Official Selections
Winter 2023
Official Selections List
Best Short Film
"Lilith" by Celia Ramos
"Best Short Film"
A girl finds a teddy bear with the name tag Lilith and an address and decides to return it. Did she make it though?
"Shoes" by Denise Rose
"Best Short Film"
Just a young boy finding his path… in the best possible shoes.
Shoes is a simple story, with global ambition. A story about Munidi, a young boy from a village somewhere in Africa. Munidi isn’t happy with his image and so he sets about transforming his life. Among other westernised ideals, Munidi looks to his screen idols of the western world for inspiration. But who can help him realise his Big Life Ambitions? Bond? … James Bond, that’s who!
Munidi’s transformation begins as seeks out the finer things and steps into a new life and a new pair of shoes. Meet the fresh and improved Munidi who is 100% ready to fulfil his dreams, when a series of everyday encounters make him realise that the things he idolises, aren’t quite what he thought they would be? This is the story of how one young boy’s real transformation comes with understanding who he is and what is important to him.
"Liberación" by Miguel García Bernal
"Best Short Film"
In "Liberation," David, a lonely and tormented man, struggles to find an answer to the voices that haunt his mind. One day, he receives a mysterious box that appears to hold the key to uncovering the truth behind his suffering.
"Trap of the Devil" by Kevin Garner
"Best Short Film"
After losing her daughter in an accident, a grieving mother puts her faith in a medium who promises to return her daughter from death. Upon seeing the visage of her little girl again, events begin to unfold differently than how this mother would have imagined...
"HOT MESS" by Evelyne Tollman
"Best Short Film"
A Jewish American Princess moves to Vienna and is burning up due to CULTURE SHOCK, GLOBAL WARMING, Austrian History, and the death of the American Dream. Can she stop schwitzing and swearing at everyone to find the peace she longs for?
"The Great Kind Mystery" by Ella Morton
"Best Short Film"
Inuk and Mi’kmaw artist Amy Hull tells stories about growing up in Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. Her words are illustrated by altered Super 8 and 16mm footage of Newfoundland landscapes, where the distortion of the celluloid film reflects the complexity of her relationship with the land.
"LACK" by Paweł Prewencki
"Best Short Film"
The film tells a story about struggling with pain and suffering. It touches on a very personal experience. It is a story of loneliness, anger and grief experienced by parents who lose a child. It is an intimate and emotional visualization of the world in which bereaved people live. It tells about a situation for which no one is prepared, and the 'catalogue' of reactions we have known up to that point becomes useless.
"Promise" by Ralph Guzzo, Nadia Larina
"Best Short Film"
Two sisters are trying to figure out new future after one of them will be gone.
"Motel Room" by Bradford Lipson
"Best Short Film"
Motel Room, based on a true event, explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
"Oliver" by Ilia Smirnov
"Best Short Film"
Every fiction story written by someone contains a bit of fiction and a lot of truth and personal experience. After all, only the story for which you rip out a part of your soul will truly come to life
"Panni Sporchi" by Riccardo Chiarini
"Best Short Film"
Alba experiences the despair of someone who has hit rock bottom. Her aunt reaches out to her, even at the risk of falling herself.
"BreakAway" by John Couper-Smartt
"Best Short Film"
The thief's lover meets a dentist on a bicycle and learns that she has Rights. But if she leaves, who will get the dog?
"The Stalker- Virtual play- film noir" by Emily Kathleen
"Best Short Film"
"The Stalker" is based on true events! Raising awareness against domestic violence and stalking. Survivor Emily tells her story in a story teller way, discussing the dangers of domestic abuse. Starting a conversation about stalking and domestic abuse. Discussing how common it is. It is an educational film a kinda film noir it happened to me it happened to you shorta deal.
"Portraits" by Lloyd Aboagye
"Best Short Film"
Corruption puts a struggling painter's integrity to a test as currpt government officials plot to embezzle public funds.He is torn between money or exposing these officials.
"The Diner" by Elise Marie Hodge
"Best Short Film"
An unhappy housewife and those in her inner circle, discover what they really want at "The Diner."
"Bach, the animated series" by Peter Fielding
"Best Short Film"
Telling the story about Bach's life through a half-decent series of cartoons.
"Live Bait" by Szilárd Demján, Gergő Bárdi
"Best Short Film"
While fishing, the grandfather gives his grandson a speech about the closed world of the baits in a jar.
He is explaining in a few words how the bait in the jar stay alive. By strength or luck, just like us humans.
The little boy looks at the jar and listens to his grandfather in silence, seemingly unaffected, uninterested in the story.
However, when he arrives home, he makes a decision.
He does not want to accept a world in which either force or luck decides our fate.
"Dear Forgiveness" by Lawrence Dumas Jr
"Best Short Film"
A young up and coming business mogul who is preparing to cement his place in the history books deals with a serious personal issue.
Jaden “JSands” Sandison is making waves in the business and media world he is set to launch the hottest new startup investment firm.
Jaden is finally launching the first brand through the firm and will make history launching in 20 cities on 2 continents.
This launch is expecting a 4million dollar evaluation after the 1st quarter.
In this exciting moment in his life Jaden is experiencing immense pain and hurt from losing his mother who taught him majority of what he knows.
"Never Alone" by John Farrelly, Christian Gerring
"Best Short Film"
Consumed by the grief of his wife's death, James rejects friend's attempts at company, only to find that when his friends leave, he isn't truly alone.
"Cash on delivery" by Udara Buddika Wijesinghe
"Best Short Film"
A young delivery man named Tharindhu, arrives at a bungalow to deliver a parcel. He is greeted by a mysterious young woman who entices him to come inside the house. He soon realizes he has made a mistake but manages to escape. He is caught outside by a person dressed as a hospital employee. Tharindhu is a patient in a mental hospital. The story of the delivery is one he concocted himself. Tharindhu now lives within the confines of these stories after brutally murdering his wife in a fit of madness, rooted in a fear of apples that developed from an incident in his childhood.
"Death, goddammit!" by Nerina Balza
"Best Short Film"
The farewell between a group of friends and the young Fran, who after a tragic plane crash, is determined to put his life in order to be able to let go.
"DATING AUDREY" by Dan Hertzog
"Best Short Film"
DATING AUDREY is the story of Pete Trumbull, a nostalgic young man who spends too much time wallowing in self-pity and living in the past. After a night of bingeing his late mother's Audrey Hepburn films, Pete wakes up to find Audrey there with him, attempting to help him move forward. The lesson Pete learns from their time together is that yearning for the past only delays one's future.
"Behind The Screams" by Luke Main
"Best Short Film"
An adult film crew find themselves in trouble when their leading actor overdoses.
"The Rose" by Talon Boggess
"Best Short Film"
"My Digital Truth" by Swen Werner
"Best Short Film"
A banker in present day London on a quest for knowledge, battling illness, and forming an eerie alliance with ChatAI, blurring the lines between reality and the digital world.
"The Stripper Trade-Off" by Janneke Williamson
"Best Short Film"
A stripper and a tradie walk into a club, and go about their respective business... just for the wrong clients
"The Fighter" by André-Charles Ishpatao
"Best Short Film"
André-Charles is a boxer. Sports changed his life. He hopes his journey will inspire others to regain their pride and hold their heads high when facing life's adversities.
"...Or to Be" by Paweł Prewencki
"Best Short Film"
The stories of non-meeting. Two people trapped in a triangle of emptiness, fear and loneliness. Dance video as a story of life, as an object. Performers in a dialog with space, sound, light and paper.
Both the dance video and the video installation …Or to Be evolves, shapes and naturally transforms one of the main topics of the piece – space in a dialog with characters, light and sound which are understood as an equal partner in creation. Thanks to that finds a spectator himself in an unusual and unexpected spatial contexts and perceptions.
The original duet is the result of two “solos” of the dance piece involving another area of the dance video as an object.
"Peak Kira" by Marin Mandir
"Best Short Film"
Rise and fall of Kira, as she and Dražen uncover a financial embezzlement at their company.
"EMBRACE" by Axel Zeltser
"Best Short Film"
Mélanie walks past the same alley every day without noticing the strange metal bucket there.
"Luzinete" by Carla Di Bonito
"Best Short Film"
At the turning of the century, single mother Luzinete, a cocaine addict and dealer in Salvador, Brazil finds out she is also HIV positive. Through a keyhole we are then invited to enter her world and more precisely, to follow her last living hours filled with substance abuse, solitude and deceit. The story glimpses at the unbroken bond between Nete, our main character and her sister Cee and the love she shares with her only son Raphael.
Sent to prison a couple of times Nete’s world is colourful but equally deceiving, slippery and dangerous. Despite her constant attempts to better herself, her friendship choices were not the wisest.
"Tails" by Lucia Lehmann
"Best Short Film"
Tails is a fictional short film about three Merpeople that discover the dangers of ghostnets. It is paired with documentary elements in order to connect the fictional story with the sad facts of life and give the receiver a special movie experience.
"Munafa" by Amit Bakshi
"Best Short Film"
This is a story of a newly married couple how they learned their biggest life lesson while returning from friends party.
"I'll Be" by Bob Kotyk
"Best Short Film"
"Bunk" by Samuel Koehler
"Best Short Film"
THREE ROOMMATES, ONE HAS TO GO. Roommates, Mike and Alex living together with their toxic third roommate Josh look back to the previous moments in which their roommate was a horrible living partner, the two build the courage to tell him to do his part or they’ll kick him out.
"Disconnect" by Riley Wadden
"Best Short Film"
The romantic relationship between two influencers is put into question after one of them deletes their social media.
"Vampires Anonymous" by Elizabeth Findley
"Best Short Film"
A reporter goes to a support group meeting for those dealing with Covid, but she didn't count on that group consisting of vampires.
"BabyThump" by Ian Killick
"Best Short Film"
A couple, Donny and Marie, awake one morning to find a baby has appeared in their apartment. Unsure what to do, and bewildered by the intrusion, they seek guidance from the eccentric Dr.Hoofenhoffer
"Adam & Eve" by Aaron Gonzalez
"Best Short Film"
A man with schizophrenia has an episode that drives him to insanity
"Static in the Ether" by Matt Jenkins
"Best Short Film"
Prominent actress Ava Grant receives bad news. Her latest movie is a flop; her boyfriend sold pictures of her naked to a celebrity gossip web site and a result she is let go from her upcoming movie role. Encouraged by her agent, Ava takes a trip to reconnect with a long lost love.
Former heart throb Benson Powell can't handle the loss of fame. Down on his luck, he fails to rob a bank. Desperate for money, Benson sets out to hold up a convenience store.
​Set on a collision course, these two face radical life changes.
"Shut up!" by Matteo Berdini
"Best Short Film"
Piero, a local comedian, dreams so much of going on television that when he does... he can't get out of it.
"INSPIRED (Black & White)" by Alessandro Alex Chiapparelli
"Best Short Film"
"Inspired" short film, tells the story of a young French painter who moves to Rome and tries to survive by selling his artwork. Adrien, the young painter, is in contact with the gallery owner (Sofia) and her sister (Clara), who has been living in Rome with her husband and their child for some time.
Unfortunately, Adrien doesn't always manage to sell his artwork to support himself and pay for his studio where he lives and works. One day, he is forced to ask a loan of 500 euros from a loan shark. Unable to repay the amount after some time, he turns to Sofia for help, but she declines to assist him.
"Grateful in Solitude" by Axel Zeltser
"Best Short Film"
"Grateful in Solitude" follows a young man's transformative journey, guided by Bruce Lee's philosophy, experiencing gratitude and embracing the balance between chaos and inner peace through self-expression
"I love you" by Rafael Maria Friebe
"Best Short Film"
Marcel and Carla's life would be in harmony if Marcel had not fallen ill with schizophrenia a year ago, which has been treated with tablets ever since. Unfortunately, the side effects of these tablets are so unpleasant for Marcel that he recently stopped taking them. As a result, a strong schizophrenic attack has occurred, in which Marcel falsely imagines that he has been cheated on by Carla several times with other men. In revenge, he has Carla bound and gagged and abuses her with a knife and with blows. However, he is not even aware of this, but hallucinates a harmonious loving coexistence with Carla. He is thus extremely split in personality. The film shows both dimensions of this split, the real and the hallucinated one. When a visitor, Janna, rings the doorbell, the hallucinating Marcel kindly lets her enter the apartment, even though he is covered in blood and Carla is badly battered in the living room.
"Ritual" by Grazyna Gudejko
"Best Short Film"
On a sunny Sunday, a woman and her daughter enter the train station and walk down the stairs. Unfortunately, they missed their train. Tough luck, they will take the next one. The woman walks up to the ticket office and buys tickets to Pruszkow. They enter the platform and sit down on a bench. The mother asks the girl to call her grandmother, to whom they are about to go, that they will be late. Daughter answers her saying „After all, we are always late, this is already our ritual”.
The girl delves into the phone, the mother gets up and slowly, dangerously approaches the tracks. We see her terrifyingly sad face. Hearing an oncoming train, the daughter jumps off the bench and pulls her mother aside, and the train passes with a bang. After a while, the two get on the right train. The mother nervously hits the cigarette pack with her lighter. Her head droops and she falls into a narcoleptic sleep. We see her daydreaming. In that dream she feels wonderful and doesn't want to return to the real world. We hear a few bars of the song "Don't wake me up" performed by Kalina Jędrusik. A frightened little girl shakes her mother, trying to wake her up. Finally, the woman opens her eyes. She is distracted and sad.
Official Selections List
Best Feature Film
"On Matriarchy Lake" by Shu Zhang
"Best Feature Film"
A love story between a man from patriarchy and a matriarchy tradition girl in 1970, the pure of the Lugu lake water liked their love that across two type of marriages definition.
"EVICTION" by Mathilde Capone
"Best Feature Film"
Depuis 2010, Parthenais accueille entre ses murs la vie de toute une communauté queer. Iels sont gay, lesbiennes, trans et vivent ensemble dans le quartier Centre-Sud en plein cœur de Montréal, dans un triplex qui tombe en ruine. Entre les partys qui accueillent parfois plus de deux cents personnes jusqu’au petit matin, les soupers collectifs, les grandes joies et les petits désespoirs, ce vieil appartement a transformé la vie de ses locataires. Douze ans plus tard, la bâtisse est rachetée par une famille aisée qui désire y habiter, gentrification oblige. C’est la fin d'un espace mythique qui a transformé une décennie de la scène queer montréalaise. Les cartons sont trop petits pour contenir toutes les histoires qui se sont déroulées entre ces murs. ÉVICTION est le récit de cette page qui se tourne, alors que les habitant·es désemparé·es cherchent un nouveau lieu où s’établir, en pleine crise du logement et de spéculation foncière.
"Amar Colony" by Siddharth Chauhan
"Best Feature Film"
Meera is beautiful, pregnant and in search of some spice in her life. Mohit is young, idle, and lives next door with Devki, his abusive mother. Meera has a boring and absent husband. But wait to see what the guy is hiding. Her aunty Dunga is old and hopes to become immortal, her other half has a secret in his shop that nobody knows about, except his young grandchild who is smarter than it seems. They all live in a dilapidated building called Amar Colony.
"No Boundaries" by Jaeun (Jay) Chin
"Best Feature Film"
Faced with the silence of holy nature, miscellaneous thoughts melt away. Mind kills breath. That is the 'Touching' we have lost. Touching runs along the water.
The mother, who lost her only son, starts her day with climbing. A haenyeo(woman diver) in her 70s says that going underwater are daily life and the way to heaven. Their lives flow through the water. Following the flow, there are mountains in the sea and the sea flows in the mountains. After all, we know that there are no boundaries in the world.
"WordLotto" by Johnny Baca
"Best Feature Film"
In a world where words are limited, Tom Brennan grudgingly handles appeals from citizens who claim that their WordMeters are malfunctioning. After he’s assigned a string of bizarre clients, the Word Representative’s life spins out of control.
"PASSACAGLIA" by Ryosuke Handa
"Best Feature Film"
The bus submerged at the bottom of the dam begins to move slowly. It was once a beautiful village. Geometric objects are flying in the sky. A girl gets lost in the forest and encounters a strange tea party. This original and unique film is a poetic depiction of a requiem for a lost landscape by Ryosuke Handa, an artist and film director who received high acclaim for his previous work, "Forest Island." The music is composed and performed by Tohru Yamanaka (the director of Damb Type, a globally recognized performance group) and Saiko Fujii (a pianist based in the United States). The film also features dance scenes performed by three Ukrainian ballet dancers and the world-renowned dancer, Emi Hariyama
"Group" by William R.A. Rush
"Best Feature Film"
At a group meeting for recovering drug addicts, not everyone is revealing the full truth.
"Catharsis, Ascension and Hell Raving" by Andrea Sardu
"Best Feature Film"
A man used to have it all, drowning in a boring life. To get some thrills, Marcello decides he wants to meet an american model, Martina Adams, who he's seen in a magazine, even if she's recently passed away. Out in the street, following a previously decided strategy, he goes through some strange adventures and completes a process of purification. That gives him access - by an elevator - to a upper level, where he meets the girl of his dreams. Not everything goes as he planned, though...
"Giardinieri d'Assalto (Outlaw Gardeners)" by Angelo Camba
"Best Feature Film"
There is only one war that deserves to be fought: that one for the environment. OUTLAW GARDENERS (Giardinieri d'Assalto) shows the battles of an unauthorized movement that is planting a revolution in Italy.
"L'ALTRA META' DI ME SEI TU" by Annarita Campo
"Best Feature Film"
Andrea is a young music composer and together with Silvana, who is a young film actress, she works for Giorgia, a film and theater producer.
The two women already know each other but one day Silvana calls Andrea and invites her to join her at her house.
Precisely on that occasion, Silvana does not hide her attraction for Andrea, and on that same occasion the passion explodes between the two women who spend the night together. From that night a great tormented and very passionate love will be born.
"CHANNELS" by Myles Bannatyne
"Best Feature Film"
A living/breathing collage of television terror that sears and rips your retinas apart. Check your pulse before changing the channel...
Official Selections List
Best Director
"MY GRANDFATHER'S DEMONS" by Nuno Beato
"Best Director"
Rosa, a top professional woman, highly rated in the business market, leads a demanding life entirely dedicated to her work. The sudden death of her grandfather, from whom she had progressively moved away, due to her endless work, ends up causing her a sudden attack of stress, that puts her choices in doubt. Rosa decides to leave the city and set out to find the place and the memories of her childhood, lived with her grandfather. When she arrives at the isolated property, in the middle of the Trás-os-Montes landscape, she discovers that her grandfather left her a set of practically abandoned lands and an almost in ruins house of her childhood. Driven by the remorse and the need to find new goals to herself, she starts rebuilding her house and grow the fields. Rosa, however, is not alone on her quest. In addition to the people with whom she will establish new bonds, there appears a group of clay demons, modeled once by her grandfather, who seem, at times, to come to life, advising, guiding and consoling her, as grandfather himself would have done.
"Live Bait" by Szilárd Demján, Gergő Bárdi
"Best Director"
While fishing, the grandfather gives his grandson a speech about the closed world of the baits in a jar.
He is explaining in a few words how the bait in the jar stay alive. By strength or luck, just like us humans.
The little boy looks at the jar and listens to his grandfather in silence, seemingly unaffected, uninterested in the story.
However, when he arrives home, he makes a decision.
He does not want to accept a world in which either force or luck decides our fate.
"Motel Room" by Bradford Lipson
"Best Director"
Motel Room, based on a true event, explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
"Cash on delivery" by Udara Buddika Wijesinghe
"Best Director"
A young delivery man named Tharindhu, arrives at a bungalow to deliver a parcel. He is greeted by a mysterious young woman who entices him to come inside the house. He soon realizes he has made a mistake but manages to escape. He is caught outside by a person dressed as a hospital employee. Tharindhu is a patient in a mental hospital. The story of the delivery is one he concocted himself. Tharindhu now lives within the confines of these stories after brutally murdering his wife in a fit of madness, rooted in a fear of apples that developed from an incident in his childhood.
"No Boundaries" by Jaeun (Jay) Chin
"Best Director"
Faced with the silence of holy nature, miscellaneous thoughts melt away. Mind kills breath. That is the 'Touching' we have lost. Touching runs along the water.
The mother, who lost her only son, starts her day with climbing. A haenyeo(woman diver) in her 70s says that going underwater are daily life and the way to heaven. Their lives flow through the water. Following the flow, there are mountains in the sea and the sea flows in the mountains. After all, we know that there are no boundaries in the world.
"INSPIRED (Black & White)" by Alessandro Alex Chiapparelli
"Best Director"
"Inspired" short film, tells the story of a young French painter who moves to Rome and tries to survive by selling his artwork. Adrien, the young painter, is in contact with the gallery owner (Sofia) and her sister (Clara), who has been living in Rome with her husband and their child for some time.
Unfortunately, Adrien doesn't always manage to sell his artwork to support himself and pay for his studio where he lives and works. One day, he is forced to ask a loan of 500 euros from a loan shark. Unable to repay the amount after some time, he turns to Sofia for help, but she declines to assist him.
"Oliver" by Ilia Smirnov
"Best Director"
Every fiction story written by someone contains a bit of fiction and a lot of truth and personal experience. After all, only the story for which you rip out a part of your soul will truly come to life
"Looking Back" by Rachel Pearson
"Best Director"
A troubled young man receives news that triggers a desperate road trip to deliver a message he believe will bring him closure. He encounters a stranger on the road who shows him an alternative path to peace.
"La tête dans les étoiles" by Timo Paris
"Best Director"
The work is characterized by a subjective approach to multimedia perception in the sense of the zeitgeist, in which our body image gains a central role in the creation of individual myths and gains enormous power. The experience of being a physical body in the world is very different from the visual impression we create for external observation. In the moment we act with our body, there is a translation of physical experience into a visual language. This parallelism is inherent in our being. It encourages the dialogue between the experiencing self, which is influenced by physical experience, and the narrative self, which is heavily influenced by our visual abilities. I use this parallelism as an artistic principle and explore the figurative potential for transformation using cross-media processes.
"Homebound" by Lefteris Koutinas
"Best Director"
"Roses" by Yael Green
"Best Director"
A young man goes to a blind dating restaurant in hope to find a girlfriend.
"How am I here?!" by Mey Seifan
"Best Director"
Years after the Syrian diaspora, many Syrians are experiencing restless feelings about homecoming, wondering if it is the expected desire or another nightmare.  
Mey Seifan muses these feelings in her transmedial performance How am I here?! Using documented late-night dreams that express anxiety about homecoming, she explores collective trauma and anxious homecoming through an audio-visual immersive journey that has been realised with Slow Future Studio and other international, multidisciplinary team members.
Official Selections List
Best Cinematography
"Oliver" by Ilia Smirnov
"Best Cinematography"
Every fiction story written by someone contains a bit of fiction and a lot of truth and personal experience. After all, only the story for which you rip out a part of your soul will truly come to life
"Motel Room" by Bradford Lipson
"Best Cinematography"
Motel Room, based on a true event, explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
"Cash on delivery" by Udara Buddika Wijesinghe
"Best Cinematography"
A young delivery man named Tharindhu, arrives at a bungalow to deliver a parcel. He is greeted by a mysterious young woman who entices him to come inside the house. He soon realizes he has made a mistake but manages to escape. He is caught outside by a person dressed as a hospital employee. Tharindhu is a patient in a mental hospital. The story of the delivery is one he concocted himself. Tharindhu now lives within the confines of these stories after brutally murdering his wife in a fit of madness, rooted in a fear of apples that developed from an incident in his childhood.
Official Selections List
Best Editing
"MY GRANDFATHER'S DEMONS" by Nuno Beato
"Best Editing"
Rosa, a top professional woman, highly rated in the business market, leads a demanding life entirely dedicated to her work. The sudden death of her grandfather, from whom she had progressively moved away, due to her endless work, ends up causing her a sudden attack of stress, that puts her choices in doubt. Rosa decides to leave the city and set out to find the place and the memories of her childhood, lived with her grandfather. When she arrives at the isolated property, in the middle of the Trás-os-Montes landscape, she discovers that her grandfather left her a set of practically abandoned lands and an almost in ruins house of her childhood. Driven by the remorse and the need to find new goals to herself, she starts rebuilding her house and grow the fields. Rosa, however, is not alone on her quest. In addition to the people with whom she will establish new bonds, there appears a group of clay demons, modeled once by her grandfather, who seem, at times, to come to life, advising, guiding and consoling her, as grandfather himself would have done.
"Oliver" by Ilia Smirnov
"Best Editing"
Every fiction story written by someone contains a bit of fiction and a lot of truth and personal experience. After all, only the story for which you rip out a part of your soul will truly come to life
"Motel Room" by Bradford Lipson
"Best Editing"
Motel Room, based on a true event, explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
"Disconnect" by Riley Wadden
"Best Editing"
The romantic relationship between two influencers is put into question after one of them deletes their social media.
"Slava" by Roksana Gotz
"Best Editing"
Slava, a young Ukrainian immigrant, was living in her comfortable bubble, and the notions of "homeland" and "belonging" were just an abstract concept for her. The 24th of February 2022, her reality is shattered into pieces. The disorienting experience of witnessing the war through the TV screen pushes her to ask herself "What means to be Ukrainian?"
"My Two Moms (A Story of Separation)" by Olga Mérediz
"Best Editing"
Olga Merediz, a well-known New York –based actress decides to return to her birthplace, Guantanamo, Cuba to reunite with the nanny her family was forced to leave behind after the Cuban revolution. In the journey she not only discovers how truly connected they are but also the bond she shares with her complex biological mother.
Official Selections List
Best Actor
"Motel Room" by Bradford Lipson
"Best Actor"
Motel Room, based on a true event, explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
Official Selections List
Best Actress
"Trap of the Devil" by Kevin Garner
"Best Actress"
After losing her daughter in an accident, a grieving mother puts her faith in a medium who promises to return her daughter from death. Upon seeing the visage of her little girl again, events begin to unfold differently than how this mother would have imagined...
"Motel Room" by Bradford Lipson
"Best Actress"
Motel Room, based on a true event, explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
"Promise" by Ralph Guzzo, Nadia Larina
"Best Actress"
Two sisters are trying to figure out new future after one of them will be gone.
"Self Discovery" by Roger Artola
"Best Actress"
This LGBT sci-fi psychological thriller tells the story of a woman grappling with suicidal ideations, trapped in a mundane, Groundhog Day-like existence who begins unraveling after reading a self-help book, Self Discovery, that unleashes her worst fears. As she reads the book, she starts seeing her own doppelgänger, a malevolent version of herself that begins taking over her life. The doppelgänger drives her to the brink of madness as she struggles to escape its grasp. [Spoiler Alert] As the film reaches its climax, the protagonist realizes the book itself is haunted, and desperately attempts to ride herself off its curse.
"Peacock" by Jaco Minnaar
"Best Actress"
PEACOCK is a South African gothic horror following the psychosexual journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.

ANNA POHL (Tarryn Wyngaard) has grown up in an institutionalised space: a puritanical, Calvinist organisation known simply as The Foundation. Their mission is to provide a place of ‘righteous innocence’ for young women - to allow them to develop away from the ‘corruptions’ of the outside world. When Anna transgresses The Foundation’s strict moral standards, she is sent away to care for one of its founding members, SAREL CILLIERS (Johan Botha), an Apartheid-era theologian now ailing on his isolated farm.
Official Selections List
Best Supporting Actor
"Motel Room" by Bradford Lipson
"Best Supporting Actor"
Motel Room, based on a true event, explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
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Best Supporting Actress
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Best Original Screenplay
"SACRED SUN" by Michael Louis Gould
"Best Original Screenplay"
‘Out of horror, belief.’A horrific animal experiment carried out by the military at a solar energy plant in the southern deserts of North America sets off a series of strange, ominous events.
A mysterious ‘other’ sun appears in rearview mirrors of plant employees’ cars as they drive away. A new star appears in the night sky, next to the Evening Star, and inexplicable data are recorded on energy plant monitors, alongside baffling seizures in machinery.
A Native American chief (and Catholic priest), César, sees visions of a malevolence that will walk the Earth, and is unable to prevent the ‘accidental’ death of his daughter, Solecita.
"Live Bait" by Szilárd Demján, Gergő Bárdi
"Best Original Screenplay"
While fishing, the grandfather gives his grandson a speech about the closed world of the baits in a jar.
He is explaining in a few words how the bait in the jar stay alive. By strength or luck, just like us humans.
The little boy looks at the jar and listens to his grandfather in silence, seemingly unaffected, uninterested in the story.
However, when he arrives home, he makes a decision.
He does not want to accept a world in which either force or luck decides our fate.
"Legend of Nepia" by Jason Anthony Fisher, Dane Ngahuka
"Best Original Screenplay"
After war erupts, Nepia is called upon to follow his wairua, or destiny and take the reigns of leadership for his Iwi.
"Korean version of Magma is more beautiful than sunset." by 海儿 歧 张
"Best Original Screenplay"
Korean version of 《Magma is more beautiful than sunset.》
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Best Animation
"MY GRANDFATHER'S DEMONS" by Nuno Beato
"Best Animation"
Rosa, a top professional woman, highly rated in the business market, leads a demanding life entirely dedicated to her work. The sudden death of her grandfather, from whom she had progressively moved away, due to her endless work, ends up causing her a sudden attack of stress, that puts her choices in doubt. Rosa decides to leave the city and set out to find the place and the memories of her childhood, lived with her grandfather. When she arrives at the isolated property, in the middle of the Trás-os-Montes landscape, she discovers that her grandfather left her a set of practically abandoned lands and an almost in ruins house of her childhood. Driven by the remorse and the need to find new goals to herself, she starts rebuilding her house and grow the fields. Rosa, however, is not alone on her quest. In addition to the people with whom she will establish new bonds, there appears a group of clay demons, modeled once by her grandfather, who seem, at times, to come to life, advising, guiding and consoling her, as grandfather himself would have done.
"The People" by Sara Salsabili
"Best Animation"
A short film about human interaction and attachment, "The People" explores the mark people leave on each other and the space they occupy. The watercolor’s fluidity and transparency are the tools used to communicate the emotional tone of the film.
"Close" by Sarah Cimperman, Clément Delamare, Simon d'Hérouville, Louison Forcier, Philippine Gabory, Anaïs Pausé, Hugo Porcher, Emma Siret
"Best Animation"
Vilca, a young man, wakes up lost in a cell. He meets Melnik, his cell neighbour.
"Citrus" by Moira Semel
"Best Animation"
Citrus is a short, experimental film that takes the audience through an experience, beginning with shots representing disconnection and gradating towards a tangerine sensory overload. It plays with colour, sound, rhythm, and textures, among other experimentations, to stimulate the audience's senses as much as possible.
"Mia and the Lost Rock" by Ursula Echeverria
"Best Animation"
Mia is a little girl who likes to play in her imagination. Her Giant rock friend has lost his rock nose. Mom wants her to clean her room, but the rock nose's search seems to be more fun. Besides, the Dust Bunny probably took it. Flying through the sky, running in the forest, She gets to the bunny's burrow. To find out that he doesn't has it. Mom, interrupts the game & she comes back to reality. Mia figured that her rock was kept under the pillow all the time. Mom comes to help her cleaning, but she gets distracted again.
"Song of the Lake" by Carlos Sallas, Ari Navarrete, Samuel Mendez
"Best Animation"
An old fisherman plays a song at a quiet lake, his last hope to find a cure for the sickness that has befallen her granddaugther.
"Andy Keys Clark - 'She’s So Spector-Esque'" by Ignatius Rake
"Best Animation"
An animated tribute to legendary singer and 60s icon Ronnie Spector (1943-2022), this epic music video for UK soul and ska stalwart Andy Keys Clark (AKC) blasts Space-Race rocketry out to the furthest corners of the cosmos to help a lovestruck astronaut reconnect with his enigmatic lover.
"Goose Quest" by Clarisse Chua
"Best Animation"
When Goosie's hamster, Nibbles, dies, the young goose will go on a quest to find the restart button.
"The Age of Dinnersaurs" by Matthew James Bissett-Johnson
"Best Animation"
A journey back in time, to see these marvelous prehistoric animals.
"Shumisen town" by 直隆 遠藤
"Best Animation"
A short art animation work created using printmaking techniques including woodblock prints and collagraphs.
"Lil Thrashers Presents...Death Jr. Jr. in...No Weenies Allowed!" by Jimmy Lazer
"Best Animation"
“No Weenies Allowed!” centers around DJJ (Death Junior, Jr.), youngest son of the Grim Reaper, as he attempts to start a band for all the wrong reasons. He is an imperfect, yet lovable scamp, driven mainly by jealousy and over-confidence. He's just kinda sick of feeling left out of his brother's activities, and overall feeling like an outcast, despite the fact that he knows he is capable of so much more- and so begins his journey into the wonderful realm of music. It's a tale as old as time.
"The Eastern Rain" by Milly Yencken
"Best Animation"
If the rain were to fall indoors, but never out doors ...where do we begin to look for shelter?
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Additional Categories
"Feminine Singular" by Dorian Shine
"Best Experimental Film"
"Unveiling the essence of femininity, 'Feminine Singular' takes you on a transformative journey into the lives of 30 Argentinean women. Through their unique stories and the captivating power of performance, this documentary explores the depth and singularity of their identities. Experience the celebration of female strength, resilience, and the boundless diversity that shape our understanding of "being a woman."
"Motel Room" by Bradford Lipson
"Best Composer"
Motel Room, based on a true event, explores the friendship that develops between an Armenian teenage boy and the prostitute his father hired to take his virginity.
"Disconnect" by Riley Wadden
"Best Student Film"
The romantic relationship between two influencers is put into question after one of them deletes their social media.
"EVROS- Α BLURRED LANDSCAPE" by GEORGIOS KERAMIDIOTIS
"Best Feature Documentary"
Through the investigation of the murder of three Afghan women in Evros, the film also investigates the changes of land use, the militarization of the space, the river and the economy on the occasion of the refugee through testimonies of people who live and work there. These stories are tied around the transformation of the silkworm into a butterfly
"The perfect lie" by Daiyong Yu
"Best Student Film"
The story took place in a world setted up by computers. The experimenter (creator) wanted to find the most potent human soul through the cultivation of the human brains, (the seed)which can create a free world by itself. In the film, the main character suffered from congenital schizophrenia, which is the result of his other personality constantly feeling the truth of the fake world. In one hand, he did not like to admit such a crucial fact. In other hands, he believed it.The main character often recalled a painful episode that he had killed a poor thief, which made him doubt the world and his true self. Cos he did not want to admit he is a born killer. In order to avoid all of this, he decided to live alone. In constant contact with nature (creator) and another personality (his true self), the main character finally detected the lie of the fake world, and compromised with his other personality----He embraced whom he really was. It became apparent that the reason he killed the thief was to free the souls from the world made by computers. Eventually his power created his own "perfect lie" and freed himself.
"Myth Taboo & Pleasure" by Riley Wadden
"Best Short Documentary"
This film tract, poetic and political, is focused on the reconstruction of a woman through dance. Her performance addresses, through the edifying prism of excision, the subject of the crushing of women by men, since the dawn of time.
"Trap of the Devil" by Kevin Garner
"Best Color Editing", "Best Costume Design", "Best Make up"
After losing her daughter in an accident, a grieving mother puts her faith in a medium who promises to return her daughter from death. Upon seeing the visage of her little girl again, events begin to unfold differently than how this mother would have imagined...
"Adam & Eve" by Aaron Gonzalez
"Best Student Film"
A man with schizophrenia has an episode that drives him to insanity
"Mira-Future" by Martina Martinelli, Andrea Ventura
Best Short Documentary
Five characters with different origins and experiences are interviewed in two locations that tell details of the urban history of the Mirafiori district (Turin, Italy). Their informal dialogue opens horizons of analysis on the quality of life, the comparison between past, present and future and the environmental issue.
"Oliver" by Ilia Smirnov
"Best Color Editing"
Every fiction story written by someone contains a bit of fiction and a lot of truth and personal experience. After all, only the story for which you rip out a part of your soul will truly come to life
"Citrus" by Moira Semel
"Best Student Film"
Citrus is a short, experimental film that takes the audience through an experience, beginning with shots representing disconnection and gradating towards a tangerine sensory overload. It plays with colour, sound, rhythm, and textures, among other experimentations, to stimulate the audience's senses as much as possible.
"Slava" by Roksana Gotz
"Best Director Debut"
Slava, a young Ukrainian immigrant, was living in her comfortable bubble, and the notions of "homeland" and "belonging" were just an abstract concept for her. The 24th of February 2022, her reality is shattered into pieces. The disorienting experience of witnessing the war through the TV screen pushes her to ask herself "What means to be Ukrainian?"
"Enlighten" by Isabel Medeiros
"Best Short Documentary"
The fungi that grew on the physical archive of the eruption of the Capelinhos Volcano (1957, Faial Island) deteriorated the images, transforming them, in the same way that time altered the way those who lived through the eruption remember it. Based on my grandparents' forgetfulness and memories, I make a photo film that focuses on memory and its faults, proposing the idea of forgetting as a fungus.
"Spring In Chigwell" by Adam Scarborough
"Best Short Documentary"
Spring In Chigwell.
My documentary about a small Essex Village where William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania went to school. Also has 'King's Head', Dickens favorite Pub, featured in his Novels.
I thought a short Documentary about William Penn and his historical connections between Pennsylvania USA and Chigwell, UK, was an interesting subject . I tried to color it with poetry and visions of the picturesque village of Chigwell in West Essex, UK, where Penn studied and Charles Dickens placed part of his story Barnaby Rudge.
"My Two Moms (A Story of Separation)" by Olga Mérediz
"Best Feature Documentary"
Olga Merediz, a well-known New York –based actress decides to return to her birthplace, Guantanamo, Cuba to reunite with the nanny her family was forced to leave behind after the Cuban revolution. In the journey she not only discovers how truly connected they are but also the bond she shares with her complex biological mother.
"To see you again" by Nicolás Eduardo Braguinsky Cascini, Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena
"Best Short Documentary"
After more than 60 years of conflict, Colombia is going through a peace process. "Para volverte a ver" is a hyperlink cinema movie that, through its four protagonists, brings us closer to the story of the exodus of the 1,000,000 people who have had to flee Colombia because of the conflict. This short documentary is a tribute to all of them.
"Me & My Tuk tuk - searching for the elephants of paradise" by Stefan Quinth
"Best Feature Documentary"
During the next few months we will travel 5-6000 kilometers on Sri Lanka with our little Tuk tuk. It will be interesting to find out if it will hold all that way and if we will hold up all the way.
The reason for our journey is to find out how Sri Lankans view the wild elephants of the island. Humans and elephants sometimes have problems coexisting. The elephant is a huge, powerful animal that demands a lot of space. When the elephant’s feeding grounds are turned into farmland there is no place for the animals to find food. This creates a conflict where both humans and elephants suffer.
Is there a future for the elephants of Sri Lanka in this struggle for living space? That is the question we will ask as we travel around this beautiful island.
"My Father Moves Mountains" by Andria Litto
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best Closing Credits"
Agent George Litto represented several Blacklisted writers in the 1960s, lending them money, getting them jobs and ultimately put them all back to work under their own names. He helped them reclaim their lives. His fearlessness caused many of Hollywood's classics to be made.
"My Radio My Life" by Bidit Roy, Makarand Waikar
"Best Feature Documentary"
Set in the 21st century, the film revisits the golden era of radio in India, when it was the dominant, popular, and only source of entertainment, news, and knowledge.
Being a medium that is heard across national borders, the radio has been instrumental in expanding horizons and enriching the lives of generations. Besides giving companionship to individuals, the radio brought families together and inspired people to make life choices.
"BreakAway" by John Couper-Smartt
"Best Closing Credits"
The thief's lover meets a dentist on a bicycle and learns that she has Rights. But if she leaves, who will get the dog?
"Mysterious Origin" by Dena Miller
"Best Music Video, "Best Composer""
"Les raisons de l'autre (The Reasons of the Other ) ita srt français" by Victor Vegan
"Best Scenography"
The plot follows the story of Raffaele Valenti, an art history professor who moves from Bologna to Chivasso with his father and stepbrother Amedeo. Raffaele invests a significant part of his inheritance in a furniture store and falls in love with Edwige Andreone, one of his colleagues. Meanwhile, despite being a Christian of Adventist faith and initially opposed to the Catholic Church, he begins to appreciate some aspects of its history, as he delves into the stories of the Blessed Angelo Carletti and the Blessed Bartolomea Carletti.
"Translucence" by Lamia B. Hossain
"Best Experimental Film"
“Translucence” explores identity, culture, and transformation using a non-linear narrative. It tells the story of a young woman and her multitude forms of self-expression. The moment of self-revelation is both unsettling and transformative, forcing the girl to confront her fears and doubts. As she reflects on her past, present, and future, she discovers that all of these moments are interconnected, forming a collage of dream-like visuals that shape her into the higher Self. As she grapples with her own beliefs, the film poses a compelling question: will she be able to shatter the barriers holding her back and transcend her
"Happy Stones" by Zoya Dimitrova
"Best Feature Documentary"
When you lose a child, you fall into despair or you start to build. The challenges of building a chapel high in the mountains as a unifying image of power, will, spirit of the ordinary man, and a monument for those who will always live in our hearts.
"Voiceless testimony" by Moshe Ivgi
"Best Short Documentary"
The film tells the story of Jacob Ehrenfeld, a Holocaust survivor, and the story of Sarah Zwagenbaum, also a Holocaust survivor, from the point of view of her daughter Bat Sheva Bronstein.
For forty minutes, combined with magnificent artistic frames, we are shown the impossible journeys of Jacob and Sarah towards life, when apparently there is no connection between them except their deafness, but their stories create a connection in the viewer's heart.
"The colors of Bushwick's streets" by Jesus Zaldivar
"Best Short Documentary"
Murals and graffiti became a certain feature of urban landscapes everywhere. New York City is one of them.
The case of Bushwick, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, is very special. This blue-collar neighborhood underwent many changes throughout the years. Thanks to the “Bushwick Collective” Initiative it became a Mecca for street artists.
"Benjamin Feliksdal, The Life Story of a Dutch Dance Master" by Roland Gaedtgens
"Best Experimental Film"
The inspiring journey of Benjamin Feliksdal began in a humble yet determined manner. At the tender age of just six, he discovered his calling in the world of dance. His talent quickly caught the attention of none other than Sonja Gaskell, an iconic figure in the Dutch dance scene. Under her tutelage, Benjamin blossomed into a talented dancer with a passion for expression and movement.
"I' ll never be like you. I change all the time." by Katerina Apostolidou
"Best Experimental Film"
I'll never be like you. I change all the time explores the limits and consequences of technological modernity in relation to human psychology as well as the concept of confinement and social stigmatization.
The work time (2023) takes place in the open-air theatre located inside the Dromokaiteion Psychiatric Hospital of Attica on Iera Odos (“The Sacred Way”), the main artery that connected Athens with Eleusis and the Thriasian Plain since antiquity whose history goes back to antiquity and Greek mythology.
"MY GRANDFATHER'S DEMONS" by Nuno Beato
"Best Sound Design", "Best Color Editing"
Rosa, a top professional woman, highly rated in the business market, leads a demanding life entirely dedicated to her work. The sudden death of her grandfather, from whom she had progressively moved away, due to her endless work, ends up causing her a sudden attack of stress, that puts her choices in doubt. Rosa decides to leave the city and set out to find the place and the memories of her childhood, lived with her grandfather. When she arrives at the isolated property, in the middle of the Trás-os-Montes landscape, she discovers that her grandfather left her a set of practically abandoned lands and an almost in ruins house of her childhood. Driven by the remorse and the need to find new goals to herself, she starts rebuilding her house and grow the fields. Rosa, however, is not alone on her quest. In addition to the people with whom she will establish new bonds, there appears a group of clay demons, modeled once by her grandfather, who seem, at times, to come to life, advising, guiding and consoling her, as grandfather himself would have done.
"INSPIRED (Black & White)" by Alessandro Alex Chiapparelli
"Best Closing Credits", "Best Experimental Film", "Best Director Debut"
"Inspired" short film, tells the story of a young French painter who moves to Rome and tries to survive by selling his artwork. Adrien, the young painter, is in contact with the gallery owner (Sofia) and her sister (Clara), who has been living in Rome with her husband and their child for some time.
Unfortunately, Adrien doesn't always manage to sell his artwork to support himself and pay for his studio where he lives and works. One day, he is forced to ask a loan of 500 euros from a loan shark. Unable to repay the amount after some time, he turns to Sofia for help, but she declines to assist him.
"Untitled Trailcam Footage" by Scott Kelston
"Best Experimental Film"
A naturalist discovers he’s not alone in the burned forest above the Grand Canyon.
"...Or to Be" by Paweł Prewencki
"Best Experimental Film"
The stories of non-meeting. Two people trapped in a triangle of emptiness, fear and loneliness. Dance video as a story of life, as an object. Performers in a dialog with space, sound, light and paper.
Both the dance video and the video installation …Or to Be evolves, shapes and naturally transforms one of the main topics of the piece – space in a dialog with characters, light and sound which are understood as an equal partner in creation. Thanks to that finds a spectator himself in an unusual and unexpected spatial contexts and perceptions.
The original duet is the result of two “solos” of the dance piece involving another area of the dance video as an object.
"The Man With The White Mask" by Vasilis Pagkalos, Christos Mplichas
"Best Student Film"
A story, where it shows a young man who finds in front of him a strange and scary man who wears a white mask. A kind of hunter begins, full of suspense.
"Shush" by Luke Cooper
"Best Student Film"
The late night library is a place to read and study peacefully... as long as you stay quiet.
"Group" by William R.A. Rush
"Best Director Debut", "Best Color Editing",
At a group meeting for recovering drug addicts, not everyone is revealing the full truth.
"Under The Grapevine" by Nameer Alashqar
"Best Student Film", "Best Poster"
After ending up in a country far away from his homeland, the protagonist drowns in a false hope that may allow him to return to his home country again.
"CHANNELS" by Myles Bannatyne
"Best Original Score"
A living/breathing collage of television terror that sears and rips your retinas apart. Check your pulse before changing the channel...
"Dance of Death" by Pierre Minvielle
"Best Student Film"
Theo, 12, is trying to mourn his father but is tortured by the memory of his accident that he caused...
"Bacillus" by Brad McClane
"Best Student Film"
14-year-old Sawyer's quiet evening is interrupted when his mother phones him with a strange and terrifying plea. Can Sawyer make sense of what's happening before it's too late?
"simulacra" by Yining Dong
"Best Music Video"
Simulacra is a short-moving image work discussing the dynamic genesis of sense represented by an object of the tree. Following the movement, the tree’s partial becomes a unity, and the unity state is the best scenario of the simulacra. This video is without any narrative, and after the tree finishes its early transformation, The view of the tree stays in the mirror projection space and stops making any changes but does the up-down movement with the wind. This long take makes time for time and emphasises the unity state here is a rest state.
"Ellas" by Marina L. Bakica
"Best Producer"
In this evocative film the director Marina Bakica explores the impending fabric of motherhood woven in tragedy and loss. The protagonist “Ellas” goes into a search of her past only to find herself entangled in her memories of despair over losing a child who perhaps was never hers to begin with.
"Bruised Fruit" by Fernanda Marie Dedic
"Best Director Debut"
After a fight with his girlfriend, Morgan reflects on their relationship that has become emotionally and physically abusive.
"The Time And Will To Stay" by Henrique Linhales Rangel
"Best Student Film"
Pedro Maia is an insecure young adult who finds himself in a conflicting moment into his life when Regina, his brave and determined friend, is about to move to the big city to work.
"My Mum Used to Call Me Sister" by C41 srl
"Best Director Debut", "Best Experimental Film"
Award-winning photographer and author Sonia Marin has been capturing the cherished memories and life of her grandmother and mother over the past twenty years. This is a lifelong journey into retracing the steps that the women in Marin’s life have taken as they ventured from Italy to the United Kingdom and back. The photography book Twenty Weights, Please represents the pinnacle of this journey, along with an intimate short film written by Sonia Marin and shot by Vittoria Elena Simone, My Mum Used to Call Me Sister. Every aspect of this project has been lovingly nurtured and presented, allowing us to delve into the intricate narratives that transport us back to the vibrant 1950s through the director’s lens.
"YOU ALMOST LOOK LIKE A REAL PERSON" by Florencia Cáceres
"Best Poster"
A ghost is looking for something that will give meaning to his existance.
"Instant Scapes" by Brad McClane
"Best Experimental Film"
INSTANT SCAPES - Scenari Instantanei
Instant Scapes is almost an anthropological observation of our daily lives, our social rituals, the environments in which we move, through a series of short 30-second videos, excluding titles, cut in 4:5, which is the size of a mobile phone screen and the maximum duration that the human-social can (perhaps) bear today.
"THE RED HOUR" by Juan Carlos Díaz Amaya
"Best Experimental Film"
They only have one hour left for a group of terrorists to undertake the last part of their mission: carry and detonate a bomb in the Center of Lima. Now an undercover police officer must decide whether to act or obey a direct order from the Peruvian.
"Oscar Challagariga" by Sushil Rao Chilkuri
"Best Short Documentary "
This event-based documentary is about lyricist Kanukuntla Subhash Chandrabose who won the Oscar for the best original song in the Academy Awards 2023. It captures the atmosphere and celebration in his village Challagariga in Telangana, India which he visited for the first time after winning the Oscar. He speaks about what effort it takes to achieve something in life.
"Foreigner's Eye" by Aram Voves
"Best Experimental Film"
Impressions from Japan. With a special appearance by Miss Hiccup.
"Under Desert" by Claude Ciccolella
"Best Experimental Film"
Fourth part of natural disaster trauma: biological, physical and chemical degradation, climate change, desertification, poverty, conflict, vital need for change, of a sustainable agricultural exploitation, so that our world can continue to exist. But are we ready for this lifestyle change?
"Homebound" by Lefteris Koutinas
"Best Producer"
"As Cotas (The Quotas) - Chico Cesar e Carlos Rennók" by Fábio Bardella, Guilherme Martins
"Best Music Video"
Audiovisual manifest that celebrates ten years of implementation of Quotas in Brazil and reaffirms the importance of this policy as a right. In a few minutes, the narrative takes us through the noble corridors of Largo de São Francisco, headquarters of the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (USP), occupied no longer by members of the elite, but by indigenous peoples, black students, people LGBTQIAP+ and all the diversity that now parades through Brazilian universities.
"On Matriarchy Lake" by Shu Zhang
"Best Producer"
A love story between a man from patriarchy and a matriarchy tradition girl in 1970, the pure of the Lugu lake water liked their love that across two type of marriages definition.
"The Therapy Sessions" by McGregory Frederique
"Best Composer"
The Therapy Sessions is a short film about a fallen power couple who decide to seek therapeutic help.
"Ritual" by Paweł Prewencki
"Best Student Film"
On a sunny Sunday, a woman and her daughter enter the train station and walk down the stairs. Unfortunately, they missed their train. Tough luck, they will take the next one. The woman walks up to the ticket office and buys tickets to Pruszkow. They enter the platform and sit down on a bench. The mother asks the girl to call her grandmother, to whom they are about to go, that they will be late. Daughter answers her saying „After all, we are always late, this is already our ritual”.
The girl delves into the phone, the mother gets up and slowly, dangerously approaches the tracks. We see her terrifyingly sad face. Hearing an oncoming train, the daughter jumps off the bench and pulls her mother aside, and the train passes with a bang. After a while, the two get on the right train. The mother nervously hits the cigarette pack with her lighter. Her head droops and she falls into a narcoleptic sleep. We see her daydreaming. In that dream she feels wonderful and doesn't want to return to the real world. We hear a few bars of the song "Don't wake me up" performed by Kalina Jędrusik. A frightened little girl shakes her mother, trying to wake her up. Finally, the woman opens her eyes. She is distracted and sad.
"I SWEAR *" by Nathan Hey
"Best Music Video"
"Since I Been Down*" by GILDA SHEPPARD
"Best Feature Documentary"
In 1993, Washington State voters passed the three-strikes law and sent children to prison for life without parole. We feared these children as irredeemable superpredators. Our fear was wrong, but in 2020, sixteen states continue to keep children in prison for life. SINCE I BEEN DOWN shows the power of these children, now adults nearly forty years later, creating a true path to justice and healing from inside their prison walls.
“We dare say that a lot of the answers society is searching for (today) will be found in prison” -- Touré Zimbabwe.
"SHADOWS" by Alberto Martín-Aragón
"Best Experimental Film"
Surreal and lyrical reflection, not exempt from some notes of humor, on life and death.
"INSPIRATION" by Alberto Martín-Aragón
"Best Experimental Film"
A woman writer tries to regain her lost inspiration through a strange pill. Is that pill real or a projection of her pride and will?
"Self Discovery" by Roger Artola
"Best Experimental Film"
This LGBT sci-fi psychological thriller tells the story of a woman grappling with suicidal ideations, trapped in a mundane, Groundhog Day-like existence who begins unraveling after reading a self-help book, Self Discovery, that unleashes her worst fears. As she reads the book, she starts seeing her own doppelgänger, a malevolent version of herself that begins taking over her life. The doppelgänger drives her to the brink of madness as she struggles to escape its grasp. [Spoiler Alert] As the film reaches its climax, the protagonist realizes the book itself is haunted, and desperately attempts to ride herself off its curse.
"Take your space" by Karolína Alvarez
"Best Feature Documentary"
The first feature-length documentary on Mexican urban art and graffiti was shot over the course of four years without any financial support from institutions. It is based on the coexistence of the community of Mexican urban artists, is independent and one hundred percent free in its expression. It also extends to the other branches of Mexican hiphop and skateboarding. The documentary familiarizes us with the development of the movement from its beginnings to the present day with a focus on its essence of rebellion and resistance. It presents urban arts as a path of freedom and independence of an individual, who is confronting the global power of the capitalist system and its attempt to invade our lives and the way we behave. The film also points to the characteristic feature of Mexican counterculture in relation to the resistance of native cultures.
"The Swan, my mother and I" by Andréia Nhur, Guilherme Telli
"Best Short Documentary"
This documentary blends the past of a dancer born and raised in the countryside of São Paulo-Brazil, and her present updated in the duets danced with her daughter, who is a dancer as well. The film transits between bucolic images of ruined landscapes and the stage, bringing a letter that is a familiar legacy, with instructions to dance the Russian choreography "The Dying Swan".
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