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Autumn 2022 Program
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Best Short Film
Silent Night
Directed by: Emmanuel Delabaere
December 25th. A fire has broken out in Santa Claus' factory. Most of the elves have died and Santa is missing ...
A few hours earlier. During his tour, Santa enters a house where he finds a mysterious gift for him ...

Silent Night
"Best Short Film"
Best Feature Film
A Fire in Africa
Directed by: Gerhard Uys
The OvaHimba of the Namib Desert are descendants of the Ancient Egyptians from the era of Queen Nefertiti, and was once the richest nomadic tribe in Africa. Now, however, they find themselves on the brink of extinction. Trapped in the 1904 Herero-Nama war, they settled in the godforsaken wastes of Kaokoland after fleeing genocide at the hands of the German army and marauding Nama gangs. Having grown weary of the name 'OvaHimba', which means 'beggars', reigning Chief Nguzu believes their only hope for survival lies in the hands of his grandson, Omusuverua [the protagonist].

A Fire in Africa
"Best Feature Film"
Best Director
Darking Way 
Directed by: Zsolt Pozsgai
6 October 1849 
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner. The woman persuaded her husband to save the love of her youth. At the same time, Haynau is uncompromising. In secret, he has the convicted prisoner and Charlotte’s daughter, who grew up in a boarding school of evil repute, brought to the castle. This is Ignác Török’s first encounter with his daughter, who was sent to the boarding school after her birth, as Charlotte was already married at the time. The confrontation with the girl makes the general realise how his fault lead to her disgraceful fate. He does not accept the Emperor’s quarter. Török is not able to cope with the pressure of the meeting and dies of a heart attack. Only his dead body can be hung from the gallows. Passionate encounters in the storm of history. A night that decides everything. The film is based on a real story. 

Darking Way
"Best Director"
Best Actor - Tom Konkle
Trouble Is My Business
Directed by: Tom Konkle
Private Investigator Roland Drake falls for two sisters from the Montemar family. One woman is dead and the other wants to kill him. 
Starring Vernon Wells (Mad Max) and Brittney Powell (Xena) 
A dark tale of love and betrayal, told in the classic style of film noir. TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS is a true, hard-boiled noir. Private Detective Roland Drake has fallen on hard times in a harsh world. Drake is being evicted from his office and disgraced by a missing persons case, which has ruined him in the public eye and with police officials. It seems like it's all over for him. Then, redemption walks in... with curves. The owner of those curves is a sexy, dark haired beauty named Katherine Montemar. She wants his help. The chemistry is immediate and her concern for the disappearance of her family members pulls him into her case... and into bed.


Trouble Is My Business
"Best Actor" - Tom Konkle
Best Actress - Véronique Picciotto
The Role Of Time
Directed by: Marc Saez
A man, a woman, a payback.

The Role Of A Lifetime
"Best Actress" - Véronique Picciotto
Best Editing
Sorin (Silent screams)
Directed by: Fatih Yiğit
Sixteen-year-old Xezal lives in a small village in the Sinjar region of Iraq. An attack is organized on her village by the radical terrorist organization ISIS and many people are killed in the village. 
She witnessed another massacre during his exile journey with his family. Seven months after the massacre, another Kurdish woman, who was also captured, will help Xezal to escape from captivity. Xezal was raped by an ISIS emir and became pregnant. He is found by two young people when he is about to die of hunger and thirst on the mountain. Afterwards, not a single word comes out of Xezal's mouth, he is going through a severe trauma. Xezal is living the past over and over again with the sound of some objects in daily life. She remembers the cruelty she saw and the bad moments he experienced and disappears in the shadow of the past.
(We revealed the trauma of Xezal with all its nakedness and flashbacks. It tells about the brutality of Radical Religious Terror, the damage it has done to Humanity, the traumas and psychological destruction of women and children whose traces will not be erased.)


Sorin (Silent screams)
"Best Editing"
Best Supporting Actor - Grégory Corre
Silent Night
Directed by: Emmanuel Delabaere
December 25th. A fire has broken out in Santa Claus' factory. Most of the elves have died and Santa is missing ...
A few hours earlier. During his tour, Santa enters a house where he finds a mysterious gift for him ...

Silent Night
"Best Supporting Actor" - Grégory Corre
Best Supporting Actress - Virginia Newcomb
UNION
Directed by: Whitney Hamilton
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. With the help of Indians hiding in the mountains 'Henry' is reunited with the widow, Virginia, who saved his life at the battle of Antietam and marries her to rescue Virginia from an unfortunate arranged betrothal. They keep each others secrets and forge an unusual family. It is the alchemy of gratitude.

Union
"Best Supporting Actress" - Virginia Newcomb
Best Original Screenplay - James P Brosnahan
It's Only Death
Written by: James P Brosnahan
In a world he no longer recognizes, a young man suffering from dissociative amnesia searches for his identity only to discover that it was better off left forgotten.

It's Only Death
"Best Original Screenplay"
Best Animation
EXIT
Directed by: Artur Muharremi
A Pencil inside the pencil factory gains consciousness and tries to find the exit to his freedom but as he roams about the factory and finds out the terrible truths of it's functioning he soon realizes that there's never been an exit.

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

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

The Ace and the Scout
"Best Cinematography"
ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES
Best Short Documentary
In a Whole New Way
Directed by: Jonathan Fisher
Ensnaring almost four million Americans, probation has evolved from a second chance to avoid prison to a sanction actually feeding mass incarceration. Supported by neighborhood allies, some people of color set out in a whole new way to change all this—equipped only with cameras.

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


We Would All be Kings
"Best Feature Documentary"
Best Music Video
Deluge Day
Directed by: Marc Linnhoff
The video clip DÍA DE DILUVIO (Deluge day) was produced for the electro music album "You're a woman, I'm a Fish" by Nocto & Elisa, in Meisenthal, in the north of Alsace, France and with the support of the CIAV, the International Center for Canopy Art. 
The musical theme was composed on the basis of Mongolian women's traditional singing, the sound percussions built from sound extracts from Californian redwoods, and the viola improvisation inspired by an Indian raga structure (Hindustani classical music). 
The lyrics are an adaptation of the homonymous poem by the contemporary Brazilian poet Leonardo Froes, describing in a very subtil manner a femenine orgasmic voyage, by using metaphorical images to express both the naive sensitivity and delicate sensuality of the principal character. 


Deluge Day
"Best Music Video"
Best Experimental Film
Pit & Pendulum
Directed by: J. Aldric Gaudet
“Pit & Pendulum” is a 27 minute experimental film based upon Edgar Allan Poe’s horror classic.
The film is an experiential experiment.
The words of the author provide the texture for the Audience’s imagination.
It is the terrorizing story of a person sentenced to death who becomes the plaything of their jailers. They are sent walking through a dark room in hopes they will fall into a pit. When that doesn’t happen they are tied down on a table to watch the painfully slow descent of a swinging pendulum with a sharp-edged blade aimed at their stomach. Escaping from the blade did not mean freedom. The walls of the dungeon grow blistering hot first, then squeeze together to push them to the brink of the pit, before being saved at the very last second.
Each horrific moment is shared with the Audience in simple images for them to flesh out under the spell of Poe’s words.
Black-Box Cinema means minimalistic sets and props illustrate the original words, in this case making use of Poe’s own technique – The Telegraph Mosaic (as Marshal McLuhan termed it) – in visual form.
The Audience’s imagination is the architect of the dungeon, its textures, and its smells, and can create far more terrifying images than any that can be made.
In this manifestation, the gender of the protagonist has been neutralized, and Poe’s text judiciously edited to remove references to time and place, making it universal.


Pit & Pendulum
"Best Experimental Film"
Best Student Film
Circle
Directed by: Jon Saqipi
The movie is about a cursed camera that shows the real emotions and the feelings of the person in front of it.


Circle
"Best Student Film"
Best Director Debut
Swamp Dragon
Directed by: Ruben Swart
When Sarah gets a school assignment to research the nickname of her hometown ('s-Hertogenbosch), she discovers that the nickname Moerasdraak (Swamp Dragon) might have a different meaning than the historic one. Through mysterious signs while making a documentary, the question raises if something actually lived near her town. Sarah and her group of students go to search for answers behind these clues, while they risk their lives doing so.

Swamp Dragon
"Best Director Debut"
Best Adapted Screenplay
Gray Zone
Written by: Veronica R. Tabares
The victim of a cyber-prank gone viral, Autumn is forced to transfer schools, not exactly what she wants to do as a sophomore. But what choice does she have when all her personal information is posted all over the web for anyone to see? With all those threatening comments, the police say her only chance to avoid stalkers is to move schools and start over.
Determined to make the best of her situation, Autumn realizes that she has been given an opportunity to reinvent herself; to become the outgoing, popular, not-at-all-shy girl she’s always wanted to be. Something that is impossible while surrounded by lifelong friends who think they know her better than she knows herself.
The first person Autumn meets at her new school is Maurice, a bully of monumental proportions. She tries to keep her distance, but when he nearly kills a schoolmate something inside her snaps. She attacks him to make him release his victim.
Which earns her a reputation as a crazy person. Because only someone who is crazy would take on a bully twice her size.
The only bright point is that her best friend, Sophie Rose, also transfers to the new school. Except Sophie immediately starts keeping her distance from Autumn, leaving her feeling sad and alone.
But when a tragedy shakes Autumn’s world she stops feeling sad about what has happened to her, and angry about the ruthlessness of bullies. She decides that she needs to do her part to put a stop to cyber-torture and bullying.
Adapted from award winning novel.

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

The Cold Race 
"Best Producer" - Said Abdunasirovich Tulyaganov
Best Composer - Ramin Hosseinpour
Video Art Of Sculpture
Composed by: Ramin Hosseinpour
Video Art /Architectural Composition With Cinema &Rock Music.
Video art of sculpture is the real life story of Rumi (Mevlana) and Shams Tabrizi. Rumi and Shams are well known international poets of Persian language. One day, Rumi invites Shams Tabrizi to his house, Shams throws the book Of Mevlana into the pool of water and Rumi is worried and Shams returns the book to Rumi without any trace of water.
The lost half of the sculpture in the film is a representation of the same concept, in which the dance of Sama, the sculptor's mind and the role of the face are visible.

Video Art Of Sculpture
"Best Composer" - Ramin Hosseinpour
Best Color Editing
Secret Superstars The Hidden History Of the Kennedy Cup
Directed by: Tom O'Flaherty
They say truth is stranger than fiction.
In the case of the Kennedy Cup, there’s no doubt 
this remarkable, but untold story would otherwise 
be regarded as a very tall tale, were it not all too 
fantastically true.
Imagine some of the best professional footballers 
of the 1960s in Britain and, indeed, Ireland coming 
to the picturesque little shoreside pitch of a rural 
Irish town – often in disguise – for matches with 
local amateur players.
Well, that’s the Kennedy Cup. And it’s only the half 
of it.

Secret Superstars The Hidden History Of The Kennedy Cup
"Best Color Editing"
Best Sound Design
Troubadours Celestes
Directed by: Hervine De Boodt

Troubadours Celestes
"Best Sound Design"
Best Scenography
Darking Way
Directed by: Zsolt Pozsgai
6 October 1849 
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner. The woman persuaded her husband to save the love of her youth. At the same time, Haynau is uncompromising. In secret, he has the convicted prisoner and Charlotte’s daughter, who grew up in a boarding school of evil repute, brought to the castle. This is Ignác Török’s first encounter with his daughter, who was sent to the boarding school after her birth, as Charlotte was already married at the time. The confrontation with the girl makes the general realise how his fault lead to her disgraceful fate. He does not accept the Emperor’s quarter. Török is not able to cope with the pressure of the meeting and dies of a heart attack. Only his dead body can be hung from the gallows. Passionate encounters in the storm of history. A night that decides everything. The film is based on a real story. 

Darking Way
"Best Scenography"
Best Original Soundtrack
Rose of Blood
Directed by: Klaudia Lanka
In the nineteenth century, WLADISLAS is the last vampire. Alone for almost two hundred years, he dreams of becoming human again because his solitude weighs on him. Supported by TOBIEC, his faithful servant, he hires a young peasant girl, LUCYLLIA. 
Gradually, she and Wladislas fall in love. After making love with Lucyllia without killing her, Wladislas recovers his humanity. But soon the two lovers die, leaving behind them a rose born from the mixture of their blood. 

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

The Ace and the Scout
"Best Makeup"
Best Costume Design
Darking Way 
Directed by: Zsolt Pozsgai
6 October 1849 
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner. The woman persuaded her husband to save the love of her youth. At the same time, Haynau is uncompromising. In secret, he has the convicted prisoner and Charlotte’s daughter, who grew up in a boarding school of evil repute, brought to the castle. This is Ignác Török’s first encounter with his daughter, who was sent to the boarding school after her birth, as Charlotte was already married at the time. The confrontation with the girl makes the general realise how his fault lead to her disgraceful fate. He does not accept the Emperor’s quarter. Török is not able to cope with the pressure of the meeting and dies of a heart attack. Only his dead body can be hung from the gallows. Passionate encounters in the storm of history. A night that decides everything. The film is based on a real story. 

Darking Way
"Best Costume Design"
Best VFX
Precursor
Directed by: Marco Castiglione
Gea, who survived with other refugees, lives in the shelter away from robot that hunt and kill men. From her escape she will discover her father still alive. But her tenacity will cost her the life. And from her life a hope will be born. A new robot.

Precursor
"Best VFX"
Best Poster
I Lost The Way
Directed by: Panagiotis Rappas
Two parallel monologues. 
Two men of different ages, talk about their lives and what haunts them. 
One, almost middle-aged, feels he has lost his way. Full of anxiety and metaphysical agony, he desperately seeks to find the path of return that will lead him to his paternal home and the years of innocence. At the point where he started his impasse, so far, wandering. The route looks like a strange dream. People, animals, machines, change form, properties, and actions in a nightmarish cluster full of paradoxical images, charged with passions and unacknowledged guilt. 
The other, an elderly man, is nearing the end of his journey. Locked up in a small room, isolated, accompanied by memories and ghosts from the past, he has stopped being anxious. He watches the outside world through the window, with the same stoic calm that he also watches what happens in the strange circus that performs in his small room. Everything that his imagination, memory, and sensitive psyche puts in front of him. With laconic sentences that are more reminiscent of oracles, he raises questions about an absurd and perhaps futile world. An almost nightmarish world, the world that spent its life vulnerable to the alterations of time. 
They are both the same person. The poet M. Sachtouris in different phases of his life. The questions he asks are not philosophical declarations or logical findings, but images. Images that seem to come from a dream and end up in his poetic iconography. 
At the end of the imaginary journey, the poet "finds", among the ruins, his mother, and the room he recognizes as the home of his childhood. He returns to the womb without finding an answer to what tortured him along the way, since "there is no sanguine answer" because everything "is a vast void rather like a tomb".

I Lost The Way
"Best Poster"
Best Opening Credits
The Onara Marshes Park
Directed by: Gianluca Doremi
A journey through the Onara Marshes Park, highlighting the naturalistic aspects and describing what can be found in these habitats with a little attention, as well as highlighting some little-known historical aspects of this place, home of the storical Ezzelini family.

The Onara Marshes Park
"Best Opening Credits"
Best Closing Credits
Swamp Dragon
Directed by: Ruben Swar
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