarca) and me 1922-2022" by Daniel Patrick Basso Quinn
"Best Original Screenplay"
The story of my immigrant Grandfather from Italy which has won several Awards on Film Freeway as a script from 1883 to our time over 100 years. Awards/Certificates for "Newark, Italy and me" in print on (Lulu.com)
"Angel of Mercy" by Leslie Flannery
"Best Original Screenplay"
Inspired by Elvis, a girl exacts revenge on her father by plotting his demise as well as the cop assigned to manager her welfare case.
Official Selections List
Best Adapted Screenplay
"A Tale of Two Cities in 4 Episodes" by Michael O'Rourke
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years, is released to the custody of his daughter, Lucie Manette. On the ferry from Calais to Dover, the French emigrant Charles Darnay, a young man with secret ties to French aristocracy, befriends them. Set up to be tried for treason against the English Crown by his uncle, the Marquis St Evremonde of France, Darnay is pronounced innocent based on his remarkable likeness to Sydney Carton, his dissolute lawyer. In his fervor to face off with his uncle by renouncing the privileges and abuses of the class to which he was born, Darnay unwittingly springs a trap set by the vengeful Madame Defarge, a trap with grave consequences for himself and the Manettes.
"Mariposas" by Adrian Carey
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
Set in a universe of magical realism, a boastful father prattles on superficially about his daughter to another parent in the school pick up line, but is unable to perceive her when it matters most.
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Best Animation 
"Full Moon" by John Vo, Ken Yoffe, Ellen Weisberg
"Best Animation"
Full Moon tells a story about a little girl and her big sister celebrating Halloween. The little girl wonders about the man who she believes lives on the moon, who she also believes might need her help. Her big sister helps the little girl carry out her well-intentioned deed.
"Atmospheric Archetypes" by Fabian Peter Johnson
"Best Animation"
The transcendence of tragedy. A narrative represented through architecture with identities centralised on the five Aristotelian elemental archetypes of Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Aether
"A Beautiful Morning" by Lauren Hammersley
"Best Animation"
Two people tell the story of a family in the countryside enjoying their day and the nature around them.
"The Newsstand's Tale" by Minglu Du
"Best Animation"
If news is compared to a light, then people who need information provided by news are like moths flying towards a luminous light bulb. The newsstand elves are a group of magical creatures that live inside the newsstands, and are powered by the demand generated by people's consumption of paper media. With the decline of the paper industry and the collapse of the newsstands, the newsstand elves mourn their home while they see the moths leaved.
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Best Original Score
"The Sand Eating Shark" by Samuel Safa
"Best Original Score"
"TIGER (Silver Lotus)" by Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts
"Best Original Score"
The Tiger has incited a sense of both awe and admiration throughout history - the prowess, ferocity, beauty and a harmony of opposites comes to mind with this powerful animal totem. Full of life, Tiger embodies spirit, the drive to achieve and make progress. In Asian culture, Tigers are an animal of the Zodiac and are thought to control the wind. They are considered sacred, standing for courage and long life.
"13 Driver's Licenses" by Ryoya Terao
"Best Original Score"
he discovery of 13 confiscated driver’s licenses from 1938 leads a small German town to face its horrendous and regrettable past. With no other clue but those licenses, a group of high–school students with their tenacious teacher research the fates of the town's former Jewish citizens. A year later, an unexpected turn takes place. The modern-day Germans and some of the Jewish descendants from overseas gather in “their hometown,” and a fortuitous friendship begins.
"Room Available" by Frank van der Meijden
"Best Original Score"
A student wants to go for ghost hunting out of sensationalism, but after a fatal accident where his best friend dies, he is feeling so guilty that he cannot connect to his own girlfriend.
"Tiki Taane in session with CSO" by Tiki Taane
"Best Original Score"
Filmed in May 2021 to a sold out audience at the fully refurbished Christchurch Town Hall, Tiki Taane captures an emotional and explosive performance with - Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. Stunningly shot and superbly mixed, Tiki has raised the bar with what can be achieved when collaborating with a 50 piece orchestra. The genre bending, live looping performances makes for an extremely unique and original experience, solidifying Tiki as one of the most diverse artists from Aotearoa (New Zealand).
Official Selections List
Best Cinematography
"I'M HERE" by Vilma Kartalska
"Best Cinematography"
Zoya returns from shopping to her grandmother's house. There she comes across one of the most natural and sure parts of life, which, however, always catches us unprepared. How will she react? A story about one of the thousands possible encounters with HER, the outcome of which is always unique.
"Love In Vain" by Rudy Strukoff
"Best Cinematography"
A music video that tells the story of Robert Johnson's lament, LOVE IN VAIN. The film takes the viewer on a journey on old Route 66 from New Mexico, Arizona, Amboy California and Palm Springs as our hero chases his lost love (the woman in red) only to be rebuked. But, does he still have a chance? The viewer must decide...
"Ritmo" by Stacy Pascal Gaspard
"Best Cinematography"
Just as young love begins to blossom for a high-school boy, he is faced with an important decision: to live out his Abuela’s dream, or create his own.
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Cinematography"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
"August" by Eli McGowan
"Best Cinematography"
Henry is shocked by the appearance of German P.O.W.s in his rural farming community, and makes a decision that will impact his family for a generation.
"The Mountain" by Fedor Shade
"Best Cinematography"
Tired of the noise of the city, a girl starts a journey to find silence.
"Healer" by Conner Nikides
"Best Cinematography"
A man coming to terms with the violent act he just committed.
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Additional Categories
"Inside Outside." by Justin Yuanma Gao
"Best Student Film"
A cold-blooded killer sits proudly above her victim in a bare room. Though in her guise she comes across the mysterious power of her pen. Slowly, we start to witness the gripping claws of reality close-in on her as she experious mysterious phenomena outside the walls of her room; phenomena that might very well reflect the internal shouts of moral guilt.
"Sieira." by Claudia Romeu Dominguez
"Best Student Film"
Three girls go surfing and have very different experiences. Two of them get a bit too competitive, while the third decides to just enjoy the sea and the breeze.
"Logion 100 Episode 1 19.1.2023" by Gerhard Muff
"Best Short Documentary"
Homeless alcohol, nicotine and drug addicts live under the S-Bahn bridge at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin. On the way to my fitness center, I saw them sleeping and using drugs there.
"Once means forever" by Katarzyna Bińko
"Best Student Film"
"Once means forever" is short animated film, which shows us, without delusion, story of young women. Girl who could be any other women. Looking by her's eyes, we will be troubled by her one day. The day which will change her life forever.
"Noria, 35 000km from France to Laos in a Citroen 2CV" by Fabien Bastide, Coralie Vongsouthi
"Best Feature Documentary"
Noria is the story of a daring adventure carried-out by Coralie and Fabien who had the weird idea to drive "Rustine"*, their loyal vintage Citroen 2CV, all around the globe.
Get on board and let yourself be carried along the 18 countries they crossed to join Laos from France, with minimalist equipment for fully enjoying the adventure!

Small trips and great expeditions have always excited Coralie and Fabien. By all means, they love to travel the world: on foot (crossing Corsica; Southern France through National Parks; from Italy to Spain along Mediterranean coast), by 2CV car (35,000km from France to Laos; crossing of West Africa), hitching (Eastern Europe), by train (from Hanoï, Vietnam to Montpellier, France via -Vladivostok, Russia). Bref! whether for expatriation (2 years in India; 7 years in Laos; long stays in Africa) or for shorter excursions, their bags are always ready for a new departure.
"Haunting at the Old Mill" by Jeffrey Checker
"Best Feature Documentary"
Tragedy has struck people around the rushing waters at the Old Mill. Folks often wonder if they are seeing the ghosts of the dead walk through these halls.
"The One Who Runs Away Is the Ghost" by Qinyuan Lei
"Best Feature Documentary"
Sisters Haohao and Zhouzhou (five and eight) spend most of their time outside of school in the electronics market of Huaqiangbei, a market in Shenzhen once known for its counterfeit electronics products, now the center of electronics production in China. As new migrants to the city, their parents started a 10-square-meter shop on the 9th floor of the market a year ago. In the eyes of the two sisters, the world of electronics gradually opened up to them, and transformed into an imaginary world of dangerous creatures and ghost stories. The other children in the market are also spreading the word that a violent storm is coming.
"Plan Ahead - Chapter 2: Café à la Cat" by Maurice Tacke
"Best Producer"
In his second mission, hitman Stalte finds himself in the theater. There he has to deal with a flamboyant actress and her unmotivated co-worker, but his biggest problem is the question: where is his real victim?
"13 Driver's Licenses" by Ryoya Terao
"Best Short Documentary"
he discovery of 13 confiscated driver’s licenses from 1938 leads a small German town to face its horrendous and regrettable past. With no other clue but those licenses, a group of high–school students with their tenacious teacher research the fates of the town's former Jewish citizens. A year later, an unexpected turn takes place. The modern-day Germans and some of the Jewish descendants from overseas gather in “their hometown,” and a fortuitous friendship begins.
"La piedra en el camino" by Gabriela Nafissi
"Best Short Documentary"
The stone on the path is a documentary that involved the convergence of two proposals. Name the task of the third group of artists gathered to inquire about the feminine, taking as a trigger the question: What is a woman? within the framework of the Reencarnaciones artistic experimentation device and the Centro y Ausencia project directed by Gabriela Nafissi. It is, in addition to the meeting of sculptors called by Fernando Rosas, who together with Juan del Balso, Daniel Ciancio, Julio Melto, Flavia Robalo and Verónica Fonzo, (Argentine sculptors who live in Pietrasanta, Italy) using marble as a support, worked for nine days at Bodega Monteviejo, until the works.
"MONTERANO'S TALES" by Marika Vannuzzi
"Best Music Video"
a dialogue, sometimes conflicting, between living and colorful bodies, and dead, gray stone. there's no winner.... diffent stories, short and intense meeting
"Tap" by Tristan Corrigan
"Best Poster", "Best Makeup", "Best Composer"
Poster for the horror short film "TAP"

PLOT:
"After his mother's death, a haunted lamp is her only way to communicate with her son."
"All Stars" by Ella Bork
"Best Student Film"
Middle schools seems so easy for kids like Amelia while others like Katie feel they have to fight and cheat their way to the top or even just to the surface to be seen. But what happens when the two collide and both of their worlds come crumbling down? That's when you learn about true friendship. With support from your friends and belief in yourself, we can be All Stars.

I am 13 years old, and this is my second movie to write and film but the first to fully produce and submit to a festival. Everyone who worked on the film is in middle school except the music composer who is a college student and the editor who is a high school student. Even though we are middle schoolers, this was not a student project through school. My parents produced it, and this was a micro-budget production. Thank you very much for the opportunity.
"Last Night" by Zoe Cosette Anth
"Best Student Film"
A girl comes home after what appears to be a wild night- trying to piece together what happened she finds herself in a strange situation.
"Voiceless" by Jonathan Placide
"Best Director Debut", "Best Color Editing", "Best Costume Design", "Best Poster"
Lola is a young influencer who wants to shoot a video in one of the most famous haunted houses in France, for Halloween: The House of Sin. But the night she is going to spend there might be fatal for her...
"August" by Eli McGowan
"Best Student Film"
Henry is shocked by the appearance of German P.O.W.s in his rural farming community, and makes a decision that will impact his family for a generation.
"DEDUCTION" by Patrick Fawcett
"Best Student Film"
In a dystopian world where the government aims to rid the streets of the undesirable and bad, we meet Jason as he gets home from work, only to be confronted by a clone of himself in his kitchen. The clone has only one mission: to deduct Jason and replace him in society.
"Coupon Booklet" by Dávid Attila
"Best Experimental Film"
Denunciation, blackmail - the dark side of the world in a few minutes.
"Love In Vain" by Rudy Strukoff
"Best Music Video"
A music video that tells the story of Robert Johnson's lament, LOVE IN VAIN. The film takes the viewer on a journey on old Route 66 from New Mexico, Arizona, Amboy California and Palm Springs as our hero chases his lost love (the woman in red) only to be rebuked. But, does he still have a chance? The viewer must decide...
"Planetary Rebellion" by Fabrizio Fuochi
"Best Music Video", "Best Composer"
what is real? if you change your point of view, you might be surprised.
"Connie" by Ché Walker
"Best Feature Documentary"
A documentary exploring gender, class, race, sexuality through the life of one extraordinary woman, Connie.
"The Diver's Son" by Nick Sneath
"Best Feature Documentary"
A short film documenting the story of a man following in his father's footsteps. Sandy Rijgersberg shares some of the difficult events of his past and his quest to recover a lost keepsake.
"VIVIDREAM" by Matteo Di Loreto
"Best Experimental Film"
Between dream and reality a girl finds herself in the audience of a theatre (Royal Danish Theatre) to find out there are other people there with her. While events between the dancers unfold, a voice guides them on a journey of surreality where the relation between the audience and the stage is connected by a subtle veil.
"If I were Prime Minister" by ‪Yoram Marcus
"Best Music Video"
"If I were Prime Minister", Initially in Hebrew, now: in English. A parody Referring to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Starring characters: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Sara Netanyahu (his wife), and "Ish Esh" (- Fire Man) – nickname of Yoram Marcus.
"FAREWELL" by ‪STAVROS PSILLAKIS
"Best Feature Documentary"
The memory of the land.A documentary film by STAVROS PSILLAKIS, 88min, 2022
"Thousands of fighters around the world had given all they had for a cause that, as they believed, as they said, was greater than themselves; but in the end it turned out that they themselves were the greatness of that cause." Chris Marker

87-year-old persecuted and declared guerrilla Giannis Lionakis, in a farewell trip to the place that defined his life, tells us about a 14-years (1948-1962) incredible survival effort, which begins with the end of the Civil War in Crete. The backbone of the film is unpublished footage that was shot in 2007 as part of the documentary "THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY".
"OVERFLOW" by David Ian Bickley
"Best Experimental Film"
An immersive audio visual project that journeys from the human sphere of atmospheric time into the alien microcosmic world of a living pool.

Inspired and based upon Dr. Jack Greenhalgh's Phd work — using hydroponics to study, non intrusively, the ecological health of small, but vital bodies of water.

This filmic journey is set against an audio tapestry collected from the aquatic environment using hydro-phonic equipment. This sound, digitally processed into the realms of musicality, describes the strata of the internal world of a small body of fresh water teeming with life.
As we travel downwards each context layer is amplified both visually and audibly through the use of layered fragments that drift across our perception — redolent with drama and trepidation .
"Lame" by Meital Ner
"Best Music Video"
An explosive mix of styles that is both unsettling to the eye and oddly comforting to whomever was born or raised or otherwise scarred by the 90’s and by emotionally loaded encounters with pixelated objects and hearts of the flesh.

The video begins with a guy calling his ex while she’s bored to death at her dead-end job in a bowling alley. As a result, the girl’s world suddenly transforms into an 8-bit arcade experience, as she plays through various challenges thrown at her by the terrible ‘Mr. Lips’, her ex and our antagonist. Just when things look utterly bleak she levels-up using an introspection power-up, and turns the tables.

This comments on the current social climate where we, women, are rewriting the existing narrative.
"SMELL OF PAIN-T" by Damiano Rossi
"Best Music Video"
Una storia di violenza strisciante sottolinea l'eterna questione della doppia natura umana. Una lacerazione.
"Adrienne's Garden" by Richard Daniels
"Best Experimental Film"
Adrienne's Garden joins into one four short yoga-inspired movement videos featuring Adrienne Dornbusch meant to inspire and uplift mind, body and spirit.
"A PILGRIMAGE INTO TIBET" by Mark Gould
"Best Short Documentary"
To acknowledge the 60 year freedom struggle of the Tibetan people and their leader, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, eight intrepid pilgrims take on an epic pilgrimage trek through remote Nepal into occupied Tibet, to walk around Mount Kailash, Asia's most sacred mountain. Confronting altitude, officialdom and their own physical limits, their journey reveals seldom seen experiences of todays' Nepal and Tibet. in summer 2019.
"My Hidden City" by Barry Pousman, Wunna Kyaw
"Best Short Documentary"
Ei Shun, a young woman descended from a long line of Mrauk U’s archaeologists and historians, guides us through the spectacular ancient city of Mrauk U, Myanmar, revealing facets of lost history and daily life. Accompanying Ei Shun is original music blending piano with Rakhine flute, Rakhine drums, and the conch shell.
"Bullets in Paradise" by Violet Dempsey
"Best Short Documentary"
This documentary explores how teens' mental health is negatively affected by active shooter drills, and how nonchalantly they are handled in school environments.
"Transcendent" by Janelle Christa
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Make up", "Best Director Debut", "Best Closing Credits"
In the serene realm of a mystical planet, RoRo, an elemental being, thrives in harmonious unity with others and the natural world. But one fateful day, RoRo's closest friend, LoLo, introduces him to an enigmatic concept: "Earth" – a place where existence is entwined with darkness, pain, and profound suffering.
Enveloped in a cosmic elixir bearing an uncanny resemblance to LSD, RoRo embarks on a journey into the human realm. He traverses the spectrum of human experience from birth to an untimely end, each encounter unveiling increasingly somber and disquieting realities. Ultimately, RoRo finds himself adrift in a desolate void, engulfed by a profound sense of isolation and separation.
"Letters to Eloisa" by Adriana Bosch
"Best Feature Documentary"
Through the letters to his sister (1961-1976) Eloisa living in exile, legendary Cuban writer José Lezama Lima, author "Paradiso" a novel of the Latin American Boom, reveals his complex and ultimate tragic relationship to the Cuban revolutionary state.
"The art of freedom" by Fermin Tangüis Figueroa
"Best Feature Documentary"
THE ART OF FREEDOM is a documentary that covers 7 years of interviews and filming with Patricia Bellatin (plastic artist, architect, nature conservator and antiques collector) who throughout the film narrates her personal battles against that enormous sector of Peruvian society hostile towards people who openly declare a different sexuality and intolerant with those who seek personal development outside the canons of the status quo and conservatism.
"Helezon Değişken" by Cihan Abdal
"Best Producer"
Helezon - Değişken ( Spiral - Shifting ) is the second installment of a four episode short film. Its thesis is " The warmth you seek in nature is within yourself". The element of the film is "fire", and the prominent colour is red.

Helezon Değişken tells the story of two rebels who struggle with cold, a bear and enemy soldiers. During the film, the emotions and behaviours of the characters change in accordance with the shifting nature of fire.
"Gabrielle" by Aygul Abizgildina
"Best Experimental Film"
The recurring idea is to show women’s development, which divided into four stages.
The first trailer shows a childhood of a girl. There are only round forms, which shows simplicity. The feather is the center of the idea about Gabriell’s childhood. She have met a death when she was too little. Moreover, this emotions start to affect her brain and all her inner world.
The second trailer is about the next stage of a Gabriell’s life. It is an adulthood. The scenes shows both forms: sharp and round. There is also a complexity and a chaos in a grown up mind of a girl. She found herself as a mortician. The job helps to her to forget about the past and her mental problems.
The third trailer is when Gabriell found herself. The lines are sharp which represents independence and clarity about her life.
"The Nightstalker case : investigation" by Steve Serpent Fabry
"Best Experimental Film"
When a video found by the police on an inanimate body and it leaks on the internet, a simple fact becomes an urban legend. Between facts and rumours, Luc Rife, an independent investigator, seeks to uncover the truth about the mysterious vigilante in town named The Nightstalker.

This pseudo documentary is linked to all the universe put in place by the group Sercati and The Nightstalker.
"Neighborhood Walk" by William Jacob Deem
"Best Experimental Film"
A nice walk around the neighborhood...
"Tin Foil Flat" by Ruari Barratt
"Best Experimental Film"
A conspiracy theorist subjects his home to a drastic transformation. Made with a one-man crew and over 400 m2 of tin foil.
"ANAHTAR (THE KEY)" by Onur Yildirmaz
"Best Experimental Film"
In our working life, we live a life that is not our own. The film also symbolizes the emotions that this creates in people...
...It is painful to take the shape of the container you are in.
"A Thousand Years Yet All A Night" by Özgür Yaşaroğlu
"Best Experimental Film"
Our short film, titled A Thousand Years Yet All A Night, tells the distribution process of an independent art and literature magazine, the auction tradition of Balat, a historical district, and a small story of love and time intertwined with dreams and poetry.
"Blue Burrow" by Leah O'Donnell
"Best Experimental Film"
Blue Burrow is a short movement based film fully immersed in the sun, sand, and water of Lake Huron. The shore is the meeting place for characters of different species, while the world underwater comes to represent the subconscious. Perspectives shift from fish to human to sun, and metaphors about our relationship to the natural world emerge.
"SOUTH INDIA 2010" by JOEL LAWRENCE HOLZMAN
"Best Experimental Film"
A photographic journey through South India.
"TRUE COLORS" by Charles Dekker
"Best Opening Credits"
As the victim of a hit & run accident, a man has lost faith in humanity, until 30 years later, he falls in love with a woman who carries a dark secret.
"Zadig/ Človek" by Andrea Pátková, Adam Čurko, Viktoria Voržáčková
"Best Music Video"
An animated video clip for Jazz song called Človek for Peter Lipa and David Rotter.
The animated video clip is journey of an alcoholic tourist in Egypt , who is trying to runaway from his fate. The story is inspired by a folk tale based on quote from The Old testament saying “God created heaven and Earth”. Therefore hell must be place on Earth and it is upon us how we shape our path. Our main hero ends up in the same place as he was running from , but it is clearly darker and sinister…
"4 Of A Kind" by Raisa Munir
"Best Music Video"
A university student finds that she's haunted by a poker obsessed ghost.
"B Song" by Gil Basarab
"Best Music Video"
Spidermacher Music Video
"Nothing is real" by Gil Stefan Basarab, Ido Berlad
"Best Music Video"
"Fire and Blood" by Arnaud Lescure
"Best Student Film"
Fire and Blood is an animated short taking place in an alternative version of the French Revolution where the prince Louis XVII take revenge on the revolutionaries by releasing the monstrous beast of Gévaudan in the street of Paris.
"The Bagman" by Matthew Thomas Banholzer
"Best Student Film"
The Bagwoman contacts the CEO to help her bury the past.
"Devour" by Conner Nikides
"Best Scenography"
A man having his dinner on a expensive platter.
"Unplanned HORNET" by Kate Pelling
"Best Scenography"
'Unplanned HORNET' (2020, 04:32 Mins.) is about not having control of a situation. The video was recorded in May 2020 at a time when, for the third time in two years, the artist had lost all of her paid work, this time due to the Corona pandemic. The hornet stands as a metaphor for ever-present financial precarity and the video explores the effect that has on making artwork. However, it is not a bleak situation, there is laughter and a feeling of forging ahead when the artist attempts to discuss the topic of editing, which is a recurring theme throughout her practice. The techniques used to edit the video, including blind editing which involves making cuts to the video without looking at the footage, continue the idea of not being in control. Editing is also used to address a misunderstanding about the nature of the threat, but the mistake is retained along with the 'corrections', so that the history of the process remains visible.
"Un Autre Jour" by Louis Vignes
"Best Director Debut"
One morning, Anatole visits his grandmother for their usual lunch and in a fit of fantasy, he decides to exfiltrate her from her Parisian flat with his grandfather's old convertible. The two of them escape in search of a moment of complicity, fleeing, perhaps in vain, the ineluctability of time going by.
"The cleaner" by Damien Douchez
"Best Color Editing", "Best Sound Design"
Cendra must erase the traces of a crime. Will she find the man for the job?
"Counterpart" by Ethan Grover
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Student Film", "Best Director Debut"
A composer facing writer's block finds inspiration through an otherworldly counterpart.
"Bon In Dolpo" by Andrea Heckman
"Best Feature Documentary"
Ancient Zhang Zhung Kingdom in remote Dolpo, Nepal where Tibetan Bön practices have persisted for centuries in an unbroken lineage.
"The South Pole and Global Climate Change" by Yunus Topal
"Best Feature Documentary"
“This frozen world offers us an unknown ritual with unusual seasons, months of night and day. While the mankind is adding new signs to the traces of the past, I wanted to explore this place and understand those who gave their lives for this aim. Now these places back to the night. The temperature will drop even further. The top of the ocean will be covered with ice again. The birth of a new day will be at least six months later. Who knows, maybe I will be there to welcome the sun on another polar morning.”
I intend to take you to far places difficult to reach with my work including my journey to the South Pole, one of the most difficult points to reach on Earth where I went to, observed and lived my adventure, took my photographs and produced my documentary.
"Game Over" by Kate Ryan
"Best Experimental Film"
The strange world of video gaming and esports.
"Benmentor" by Onur Akın
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Student Film"
"Benmentor" tells the story of transformation in the life of Ben, a man dissatisfied with his life and plagued by depression. Ben, unhappy due to the difficulties and wrong choices in his life, encounters a mysterious and wise figure named Mentor one day. Mentor teaches Ben to make healthier and more positive choices in his life, which dramatically improves Ben's quality of life. However, a confrontation with Ben's sister reveals that Mentor is, in fact, a character created in Ben's imagination.
"ALLEGRO" by Vincent Bonet
"Best Experimental Film "
In a flat, at number 13 of the street, a man’s life is paced by the seasons. Everything topples one weird winter morning as he forgets his keys.
"Perfection" by Kate Ryan
"Best Experimental Film "
Does a human body meet the beauty standards of humanoid robots and vice versa?
"Tiki Taane in session with CSO" by Tiki Taane
"Best Composer", "Best Sound Design", "Best Original Soundtrack"
Filmed in May 2021 to a sold out audience at the fully refurbished Christchurch Town Hall, Tiki Taane captures an emotional and explosive performance with - Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. Stunningly shot and superbly mixed, Tiki has raised the bar with what can be achieved when collaborating with a 50 piece orchestra. The genre bending, live looping performances makes for an extremely unique and original experience, solidifying Tiki as one of the most diverse artists from Aotearoa (New Zealand).
"Findings" by Kristina Schippling
"Best Experimental Film "
Findings is a film about a young woman's process of finding herself. She no longer fits into her own home, she literally grows out of it. But she cannot find a new home and loses herself in the search for it ...
"Journey" by Liz Kennedy
"Best Producer"
This film exists as an artifact. The director worked entirely alone, and it would be inappropriate for credit to be shared or appropriated. The director believes that God helped her. The location of the film was stolen property. The director did not know that at the time of the film due to head injury from assault, and therefore does not wish to be stalked or spied on when she returns to the original filming location, since to her memory that would be not only predatory stalking but also trespassing since the director has not invited anyone to go along with her and does not intend to invite anyone, since for her it is a location of memories of trauma as well as precious family memories from a time before a home was burned in a racist attack. Since for her a goal is to recover memory, it is also a film about her rejuvenation.
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