Official Selections
Winter 2023
Official Selections List
Best Short Film
"Yule Cat" by Albin Glasell
"Best Short Film"
The night before Christmas, an Icelandic family is struck by an evil that lurks in the dark.
"Saint-Désir l'Exil" by Natacha Nisic
"Best Short Film"
In the heart of Saint-Désir l'Exil there is a swimming pool. In the heart of the pool are the noxious bodies. Next to the pool, my mother lives her last moments under the sun.
"Vanity" by Nicolas Maffre
"Best Short Film"
Marie and Paul, a 30 yo couple, hear that an asteroid is about to destroy the earth. Although Marie disagreed, they go to the last place which gonna explode on earth to be the last humans to die.
This journey for a useless glory brings back tensions in their couple.
"Sheltered in place" by Udesh Chetty
"Best Short Film"
Based in Chicago, the micro-short film "Sheltered in place" is a dreamy glimpse into my initial day to day life, right at the onset of the covid19 US lockdown.
"Distortion" by Michael Daniel Bricker
"Best Short Film"
A disturbed young man grows increasingly detached and unstable as his fantasies collide with reality.
"Dyade" by Ulysse Combasson
"Best Short Film"
Milan, a part-time bartender, hosts her neighbor for the night. From this unexpected meeting, a game of seduction will born. Dangerous for the future of his couple.
"IF THERE WAS NO SKY" by Branko Popchevski
"Best Short Film"
After catastrophy on earth one man is trying to survive. He eat bugs and lizzards, drinkmuddy water, sleep outdoor on rocks… But not only body should be saved. Human is emotional and social being. So he is trying to save his inner life too. How to do that? He is dreaming all the time about some faraway field with one big tree in the middle and beautifull girl waiting for him under that tree. In hardest moments of emotional and mental disorder he is imagine him with the girl under the tree and gives him great support to keep going on. After long time walking around searching for food and water suddenly he see in distance same tree from his dream. After long period he is happy againe. He is running through the field impatiently. When he arrive to the tree there is surprise. No girl. At first man is confused and disappointed but after he realise that girl was only call of nature to come to the field and to the tree which means salvation for him. On the end his is approaching the tree and hugs it tight because only nature can save the mankind.
"Future Italian Frescoes (Altarpieces for another planet)" by Salvatore Garau
"Best Short Film"
A large space in ruins is abandoned by who knows how many years. On the walls enormous canvases recall altarpieces whose classicism seems projected into the future. Was it an art gallery? The study of a painter? A museum? The place is imbued with the memory of someone who lived and worked in it.
An artist takes possession of space again and paints coexisting with the mystery that lives in those walls and the distressing presences that still live inside that space. The painter remains involved by the suggestions that are breathed by the abandoned altarpieces, true protagonists of the film.
"REALITY CHECK" by Sandro Hernández Ortiz
"Best Short Film"
Reality Check follows Salvador, a young patient suffering from delusional disorder, who during one of his therapy sessions starts experiencing dangerous levels of reality distortion that make him question everything in his life.
"God doesn't write poetry" by Alberto Pino
"Best Short Film"
Sofia, a thirty-year-old woman, is a singer who lives alone in the city and earns her living by performing on the streets. After the death of her mother, she finds in her old house in Extremadura a series of letters that lead her in the footsteps of her father, who passed away shortly after her birth, on a trip to a small, strange and unknown town in the area.
"A Love Worth Fighting For" by Toby Fountaine
"Best Short Film"
A Love Worth Fighting For is set in the opening month of the First World War, August 1914. But it is not a war film, rather an anti-war film, and a love story. It is meticulously researched and historically accurate.

Just after every major European power has been drawn into a conflict they do not know how to fight, politicians and generals are sleepwalking their way towards unimaginable catastrophe with all the arrogance that defined the Edwardian age. The conflict will become enormous, the scale of destruction almost inconceivable.

Against this epic backdrop, the film throws into relief the lives of just two men. They are insignificant players in one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies. But their stories are no less poignant and compelling for it.

A Love Worth Fighting For examines immense concepts – the futility of war, nationality, love, fidelity and human compassion – from the perspective of an English officer and a German soldier.

The result is unique. It is poignant, compelling and sad. It asks difficult questions. Yet ultimately, it ends with hope. Because without hope, what do we have…?
"Border-Ball" by Joel Tauber
"Best Short Film"
Border-Ball chronicles Joel Tauber’s 40-day pilgrimage along the U.S. - Mexico border. He walks, repeatedly, from the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, along the Border Wall, to the Otay Mesa Detention Center—and back. People share their thoughts and stories, and Tauber wonders how we can be so cruel to so many immigrants and refugees. They play catch. They hug. Sometimes they even laugh, despite it all. And Tauber continues walking, praying that things will change.
"The Time of Your Life" by Frank Juarez
"Best Short Film"
A significant day in the life of Kyra, a New Yorker who is happy to have her job, her close friends, her boyfriend, and her own place. Yet one look reveals her job is stressful, her friends are toxic, her relationship isn't great, and her beautiful home haunts her
"The Cow" by Justin John Carroll
"Best Short Film"
A short film about domestic disharmony leading to the onset of domestic abuse.
"A Song of starless Skies" by Jan Niederprüm
"Best Short Film"
A Study of the Unknown and the individual Reaction to it.
"El Canto de los Coquis" by Rachel Dolan
"Best Short Film"
El Canto de los Coquis is an MFA short film that follows the journey of Elena, a young Puerto Rican American woman who is visiting her family in Puerto Rico for the first time. Her excitement for the land and culture are shaken when her dual identity creates a rift of not being American or Latina enough. Through the support of those around her, Elena discovers the joy in finding who we are and the acceptance in learning we are always searching for those answers. No matter what, the people we surround ourselves with and their love will always fill us with the sense of returning home.
"Judas by the Sea" by HAO WU
"Best Short Film"
The missing of Tongtong, Jiang Feng and Lin Xin’ daughter, upends their life completely. Lin Xin resents Jiang Feng failing to protect their daughter. And all these attribute to Jiang Feng’s suspicion of Tongtong’s origin. In order to find their daughter, Jiang Feng begin to wander about all corners of the country, working himself to the bone for others with Lin Xin. Later, Lu Zheng, one of Lin Xin’s childhood friends, joins them. An abnormal coexisting relationship binds these three people gradually. After finishing a deal, Lin Xin, as the culprit of the collapse of their group, is killed by Jiang Feng, together with Lu Zheng. Lin Xin is informed the real murderer that kills her daughter a moment before dying, and Jiang Feng faces his own trial. And in the end, when Jiang Feng collapsed on the seaside, about to die, he sees his daughter.
"Angel of Gaza" by Ahmed Mansour
"Best Short Film"
8-year-old Malak narrates her family arduous journey of romance, endless love, sacrifice and reunification with her father, in the U.S, after 7-year of forced separation. Angel of Gaza is a close-up portrait of a Palestinian child from Gaza and how they see the world around them.
"Surprise" by Philip Lee
"Best Short Film"
All debts must be paid. Some ask for a refund.

A gambling addict seems to have his debts catch up to him…But do those debts have an appetite all their own?
"Mixed Signals" by Wayne Gibson
"Best Short Film"
The history of the West wasn't always written as depicted in the old Westerns.
It was also written by the horsefly.
You see, where there were horses, there were flies.
Where there were flies, there was trouble.
One such troubling event took place in 1857.
"Death and the Kid" by Kristen Swinkels
"Best Short Film"
A small town grim reaper has his afterlife turned upside down when he meets a young girl who can bring the dead back to life.
"XTO Я (who am I)" by LAMARA SOGOMONIAN
"Best Short Film"
"Satisfy You" by Michael Ringdal
"Best Short Film"
Ylli is having a good time with his mistress Eli, then suddenly he can hear his wife Maria comes home early from work. What do you do?
"Something" by Barbara Stepansky
"Best Short Film"
A million moments in time of a relationship at a crossroads is juxtaposed with the question about the future of physics and the existence of a multiverse.
"Babu & I" by Randika Perera
"Best Short Film"
A sudden disappearance of a mother calls into question a relationship between a child and her teddy bear.
"Rest Stop" by Paul A Mortsolf
"Best Short Film"
A writer stops at a rest stop in the middle of the night and hears a shocking act of domestic violence happening in the ladies room. He has to decide to either help the stranger in need or pretend it never happened.
"Boneyard Racers" by David Heacock
"Best Short Film"
When a teen couple accidentally stumbles upon a ghoulish party on Halloween night, they’re challenged to a supernatural drag race with the highest stakes.
"Talking Cure" by Maren Krüger
"Best Short Film"
A black room, a chair, a couch and two men.
The constellation reminds one of a session at a psychotherapist. With one significant difference: the two men don't speak to each other. Why are they silent? One of them is perhaps tired of talking, the other possibly fears his own voice. Or maybe it is because they are meeting inside a film whose narration relays mainly on pictures.
We look through daring mimings and gestures beyond which fantastic visions and imaginations are dwelling. What the two men don't say the pictoriality of silence reveals...
"Poly Andrew" by Brad McDermott, Fred Kuhr
"Best Short Film"
Andrew and Trevor are a happy gay couple, until Andrew's secret girlfriend - who also happens to be Trevor's best friend - shows up, and Andrew is forced to come to terms with his sexual identity.
"Mara" by Jan Pauline Dacop
"Best Short Film"
Mara, an 18-year-old closeted queer girl, is spending her birthday on some house party, flirting with a female stranger when she receives a text from his OFW father to spend her college term break at their house to be with her distant and homophobic mother. Unaware of her daughter's true sexuality, her mother insists on having a traditional debut for Mara, and pushes her to consider her childhood friend as an escort. Mara attempts to show romantic interest to the boy to appease her mother but this takes a toll on her as she continues to keep up with the charades.
"Somebody's Baby" by Mervyn McCracken
"Best Short Film"
A homeless woman who, driven by grief, snatches a baby.
"An Ever After Drama" by Michelle Lynn
"Best Short Film"
An Aspiring Hollywood star is swept away in a fairytale day with the worlds youngest French billionaire as she begin to get a taste of his world and ponder the possibility for something more.
"Let's Start Over" by Kent Bernhard
"Best Short Film"
Homeless on the streets, Jackson has a chance encounter with a former acquaintance, who was partially responsible for his current fate. Moments after the encounter a mysterious stranger shows up, pausing to read Jackson’s beat up, cardboard sign. Rather than offering him money, this mysterious man in Shades offers him something far more valuable, the chance to start over. Placing him at point of limbo between what is so and what is possible. Jackson now has to traverse through a world he doesn’t fully understand to change his fate for the better, or risk repeating his life all over again.
"We The People?" by Simon Zhao
"Best Short Film"
A person searches for his dream club, but a series of intense conversations makes him reflect on the purpose of his behavior and the faces of this world.
"Breaking & Entering" by Michael William Hogan
"Best Short Film"
A young woman’s conflicted life battling multiple addictions and questionable choices culminates with an autopsy-like introspective journey when she finds herself locked in a morgue with the body of a long-lost love.
"LIVE TO DIE AGAIN" by Ezequiel Martinez , Edi Mehana
"Best Short Film"
A legendary gunfighter, cursed by witches, searches for the priceless portrait of a woman who died two hundred years ago, only to discover that she still lives.
"DIVA" by Christopher Mack
"Best Short Film"
What would you do to be a star? On a film with no budget? Audrey, a working actor, is determined to follow her dreams to shine, but finds herself up against growing challenges. Diva is a timely, comedic, and sharp commentary on working in the film industry as a female actor. It explores victimization and complicity in film making.
"DIVA" by Shicong Zhu
"Best Short Film"
Urged to complete the traditional Chinese death ritual as her mother’s only daughter, but without the legal documentation to prove their kinship—a girl finds herself in an institutional conundrum.
"Salvation" by Zane
"Best Short Film"
A man drives aimlessly questioning his life only to discover that the answers he is looking for have been with him all along.
"Gestirn" by Zane
"Best Short Film"
Rara can't let go of her past. She goes in search of her husband who has been hiding in an old industrial building for a long time.
"To Garbo and Lenin" by Jessica Laurén
"Best Short Film"
Greta Garbo and Vladimir Lenin meet at PUB department store in Stockholm 1917. They both have lost a dream. They start a conversation that remains all day while they are walking through
the city.
A historical fantasy in a mixed technique about two people before they become icons and their dreams before they come true.
"When The Stairs Creak" by Jason Pitts
"Best Short Film"
When The Stairs Creak is based on the song, "Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men, and it tells the heartbreaking story of Sarah and Brady Saxon.
"Ganush: The Pursuit of 5 Stars" by Vseant Nath
"Best Short Film"
In a world full of mildly-inconvenienced “Karens” with access to the
internet, floundering Friendly Falafel restaurant owner, Ganush, fights for five-star reviews in this light-hearted comedy that is deep-fried in fun, fake accents, and falafels for the whole family.
At first, blissfully unaware of the review-aggedon, Navia, Ganush’s
perceptive younger daughter, brings the Foody Broodies to his attention. An online hot spot for moms to review, recommend, or rip apart local restaurants, schools, and other businesses. When one bad review about being a few falafels short causes a ripple effect of negative feedback from other users about his business, Ganush goes undercover with a fake mom profile
to infiltrate the site.
"I´m a pedophile" by Johanna Ställberg
"Best Short Film"
Petter is forced to face his siblings and tell them he is a pedophile after having lived with this in secret for many years. Questions about empathy and understanding are put to the test when he chooses to be honest for the first time.
"The Man in the Long Black Coat" by Vanessa M. H. Powers
"Best Short Film"
Inspired by the Bob Dylan song of the same name, 'the Man in the Long Black Coat' tells the story of a young woman in an abusive relationship living in a small town. She sees a mysterious stranger, 'hangin' around at the old dance hall on the outskirts of town.' As her life spirals out of her control, she finds solace in the stranger's company. She must choose to leave the life she knows and escape into the arms of the man in the long black coat before her husband takes even that choice from her.
"50TH ANNIVERSARY" by Tamal Dasgupta
"Best Short Film"
An elderly couple in elite area of Kolkata committed suicide on the night of their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Only son of the couple informed Kolkata Police from Bangalore. Police come and after many attempts, they broke down the door and entered in Apartment. The house is decorated with flower. The anniversary cake is still lying on the table. Police are entering in bedroom. The corpse of elderly couple is lying on the bed decorated with red rose petals. They are holding each other's hands tightly.

But why this suicide? From the E-mail which sent by father to his expatriate son have gradually revealed the reasons behind why the elderly couple was choosing suicide.
"My little big secrets" by Hanna (Hanka) Antonina Bondarenko
"Best Short Film"
Film “My little big secrets” is a story about a woman who is cheated on by her partner with a younger girl. She is coming back to her childhood home to there find a lost piece of herself that she’s been looking for her whole adult life.
"Enter the Room" by Harry Waldman
"Best Short Film"
A young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother, Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles into his new city. The two polar opposite personalities begin to clash as Jeremy's presence poses a threat to Brian's way of life. Brian's uptight personality and unreasonable living standards rub off on Jeremy, creating an incredible amount of tension. Bad blood, stemming from a traumatic past event reveals the shocking truth of the brothers' current situations, as Brian struggles to differentiate between reality and his worst nightmares.
"Stealing First" by Nichole Stull, Jared Stull
"Best Short Film"
Max feels like it's time for the first kiss with Devin. Unfortunately, the universe has conspired against him. Will the kiss happen?
"Swallow and Magpie" by Thavy Phoun Thongkham
"Best Short Film"
Yanzi, a lonely exchange student from Shanghai comes across a strange girl named Maggie who appears to be filming something in the park. A curious Yanzi tries to befriend Maggie to help with her filming. The strange girl wants nothing to do with the exchange student but Yanzi does not give up.
"The Answer/La Respuesta" by Birna Avila
"Best Short Film"
Laura, a young professional, has a job interview. She has been rejected many times. Laura is ready to show her academic achievements; however, the interviewer asks her a simple question: What is your dream? She does not know what to answer and leaves the interview frustrated.
Laura lives with her parents. She is discouraged, another excuse for her suffering. To see her diplomas hanging on the wall breaks Laura's soul.
Surprisingly, Laura is invited again to finish the interview. During the meeting, Laura makes connections between her own story and the dream she must find to solve the central question. Laura begins to reinterpret her life but still does not get the answer; however, she is allowed to take the job on a trial period. All the reflections she has made bring to light her reality from a different perspective. On the day she begins at work, Laura begins to change and to be at peace with herself. On the way to her new job, she embarks on an emotional journey where she can restore the optics of her life. Laura will find answers in the simple daily things and will finish her trip in a way that helps us remember that the present is a gift.
"The Time Is Right" by Diane Carol Harder
"Best Short Film"
A game show of the future where contestants travel to the past to try and save a loved one.
"Dinghy" by Sangeet Prabhaker
"Best Short Film"
After barely making it ashore onto the English coastline, a refugee and the man who smuggled him seek safety after a treacherous channel crossing, both pursued by and summoned to a place of darkness.
"LOVING GRASSLANDS" by Brendan Joseph Guerin
"Best Short Film"
Landholders and ecologists are working in Hume City Council's Green Wedge to restore and manage land in harmony with nature, hopefully saving critically-endangered grasslands from extinction.
"Black/Musta" by Reijo Nurmi
"Best Short Film"
The familiar characters from the Rebound music videos rides again. This time, their property will be broken into. The holiest of holies, the "Rebound car" is stolen!
However, a thug named Chuckler leaves a clue at the crime scene, a record by the band Rebound. It is easy to solve the perpetrator of the crime. Chuckler is the only villain in the world who doesn't like Rebound's music!!!???
A chase begins, which ends with fatal consequences in a remote countryside. Before the evil gets paid, Raymond One and Raymond Two have to squeeze Chuckler´s whereabouts from Mr.Pastilli(Pastil), which is the "local underworld information office" and low-life loser.
The hard-fisted gangster "Knuckle" pushes his own spoon into the soup.

The film's anti-heroes get their moments, but happiness doesn't last forever and crime doesn't pay.
Nobody really hurts, but revenge comes like bass solo. You know what will be come, but you can`t find a hiding place!
"Shoe Story" by A T Beaune 唐博訥
"Best Short Film"
In a world gone mad, Shelby—a young Hong Konger in Taiwan—makes an impromptu short film.
"#SorryNOTSorry" by Daniel Munoz, Manee Leija
"Best Short Film"
Four influencers who were recently cancelled meet with a brand manager to fix their reputations
Official Selections List
Best Feature Film 
"WHO NEEDS YOU" by Tyler Hunt
"Best Feature Film"
The night before Christmas, an Icelandic family is struck by an evil that lurks in the dark.When obsessive free spirit Stephen finds out his teen half sister Sarah is pregnant, he desperately tries to convince her to keep the baby. Sarah finally agrees when Stephen promises to father the child, and they embark on the journey of parenthood - for which neither of them are ready.
"GOOD GUY WITH A GUN" by John Mossman
"Best Feature Film"
Will Greenwood, a Chicago teenager forced to come to terms with his father's violent death, visits a small town and finds solace in a group of local kids. When the town bully threatens Will’s new friend, how far will he go to protect him...especially with a gun? It is a coming of age drama where young men and guns come crashing together….
"This is a Film About My Mother" by Tess Harrison
"Best Feature Film"
During a stark winter weekend in upstate NY, siblings Eve and Max reconnect a year after their mother’s passing.
"Minacious" by Richard Anthony Dunford
"Best Feature Film"
While house sitting for her uncle a customer service agent working from home gets terrorized by a dissatisfied psychopathic caller.
"A FISTFUL OF KARMA" by TERENCE GROSS
"Best Feature Film"
Il Santuario is a retreat centre nestled in the Tuscan hills. Run and staffed by a group of misfits, it hosts groups seeking spiritual growth, weight-loss, detox and escape from reality. Its six hundred year old walls bear witness to the entire emotional spectrum from desire to insanity that comes with the territory of spiritual seeking. The season opens with the arrival of Malcolm Schwartzman – and his group of spiritual seekers, the morning after Val and his mates have thrown a rather fabulously apocalyptic party…This is a critical week in the lives of Team Il Santuario as they face losing their home unless the group goes well and Malcolm pays up. But things don’t go well – most of the guests are very dysfunctional and demanding and there is a bona fide psychopath in the mix. Add to the pot, an old friend of Val’s arriving with a promise of investment and some potent designer drugs, and Il Santuario is about to witness a week to remember…
"Reboot" by John Wheeler
"Best Feature Film"
Reboot tells the story of Daniel, a man who lives the same life over and over again. He's part of of an ancient tribe that's been placed on earth by the universe to witness the end times.

Tired of this existence, Daniel decides to "Go Native". During this time, he discovers that living a normal life has it's drawbacks.

One day, he decides to head out and see the world. But can he truly escape?
"The Space Between Words" by Ian Fowler
"Best Feature Film"
Trauma, love, and healing examined through the lens of a sweet film with gentle, likable characters and a lot to say.

She won’t drive, she doesn’t use a cell phone and she’s VERY done talking about feelings…

Five years after the untimely death of her true love, apprehensive bookworm Willa Handy finally bumbles her way into a new relationship only to have deep lingering sadness thwart her efforts to move on.

The Space Between Words is a romantic dramedy that explores the pain of losing loved ones, friendship, self-forgiveness, and the possibilities of moving on.
"The Fallen... are connected" by B S Pradeep Varma
"Best Feature Film"
The Fallen is set in a period, years from now, where the human race is stripped away from modern evolution and is dragged back to the era of survival. Ekva, one of the last few left on the planet is survived with his daughter Trini who is growing up to be a young woman. As Trini reaches puberty, she is confused about the changes in her body and emotions. Circumstances force Ekva to find a man for his daughter. Will he be able to find someone? Will he leave his daughter to herself or will he and his daughter remain as the only survivors of the human race?
"Emily or Oscar?" by Chris M. Allport
"Best Feature Film"
As a love letter to old Hollywood, Emily or Oscar is a 'Hollywood golden era' throwback romantic comedy. With silent film references and Hollywood studio life, everyone is sure to get a laugh as they take a ride through screenwriter, Sam Feldman's wild imagination. But what happens when a Hollywood director makes him choose between the Academy Award, and the woman of his dreams?
"A NEW YORK STORY" by Paul Schwartz
"Best Feature Film"
In the tumultuous summer of 2020, four entwined New Yorkers tell stories of how their lives have been shaped by the George Floyd protests, the pandemic, and the unforeseen consequences of both.
"THE SEASONS, four love stories" by Paul Schwartz
"Best Feature Film"
Over the course of a year, four sets of intertwined characters are faced with turning points in their romantic lives. Each chapter takes place in a different season, with the central characters in each season being age-appropriate, thus: Summer, young adults, Autumn, middle aged, Winter, elderly, and Spring, a ten year old girl.
"OLD BOYS" by Jean-François Amiguet
"Best Feature Film"
Following the funeral of their friend Dédé, two seventy-year-olds, Mister Paul and Bobby, find themselves in a neighborhood bistro where they remember the blessed era of their footballistic glory and their romantic adventures, especially with Lola, the owner of the establishment. Around them, a young waitress, Bibi, who looks furiously like this Lola, apparently absent: is the young woman the daughter of their ex-mistress and if so, could one of them not be her father? All this under the amused gaze of the deceased who comments on their improbable encounter, first from his coffin, then from Heaven !
"Phoenix Incident" by Keith Arem
"Best Feature Film"
From Keith Arem (Award Winning Talent Director of Call of Duty & Titanfall), an investigation into the March 13th, 1997 disappearance of four Arizona men exposes a military cover-up of the largest UFO sighting in North America.

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.
Thursday March 13th, 1997 marks the date of the Phoenix Lights, the largest mass UFO sighting in US History. The night of the incident, four Phoenix residents vanished in the Estrella Mountain National Park, south of Phoenix, becoming the longest unresolved missing person’s case in Arizona history.
"Black Quixotes" by Sandino Burbano
"Best Feature Film" 
This documentary covers more than a century of archaeological discoveries in the great necropolis of Olisipo, the Roman Lisbon, from the first finding in 1850 to the discoveries made during the subway construction works in 1960 and the construction of the Praça da Figueira parking lot, in 1999.

Meanwhile, our perception of its great extension – along the road that linked the Roman city to its territory to the north – has been amplified by recent archaeological excavations, namely those that took place at Rua das Portas de Santo Antão, Calçada do Lavra and Rua de Santa Marta.

As discoveries and investigations continue, we are presented with the remains of graves, funerary monuments, human remains, and funerary objects that accompanied the deceased on their final journey.
"Her Magnum Opus" by Marta Renzi
"Best Feature Film"
A circle of friends gather to celebrate their mentor and learn that what lasts is those you leave behind.
"Doors" by Abhineet Gogne
"Best Feature Film"
Betrayed in love, an enraged man boards a taxi in the lonesome night: Journeying with an otherworldly taxi driver and a bizarre schoolgirl into multi-dimensional realms.
"WRITING ABOUT A LOVE" by Mario Roccato
"Best Feature Film"
Francesca is a young actress who is facing a serious existential crisis, a situation exacerbated by the recent death of one of her dearest friends. The cause of this crisis can be found in the relationship with Alessandro, her husband. He has changed a lot over the years and he is now interested only in his career and social media: slowly but constantly drifting away from his wife, he seems not to comprehend her growing feeling of loneliness. Meanwhile, Francesca is still seeing her psychotherapist Fabio. The two have become good friends and she confides in him, talking about the existential dread which pervades her…
"Bullets and Katanas" by Nacho Serapio
"Best Feature Film"
How would you react if you were a Martial Arts expert, had a Katana in your hands, and your daughter had just been kidnapped. Under this premise, Sensei Marín launches a race against time with Nacho, his best friend.
"69 Parts" by Ari Taub
"Best Feature Film"
Jack is a down and out struggling law student desperate for a loan to pay his school tuition. An Irishman with questionable business practices, has the cash Jack needs to pay off his tuition, but that loan comes with a steep and treacherous price.
"Finding the End of the World" by Fabián Corres
"Best Feature Film"
Jack is a down and out struggling law student desperate for a loan to pay his school tuition. An Irishman with questionable business practices, has the cash Jack needs to pay off his tuition, but that loan comes with a steep and treacherous price.
Official Selections List
Best Director
"Boneyard Racers" by David Heacock
"Best Director"
When a teen couple accidentally stumbles upon a ghoulish party on Halloween night, they’re challenged to a supernatural drag race with the highest stakes.
"For I Am Dead" by Patricia Delso Lucas
"Best Director"
In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, extravagant life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.
"Seven Thousand Souls" by Sanjin Miric
"Best Director"
Serbia alone had lost a third of its entire population in the Great War, almost half its men.
This film talks about those that never returned home from the two biggest Austria-Hungarian prisoner camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic - Jindřichovice and Broumov.
A film that I owed to my nation.
SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic, Jindrihovice and Broumov. The camps had about 500 facilities where there were about 60,000 prisoners of war.
Extremely difficult working conditions, no food, no shoes and clothes, winter and infectious diseases, all this affected the fact that 7,100 Serbs did not survive the camps. There is a mausoleum in Jindrihovice where the remains are
victims of these camps - 7100 Serbs and 189 Russians. It is the second largest Serbian tomb in the world.
"Gestirn" by Zane
"Best Director"
Rara can't let go of her past. She goes in search of her husband who has been hiding in an old industrial building for a long time.
"The truth about La Dolce Vita" by Giuseppe Pedersoli
"Best Director"
October 20 ,1959. Giuseppe Amato, great producer of many masterpieces of the Italian neurealism is alone in a small screening room. In front of him the sequences of Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" that no other producer had accepted to produce .
The director's version is four hours long, Fellini doesn't want to cut out any footage and Rizzoli is not willing to distribute it with his Cineriz.
It is the most dramatic challenge Giuseppe Amato has ever faced, one that will cost him his career and his life.
"Wish You Well" by Nadia Guo
"Best Director"
The Boy and the Girl were in love. They led a plain yet loving life, sharing profound resonance with each other. The Girl loved the sea and they made a deal to travel to the sea someday. However, a sudden illness took the Girl's life. Before the Girl died, she had told the boy that the shadows of the two who are in love will move for one another, even when they are not physically together; and one’s longing for the loved one would send one’s shadow to the other.
"Darwin's Fox" by Ben Scharf
"Best Director"
Driven by the urge to prove the existence of an extinct creature, a father and his son head off into the wilderness. But soon the search becomes much more personal, when the son suddenly vanishes without a trace.
"The Prototype" by Marcelo Grion
"Best Director"
Garrett Brown wakes up to a destroyed world 300 years into the future. His memory is slowly coming back thanks to drinking a blue liquid provided by human clones that survived the nuclear holocaust. Garrett remembers being part of a United States government agency and leading an investigation, in which terrorist aliens, led by Reverend Jeremiah C. Hope, plan to take over the planet. Garrett dies protecting us but is buried and hidden by the agency to later resurrect in the future. He and the clones who saved him must now come together to overthrow Piak, the alien conqueror, and take back Earth. Garrett fulfills his destiny and becomes The Prototype - the only hope for mankind
"Finding the End of the World" by Fabián Corres
"Best Director"
Jack is a down and out struggling law student desperate for a loan to pay his school tuition. An Irishman with questionable business practices, has the cash Jack needs to pay off his tuition, but that loan comes with a steep and treacherous price.
Official Selections List
Best Editing
"Uncle Marx / Marx Amca" by VEDAT SEZGİN
"Best Editing"
9-year-old boy, named Oğuz, is entrusted to his great-uncle Kemal. In a sudden, the portrait of Karl Marx on the wall, draws Oğuz’s attention. The question,"Who is this?" creates developments that will reveal dreams and also, disappointments.

9 yaşındaki Oğuz, büyük amcası Kemal'e emanet edilir. Duvardaki Marx tablosu Oğuz'un dikkatini çeker. "Bu kim?" sorusu hayalleri ve hayal kırıklıklarını ortaya çıkaracak gelişmeleri var eder.
"Seven Thousand Souls" by Sanjin Miric
"Best Editing"
Serbia alone had lost a third of its entire population in the Great War, almost half its men.
This film talks about those that never returned home from the two biggest Austria-Hungarian prisoner camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic - Jindřichovice and Broumov.
A film that I owed to my nation.
SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic, Jindrihovice and Broumov. The camps had about 500 facilities where there were about 60,000 prisoners of war.
Extremely difficult working conditions, no food, no shoes and clothes, winter and infectious diseases, all this affected the fact that 7,100 Serbs did not survive the camps. There is a mausoleum in Jindrihovice where the remains are
victims of these camps - 7100 Serbs and 189 Russians. It is the second largest Serbian tomb in the world.
"MAKE A CHOICE" by Shuchen Zeng
"Best Editing"
This short film MAKE A CHOICE shows the emotional entanglement among the three about "choice" by simulating the interactive short film style of the first-person perspective. And it also reveals the process of the awakening of freya's female consciousness.

Freya and her two ex-boyfriends Simon and Calvin live in the same apartment by fate, the apartment means the "choice dilemma". At the end, Freya rejects Calvin and leaves the apartment with Simon to get rid of the "choice dilemma".
Official Selections List
Best Actor
"For I Am Dead" by Patricia Delso Lucas
"Best Actor"
In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, extravagant life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.
"Kitchen Spaces" by Patrick Brambert
"Best Actor"
Roy and Joy Wernecke show local TV host Mark Messina some secrets to cooking a perfect Thanksgiving dinner.
"LIVE TO DIE AGAIN" by Ezequiel Martinez , Edi Mehana
"Best Actor"
A legendary gunfighter, cursed by witches, searches for the priceless portrait of a woman who died two hundred years ago, only to discover that she still lives.
"I´m a pedophile" by Johanna Ställberg
"Best Actor"
Petter is forced to face his siblings and tell them he is a pedophile after having lived with this in secret for many years. Questions about empathy and understanding are put to the test when he chooses to be honest for the first time.
"Stealing First" by Nichole Stull, Jared Stull
"Best Actor"
Max feels like it's time for the first kiss with Devin. Unfortunately, the universe has conspired against him. Will the kiss happen?
"Doors" by Abhineet Gogne
"Best Actor"
Betrayed in love, an enraged man boards a taxi in the lonesome night: Journeying with an otherworldly taxi driver and a bizarre schoolgirl into multi-dimensional realms.
"Finding the End of the World" by Fabián Corres
"Best Actor"
Jack is a down and out struggling law student desperate for a loan to pay his school tuition. An Irishman with questionable business practices, has the cash Jack needs to pay off his tuition, but that loan comes with a steep and treacherous price.
"The Bus Stop" by Ricky Farooqi
"Best Actor"
A Rich young industrialist, Tanya Goldwell is betrayed by her own family, so she wants to commit suicide, but then she meets a middle age British Pakistani guy at the Bus Stop.
Official Selections List
Best Actress
"Eyes Upon Waking" by Timothy Zwica
"Best Actress"
A troubled woman must come to terms with her suicide attempts while spending several days in a holding facility.
"Somebody's Baby" by Mervyn McCracken
"Best Actress"
A homeless woman who, driven by grief, snatches a baby.
"Breaking & Entering" by Michael William Hogan
"Best Actress"
A young woman’s conflicted life battling multiple addictions and questionable choices culminates with an autopsy-like introspective journey when she finds herself locked in a morgue with the body of a long-lost love.
"The Man in the Long Black Coat" by Vanessa M. H. Powers
"Best Actress"
Inspired by the Bob Dylan song of the same name, 'the Man in the Long Black Coat' tells the story of a young woman in an abusive relationship living in a small town. She sees a mysterious stranger, 'hangin' around at the old dance hall on the outskirts of town.' As her life spirals out of her control, she finds solace in the stranger's company. She must choose to leave the life she knows and escape into the arms of the man in the long black coat before her husband takes even that choice from her.
"If The Shoe Fits" by Barbara Spevack
"Best Actress"
Whilst taking a shortcut home, an ordinary guy from the 21st century bumps into Cinderella and points out the plot hole.
Official Selections List
Best Supporting Actor
"Boneyard Racers" by David Heacock
"Best Supporting Actor"
When a teen couple accidentally stumbles upon a ghoulish party on Halloween night, they’re challenged to a supernatural drag race with the highest stakes.
"Black Quixotes" by Sandino Burbano
"Best Supporting Actor" 
This documentary covers more than a century of archaeological discoveries in the great necropolis of Olisipo, the Roman Lisbon, from the first finding in 1850 to the discoveries made during the subway construction works in 1960 and the construction of the Praça da Figueira parking lot, in 1999.

Meanwhile, our perception of its great extension – along the road that linked the Roman city to its territory to the north – has been amplified by recent archaeological excavations, namely those that took place at Rua das Portas de Santo Antão, Calçada do Lavra and Rua de Santa Marta.

As discoveries and investigations continue, we are presented with the remains of graves, funerary monuments, human remains, and funerary objects that accompanied the deceased on their final journey.
Official Selections List
Best Supporting Actress
"Yule Cat" by Albin Glasell
"Best Supporting Actress"
The night before Christmas, an Icelandic family is struck by an evil that lurks in the dark.
Official Selections List
Best  Original Screenplay
"DEATH OF AN ANGEL" by Tom Cowan
"Best Original Screenplay"
Rufus is a joker masking the stress of his job as a social worker. Trying to track down the mother of an abandoned baby, he finds Holly, a girl from the country, who left the baby at the church. Rufus believes Holly is the mother of the baby but she denies it. After denying so many strange accounts of the mystery mother, Rufus cracks up and begins to believe the mother was an angel.
His search comes to a confronting conclusion.
"HURRICANE" by Christopher Willis
"Best Original Screenplay"
In 1938, three siblings emotionally scarred by a family tragedy, must set aside their personal misery to help others survive a killer hurricane. Based on actual events
"No Address" by Julia Verdin, James Papa
"Best Original Screenplay"
A group of homeless people bond together as a family, struggling to survive the streets while fending off a harassing gang, an unforgiving community and the local authorities in hopes of finding their humanity again.A group of homeless people bond together as a family, struggling to survive the streets while fending off a harassing gang, an unforgiving community and the local authorities in hopes of finding their humanity again.
"Amy and Angel" by Julia Verdin, James Papa
"Best Original Screenplay"
Shy 16-year old Amy just wants to dance, but her deafness causes her dreams to be shattered when she is bullied out of dance class. Finding the most unbelievable new dance partner, her neighbors neglected dog, they perform a spectacular routine that lands them on a national TV talent show where they compete against her former dance crew.
"Wider Than The Sky" by Janie Price
"Best Original Screenplay"
A short film about the extraordinary power of our imagination. Schoolgirl Jenny's father has been diagnosed with cancer. To help herself cope, this deeply creative child makes scenes inside shoe boxes Into which she escapes...One day a chance encounter with a seemingly ordinary cafe owner provides the catalyst for a truly magical happening..
"The Last Earth Station" by Kathryn Radmall
"Best Original Screenplay"
Local legend has it that the lost ship is a harbinger of doom; ravaged planets and broken civilizations littering its wake. But the crew of the scout ship, Erebus, finds a thriving community, seemingly unaware of its reputation. For expedition leader, Sarah Kendrick, touring the station with mercurial commanding officer, Michael Decker, is a history lesson brought to life. Black Star, flagship for the abandoned Homestead Project, is fulfilling its purpose as a generational ship.

But not everyone is happy at the prospect of being taken 'home'. The Erebus' cultural anthropologist, Dr Phelps reports tension among the passengers; their fears fueled by the preaching of an activist opposed to warp tunnel technology.

As inconsistencies emerge, Sarah's curiosity and growing attraction to the commander, sparks a chain of events that leads to sabotage, suicide and the revelation of a soul-destroying bargain that Decker struck with an alien race to keep his passengers and crew alive. The return journey, a high-risk transit, demands further sacrifice but offers redemption to a man who has been tested to his limit.
"The Romanian Incident" by Simon King
"Best Original Screenplay"
A Cold War KGB agent arrives at a Romanian hotel during a raging blizzard only to become involved in an assassination, a murder, and a collection of international spies.
"Alex*" by Joachim Böttcher
"Best Original Screenplay"
Intersexual banker Alex * lives as a man. When his intersexuality becomes public, Alex * threatens to lose everything because of the traditional perception of his industry of a binary understanding of genders and roles.
"The Secret Codex" by Kevin Pike, Hans Sluijter
"Best Original Screenplay"
Upon the Pope's announcement of a celebration for the 2033rd anniversary of Christ's crucifixion, a branch of Amsterdam Templars pushes to be restated to their original role as the guardians of the church with blackmail by using an ancient secret codex. They must promote the apparent heir, the young son, with more interest in getting high and his hot girlfriend's completive drone racing.
"ZEDA THE HUNTER" by Alexandru Ranta Gheorghe
"Best Original Screenplay"
Winter 2047. Dave climbs the mountains to hunt in a restricted area. Following a wolf in the depths of forest he discovers an ancient ruin, a few menhirs which form a gate. Fascinated, Dave walks throught the gate and enters a mysterious land. Here he will face his alter-ego: an old man named Zeda, a hunter from an ancient time. From hunter Dave becomes hunted ...and he will receive a new identity. Dave starts a new life in the wilderness of mountains.
"Bad Love Tigers" 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.
"Zoom With Me" by Vasile Flutur and John McEneny
"Best Original Screenplay"
The pandemic has left single mom Jackie feeling isolated, lonely, and like her life is slipping from her. She finds solace in the routine of running, and on her daily runs she passes the same man again and again. An invitation from him sets her into a panic, but her daughter encourages her to take a risk. Lies are told, but somehow Jackie may just find the connection we are all longing for.
"Here's My Card" by Oscar Ballyvolane
"Best Original Screenplay"
When Fredo is making his exit from what appears to be a bank robbery, he’s unquestionably in the line sight of a police officer moving towards him. He starts a conversation with Carol in a bid to make it look as if he’s actually hitting on her and therefore could not possibly be the same man who’s wanted by the state. Carol, intelligent, flirtatious, headstrong, and mischievous, turns out to be quite the conversationalist. When she asks for his number at the end of their encounter, our Fredo is taunted by a difficult decision; Engage further with what is now a witness and risk all, or risk never seeing the alluring woman again.
"It's An Italian Thing. No, It's a Black Thing!" by Fran Sisco
"Best Original Screenplay"
-Draft12a,11/1/22 -- "It's an Italian Thing. No, It's a Black Thing" is a comedy (with dramatic turns) in which a middle-aged Italian American white transgender woman (Frankie) feels pressure about identity differences with a much younger Black pansexual girlfriend (Tanasia). At first, Frankie strives to impress Tanasia's mother (Winnie) , using a delicious meat lasagna as suggested by her older brother (Jimmy), but something goes awry. Then pressure comes to Frankie from her mother Carmela and Aunt Sophie to face the difficulties of their mismatch (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, age, culture), and surprising changes erupt as some doors close while others open.
Warm and light-hearted comedy but yet poignant in its treatment of prejudices. Note from author- I envision the story being told as a play, short-film, or pilot for a TV series. This is an important DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusion) story that is bound to shape people's views and feelings, triggering debate, dialogue and perhaps positive changes.
"As Scared As You" by Jesse Dorian
"Best Original Screenplay"
A twenty-something male “drifter” antihero, and a young blind woman become caged prisoners at a bed and breakfast in small-town northern California, where the drifter’s violent, malignant actions prior, push a group of malicious locals-- along with their two animalistic, basement-held zombified residents, dressed as a dog and a clown-- to seek vengeance.
"The Chance" by Terry Luke Podnar
"Best Original Screenplay"
A dispirited, young man makes a startling discovery in a laboratory that could change his life forever.
"Belles paroles" by Mohamed Ouaddah
"Best Original Screenplay"
Un jeune handicapé se bat pour faire découvrir son talent d’écriture auprès d’autres rappeur qui le juge sur son physique .
A travers cette œuvre c’est l’histoire vraie de Massyl Kasri.
"Murder on Cairo" by Nathan Robert Proczak
"Best Original Screenplay"
The story follows Charles O’Bannon, a gambler and common con-man who seeks to atone for his crimes.

Picked up by Lt. Davis, he has to go undercover to seek out the crime boss Richmond and his associates.

But that’s not all that lies with Charlie, his sister Camille is in on the action and helps him fend for himself with small-time loans to bustler his gambling addiction.

Losing the money he raised, Charles is forced to partner with a rival crime boss, Ortega, and repay the loans he took.

Climaxing in the final scene, Charlie pays the ultimate price for his sins.
"The S.S. Robin" by Camille DeBiase
"Best Original Screenplay"
In middle-class Brooklyn in 1971 a mixed race family was simply not the norm. The S.S. Robin takes place in Brooklyn, New York in 1971. It tells the story of the DeLucas - a working-class Italian/American family who struggle with the turbulence of the early 70’s, while facing new and unexpected challenges stemming from the inclusion of a mixed race child into their home.
The S.S. Robin opens with the unexpected arrival of Robin, a 3 year old Hispanic/black foster child into the DeLuca family. A child with a fully-formed personality who interacts with the family, develops a strong bond with each member and calls the DeLuca parents mommy and daddy as natural as if they were her own. The story spans 18 months where we watch the family celebrate birthdays and holidays, experience day-to-day family activities as playful as learning how to swim in the family pool to tension-filled, near violent arguments and dramas between neighbors and strangers and children and parents all of which could potentially alter relationships forever – many of those conflicts centering around Robin
"The Shoemaker" by Danny Boushebel
"Best Original Screenplay"
Jeff Baxter, a retired ex-FBI agent who becomes one of the finest shoemakers in the city, juggles with a new relationship while he eliminates people from his deserving list.
Official Selections List
Best Adapted Screenplay
"Lunimetarius" by Paola Fabiani
"Best Adapted Screenplay"
On the night of May 10, 1944, Pietro, a literature professor and communist partisan, escapes from the Germans and fascists who are raking the Marsiliana scrub by taking refuge in a frantic run inside a ruin: it is what remains of the ancient Stachilagi fortress , immersed and hidden for centuries in the dark green of the Tuscan Maremma. There the protagonist finds a parchment, written in Latin and dating back to eight hundred years earlier. In it a friar recounts his unhappy fate of having been unjustly accused of heresy and for this reason walled up alive in the basement of a medieval abbey. The religious, friar Sabino, asks anyone who finds his writing to discover the truth about his miserable end.
Official Selections List
Best Animation 
"Ailin on the moon" by Claudia Ruiz
"Best Animation"
Work, do the shopping, cooking, cleaning, ironing, taking care of Ailín: that is the routine of Vilma, mother of 40 years, overwhelmed by fatigue and skin intolerance. Ailín (4), just looking to play and demand the attention of a restless girl, one day causes the emotional outbreak of the mother. The routine that led them away must be broken to meet again.
"Being A Dog" by Felix Swahn
"Best Animation"
Tim is longing for love.
He’s a lonely human being who struggles with exclusion every day. Every time Tim feels different than others he transforms into a french bulldog.
Ginger makes Tim feel human. Ginger is an old friend of Tim`s whom he was in love with, unrequited love. Tim collides with Ginger in the street, they talk and become friends again.
After meeting Ginger Tim becomes a dog again. This time he chooses to enjoy being a dog and sees all the possibilities of a dog`s life. It’s good to be a human being but it’s good being a dog sometimes too.
"The Sea of Hope" by Walid Salhab
"Best Animation"
This is my first animation film. A Middle eastern refugee father and son dangerous sea journey trying to escape the war-torn country. The film will try to highlight the fears and the peril and the risks the refugees take just to have a chance of a semi normal life. The film is made in traditional hand drawn animation. I come from the city of Tripoli Lebanon, so I felt it was my duty to make this film. Self financed with no budget it took me 5 years to make learning animation from scratch. The film was made in 3D by myself then hand rotoscoped frame by Frame by the Italian artist Cristiana Messina.
"Echo" by Sergio Kotsovoulos
"Best Animation"
Ellie struggles with verbal communication and survives, thanks to her landlady. Manu moves into the apartment directly across from her. Day by day, their routines echo each other, and a connection emerges.
"Swiss Ball" by Andrew Racho
"Best Animation"
"Seaper Powers Mystery of the Blue Pearls Film" by Kim Cameron
"Best Animation"
Emma works for NOAA as a diver and researcher. She is put on a mission to find mysterious blue pearls in the deep Caribbean seas, but first, she needs to call upon her octopus and starfish (played by Vanilla Ice) friends, from the past, to help. During her dive, dangerous pirates plague her way to uncover a secret that only a few know about. She must find a way to protect the secret or risk destroying an underwater world which is vital to our oceans.
Seaper Powers: Mystery of the Blue Pearls is the second in the Seaper Powers movie series and features an all-new, original soundtrack by John DePatie and Kim Cameron, the Billboard-charted duo behind hits such as "Not Into You." Inspired by Cameron's award-winning bok series (Purple Dragonfly Book Award, 2018), this film brings beloved characters to life through memorable songs and a captivating adventure.
Popular among educators and the homeschool community, Kim Cameron's five-book Seaper Powers series is accompanied by an official Lesson Plan Guide. Likewise, Seaper Powers: Mystery of the Blue Pearls is the perfect introduction for young audiences to engage in fun learning activities about the ocean environment.
"PRINCËNEY" by ARIEL ORAMA LOPEZ (AG ORLOZ)
"Best Animation"
Princëney is a Caribbean boy that begins a journey towards the unimaginable to achieve his greatest wish: he just wants to be a prince.
"Man in a Can" by Henk Pringels
"Best Animation"
A man leaves an oasis and starts walking.
In the middle of the desert, he finds this strange building and
immediately, he addresses someone on the inside of the building. Whether there's any need, for airco, food, or maybe even some music or television, here in this inhospitable part of the world?
After fruitless inquiries, the man spends the night in the desert. The morning after, he realizes that, ultimately, there's only one possible decision to make.
All this is just a day dream of a guy on a beach, somewhere in Kenia. Slightly confused by his dream, he cannot but promise his girlfriend to come and swim with her on that first lovely day of the year.
"Who Puts A Fishbowl Here?" by Lis Jiangnan Lin
"Best Animation"
‘Who Puts A Fishbowl Here?' is a video journey of a 20-year-old girl, it explores inner consciousness through dreams.

As an old Chinese saying by Wang, Yangming says ‘nothing exists beyond consciousness’, people’s consciousness and all those other than it (better job positions, wonderful objects, beautiful houses, or a so-called successful life, etc. ) reflect each other.

Beyond our dreams, we are able to touch the truth of our consciousness, inner minds, and souls, which could be one way of making us achieve the enlightenment of happiness.
"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.
"Other Half" by Lina Kalcheva
"Best Animation"
As an Individual Being in a world comprised of Merged Couples, Ren longs to find his other half and become complete.
"Thread Threat" by Konstantina Sofokleous
"Best Animation"
Wholly filmed on top of a doll silhouette, an interpretation of the 1810 Grimm handwritten manuscript of 'Snow White'*, concentrating on the cruelty of Snow White's biological mother.

TECHNIQUE Thread used like coloured pencils to 'translate' my drawing lines with a new material.

Special thanks to the Aardman Academy.
"A Boy of May" by Seung-il Chon
"Best Animation"
Jeong Sae-nal, the young boy in Gwang-ju City, receives new sneakers as a 12th birthday gift, but he is shot by martial law forces while playing with his friends in a mountain reservoir in the back of the town. Sae-nal wakes up to the moonlight and the scent of wild roses, and flies to downtown of Gwang-ju City on a sneaker plane. He meets countless people who fought for democracy against the soldier's guns and flies high in a sneaker plane.
"Agrinoui" by Alexis Chaviaras
"Best Animation"
A young mare visits Cyprus to take part in races. Frustrated from failure, she abandons the racetrack after confronting her strict father. The mare will meet new friends who will try to help her find her lost courage.
"Fugitive" by Adis Kutkut
"Best Animation"
A mysterious protagonist is on a quest worth spending 150 years playing chess to unlock a mistery in Sarajevo, now called Neosarayevo, under the control of a sinister Cyberdyne-esque corporation - Sodyn.
"Garbage People: Trash Conspiracies + Trash Carnival" by Brit Tobin
"Best Animation"
Double Feature, 2-for-1 episode!

Trash Conspiracies
Ever wonder what Garbage People eat? Or where the dead Trash go when they die? Patches and Peel know... but maybe it's just a Trash conspiracy.

Trash Carnival
Patches and Peel experience a day full of fun and follies at the annual Trash Carnival, that is, until they take a ride on 'Epidemic Alley' they won't soon forget.

Don't miss the Garbage People in-episode 'ad' for the hottest new board game Trash your Neighbor! (It's a real game)

Garbage People is an adult animated sitcom created by Brit Tobin. The series follows a jaded plush bunny, Patches, and a savage banana peel (Peel) through their madcap adventures in the dumpster town of Trash.
"Anantara" by Douglas Alves Ferreira
"Best Animation"
In the not so far future, a little girl lives alone in a junkyard. One day, another girl appears, and life is not so lonely anymore. A big event occurs, and they will never be the same again…
Official Selections List
Best Original Score
"RugbyTown" by Patrick Guthrie
"Best Original Score"
Having failed to reach their dreams of starring in the NFL, the players in RugbyTown tell their own stories of crossing over to become professional athletes in a new sport as they help the USA win the Rugby World Cup.
"FEMINAM" by Marijke De Belie
"Best Original Score"
The movie FEMINAM, Latin for woman is an autonomous visual work by Marijke De Belie in which the artist plays with representations of women throughout the centuries. 
Still it has not become a scientifical chronological enumeration of all female icons but more a flood of images like the one we experience in our REM sleep.
For this she uses a direct animation technique. With a black aquarel pencil on a white panel of wood she registers the drawing process itself, in an authentic and uncomplicated drawing style.
"Julia" by Víctor Muñoz
"Best Original Score"
"Julia" is a little story about loss and loneliness, told only with images and music.
Official Selections List
Best Cinematography
"Wither With Her" by Jason Hammond
"Best Cinematography"
Wither with her is an experimental short film, revolving around a couple, Ivan and Kayla, who are heroin addicts who have overdosed and died. The film follows them through their final days, blurring the lines between documentary and classic narrative, to create something uniquely surreal.
"For I Am Dead" by Patricia Delso Lucas
"Best Cinematography"
In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, extravagant life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.
"Nomad District" by Alexandra Rice
"Best Cinematography"
From Flanders to Wallonia "the nomad district" crosses Belgium in an annual tour that has been going on for centuries. Its inhabitants, the showmen, are nevertheless well established in the modernity. In the banality of their daily lives and the cycle of life. The film wonders about the unconscious tradition that goes through them. What are the impalpable residues? Would it be that of our traditions, of us ... In the community to which we unconsciously belong. This immersive film portrays a community that is insidiously endangered by the regulation of cities and the disrepute of popular culture.
"I´m a pedophile" by Johanna Ställberg
"Best Cinematography"
Petter is forced to face his siblings and tell them he is a pedophile after having lived with this in secret for many years. Questions about empathy and understanding are put to the test when he chooses to be honest for the first time.
"The Man in the Long Black Coat" by Vanessa M. H. Powers
"Best Cinematography"
Inspired by the Bob Dylan song of the same name, 'the Man in the Long Black Coat' tells the story of a young woman in an abusive relationship living in a small town. She sees a mysterious stranger, 'hangin' around at the old dance hall on the outskirts of town.' As her life spirals out of her control, she finds solace in the stranger's company. She must choose to leave the life she knows and escape into the arms of the man in the long black coat before her husband takes even that choice from her.
"Doors" by Abhineet Gogne
"Best Cinematography"
Betrayed in love, an enraged man boards a taxi in the lonesome night: Journeying with an otherworldly taxi driver and a bizarre schoolgirl into multi-dimensional realms.
"Aftermath" by Levi Elizaga
"Best Cinematography"
Filmed at beautiful Arcosanti, AZ, Aftermath is a contemporary dance-on-screen depicting the aftermath of sexual assault: rage, disgust, shame, and solidarity with other survivors.
Official Selections List
Additional Categories
"Saint-Désir l'Exil" by Natacha Nisic
"Best Experimental Film"
In the heart of Saint-Désir l'Exil there is a swimming pool. In the heart of the pool are the noxious bodies. Next to the pool, my mother lives her last moments under the sun.
"AROUND THE BEND" by UNSEENMEDIA, NRBARZ
"Best Music Video"
A visual project for the single "Around The Bend" off of the album "T.S.I.R "(The Struggle Is Real) from the hip-hop artist NRBARZ hailing from the Caribbean the project captures the scenes from NRBARZ's homeland the Bahamas while delivering a timeless message of encouragement about defeating the odds and overcoming the darkness.
"We Are Stardust" by Tova Reyes
"Best Poster"
We are stardust. This creation myth borrows from the American Indian tribes of the southwest and the stars. There is no dialogue.
"This Mortal Plastik" by Jess Irish
"Best Short Documentary"
A personal dive into the world’s most impersonal substance: plastics. Amid the lockdown, a bereaved mother unfolds a surprising journey within and across oceans to understand the contemporary landscape of single-use synthetics. From the noble intentions behind its invention to scales of havoc it has wrought, this experimental documentary brings together art, history, science, and the everyday. Playfully crafted with hand-drawn illustrations and poetic interludes, this evocative “pause between deep time and no time” will change how you think about this ordinary “thing without thingness.”
"So Far From Hell" by Maxime Simone
"Best Feature Documentary", 'Best Sound Design"
Si Loin de l'Enfer is a film resulting from the meeting with two descendants of resistance fighters deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, two women from the Pays-Haut in France, on the Belgian and Luxembourg borders.
A biographical journey, between past and present, between lives with such different fates. Crystèle Renaudin, whose grandmother returned from the death camp, punctuates the film with music, her unwavering passion, while Pierre Zani testifies about his mother for the first time in front of a camera.
A journey built over three years, where smiles and lightness rub shoulders with terror and dread, where life comes up against the inconceivable.
A journey where ghosts of the past arise, voices urging us to live.
"ENDLESS ALPHABET" by Maxime Simone
"Best VFX", "Best Director Debut" and "Best Student Film"
Alfabeto senza fine (Endless Alphabet)
The aim of this work was to re-establish, electronically, the images and feelings of some paintings by masters of informal art. The picture autogenerate together with music.
The creation of sketches is casual but controlled by algorithms, just like the creation of music.
The work was created by synchronizing video with MAX MSP and Csound to the video sequence.
"Cloud Boy: An Autistic Journey | 2021 Animation Graduation Film" by Kieran Firth-Bernard
"Best Student Film"
Cloud Boy journeys through his insecurities and issues growing up. But as college approaches, he decides to become a more independent person. A semi-autobiography about the experiences of living with Autism.
"A Song of starless Skies" by Jan Niederprüm
"Best Student Film"
A Study of the Unknown and the individual Reaction to it.
"After the Coup, Malian women speak" by Erica Pomerance, Fatoumata Coulibaly
"Best Feature Documentary"
In the aftermath of the 2102 coup and jihadist occupation of Northern Mali, Malian women voice their views about the crisis that has disrupted their lives. They also struggle to advance women's rights, threatened by gradual islamisation of secular society.
"HISPANIA, LAND OF RABBITS" by Jose Luis Rodriguez
"Best Feature Documentary"
More than two thousand years ago, the Iberian Peninsula was part of the Roman Empire and was called HISPANIA, which means LAND OF RABBITS, due to the extraordinary abundance of this popular animal.
In our days, the rabbit is still a key piece in the natural fabric of the Iberian Peninsula, although nothing is as it was in Roman times. 
Hispania, Land of Rabbits takes us into the before and after of what HISPANIA was and reflects the importance of the rabbit for the survival of populations of the most emblematic predatory animals of the Iberian fauna.
"i don't wanna go" by Max Vadset
'Best Student Film"
A kid doesn't want to go to school because he's worried about the possibility of a school shooting.
"Saturn Saved Me" by Sharon Smith
"Best Feature Documentary"
'Saturn Saved Me' is a 50 minute personal documentary film by Sharon Smith. A spiritual road movie about her experiences in India on the bumpy road to wisdom, it explores her encounters with astrology and divination as she consults with Indian soothsayers and healers and looks for an ancient palm leaf that reveals her destiny. Sharon discovers that her past life deeds are preventing her from being happy as well as keeping her single. What's more, she has a curse! As a contemporary American woman, her predicament is both humorous and poignant as she confronts the collision between Western values and ancient Eastern beliefs. Sharon is nonetheless transformed by this experience and returns to New York City embracing the freedom that her life offers.
"Armenia(s), Time for Artists" by Anahit DASSEUX TER MESROPIAN & David VITAL-DURAND
"Best Feature Documentary"
What inspires artists in their creations? 
To what extent is the history of their origins represented in their work? 
What is transmitted to their children?
This documentary aims to recount the creative power of artists of Armenian origin and to show the vitality of the transmission to their children, who have also become artists themselves.
A story of legacy through artistic creation, with the testimonies of great artists.

"Women Behind the Wheel" by Hannah Congdon, Catherine Haigh
"Best Feature Documentary"
Two women. One epic journey. Countless stories that deserve to be heard.
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Cat and Hannah, two British women in their twenties, take on the gruelling 3000km drive along Central Asia's Pamir Highway - the second highest international road on Earth. It runs from southern Uzbek deserts, through Tajikistan's Pamir mountain range, climbing over 4600m, into Kyrgyzstan and all the way to its vibrant capital, Bishkek.
Their route brings them to the doorsteps of women from all walks of life, revealing a women's movement that's had as many ups and downs as the drive itself. A 78 year-old gynaecologist recalls the turbulent transition from Soviet rule to independence, and testimonies of domestic abuse, 'bride kidnapping' and religious extremism expose the region's complex attitude to women's rights. 

But despite the evident patriarchal oppression in these countries, it's certainly not the whole picture. Stories of female empowerment against all odds emerge, from a group training Tajikistan's first ever female trekking guides to a feminist collective running workshops on sexual pleasure.
With women behind the camera and behind the wheel, this documentary marks a radical departure from the typical road-trip film. Cat and Hannah gain unprecedented access to over 50 women. Their testimonies shed light on a women’s movement largely ignored by Western media. They begin to realise that feminism exists in all shapes and sizes - and collectively, the smallest changes can amount to a quiet revolution.


"touched" by Jukka Rajala-Granstubb, Marc Wagenbach
"Best Short Documentary"
Pina Bausch, the world-famous dancer, choreographer and director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, died in June 2009. She left behind one of the most important artistic legacies of our time – not only in dance. Why is her legacy still important to us? Why do we need to remember? Marc was born in Wuppertal and for two years at the age of thirty, he was the personal assistant to Pina Bausch. “touched” is a film about identity and loss, the function of art in society, the citizens of Wuppertal and their memories. A reflection on the heritage of Pina Bausch, a counter-archive.
"Mother" by Gal Kinan
"Best Student Film"
On the evening of Independence Day lonely Solomon stands, lost in thought, on Hahagana Bridge next to the Tel Aviv central station. As the fireworks die down a vision in the sky with him as a baby and his mother appears and for a short moment, he is transported back to his childhood.
"Tyranny" by David Adamko
"Best Short Documentary"
A dysfunctional society controlled by a toxic leader results in the reality of illiberalism and the sole autocratic EU member state is leading the way. Recently, an angular black hole appeared in the centre of this nation's main square, which proved invisible to Hungarians. The analysis of this dark object offers a short glimpse at tyranny from the angle of anxiety.
"On the track of Robert van Gulik" by Rob Rombout
"Best Feature Documentary"
Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most popular Dutch writers, but relatively unrecognized in his own country. A diplomat, Chinese specialist and scholar, he became famous with his detective series about Judge Tie, which in many ways, are projections of his own life: a permanent duality between his real life and the hero in his books.
"In a Tamasic World" by Camilla Martini
"Best Music Video" and "Best Composer"
A dreamlike symbolic journey into the modern world. Anima – the human soul – is threatened by dark forces, who besiege her as hooded strangers. Hyperion – the mad sage, and Clotho – the Moira seamstress of fate who spins the thread of human life, measure up against infinity and fate. Maya – queen of fire and illusion, evokes the lifeforces needed to sustain Anima in the confrontation that awaits her. On the chessboard of good and evil, where the struggle is being fought with tamasic forces, Anima appears to capitulate – but the immortal current of life will prove stronger than everything else.
"Fix It in Post" by Bret Jones
"Best Student Film"
A group of college filmmakers are trying to compete a classmate's short...with little luck...
"Mixed Signals" by Wayne Gibson
"Best Costume Design" and "Best Scenography"
The history of the West wasn't always written as depicted in the old Westerns.
It was also written by the horsefly.
You see, where there were horses, there were flies.
Where there were flies, there was trouble.
One such troubling event took place in 1857.
"The Soul of Sicily" by Margie Raimondo
"Best Short Documentary"
The food we eat connects us to a vast web --from farmers to producers - involved in getting food from farm to fork. We probably don’t pause to think about it while eating an apple or cheese, but this global food system is central to some of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Farmers are our most fragile link in this food chain.
"DIVINE LUST" by Anthony de Bono
"Best Experimental Film"
A short film explores Anthony de Bono’s interdisciplinary practice. Creating a visual experience of intimacy and collaboration within queer culture. With the stark reminder that existence is political.
"Emails to My Little Sister" by Solomon Mekonen
"Best Student Film"
“Emails to My Little Sister” is a film created as part of an MA thesis project concerning the phenomenology of Blackness in Berlin. The film, however, takes place in Ethiopia where becoming Black is reflected back on in siblings' email conversations. The film, a result of an autoethnographic research, explores historical and ongoing relationship between the so- called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of the Mediterranean and a sister south of it discover what that relationship entails and how it affects and shapes their lives.
"Savage" by Eliza Sterling
"Best Student Film"
A young woman seeks justice and finds that the law is balanced by money.
"DUST" by Iuliia Boriaeva
"Best Music Video"
"We are voices" by Rebeca Saavedra Gironás
" Best Experimental Film"
Experimental sound collage. Voice concert.
Collective portrait of women of different ages and parts of the world who share ideas about who they are and the society that surrounds them during the year 2020.
"Babu & I" by Randika Perera
"Best Director Debut", "Best Composer"
A sudden disappearance of a mother calls into question a relationship between a child and her teddy bear.
"Wither With Her" by Jason Hammond
"Best Experimental Film"
Wither with her is an experimental short film, revolving around a couple, Ivan and Kayla, who are heroin addicts who have overdosed and died. The film follows them through their final days, blurring the lines between documentary and classic narrative, to create something uniquely surreal.
"Happy Ending" by Jason Hammond
"Best Director Debut"
Picture book writer Kirihara had a brilliant past in which his debut work became a bestseller. However, after that, there were a series of misfortunes such as divorce from her wife and the emergence of alleged plagiarism of her debut work. Despaired, Kirihara jumps from the roof of the building and tries to commit suicide, but a strange girl appears and helps him. The moment he thought "Who ?!", Kirihara became the girl! In addition to that, the time goes back five days, and the girl and the picture book writer "Two Kirihara" spend a mysterious five days ...
"Vertigo" by Haruo Inoue
"Best Feature Documentary" and "Best Experimental Film"
he year 2022 marks the centennial of the birth of Jonas Mekas, the god of American avant-garde cinema.
Gozo Yoshimasu (born 2/22/1939), a pioneer of Japanese contemporary poetry, pursued the vision of his ally, the late Jonas Mekas (12/14/1922 - 1/23/2019), in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The time is the end of January 2020, just before the coronavirus strikes NYC, and the trip is just in time. The film depicts the dramatic birth of a poem that could be called a requiem on the first anniversary of the death of Mekas, who was considered a giant of experimental cinema.
“Why are your poems and films so shaky?” Someone asked this question to Jonas Mekas, the poet deemed the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. Mekas replied “My life is shaky.”
This film Memai Vertigo follows Gozo Yoshimasu (b. 1939), a pioneer of modern Japanese poetry, as he seeks memories of his friend Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) through Manhattan and Brooklyn one year after Mekas’ passing. The film depicts Gozo’s process as he works to craft a poetic requiem for his friend during his stay in America.

"Helicopter Tjungurrayi" by Ankit Mishra
"Best Short Documentary"
IN 1957 a chopper pilot named Jim Ferguson was working on a mineral survey of the Gibson desert in WA when he landed at Natawalu – a spot so isolated it’s not even on the map.

An indigenous family approached him and managed to communicate that one of their members, a 10-year-old boy named Tjungurrayi, was desperately ill and needed help. Most of the family group had never seen a white man before, and none had seen a helicopter.

Ferguson snapped a picture of Tjungurrayi in front of the chopper, capturing the terribly skinny boy and his mum in loin cloths.

Tjungurrayi was flown to Balgo Mission station where he received urgent medical treatment that saved his life. The young boy grew up to become an acclaimed artist whose works are displayed in New York and Paris, as well as a community elder and one of the leaders of the Warlayirti Artists in Balgo.

Helicopter Joe Tjungurrayi, as he is now known.
His mates call him Chopper.

This documentary film chronicles the reunion between the pilot's daughter and Helicopter, and tells his wonderful story.

"Buried in the blues" by Pedro Ludgero
"Best Experimental Film"
Now it’s my turn to be the hero and my film will even speak English.
Now it’s my turn to recount what does not count and cannot be counted: the power that resists impotence, and the metamorphosis of loss.

"Boneyard Racers" by David Heacock
"Best Color Editing", "Best Costume Design", "Best Makeup"
When a teen couple accidentally stumbles upon a ghoulish party on Halloween night, they’re challenged to a supernatural drag race with the highest stakes.
"VUJA DE" by Joby Varghese
"Best Experimental Film"
The changes brought by time in human relations. The dissonances in such changes..And journey of a man that transcends place and time, seeking a solution for those dissonances...
"Bravo Marcel - The Century Climber" by Hannes Tell
"Best Short Documentary"
Still climbing on the sharp end of the rope at 99 years of age, Marcel Remy is a truly unique climbing super hero of our time that shows us in an incredible way that you are really never too old to achieve your goals in climbing and lead an inspiring life.

Synopsis

Learning how to skateboard at 90 years of age, still climbing a 450m multipitch at 95, still lead climbing at nearly 100 years of age. Those incredible feats of Marcel Remy seem as inspiring as they can be daunting for everyone who might be afraid of aging. Narrated by Claude Remy, our uncanny super hero Marcel takes us along in a slow but steady pace film as we can witness what effect this stone old climber has on his environment and peers. Being the father of the infamous Remy Brothers who are true legends on their own for establishing hallmark first ascents in climbing, we start to understand how their character (and lastly modern sport climbing alike) was shaped by necessity and tenacity.
"Roots" by Marina Díez
"Best Director Debut"
A woman who moved from a small town in Galicia to Madrid in the 70s tells small bits of her feelings about her land.
"Marika… why be afraid" by Matthaios Frantzeskakis
"Best Short Documentary"
On the fifth day of the Battle of Crete, Saturday 24 of May 1941, three Germans pass by the village of Kakopetros in the Municipality of Platanias, Chania, and approach the home of Antonis Loufardakis, located next to a creek below the central street.
Without any reason at all, they enter their home and kill with automatic weapons five women and a two-year old child.
Five-year old Maria witnessed everything, while remained hidden under the bed. Maria shares with us her story and remembers her father saying: Marika… why be afraid?!.
"Let Me" by Edit Jakab
"Best Experimental Film"
Let Me is dedicated to all the children who never reached the other shore. This film poem stands in remembrance of the refugee children who dreamed of a safer world but were not able to experience it. In the bloody turmoil of our days, this very subtle and lyrical film depicts a piece of reality that is timely in its nonsensical tragedy. The world needs little pieces of love such as this. Throughout the poem, a very important thought reverberates "Peace, I think," leading to the ultimate desire "Peace, I wish."
It is our duty, as filmmakers, to remind people of their lost humanity. After all, artists are the owners of history.
"RUE" by Casey Eldridge
"Best Student Film"
A middle-aged daughter deals with the aftermath of her traumatic childhood.
"Americans in Japan" by Johnny Vonneumann
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Experimental Film" and "Best Music Video"
6 Americans travel to Japan, in Johnny Vonneumann's new documentary opera
"La Bi-Vencia" by Mariana Gongora, Analaura Cárdenas
"Best Short Documentary"
Drawing on images from a non-existent border between Santa Elena, Chihuahua, and Big Bend National Park in Texas. La Bi-vencia explores the reunion of a ghost town next to the Rio Grand that was abandoned after 9/11.
"An evening with the Tailor" by Seneca Robinson, Jarvis Garvin
"Best Producer"
"Alang: The paths of my name" by Spiqan Bulan
"Best Short Documentary"
Alang: The paths of my name 
Author: Spiqan Bulan 

In the Truku language “alang” means “community" or “tribe.” Truku people are one of 16 formally recognized Indigenous tribes in Taiwan. Alang: My Name uses the place-names of Truku communities as an entry point into Taiwan’s Indigenous histories, uncovering the colonial policies of forced migration that transformed Indigenous lives and landscapes. 

Since the 1600s, Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples have been colonized by Dutch, Japanese, and Chinese Nationalist governments. Across generations these 
colonial regimes forced Truku communities to relocate, migrating from Taiwan’s mountains to the plains. Each move brought profound changes to traditional lifeways, relationships with land, and the names of Indigenous communities. Alang: My Name retells the contemporary migration stories of Truku peoples from an Indigenous perspective, offering an alternative to the 
national colonial narratives that remain dominant today. 

"Adio" by Karlo Gagulić
"Best  Student Film"
"Maryam - A mother's passion." by Luca Liotti, Raffaele Musumeci
"Best Original Soundtrack"
The Passion of Christ, seen from the eyes of his mother. A woman torn between the instinct to save her son and that of a divine destiny already written.
"Emily or Oscar?" by Chris M. Allport
"Best Color Editing", "Best Sound Design", "Best Producer"
As a love letter to old Hollywood, Emily or Oscar is a 'Hollywood golden era' throwback romantic comedy. With silent film references and Hollywood studio life, everyone is sure to get a laugh as they take a ride through screenwriter, Sam Feldman's wild imagination. But what happens when a Hollywood director makes him choose between the Academy Award, and the woman of his dreams?
"You can't show my face" by Knutte Wester
"Best Short Documentary"
The sound of the streets of Teheran are transformed in to forbidden beats, people sing and young women and men rhyme their inner feelings. They tell us about a society that rejects them, streets belonging to the government and about a vision of a utopia within creativity. Street salesmen and pedestrians form an imaginary choir of the streets, backing up the youth, suggesting the public space should belong to the public. The narrative is captured in a circular chronology, in a single day from dawn to dawn, embodying a situation. The project was illegally recorded in the streets of Teheran by a few young artists and filmmaker Knutte Wester. (A Bastard Child, IDFA 2016)
"When Our Eyes Meet" by Steven Bogdonas
"Best Composer"
"Vi Pular" by Maria Nunes
"Best Music Video"
The day ends, the cycle begins. Bipolarity plagues us and we run away, living.
"Seven Thousand Souls" by Sanjin Miric
"Best Feature Documentary"
Serbia alone had lost a third of its entire population in the Great War, almost half its men.
This film talks about those that never returned home from the two biggest Austria-Hungarian prisoner camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic - Jindřichovice and Broumov.
A film that I owed to my nation.
SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic, Jindrihovice and Broumov. The camps had about 500 facilities where there were about 60,000 prisoners of war.
Extremely difficult working conditions, no food, no shoes and clothes, winter and infectious diseases, all this affected the fact that 7,100 Serbs did not survive the camps. There is a mausoleum in Jindrihovice where the remains are
victims of these camps - 7100 Serbs and 189 Russians. It is the second largest Serbian tomb in the world.
"Film Dreams about her Childhood" by Li-Ming CHENG
"Best Feature Documentary"
Film dreams about her childhood.
Camera, Rolling, action!
And they act, sing and cry.
However, how many people realize that
the earlier film base was actually made of Taiwan's camphor tree
and the story behind it?
"DOUBLE RAINBOW" by Stefania Montesolaro
"Best Director Debut"
Serena Alston Guerini's married life had been uneventful.
Living on her family's idyllic Tuscan wine estate, she devoted herself to her only child and to the piano, allowing her husband Massimo to occupy the limelight. The platonic love she received from an old school friend, Claudio, consoled her as Massimo grew more and more distant, focused entirely on the business and local politics.
As Serena's ambition to become a professional pianist develops, her life explodes. Massimo becomes fiercely resentful and violent.
When Claudio reveals his duplicity, Serena is truly alone, with no one left to trust. She is at a crossroads, suddenly aware that her future lies in her own hands.
Her life is in pieces.
Should she preserve all that matters to her, or start living the life she wants? She has to make a difficult choice. Or, is there perhaps a third option?
"Washing Off Makeup" by Elliott Gerard Dynes
"Best Student Film"
Percy, a timid high school student, joins a few classmates he’s getting to know in a dress shop. He encounters another classmate, James, trying on a dress and wants to spend more time with him. After a difficult encounter with his mother, he spends the next day with James trying on makeup. James comes home to disapproval and a physical encounter with his father causing him to question how he identifies all together. The two find strength and validation within each other and find that he must do what’s right for them, even in the face of disapproval.
"The Love in the Fury: Stories of Boxing Through Despair" by Laren Stover
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Poster"
A short documentary film created and produced by Laren Stover with her interviews from the boxing and theatrical communities about courage, overcoming despair and the extreme magic of boxing. Filmed during the pandemic at Overthrow New York, March 2021. Directed, filmed and edited by Director Melo.
"CHOMP" by Sarah Harvey
"Best Short Documentary"
A documentary about a young woman going through an 18 month face rebuild due to arthritis.
"The Redeemables" by Al Dubinsky
"Best Director Debut"
Based on true events that focus on New York City's landlord tenant laws. Alexander Reed (Swiped), Mesha Millington (Guiding Light) and Gregory Korostichevsky (The Blacklist, Orange is the new black) star in this off beat hilarious comedy about a young man who after inheriting a house, let's his love interest and others move in thinking they will pay rent which they don't
"Kath Duncan -The untold struggle for civil rights" by Ray Barron Woolford FRSA
"Best Short Documentary"
A Documentary film about the life and activism of LGBTQ Scot Kath Duncan The most important Uk Civil rights leader past 100 years but almost forgotten in time until my Highly acclaimed stage play #liberty and my biography of Kath The Last Queen Of Scotland stage play Liberty
"RACE" by Sash Nakamoto
"Best Feature Documentary"
A film of the "Worst Humanitarian Crisis" in East Asia, the "Rohingya incident".

From Aug 25, 2017, almost 1 million Rohingya people were forced away from their homeland Myanmar and formed the "world largest refugee camp" next to the border in Bangladesh. Tens of thousands of children and women who failed to escape were killed, abused and raped.

Although such ultra-violent act --- described as Genocide: "Ethnic Cleansing" by the UN, was executed, the official records deny such facts and what actually happened was veiled in mystery. Such occurred, because of media manipulation, cover-ups, and most significantly the particular way how "Race" matters for the Myanmar people.
"FELICITY OF A RICE GRAIN" by Margreet Kramer
"Best Experimental Film"
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FELICITY OF A RICE GRAIN
Visual artist Margreet Kramer’s camera focuses, often literally, on daily rituals and their meaning. Themes such as the masses versus the individual and human vulnerability play a defining role in her work.The film FELICITY OF A RICE GRAIN shows us symbols of luck from various cultures. For the Armenian people, the pomegranate is an important symbol of luck. Throwing rice is a symbol of love and happiness in both the East and the West.
"The War to End all Wars... and its American Veterans" by Daniel Bernardi
"Best Feature Documentary"
Relying on newly discovered archival footage, memoirs from the fallen and expert commentary from world-renown scholars, The War to End all Wars tells the story of World War I from the American perspective: It's Ace pilots, mine-laying sailors, heroic doughboys, Harlem Hell Fights, and courageous nurses. As the story of trench, chemical and open warfare unfolds, we come to understand how the first global war transformed American society, leading to the Veteran's Administration, while also solidifying the country's parochial past despite the battlefield successes of African American troops.
"30 Second Thoughts: Volume One" by David Baeumler
"Best Experimental Film"
A commercial break from another dimension.

The four shorts in Volume One include: “Attack the System”, a blessing for your enemies; “Zabrinor”, the ultimate drug for the modern world; “We Shall Overcoat”, an argument over a revolutionary rainbow; and “Evil Man”, a study of why bad things happen.
"Virtual Cultures in Pandemic Times" by Bernhard Drax
"Best Feature Documentary"
Since March 2020, Draxtor has been following researchers based in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, around Animal Crossing and Second Life to find out how COVID-19 is reshaping online interaction.

In the film, protagonists from all over the world speak openly about their anxieties and everyday challenges during this global crises and about what virtual worlds and social games mean to them in the context of a pandemic.

Mixed reality interviews and group discussions provide the basis for a sprawling narrative: a mosaic of impressions, shared by people from all walks of life, some well known figures from science, arts and culture, some just regular folks (like the research team itself), trying to make sense of a new age dominated by uncertainty and physical isolation.
"The truth about La Dolce Vita" by Giuseppe Pedersoli
"Best Feature Documentary"
October 20 ,1959. Giuseppe Amato, great producer of many masterpieces of the Italian neurealism is alone in a small screening room. In front of him the sequences of Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" that no other producer had accepted to produce .
The director's version is four hours long, Fellini doesn't want to cut out any footage and Rizzoli is not willing to distribute it with his Cineriz.
It is the most dramatic challenge Giuseppe Amato has ever faced, one that will cost him his career and his life.
"Dreams" by Alfiya Salavatullina
"Best Music Video"
"Echoes from the City of the Dead The great necropolis of Olisipo" by Raul Losada
"Best Feature Documentary"
This documentary covers more than a century of archaeological discoveries in the great necropolis of Olisipo, the Roman Lisbon, from the first finding in 1850 to the discoveries made during the subway construction works in 1960 and the construction of the Praça da Figueira parking lot, in 1999.

Meanwhile, our perception of its great extension – along the road that linked the Roman city to its territory to the north – has been amplified by recent archaeological excavations, namely those that took place at Rua das Portas de Santo Antão, Calçada do Lavra and Rua de Santa Marta.

As discoveries and investigations continue, we are presented with the remains of graves, funerary monuments, human remains, and funerary objects that accompanied the deceased on their final journey.
"Black Quixotes" by Sandino Burbano
"Best Producer", "Best Director Debut"
This documentary covers more than a century of archaeological discoveries in the great necropolis of Olisipo, the Roman Lisbon, from the first finding in 1850 to the discoveries made during the subway construction works in 1960 and the construction of the Praça da Figueira parking lot, in 1999.

Meanwhile, our perception of its great extension – along the road that linked the Roman city to its territory to the north – has been amplified by recent archaeological excavations, namely those that took place at Rua das Portas de Santo Antão, Calçada do Lavra and Rua de Santa Marta.

As discoveries and investigations continue, we are presented with the remains of graves, funerary monuments, human remains, and funerary objects that accompanied the deceased on their final journey.
"Street Opera" by Arjan Onderdenwijngaard
"Best Director Debut"
A Street Opera created with the sounds, both rhythmic and vocal of 35 Indonesian street vendors.

Once upon a time in the neighborhood of Depok Mulya I, part of the megapolitan Greater Jakarta with a population of 30 million, street vendors start to sell their products and offer their services to the residents from dawn. But this day something is not as usual.
Mrs. Harti, the Greengrocer is witness of what seems to be a flirt between Mr. Jajang Wahyu the Drying Rack vendor and Mrs. Ita who sells her Homemade Snacks to the residents. Then Mr. Saipul Anwar, the Secondhand Stuff and Junk Collector turns up who does not agree with what he sees. Slowly things get out of hand. Mrs. Ita and Mr. Jajang Wahyu seem not able to explain that actually nothing is going on. No more than innocent smalltalk. But Mr. Saipul Anwar doesn’t believe what he is told. Their quarrel cathes the attention of the regular vendors of the neighborhood who gather and start to interfere and shout their comments in front of Mrs. Harti and some residents. Finally Mr. Saimar the senior Tape vendor takes control and tells everyone to shut up, stop fighting and return home. At dusk peace returns to the neighborhood and it's back to normal.
"Dishonour" by Terrence Turner
"Best Experimental Film"
A five year old girl is caught in middle of a struggle between her recently widowed father and his elderly aunt who disagree on how best to adapt to the customs and laws of their newly adopted home in the United Kingdom. The aunt’s failure to abandon ancient African tribal traditions, including the harmful practice of FGM or female genital mutilation, leads to potentially devastating consequences for the young girl. All six characters in the film are played by one remarkable female actor, Mimi Ndiweni.
"Ganush: The Pursuit of 5 Stars" by Vseant Nath
"Best Color Editing", "Best Sound Design", "Best Closing Credits"
In a world full of mildly-inconvenienced “Karens” with access to the
internet, floundering Friendly Falafel restaurant owner, Ganush, fights for five-star reviews in this light-hearted comedy that is deep-fried in fun, fake accents, and falafels for the whole family.
At first, blissfully unaware of the review-aggedon, Navia, Ganush’s
perceptive younger daughter, brings the Foody Broodies to his attention. An online hot spot for moms to review, recommend, or rip apart local restaurants, schools, and other businesses. When one bad review about being a few falafels short causes a ripple effect of negative feedback from other users about his business, Ganush goes undercover with a fake mom profile
to infiltrate the site.
"The Missing and Murdered" by Zeke Hanson
"Best Feature Documentary"
After the Dakota Uprising of 1860, 303 Dakota men were sentenced to death. President Lincoln commuted 264 of those sentences. On December 26, 1862 in Mankato, MN 38 Dakota men were hanged until dead in the largest single day mass execution in American History.

In April 1863, the remaining men, women and children were moved by boat to Nebraska and South Dakota.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) ride was created to raise awareness and give thanks for those who endured that hardship.

Riders also bring their own names of loved ones who have been affected by violence since then, those who have been lost and left without a voice.

Their names are not forgotten.
"Clear Ice Fern" by Kevin Schewe
"Best Experimental Film"
Images shot through architectural glass on Super 8 film in the dead of night in NYC. The title refers to one of the glass samples I used to frame up images of Times Square and other nightspots in NYC. The city peeks its head in as an off screen character, but the glass bends and twists it in its own warped and wonderful way.
"Opacity" by Michael Addiso Mersereau
"Best Experimental Film"
An invitation from one stranger to another to open up about their very first car. A sighting of a witch, and a chair to sit in. Opacity is a short video honoring the cryptic and restrained, using obscure symbolism, narrative distance, and an unresolved journey into a hallucinogenic netherworld. The latest short by Michael Mersereau explores semi-biographical events blended with an atmospheric narrative in otherworldly landscapes.
"Bad Love Tigers" by Kevin Schewe
"Best Poster"
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.
"Organic" by Egor Subbotin
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Original Soundtrack"
Organic is a short nature documentary that explores the vast alien world of aquatic fresh-water ecosystems. The most ancient, but also some of the most resilient on earth. The film explores the ways of their survival and adaptation, as well as highlighting how fragile these aquatic worlds can be when the delicate climate balance is thrown off.
"Zoom With Me" by Vasile Flutur and John McEneny
"Best Original Soundtrack"
The pandemic has left single mom Jackie feeling isolated, lonely, and like her life is slipping from her. She finds solace in the routine of running, and on her daily runs she passes the same man again and again. An invitation from him sets her into a panic, but her daughter encourages her to take a risk. Lies are told, but somehow Jackie may just find the connection we are all longing for.
"Seven Ridges" by Antonio Coello
"Best Experimental Film"
In a desert by the sea, an ancient culture endures modernity. A grandmother and her granddaughter intertwine in estrangement over memory. The myth sheds controversy; time falls in dreams of sand, old songs and rock music.
First full-length feature drama to be ever produced in Cmiique Iitom (Seri language)
"The Ruin" by Ilkan Devrim Dinc
"Best Director Debut"
A homeless and partially blind man encounters a young man when he loses his way. Despite being relatively wealthy, the young man got fed up with the meaninglessness of his life and hit the road. The men, who come together, set out on a journey that will affect both their perception of the world and their lives by walking for days. Together, the two help each other on a spiritual journey and try to find the home of the blind man
"Detective Stories" by Graham Pike
"Best Music Video"
A 'film noir' musical drama.
Is he being unfaithful?
She hires a private detective.
"Carousel Girl" by Fran Sisco, Matina Grammas
"Best Music Video"
Life is complicated, yet this song expresses a person's wish for simpler uplifting ways as inspired by a carousel, and the song draws parallels between a carousel and life and love, on a personal level and on a societal level.
"SURVIVING THE SILENCE: The Untold Story Of Two Women In Love Who Helped Change Military Policy" by Cindy L. Abel
"Best Feature Documentary"
Surviving the Silence tells the story of two women in love who played a part in changing military policy, shining light on the unknown history of how a closeted colonel forced to expel an Army hero for being lesbian did so in a way resulting in re-instatement via federal court.

Years before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Colonel Patsy Thompson presided over the review board that dismissed Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer for being a lesbian. Although she had been in tough spots over the course of her 28-year service, this was the toughest. Presiding over this case forced Patsy to confront her own moral dilemma and her own secret: she too was a lesbian.
"Correspondence" by Yuri Obitani, Ming-Yu Lee
"Best Experimental Film"
A film correspondence between Yuri Obitani and Ming-Yu Lee, between Tokyo and Taipei, starting from 2019 to 2021. In the era of the pandemic, they communicate and understand each other through letter films.
"Until the End" by Oliver Slappnig, Claudia Michel
"Best Short Documentary"
In Switzerland, more and more people would prefer to die in their own bed. The film portrays relatives who accompanied a person at home until the end of life. It shows which communal forms of support exist for the well-being of relatives and how communities can strengthen competences in dealing with the end of life.
"Еcho of victory" by Miras Zhumabekuly Kadyrov
"Best Feature Documentary"
"Echo of Victory" is a documentary film dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory.
Our film is a gratitude to our veterans for their heroism and for the fact that we live in peace.
We keep the eternal memory of them, their history. Nobody is forgotten! Nothing is forgotten!
"Onii(Bro) ~Are Muscular dystrophy in despair? Abused sister asks~" by Aiko Komeda
"Best Short Documentary"
This is a documentary about a sister from a dysfunctional family interviewing her brother who has muscular dystrophy.
"Muscular Dystrophy(MD)", an intractable disease that causes progressive muscular weakness and necroses.
My brother is a MD patient.
He may some of the time mention his physical agonies but does not make any remark of pessimism around his life.
As this interview moves on, however, he starts to speak out….
He says he's an in-between of a handicapped person and healthy, with pressure of “looking normal”.
"Aftermath" by Levi Elizaga
"Best Experimental Film"
Filmed at beautiful Arcosanti, AZ, Aftermath is a contemporary dance-on-screen depicting the aftermath of sexual assault: rage, disgust, shame, and solidarity with other survivors.
"Deaf Reach: Hope for Pakistan" by John E. Quatroche II
"Best Short Documentary"
In Pakistan, an American expatriot and his Filipina wife have led the development of education opportunities for deaf children and young adults for over 20 years. They began with nothing more than a dream and now have educated more than 5,000 deaf students; established Deaf Reach schools in 8 different cities; and have current enrollment over 1,200. “Deaf Reach: Hope for Pakistan,” a documentary short film, tells their story and highlights some of their students, parents, graduates, and staff. The film also spotlights recent achievements in international collaboration and higher education.
"The Little Prince with A Mask" by Yili Fan
"Best Short Documentary"
The Little Prince with A Mask is a short educational comedy. The film was shot entirely on a cell phone. The filming team consisted of one drama teacher and eight middle school students. The filming took place in a real drama classroom during their real drama class time.

The film is about something that happened in a drama classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools were reopened in the US in September 2020. At a public school in the South of the United States, where the teacher teaches students drama in Chinese language, the drama teacher used a cellphone and a tripod to record her teaching and her students' production, The Little Prince. The short film, the Little Prince with A Mask, shows how the students adapted The Little Prince into a short film production step by step.
"THE SPACE OF NOT SEEING" by Guilherme Augusto Bonini
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Sound Design", "Best Experimental Film"
Through sound noises and image fragments, the universe promotes an intersection of artistic segments between music, photography, poetry and cinema in the construction of a language that explores the human auditory and visual senses, in order to provoke sensations that encompass the inclusion through a recognition of the “invisible” of areas of municipal territoriality.
"Bullets and Katanas" by Nacho Serapio
"Best Director Debut"
How would you react if you were a Martial Arts expert, had a Katana in your hands, and your daughter had just been kidnapped. Under this premise, Sensei Marín launches a race against time with Nacho, his best friend.
"F r a g m e n t e d" by Ioulia Lymperopoulou
"Best Poster", "Best Experimental Film"
I was inspired by my novel “The smudge” (Taxideftis-2021), seizing the opportunity to recreate on my story and characters and thus experimenting to enrich and deepen the already given material, in order to expand it to different levels. In a nutshell, the elements Ι played with were the fragments of thoughts, feelings and body, lost in the chaos of the human condition, trying to find their way out οf the labyrinth, in purpose of equilibration and restabilization. The body is used as an allegory, the house of psyche, where words, consciousness, unconsciousness, memory, experience are scattered and rediscovered in their wholeness. In this process, the connotated symbolism of death is conceived as restart and metamorphosis. Technically, fragmented images and phrases are clockwise seminated in the illustration, around the center and point of reference, as if trying to find their existential meaning by following the rhythm of life while struggling to become a complete entity.
"Past and Future" by Douglas Alves Ferreira
"Best Experimental Film"
In the haunted corners of my memory, I walk across my Rebel feelings. Before the years destroys the pure truths, as much as it destroys everything that is sweet. I breathe the lack of what coul’d have been, the limit between reality and dream. And in time my vision less, and makes the past my home…
"Bars Beer & Booze with Roberto Serrini" by Roberto Serrini
"Best Short Documentary"
Weather you're a sipper, use a snifter, or downright syphon the stuff, alcohol has an amazing and twisted place in our society that not only plays a part in having a good time, but some huge historical moments as well.

In this series introduction we get just a sip of what a world on booze looks like, from illegal home brewers, to world class labels, and the fanatics that celebrate every last drop, with your host and alcohol anthropologist, Roberto Serrini.
"Dolores, A Triptych" by Gina Ann Margillo
"Best Experimental Film"
Dressed in her clothing and using improvised movement, three dancers channel the complex spirit of Dolores Eugenia, the filmmaker's deceased mother, in an effort to exorcise demons, celebrate her life force, and process grief.
"El Padrino" by Terrence Ross
"Best Original Soundtrack"
El Padrino introduces Christopher Alvarez. He plays Eduardo, a tiny sixteen-year-old wheelchair-bound immigrant. He tries to outsmart two burly ICE agents who have deported his parents and now have targeted his only friends—his home aide, Rosa, and her teenage daughter, Esperanza. Rosa leaves Esperanza in charge of Eduardo and goes on an increasingly desperate search for money to get them out of the city that night. Meanwhile Esperanza thinks Eduardo needs a good time out on the town. He’s reluctant. Given the oddness of his body shape, people often stare. Esperanza is not the type of girl to take no for an answer, so she and he embark on their own magical mystery tour around the East Village, culminating in a wild dance scene in Tompkins Square Park. Throughout the night the ICE agents are getting closer and closer. In the end Rosa returns empty handed to the apartment, as do Eduardo and Esperanza (though her hands do carry a stack of new designer sneakers they’ve finagled). Now the net of ICE agents closes in. Eduardo, who states his goal in life is to help friends when they need it, —like “The Godfather”-— is faced with his biggest challenge: to save Rosa and Esperanza and to avenge his parents.
The movie is bold and brash. It was shot guerrilla style all over the East Village. A third of it is in Spanish. It is enriched by guest star Alejandro Aguilar from Netflix’s El Chapo and by the exhilarating songs of popular Cuban composer/singer Leslie Cartaya. El Padrino is timely, poignant and fun.
"Handsome Sailor of Rock'n Roll" by Kagan Olgunturk
"Best Feature Documentary"
Erkut Taçkın is the first Rock'n Roll perfromer of Turkey and Athough he is 76, he still can perform on stage. 'Handsome Sailor Of Rock'n Roll' is the portrait of this extra ordinary entertainer
"LUNARCODE: THE LIGHT" by Vincenzo Carubia
"Best Music Video"
Latest music video by award winning Rock Band LUNARCODE. this is off their first album "Stories Untold" available on iTunes, Spotify and all major platforms
"LUNARCODE: THE LIGHT" by Vincenzo Carubia
"Best Music Video"
Latest music video by award winning Rock Band LUNARCODE. this is off their first album "Stories Untold" available on iTunes, Spotify and all major platforms
"Making of Making Nothing" by Barbara Erni
"Best Experimental Film"
The filmmaker makes frequent visits to her old mother who lives far away. The visits are trying. Invaded by the past she loses her creativity and sinks into lethargy. Why mother and daughter couldn’t they build a bond of trust? How was the life of her female ancestors? The filmmaker decides to tell this period starting with the family photos, and the videos and artistic photos made during this period. She sees her mother in a last encounter.
"Liminality" by Jennifer Akalina Petuch, Annali Rose
"Best Experimental Film"
Liminality is inspired by reimagining what Odette may have experienced upon plunging to her death in the lake from the classical ballet "Swan Lake". It is a moment of suspended reality and a story of disenchantment, self-discovery and transformation. In our modern world we know that “happily ever after” is a journey and we have the ability to exercise our own agency to create our experience. In our story, the heroine is exploring the space in between life and death. She is coming to terms with the end of her world as she knew it and finding the strength and courage to move into a new existence.
"America" by Cetin Daglar Sezerel
"Best Short Documentary"
Life in the United States of America it shows the reality. Different cities , the way of life how people live in poverty, different things to experience such as sightseeing ,different cultures , restaurants and Hollywood fame.
"J'Accuse! A cry from the killing pits of Lithuania" by Michael D Kretzmer
"Best Feature Documentary"
A documentary film that tears apart Lithuania's policy of holocaust denial and its official hero worship of mass murderers.
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