Indie filmmakers have the opportunity not to follow the traditional form and format of typical Hollywood films. We are free to make an artistic statement without the burden of making a profitable film: Mark Diamond Can you tell us about the inspiration behind “Enemy Heroes”? What themes did you want to explore? It […]
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“The Witchdoctor and the Windmill,” directed by Robert Hamilton, is a poignant documentary that delves into the life and artistry of Indigenous artist Linda Syddick Napaltjarri. As the last of the world’s six ‘clever women,’ Linda’s journey from a traditional nomadic childhood in the desert to becoming a celebrated artist encapsulates a rich tapestry of
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I see a very bright future. Filmmakers have more freedom now than ever before. International film festivals are doing a fantastic job of promoting indie voices, allowing us to bypass traditional gatekeepers. Arman Ali What motivated you to focus on the themes of memory and identity in your films? – I wanted to create an
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Best Woman Filmmaker My 1st Documentary COVID-19 FILM In 2020, COVID-19 became a worldwide phenomenon. Three women reveal their stories of pain, suffering, and loss as they awaken to the agenda behind the COVID narrative. Their experiences lead them on a spiritual journey of discovery, resilience, change, community, and hope for humanity.
Best Student Film Two young girls, Siria and Maria, are tired of their boring rural small town and the life they lead, so they decide to runaway in to the forest to lead a more interesting life. But deep in the forest dwells secrets that neither of the girls is prepared to face.
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Best Drama Best Actor Short Film On a storm-lashed island near Shanghai, talent manager Yuan Fang searches desperately for Liu Jinxin, the actor who has vanished days before a major film shoot. As he collapses in the reeds, Yuan glimpses a haunting vision of a past life in which their bond was shaped by sacrifice
Best Screenplay 2016. In a stifling kitchen where coffee bubbles like blood, Petra, an elderly former sniper for the Serbian army, sells her memories to a director in search of a “good story.” Amidst cigarette smoke and distorted truths, the narrative slips back to 1993, to the hills of a besieged Sarajevo. There, alongside her
Web/TV Series As a foreign comedian struggles to survive and thrive in a cold country, she manufactures an AI comedy show that never goes as planned.
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Best Actress Feature Film A young man from Guadeloupe who left for France to study decides to return home with his partner, born in the Paris suburbs and originally from Martinique. But once they arrive, the young man’s mother intrudes into their relationship and turns their lives upside down. Nothing goes as planned.
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Best Super Short Film Christmas at the Giga Party register. It’s time to pay, but the Face Card is declined.
My 1st Short Film Nicolas is fighting an ongoing battle at the Gigamarché; to spare the world from the uncatchable “Thieving Magpie”, who persists in their rampage and mocks him with each of their crimes. Fortunately, Nicolas’ team is there to support him.
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My 1st Short Film In a small town, a father and his son Chen Kai strive to realize Kai’s music dream by finding a piano teacher. With the village head’s help, they get an appointment with a city music teacher. Short of money, they scrape together tuition and even have to give up Kai’s beloved
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Best Short Film On July 1, 2005, Zoléra received a call in the middle of the night—her son Sofiane had been in a scooter accident. The doctors informed her that he had collided with an ambulance and did not survive. Sofiane’s blood type, “A-,” indicated that he was intoxicated. The young delinquent caused the accident,
Best Director Short Film Best Actress Short Film Best Actor A suave criminal searches for a new partner at a dive bar and finds the perfect Bonnie to his Clyde. He takes her to dinner to put her to the test, yet she has all the answers… and more.
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Best Feature Documentary Flor Pucarina: Rebel to the Bone explores the life and legacy of one of the most fearless voices in Andean music. Through archival footage, heartfelt testimonies, and stories from those who saw in her a symbol of resistance and freedom, the film reconstructs the journey of an artist whose voice became the
Best Music Video Music artist SKAYA’s first music video and director Julie Baastrup’s first directed music video introduces a collaboration between two female artists with drive, heart & ambition. The music video tells the story of a woman who finds it easier to imagine ending her relationship in catastrophic ways, rather than having a difficult
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Best Short Documentary “The sum of who we are” challenges conventional ideas of gender and gives a voice to those who define themselves beyond societal norms. Blending artistic and documentary elements, the film tells intimate stories of identity, belonging, and the courage to be oneself.
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Best Experimental Film An enigmatic artist, Maria Guarani, disappears in Maranhão. Years later, a writer hired to tell her story becomes obsessed with her disappearance, blurring the line between creation and disappearance itself.
Best Cinematography A young, lonely guy named O. is killing time, either playing guitar at home or loitering through the streets of a small Russian provincial town. He is constantly tormented by memories of his youth and longing. At some point, he gets tired of this lifestyle, and he runs away from home to enjoy
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Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film After a student’s murder in Duma City 15 years ago, those responsible face deadly justice. A witness and cop investigate the killings, uncovering more than revenge in a web of power and corruption.
Best Horror Film Following the tragic death of her father, broken teenager April and her mother, Tracey, struggle to keep their relationship intact as they adjust to their new lives as lone mother and daughter. But, when April hears a series of eerie noises one night, ultimately leading her to discover a sinister presence lurking
Best 1st Feature Film A man finds himself in the presence of the Devil, who drags him into hell, where others share his torments. One speaks about the vicious pendulum of shame and wounded pride, but his voice is quiet and meaningless in their last hour.
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Best Animated Film A man finds himself in the presence of the Devil, who drags him into hell, where others share his torments. One speaks about the vicious pendulum of shame and wounded pride, but his voice is quiet and meaningless in their last hour.
Best Actress Simone, 27, dreams of becoming an actress and is facing the biggest audition of her life. But when she can’t produce the tears the role requires, she desperately seeks out a series of eccentric famous actors and subjects herself to their bizarre and boundary-pushing methods.
I love the freedom of experimental film. It permits you to create without following the rules. It forces you to be brave and to trust your own vision as an artist and director. Yana Yakimova Congratulations on winning the Best Experimental Film Award! How does it feel to receive such recognition for My Hidden
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I am particularly interested in stories that explore the relationship between individuals and society, especially in times of political and moral crisis: Dino Mustafić What inspired you to make The Pavilion? Was there a specific event or theme that sparked the idea? The inspiration for The Pavilion came from a strong feeling that our
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I hope my films create space for reflection and empathy. Many of the stories I tell focus on people whose experiences are often invisible, particularly women and migrants navigating complex systems. If my work can help audiences feel those realities with more sensitivity, that already feels meaningful. I would like to be remembered as a
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Best Cinematography While searching for a job, Socrates attends an interview for a cashier position at a small local computer shop. As the interview unfolds, he realizes the role demands far more than expected, revealing unsettling and unexpected responsibilities.
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Best Music Video A short AI-assisted a cappella music video about voice, expression and openness in a climate of surveillance and control. Inspired by George Orwell’s 1984, it combines polyphonic jazz vocals with generative visuals to insist on the power of free speech and song.
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Best Short Documentary The effort and work of a young girl attending a cinema workshop to prove that the folk song written by her grandmother years ago belongs to her.
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My 1st Documentary After a devastating accident leaves him blind, Dani, a lifelong sailor from Barcelona, must find his way back to the sea. With the love of his mother and his dog Lady, he relearns how to sail, navigating not by sight, but by touch, balance, and instinct. Against a world of barriers and
Best Actor Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film After a devastating accident leaves him blind, Dani, a lifelong sailor from Barcelona, must find his way back to the sea. With the love of his mother and his dog Lady, he relearns how to sail, navigating not by sight, but by touch, balance, and instinct. Against
Best Actor Short Film Swifts is about Bo, a homeless street musician navigating the winter streets of Stockholm, whose life is held together by rigid routines. Each morning, he shares buses and subways with strangers he silently observes. Among them is Angelo – a well-dressed man whose structured daily life mirrors Bo’s own. When Angelo
Best Short Documentary Marcello does not remain silent; his art is a cry, like that of a prophet, which becomes an image, an open wound on the face of the world. Words, colours and materials intertwine like prayers painted on canvas. His art becomes the mysticism of everyday life.
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Best Super Short Film Daily tasks become an Olympic event for a woman with multiple disabilities.
Best Screenplay After being gifted his first clown nose on his 20th birthday, Cameron realizes he can no longer hide his passion for an unacceptable career and has to face the pressure of unachievable expectations brought on by multiple generations.
Best Experimental Film DRUCKER is an audiovisual experience that takes place in a “House of Memories”. Shame, guilt, jealousy, and reluctant acceptance all live under the same roof.
Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film The Queen of Fate tells the story of Line, who is plagued by feelings of guilt after the death of her best friend Theo and withdraws completely from life. Years later, an unexpected invitation to a birthday party offers her the chance to confront
Best LGBT film Mika is trying to become an actress but struggles to find her place in the world regarding her gender expression and presentation. After a mistake by the casting agents gets her a callback audition, she tries to change herself to fit into the character she is expected to be. At a party
Best Feature Documentary “Metamorphoses” is a documentary about artistic memory and the transformations of a family for whom art was breath, refuge, and destiny. Through the eyes of their son, Cristi Sîrbu, the film tells the story of his parents’ universe — the painter Andrei Sîrbu and the journalist-writer Antonina Sîrbu — two valuable creators
Best Woman Filmmaker Best Actress Short Film A woman believes she’s in a monogamous relationship, that is, until one morning she’s given a very rude awakening.
Best Actor Best Short Film In a surveilled future Sweden, a young IT technician is forced to make a split-second decision when his neighbours are deported: save their infant child — or obey the system. 2034 is an intense, restrained dystopian drama about civil courage, guilt, and how a single human act can become a
My 1st Feature film Every summer, four childhood best friends, Manca (Katarina Čas), Trina (Nina Ivanišin), Iza (Tina Vrbnjak), and Taja (Ula Furlan), spend a few days in the mountains in a remote place in Slovenia. Their friendship was marked by an event at a party a few years ago, which alienated them from each
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Best Animated Film Enemy Heroes “Because… sometimes it is not easy to tell… Who is the Enemy?.. Who are the Heroes?” Enemy Heroes is a multi-level WWII version of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ in which the audience agonizes over the heart-wrenching choices the protagonists are forced to make – and in so doing
Best Actress Best Horror Film Cassandra travels to Philadelphia in search of her brother, but instead finds a phylactery she must destroy. Cosmic horror descends upon her as her mission is impeded by a crawling force dragging her into madness. As she begins to understand what is happening, she becomes a victim of the same
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Web/TV Series ROASTED is a comedic indie miniseries about the misadventures of Sophie and her two sisters.
Best Actor Short Film Niels, a survivor of a zombie apocalypse guided by a mysterious map, seeks to find Samanta, another survivor. In his journey, he will have to do with the creatures of the present and the ghosts of the past…
Best Director Short Film JP, a recently retired government-trained assassin, is enjoying a quiet life—until a covert call informs him he’s been “burned.” With his identity compromised and his sister unexpectedly visiting, JP must juggle eliminating threats while hiding the bloody evidence from the one person he actually cares about. The pressure leads him to
Best Drama Carlos is approaching midlife, trapped in a personal crisis that has lingered too long. Rosa, his mother, suffers from disabling pain that is only mitigated by the warm waters of hydrotherapy. One night, she offers to make the ultimate sacrifice so that they can both transit to a better place. A short film
My 1st Short film For Manon, Tristan is JUST a friend. There’s no ambiguity. Unless… The moment Manon imagines for the first time, for a split second, that there could be something else between them, doubt sets in. Literally. Sent by the ambiguity investigation Bureau, Daniel, who is a bit intrusive, moves in with her…
Directed, written, and performed by the talented Yana Yakimova, My Hidden Archetypes is a mesmerizing short film that invites viewers on an introspective journey through the labyrinth of identity, love, and self-discovery. This poignant narrative unfolds with a lyrical elegance, exploring the intricate dance between the feminine and masculine within the self, portrayed through a
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The Pavilion, a bold and unconventional film, opens with a gripping interrogation of an elderly man in a wheelchair. As he insists on revealing the truth rather than cooperating with the police, the narrative unfolds to expose a harrowing reality faced by the residents of a nursing home. A Struggle for Dignity Set in a
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The Game of Solidarity: AEK – PARTIZAN 1999, directed by the talented Ismini Sakellaropoulou, is a poignant documentary that transcends the realm of sports, delving deep into the human experience of peace, solidarity, and resilience amidst adversity. This film, showcased at the Stockholm City Film Festival, captures not only the essence of a historic soccer
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Best Short Documentary After eight years of caring for his mother with severe dementia, a son struggles through their daily care routine. Recorded voicemails serve to show the progression of the disease, underscoring the frustration, isolation, and burnout that come with intensive caregiving.
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My 1st Short Film A surreal tale of one fateful night in Oslo, where young Frøya experiences one strange sensation after another.
Web/TV Series Meet the team that probably shouldn’t be a team. When Madelyn and Samir decide to start their own improv group, they quickly realize forming a troupe is a lot harder than saying “yes, and.” From inappropriate scene partners to religious restrictions, romantic drama, and one extremely unearned show booking, Blank Slate chronicles the
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Best Documentary (Narrative) An extraordinary journey across the planet showing how climate change is affecting our world, what it will really mean for us, and what we can do about it.
BestShort Film When Mariam accepts the inheritance of her estranged mother, she believes she can finally leave the past behind. But the legacy turns into her downfall, pulling her into a destructive cycle.
Best Actress Feature Film Best Supporting Actress Feature Film After surviving a mass shooting at her office, a former mean exec attends a secluded therapy retreat in the hopes of recovering, but when odd occurrences keep happening, she begins to suspect that something else is lurking in the shadows.
Best Actress Laura, mother of a newborn, struggles with a complex obsessive-compulsive disorder. She engages in repetitive actions to fill an emotional void and maintain a connection with herself. Counting the moles on her skin and locating that same spot on her belly – day after day – calms her. Connecting with others feels impossible;
Best LGBT Film A mid-20s trans sex worker, Khloe, searches for her missing best friend in a drug-fueled haze of friends and clients.
My 1st Documentary “The Granddaughter” is a feature-length documentary about returning to places that remember more than people do. Its protagonist, Ewa Heller, was smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto as a two-year-old child. Now 85 and a psychotherapist, she revisits the spaces of her earliest life, including the former Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital.
Best Actor Feature Film In a world of rising censorship and coordinated attacks, a group of young artists risks everything to preserve truth, faith, and tradition—proving that when art meets adversity, the human spirit is unbreakable.
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Best Cinematography Thirty years after the death of her infant son, Agnes Ambrose invites her two estranged children, John and Giselle, to share a final meal. Over the course of the evening, she reveals her decision to end her life. Agnes drifts back into the past, reliving the painful events that led her to this
Best Woman Filmmaker Vigga lives in a quiet and predictable relationship with her boyfriend Matheo, but beneath the surface, a longing for something more is sprouting. Under pressure from her friends, she goes to a party where she meets the charismatic and free-spirited Liv, who represents everything Vigga suppresses in herself. In the light of
Best Comedy After Drew stands Melanie up for a date, she and her friend Alyssa decide to get away for the weekend. Drew is not what he seems. Like everyone, he’s just looking for love.
Best Animated Film On the outskirts of a future city in what used to be Sweden, Vidya and her dad live with others in a small community. The grown-ups talk about something lurking in the ruins of the city center, something they call “the Stray.” Vidya, who likes to do things her own way, pulls
Best Drama After Derin shows him to the door, her mind drifts away, lost in recent memories. As she tries to cook herself dinner, she struggles to untangle what she feels.
Best Experimental Film In ESSAYS ABOUT YVES a meeting is established: an imagined and imaginary dialogue between Patrícia Niedermeier and Yves Klein, who died prematurely at the age of 34. The film is a free biography that is full of artistic autobiography and, above all, it is an emotional exercise in imagery, pulsing like the
Best Screenplay The film is set at the end of World War II in a village in central Germany and is based on a true story. A German sergeant tries to surrender the village to the advancing Americans without a fight and is shot in the back by fanatical SS and Wehrmacht soldiers.
Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film After years of enduring torture from the staff and receiving increasingly poor service for their money, a group of residents of the nursing home ‘Pavilion’ decides to stage an armed uprising. A group of elderly men and women, armed with illegally acquired weapons, occupy the ‘Pavilion,’ taking the
My 1st Documentary What if showing solutions and telling a feel-good story were the best ways to talk about gender equality⎯and to find ways to achieve it? After the release of the Global Gender Gap Report stating that another 123 years will go by before we close the gender gap, director Anik Salas pays a
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Best Director Short Film Best Actress Short Film After a frightening encounter during her practice run, Maddie struggles with fear and self-doubt. She must find the courage to face her trauma and get back on her feet, ultimately deciding whether she is ready to run again.
Best Experimental Film “Hidden Archetypes” is a one-woman, self-funded visual poem — written, directed, scored, and performed by the filmmaker. It traces a woman’s journey from a childhood of pain through an external search for love, where she adopts the powerful masks of the Rebel and the Queen. Realizing the answer lies within, she embarks
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My 1st Feature film Chikeezing is a tender coming-of-age tale set in a quaint hill station, following young Chikya (Gautam), a curious and dreamy but mischievous boy from a poor village. Saturdays are his favourite, when he and his sister Tayadi accompany their mother to a posh residential school where she works. Chikya is mesmerized
Best Animated Film In the distant land of Sanh’mairh, Oona, a young elf in mourning, attempts to fulfill her blacksmith father’s final wish: to deliver a giant sword to Duke Croa Croa at the top of his mountain.
Best Woman Filmmaker Two former lovers meet in a hotel room for a final, quiet goodbye.
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Best Actor Feature Film Eugenio and Elvira are siblings: he is a musician, she is an actress. Along with their dentist friend Marcello, they go to a social eventin the heart of Rome. A chance encounter with the famous diva Paola Dini and her charming friend Ajna, of Indian origin, will radically change their lives.
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Best Horror Film After Akecheta’s daughter narrowly escapes a demonic cult, he realizes they are desecrating his ancestral homeland and must take matters into his own hands.
Best Actor Short Film Donald, an elderly man, arrives on a cruise ship as though pulled by an invisible string. This leads him to slowly shuffle upon an apparent murder scene. Donald searches for answers, and when he finds a second body, a state of emergency is called. But, when it becomes clear that the
I think it’s becoming braver, more personal, more honest. Filmmakers are moving away from spectacle and toward intimacy. And intimacy travels further. Authenticity will always outlive scale. What inspired you to become a filmmaker, and how did your journey begin? Cinema was always there, long before I had the language to explain it. As
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In Sweden, I have freedom of expression. I can write and perform all my words and poems freely. I am not afraid of being arrested by the Iranian authorities, and this greatly enhances my creative freedom. Background and Inspiration Can you share your journey from Southern Iran to becoming a composer and sound designer
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I gained a better understanding of how film and images shape our reality and view of life. And how movies can affect people psychologically, depending on the movie’s subject, positively or negatively. And that over 70% of our worldview comes from the media, not from real-life experience. Background and Career What inspired you to
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I find it heartbreaking to see so many people that I have met let the dream inside them fall to the wayside because they have to repave their driveway. I find the whole thing heartbreaking. So maybe, just maybe, if I can invite one of them with me, they will put the pavers down and
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In Need of Seawater emerges as a profound poetic documentary that captures the nuanced experiences of identity, struggle, and healing through the voices of Richard Yeagley and Mark Anthony Thomas. This multifaceted work intertwines personal narratives with broader societal themes, making it a compelling exploration of the black male experience in America. Structure and
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Missing Meaning, an experimental animated film by Vasco Diogo, is an ambitious exploration of the human psyche, capturing the essence of childhood wonder through a unique blend of technology and artistry. Entirely crafted on mobile devices, the film employs a myriad of AI-driven applications to create a psychedelic journey that resonates with themes of fear,
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“As They Pass” is a poignant film that delves into themes of mortality, nostalgia, and familial relationships. Through a unique dialogue between a character and their deceased parent, the film explores the emotional complexities surrounding loss and the enduring impact of memories. Themes Mortality: The film opens with a stark acknowledgment of death, establishing a
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City in Observation, directed by Audrey Whiteford-Woods, serves as a thought-provoking exploration of urban life through an experimental lens. This short film invites viewers into a meditative experience that challenges conventional storytelling, urging us to engage with our environments in deeper, more meaningful ways. Concept and Direction The film centers on the intriguing premise
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Best Woman Filmmaker After a succession of rejections, a woman grappling with Depression and Social Anxiety retreats into the quiet comfort of her only support system—her two beloved cats. A touching story on fighting silent battles and struggling with mental health.
My 1st Feature film A digital detox vacation goes wrong when a teenager discovers a MODEM. When it’s connected to the Wi-Fi, it wakes a dormant, sadistic DEMON.
Best Animated Film Two sisters play in the garden and discover a bumblebee, busy at work.
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Best Drama Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Along the Western shores of Lake Michigan, just north of Milwaukee, lies the small town of Port Washington, Wisconsin where two old fishermen recover the curious isolated remains of a human face. Jaden Sobczak, a young man in his early 20’s of mixed African-American and Caucasian
Best Music Video This song and video use the metaphor of a “Holy War” to explore conflict in a relationship.
COVID-19 FILM COVID-19 killed 13–17 million people more than any pandemic since 1918. Five years later, its origin remains a mystery. China, the US, and France hide or distort the truth. Scientists, detectives, and investigators around the world, including Nolwenn Le Fustec and Jérémy André, spent five years chasing answers. This is what they found.
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Best 1st Time Director After the death of his father, Kiril realizes that one day he will die too. Searching for some meaning, he ventures into his memories, and they take him on a walk through his consciousness. Will he find a reason to love life again… and accept death?
Best Short Film Best Director Short Film Best Actress Noridc Best Actor Nordic Markus, a slightly awkward but warm-hearted man in his forties, receives a shocking diagnosis: a rare disease will kill him the moment he falls asleep. As he comes to terms with his death sentence, he’s overwhelmed by memories of moments where—through his
Best Actress Short Film Inspired by the play “Rabbit Hole” written by David Lindsay-Abaire, “Eternity With You” is an experimental short film that follows a young pregnant woman, Becca, who faces her future self after her son’s death. Her pregnant self is left with a choice: forget and let go of her future son to
Best Screenplay A young girl AMINE 23 from a war-torn country (Syria) starts a world movement where everyone plants a tree with the aim of creating peace in the world. She plants the first tree with the help of a girl LILLY 14 who she meets along the way and in this way they together
Web/TV Series A woman invents the first stable fusion reaction and instead of a promotion, her boss tries to eliminate her to use the invention for military purposes. It backfires, the world ends, the woman then go out on a mission to shut down all active nuclear plants before they reach core meltdown, but there
Best Documentary (Narrative) Storks is an intimate short documentary about a Ukrainian mother striving to keep her daughter’s roots alive after finding refuge in rural Northern Ireland. As they adapt to a new life far from home, the mother brings her daughter back to Ukraine during school holidays — at Easter and Christmas — to
Best Actress Feature Film Since childhood, 25-year-old Luna and her younger brother Tommy have lived with their grandmother, Pen, in a small house on the edge of a riverside forest. For Luna, nature is both home and refuge. She doesn’t want to leave, and she doesn’t want anything to change. Then Tommy graduates from high
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Best Woman Filmmaker A traumatized young woman battles guilt, self-harm, and silence after a sexual assault, until protecting her friend pushes her to expose the predator and reclaim her power.
Best Actress Feature Film Studio Yolanda’s first live action feature film, “They Are Discriminating Against The Blobs,” from writer/director Chris Wheat, asks the question: “what would the military do if the invaders from the stars do, in fact, come in peace?” The answer challenges us to think about human nature, xenophobia, and what we are
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Best Super Short Film An ethereal place forms the backdrop to a father and daughter encounter, where they share heartfelt final words and a tender embrace that transcends life and death. As the moment fades, she comprehends the circumstances that led to this event, forever carrying the memory of their last goodbye.
Best Thriller Best Actor Short Film Best Supporting Actor in Short Film CIA investigator Fred Jones is dispatched from the USA to Abu Ghraib prison (Baghdad’s central prison), occupied by the US army in April 2003, during the second Iraq war. He interrogates Corporal Charles Gardner, the only conscious witness to a mysterious attack on
Best Experimental Documentary This 15-minute documentary recounts the moving journey of AEK Athens Football Club, which, amid the NATO bombings of April 1999, traveled to Belgrade to play a friendly match against Partizan — sending a powerful global message of peace, solidarity, and human dignity. Through rare archival footage, testimonies, and dramatized reenactments, the film
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Best Actor Feature Film A first in Hollywood. The same actors portray their characters during a span of decades ! During COVID, friends look back on a magical island where they all met decades ago for courage and love.
Best Feature Documentary Nhora documents the everyday life of her elderly mother, also named Nhora, who is gradually losing her memory. The film explores their daily routines: shared meals, simple habits, and the small, everyday gestures of love that form the core of their bond. This intimate portrait of aging is disrupted by the arrival
Best Animated Film At 40, Julien is neither an alpha male nor a beta. But that day, a strange illness, a childhood wound, once again prevents him from understanding his lover’s language.
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My 1st Documentary When a father consumed by alcoholism agrees to join his son on a journey through psychedelic-assisted addiction treatment in Colorado, their road trip across the American West in an aging Winnebago becomes an unflinching exploration of codependency, memory, and hope.
Best Actress Short Film A lawyer seeks out a therapist in the final period of the COVID-19 pandemic to deal with trauma caused by a fatal accident. As time goes by, mysteries linked to the past begin to surface, leading to an intense and revealing outcome.
Best Short Documentary A frivolous French travel “influencer” takes her audience on an exclusive safari adventure, but is more interested in expounding on French exceptionalism (as well as insulting the Brits and Yanks) than marveling at the magnificent wildlife in front of her.
Best Experimental Film Ten Poem Project is a hybrid dance film that brings together poetry, movement, and lived testimony to explore migration, identity, and artistic resilience. Emerging from a larger practice-as-research monograph, the film weaves choreographic performance with personal narrative, poetic text, and visual storytelling. Rooted in the experiences of migrant dancers in the United
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My 1st Short Film Best Actress Critic On the night the clocks go forward, a girl spirals through the aftermath of her partner’s suicide — alone, high, and unraveling. Daylight Saving Time captures the beauty and brutality of grief in motion. Set over one surreal, sleepless night, through drug-fueled distraction, destructive release, and quiet moments
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Best Actress Feature Film Buenos Aires, 1980. Malena navigates a double life: by night, she’s a dancer in a vibrant cabaret; by day, she answers calls for a telephone Hotline. The city is gripped by a series of brutal murders reported on the radio and TV. One call shatters Malena’s routine. It’s not a client
Best Music Video DIVA VOX, a 26-year-old Icelandic industrial-EDM singer/songwriter, embodies both artist and muse, dancing between shadows and light. Ciro Ayala’s signature style, dynamic cinematography, visceral symbolism, and dark color grading elevate the track’s themes of burning desire and eternal duality.
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Best Student Movie Wild Goose is a story that profoundly portrays the emotional entanglements and self-discovery of the characters in a northeastern county. The story begins when Cheng Si’an receives the news of her father’s sudden death. She returns to the northeastern county where she has lived for many years and meets Xu Yan, her
Best LGBT Film Just before graduation, Alex and Ethan pretend to be trans women to get into the girls’ lockers. It’s all a joke until Ethan realizes: she really is trans. The two must reckon with their changing friendship and the process of coming out.
Best Director Short Film When Ali comes back from America with love bites on his neck, his mother, Gül, is terrified. This newfound love will push their family through a change they might not be ready for: wedding bells. ‘Three Kisses’ portrays three intimate moments that reveal those left out of their love story.
Best Actor Short Film This is one day of an immigrant who moved to Canada for a better future. But after arriving, he got an ordinary job, and for status, he claimed asylum, but back in his country, his family suffers a lot because of financial problems, and other relationships are effect they think he
Best Experimental Film Erik, a young man of strong faith, receives a heartfelt letter from Cecilia, the woman he loves. When she fails to show up at their planned meeting, he is thrown into an emotional journey: wandering through the city, calling and asking around, but finding no answers. His longing, frustration, and doubt grow
Best Screenplay Suya is standing at a crossroads in her life, and accidentally, she meets a witch who claims to be able to predict everything. Suya chooses to believe the witch’s divination out of curiosity and confusion. After tasting the sweetness of divination, Suya begins to use divination to help herself make decisions. Gradually, Suya
Best Cinematography The film speaks of the drastic changes happening in the high ranges and how they disrupt the lives of ordinary people. Years of quarry blasting, borewell drilling, and reckless excavation have scarred the land, triggering soil erosion and landslides across the state. In Bhoothalam, this ecological unease becomes the stage on which a
Best Feature Documentary This gripping documentary film, produced in association with Tyrone Productions Ltd., chronicles the harrowing 222-day ordeal of Bernard Phelan, an Irish/French citizen wrongfully taken hostage in Mashhad, Iran. The film opens with Phelan’s abrupt capture outside the holy Imam Reza mosque, thrusting viewers into his nightmarish experience inside the notorious “Satan’s Block”
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Best Super Short Film Mollie, a young woman in her twenties, is struggling with her mental health. She writes a diary entry, pouring out all the emotions she can’t express aloud. Her words reveal the depth of her isolation and the hopelessness of feeling all this pain bleed out of her without anyone noticing.
Web/TV Series A couple frustrated with the world of cinema and acting decide to parody scenes from national cinema to succeed, but their plan goes out of control when their relationship becomes a parody. Ramiro and Vivi have been dating for years. He is a frustrated film director, and she is an unlucky actress, and
Best Woman Filmmaker The Missus continues to try to thwart John’s plans, and John is busy preparing for the biggest moment of his life, which he’s not handling well at all.
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Best Actress My 1st Short Film Placed in a liberating landscape of Barcelona, Spain, Nicole’s final days at school turn into an absolute tragedy: She is being terrorized. Someone is after her, someone whose presence she cannot escape. Nicole does not feel supported by the people around her, nor by her psychiatrist, who is completely
Best Horror Film Best 1st time Director Filmed within the hushed corridors of a historic Los Angeles abbey, the work follows The Dreamer as she drifts through three cycles: waking life, dream, and nightmare. Each phase escalates in anxiety and disorientation, unraveling the fragile boundaries between perception and illusion. Drawing on the legacy of Maya
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My 1st Documentary In 1975, in the Lithuanian SSR — then part of the Soviet Union — construction began on a nuclear power plant and its satellite town, Visaginas. People came from all over the country: for work, for hope, for a new life. ‘Temporary Elements’ is a film about the dreams that unite us
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My Animated Film Gavy is a woman who is struggling to connect with her emotions and has distanced herself not only from herself but also from her friends and family. Because of this neglect and unwillingness to face herself, her emotions come together to confront her instead.
Best Short Documentary In Gothenburg, Sweden, textile artist Anja Fredell devotes herself to the slow, tactile rhythms of her craft. The short documentary captures her in the vulnerable stage between student and established voice. It is a portrait of an artist still searching, still becoming.
Best Actress Short Film Haunted by a violent past, 26-year-old Emily marries a wealthy man for security, only to face his sadistic cruelty. Pregnant and trapped, she must find a way to escape before it’s too late.
Best Drama Best Actress Feature Film Best Supporting Actress Feature Film As a winter storm jeopardizes the annual Christmas Eve gathering of five friends, unresolved conflicts surface, forcing them to confront their differences.
Best Actor Evert, a kind and considerate man, learns the hard way that things don’t always go as planned. Retirement is just around the corner, but it wasn’t what he had envisioned. And when he finally tries to do something about his situation, he finds himself caught in the middle of a devious plot that
My 1st Feature Film Taha is based on true, tragic events. It tells the story of political refugees in the Netherlands who were dreaming of a free homeland, but in the end, became outcasts, wanted by their own country’s authorities. The film focuses on the psychological state of Egyptian refugees and their inner pain, the
Best Actress Short Film Bipolar Hilla cannot help but fall in love when she meets bohemian and free-spirited Jemina.
Best Short Film The story of a group of people, including a clandestine couple, a hotel concierge, a video technician, and a punk girl, whose lives intersect for seemingly random reasons, but which are actually carefully orchestrated by a secret director who avidly spies on them. Things will end very badly because, despite careful planning,
Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film From all four corners of the planet, elite ex-military personnel are recruited in a somewhat unorthodox manner by a revengeful Dr Marco in an attempt to achieve a powerful fighting force to save the world from an evil arm of destruction and control. Can
Jia Xu. Director, Screenwriter, Known for Make You Fall (2021), Wings (2021), and Twin Matchmakers: Billionaire Dad’s Love Quest (2025). What motivated you to pursue a career in filmmaking, and how did your journey begin? I didn’t actually set out to pursue filmmaking as a career at first. I simply gravitated toward the arts,
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Best Short Documentary In America’s breadbasket, a Kansas town confronts the paradox of hunger amid abundance — revealing how community, care, and courage redefine what it means to share the table.
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Best Director Short Film Behind the quiet routines of their everyday life, Sarah and David live in a relationship built on control, violence, shame, and silence. As the tension deepens, the roles are not what they seem. Beneath Us is a psychological thriller about hidden violence, blurred boundaries, and the darkness that festers where no
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Best Music Video The film is a tribute to my grandmother, who passed away while I was living abroad—during a post-pandemic time when distance felt heavier than ever. I could not see her for the last time, and her absence lingers within me. Through the portrayal of memory and movement, the film drifts between loss
Best Short Film Set in 2071 amidst post-Third World War America, “Song of Silence” follows Greta, the matriarch of a mute, female-led community rebuilt after the fall of an extremist patriarchal system. When her son returns from the frontlines, Greta is forced to confront an impossible choice—one that challenges both the love she has for
Best Animated Film Cuchuplum lives alone in the mountains. One day, a wounded bird comes through his window. Cuchuplum heals it, takes care of it, and is happy with this new friend, until one day the little one decides to fly away to be with his family. Days go by, and sadness pushes Cuchuplum to
Best Actress Short Film Johannes and Gabin are young cousins and in love with each other: their story takes place in the South of France.
Best Woman Filmmaker Best Actor Short Film For the accountant Gerald, the realization of having to spend his birthday alone for another year shifts his life from the usual gray drabness to a black void that follows him throughout the day. Fed up with it all, he makes a dramatic decision: a nightcap of scotch,
Best Horror Film Jacob’s world is turned upside down when his wife Maja is admitted to a psychiatric hospital with severe depression. Now he is alone with their six-year-old son, Johannes, pressing deadlines at work and all the worries that come with the hospitalization of his wife. Jacob tries his best to manage the crisis,
Best Actress (Child) Best Super Short Film For Christmas morning, she didn’t have much to give. But what she did have was a big idea. And no one suspected they were about to receive their greatest gift ever. Because Christmas had a surprise up its sleeve just waiting for the right moment.
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My 1st Short Film A group of students gather at their friend’s house party filled with alcohol and drugs, but their fun night turns into a complete nightmare when one of them accidentally dies in a tragic accident.
Best Drama The Stone of the Saint, the film tells the story of the adventurous journey of a mother and daughter in search of a sacred stone, which promises miraculous healing. The story is immersed in the harsh and enveloping beauty of the Abruzzo nature and tells of a rural reality that has become peripheral,
Best Actress Best Supporting Actress Accession is a poetic short film on the borderland between everyday realism and magic. Caroline mourns her recently deceased father and seeks comfort in her friend Alice. After a quarrel, Alice runs out into the night and, to her surprise, encounters Caroline’s dead father in a cabin in the woods.
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Best Experimental Film A woman traces her life across shifting images—phone clips, hand-drawn frames, fleeting shadows. In these fragments, she gathers memories of migration and belonging, shaping a self-portrait that is both fragile and whole. P.S. Because of the different visual techniques used in the film and its high bitrate, some players may not display
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Best Feature Documentary Fred, in his sixties, lives in a tiny apartment in the Marais district of Paris. Suffering from mental illness and extreme loneliness, he sets about recreating his childhood world by hunting for books and toys in flea markets. At the same time, he develops a passion for the fallen angels of the
Best Screenplay When a neurologically-altered man bonded to a wealthy family’s son loses the child to terminal illness, he develops a deadly mental condition that he must overcome by finding the only person known to survive the syndrome.
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My 1st Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film After receiving traumatic news about her brother, a recovering addict is thrust into crisis. Her friends desperately try to talk her out of relapse in this story of separation and connection, and of how far people will go to protect the ones they love.
Web/TV Series In a country where identity is still an issue, a scientist solves cases following the legacy of her grandfather, Juan Vucetich, the renowned Croatian creator of the fingerprint identification method. Her job and name are threatened, so she embarks on a journey to discover who is behind it.
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Best Music Video Amour is a music video for the Dutch singer Claude. The song is about finding love for yourself in a world full of chaos.
Best Cinematography Neglected is a compelling courtroom drama based on true events that delves into the profound consequences of parental neglect and societal indifference. The film follows Joey, a young boy whose life is plagued by neglect and violence. His already difficult existence spirals into tragedy following a heartbreaking incident in a bar. As the
Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Zoe, an Italian woman, has all the things that should make a person happy; unfortunately, she’s not. On Mardi Gra’s a little boy dressed as a wizard grants her a wish at three chances to live the life she’s always yearned for. If she
My 1st Documentary The documentary film “Weil wir es müssen” (Because We Have To, Germany, 42 min., 2025) is a cinematic search for social responsibility and attitudes within the German population in the face of the war in Ukraine. It focuses on two people who are deeply committed to the Ukrainian struggle for freedom. The
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Best LGBT film Within 12 hours, Janna and Lucy will say hello and goodbye at Leipzig’s train station. They have one night to explore the city and get to know each other a bit more, before Lucy goes back to France.
Best Actress Short Film It’s 8 p.m. Just as she’s about to leave her apartment, Lise, a freelance graphic designer, receives a phone call from her father. Nothing extraordinary so far… except that he has been dead for two years. He calls to invite her to his birthday. He talks as if nothing happened. Alone
Best Woman Filmmaker Suzanne, a widowed mother of three still grieving for her husband, has turned to alcohol to ease her pain, but is having an increasingly tough time maintaining a functioning façade. Until an accident on the way to school changes everything! Social services give Suzanne no choice: if she wants to keep custody
Best Actress Short Film When a heart transplant recipient discovers her life-saving donor was the same man who tried to murder her, she teams up with his sister to uncover why he wanted her dead.
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Olga Niekrasova is an award-winning Ukrainian director and screenwriter whose work occupies the intersection of experimental cinema and immersive visual storytelling. Celebrated internationally, her films challenge conventional storytelling through inventive form, rhythm, and visual language. Distinguished by meticulous attention to aesthetic detail and profound emotional depth, Olga invites audiences into cinematic worlds that resonate long
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In a world often overshadowed by strife and division, Tumaini Festival, directed by Rupert Poeschl, shines a radiant light on resilience, community, and hope. Set within the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, this compelling documentary captures the essence of an extraordinary cultural festival founded in 2014 by Menes La Plume, a refugee hailing from the
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Film Review: Lost in Time Lost in Time, directed by Henry Colin and co-written and produced by Paul Andrew Kimbal, and produced by Ron Foley Macdonald and Paul Andrew Kimbal, it is a compelling exploration of identity, memory, and the intricate tapestry of the human experience. This thought-provoking science fiction film takes us on a
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Best LGBT Film Seweryn, a 30-year-old musician, is on the verge of fulfilling his dreams—to sign a contract with a small music label. His life takes an unexpected turn when, after a gig, he becomes the victim of sexual abuse by Michael, a powerful businessman. At first, Seweryn doesn’t remember what happened, but his body
Best Short Film (Swedish) An incredibly awkward girl tries to survive a day at the office while being stupidly horny.
Best Animated Film Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis is an animated allegory about Qaqsoss, a fox who is haunted by Wahantuhsis, a tiny demon. Set in an enchanted forest, the film explores themes of mental illness, trauma, and generational pain through Qaqsoss’ struggles with both her inner demons and the mischievous demon that follows her. As Qaqsoss
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Web/TV Series A new prison worker executes death sentences in the 90s. After meeting a victim’s father, he believes victims’ families should carry out executions – and realizes he can profit from their desire for revenge.
My 1st Documentary Ćetiba Dupanović established the Bihać Performing Arts Festival, opened the doors to the theater caravan and introduced it to the history of the city. Along with the courage that Ćetiba had, there was also her vision and passion to make Bihać a theater center. And she succeeded. It is the 27th this
Best Actress Alexa Morden stars as Leda Calder, a woman who moves between what appear to be different worlds, and different times, as she works to piece together the truth behind her fragmented memories, in this science fiction mind-bender from Canadian director Henry Colin. Holly Stevens co-stars as Leda’s friend Jane, who may hide the
Best Drama Best Actress Feature Film An anxious young woman trapped in a co-dependent relationship with her increasingly abusive partner must find the courage to escape before he goes too far. Aphelion is a dramatic feature told in real time in a single location. Zinaida is a young woman suffering from anxiety and depression, self-medicating
Best Super Short Film In her final days at home, a young woman is torn between moving on and the numbness holding her back.
Best Short Narrative During their holiday, two little girls help Janet, a heartbroken English traveler—unaware that this encounter will jeopardize their own family.
Best Music Video In the shadows of the city, a ghostly figure is drawn to a man reading in a cemetery, longing for a connection that will never be realized.
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Best Actress Critic (Special Award) Two travelers, seek refuge In an abandoned research complex only to discover that what awaits inside is far deadlier than the world they are hiding from.
Best Animated Film In a medieval kingdom, a princess is locked in a cave, held captive by a dragon. The royal chef, Bram, is in love with her and prepares meals for her every day. When he learns that a knight is on his way to rescue her, he decides to take a chance and
Best Feature Documentary Film A feature-length documentary film revealing the powerful real-life story of the original rebel girls of football – The Corinthians Ladies FC from Manchester, England. Who formed a team in 1949 at the height of the English Football Association’s 50-year ban on women playing, took on the all-male establishment, and won. The
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Best Short Documentary Spirit of the Driftless is a short documentary that transports viewers on a serene yet powerful journey through the rugged landscapes, hidden underworlds, ancient archaeology, rare habitats, and vibrant wildlife of the unglaciated Driftless Region.
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Best Actress In a near-future world, a lonely, physically challenged man purchases a companion robot to escape his isolation. But his own insecurities and a jealous brother threaten his chances of ever finding love.
Best Actress Short Film When Clare arrives at her sister’s door unexpectedly, Samantha is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision. Echoing is about denial, compassion and strength in the face of loss.
Best Short Film Best Actor Short Film Best Director Short Film Amid the social, political, and security chaos sweeping Haiti, we follow the daily life of Maxime, a Port-au-Prince businessman who must find a way to pay his workers while a sudden disruption to the banking system paralyzes the country.
My 1st Short film Inspired by true events, this film tells the story of a young girl who is trafficked to a remote village in Yunnan（South of China）. Her desperate attempts to escape only plunge her deeper into darkness…
Best Actress Short Film A mixed-race college student must come to terms with her own experiences with race when competing in a debate on the topic of whether racial data should be on the census.
Best Woman Filmmaker After 20 years, a woman (me) comes back with her camera to the same public beach in Beirut, a spot once frequented exclusively by men. To my astonishment, I find Reda still sitting in the same place…
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My 1st Feature Film A lonely Man falls into obsessive love, while a mysterious suitcase unleashes his dark side and drags him into a maelstrom of despair and self-destruction.
Best Experimental Film A shy young girl finds herself in a mysterious realm of sentient butterflies fighting for survival in a world threatened by war, a poetic glimpse into a future full-length animated film.
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Best Experimental Film Following a tragic event that shattered her life, renowned author Alice Chevalier struggles to find meaning in her existence. In search of answers and a sign from destiny, she encounters Thomas, a mysterious man who offers her an experience that defies the boundaries of reality. Driven by the hope of rebuilding herself,
Best Horror Film A man takes a job as a janitor at a university, where he is tasked with watching over five students who were the last to see a professor before her mysterious death.
Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Best Supporting Actress Feature Film When Detective Sarah takes in her troubled teenage niece Emily, she discovers a dark family secret—Emily carries the curse of the Blue Moon. As the full moon rises, Sarah is forced into a dangerous world of bloodlines, betrayals, and
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My Mother Bought a Camera is a short documentary that explores the intricate relationship between memory, family, and the passage of time through the lens of an old eight-millimeter camera. Geovana Maria Pimentel Chaves, the filmmaker, skillfully intertwines personal narrative with broader themes of nostalgia, identity, and the fleeting nature of childhood. Cinematic Techniques Chaves
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Mothers, Lovers and Others is a poignant exploration of the intricacies of relationships, expertly crafted by filmmaker Davo Hardy. This feature film explores the lives of its characters, navigating themes of love, familial bonds, and the often tumultuous journey of self-discovery. Below, we’ll explore the various aspects of the film, highlighting its strengths and addressing
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In “In an Impasse,” I was most eager to explore themes of moral conflict, survival, and the emotional pressures faced by ordinary people in extreme situations. I wanted the audience to feel Sara’s journey as real and relatable.: Navid Ghiasi What inspired you to pursue a career in filmmaking, and how did your early experiences
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My 1st Documentary Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists set out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease, but when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work, they are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.
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Web/TV Series Koba, an intelligence officer, is determined to uncover the truth behind the death of his girlfriend, Aliya. In his pursuit of justice, he crosses powerful figures, exposing his double life. Now, the hunt is on for him.
Best Experimental Film On a remote island, seven women from different corners of the world gather around an extravagant dining table. Each arrives carrying something symbolic, a candle, a mirror, fragments of memory, desire, and loss. As they sit together, what begins as a shared ritual spirals into a surreal unfolding of chaos. Their conversations
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Best Actor Short Film Zone of Shards (SzilánkZóna) is a historical short drama set in rural Hungary during the final days of World War II in the spring of 1945. Inspired directly by the director’s grandfather’s personal memories, the film immerses viewers in a child’s experience of war through its distinct visual style, evocative sound
Best Screenplay A quiet lunch turns upside down when a secret recipe sets off a chain of surprises.
Best Experimental Film A portrait of a woman locked up in a room (atelier) where she works as a seamstress. Two other women arrive in the room like customers. They are in an existential space where they must confess their sins or bad acts in life to be able to go to a better place.
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Best Short Film (Swedish) After a fight with her boyfriend, Jack, Sofia realizes she’s been living her life according to his expectations, not her own. In a heartfelt conversation with her best friend Tom, she admits she’s lost touch with who she really is. With Tom’s support, Sofia decides to stop living for someone else
Best Actress Short Film After a failed dinner party with Martin’s best friend, Adam, and his girlfriend Lillian, Martin and Nora sit down to figure out why Lillian always acts like a bitch. While tracing both perceptions of the dinner, Martin realizes a thing about Adam he wishes he could unsee.
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Best Short Film Aida’s world is turned upside down when her brother Omar vanishes on his 16th birthday. She can’t find any traces of him, and the adult world is unable to give her answers. The search for her brother challenges Aida’s perceptions of reality and forces her to confront the unsettling truths lurking beneath
Best Short Film Aida’s world is turned upside down when her brother Omar vanishes on his 16th birthday. She can’t find any traces of him, and the adult world is unable to give her answers. The search for her brother challenges Aida’s perceptions of reality and forces her to confront the unsettling truths lurking beneath
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Best Actress (Swedish) Best Cinematography “As Fredrika faces the most important day of her life, she falls victim to betrayal. Her sister Anna is secretly involved with Fredrika’s fiancé, Filip. Together, they stage a trip to Iceland, using an absurd excuse about witches’ curses and diminished body parts to conceal the truth. In the interplay
Best Music Video A young Edwardian gentleman, working as a photographer, falls madly in love with a captivating woman as she takes her daily stroll down Brighton Pier. Finally mustering the courage to approach her, he is devastated to discover that there’s someone else in the picture.
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Best Animated Film Agneta was born and raised in the countryside. There, she lived a life marked by diligence and mutual respect. One day, she moves to the big city and is immediately shocked by her new neighbors’ inability to keep the shared garbage room in order. With the best of intentions, she puts up
COVID-19 FILM In early 2020, the world was struck by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jim and Sheldon, two English expatriates living together in Switzerland, experienced a fairly normal lockdown. However, the town they live in became the scene of many strange events. At the height of the crisis, despite the restrictions imposed on the population, a
Best Super Short Film Under the time pressure of a potentially life-changing test, a young couple unexpectedly takes a quick but meaningful look at their past, present, and potential future.
Best Woman Filmmaker In a school classroom, the parents and guardians of elementary school students gather to discuss a fight that broke out between two children. The parents’ reactions will be unpredictable, and everyone will sooner or later reveal their true character, with tragicomic results.
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Best Director Short Film THIS FILM IS A SHOWCASE OF THE BOND BETWEEN HUMANITY AND MOTHERHOOD. IT MAKES US REALISE HUMANITY IS STILL ALIVE TODAY.
Best Short Documentary James Simonee, an Inuit hunter from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, investigates the impacts of one of the largest iron mines in the world on traditional lands near his community. Equipped with his rich cultural knowledge and scientific tools, James embarks on a journey to help his community take an active role in preserving
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Best Actor Feature Film Marco, a man of about 45 years old, had lived a life filled with turmoil and uncertainty. Adopted as a teenager by an American Sicilian family deeply involved in organized crime, he was raised under the watchful eye of Michael Luchini, the powerful boss of the family. Despite being considered as
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Best Actress In a destitute single-parent household, a mother never imagined the dinner celebrating her only son’s imminent career launch would become their final shared moment. When he calmly declares his plan to relocate to Shanghai with his boyfriend, her reality fractures. Since the divorce, son and mentally fragile mother have suffocated in codependency—years of
My 1st Short Film A young woman gets attacked when she’s walking home alone from a night out; luckily, she manages to get away. But when she talks about it with her friend, they start to suspect it was someone she knew.
Best Drama While battling Stage 4 cancer, Erica chooses to carry her baby, defying the odds with faith, love, and strength—leaving behind a powerful legacy.
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Best Feature Documentary FIST BUMP is the story of Marcus Knight, an astounding success story: a talented and charismatic bi-racial young adult with autism and cerebral palsy who pursues his dream career of a life on Broadway. As a college freshman, he’s accused of sexual harassment from a friendly fist bump and selfies. He must
Best Short Narrative Fairy Dust is a gritty black comedy set in 1970s America. Leslie, a self-aware hippie with a sharp tongue, is caught selling drugs and given a choice: prison or working with the police. She opts to cooperate and is handed a mysterious batch of seized narcotics nicknamed “fairy dust.” As she reenters
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Best Feature Film In a poignant tale that unfolds against the backdrop of Bangladesh’s changing landscape, the producer delivers a powerful message in his first production, “Ritu Kamini.” The gripping narrative of this film delves deep into the heart of the nation’s struggle with the pervasive effects of global warming. Set in the picturesque yet
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Best Short Documentary All Roses Have Thorns is a short documentary about a group of Guatemalan indigenous women who, in a theatre group, make plays about their personal stories in order to heal from the past.
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Best Horror Film A woman gets lost in the woods, only to face a blinding, but extraterrestrial threat.
Zeyi Zoey Li’s documentary, “ALL IN MAY,” is a moving exploration of the lives of domestic workers in Hong Kong, focusing on the heartfelt journey of Arlene, a Filipino helper. Selected as a finalist at the Stockholm City Film Festival in July 2025, this film is a significant contribution to the discourse on labor rights
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The Happiness Experiment, directed and written by Jaccii Farris and produced by Meghan Reese, is a deeply moving documentary that emphasizes the power of community and collective happiness. It follows the journey of an individual who, inspired by personal tragedy, commits to spreading joy and positivity through simple yet impactful means. Overview The film
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Documentary Review: Point Washington Chronicles by Kirby Clements Point Washington Chronicles, under the skillful direction, writing, and production of Kirby Clements, delves into the rich tapestry of a community grappling with its identity amidst the pressures of modern development. This documentary offers a compelling narrative that intertwines personal histories with broader societal themes, making it
Directed by Chris McKenna and featuring a captivating screenplay by George Hutton, SHADOW emerges as a gripping cinematic experience that lingers long after the credits roll. Co-produced by McKenna, Hutton, and Nathan Ward, this film masterfully weaves together themes of mystery, identity, and the human experience. Synopsis. Scáth (Shadow) is a breath held between worlds—a
My 1st Documentary Intrigued by a pair of jade earrings once worn by the last Empress of China, a young Asian American woman “travels back in time” — journeying to three vibrant worlds: cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s, the twilight of the Qing dynasty in the early 1900s, and the dazzling yet conflicted Hollywood of
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Best LGBT Film Every day, Achraf is followed by a huge knight’s armor, silent and imposing. It’s there when he works, when he sees his friends, and even when he performs as a Drag-King in his music group. No one else notices the Armor. Ach tries to ignore it, but it becomes increasingly present in
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Best Drama Best Director Short Film A story concerning revenge, loss, and guilt amidst the cold, barren landscape of the Norwegian fjord.
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Best Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film The film tells the story of Wan Quanhe, a barefoot doctor, and his absurd yet happy life. Wan Quanhe, a rural young man with limited intelligence, is inspired a city girl called Ma Li, and he spends 50 years “treating” villagers and researching herbal
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My 1st Short Film Best Director Short Film A comedy about two writers whose romantic entanglement takes a sharp turn when they realize they have conflicting ideas about the ethics of writing. As their boundaries clash, the line between storytelling and manipulation begins to blur.
Best Actress Lou has built a fragile web of lies to convince her mother that her life is under control. But when she learns her mother has also shut herself off from the world, Lou is forced to confront her own inner fears. Unable to leave her home, she embarks on an emotional journey through
Best Screenplay When a flamboyant psychic fakes seances for grieving clients, she meets a strange young woman whose haunting connection to the spirit world turns into a chilling confrontation.
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Best Short Documentary The Story of the Artist Who Designed the Most Book Covers in the World Having left an indelible mark on Turkey’s visual culture, Birol Bayram has designed more book covers than any other artist in the world. His artistic journey, inspirations, and the stories behind his lines unfold in The Book’s Dream,
Best Woman Filmmaker “Following in the Footsteps of My Ancestors” is a personal documentary film by Ute Köhler about her family history. The filmmaker embarks on an extraordinary journey to retrace the emigration route of her ancestors, who emigrated from southern Germany to Galicia (present-day Poland) in the 18th century and later to Volhynia (Ukraine).
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Best Actor Short Film Logline: A rock star bound by a devil’s pact drifts toward oblivion, haunted by forever regrets. Across the veil, a fallen angel mourns lost grace. Each seeks redemption—and in that search, confronts what they truly are, and what they might yet become. Synopsis: Melodies of the Abyss unfolds as a brooding,
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Best Music Video VICTORIA’s new music video reveals how social media’s beauty standards and the pressure for popularity create an illusion of perfection, emphasizing that true beauty comes from our unique differences. The music video for VICTORIA’s song “WE DON’T GET ALONG (Crumbs of a Modern Tragedy)” addresses the pressures of social media and beauty
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Best Horror Film Caught in the net of her addiction to social networks and the false pretenses of her image, LLONA, a yoga influencer, seeks an escape in a spiritual retreat in Norway. She hopes to find some form of peace there. However, this quest turns into a nightmare when the rituals of this retreat
Best Animated Film 22-year old Mona has a prophetic daydream at a café while playing backgammon with an old man. When an unknown girl comes and steals the old mans bag, Mona goes on a hunt throughout Stockholm to retrieve it. During the hunt a strange meeting between the two girls occur. They soon find
Best Cinematography A film where fiction and reality collide; Richard and Kim decide to co-write with the filmmaker, pieces of their future lives together. “Under my mother’s roof” is a portrait of a man who is facing his biggest fear; the diagnosis of his love with autism. A journey which will lead him back to
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Best Short Film Susan, 25, returns for a family lunch after a long absence. Upon her arrival, she discovers her brother with a surprise guest: Claire, his new pregnant wife. Susan is once again drawn back into this dysfunctional family.
Best Woman Filmmaker Beyond Age is an observational documentary that approaches the third age not as a closure, but as a fragile, spiritual, and deeply human phase of life. The elderly protagonists, through the rhythms of their daily lives, build bridges between memory and the present, experiencing time as an active waiting and quiet reflection.
Best Animated Film HALF is an animated short film that reflects on belonging and self-acceptance.
Best Super Short Film A young man is on the brink of despair. Can a pinch of humor and his own responsibility save him from the worst?
Best Feature Documentary Film As a teenager, Flore meets Habieb, an orphaned teenager living on the Indonesian island of Lombok. It was an encounter that shook her to the core. A few years later, she decides to return to film him, but Habieb has changed, and so has the island of Lombok. She discovers that
Best Experimental Film “Listen to Your Mother” is a choreographic research project dedicated to the lives of women-identifying artists who are immigrant mothers living in New York City. The project seeks to capture these underrepresented women’s stories to inspire dialogue, appreciation, and social support instead of the ongoing prejudice endured that is historically placed against
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Best Actress Short Film The hidden face of pathological gambling in a scenario suspended between fiction and reality, Gamblers tells true stories of men and women trapped in the vortex of gambling.
Best Swedish Short Film During several nights out, coincidence keeps leading a boy and a girl to the same bus stop.
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Best Student Short Film A little girl accidentally tells a lie, not realizing that this lie would uncover even more lies within her family…
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Best Director Feature Film A couple struggles to find a school for their five-year-old son who does not speak at the oral test. The struggle separates the couple. The desperate man looks for options, including homeschooling, even going to the extent of threatening to kidnap the education minister’s daughter to change the system. The minister
Best Actress Short Film As the world is ripped apart by politics and hate, will this family survive the effects of the mad influence of the News, Social Media, and confirmation bias?
Best Animated Film “I Hope This Isn’t as Good as it Gets” Is a queer coming of age story about two boys, Edgar and Britt who attend the same private school. Edgar is a normal student, but Britt is a recluse that no one knows anything about. Edgar becomes fascinated with Britt and the two
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Best Emerging Actress Best Director Feature Film Dee Dee parties like it’s “1999.” Years ago, that’s what got her in trouble to begin with. Those days should be over – she has 3 kids under 12 years old, who are suffering because of her neglect. And the wolves are out there, waiting to devour her
Best LGBT FILM Anna wants to have a perfect relationship, devoid of any negativity. Her partner, Charlie, wants to have honest, difficult conversations about their feelings. When the two stumble upon an ice rink in the park, we see Anna at her best: spontaneous, fun, pushing Charlie out of her comfort zone. Later that night,
Best Feature Film In Wuhan’s Hanzheng Street wholesale market at the turn of the millennium, Chen Jun works as a flat-bar picker in order to find out the real cause of his father’s death. More than twenty years of wandering and searching, Chen Jun witnessed the development and rise and fall of Hanzheng Street, and
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Best Horror Film Best Actress Feature Film Psychological Horror film about a woman who crosses the threshold into hell when she breaks up with her fiancé and becomes a solo traveler.
Best Experimental Film A departure with a fragmented return. The unfamiliarity, the fragility, the void, the arrival and departure, the closed and the conditioned force, the open boats sail in the black waters of the Arabian/Persian Gulf. As the enslaved remained chained in the fragmented return. A short film with a notion of suspension, then
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Best Drama The fun-loving doctor isn’t who he appears to be, and someone is watching.
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My 1st Feature film Since her little brother Tim drowned in Trieste, Paula has lost the will to live. When she encounters old Helmut, a widower who wants to drive the ashes of his late wife to South Tyrol, she sees a way out – to go to Trieste and take her own life on
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Best Feature Documentary Four different voices by elder women from two different minorities rooted in Northeast Panama and North Sweden share their truth about freedom, cultural heritage, and their personal lives. An indigenous woman from Guna Yala, an indigenous province in Northeast Panama, is proud of their collective independence. Three indigenous Sámi women from North
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COVID-19 FILM For Gemma and James, a simple car ride to the vet escalates into a full-blown crisis, exposing hard truths beneath the surface of their relationship. Set in the early days of the pandemic, TRIAGE is a claustrophobic pressure cooker and exploration of who we truly love when our worlds fall apart.
Best Screenplay George, a student of the directing faculty of the VGIK Film University named after S. A. Gerasimov, accidentally falls into disgrace with the master of the course, Gleb Glebovic, and goes to military service, where he gets to serve in a special purpose unit of the GRU (The Main Intelligence Agency)…
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Best Woman Filmmaker The gap between the young spirit and the age of Raya (62), a retired poetess, creates a difficulty for her. While on the upper floor, above the bedroom, there is a young couple whose noisy “sex scene” penetrates through the ceiling, mercilessly playing for Raya everything she would have wanted for herself.
My 1st Short film Tang, an elderly man who uses his Buddhist faith to suppress his pedophilia, accidentally breaks a Buddha statue one day when sudden news emerges. His neighbor Chun, who is a child neglected by his mother, seeks help from Tang and dines at Tang’s home, where he uncovers the deep secrets within
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Best Short Documentary A father responds to his son’s suicide by spreading happiness throughout his community and effecting change through the message of choosing happiness.
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Best Actress Best Director Short Film The Black Door follows a mother surviving alone after a spiritual apocalypse where entities have infested humanity. After a year of searching for her son, Charlie, who vanished from their basement without a trace, she finally decodes his cryptic CB radio transmission. His coded message references his old rocket-patterned
My 1st Documentary This short documentary is filmed and finished by a 16 -years Chinese boy. Chengde, a small city in northern China, has long winters. Several elderly people want to promote ice and snow sports here, but they need to make more young people fall in love with ice sports. Therefore, they decide to
Best Music Video “I Pray for Love” is a visual hymn composed and performed by Oh. (Olivia Hadjiioannou) and visually crafted by the AI model Sora. It poetically navigates the transformation from chaos to beauty, longing to presence, from the illusion of separation to the quiet knowing that we are already what we pray for.
Best Cinematography This wry and warm-hearted documentary follows “Lollipop man” Jeremy as he wrangles weather, wayward drivers, and workforce wonders, while uncovering the hidden world of school crossing supervisors. High-vis vests, low-key heroics, and a whole lot of heart.
Overview of “The ADA EFFECT” by Johanna Jake Main Theme: “The ADA EFFECT,” written by Johanna Jake, explores the intertwined lives of characters dealing with complex relationships, secrets, personal ambitions, and moral ambiguities set against the backdrop of modern urban environments—Manhattan, London, and school settings. It delves into themes of love, betrayal, identity, power, and
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“Silent Plan” A film by Omer Yildirim “Silent Plan” is a film directed and written by Omer Yildirim, with Mehmet Sah Celik serving as a co-producer. The film delves into themes of communication, technology, and personal relationships, presenting a narrative that intertwines emotional depth with a crisis surrounding groundbreaking hearing technology. Cinematography Style Visual Aesthetics:
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Best Actress Feature Film Tosin Aigo, a successful businesswoman and adopted heiress to Nigeria’s largest snack empire, appears to have it all. Power, love, and legacy. But as her company prepares to go public, a violent robbery at her home triggers a descent into madness. Haunted by visions of her double, Tosin begins to suspect
Best Actress Short Film A struggling scary story show interviews a last-minute guest but this guest has more to her than just a scary story.
Best Experimental Film When Naoko presses “play” on her CD player, she finds herself face-to-face with a mysterious entity inside a subway train and reminisces on the meaning of friendships, nature, and death.
Best Actor Short Film STROKE OF GENIUS, starring Maxim Baldry (Rings of Power, Years and Years) and narrated by Tim Key (Mickey 17, The Double), juxtaposes the calm and emptiness of a morning spent waiting for a letter, where ostensibly little to nothing happens, with the turmoil on a cosmic scale caused by the waiting
Best Screen Play Is it our free will or is it AI technology that determines what we want? The unlikely couple of a tech-savvy entrepreneur and a bohemian woman meet on a ferry crossing and a playful use of AI shows them that they have more in common than one would think. Suddenly they find
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Best Music Video Hypokrit – Music Video by Skye Dahl. A visually striking fusion of Viking mythology and glam rock theatrics, Hypokrit is an electrifying cinematic experience that explores the duality within us all. Directed and written by Skye Dahl, this high-energy, performance-driven video introduces a newly imagined Norse god—Hypokrit, the embodiment of deception—while weaving
Best Horror Film My 1st Feature Film Best Cinematography Vinay and Sakshi, a newlywed couple from Marathwada, relocate to Konkan for Vinay’s job as a medical representative. They live in a cozy, fenced-in home, cherishing the early romantic days of their arranged marriage while getting to know each other better. Their life seems idyllic until
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Best Actor (Child Star) The Faroe Islands 1957. Shortly after 7-year-old Karl so proudly cleanses his grandfather’s old rifle, the same gun kills his dog on the open sea.
Best Short Film Best Director Short Film A groundbreaking new technology offers hope to the deaf: the ability to hear sounds once again. Four young individuals, chosen to be part of this revolutionary step, eagerly await the moment they will finally hear the voices of their loved ones—voices they have been recording for years. But
Best Actress A journey to the shelter of the past opens the path to the future. Pilar returns to her childhood home on the beach, fleeing a long-failed marriage. She finds her house devoured by the dunes and develops a relationship with Luis and Miguel that allows them to find the meaning of their lives.
Best Feature Documentary Film The documentary film, “Every Line Becomes A Circle” celebrates the extraordinary life of 93- 93-year-old post-war German artist, Inge Besgen who began to pursue her dream of becoming an artist at age 50 against the conventions of her time. In our documentary, we explore how Inge broke from the typical conventions
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Web/TV Series After unwittingly selling fentanyl-laced cocaine, five Gen Z women in a Miami roller derby team find their lives entangled with the violent world of cartels, DEA, and dark forces beyond their comprehension.
Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Gifted Pain is an emotional, action thriller that explores domestic abuse, sex trafficking, and the unknown power of the subconscious mind. The film follows Christopher; a loner who struggles with childhood tragedy. Seeking refuge, he immerses himself in martial arts films through to adulthood.
Best Drama Morten Østergaard’s life’s work has been ruined. he is now suicidal. But as he tries to end it all one afternoon, he ends up in a time loop. Morten has to figure out how to escape this and find peace in his life or death…
Best Animated Film Ova, a young astronaut, stumbles across a scientific article about the mystery of the chicken and the egg. Fascinated, he embarks on an intergalactic quest to find the mysterious shell.
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Best Comedy Get ready for the hot mess that is D*CKS! Meet Miles and Daniel, two bumbling private detectives who can barely solve a crossword, let alone a murder. Their latest case? It starts with infidelity and spirals into a murder mystery mess involving ex-wives, muscle-bound thugs, animated zombies, and way too many fries. Miles
My 1st Short film Twenty years after Milena and Stevan fled from war-torn Croatia to Serbia, a journalist investigating refugee stories comes to speak with them, unaware that this interview will be different from the rest she has conducted until now.
My 1st Documentary “The Quiet Diplomat” centers on former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Along with his family, Secretary-General Ban was displaced during the Korean War. The UN Command fought on the side of South Korea and forever changed Ban’s life, inspiring him to become a man who fought for peace throughout his career. Nearly fifty
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Best Super Short Film A young boy from Mumbai sets himself a mission to help his sick mother.
Best LGBT film Experience the story of Thurrock’s inaugural Pride in a captivating documentary featuring interviews with friends, allies, funders, supporters, and group members. An unforgettable cinematic experience that celebrates courage, diversity, and love. “The Journey of Thurrock’s First Pride” is a poignant documentary capturing the vibrant spirit and remarkable stories behind the inception of
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Best Short Documentary In this emotional and intimate 3-part documentary, the last living Holocaust survivors and their grandchildren share their personal stories, exploring intergenerational antisemitism and confronting the critical question: ‘Has humanity learned its lesson from the Holocaust?’
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Best Screenplay A detective struggles to outwit their strongest adversary to date: a murderous mime.
“Exploring the Depths of Creativity: Bas Majzoub on Directing ‘Condemned’ and the Journey of Filmmaking” What inspired you to create “Condemned,” and how did the idea evolve over time? I could always draw and have always played with cameras, and after a lifetime of making shorts, music videos, time-lapses, and stop-motion experiments, I decided
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Overview of Condemned: A movie by Bas Majzoub Condemned is a low-budget B movie directed, produced, and written by Bas Majzoub. The film explores complex psychological and relational themes through the unfolding story of a dysfunctional family involved in the music industry. Main Plot Themes Character Dynamics: The film centers on Bar Gold, a person
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My Music Video The song captures the rush of unexpected love as a girl finds herself in a thrilling, unconventional relationship with another girl and a guy. What starts as independence transforms into a joyous, free-spirited bond among three people, defying societal norms and expectations. The video captures the emotional liberation and complications from finding
Best Short Documentary Something in the Water follows a daring scientific expedition deep into the heart of Greenland’s melting ice sheet. A multidisciplinary team of researchers and explorers embarks on a journey across remote and perilous terrain to study supraglacial lakes, mysterious bodies of water that form on the surface of the ice sheet and
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Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Best Woman Filmmaker While helping plan her best friend’s wedding, Ale (Cristina Meléndez) unexpectedly runs into Diego (Henry Urbina), the guy she had a crush on as a teenager but who never felt the same way. After 20 years in Spain, Diego is back
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Best Actor Feature Film The fun-loving doctor isn’t who he appears to be, and someone is watching…
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My 1st Short film This film tells the story of Han Xiao across different timelines, who, through a dialogue with her past and future selves, rediscovers the courage, dreams, and strength for self-reconciliation in her journey of womanhood.
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My 1st Feature Film After losing her father, Isabel, a 17-year-old girl, must move and start from scratch at a high school where she suffers from bullying. There, she meets Lola, a troubled teenager forced by her family to sell drugs and commit crimes. Isabel and Lola must team up to get ahead. Together, they
Best Short Documentary On the purple trains that run through the rapeseed fields of Skåne, anger is growing. The train company is planning yet another cutback. But this time the train staff are ready to back each other! For decades of public procurement, companies have competed to win the lucrative contracts to run Sweden’s railways.
Best Actress Escaping to the countryside to finish her book, a troubled author finds herself entertaining the company of two mysterious visitors. All is not as it seems as the story unfolds.
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Best Horror Film In this *B movie, type A personality Bar Gold starts losing grip on reality; his loving, yet mentally ill, wife Angela insists on taking up the reigns of his music business; as they clash, their teenage son Roland ventures into crime, with dire consequences.
Best Feature Documentary Pirajui is a small city with only 25,000 people and three prisons with 1500 prisoners in each prison. Most of the female convicts in Pirajui prison are there because of drugs. Some of them did it for money, but the others did it for love, helping their boyfriends or husbands. GRAZIELLA FERNANDA
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Best Screenplay The story is about a young ober-lieutenant of the Bundeswehr of Germany, Bruno Thevs, who serves in the KSK special operations forces unit. Bruno was one year old when his father, a Soviet soldier, was killed in Afghanistan in 1986. — In 1989, Bruno, along with relatives from the Volga Germans, was moved
Best Super Short Film An interrogation takes place on October 6, 2027. A family – consisting of Hanna, her daughter Ester (age 9) and Hanna’s mother Ann-Britt – tells an interrogator about a terrifying event during a drive to the family’s cabin. On a deserted forest road, they are caught on a surveillance camera belonging
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Best Actor Short Film “Socrates” is a thriller/horror about Ahmad, Thomas, and a group of college students researching ancient history and folklore. They discover that an urban legend is not a myth and release a deadly spirit that is connected to an old slave fable. The spirit is housed in an intelligent African Grey parrot
Best Actress At the height of their success, a happy couple tries to shut out a reality that is slowly closing in around them. A piece of jewelry forces them to see the world as it truly is. Now they must choose: to run, to resist, or to erase who they are to survive.
Best Actress Short Film Best Woman Filmmaker Houda (27) suffers from unexplained pain in her stomach and lower abdomen. She has consulted countless doctors over the past 10 years but has only been met with skepticism and dismissal. This has resulted in a misdiagnosis of menstrual pain, despite her insisting that it is much more
Best Short Film Best Actor Best Director Short Film Night Trippin’ is a dark character comedy that flips the traditional idea of a night on the town, and soaks itself in the visceral and spellbound world of New Orleans after dark. Combining the freedom and absurdity of sketch comedy along with cinematic flair, and strung
Best Experimental Film In 2048, a fallen world leader is imprisoned after resisting a global AI regime. Alone in a sterile future prison, he embarks on a metaphysical journey, unlocking past lives, forgotten truths, and his hidden divine destiny. As reality begins to collapse under the weight of artificial evolution, he awakens.
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My 1st Documentary Dis-moi sur quel pied tu danses is a journey to the heart of a rehabilitation service for amputees. In this shared space, where the lack of a limb becomes a driving force and catalyst for desires, patients and carers engage in an intimate dialogue in which the body is both an object
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Best Actress Public Choice After waking up one day in the body of a young woman, alcoholic Frank finds another version of himself, much to his surprise. Together, the two must become one as they solve the mystery. Who was Laura Raeburn?
Skog is a compelling short experimental drama that transports viewers into a mystical landscape of Sweden’s primal forests. Directed by Eva Jangen and penned collaboratively with Erika Jangen and Svea Brain Jangen, this film offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a young woman from a bygone era, traversing the lush landscapes of late
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The First Date is a captivating movie by Luís Filipe Borges that smartly combines themes of romance, identity, and deception, set against the picturesque backdrop of Pico Island in the Azores. The narrative stakes are established through the dynamic interplay between characters and their desires, making it an engaging premise for a romantic film. Main
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Best Music Video In the ethereal realm where dreams and reality intertwine, the enigmatic cowboy, cloaked in shadows and mystery, emerges as the mesmerizing protagonist of Peter Press Lee’s music video. With a haunting melody that echoes through deserted sets that seem to have been plucked from the canvas of a surrealist’s imagination, our hooded
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My 1st Short Film A date, a dish, and a dark secret. Rima is going out on a blind date, but she already knows everything about him.
Best Actress Public Choice On the night before her husband Heinz’s (80) funeral, Margret (80) retreats into past memories, escaping the unbearable realization of his death. But as she drifts between fragmented moments of the past, old fears and traumas resurface, fueled by her advancing dementia. Lost in time and tormented by sudden bouts of
Best Horror Film A remote countryside becomes the backdrop for a deadly mystery as a determined young woman, with the help of a famous actor, delves into a string of murders, unearthing secrets and betrayals hidden in the shadow. What she discovers will shock her. Shake her. Haunt her… And when all else is done—
Best Woman Filmmaker Skog is a short drama about a young woman from a forgotten time who travels south during the late summer though Sweden’s primal forests and landscapes. She lives in harmony with nature and experiences the wonders of nature from the big to the small, but around the corner looms her downfall.
Best Feature Film All in one Sunday, from morning to night. Tommaso, a small criminal on the run and Justine, a French girl looking for his ex-boyfriend, meet each other by chance in a petrol station. On the wall stands the writing “…Mozart assassinè!”. The tow end up traveling together towards Giovinazzo (Puglia), Tommaso’s and
My 1st Feature film Lily is a young single mother who gave birth to her son Xiaotaozi (“Little Peach”) eight years ago after an unexpected pregnancy. Living in a courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing, she one day reconnects with an old friend Xiaomei, who visits their home. During a day and night of bonding
Best Screenplay A middle aged toll booth operator who is also a Three Stooges aficionado rekindles his relationship with his high school sweetheart and, together, they attend the annual Three Stooges Convention.
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Best Animated Film Désaccordé is an animated short film that transports the viewer to an enchanting Paris of 1910, where Maurice Ravel’s music comes to life through visual and poetic transformations. In this magical universe, characters, settings, and everyday elements transform to narrate a segment of the composer’s Piano Concerto. Désaccordé explores the question: “What
My 1st Documentary Best Short Documentary Nikola is an elderly man who lives alone in the village and maintains the cemetery. All his relatives are buried in the cemetery and he has not been able to walk to it for a long time. The road is steep and there is snow. He decides to buy
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Web/TV Series The film tells the story of three travelers from different countries who each take advantage of China’s 144-hour visa-free transit policy to visit Xi’an in pursuit of their own distinct goals.
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Best Super Short Film Erin leaves a gift box on her ex’s doorstep, hoping to make amends. An unexpected moment forces her to confront her past. Will she find closure or a second chance?
Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film “When Reality Fails, Love Must Follow!” In this B movie, type A personality Bar Gold starts losing grip on reality, his loving, yet mentally ill wife Angela insists on taking up the reigns of his music business; as they clash, their teenage son
Best Cinematography Lao Zhang is a laid-off worker. When he was ill, he went to a noodle shop he usually went to, but insisted on taking the bowl away, and had an argument with the noodle shop owner.
Best Experimental Film Two young lovers spend new year’s evening trying to find their way back to each other after happenstance had them separated. Two sides of the same love story, shown at the same time and out of time.
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Best Short Film Best Actress Short Film Best Director Short Film After calling it quits with her former pimp, a young prostitute thinks of a way to earn some quick money to leave town.
Best Feature Documentary Film Four different voices by elder women from two different minorities rooted in Northeast Panama and North of Sweden, share their truth about freedom, cultural heritage and their personal lives. An indigenous woman from Guna Yala, an indigenous province in Northeast Panama, being proud of their collective independence. Three indigenous Sámi women
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Best Actor Short Film Inspired by English folklore, legend says The Lantern Man uses a glowing light and a haunting whistle to lure the lost souls towards the marshlands. Are the legends true, or are there other forces at work? The Lantern Man is a psychological Horror that follows a man’s close encounter with the
An Interview with Jiani Wang: Jiani is an independent filmmaker with a lot of passion for filmwriting and direction. What inspired you to pursue a career in film directing, writing, and producing? I’ve loved reading and writing since I was a child. I remember whenever I was on the road in the car, I
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First Friday is a vibrant and gritty exploration of life in the Las Vegas art district, masterfully crafted by director Joshua Ojeda. The film not only captures the essence of community and creativity but also delves into the struggles faced by its characters. Storyline and Themes The narrative follows Tiana and her brother Trey, two
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My 1st Feature Film Daniel and Linnea are two troubled teenagers uncertain about their futures. When a zombie apocalypse erupts in their quiet town, they cross paths. Though they don’t get along at first, they have no choice but to work together to survive. Over time, they develop a friendships and uncover a deeper purpose
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Best Cinematography RAIN presents a unique and poetic exploration of a natural and universal phenomenon that transcends us all. Five different ‘faces’ of rain in five different chapters. Killer, God, Seducer, Ghost, Tormentor. Rain issomething we often take for granted but it is becoming an increasingly significant problem, closely connected to the climate crisis we
Best Experimental Film “ERROR 500” is a surreal and conceptual psychothriller short film that embarks on an intense exploration of the human psyche. Directed by Mounir Al Serawan, the film explores the turbulent landscape of traumas, revealing the internal struggle for self-acceptance and the challenging journey of healing and recovery. Guided by visually striking scenes
Best Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Best Director Feature Film In the heart of Las Vegas, siblings Tiana and Trey, hustle to make ends meet, selling custom t-shirts and hosting a mobile podcast that gives voice to their city’s underground culture. Struggling against financial hardships, gentrification, and the weight of their own ambitions, they
Best Woman Filmmaker Sherry, a privileged Chinese girl uprooted to the United States with her mother, struggles to assimilate into American life, confronting unforeseen challenges that reveal the profound sacrifices of adapting to a new society and the impact on her family.
Best Short Documentary “Free Words” follows Mosab Abu Toha, a detained poet whose art becomes a powerful voice of resistance and hope amid oppression.
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Best LGBT film A telephone operator in a suicide prevention center, Charlotte recognizes the voice of an ex-girlfriend, Lucile, whose determination to end her life is confronted with feelings that are soon rekindled by their reunion.
Best Screen Play The plot is about jealousy, family feuds adventures and love. The constellations of Libra and Leo that are a couple have declared the war to the Virgo constellation just because of jealousy, they wiped out the Virgo constellation population. The only people left are the Messier family. They decided to send KAM60
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My 1st Short Film Chris Mandyl, a member of the rebel organization AtCel, has the blood of two civilians on his hands. Another attempt to replicate the government-issued drug DREAMER has failed. For years, AtCel have been trying to reproduce DREAMER in order to liberate the population of the futuristic city Nevi, where the totalitarian
Best Feature Documentary Film After more than a decade, Farah returns home to Tripoli, Lebanon, to care for her aging widowed father, Mustapha only to find her city in crisis. Their generational differences often lead to clashing perspectives on the country’s political instability, making it difficult to communicate with each other. But within this lack
Best Actress (Swedish) During a friendly dinner, the topic of #MeToo arises. The two couples soon realize the difficulties of discussing the matter without anyone getting offended…
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Best Short Film Ning Ning is back to her hometown for the first time with her father, Ang, only to find out her grandma has been sick for a long time, and her father’s sudden disappearance on the next day makes their visit an unexpected turn.
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My 1st Documentary 3 Friends—an American teacher in Greece studying at Aristotle University and two of his Greek friends seek to understand how Greece’s youth perceives their nation amidst its economic recovery. Their journey finds direction when a shop owner tells the unlikely triad that Greece’s heartbeat is found within family, specifically family business.
Best Music Video A lover’s dance weaves through a kaleidoscope of dreams…
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Best Animated Film If you could change your appearance, what would you change? If you had the opportunity to be someone else, someone perfect, would you take it? Welcome to the Beautyverse, where you can create the best version of yourself. The Beautyverse is THE place everybody wants to be…except for Jamila, a freshman girl
Best Drama Modesire Mbakwe is happily married to Dike Mbakwe and together, they have a pretty and smart teenage daughter, Amara. All is well with their family as we open up with them in celebration mode. Modesire has just been appointed as Head, Investigation and Operations of the NDA after the demise of her boss.
Best Actress Short Film In the small community of Abankese, where illegal mining casts a long shadow, seventeen-year-old Paapa, a tech-savvy dreamer, is determined to build a router to improve internet access. His best friend, Adobea, stands by him but their bond is tested as they uncover unsettling truths about those closest to them. Just
Best Short Narrative Aisha is a dedicated wife trapped in a nightmarish marriage. Her husband, Bayo, is a man of two faces: charming in public, but verbally and physically abusive behind closed doors. Desperate for support, Aisha confides in her mother, hoping for guidance and comfort. Instead, her mother urges her to stay in the
Best Horror Film As Ors Gabriel struggles with the grief and pain from losing his best friend and beloved dog, Louie, to cancer, the shock from the trauma brings on strange visions only Ors can see. While he questions whether his mind has fractured or if it’s actually real, a mysterious rise in murder-suicides takes
Best Director Short Film Best Actress Public Choice Juliette Mandeville and Tilly Anders, two actresses follow a call for an audition in London. Juliette is already a successful and well-known actress who, however, due to her age, is no longer offered good film roles. Tilly Anders on the other hand, is at the beginning of
Best Actress Sara finds herself in a desperate situation: her mother is hospitalized and needs urgent surgery to survive. With no help in sight, Sara faces a major challenge and must somehow raise the necessary money. In this impasse, she decides to steal from a luxury jewelry store, but…
Best Music Video A young woman’s dreams manifest in a mysterious figure who pulls her through worlds unknown and familiar.
Best Short Documentary Born mute, Azalia has made her body her language. Her desire to express herself has never been repressed by the limits imposed by the world around her. The young woman frees herself, thanks to her art, from the social, physical, and psychological frameworks linked to the cerebral palsy from which she suffers.
Best Comedy After discovering a dead customer, two coffee shop employees scramble to hide it, sparking a chain of events that could jeopardize their lives… and their jobs.
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Best Animated Film The film puts the protagonist, a descendant of refugees living in the buffer zone, to an opposition to the occupation of his country Cyprus, by Turkish troops and his reaction to the lifting of this weight, lasting half a century. The film concludes with the return of the protagonist to his roots
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Best Actress Feature Film For Amina is an inspiring drama about a bright young girl, Amina, who faces significant barriers in her education due to a corrupt system. Her mother Boma Ishaya takes a courageous stand against these challenges to ensure her daughter gets better opportunities than she did, this sparks a powerful movement that
My 1st Documentary Anilla Till embarked on her greatest challenge yet by attempting to hike Europe’s longest continuous hiking trail, the 2550-km-long Blue Circle. Along her journey, she learned about the homeland where she lives, met people she otherwise wouldn’t have encountered, and discovered herself in a way she’d never experienced before. This is a
Best Feature Documentary After a nerve-racking escape from their hometown Herat in Afghanistan, Nahid (15) and her family find themselves in the limbo of Bosnia’s borderlands. In her new and unfamiliar surroundings, the voice messages from friends back home offer Nahid some degree of comfort, but there is no time for nostalgia and no room
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Best Actor Short Film “Legend” is a mob boss in SE Michigan. He has tremendous influence with city, county, and state officials. Another syndicate is on the rise and has threatened to take-over SE Michigan. About a week ago, a private investigator and former police detective was at a marina on a stakeout. The PI
Best Super Short Film After being wrongfully accused of a fatal accident, a high school student becomes the target of his neighborhood’s anger and vengeance, forcing him to confront the destructive power of lies and collective blame.
My 1st Short Film In a small West Virginia town, con couple Dominic and Bunny target Big Ed’s 40-acre farm, planning to scam him into selling. Disguised as wealthy buyers, they quickly realize the farm’s residents, including Big Ed and his eccentric sidekick Skeeter, are far from ordinary. As the couple tries to close the
Best Experimental Film Best Woman Filmmaker What does it mean to exist? Self-Portrait is a cinematic meditation on the instability of identity and the infinite potential of the self. Moving fluidly between instinct and awareness, past and present, the film dissolves conventional structures, embracing an aesthetic of being—one that is raw, permeable, and ever-evolving. Here,
Best Drama Bad judgment leads to the suicide of a high school student, and the case is covered up by power, leading to another chain of cases that exposes the secret hands behind one corruption case after another. For the sake of his children, he chose to fill the void of the law with revenge
Best LGBT Film The 18-year-old skater Noah faces emotional ruin when his father disowns him for failing to graduate from school. While his friends finish school and plan their futures, Noah has to repeat his final year. This fills him with the fear that he may only have one last summer with his friends before
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Best Short Film Best Actress Short Film Best Director Short Film Felicia, a trendy millennial, receives a necklace from the 1920s in the mail from her grandmother. Putting it on, she slowly transforms into Cassandra, who moved to Stockholm in 1924 expecting it to be a haven for free-spirited young women. Instead, she ends up
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Best Director (Swedish) Stupid Heart Beat is a short film about Edith, 23, whose heart beats for Elvira. Tonight is the night they are meant to be together. But an unexpected phone call on the way to their date changes everything, forcing Edith to make a heart-wrenching choice. A story about love and relationships with
Best Screen Play Greta, a young Swedish actress, leaves her home and her twin flame, Clara, to pursue stardom, reinventing herself as the glamorous Margo Alba. Fame and success follow, but they come at the cost of the authenticity she left behind. Meanwhile, Clara embarks on a new chapter with Richard, a tech developer tasked
My 1st Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film A high school band trip gone wrong! Stranded at a roadside motel, Morgan gets invited to an orgy with the girl of his dreams and risks his friendships in a race to grow up too fast.
Best Cinematography Along with their dog Wicca, Ana and Vladi are starting their new life in the foothills of the Kumeyaay tribal land. As Ana learns she’s pregnant, in a society where abortion is not legal, she turns more and more abusive toward Vladi and Wicca.
Best Actress Best Horror Film Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film A desperate group enters a mysterious manor in search of fortune, only to uncover its sinister secrets and face unimaginable horrors.
Best Actress Short Film In a world where she feels overlooked and insignificant, Althea finds solace in the company of similarly shunned creatures. When a mysterious stranger offers her the possibility of recognition, she must navigate the delicate balance between her desire for visibility and the true value of her unseen connections.
Best Screenplay Best Horror Film Taryn Barker is just your average everyday monster slaying, wise-cracking, demon hunter on the hunt for two pieces of an ancient artifact, The Necrox. Standing in her way is Elysia Cronika, the CEO of Illumini Industries and a member of the Satanic sect The Stygian. Cronika plans to obtain the
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Best Actress Short Film A young woman’s reality unravels as she becomes convinced she’s being stalked by unseen, mysterious forces.
Best LGBT film At an Islamic school in Yogyakarta, all the adult students are transgender. Here, they can live the way they choose to — it’s a stark contrast with the hostile world outside. Despite the threats, they cheerfully go on with their work.
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Best Actress Feature Film “La Voix Humaine” (engl. The Human Voice) is an opera film adapted from Francis Poulenc’s mono-opera, itself inspired by Jean Cocteau’s play of the same name. The film begins with a crack of light revealing a woman, “Elle”, collapsed on the floor. A sudden phone ring startles her. After a recent
Best Short Film Best Director Short Film A lonely pioneer midwife is confronted by villagers in connection with the disappearance of a newborn baby.
Web/TV Series The first days of the Great Patriotic War. Ivan decides to become a Volunteer and join the Red Army.
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Best Cinematography Jacob Shaw, an ex-war photographer, suppresses his gruesome plan for revenge on a London gang. But meeting April Harley, a war fanatic, sets him down a bloody, vengeful path.
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Best Short Documentary In the heart of Zululand, a group of dedicated conservationists fights to protect Africa’s endangered wildlife from the brink of extinction. This powerful documentary follows the stories of these passionate individuals as they navigate the challenges of preserving species like elephants, rhinos, and wild dogs in a landscape fraught with human-wildlife conflict
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Best Actor Feature Film McConadilla tells the twisted tale of a struggling artist whose wise-cracking armadillo puppet comes to life, dragging him into a chaotic spiral of murder, vengeance, and shocking hilarity. Combining dark humor, suspense, and a large dash of the absurd, McConadilla offers a unique cinematic experience that audiences won’t soon forget.
Best Animated Film On the day his second child is being born, Lord Choi falls from his horse. On the brink of death, he prays to a goblin, and his life is spared. In exchange, the goblin declares that it will take Lord Choi’s daughter away on the day she turns sixteen, but Lord Choi
Best Super Short Film A couple, both renowned violin performers, face tragedy when the woman unexpectedly passes away in a car accident. The man gives up solo performance until advances in technology change his mind.
Best Child Actor “To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and must not fear darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. “ TszChun is a shy kid who is always on his own. Facing many hard times and difficulties in life, he has no one to
My 1st Short Film A couple falling apart must decide if they want to fight for each other when a potential baby comes into the picture.
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Best Actress Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film After an exhausting journey to Europe, a young Afghan Fereshteh reaches Belgrade with her husband and three children. There, she finds out that her younger brother Ali, who came to Belgrade before them, has drowned and will soon be buried as an N.N. In a story
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Best Experimental Film My 1st Feature Film Embark on a captivating journey where academic science meets cultural wisdom. “LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution” is a groundbreaking animated film that breathes life into a comprehensive scientific manuscript. This two-hour and fifty-minute feature is a new genre, blending the intricacies of psychotherapy research with the timeless
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Best Feature Documentary Turkey is preparing for local elections on March 31, 2024. But in Emek, Eskişehir’s largest neighborhood, all eyes are on the fiercely contested headman election. The most powerful of the candidates is Mücahit Kırdaş, Turkey’s first headman candidate with Down Syndrome, who started his campaign nine months before the election and worked
My 1st Documentary Best Woman Filmmaker „OFF THE MARK” is a documentary about climate change, the “Green Shift” and plastic pollution in the Norwegian Finnmark. Temperatures in Northern Norway are rising steadily and the destruction of the environment is increasing. For years, the German dog mushers Willem and Steffi Betzel have felt the big changes
Best Music Video Music video for the dark folk band Chyorny Garazh, following a Sister’s haunting journey through the fear and allure of the underworld.
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Best Web/TV Series For the Red Army soldiers who found themselves in German captivity, a terrible prospect opened up. Under the scorching sun, in the rain, day and night, without food or water, the wounded and sick were subjected to the Nazis’ abuse, they were doomed… But suffering also has a limit. Sometimes it is
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My 1st Documentary Best Feature Documentary Film The documentary is about the 24th International Theatre Festival in Chekhov’s estate in Melikhovo. In 1 hour film we are going to see the backstage of the festival, fragments of the plays, interviews with actors, directors, organisers and visitors. We are going to see how theatrical art intertwines
Best Short Documentary Uluabat Lake serves as a livelihood for the surrounding villagers with its abundant waters. Amidst the fishing activities on the lake, it also hosts a heartwarming human story of the extraordinary friendship between Fisherman Adem Yılmaz and a stork named Yaren. The documentary, starting from this heartwarming tale, also draws attention to
Best Actress Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Nikolay, a young farm worker, is seen as different by other village people. He doesn’t drink vodka and seems a bit odd. After returning from an internship abroad, where he learned techniques to communicate with animals for fertility enhancement, he started using these skills in his romantic
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Best Screen Play Leah lives in a family with total control and overprotection. The only guide to the world of normal youth is Lena’s friend. Leah secretly loves Lena’s boyfriend, Vanya, and can’t share this experience with anyone. One day at Lena’s birthday party, Vanya, under the pretext of helping to wash the wine spilled
My 1st Feature Film In the vibrant town of Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh, a young boy from a backward community works as a tour guide, masking the painful reality of his past. Exiled from his village in Chikamagaluru, Karnataka, for touching a sacred idol—a violation of caste-based traditions—the boy has been living a life of isolation,
Best Drama Aaron wakes up behind the wheel of a strange car. He doesn’t know where he is, nor how he got there. The only two items in the car are the ignition key and a mysterious gold coin. In search of his memory, Aaron meets a confused old man. An unusual road trip begins.
Best Actor Short Film After a journalist receives dangerous political information from a co-worker, he faces a tough decision: broadcast it or run for his life.
Best Drama An international student trapped in the United States after his family is subjected to legal sanctions trying to go home.
Best Super Short Film A young man crosses a forest immersed in fog and finds mysterious papers along his path. Each step brings him closer to an enigma that remains incomplete as if something precious was hidden just beneath his feet. Among the mud and leaves, he will discover that the most important treasure is
Best Horror Film Luis lives with his parents in an urbanization. On the afternoon of October 31, his mother encourages him to do Trick or Treat near her house and thus put aside video games for a while.
Best Animated Film Three years had passed since Mana lost his memory. He sat down on a hill at night with his childhood friends, Kai and Lily. Countless shooting stars melted into the starlit sky. It felt as if something like this had happened before… At that moment, Mana heard a “voice.” A strange voice,
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Best Feature Film Burak, who has been unable to complete his doctoral thesis on Nietzsche and his music album for years, eats air and drinks hope, just like Hamlet. As an instructor of the course “Why do they pay philosophy teachers?” in the university’s philosophy department, his favourite speech is “I forgot my umbrella!” The
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Best LGBT film K-I-S-S-I-N-G is a coming-of-age, queer, rom-com about making out, growing up, and everything in between. We follow RUTHIE through puberty and young adulthood as seen through her first seven kisses.
Best Actress Short Film An action art house film. a young woman dealing with past trauma, puts her energy into m.m.a martial arts. When her coach denies her wish to compete, she begins looking for real fights in the streets at night. Her search leads to violent outcomes that, justified or not, give her reason
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Best Short Film At the beginning of the 21st century, there was a villager whose family and village were suffering from feudal superstition and the impact of the times. He planned to “sacrifice” himself in order to get closer to the gods and protect everything he cared about, but was tempted to join the “Xie
Best Cinematography Best Woman Filmmaker A grief-ridden, young woman recreates memories of her recently deceased boyfriend in a virtual simulation.
Best Experimental Film
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Best Actress A journalist attends the press screening of a movie that’s only a few days away from release. Meanwhile, we jump into the screen.
My 1st Short Film Best Director Short Film In a small farm town, a free-spirited teenage girl and a dangerously irresistible bad boy ignite a rebellious spark that shakes up the rural landscape.
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My 1st Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Maddie, a university dropout, sells drugs to cover her rent, but after a transaction goes sour, she owes her supplier money. Fortunately for her, she meets someone who is eager to help.
Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Step back in time to the vibrant 1970s, where two young Spanish adventurers, Javier and Rafa, venture into the Sahara Desert, driven by a hunger for thrilling escapades and the yearning for an unforgettable journey. Amidst the vast expanse of sand, they discover the allure of friendship, the
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Best Cinematography And Knowledge to Keep Us is a documentary about a community reconnecting with its deep, rich culture and using that knowledge to try to heal from what had been taken over many generations. It’s also the story of a people charting a way forward for their children in a place of abundance—their home—that’s
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Best Actress Short Film A troubled artist partners with a terminally ill woman to immortalize her final days through art. As their collaboration deepens, the artist’s obsession begins to unravel his sanity, blurring the line between creation and destruction. Together, they face their fears and leave behind a haunting legacy neither anticipated.
Best Animated Film Hazel is a young woman who suffers from severe anxiety. She has a habit of running to a secret place in her mind when she is mentally under pressure.
Best Super Short Film Two strangers’ crappy days turn for the better after one’s dog poops on the other’s lawn.
Best Woman Filmmaker 30 years ago, 9-year-old Ludella disappeared in the woods. The case was closed when her trail went cold at the river, with authorities presuming her dead. Rumors circulating of sightings of her over the years prompt a case reopening. Detective Todd Richards visits Dell, Ludella’s father, who appears innocent and uninterested in
Best Feature Documentary The past collides with the present in this invigorating retelling of the history of Royal Docks in East London. The ‘Strangers’ Home was a residential home in Limehouse, in the Royal Docks area of East London. It provided temporary accommodation for Asian and black sailors (lascars) who came from across the British
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Best Horror Film After a devastating car accident takes the life of his wife, Chris is consumed by guilt and inner torment. However, his suffering intensifies when his vengeful mother-in-law turns to black magic, using a voodoo doll to seek justice for her deceased daughter. Trapped in an elevator on a journey into the unknown,
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Best Short Film Best Actress Best Supporting Actress Best Director Short Film Siri and Thelma have been best friends for as long as they can remember. They do everything together, and their hot summer is spent lazing on the beach, at house parties that never seem to end, and always together. But a seemingly carefree
COVID-19 FILM With the pandemic restrictions lifted, Tianshi returns to his hometown, Gaolou Village. Shortly after, he witnesses his grandpa die from COVID-19. Tianshi fear he might be the cause of this tragedy…
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Best Super Short Film Lupe doesn’t care about her abuela’s cooking lessons, she just wants to rock with her badass punk band. But when Lupe finds herself battling an alien monster with her band, her abuela’s lessons will remind her that punk rock is more than just loud music, and connecting with her Latin roots
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Best Short Documentary Through the unique artistic process of working with soil and food as a medium, artist Seraina Grupp shares her thoughts on community, environment, connectivity and care for beings. Movement designer Janina Turunen embodies these reflections into expressive dance, further exploring these themes. A short art documentary diving into the the ideas of
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Best Drama In an ordinary bakery, law enforcement and the underworld have always crossed paths at the break of dawn. When a demoted cop returns to the place that once propelled his ascent, this apparent truce begins to crumble.
Best Animated Film Yasuke The African Samurai tells the story of history’s first foreign samurai, who lived and fought in 16th Century Japan. Uprooted from his home of Africa, Yasuke rose through the ranks of feudal Japan to become an elite soldier, and dear friend of a warlord. Using tactile and traditional animation, Yasuke uncovers
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Best Woman Filmmaker Eva and Jules, a pair of thieves, take on one last job: stealing a painting from a heavily secured mansion. But their plan turns into a nightmare when they find themselves trapped by a butler robot programmed to eliminate them.
Web/TV Series Eight months into the apocalypse, a mismatched group of teens battle the undead, growing up, and each other as they seek shelter in a community full of familiar faces and shifting dynamics.
Best Actress Feature Film NO CHOICE blends gritty realism with uncanny surrealism in a harrowing story of a young woman’s struggle to get healthcare in a state where abortion is banned. After a hookup gets Amy pregnant, her life turns into a vivid nightmare — and she can’t wake up!
My 1st Short Film Best Actor Short Film Young Mark has fled from Africa to Sicily to live with his father. The prospects of a better life than the one in the old homeland quickly shatter. Finally, Mark’s father gets involved with the mafia in Palermo. When the father cooperates with the local police, he
Best Woman Filmmaker Best Short Documentary This project focuses on the social isolation and loneliness experienced by migrants. After meeting numerous individuals from various countries, all of whom are migrants, I observed a common problem among them, albeit manifested differently in each case.
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“115” is a gripping film that masterfully intertwines elements of suspense, drama, and psychological exploration. The narrative revolves around a central character who finds themselves embroiled in a web of intrigue and danger, leading to unexpected twists that keep the audience on the edge of their seats. The cinematography is striking, with each scene meticulously
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Overview: “In the Matter of Brian Franks,” directed by Lauren Patrice Nadler, is a compelling drama that delves into the complexities of wrongful death lawsuits and the moral dilemmas faced by legal professionals. The film navigates the turbulent waters of corporate negligence, personal loss, and the quest for justice, all while showcasing the emotional toll
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“The Shortbread” is a vibrant, raw, and darkly comedic exploration of modern relationships, familial obligations, and the absurdity of everyday life. Set against the backdrop of a seemingly mundane suburban setting, the film delves into the complexities of co-parenting and the remnants of past relationships, all while maintaining a sharp wit and engaging dialogue. Theme:
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Best Actress Best Short Film Best Director Short Film After losing her childhood best friend, Maddie has to sneak into her apartment to fulfill a promise; to clean up all of her friend’s embarrassing items.
Best Actress Feature Film During the 1980s the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks, and after the fallout those who remain pretend like everything is normal even though they are all experiencing radiation poisoning. A young girl named Mayday tries to make contact on a series of ham radios with her father
Best Actor Short Film Krishna feels he is the luckiest person to have Hannah, who has come from abroad to live with him. Krishna loves Hannah so much that he affixes Hannah’s hair in the ring he wears. But, Krishna’s life is shattered when Hannah leaves him to fight for her country and he is
Best Short Documentary The pilot episode for Ex-Friends, a documentary series about the heartbreak in losing a friend.
Best Actress Short Film Attorney Sarah Warner has a chance to get justice for a family in the biggest case of her career. But to win, she’ll need the help of her corporate fixer ex-boyfriend Drew Grenner.
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Best Horror Film Logline: When a real estate agent gets unexpected viewers in one of his houses where he keeps a dark secret, the visitors pay a higher price than he can accept. Content: The broker has an argument by phone with his locksmith, who he believes has put a bad lock on one of
Best Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Best Director Feature Film When Jada’s estranged father is found brutally murdered, her ordinary teenage life is shattered. Now 18 years old , Jada has been like any other girl, navigating fights with her mum, enduring the monotony of school, and eagerly planning a road trip with her
Best Super Short Film Best Experimental Film When a low-pressure area turns a young meteorologists life up-side-down, he has to embark on a journey to save his marriage and confront the weather.
Best Feature Documentary Days after 9/11, Blerim Skoro was recruited from a Manhattan prison by the CIA. For over a decade, he was America’s infidel mole, roaming the Middle East as a spy deep inside al-Qaeda. Blerim lived in constant danger amongst terrorists, leaking intelligence to the US government in the desperate hope of getting
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My 1st Feature Film In the ’80s, alien Emily crash-lands near the quaint town of Stony Plain, desperate to find the enigmatic fuel “115.” Stuck in a reverse time loop, she relives her mission daily, struggling to blend in while searching for the elusive substance. Every morning, kindhearted JT offers Emily a ride, and she
My 1st Short Film Best Woman Filmmaker “Void and Bleeding” follows Shreya, a married woman entangled in a secret relationship with a girl, Sameera, as she faces the turmoil of an unexpected pregnancy. Struggling with physical and emotional pain, Shreya becomes violent & inconsistent. She starts to avoid and torture her beloved pet cat Cleo.
Web/TV Series An imaginative, donor-conceived girl loves telling everyone about her two-mom family in this episodic series for kids in LGBTQ+ families! Protagonist Stori Strong has two moms… and a donut! Well, that’s what she thought when she was little. It turns out she has a “donor,” not a “donut,” and a “donor” is someone
Best Animated Film Margaret takes the train into the city, as she does every morning, plunging herself into a sea of commuters, memories, & anxiety.
Best Actor Feature Film Life brings Luke Wolf back to his hometown where his sister, who has Down Syndrome, is. Things are different, or maybe it’s just that now he’s different. After years of running from his problems, Luke must face his monsters.
Best Screenplay Best Cinematography Three thirty-something men are trying to get over their teenage obsession with their high school classmate. One suicidal, one secretly engaged to her, one dreaming to re-live the good old days. And all of them hostages to a homicidal burglary in progress. Now, they simply must co-operate even against their own
My 1st Documentary We all face challenges on a daily basis. We all have dreams, aspirations and goals. James is no different.
IGNIS – a pyrofeminist spell for transformative change in history and the future, is an experimental film by Norwegian artist Thale Blix Fastvold. “IGNIS” is an experimental movie by Norwegian artist Thale Blix Fastvold. The movie mesmerizing and evocative piece that weaves together themes of transformation, connection, and the cyclical nature of time. The work
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Best Woman Filmmaker Shot at the bottom of a 16-foot diving well, Lucid Dreams: The Lifecycle of an Artist (2024, 10 min.), follows a soul’s journey from the awakening of its artistic spirit, through the dark night of losing her voice, to her rebirth where she emerges with a new, ancient voice. Assimakopoulos served as
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Best Animated Film A boy named Conjuror goes on a journey with his companion, Cat, to find his missing parents.
My 1st Feature Film Explores the journey of Miška, a Southeast European migrant navigating the dual realities of visible war traumas and the invisible battles of bureaucratic obstacles and xenophobia in Vienna. Through a blend of socio-psychological, biographical, and fictional elements, the film delves into the complexities of identity and belonging, highlighting the resilience and
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Best Super Short Film A woman’s journey to join her friends at a lake is hindered by the burden of a goldfish aquarium she must carry.
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Best Actress Best Short Film Aidas world is turned upside down when her brother Omar vanishes on his 16th birthday. She can’t find any traces of him and the adult world is unable to give her answers. The search for her brother challenges Aidas perceptions of reality and forces her to confront the unsettling truths
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Best Short Documentary City of Toys (2024, 39mins) combines Alan Marcus’ 2001 interview with legendary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl with an exploration of centuries of antisemitism. As she recalls of her iconic 1935 documentary, Triumph of the Will, on the annual Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally almost seventy years later: “I had no ideals. I only did
Best Experimental Film In the ’80s, alien Emily crash-lands near the quaint town of Stony Plain, desperate to find the enigmatic fuel “115.” Stuck in a reverse time loop, she relives her mission daily, struggling to blend in while searching for the elusive substance. Every morning, kindhearted JT offers Emily a ride, and she glimpses
Best Drama Best Screenplay The well-known actor with one of the most famous voices in the country is invited to a meeting at Café Marylin, where over a cup of coffee, he is faced with the strange fact that his host’s voice is almost exactly the same as his own. And his vocal doppelganger knows
Best Cinematography Best Actress Audience Choice After a pandemic sweeps the world, six children remain abandoned on an enigmatic island. Their struggle to survive becomes paled by individual desires for each other and for power.
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Best Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Director Feature Film rank Bigelow is a private detective hired to follow the husband of a St. Augustine socialite. It’s a routine assignment until he discovers that he’s been secretly poisoned and has only days to live. With the clock ticking, Bigelow descends into a world of
Best Horror Film A group of friends plan a birthday trip into an old mine. According to a legend, that place is haunted by a long-lost and blood-lusted miner. Is it true? They’ll find out for themselves.
My 1st Short Film Best Actress Short Film Best Director Short Film After the death of her father Amalie reunites with her brother at their old cabin. Deep in the woods she has to confront their shared past and how their father, for better or for worse, made her the person she is today.
Web/TV Series A charismatic trans teen transfers to a new school in hopes of securing a lacrosse scholarship and becomes fast friends with two outsiders. But when he suddenly falls in with the popular kids, he gets so caught up in his own hype that he risks losing his new besties, his spot on the
Best Music Video The lyrics to ‘Banned From The USA” are based on a true story. In 2023 the band was supposed to go on a month-long tour in the USA, but because of a mistake on the visa of two band members, things quickly got from bad to worse and this resulted in them
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Best Actress critic Can an ancient pain, exiled in a remote and inaccessible area of the heart, be released? This is what Viola, the heroine of this story, asks herself. She will courageously search through her past, in search of a way to feel again.
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Best Feature Documentary Artists Anne-Laure Maison and Michel Cam set out on a journey to explore the age-old question, Who are you? Seeking out encounters with people on their travels, they discover and document the struggles and resilience. Through art installations and large-scale collages, their art highlights marginalized individuals and reveals them in a new
“Lethal Force: The Dark Connection” a film written and directed by Emmanouil Charalampos Tselidis. In a thrilling continuation of the “Lethal Force” saga, “Lethal Force: The Dark Connection” a film written and directed by Emmanouil Charalampos Tselidis, plunges viewers into a labyrinth of mystery, horror, and the supernatural. This gripping sequel not only expands
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Best Horror Film After his young daughter is suddenly killed, a professor of the black arts attempts to use an ancient vampire skull to resurrect her, with dire consequences.
Best Actress After the killing of a lamb, Solvår succumbs to deep guilt and sorrow as she is plunged back to a tragic past. In an almost limbo-type state where death hangs heavily in the air, she must confront the darkness of her past.
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Best Animated Film The lonely knight Angus is looking for love on the dating app…
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Best Screenplay Shells is a cinematic work that transcends the boundaries of a simple film, turning into an ode to human resilience, love of nature, and the unconquerable strength of a mother who wants to protect her daughters from modern society. The protagonist, Amelia, a woman scarred by a tormented past, decides to give birth
Best Super Short Film A look into what a cult could be like… A drama and thriller that follows Sandra and Trish through discovering they are in a religious cult. Led by a mysterious, yet charming leader, Miguel. We see their friendship and their power together as a team. But will this be enough for
Best Actress Anna is a woman with no structure in her life. She crashes from one event to another, with no regard for anyone. Danny is a retired EMT ready to let go of the baggage of life. Their chance meeting begins a friendship that will fundamentally change them.
Best Documentary Narrative The Vogue ball scene in Cape Town and its pioneer Kirvan Fortuin create a safe space for queer people to express their creativity and individuality. But in the world outside, queer people are still not accepted and sometimes this has fatal consequences, making the Vogue balls even more pertinent as a space
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Best Short Documentary Through her selfless actions, Inga Birgitta Spur enabled the artist Sigurjón Ólafsson to create his work. The love for him and for his art led the native Dane after the Second World War to Iceland, despite all the language and cultural challenges. There she dedicated her life full of love and strength
Best Music Video “Les mots d’amour” is a short poetic dance film portraying an elderly woman who is trapped in solitude. Alone in a world without human connections, she finds refuge in the mysterious companionship of her feathered neighbours—the pigeons. Her desperate longing for love transforms into an obsession, blurring the line between reality and
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Best Feature Documentary Film This film sheds light on a world plagued by physical inactivity among both young and old. In a world ensnared by the shackles of sedentary living, where the once vibrant rhythms of life have faded into a disheartening stillness, “Inactive” delves deep into the gripping tale of a physical inactivity pandemic.
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Best Screen Play A hockey-playing single mom is threatened with having her daughter taken away by her sister and a sleazy filmmaker and must enlist the aid of her lesbian teammates, a church choir and some “Angry Coochies” to try and stop them.
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Best Woman Filmmaker A relational drama in four parallel stories, centered around a boy’s vulnerability through the consequences of life. His addiction is a daily struggle in a lost hope of understanding the fragile little hole that grows and grows in need of numbing. In 1994 a boy named Jesper is born. We follow his
Best Animated Film Grand gestures, determined expressions and tight legs. Roughly collaged footballers don‘t owe each other anything and a referee loses the overview.
My 1st Documentary A discovery of the incredible musical journey of the great Greek composer Yani Spanos (Γιάννης Σπανός), setting off from small-town Kiato to major collaborations in Paris, and ultimately his huge success in Greece. With rare documents and interviews and through the eyes of a devoted fan, we explore why Spanos chose to
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Best Super Short Film Depressed, a young girl wanders the city, facing alone her despair. As she hits bottom, someone comes to meet her.
Best Feature Film In a humble coastal compound of southern Mexico, amidst a total eclipse of the sun, an unexpected guest arouses the broken dreams of a family that has lost its guardian figure, overshadowed by the cosmic loneliness where they were left to their faith.
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Best Actor Feature Film From Mount Caucasus, in 19th century Georgia, the outcast from heaven, a demon merciless against all evil, falls in love with a young Georgian princess and seeks his redemption in love.
Best Actress COVID-19 FILM Ariadna, a former police officer, is now a detective shocked by the recent death of her mother due to Covid. In the midst of this, she must find a child who has been kidnapped after school.
Best Short Film Best Director Short Film A traffic accident has made Ben distant and unpleasant. In a desperate effort to save their marriage, his wife, Jennifer, decides to deceive him into believing he has a terminal illness. A change does occur, but not quite what Jennifer had been hoping for.
Web/TV Series Alexandra, commonly known as ALEX, finds her life turned upside down one day when she’s 12 years old and comes home from school to find her father in tears. The reason: her mother had left home. Her father resented the divorce and committed suicide a year later. Custody of the child passed to
My 1st Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Claudio Nervi, an eclectic director, and Lucia Neve, a disillusioned producer, are looking for a new actress who could help them with their latest feature film, a project that is undoubtedly adrift. During a meeting with one of the most promising candidates, Stella, the girl will reveal
Best Actor Short Film As 24 year old, Jake, starts his journey to double him and his sister’s inheritance at a casino in Upstate New York, his car breaks down. He attempts to hitchhike from Maine to New York, but along the way he abuses the kindness of others.
Best LGBT film Loona, just graduated from highscool. That same summer she takes a trip with her friends and a guy she’s seeing. There, in the middle of nowhere in the french countryside, she meets Maude. A girl with whom, she’ll immediately fall for.
Best Experimental Film IGNIS – a pyrofeminist spell for transformative change in history and the futures, is an experimental film by Norwegian artist Thale Blix Fastvold. Cinematography by Marius Captare. The film is shot in Norway, California, Italy and Azerbaijan and includes footage of an underwater mud volcano by Professor Giuliana Panieri, and the Yanardag
Best Actress Feature Film A woman rents an old house at the country side in Bretagne. After a few days, she realizes that the house is haunted by the ghost of a young girl.
Best Actress Short Film Best Cinematography Best Horror Film Kendra and her friends accidentally summon a demonic force while playing with a Spirit Board at a sleepover. What the others don’t know is that she is already experienced in handling situations like these, but will it be enough?
Carl Bengtsson’s experimental short film, “An Exam’s Journey,” unfolds as a powerful meditation on the complexity of human experience through the lens of an examination. The film’s protagonist, a solitary figure navigating the pressures and anxieties of an impending assessment, becomes a conduit for exploring the intricate relationship between knowledge, struggle, and the inexorable march
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Best Woman Filmmaker Anka’s brother was killed, her mother is slowly going crazy, and her grandfather is struggling with Alzheimer’s. Out of hopelessness and despair, Anka decides to do the worst.
Best Actor Short Film Shane Lucas, an ex-Yakuza member and 4th degree black belt in Judo, is hunted down at his local dojo in Los Angeles 1985 by his long-time rival, Elias Da Rosa and his crew members from the same crime family. Shane is threatened to come back to the Yakuza or would suffer
Best Actor Feature Film Two years after the creation of The Lethal Force franchise, its creator Deathor, decides to produce the next installment. However, something dark was born with it and it will curse everyone involved with the franchise.
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My 1st Short film After suffering the trauma of her husband’s death, the truck driver’s wife, Feng Huizhen, for keeping the only traces of her husband and her truck. She rampages all the way through betraying her friend and rejecting the possibility of regaining her happiness. How will she face the road to destiny alone?
Best Actress Short Film Olive, a young aspiring designer, receives a letter from an old relative that makes her pause. Confronted with the meaning of a lifetime she suddenly comes closer to herself again and manages to take a step back from her own reality.
Best Animated Film Mina would like to drive the family car on the sunny beach parking lot. Faced with her big brother’s categorical refusal, an argument erupts. It takes an unexpected turn when a gigantic creature falls from the sky.
Best LGBT Film Intersex tells the story of two intersex young people who have to live in a society that is not prepared to accept diversity.
My 1st Documentary In November 2023, adventurer Nico Valsesia invites friends and followers on a once-in-a-lifetime journey: cycling from Marrakech to Dakar in 21 days. This non-competitive, 2700 km trek across Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal promises unforgettable experiences. With a spirit of adaptation and minimal support, 13 adventurers set off on January 7, 2024. As
Best Short Film After Gabby is finally released from the abusive hands of her former lover, she tries to get a fresh start on her life. With only a small amount of money and just a backpack, she rents an Airbnb to figure out her next step. Everything is fine until her past haunts her.
Best Actress Super Short film “Glad you came” tells the story of a one-night stand and the consequences of their lack of communication.
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Best Actress Feature Film ALWTH (A Long Walk to Happiness) follows the journey of Ajay, a solitary man who has spent his life longing for a sense of belonging and familial connection. Growing up as an orphan, Ajay never experienced the warmth of a family’s embrace or the security of a stable home. One day,
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Best Music Video A citizen of the world wandering around Stockholm, Sweden. An international band roaming Uppsala, Sweden. Walking humans making music happen.
Best Feature Film In the spring of 1988, in the depth of the Iraq-Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.
Best Screenplay Best Director Short Film At a luxury hotel, a trolley becomes the centerpiece of an intrigue when a thief attempts to steal it. Amid surprises and plot twists, the secret hidden within the trolley will unveil unexpected truths.
My 1st Feature Film From the haunted forests of a lost Portuguese village, an evil energy is born. Without fearing God or Man, it roams the valleys harvesting the souls of those who are distracted by the fleeting pleasures of the immediate… The only thing that separates these entities from the final apocalypse that will
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Best Sci-Fi Film Best Actor Robbie Scott is working for a commercial mining company on Mars. The vicissitudes of the alien Martian world and the commercial space base have dissolved his sense of humanity. He is morally and physically lost. Through an apparition of his daughter, his sense of humanity is restored and he can
Best Experimental Film An Autofiction, documentary and animation film. A blueberry race, a daughter with her lost father, but everything return into the same spot of loneliness, in the dark of the forest, 20 years later. Because some stains you just have to live with…
Best Super Short Film Four friends searching for each other in between reality and a collective dream.
Best Director Feature Film An agoraphobic man struggling to stay sane within the confines of his pokey bungalow is ridiculed and taunted at every opportunity by a TV weather presenter, a local hoodlum and his own imaginary enemy, Mr. P.
Best Short Documentary This documentary delves into a sewing workshop in the neighborhood of La Mina, on the outskirts of Barcelona. The workshop emerges as an essential space in their lives; a meeting place where the creation of an intricate fabric of experiences and emotions materializes. While the sewing machines clatter, the film explores the
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Best Feature Documentary In 1941, Hitler’s propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels invited 36 writers and 1 woman writer from 17 European countries to a month-long trip through Germany ending in Weimar. Acknowledging the power of literature, Goebbels’s plan was to create a European Writers Union in favor of Germany’s view of the world. When literary fame
My 1st Short Film Best Woman Filmmaker Trauma therapist crosses paths with new patients every day, but the line between therapist and patient begins to blur when she gets a call from a college student living in her car.
Best Experimental Film Flâneurs, wandering figures, moving swiftly yet remaining still, roam aimlessly through the uncertainty, without apparent purpose or destination, merely seeking or escaping from themselves. Automatons in ceaseless motion, they are caught in a perpetual competition driven by a restless society. A juxtaposition of opposites, they look like black and white pawns on
Best Animated Film Fung, a girl who grew up in the old Hong Kong public housing, was having her last year in primary school. The old estate was about to be demolished and rebuilt, and neighbors and friends were leaving gradually. Although Fung knew this would happen, she could not let go of the feeling
Best Music Video “Aeterna” is an evocative essay on the concept of beauty. Presented in a unique diptych format, it delves into the life of an actress, offering a poignant biographical exploration. The story skillfully exposes the psychological duality that exists between her authentic self and the facade she maintains for society. This compelling journey
My 1st Feature film Captain Vicente, a member of the Mexican army special forces, fell into a coma during a battle against a dangerous drug lord, when he wakes up years later he discovers that his wife has married that drug lord and his son is his lieutenant, refusing to accept this new reality, he
Best Short Film Best Actress Short Film Emilia and Liam are preparing to welcome their new baby; as we follow their story, we learn how strong a mother’s love is.
Web/TV Series Best Cinematography A talent agent decides he’s had enough of his talentless clients and goes on a serial killing spree!
Best Short Documentary Join us on a journey of educational hope for students in poverty-stricken Kenya. Surging Films teams up with The Weiss Scholarship Foundation to bring the stories of various Kenyan scholarship recipients, hopefuls, and alumni to the forefront. In particular, we follow Christine Akoth’s journey as she travels from Kenya to America in
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Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Hospitalized in coma 2016, Cecilia capitulates how her voice with unparalleled range is discovered at school in 1960. Her success is overwhelming. Her loving awakening with best friend Morena is a problem with the conservative environment. We jump to 80s imprisonment that put her
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Best Drama 2042 – Pictures of destroyed landscapes characterize the daily news. In the last ten years, the death rate of trees has rapidly increased. A new technology is supposed to undo the damage caused to the environment as entering the local forest is suddenly strictly prohibited. Noelle, a 13-year-old girl, and her father suffer
My 1st Documentary Seeking to know her family’s history, a young woman undertakes to question her mother about the story of her Lebanese origins. The mother’s stories paints a kind of fresco, a family saga, composed of a colorful mosaic of real and imagined memory, mixing true and false, small and big story, personal and
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Best Actor Short Film When Leon is invited to his parent’s home, he is forced to deal with the trauma of losing his childhood dog, Nox.
Best Screenplay Noah, a charismatic advertisement executive, has just launched the ad campaign of his career for the company Nordic Meat. But when his little sister Naia begins live-streaming from the roof of a Nordic Meat factory, accusing the company of greenwashing and threatening to commit so-called “ecocide” by jumping off the building unless they
Best Director Short Film Duan Yu, a girl who grew up in a patriarchal family, was sexually assaulted by her brother. For many reasons, she was unable to file a case several times. In long despair, she seemed to see her destiny from a famous ancient case.
Best Super Short Film “The Outdoor Retreat” follows the unexpected journey of three individuals who sign up for what they believe are tailored outdoor experiences but find themselves at the mercy of Maggie Mountain, a quirky wilderness guide with unconventional methods. As they struggle to reconcile their expectations with reality, they must navigate through Maggie’s
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Interview with an indie filmmaker: Michael S.U. Hudson Q: Share your profile, academics, and filmmaking career details. My academic foundation started at Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom, where I studied film and media production before being invited to study in Belgrade, Serbia under the mentorship of Rian Johnson, best known for”Star Wars:
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Best Short Film a girl is walking in an ugly state on a lonely road when a villager finds her and is willing to help her, but…
Best Drama After years of service on a ship, sailor Jora is written off. Free-spirited and proud, he returns and realizes that he has fallen out of life so much that his relatives, friends and even his wife have learned to live without him. Finding himself an extra in his own home, the old sailor
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Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Audience Choice Ohannes Van Almeida (Chico Diaz) is a painter considered obsolete for the market. With his vision deteriorating and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, he finds in Florence Lizz (Samantha Müller) – a famous actress in crisis – an inspiration for his urgent
My 1st Feature film Years after her parents’ divorce, Zhao Lin finds herself entangled in the emotions of returning to two distinct homes for the Lunar New Year.
COVID-19 FILM A committed and well-known doctor named Parsa Arman, who is the head of a special hospital for covid-19 patients, he witnesses the death of a large number of people and medical staff every day, the critical situation of the country, the lack of medicine and vaccine, masks and medical alcohol has made him
Best Super Short Film After being together for a year, Klaus introduces his girlfriend Anna to his family, but something seems strange about the whole family gathering. Reunited with his family, Klaus acts distant and cold, and soon Anna begins to question what she has gotten herself into.
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Best Feature Documentary In October 2022, a group of fundraisers from the UK arrived in Pakistan to take part in a Rickshaw challenge. It was supposed to be a cultural tour of the Sindh region, but the devastating floods turned it into something very different.
Best Actress Super Short Poetry film about her own experience of being burnt out and depressed. In the midst of this paralyzing state, we get to know her true nature, how capable she was, and the absence of a certain figure that had never left her side before.
Web/TV Series After landing his dream job, John begins to feel insecure about his abilities as anxiety creeps in. He seeks out help from an old friend. The Missus shares those same feelings of insecurity, though for vastly different reasons, as she does pulls out all the stops to capture his attention.
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Best Animated Film Arachné is a famous weaver. One evening, as she thinks of a negative review of her work, her questions and anxieties appear in the form of a double spider that she fights throughout the night.
Best Actress Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Screenplay Sexually abused and trafficked as an eleven year old both by her biological and foster Father, Isabella was forced to the dark world of prostitution and drugs, till love flashes light of a better life, then her her horrible past came calling.
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Best Actor Best Actress Best Director Short Film An old man, a fervent catholic and a devoted husband, tries hard to make his dementia ridden wife remember him, at least by calling his name one more time.
My 1st Documentary Banished from a land they had lived in for centuries, my great-grandparents became exchanged in 1923, when Orthodox people were ordered to live in a new homeland, Greece, filling the houses from which Muslims were expelled off to Turkey. A hundred years went by before I decided to make the return journey
Best Horror Film Sergio and Elena are a happy couple. One night, Elena starts to talk and act strangely. The next day the couple take it as a joke. Things start to get complicated when Heleno turns up in their lives. This entity will use old sexist patterns and new liberal ideas to destroy Sergio
Best Experimental Film Combining the cheesiest parts of 9 epic “Sword and Sandal” movies (including “Hercules”, “Hercules Unchained, and “Last Days of Pompeii”), Hercules Recycled 2.0 is an insane, redubbed hybrid comedy/adventure set in a future where the power’s run out and the world has collapsed into primal chaos.
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Best Actor Short Film A man goes through a rapid breakdown upon realizing the harsh truth about the universe.
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My 1st Short film The story centers around Jiang Yun, an eighteen-year-old girl entering her final year of high school. However, her concerns extend beyond academics to include a longstanding aversion to her own long hair.
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Best Actress Short Film HIM and HER. Living their secret life, far from everyone. He wants to get out of it but she doesn’t let him. She wants to get out of it but he doesn’t let her. Why does it feel like there is something wrong? A story about past traumas and their influence
Best Music Video A play on words and concepts. A love story about taking a chance and a gamble on love. This song just hit #1 on itunes USA Electronic and #2 on the UK itunes Electronic. It also hit top 100 songs UK all genre’s on iTunes.
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Best Feature Documentary The documentary-drama film “I SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST” talks about the life of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the fascinating life story of Erna Estera Kaveson Debevec, a Sarajevo resident who survived Nazi persecution and concentration camps.
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Best Actor Short Film Two criminals, seeking to manipulate a school teacher into changing a final grade, find themselves embroiled in unexpected complications when they visit his home.
Best LGBT film Scottish singer Kim Carnie was in a secret same-sex relationship for 6 years, from the ages of 16-22. Now 30, she can reflect on the impact those 6 years of secrecy had on her. She meets other people who have hidden their sexuality as well as activists in the lgbtq+ community to
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Best Drama Mela – a young woman in a life crisis, deeply longing to return to her previous life where she had a home and everything seemed to work out for her. She meditates, sends out intentions, and firmly believes that a better version of the future is within reach.
Best Actress Short Film A short film with many layers and with Ulla Billquist as a source of inspiration. It takes place in Sörmland, just outside Trosa, on the actual ground where Ulla Billquist once had a cabin that burned down. The film begins in a wonderful spirit with five young people who want to
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Web/TV Series Miami’s Listening Party gathers musicians, producers, singers, songwriters, and other artists together to experience new music and new techniques for creating today’s hit songs. A deep dive inside the musical creators of time. Each 60-minute episode will feature a different artist or artists and how their music can inspire us all. The show
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Best Cinematography A decade after freeskiing became an Olympic discipline, many riders are longing for an alternative to the current trajectory of the sport. Instead of rigid contest structures and national teams, they dream of a new kind of freeski event, something more true to the sport’s unruly origins. And so, in the fall of
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Best Woman Filmmaker Tianqu is a documentary with Gangrinboqi, and Xizang as the central background, telling the story of a photographer and a Tibetan when shooting in Lhasa. In the film, male and female protagonists from different backgrounds and ages embark on a pilgrimage to Mount Okinawa. With their own goals and aspirations, they embark
Best Animated Film Tara is a little girl from Iran’s Kurdish ethnic group. Life and death are intertwined in her life. When their mothers visit the graves of loved ones lost in state violence, war, and bombing after the Iran revolution in 1979, she and her friends play hide and seek in the graveyard back
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Best Super Short Film A coffee enthusiast eagerly awaits that first sip… but encounters some obstacles.
Best Actor Feature Film Desire (Christine Bermas) has always been indifferent to other kids. After several years of being estranged from her elder sister Myla (Sheree Bautista), she is asked by the latter to be the house sitter at their cabin in Rizal. Desire decided to bring her new boyfriend Adam (Nico Locco) along on
My 1st Feature film This movie is a black comedy about six ordinary people on a journey of self-discovery as they navigate through the surreal and absurd realities of life. The six protagonists are in a state of loss and confusion, plagued by their own personal crises. When they are presented with the temptation of
Best Director Short Film The teen metal band Cell 9 must decide whether to play their heavy metal music for their last performance or succumb to the threats of the principal of the high school they’re playing.
Best Music Video «Sultoni Qalbam», is an Epic Anthem of Love of the entire Iranian World, widely popular in the expanses of Central and South Asia, is served in a fatal arrangement performed by Sofia Larionova, a 2nd-year student of the acting faculty of the S.A. Gerasimov VGIK. It serves as a prelude to the
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Best Short Film While on his way home, Keyumars has a chance encounter with Shabnam, a captivating stranger. This unexpected meeting leaves a profound impact on him, prompting Keyumars to undertake a quest to find her, setting off a chain of unforeseen events.
My 1st Short film Alex and Lilya love each other and live together. Alex appreciates her for choosing him, but due to his pedantry in character, he cannot put up with some of Lily’s character traits. While at the university, a group of guys developed a program with which you can change human behavior. The
Best Short Documentary Left in a 400sqm house, a grieving sixty-year-old lady is forced to let go of her memories and her father’s legacy.
Best Best Feature Film Jorge’s comfortable life in a smart building falls apart when René, the cat he has to take care of in exchange for living in the apartment, dies. At that moment, a woman who claims to be the reincarnation of the feline arrives at his door and, claiming that he was the
Dimitri Vallein is a French independent film director, writer, and producer. Q: Share your profile, academics, and filmmaking career details. I’m Dimitri Vallein, also known as ValOne, a director based in Paris. I work internationally in animation, video games, and virtual experiences. Before that, I created a YouTube channel that was very popular
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My 1st Short Film In the near future, Sweden is under occupation by Russian forces. A small resistance movement has formed, performing cyberattacks against the invaders. Our heroine Hedwig, the right hand of the resistance, is captured and interrogated by the smug, pretentious interrogator Ivan. A half Swedish, half-Russian defector. Hedwig is confronted with an
Best Short Film A short film with many layers and with Ulla Billquist as a source of inspiration. It takes place in Sörmland, just outside Trosa, on the actual ground where Ulla Billquist once had a cabin that burned down. The film begins in a wonderful spirit with five young people who want to make
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Best Cinematography Young woman Magda is drifting between the swimming pool, dance floor, and her suffocating parents’ house to cope with severe mental distress.
Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film We were in Greece in 1943. A platoon of German soldiers commanded by Captain Hans Schmeichel is hunting two Greek officers after the failure of Operation Star. A woman will help the two men hide in her village but this will be devastating. The Germans invaded the village
Best Actress Emil has to face the consequences of a broken promise.
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Best Super Short Film Headteacher Irina von Martens is about to write a film manuscript – but in order to finish it she needs the help of Olga Kvickman, who enters the head teacher’s office while bringing a whole family tree into the room. Together they explore the complexity of relationships and generously welcome the
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Best Director Short Film Best Woman Filmmaker A woman destroys the life of her new love out of nowhere and faces her hidden self in the shadow of this existence.
Best Short Documentary “Gears & Dunes” is a captivating and action-packed documentary following a group of adventurers on an epic journey from Portugal to Dakar. Set against the breathtaking landscapes of the Moroccan and Mauritanian deserts, the film documents the challenges and triumphs of the expedition team as they navigate through remote terrains and forge
Best Animated Film In a Kurdish town, a surprising event sweeps over an ordinary day. When the sunlight suddenly transitions into something unexpected, the fates of the residents change. “Unexpected Daylight” explores the unpredictable and takes the viewers on a journey through surprising moments.
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Best Actress Short Film Because of poverty, Thea, a 14-year-old girl, comes to the home of a strange man at the arrangement of her mother. Thea is at first afraid of this strange man, but the man has never made any excessive gestures towards her, instead showing respect. For the first time, Thea feels treated
My 1st Documentary The BRP originated in 1968 as a propaganda department of the JJCC (Juventudes Comunistas de Chile, Chilean Communist Youth League). As a young group, they supported the democratically elected President Salvador Allende…
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Best Music Video The Lazys are back from the Dead with their first new track post-pandemic.
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Best Actor Short Film Freddy and Alex are longtime friends who have taken different paths in life. While Alex, who has remained a drug addict, tries to reconnect with Freddy to revive their bond, the two friends find themselves in a messy situation that will test their friendship. Trying to reestablish their complicity over, the
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Best Experimental Film To travel where the desire takes is almost forbidden for Indian women. Hema, Bama, and Reema, three sisters by blood, take a trip through the canals of Burgundy. In 1968, that is, when the revolution happened, their parents made the same trip from Briare to Sancerre. During the trip, the sisters make
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Best Actress Two women discover their joint passion for adventurous journeys and they decide to share a trip on a motorcycle. The tour catapults the viewer through a maelstrom of occurrences. It remains unclear what is reality and what is due to the effect of the mysterious observer on their experience.
Best Feature Documentary The heart-gripping Their Own Life portrays three persons who survived a period of serious longing for suicide. Kris van der Veen was bullied in high school so intensely in his Christian community in the far north of the Netherlands, that he tried to take his life with pills when he was only
My 1st Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Sara and Is(Isaam) are fated to meet in advance of a possible marriage they don’t want and end up having to spend the day together to kill time.
Best Screenplay “The Burden of Nine Lives” is a gripping narrative that unfolds the life of Jimmy, a young man embroiled in a dangerous heist gone wrong. With a plot revolving around betrayal, survival, and a quest for vengeance, the story begins with Jimmy and his accomplices stealing drugs hidden inside porcelain cats, only to
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Best Experimental Film A frustrated Derek sleepwalks to the shore of a beach looking for someone to hear his dream. The memories he’s still attached to turn his narration into a nightmare as he sees his late lover waiting for him on the other side. Derek would need to ask for guidance on how to
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My 1st Short Film A young woman must contest with more than just a hangover when she finds herself locked out of the house.
Best Feature Documentary Judy Blank, a singer-songwriter from Utrecht, The Netherlands gets the chance to be the very first Dutch artist ever playing at the world-famous Americanafest in Nashville, Tennessee. Behind her road to fame lie great ambitions, but also great insecurities.
Best Producer Old university friends meet with their wives over dinner, and as time passes, secrets emerge throwing the dinner into chaos and challenging the couples’ understanding of love, betrayal, monogamy, and marriage.
Best Super Short Film Lara is in a happy relationship. But when the finding of an antique statue causes her to go home earlier than planned, she is confronted with the painful truth.
Web/TV Series When a young hopeful is suddenly dumped after he proposes to his on again off again girlfriend with a fledgling screenwriter by day rideshare driver by night bearing witness to the humiliation, he lands himself in a debate with a widow over whose loss is more painful. Through the darkness of their shared
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My 1st Documentary This film tells the story of the Gnawi Master ESSADDIQ’s relationship with his instrument, the “Sentir”, and how that close relationship developed until it made that instrument an extension of himself, and made ESSADDIQ a dedicated Master…
Best Actress Audience Choice It’s the story of Gun – a middle-aged bitter auntie. She thinks life is so damned boring that she will perish from boredom. But that’s before Kim comes into her life – then everything changes. One day, Kim just stands there and introduces herself as Gun’s new colleague. Kim is everything
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Best Animated Film Maddie is a young woman who suffers from her insecurity and anxiety to the point of having to face her personal demons, although in that kind of fight, there is never a true winner.
Best Actor Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Dan is on the edge of giving up his dream and Alice has accepted that the fun part of life is behind her, until an unexpected journey offers answers they didn’t know they were looking for.
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Best Short Film Best Actress Short Film Mia, a drug courier, is hunted by the vengeful gunslinger Kane. A drug deal gone wrong puts him back on her scent, and armed only with a six-shooter and a spiritual bond to London’s foxes, Mia has one night to outrun Kane and save a stranger’s life. Welcome
Best Director Short Film Best friends Cora and Margot are looking for a peaceful getaway at a cozy cabin in the woods, but not all goes to plan; especially once the girls find an old ouija board and test their luck.
Best Music Video Salim a Palestinian father after losing everything in an Israeli airstrike, his home, wife and newborn child, attempts to help ease his unbearable pain by telling his own personal story of growing up in Gaza under occupation by an apartheid regime
Best Short Documentary Making the headlines after a glorious sporting achievement is always a coveted dream for any athlete. However, for Zohreh Koudaei, it was followed by a painful sequence of events. The female Iranian international, who has had to plow her way through difficulties all her life, faced an unprecedented challenge.
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My 1st Feature Film Following the sudden suicide of Carol, a lively and outgoing teenager, Police Inspector Elisa Macías begins to investigate the possible causes that led to the young girl taking her own life. As she digs deeper and deeper, she will discover that not everything is as it seems. Based on a true
Best Feature Film Three Best friends Shree, Adi, and Manav are Blind, Deaf & Dumb respectively. They run a detective agency THREE CHEERS, where they get a case of Maria, a lady in distress who has been swindled by a PROPERTY DEALER D’souza of Rupees. 10 Crores. The Defective but effective Detectives decide to take
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Best Screenplay After her sister Yoon-ju’s mysterious death, Yoon-hee tries to remember the time in their youth. Yoon-hee strolls the lakeside and struggles to take her sister’s part as an actor. With highly-elated anxiety, she passes by the forest and finds herself at a waterfall. Is she going to be released from a sense of
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Best Director Feature Film Seven years after the death of his wife, Alain, a Belgium director, longs to meet the actress of his unfinished film, with whom he shared a passion in Lisbon. Once in place, discovers that she has disappeared. An unknown woman offers him help with the investigation. It begins for him a
Best Drama Best Woman Filmmaker When modern medicine fails to save his sister’s life, the desperate brother encounters an old charlatan, who introduces him to a sorcery that can save her life, but at the expense of others.
Socio-political is an experimental feature directed, produced, and written, produced and directed by Umur Işık. Synopsis! A writer seeks refuge in a storm and finds it in a retired factory worker’s house. As the night continues things turn out not to be what they seem and the two with sinister plans try to outdo each
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Web/TV Series Grey and her dead (and very protective) best friend Becca hunt ghosts together to make money. Becca finds out they are behind on rent, and she’s pissed. Meanwhile, Ash, a critic and the daughter of one of their clients offers them money to come along on one of their adventures so she can
Best Short Film Best Director Short Film When an outgoing artist is brutally hexed, her best friend and deeply repressed love interest must master an awakening of some pretty incredible powers of her own.
Best Actress Short Film A poetic love story set in different times that deals with the timelessness of love and the relativity of time.
Best Feature Documentary Film A feature documentary a lifetime in making about the remarkable Eva Haller. She has touched the lives of women, children, and artists around the world with her commitment to making every day count. At 93 she survived just barely COVID-19, and the holocaust, and became a force for positive change in
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Best Music Video A love story about star-crossed lovers who thought their lives are often apart their hearts are together. Though their days apart they come to realize how much the miss one another and eventually find their way back. Shot in several locations including Mumbai, Dubai, Hawaii and London. Features actress from Hollywood Samantha
Best Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Best Director Feature Film “La Pura Vida” is the third feature-length film in the “Tijuana Makes Me Happy Trilogy”, and tells the story of Nana who has to deal with the overbearing family of her boyfriend and overall abuse.
Best Drama 2’300 BC. This old warrior never thought that he had to walk the path of war again. But when his world collapses, everything changes. It becomes a path of seduction, decisions and experience, when he puts his life on the line.
Best Super Short Film An anonymous young woman is about to undergo a rite of passage within a mysterious organization. During the ceremony, she seeks a way to escape what lies ahead, confronting the limits of herself and others.
Best Experimental Film This documentary film expresses the will and commitment to sharing, through the story of emotions and experience, the context of the socio-cultural event ‘Queen: “Check the King”‘, and with it re-present the testimonies of the victims of gender violence and femicide.
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My 1st Short film Xing, a young artist struggles to balance his passion for art with the expectations imposed on him by his single mother. Personal aspirations and family are put into question when despite her disapproval, Xing participates in an art contest in an attempt to change his mother’s mind.
Best Cinematography. The twins Cosmo (André Lewski) and Carmen (Sandra Tirre) return to their former childhood home for the first time in 15 years. While Carmen attempts to come to grips with her childhood traumas, her efforts are met with resistance by her brother, who brings along his new girlfriend Marie (Hannah Prasse).
Best Animated Film A deadbeat pizza delivery driver, Cooper, arrives at a remote house where no one seems to be home. He is directed to follow a large dog through the eclectic and unusual property until he reaches the front door where the nature of the scene brings color back into his face.
COVID-19 FILM “The Great Nothing” is a feature-length documentary essay about the pandemic of the COVID-19 disease. The film crew of Vít Klusák and Marika Pecháčková took to the streets of empty Prague in March 2020 and followed the events and behavior of Czech society for two years.
Best Actor Short Film An ex-con struggles to stay clean and law-abiding and move on with his life.
Best Child Star After the death of his grandfather and playmate, Bruno, an 8-year-old boy, embarks on a journey in a magical world trying to finish the pending story he was building with his grandfather and become King.
Web/TV Series Iveta is a young chick with a very tough attitude from the eastern Slovak city Trebišov. She likes to hang out at the local pub with older men, play poker and drink “borovička” (an exclusive Slovak drink). She lives only with her mother, Diana, who spends most of her time in church and
Best Woman Filmmaker Young Ssaku from a small fishing community dreams of soccer stardom but faces opposition from his father. When rumors circulate of the government selling off half of the lake, the fishermen’s livelihoods are threatened, leading Ssaku’s father to discontinue his education and groom him into a full-time fisherman.
Best Screen Play This story is about Muscovite Georgy Abaev, who dreamed of becoming a famous film director since childhood and shooting a picture of his dreams.
My 1st Documentary The story of a group of women who decided to break a male monopoly. Despite their historical involvement in the production of agave distillates, archaic traditions and beliefs have kept women under another glass ceiling. But the “Mujeres del Mezcal y Maguey de Mexico” Association is now shattering it. Recognizing their own
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Best Short Documentary Vale is on the verge of the last match of her career as a professional boxer. Since she was a child, she has always been very pugnacious, up until she had to fight for the right to assisted suicide for her lifelong partner, Fabiano, who became blind and quadriplegic after an accident.
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In October 2021, Ukrainian producer Mila Andriiash and her Swedish colleague Anton Sova presented their short film “God Will Forgive” at the Kiev International Film Festival. However, it was not until October 2023 that the film caught the attention of the Stockholm City Film Festival, but in November it won the Best Short Film award.
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Winner Best Narrative Short The Ukrainian chaplain trying to get out of the Donbas gray area, stumbles upon a shot convoy of separatists, where he encounters a mortally wounded mercenary and is faced with a choice – to help or continue to flee, but suddenly inadvertently steps on an antipersonnel mine.
Winner Best Cinematography 46 days. That might seem like a reasonable amount of time to try a new diet, read every day, or work out each morning. For Karel Sabbe, this is the amount of time he took to complete a supported run of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in record time, averaging over
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Winner Best Actress Feature Film A screenwriter not only wants to write a new bestseller on a secluded property in the Lüneburg Heath but also wants to come to terms with her post-traumatic experiences in the process. However, the heathland idyll is deceptive, and a series of mysterious incidents soon make her doubt her sanity.
Winner Best Animated Film A wall of trees. Her sudden urges to break out of the cold loneliness lead to nothing. When a sudden impact leads Irina to choose between owning or ending her life.
Winner Best Short Film Best Director Short Film Set in Ireland in the 1980s, ‘TETHERED’ is a bittersweet fantasy short film that explores the power of folklore, family, and storytelling. Helmed by the award-winning Irish and LGBT+ director Stephen T Lally, ‘TETHERED’ is an innovative coming-of-age story that blends drama, animation, music, and modern dance
Winner Best Music Video This music video features singer-songwriter, Brooke Josephson as a 1960s housewife in a vintage nightgown and robe with curling hair.
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Winner Best Feature Documentary Film The documentary Our Brothers’ and Sisters’ Keepers gives a voice to the international refugees and volunteers at the Tesco humanitarian aid center in Przemysl (a Polish town on the Ukrainian border), which was opened in response to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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Winner Best Drama Best Feature Film Filmed in San Diego: “The Master Chief” follows a young Filipino male (Gabe Rosario) who joins the U.S. Navy to live a better life, but discovers racial tensions on the ship. Gabe develops a system to protect himself and his fellow Filipino brothers while simultaneously rising in the ranks
Winner Best Woman Filmmaker As Camilla returns to her childhood home she realizes that not everything is like it used to be. Although everything looks the same, she notices how odd her dad has become. His pride strangles him, Camilla sees how frail her father is and stretches out a helping hand.
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Winner Best Super Short Film When he receives an unusual advert from a witch, Terrence faces an even more unusual day meeting a potential new friend.
Winner Best Actress Short Film In a dystopian near-future, solo survivalist Katy sustains herself in the heart of the forest with a routine of laying traps, gathering supplies, and training her strength.
Winner Best Experimental Film Tails is a fictional short film about three Merpeople who discover the dangers of ghost nets. 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.
Winner Best Short Documentary 20-30 years ago, the municipality opened an area that was a cemetery for development. In the period when the migration from the village to the city is intense, people start to build houses in the cemetery area. But nobody touches the graves there. Everyone respects the graves and a grave remains
Winner Best Actress After a painful breakup, Rose Liverpool stumbles upon a mysterious switch box that transforms her appearance into a perfect, glamorous version of herself. As she becomes addicted to the allure of the “Glamour World,” she must confront the consequences of her altered reality when the line between fantasy and reality blurs, forcing
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Winner Best Actor Feature Film Unsatisfied and frustrated with his mundane life, Jacques decides to pack his camping gear, run away from his wife, and live in the forest on his own. He is extremely happy in the wilderness until loneliness starts to creep in.
Winner Best Actor Short Film Off out on a date, Jack worries he won’t have anything to bring to the conversation, but will his worries be left residing in his consciousness as it seems something far more sinister is passing through town.
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Winner Best Screen Play After an ordinary date night turns into a pivotal moment of reckoning, a Lebanese Wife and a Pakistani husband in their late 30s must navigate the complexities of their marriage as they confront deep-seated issues of communication, identity, and love. As they reassess their priorities and explore their options, they find
Winner Best Actress Feature Film A vigilante comes face to face with her demons while tracking down criminals tied to her past.
Winner Best Super 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
Winner Best Actor Feature Film True crime documentarian Olivia Brandreth was nine years old when her father disappeared. The official police statement was suicide though no body was ever recovered. Twenty-five years later, Olivia has returned to her childhood home to finally get closure in an unrelenting attempt to set the record straight. Blue Hour
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Winner Web/TV Series With Grace is a fictionalised version of 18 year old writer and lead actor Grace’s life as she negotiates her last days of High School. This is the third series that has followed Grace since the sudden death of her Dad when she was 10. When she gets stuck she thinks of
Winner Best Horror Film AFTERWARDS is a dark yet spiritual drama that follows the tormented journey of a man who’s been abandoned in the frozen north for thirty years after his death.
Winner Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film The Performance is a wonderfully dramatic and heartbreaking film that follows a well-known actor as he prepares for a one-night-only performance in a theater run down by time. It was the home of his first performance over 60 years before and as the night progresses he reflects
Winner COVID-19 FILM March 2020. MICHELE, a thirty years old man, is kicked out of his home by his girlfriend: in the middle of the night he finds hospitality from a friend of his. The Covid-19 lockdown starts: three roommates will have to face forced coexistence.
Winner Best Drama After a proposed first meeting with her online girlfriend, Addy, a deaf girl, must confront her insecurities and make some big decisions about her relationship before it is too late.
Winner Best Actress Best Experimental Film In this surreal science fiction short film, a young woman (Inga) celebrates her fifth year of sobriety as she drives home after a long shift in the hospital. Her night drive becomes uncanny and surreal when she encounters an unhealed version of herself on another timeline.
Winner Best Actor Short Film Best Actress Short Film A student of the directing faculty of VGIK falls into disgrace with the master of the course Gleb Glebovich and goes to military service in the army in Syria. In one of the battles, George is seriously wounded, and as a result, he goes completely blind.
Winner Best Animated Film A stray puppy gets rescued by a sweet, little girl and finds a family he can live with. But Destiny has something else in store for the dog, who ends up on the street once again.
Winner My 1st Documentary In a context where the role of a queer person is seen as painting nails and cutting hair, Herlen and her friends Charlie and Jhoana struggle in their daily lives to challenge this prejudice. Through provocative performances, they confront outdated ideas and attempt to create a space where diversity is accepted.
Winner My 1st Feature film A Warm Christmas is a story about two siblings, Ariel and Jaden, who visit Nigeria from Canada to spend Christmas with their grandparents, along with their step-sister Zarah, they experience a different way of life. On their journey to the village, the kids take in the sights and sounds of
Winner Best LGBT Film My 1st Short Film Best Actress AUiance Choice A woman named Julie comes back to visit her school art teacher, Elaine, revealing a secret romantic past that has been buried for years. Now they both need to make a decision.
Winner Best Woman Filmmaker An autobiographical and generational tale that uses an AI app ( a sort of time machine) to enable photographs to speak…
Winner Best Short Film Best Director Short Film A close-knit family has been living peacefully in a secluded house far from civilization for years. One evening, their tranquil life is disrupted when stones are thrown against their window. The question of who is responsible and why their house is being targeted remains a mystery. As
Winner Best Feature Documentary Film “The Terminal Man” is about a failed deportation that leads to a father of two being separated from his family for four years. The last two years he spends at an airport, while his family is having a fierce fight getting him home to Norway.
Winner Best Narrative Short Film “Love without Words” is a love story of a girl born without hearing abilities, Alexia, and a charming man, Mihai. She is a painter, with a gentle nature, used to the stigma of Society, due to her condition. He’s a lawyer, an intelligent guy, slightly superficial, and in love with
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Q. Congratulations Junshu Gu for being one of the Finalists in your movie All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking, but… at the Stockholm City Film Festival as a Best Experimental Film. We know that it was your debut project, would you like to tell us about your passion and motivation for your 1st
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Stranger in the Barn is a song and a music video directed by Rose Bush and Kirsten Bode and produced by Linnéa Andersson and Helena Windinghoff. The music video is based on a true experience, and the song tells the story of the incident. The main character is performing to explain the whole scenario. When
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Winner My 1st Documentary Osman Kurt, whose roof was destroyed after the earthquake of February 6th, 2023, gives his remaining birds as a gift to an excavator operator he met during the earthquake and takes refuge with his son in Istanbul. At the beginning of Ramadan, he decides to return to the Karaziyaret neighborhood in
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Winner Best Actor Short Film The day it was presented to a US corporation after the fall of the Soviet Union, the creator of the Laplace (an artificial intelligence project once backed by Gorbachev) mysteriously disappeared, and Laplace vanished into the internet. Decades later, Üstün, an eccentric hacker, finds Laplace. As Üstün tries to persuade
Winner Best Actress Short Film A rising actor reaches stardom by taking the method of acting harmfully seriously. Things escalate when he tries to teach others his way by forcing them to “be the role”.
Winner My 1st Feature Film Two social media personalities, on their last gasp of fame, kidnap a man to become Insta-famous.
Winner Best Screen Play When a meteor falls on a base on Mars and unveils a mysterious cave where aliens hide genetic research laboratories, commander Julius Favalli bypasses formal orders to investigate the hidden history of the bases of Mars and the reasons behind the aliens’ previous attack on the human colony. He then faces
Winner Best Child Actress Eleven-year-old Elsa would also like to start riding so that she could spend more time with her best friend Hedvig in the stable, but instead, Elsa often is home alone as her father quite often has to work late evenings. But then one day Elsa gets in touch with Anna online,
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Winner Best Drama Two sisters, separated by tragedy A grieving husband, haunted and devastated, is looking for answers. An innocent victim caught in the web of desperation. To what lengths would you go to bring back someone you love? In the grip of inconsolable loss, a young woman is driven to dark measures to reunite
Winner Best Short Documentary ALIGNED: Between The Sea And The Sky is a visually stunning and emotionally charged documentary that takes the audience on an awe-inspiring ski touring adventure in the majestic Lyngen Alps, high above the Arctic Circle. Amidst the pristine wilderness, Austrian freeride skier and filmmaker Sandra Lahnsteiner-Wagner and fellow skier and mountain
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Winner Best Actress Audience Choice The story of the post-pandemic effects through the lens of a teen family drama. Her battle didn’t end with the pandemic. It was just the beginning…
Winner Best Director Short Film spending all her time on it, even during daily activities and with friends. As she relentlessly searches for the perfect match, her desperation and depression intensify. Determined to attract more attention, she decides to change her appearance.
Winner Best Horror Film A desperate son turns to a pagan cult to help save his mother’s life while not realizing the menacing celestial forces beckoned by his own guilt.
Winner Best Animated Film Larisa, a curious girl, enters the house of the old hag, who has a crow as her ally, not imagining the consequences of her decision.
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Winner Best Short Film Charlotte receives a solemn phone call from her father, Henning. The time has come. A childhood promise resurfaces in her memory—a vow that if the light of life ever fades for him, she would assist him in his journey to the beyond, but not until “a hundred years” had passed. Charlotte
Winner Best Feature Documentary Julien Robichaud is 30 years old and lives in Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada. One day, on his smartphone, he comes across an impressive and tragic photo of a dead whale. The most shocking part…
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Winner Best LGBT Film In the mists of a breakup, ex-lovers meet up to have dinner in hopes of moving their relationship from romantic to platonic. As they sit down to share a meal, a topic arises that pours salt on old wounds. They fall into practiced habits of conflict and share their final fight
Winner Best Woman Filmmaker The film is about a ‘perfect student’ in an elite middle-class family who is asked to compete for the Honor Student Award. However, after discovering the secret of her parents, she gradually awakens to her own personal will and finally rebels against the hypocritical and pretentious adult world.
Winner Best Narrative Documentary Salima Kadaoui lives for stray dogs. The Moroccans with British roots live in Tangier, where there are about 33,000 stray dogs. For fear of rabies, dogs are killed in a cruel way in Morocco. Salima wants to put an end to this. To achieve this, she is constantly on duty and
Winner Best Director Short Film A young man makes his way in a corrupt territory and when someone is shot and killed, the townsfolk demand answers. Lies have been told, but the truth is in plain sight. Created with a vintage look in mind with a light sepia tone and grain added
Winner My 1st Short film The day it was presented to a US corporation after the fall of the Soviet Union, the creator of the Laplace (an artificial intelligence project once backed by Gorbachev) mysteriously disappeared, and Laplace vanished into the internet. Decades later, Üstün, an eccentric hacker, finds Laplace. As Üstün tries to persuade
Winner Best Cinematography. The massacre of the royal family launches a crusade for the killer, led by the dead king’s sister. Yet, the truth is sharper than it seems and slowly unravels as blades cross.
Winner Best Feature Film After twenty years, Ahmed his wife Souad, and their friend Rachid are supposed to spend a few peaceful days on the banks of the sea, under the sun, but it is not so. The specter of the past awaits them. The demon of the years of lead appears in the form
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Decay competed at the Stockholm City Film Festival for Best Experimental Film. Decay is an experimental and suspense film directed, produced, and written by Aditya Chowdhury. Synopsis! After coming home to a misplaced book on her reading chair, Vartika, a schoolteacher, becomes afraid of a stalker trying to gain entry into her and her husband’s
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Winner Best Short Film A cab driver who recently lost his son tries to talk about that to the people but no one listens.
Winner Best Director Short Film Best Cinematography. “Having been thrown out of Valhall, the city of the gods, that they attacked in their hubris – only a few Vikings are left in the world. Undead wraiths, once their friends, turned twisted and vengeful chasing them across the lands. When their chief Johan falls, it is
Winner Best Animated Film “Good Morning, I’m a Whore!” is an animated music video parody of the beloved song “Good Morning, Baltimore” from the musical “Hairspray.” The video stars the fabulous Drag Queen and sensation, Sherry Vine. In this hilarious and vibrant music video, Sherry Vine takes center stage to celebrate sex positivity and empowerment
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Winner Best Actor Short Film A northern teen learns the values of both fibers and family while pulling an all-nighter.
Winner Best Super Short Film A young gay man in a hospice has to come to terms with his imminent death in a conversation with a nursing nun.
Winner Best Actress Short Film Best LGBT Film Two siblings enjoy their Christmas morning by looking through childhood photos and memorabilia. But old memories can reveal new secrets.
Winner Best Music Video Bench Seat is based on a true story of many people’s lives but with some pretty intense details of the musician and actor (Chase Rice), as well as one of his best friends who almost killed himself 3 years ago. Thankfully, he didn’t go through with his thought of suicide because
Winner Best Screenplay A writer seeks refuge in a storm and finds it in a retired factory worker’s house. As the night continues things turn out to not be what they seem and the two with sinister plans try to outdo each other in a fight in order to exist and be free.
Winner Best Short Documentary “A World of Hurt: How Medical Malpractice Fails Everyone” is a compelling documentary that examines the devastating impact of medical malpractice on patients, doctors, and society as a whole. The film presents three powerful stories from the perspectives of patients and doctors who have been directly affected by medical malpractice.
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Winner Best Woman Filmmaker Best Feature Documentary Film In the documentary film “Sonja”, we witness the struggle of one man to survive in the camp. Prisoner Haris Hastor describes the days spent in captivity, torture, mistreatment, facing death, struggle, fear, powerlessness, and finally escape. Haris Hastor will tell the story of the struggle for a
Winner My 1st Documentary “Arkadaşloch – Nobody’s Problem” is an essay documentary film that tells the story of Özgür Kal who was deported from Germany to Turkey, and depicts his self-transformation from being the poster-child of failed integration to becoming a family-oriented business owner in Antalya. Based on Nilay Kılınç’s Ph.D. research, the documentary offers
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Winner Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film An aspiring influencer documents her journey to booking her first film; now she and the rest of the cast are trying to survive the film they were just cast in.
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Winner Best Actress Lorenzo has been ill for quite a long time. Serena, his girlfriend manages to support both, but she is on the edge. A moral cage enchains her life: but is she a prisoner of events, or of herself?
Winner Web/TV Series Spells Abound is an original fantasy, comedy series by Daisy Hickey. This is the pilot episode. Logline: In an ordinary Midwestern town, three witches and a rather eccentric were-lock are up to no good, while secretly living in the modern world. Episode 1 synopsis: Connie, Mary Sue, and Dez, the three witches
Winner Best Experimental Film After coming home to a misplaced book kept on her reading chair, Vartika, a schoolteacher, becomes afraid of a stalker trying to gain entry into her and her husband’s home. Her paranoia starts to spiral out of control after receiving anonymous messages of her house being recorded on video & her
Winner Best Drama What seems like another tedious flight for Divyansh, he encounters a beautiful Girl at the Airport, who lures him into her trap. As he realizes that whatever happening around him is paranormal and due to the Girl, he panics and manages to get himself out, but only to realize that he is
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Winner Best Animated Film “In a seemingly peaceful and completely abandoned world, the fairy Marie struggles with her loneliness which slowly but surely leads to insights into what it means to be on your own.” “BLOOM” is a dystopian fantasy/drama animated film about a plant-based fairy who lives in an abandoned world and must deal
Winner My 1st Short film Roberto, a psychiatrist who participated in the Chilean dictatorship, tries to leave his past behind, but his memory, fractured by those stormy moments, pushes him to a devastating outcome.
Winner Best Actress Feature Film A young screenwriter starts facing panic disorder and without telling anyone she gets through life in silence.
Winner Best Actress Audience Choice Eleni, 35, a Greek graphic designer, lives in Prague with her Canadian husband Carl, 42. After a random attack by a young man in Prague, Eleni experiences ongoing, unresolved trauma. She decides to go in search of her attacker, against the wishes of friends and family. Johan (18), raised in
Winner Best Horror Film A young couple trying to repair their marriage vacations in a secluded cabin to celebrate the new year after the wife’s recent release from a mental hospital. When the husband begins seeing inexplicable changes in his wife’s behavior he fears it’s signs of a relapse. Overshadowing the events is the town’s
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Winner Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Three Illegal immigrants living in the United States steal a bag full of money from a blind man who works for the mafia. They later discover that the money they stole is not the blind man’s but belongs to the mafia, which puts their life in danger.
Winner Best Actor Short Film A lyrical reminiscence of an innocent childhood friendship in Hong Kong in the 80s, when being kind to someone did not require a reason like today. Shing’s dad despises Chi, whom he regards as rude. Shing sights Chi, who suffers from polydactyly, being bullied by hooligans. He comforts Chi by
Winner Best Director Short Film. Michele is invisible, he always has been. Or at least, he wants himself to think he is. One night, at a party, meeting Riccardo, the most famous boy in his school, will finally lead him to be noticed. But at what price? A journey into the youthful undergrowth of the
Winner Best Actress Feature Film Sally (Nova Hellman) is a young filmmaker whose passion for moviemaking makes her want to create horror films together with her friend Laurie (Diana Makenzius) but Laurie seems to have problems with her aggressive boyfriend who even seems to be a real psycho. Sally wants to rescue her friend but
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Winner Web/TV Series After jail time, 12-step programs, and five marriages, Annie begins her acting career in her mid-fifties with the help of a young director she met at a Burger King. In this show within a show, Annie tackles both her gigs as an actor and the role of herself in her own life
Winner Best Short Documentary Winter swells, thundering waves, sharp reefs, paddling larger waves with guns, and the struggle and joy that comes with all of that. FIFTH TIDE shows the life of two women during the rough Portuguese winter season. It shows their connection to the ocean, waves, and nature, and how they found sisterhood
Winner Best Drama Tamás, the successful architect is compelled to do his work from home, so he has much more time to pay a lot more attention to himself and also to his surroundings. A couple is moving in next door. Being shut into his own home, listening to the conversations of the new neighbors
Winner Best Short Film The year is 2030 and the UN: ‘s climate deadline approaches. An imminent verdict looms large over the world. Meanwhile, Ivar and Mathilda are settling into their new, peaceful life in the countryside. Leaving the big city behind, they seek to learn more about becoming self-sustainable. Gertrud and her husband, Adam,
Winner Best Feature Documentary In a race against time, a man with a serious illness embarks on a fun-filled adventure to buy a Kombi van and explore the meaning of life. Joined by a mate in the search, he discovers that kombis are big business as they come into contact with a colourful array of
Winner COVID-19 FILM A couple had an unexpectedly close shave while in lockdown during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Winner Best Actress A woman wakes up in a cave and flees for her life when she realizes she`s not alone.
Winner Best Animated Film A woman with weird superpowers, a turtle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and a cloud with rain incontinence on an unusual journey to the depths of the ocean.
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Winner Best Music Video A visually stunning celebration of diverse dance styles fusing into harmony. Captivating choreography, mesmerizing synergy. Prepare for a spectacular journey where cultures unite through dance.
Winner Best Screenplay Best Cinematography Best Actor Feature Film A Zebra-Riding Boy is an exploration of the combination of literature and commerce. Also, it is the first film of the impressionism-southern author films, based on Su Tong’s novels Cavalryman and Paper. Poor bowlegged teenager Zuo Lin has a little dream of riding a horse in
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Winner Best LGBT film When Carl has to find somewhere to live after confessing to his wife he was gay, best mate Ali’s boyfriend Matt offers him his spare room After a boozy night the mens friendship takes on a new dimension after they share a drunken kiss… but actions have consequences Creep is the
Winner My 1st Documentary At the foot of the mountains in southern Anhui, China, surrounded by mountains, the ancient village is closely related to the mountains and rivers. With the implementation of the government’s rural revitalization plan, changes in the local area have followed. This time, we stepped into the local area and launched an
Winner Best Woman Filmmaker 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
Winner My 1st Short film An ordinary story of a successful and powerful woman who is a couples psychotherapist and has written a book on healthy relationships.
Winner Best Actress Short Film When fate brings them together on a mistaken date, two strangers discover a surprising connection amidst playful banter, revealing the universe’s unexpected agenda.
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Winner Best Experimental Film Rachel (in her thirties) is a lawyer. Adopted daughter of a large family of magistrates appointed by Maxime (Michel Bouquet), ruthless and strange prosecutor. Despite this heavy family atmosphere, she has not left the world of recklessness.
SCFF. Congratulations,Tata Feodoridi and Konstantin Frolov, on the win of your movie The Way at the Stockholm City Film Festival as a debut feature film. Our jury appreciates your work, and we wish you more success. Tell us more about your background, education, birthplace, etc ? Tata: I am Tata Feodoridi – a professional psychologist
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Winner Best Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Best Director Feature Film A rejected husband. A beautiful stranger. A dangerous liaison. For two couples enjoying a spectacular Egyptian adventure, treachery, and deception cruise the Nile along with them.
Winner Best Feature Documentary Three refugees are caught in the crosshairs following the U.S. military’s sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan. Fleeing for their lives, they are transported to Qatar and stationed in the most paradoxical of refugee camps — a luxury compound built for guests of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. A female boxer, a journalist,
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Winner My 1st Feature film A film Director is facing financial difficulties as the banks are trying to seize his house for an old family loan.
Winner Best Horror Film Set in the highlands of Scotland and Northern England, a disgraced scientist develops a hair growth formula derived from pickled wolfsbane which turns him into a bloodthirsty werewolf.
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Winner Best Actor Short Film Best Director Short Film. Old man Márton lives in a charming village in the hills, but he doesn’t get along well with his fellow villagers. After an accident in the nearby power plant, he is left on his own in the village and has to adapt to this new situation.
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Winner Best Animated Film Cath, the Tailor, suffers workplace politics and more, in this comic update of the Grimm fairy tale.
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Winner Best Actress Audience Choice A man is holding a girl captive in his basement, chained to a wall. Her name is Alice, a mime he used to watch on stage as a spectator. She is forced to wear clown makeup, the same as a character from a movie her captor is obsessed with. He
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Winner Best Actress Short Film A woman struggles with depression after the birth of her baby, questioning her life choices and place in the world.
Winner Best Short Documentary Eight African women retrace the violence they suffered, the abandonment, the discrimination, and the journey of redemption toward a free and autonomous life, with the help of other women.
Winner Best Short Film Best Drama ‘I Got You’, is a Short Film that aims to portray that is alright to be different and abnormal from everyone else. People will judge and see you based on how they view you, but It does not define who you are. The feeling of being lost,
Winner Best Actor Martin lives socially isolated and suffers from obsessive-compulsive neuroses. After the passing of both his parents, he decides to renovate his childhood home. An old acquaintance is supposed to help him…
Winner Girl on the Beach is a dance between reality and our thoughts of memories that at times haunt us and add to the emotional burden that we carry along our journey of life. We all go through this ordeal dance of life and at times we find it difficult to move forward in our
Winner Best Actress (SWEDISH) The director, a grounded mother figure, spends the day supporting and comforting the troubled youngsters in the children’s theater group that she leads. But when she is left alone at the theater in the evening, she is forced to challenge her own fears.
Winner Best Woman Filmmaker Best Experimental Film A young woman is tormented by the presence of an ex. She tries to move on but it seems to be the hardest thing she has ever faced.
Winner Best LGBT Film Sandra and Barbara are enjoying a day at the beach with their partners in 1962. The night before they all went out to a nightclub. The men bonded, as well as the women, albeit in very different fashions.
Winner Best Super Short Film In a flat, at number 13 on the street, a man’s life is paced by the seasons. Everything topples one weird winter morning as he forgets his keys.
Winner My 1st Short film A Sci-Fi mystery set in past, present and future Shanghai, where a brilliant young woman, who is marked by a previous tragedy, comes across an enigmatic device, that is going to change her life forever.
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Winner Web/TV Series In a chic neighborhood of Roubaix in northern France, Anne-Catherine, a whimsical fifty-something of aristocratic origin, finds herself without an income and improvises a flat-sharing arrangement with Inès, a 25-year-old sports coach, and Louise, a 38-year-old divorcee with a passion for housecleaning. Sharing territory and habits, but also household and sentimental setbacks
Winner Best Music Video A music video/short portraying the so-called “epidemic” of gang violence & hip-hop in Sweden. Where we get to follow a teenager that lives within the street codes of the ghetto culture. Things go out of hand, and he shifts between the vision of a demonic society and the dark reality that
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Winner Best Music Video SEE is about a boy who doesn’t feel well in the dirty and polluted world around him. He decides to jump on his bike. His journey ends up in France, just like Vincent van Gogh. Where he starts seeing the true colors of the Earth and starts painting on his iPad.
Winner Best Cinematography just to catch a glimpse of the starry sky, Wei-Guang Zhao frequently braves cold nights in the mountains. His determination is respected by his peers, yet his family cannot relate. To Zhao, every star chart embodies the marvels of the universe across time and space. Have you ever wondered what it feels
Winner Best Feature Documentary Film The TRANSFORMATION Movie Doc is a full-feature movie documentary produced by Sierra Health and Wellness Centers. This dramatic true-life story intertwines the lived experience of 5 individuals who have fought their way back from addiction and triumphed over darkness and despair. This life-changing 90-minute feature film reveals the depths to
Winner Best Director Feature Film Jack, a simple farmhand sets out to make a name for himself, ending up on the trail of a buried treasure. Unfortunately, he’s been impersonating the infamous outlaw “Bloody” Ben Harris. Now, he will need all his friends to help him outwit Harris, find the treasure, and return to his
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Winner Best Screen Play A London-based Singer has a vivid dream about a gorgeous mystery man. She goes to a Danish Film Club and sees him on screen. He’s the lead actor. The next day she finds herself in a bookshop reading about the theory of Twin Flames. She decides she must find a way
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Winner My 1st Feature film In the near future, the family planning clinic Family First can predict virtually anything about a child’s future – not just about the health, but about the personality, academic accomplishments, social factors, and whether it will get into any serious trouble. This makes parents far more capable of finding their
Winner Best Actress (SWEDISH) An unknown visitor appears on an island where best friends Julia and Kajsa spend the weekend. An event triggers a night of fear and survival.
Winner Best Experimental Film Narcissistic failing playwright Sullivan Foster, former Alaskan, is recovering from a brutal break-up with her boyfriend in a haunted London apartment, not the best of retreats. Creepy soft-tissue body parts are appearing all over town; time-traveling unsavory colonizing characters of Gold-Rush-era Alaska converge on London in search of fresh meat.
Winner Best Short Documentary The film tells the stories of several people connected by the tragedy in Bucha, which took place during the Russian occupation near Kyiv in March and April 2022. We find the heroes at the point where the first “dust” of the drama unfolding before the eyes of the world has already
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Winner Best Screen Play After a grueling COVID lockdown, Tess exists Australia to the USA on what should have been the trip of a lifetime …but after she meets her love interest in person, things take an unexpected turn.
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Winner Best Super Short Film After the court system fails him, the father takes matters into his own hands. A one-shot micro short film.
Winner Best Actress When a lonely man, a fashion photographer, meets the sweetheart of his youth, from whom he separated under the pressure of his Oedipal mother, he is attacked by fragments of past memories and does everything he can to realize the love of his life, doubt in the dream – doubt in reality,
Winner My 1st Documentary Fleeing from the persecution of a tyrannical Russian czar to the desolate fields of a new world, forty-three families traveled across the ocean in 1882 and founded the first successful Jewish farming colony in America. Over the next few decades, more than 300 other immigrant families would join them.
Winner My 1st Short film A coming of age story about Miles Davidson and his girlfriend Callie. Miles must overcome his current and past obstacles to get to a better future. Callie doesn’t know if she should stay or leave Miles behind. A film about living in the moment and not dwelling on the past
Winner Best Animated Film A necromantic love story set in a zombie/alien apocalypse.
Winner Best Short Film Best Director Short Film Best Actress Audience Choice Out beyond the dark woods sits a lone house, the home of Nero. He’s a violent man, a petty tyrant who rules with abuse and fear. For ten years, Dolly has lived in terror, growing more and more resigned each day. Her reason
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Winner Best Drama When his parents Michael and Sarah quarrel, Nils runs away from home and is hit by a car. As a result, the boy is in a coma. It is just before Christmas and the doctors give little hope that the boy will ever wake up again.
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Winner Best Feature Film Discovered in the Longido Mountain of Tanzania is the largest ruby stone known to mankind. Believed to possess mystical powers, it was lost during the 18th Century. Many years later the mystical ruby stone resurfaces within the Republic of Njuana. Notorious hitman Elijah is given the chance to exonerate himself and
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Winner Web/TV Series Two seemingly unconnected strangers are trapped in a dystopian underground fight circuit headed by the New World Order. They develop a relationship that is ultimately challenged by their need for survival.
Winner Best Actress Short Film Louisa a pregnant woman, goes to visit her mother after having been away for a while. Through this interaction, a difficult secret from the past emerges again explaining why this mother and daughter have been separate for so long. clear
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Winner Best LGBT FILM Love and soul mate are divine and we have no choice in it ….we find love but often can’t recognize it and wander around in search of love…when actually it is very near…..just we need to have the courage to listen to our heart.
Stranger in the Woods competed at the Stockholm City Film Festival and won three major categories! Best Actress Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Cinematography Trailer Stranger in the Woods is an incredible film directed by Adam Newacheck, and written by Holly Kenny. It demonstrates that friends may occasionally pose actual threats in addition
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Sonder is a short fiction movie that is directed by Davide Picci, and he is also the writer of Sonder. The synopsis gives a clear hint to the theme of this movie. Synopsis! Through a unique lens, “Sonder” follows a cinematographer’s journey as she grapples with the loss of her eyesight while striving to maintain
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Winner Best Experimental Film What if the Trumps never left the White House but are secretly existing in the hidden chambers buried deep below the building, in the belief that they will one day return? What did it take to prop up Donald and his authoritarian demands? Always believing she has an audience Melania lives
Winner Best Woman Filmmaker, Best Actress Doctor Harriet, a well-known TV presenter is under pressure to find a new topic for her next show. Her assistant Inge has been tasked with finding suitable “subjects”. These are people who feel the need and have an urgent desire to change their lives. They are given the opportunity
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Winner Best Super Short Film Returning home late at night after class, a woman finds her partner at the mercy of a desperate burglar.
Winner Best Actress Short Film In the near future, we meet Frida (22), who undergoes a brain implant – a Neurolink. The chip communicates with her in the form of a voice inside her head, helping her towards a happier life. For a while, she lives without worries as she unquestioningly follows the voice’s advice.
Winner Best Feature Documentary Melody, Stella, and Lucia are three women from three different countries; they all have their own views of life and have already given birth. The documentary UNSEEN captures their stories that open up the controversial topic of childbirth trauma that has been rejected by society. Showing real births, the topic of
Winner Best Cinematography Feature Film Returning to Iran after many years in exile in Finland, Sam (Ramin Sohrab) finds that he has not yet escaped his past. A shady figure kidnaps his wife Emma (Jessica Wolff) in order to drag him into a violent scheme for revenge. But Sam is a relentless fighting machine who
Winner Best Horror Film The world has been devastated and ravaged by an unforeseen epidemic. In the mountains, in an Eden-like little world, three young adults resist the invasion of the living dead by blocking access to the valley. They are completely isolated from the rest of the world and manage to get on with
Winner Best Woman Filmmaker Dying Twice is a documentary film that talks about a woman and a girl as they talk about their experiences in the prisons of the Houthi militia, where they were kidnapped, arrested, imprisoned, and tortured psychologically and physically, and how they heard the screams and moans of women in other wards…
Winner My 1st Feature Film Upon visiting the cabin in the woods, the young couple is terrorized all night by evil intruders.
Winner Best Short Documentary A journey of three young women learning to skydive, while overcoming anxiety, depression, and personal loss. Follow the fear-filled first jumps, to the thrills of freefall, on the emotional ride of their…
Winner Best Animated Film How do you go on living when everything is taken from you in the blink of an eye? A true story of a young artist who confronts his inner demons while apprenticing with a northwest totem carver after the death of his beloved.
Winner Web/TV Series Live To Farm is a brand new show on Discovery Chanel that follows some of the top farmers of America, from the planting season through harvest. These farming families teach the general public about what goes on behind the scenes on a successful farm while enjoying the dynamics at play within a
Winner My 1st Documentary The Ocean’s Stewards is an ode to the ocean. It examines the love of a group of people living in Hawaii, surfers and divers alike, who call the ocean their home and aim to protect it. The movie calls us to re-examine our connections with nature. Moreover, the movie takes us
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Winner Best Actress (SWEDISH) 21-year-old Sofia is torn between her love for her religious little sister and her longing for something bigger.
Winner Best Feature Film, Best Director Feature Film, Best Actor Feature Film After the death of his parents, young Siji Martin finds himself displaced to his Aunty Iyabo’s home as a “houseboy” in Lagos, Nigeria. Siji struggles to fit in with his peers at his new school who refer to him as “garbage”. Luckily, he
Winner Best Cinematography Haunted by her past life, Alice Burman begins to lose touch with reality; until a series of dreams and familiarities lead her to believe she might be on to something. In the search to dig up the truth about her past, Alice finds she is being watched by people who will stop
Winner Best Actress Feature Film Clara Von Holst, mother of composer Gustav Holst strikes up an unlikely friendship that helps her come to terms with the dreams she has left behind.
Winner Best Actor Short Film. Phil, a young shepherd, doesn’t want to take part in the Second World War. However, like all the young people in 1943, he has to go to his ‘Service du Travail Obligatoire’ (Compulsory Work Service) in Germany. He hasn’t shown up and he is now considered as a recusant. Alone,
Winner Best Director Short Film A dad and a stepdad battle out their rivalry in a good night story they tell their daughter, turning it into an epic and chaotic sci-fi adventure.
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Winner Best Short Film, Best Supporting Actress 2020 – Corona regulations prohibit prostitution. Brothels are closing. Like many sex workers, Martha, Elena, and Toni are forced to offer themselves on the street, where the defenselessness of the women is mercilessly exploited. Trust in the state and the police seem to have been extinguished, so the
Winner Best LGBT Film, My 1st Short film Ingeborg(Eva Jin), meets Alfred (Oliver Due), in this magic-realistic story of accepting the loss of a parent.
The year is 1984 in a small sleepy town in New York City. The former mayor of the city was found dead in the backseat of his car with a local 15-year-old girl. In the aftermath, his wife of 30 years and his adopted daughter have to make sense of this difficult situation, while a
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To Conceal a Crime is a Swedish short film. written, produced, and directed by Henric Hammarslätt. The movie begins with one of the main characters in deep thought and busy cleaning a bird’s skin. The suspense is created by another man coming to him and telling him about his father’s critical health condition. and they
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Winner My 1st Short film, Best Actor Short Film. A young couple grapples with illness and intimacy at the edge of a mysterious lake, all while something sinister calls out to them on the other side of the water…
Winner Best Feature Film, Best Director Feature Film Behind Gates is the story of a young girl “Bih” who faces a tragedy on the eve of her wedding: a violent encounter between her fiancé and rival which causes the death of her parents forcing Bih to flee from the village to the city for safety.
Winner Best Actress Short Film A young couple’s marriage is put to the test when the wife seeks the guidance of a fortune teller. As the husband struggles with his fear of losing her, he finds himself drawn to a prostitute. As the couple begins to realize the underlying truth of their relationship and their
Winner Best Experimental Film When the umbilical cord is cut between Rouge and her child, she struggles with an empty gut feeling, the loneliness that triggers anxious tension. Rouge conducts an inner dialogue with Mieke Moes, the other Rouge in her head. She helps Rouge through her dark moments and loneliness. Her psychiatrist penetrates her
Winner Best Drama Every weekend, Anne and Jeff go to the Mettet motorcycle circuit. A racing pilot, Jeff is training. Anne takes his lap times. Occasionally, at the Au Circuit café, she negotiates bitterly on the phone the lending of the motorbike. Anne’s gaze then meets that of Jacques, a client who, like his sidekick
Winner Best Actress Feature Film, Best Actor Feature Film, Best Cinematography After surviving a traumatic event, Liv’s friends take her on a weekend trip to the woods. When her dog suddenly disappears, the relaxing weekend begins to unravel, as does everyone’s sanity.
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Winner Best Music Video The music video was written and directed by Seoul-based director Young-Wook Paik. Starring Choi Yu-Hwa and Kim Si Heon, the video is a cinematic poetic riddle, in which the heroine slowly realizes her place in time – as she struggles to see that she’s stuck in a loop of a dying
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Winner My 1st Feature film A powerful story of economic migration between rural and urban Mexico. Soledad is a matriarch and traditional healer whose daughter Adele left their village to work in Mexico City leaving behind her infant son. Years later, Soledad and her grandson Jose share a strong bond rooted in their love of
Winner Best Short Film Through a unique lens, “Sonder” follows a cinematographer’s journey as she grapples with the loss of her eyesight while striving to maintain her artistic vision.
Winner Best Feature Documentary In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera makes her historic debut in one of the reddest states in the U.S.
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Winner Best Actress (Swedish) In an acting world filled with clichés, two struggling artists find real drama in repetition. A short comedy drama about failing, over and over, and still keeping going.
Winner Best Screen Play A cunning man conceals a love affair so professionally that it exposes the lovers to being terminally vulnerable. Justin Bennet is exceptionally clever but he may just have a blind spot when it comes to realizing who his adversaries are.
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Winner Best Child Actor OLYMPIQUE tells the story of ASB Olympique, a professional basketball club. We follow its new owner Theo, who at only 21, succeeds his recently deceased father as the head of the club.
Winner My 1st Documentary, COVID-19 FILM We are at the beginning of summer 2021, at the dawn of the fourth wave of Covid-19. Witnessing the work of the medical and non-medical staff of three hospitals near Paris, France (Aulnay-Sous-Bois, Montreuil, and Le Raincy-Montfermeil.) Through their eyes, their testimonies, and their memories, we remember the life
Winner Short Narrative I can’t go on, I must go on, I will go on! “If they tell you, you can’t don’t believe them,” says Biba May, a young woman who has suffered from progressive muscular dystrophy since age seven, and is haunted by the memories of war in Kosovo. While her body is deteriorating,
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Winner Best Actress After a bank robbery doesn’t go exactly as planned, a crew of five picks a last-minute safehouse to lay low with their take and a hostage. But the safe house isn’t so safe… Greed & Gore, a film by Adam Kirkey, is a mash of horror and thriller, with practical effects that
Winner Best Short Documentary “We will have been thought.” The work of a whole year: in one minute it was blowing away from the stage – what now? It´s going on! A proposal for being together with and in the world.
Winner Best Actress Audience Choice Tama and Itsuki wrote the divorce papers. One day, the two invite each other’s “special someone” and hold a lunch. I thought it would be a scene of carnage, but the meal ended peacefully. There was only coffee time left, but one person’s true intentions spilled out…
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Winner Best Feature Film The year is 1984, in a small sleepy town in upstate New York. The former mayor of the city is found dead in the backseat of his car with a local 15-year-old girl. In the aftermath, his wife of 30 years and his adopted daughter have to make sense of this
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Winner Best Feature Documentary Sven Yrvind became legendary in the late 70s for being the most eccentric boatbuilder and fearless sailor of his time. At the age of 80, Yrvind is building his one-meter-wide sailing boat, which he will sail around the world. Madness according to many, but Yrvind himself believes he is one of
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Winner Best Short Documentary Trauma experienced by a seven-year-old sets him on a course to become a civil rights legend and change the course of a nation.
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Winner My 1st Feature film After 10 years in an orphanage, young Laura grows up with the wealthy Faun family and years later becomes a bestselling author. She continues to live in her parent’s house in a small town because she likes the idyllic life very much. But when suddenly her neighbors are murdered and
Winner Best Director Short Film In August 2014 Isis attacks the city of Shingal and the villages surrounding it, while Haider and 21 members of his family are escaping the terrorists, something happens that drastically changes the course of their lives. in a double narrative fractured storyline, Haider must choose a path.
Winner My 1st Documentary Our world has lost too many traditional art forms. “Pain of Silence” thoughtfully captures the struggles of five traditional Thai artists whose existence has been further threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Director Christopher Janwong McKiggan, a Thai-English filmmaker and classical pianist, and co-director Poomphong Kumwong, a Thai traditional musician and filmmaker,
Winner Best Drama In an acting world filled with clichés, two struggling artists find real drama in repetition. A short comedy drama about failing, over and over, and still keeping going.
Winner Best Short Film Best Cinematography After being hand selected for a secret CSIS mission, Adam is thrown into an impossible scenario that leaves him in a ‘1-on-1’ with the world’s first fully Artificial Intelligent supercomputer.
Winner Best Web/TV Series 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 offbeat hilarious comedy about a young man who after inheriting a house, let his love interest and others move
Winner My 1st Short film A close interrogation in a police station. A detective grills a psychoanalyst suspected of homicide on one of her patients. The exchanges are tough and leave no doubt as to the guilt of the suspect. Manipulation, power grab, the game of seduction… but what is the true stake of this
Winner Best Actress Audience Choice A mother goes on the run when the debt she owes a Demon comes due. Once caught, she finds out that the Demon has added a diabolical penalty to the debt and her own daughter may now be at risk.
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Winner Best Super Short Film Anna is in a toxic relationship. She wanders the streets of Rouen in search of a solution to free herself from it. But is she even capable of it?
Winner Best Animated Film The story of Orpheus takes the Greek myth and focuses on the sense of loss and guilt. Only in this story rather than being a musician Orpheus is an artist, an artist trapped in his studio with a fading memory of his lost love – but nightly he is pestered and
Winner Best Actress Patricia received the devastating news that Monique had been killed by a rival gang member. Devastated and filled with grief, Patricia vowed to seek revenge on the woman who had taken her true love away from her.
Winner Best Actress Feature Film COVID-19 FILM A woman finds herself homeless a few months into the pandemic. When she finds out about an empty vacation home she moves into it only to find that she is not alone.
Winner Best Actor Short Film. Holger lives alone in his apartment. When 60 years younger Anna moves into the same stairwell, he invites her to a Sunday dinner. What first appears to be a nice dinner is gradually changing into something else. Sunday Roast is about mental disorders and revolves around the conflict between curiosity,
Winner Best Experimental Film In a world where fake news and information overload are on the rise, mental health problems and sleeping disorders have become a pandemic. Are you scared? So are we. And we are ready for change. But where do we turn for answers? Introducing “My Gift” – a movie that takes an
Winner Best Actress Short Film A conversation between two friends takes an unexpected turn during a night out to the topic of the appropriate reaction to someone’s death. As random as the topic may seem it’s more current to one character than the other.
Winner Best Music Video The music video for the song Krokodiltårar (Crocodile Tears) by Swedish artist Mäki.
Winner Best Actress Best Supporting Actress When Bea’s date cancels 15 minutes before their date after weeks of planning, Bea has had enough. Bea asks her bff Maria for help, to teach Eduardo a lesson. Unfortunately, things don’t go as smoothly as Bea had planned.
Winner Best Actress Short Film One evening, in a luxurious building in the center of Paris, an armed woman bursts into the apartment of Adriano Rizzo, an actor who exploits his status to abuse young actresses. Later, the mysterious woman reveals her identity: Hélène de Saint-Amand, owner of the apartment. She intends to kill him
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Winner Best Screenplay The Fate of Cysalion is a three-hour live-action musical that blurs the line between film and theatre. It is the centerpiece of a fantasy saga that tells an epochal story of heroes, villains, and ancient powers. The story takes place in a distant place called Cysalion. In 1898, the boy Tayen Knightway
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Winner Best Animated Film The surreal experiences of Yellow Dove in his bunker within the world of Hour Blue…
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Winner Best Super Short Film A young model recounts her meeting with a photographer with whom she will live a love story. She becomes his muse. We discover the photographic work of this man who will strain their relationship and turn into oppression.
Winner Best Music Video The album film follows the narrative of a fictional expedition of five Antarctic explorers. Their expedition dwells between anthropocentric approaches of measuring and data collecting and the futility of such explorations. Pieces of ice are examined for microorganisms, distances are measured, and soil and water samples are taken, but what the
Winner Best Experimental Film A dance piece for the film. International collaboration with the dance artists and playwrights Lars Noren and Falk Richter who have shared their texts… Where do I belong Who am I…?
Winner Best Horror Film Beauty Lyuba is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Her relationship with her husband has come to a standstill – she is tired of enduring bullying and insults, but cannot find the strength to leave. Together with her friends, Lyuba goes on a retreat in the Russian outback, where shamans
Winner My 1st Feature film After a series of calls from an anonymous blackmailer and nude photos sent to their house, Zhao Hanxue’s husband becomes violent toward the headstrong doctor. Subsequently, their daughter runs away from home and her whereabouts are unknown. Can Zhao Hanxue overcome the blackmailer and escape the spiral of violence? And
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Winner Best Feature Film Best Director Feature Film The story revolves around the ‘Ghadar Movement’, when Indian freedom fighters were putting their lives at risk to overthrow British rule and attain freedom. On the other hand, Britishers had put them all on their hit list. Freedom fighters were not only afraid of getting caught but
Winner My 1st Documentary Women’s bodies are widely neglected by the health care system due to a male bias. The chronic disease endometriosis is an example of women who are silenced and stigmatized within the medical encounter…
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Winner Best Actor Feature Film Priya in her fifth month of pregnancy expresses the desire to move back to India and Sid obliges as he sees this as an opportunity to move past his dark secret relationship. The couple throws a big bash before the day of travel to their friends and families/ Sid wakes
Winner Best Short Documentary What happens when you can no longer practice the profession that is part of your identity? You Can’t Stop the Music is a portrait of today’s Afghanistan, where life in the shadow of the Taliban can at times seem surreal. Akbar Adeli was a music student at Kabul University when the
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Winner Best LGBT film Emily befriends Imogen online which is the start of a relationship that takes an unexpected course leaving Emily in the dark…
Winner My 1st Short film Three educated (and bored) twenty-somethings are working a dead-end job in a gas station. Their futures are grim. When a group of bank robbers turn up fresh from a heist and fresh out of fuel, things get a bit more interesting.
Winner Best Drama When expecting the perfect day at the office, life takes a different direction for a long-time employee.
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Winner Best Feature Documentary This documentary depicts the theme of “hidden poverty” that occurred in spite of Japan’s rapid economic growth in such a short period of time immediately following World War II. The film covers the suffering and hardships of single mothers, which has never been depicted before, from various angles, and unravels the
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Winner Best Covid-19 Film Best Actress Audience choices The story of the post-pandemic effects through the lens of a teen family drama. Surviving the pandemic is easy, What comes after can be devastating.
Winner Best Short Film October 20th 1918 – The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, WWI Enlisted TOMMY ATKINS is not cut out for war. He is nearly paralyzed by fear, yet he is ushered into battle, where he gets shot in the abdomen. He is dragged into safety by his brother, HARRY ATKINS. Harry patches him up and
Winner Best Actress Feature Film Richard Martin (Shaji Edward) is a wealthy businessman and a successful Indo-American writer. His daughter Jenifer Martin (Hannah Areechira), is a college-going girl with a cheery disposition who is known for being street-smart and for having a positive outlook in life…
Winner Best Director Short Film Best Cinematography A Father and Daughter try to survive hidden in a house in a country at war…
Winner Best Feature Documentary At the gates of the Negev desert, a group of young Palestinians fights against the Israeli military occupation. “Youth of Sumud” – the youth of steadfast perseverance – try to return to their people the land that was taken from their families, restructuring the ancient cave village of Sarura. They face
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Winner Best Actress Short Film A woman living with enormous loss, and a mysterious room full of plants, have her isolated existence punctuated by a maintenance worker who arrives to fix her TV. They spend a life-changing day together, as they enter a space of ruthless honesty, where lies and performances are no longer needed,
Winner Best Experimental Film A young man named Johan works for the Swedish government and creates permits so the government can sell protected lands. Johan thinks a lot, he always wants to do a good job, act right, and wants to be considered right in other eyes. He is awaiting a bonus that he has
Winner My 1st Feature film After the death of her father, young scientist Ana fights with an identity crisis, being the last member of one big family. The changes inside her suddenly reflect in reality – loneliness, crisis, emigrations – and her scientific research of mystical symbols and human traces left in a stone mysteriously
Winner Best Animated Film A young man from Afghanistan is detained for the murder of an imam in Sweden. The media is talking about hate crimes because a month earlier a gay man was brutally murdered. There had been a similar murder in Dubai with the same type of murder weapon just over a year
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Winner Best Drama A man tries to make justice. The mission is complicated by feelings other than revenge.
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Winner Best Actress Feature Film Ferris is trying to write a novel and one night a Woman crawls out from under his bed and they seem to recognize each other. She tells him that she is here for a purpose but he won’t get the answer till morning.
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Winner My 1st Documentary A short documentary on the challenges that modern-day film composers face and how they master the craft.
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Winner My 1st Short film A young man struggling with fatherhood adopts the role of the father he never knew to comfort his mother in her final days…
Winner Best Short Documentary The parallel daily life of two young women, a customer success manager, and a shepherdess, in their work environment that everything seems to oppose.
Winner Best Director Feature Film A woman returns to a remote forest to avenge the death of her sister…
Winner Best Super Short Film Style Dayne, the Pizza Guy from Deadpool stars as a foreign extremist from Amadajiya, who accidentally chooses Halloween to enact a moment of terror. To his surprise, he discovers that North American life and culture are truly special, unique, and sweet.
Winner Best Actor Feature Film After purchasing a house, Allyson and her fiancé Eric decide to rent out the guest house to cover the cost of some expenses. Josh arrives willing to put up a hefty rent for a short stay and appears to be the perfect tenant. But soon after, Josh’s behavior makes the
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Winner Best Actor Short Film 1944. Somewhere in occupied Central Europe. A multicultural triangle between a shepherd boy and two officers from opposite sides in a sensual and emotional Alpine story of two tunes and one whistle.
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Winner Best Music Video There are stories where the old dance Melkutus was danced for many days and nights. Once a young woman had been dancing Melkutus for three days and nights and eventually died. Some people saw devils’ or horses’ legs among the dancers. A maid, coming home from the dance, had one time
Winner Best Actress Two sisters are on their way to their grandmother to deliver a pie to her on Easter Sunday. But everything doesn’t seem to go as they had planned.
Winner Best LGBT Film This story clearly depicts the real struggle of a transgender. It shows his journey from childhood to becoming MLA, where he brutally went through many parameters. He was extremely tortured by family members, starve for many days, locked in a room and finally they kicked him out of his house in
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Movie Review, Gaganachari Gaganachari is a sci-fi mockumentary in a dystopian future where the existing stranglehold of a hostile socio-political climate rattles civilization. The story focuses on the lives of three bachelors who reside in an apocalypse bunker whose lives get turned upside down when a visitor from a far-off planet enters their domicile. The
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Winner Best Experimental Film “TechNous” is about the power of tech money to change the nature of the sibling rivalry between two immigrant brothers, where the struggling liberal arts Professor undergoes a moral transformation as he sees his brother make it big in Silicon Valley.
Winner Best Screen Play Set in a small fishing village, Mick, a local trawlerman has to face his loneliness when the global pandemic reaches Ireland’s shores. A call out of the blue that there is a positive case on the trawler forces Mick to isolate. Battling repressed demons, an irritable Mick struggles with lockdown boredom
Winner Best Actress Here is my short film called Baa Baa Black Sheep. It is a true story that happened to my grandmother in 1946 in Norway. It might be a hard film to watch for some. But I needed to tell the story. My grandmother went into a mental institution, twice because of what
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Winner Best Drama “Julia” is a little story about loss and loneliness, told only with images and music.
Winner COVID-19 FILM Gaganachari is a sci-fi mockumentary that takes place in a dystopian future where civilization is rattled by the existing stranglehold of a hostile socio-political climate. The story focuses on the lives of three bachelors who reside in an apocalypse bunker whose lives get turned upside down when a visitor from a far-off
Winner Best Super Short Film A girl trapped in the city dreams of climbing the highest peaks.
Winner Best Actress Feature Film What happens when two broken people meet? David has just been left by his wife after they’ve been trying to have children for years. Sandra has managed to escape from her abusive boyfriend. David and Sandra’s paths cross, and David brings Sandra back home to take care of her injuries.
Winner Best Actor Short Film Time is on its last sign of life, the end of the world is near. The last three living immortals are battling it out. Only one immortal can be in control to keep the balance of time. So life can carry on to exist.
Winner Best Animated Film Balloom is a fourth-year thesis film about a Clown who struggles to accept the inevitable demise of his balloon animals but gains a new perspective on life thanks to those around him. It is a heartfelt story about the importance of appreciating the present and coming to terms with the difficulties
Winner Best Short Documentary The rhythm of the Donkey (2022) by Caitlin Long introduces Casimiro Rodriguéz, a high-profile Madrid banker turned humble donkey farmer. This documentary short invites an examination of our choices around personal happiness, life fulfillment, and whether we are truly the masters of our own time. This is her debut film.
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Winner My 1st Feature Film A dark abandoned fortress, somewhere in the Netherlands. Brian, an expat from New York, is composing the ultimate love letter in an effort to win back his lost love. The obsessive Brian fights against the demons in his head, but it turns out he is not alone in the fortress.
Winner Best Director Short Film Monika meets her daughter Sara for the first time in almost twenty years.
Winner Best Music Video The ‘Fight For Me’ music video concept was born out of a love for film and pays homage to iconic scenes in cinema history. Set in an abandoned warehouse in a Zimbabwean township, a group of children resourcefully recreate memorable movie scenes using nothing but their imaginations and creativity. Their wildly
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Winner Best Cinematography A young girl’s small-town holiday tradition is canceled due to the pandemic, yet a dream arises that promises to reinvent their shuttered hopes.
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Winner Best Actress Short Film Her kayak, a cold river, and the wilderness. Will she live up to her high expectations and overcome her doubts? A young woman on a turbulent journey.
Winner Best Short Film Rosy is a girl that lives at the margins of society, sold by her family to a man with a dream of a better life but in the end, he only takes advantage of her. She is desperately searching for love and to be loved; her immense need for redemption in
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Winner Best Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Director Feature Film THE MAGIC is a holiday love story about a dispirited attorney, David Kane (Kristos Andrews), who due to a tragic loss in his childhood, has given up on the ‘Christmas spirit’ and closes his heart for good. Now, with the help of his
Winner My 1st Short film A middle-aged woman lives all by herself in a big house. She is obsessed with washing her hands and always talks to someone using an old wireless phone.
Winner 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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Winner Best Short Film Sandra is a struggling single mom. But today, she holds her revenge. Her son Ryan will catch the pompon!
Winner Best Actress Short Film How do we best nurture a beautiful relationship? Bub and Rabbit enjoy a dynamic and spontaneous relationship full of intense love, adventurous travel, earth-shattering sex, fiery arguments, and profound connection. So what happens when Rabbit insists on moving in?
Winner Best LGBT Film Marcelo, is a 12-year-old boy who seeks to achieve his only dream, free himself and free his mother from a punishment imposed by a sexist society, but his only executioner, HIS FATHER, he (Marcelo) with the support of a strange stranger fills himself with courage and raises his voice before his
Winner Best Super Short Film Lubna is in search of true love. She is counting on the cards to tell her the right future.
Winner My 1st Short film The main figures of the playing cards come to life in this short fiction through a flash-back game that, starting from a bag snatch leads us to an unexpected and unconventional ending.
Winner Best Feature Film Guthlee, the son of a poor sweeper, has a dream – to go to school. But the obstacle is his caste. A headmaster is sympathetic to him but powerless against caste discrimination. When they develop an unspoken bond, Guthlee’s dream sees hope.
Winner Best Horror Movie Best Director Feature Film Torn between the time at home with her loving but needy and jealous mom, Hannah, self-sacrificingly chooses her mom over her new friends. When Hannah’s flirt, Andy, is found shot to death, Hannah is unwilling to share any information with the local sheriff’s department on the nature
Winner Best Cinematography John, a Maltese student with big dreams and a serious lack of sleep has had a busy and exhausting last couple of days. It all takes a toll on him one night whilst driving home from work. His going missing affects a series of coincidental events on the night of the tragedy.
Winner My 1st Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Based upon Henrik Ibsen’s famous play, The Lady From The Sea. It’s set in a timeless period shot south of Norway where Munch painted his masterpiece The Sun. We follow the journey of Ellida’s world of loss, love, and passion, heightened with the compositions of Grammy
Winner Best Feature Documentary Roadmovie about the filmmaker’s 94-year-old grandma and her 30- year-old cousin, two adventurers in the Dutch health care system, on their last travel. Her cousin Chris fulfills his grandma’s last wish: making a road trip to Luxemburg. A couple of weeks after the trip she died. An intimate documentary about two
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Winner My 1st Documentary A rock star-style rebel and bohemian. Two nations battling for supremacy. Corrupt politicians, movie stars, music, alcohol, and more bikinis than Beach Blanket Bingo. Welcome to the story of Rafi Nelson, a bearded, one-eyed, larger-than-life celebrity, and his Rafi Nelson Holiday Village. One square mile of land in one of the
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Winner My short documentary It is a rich colorful film showcasing the history of Oton thru music, dance, Arts, and theatre performance. …from the death of Datu Paiburong and the golden mask, pagan beliefs and rituals, the Advent of Christianity and Babaylan resistance, and various folk dances to modern dance. Katagman the movie has everything
Winner Best Music Video Cool Japan RockPop Ballad Song…
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Winner Best Animated Film Three intimate slice-of-life moments depict aspects of California life, across generations and geography. In “The Suburbs,” after a disastrous party, a teenager reconciles with his father; in “The City,” a young woman in San Francisco struggles to keep up appearances; and, in “The Coast,” a writer, at midlife, reflects on love,
Winner Best Web/TV Series It is a hilarious comedy set in an office called Hollywood where everything turns into a disaster. Every single person in the office is tempted into getting a better job and they compete with the applicants for that purpose. Most of the situations a really surrealistic and funny so you never
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Winner My 1st Documentary Alex Txikon’s winter ascension on Manaslu, Nepal, is the seed of a story that will bring sustainable light to two very different places: Newton, Sierra Leone, and a special school in Diamer, Pakistan. Alpinism, solidarity, and renewable energy are key to this story. Producer Juan San Martín Director Rosa García Loire
Winner Best Short Film A bounty hunter arrives at the desolate town of Willowstone, seeking the truth about her former lover. Producer Tom Sweeney, Catherine Slow Director Tom Sweeney Writer Tom Sweeney Main Casting Ariki Erby, Adelle Fischer
Winner Best Actor Feature Film Morya – the titular character is a scavenger in Pimpalner – a small town. Though his actual name is Sitaram Jedhe, he is called Morya because in Marathi “Mohri” means toilet. Belonging to the lowest strata in society, his work is to clean toilets, carry sewage and keep the environment
Winner Best Horror Film, Best Actor Short Film Jonathan waits for his mom to come over as something has been knocking around his house. Chaos ensues as he investigates what is taunting him. Producer Wes Davis Director Wes Davis Writer Wes Davis, Sofia Valencia Main Casting Sofia Valencia, Misty Bass, Wes Davis.
Winner Best Music Video Video for a track from Three On A Match, a conceptual album comprised of songs inspired by the titles of Bette Davis films (but not necessarily the films). This particular song has little to do with the associated film and is instead a meditation on memory, regret, and perception of time.
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Winner My 1st Short film After months of premonitions of her own death, Amy stumbles upon an artist (Noah) who has drawn the dreams she’s haunted by. In a journey to overcome her deepest fears, Amy must learn to trust not only Noah but herself as well. Producer Nikky Rademaker Director Nikky Rademaker Writer Nikky
Winner Best Animated Film A Norse Valkyrie comes to collect the souls of dead soldiers after a battle, before she can complete her mission, a soul leaves and the valkyrie must make a decision between duty and heart. Can the supreme authority restore peace? Producer Maeve E Andrews Director Maeve E Andrews
Winner Best Director Short Film MARA, an introverted girl who lost her father, ERIK several years ago, doesn’t practice water dance anymore. Haunted by her anxieties, Mara is in constant conflict with her little sister Lisa, and her mother Sandra who is trying to rebuild her life. She will be confronted with her fear and
Winner Best Feature Film Lea Anderson is a soldier in the British Special Forces but has now come to doubt her choice of career. The secrecy, bloodshed, and lack of a normal life are too much for the young woman who finally decides to call it quits – but not before going on one more
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Winner Best Experimental Film A multicultural couple moves into a farmhouse when a stranger arrives and disrupts their new peaceful life. Producer Eli Samuel Woodhall Director Eli Samuel Woodhall Writer Eli Woodhall Main Casting Kyler Hudson, Patsy Barba, Daniel Buchanan
Winner Best Feature Documentary Film The Sally Dixon Story is a documentary that delves into the life of experimental film curator Sally Dixon. Her story began in the 1960s when she received a small hand-held movie camera from her father-in-law and started making films, that she later called “Film Poems.” Sally is known as a
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Winner Best COVID-19 FILM When the Coronavirus attacked the world, many families lost their loved ones and some others who ended up in intensive care could not live without a medical ventilator… Producer Mehdi Saleki Director Mehdi Saleki, Firas Razak
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Winner Best Director Feature Film, Best Cinematography IT IS THE STORY OF A MAN WHOSE PAST IS WRAPPED IN MYSTERY. WOMEN DO NOT TOLERATE DECEPTION, REFUSAL, AND HUMILIATION, AND TO LIVE IN ABSOLUTE NORMALITY THEIR MIND NEEDS TO PERFORM EXTREME ACTS: PUNISH THEM WITH MURDER. Producer Giuseppe Di Giorgio, Elena Rivaldo, Roberto Maria Montagna Director
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Winner Best Short Documentary Over 20 years after Emily Felter is diagnosed with Down syndrome, paramedic (and Emily’s father) Tom develops a presentation to share her story with other first responders. As the Felters work to raise disability awareness, they come face-to-face with the struggles and joys of their daily lives. Producer Carmen Vincent Director
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Winner Best Super Short Film At the “Sweet Dreams” call center, employees take care of the customers’ demands. Except for Judith, who is too lazy to work. Producer Benjamin Ifrah, Reda Boudechiche Director Writer Benjamin Ifrah Main Casting Cécile Marx, Benoit Chauvin, Maxime Teodorescu
Winner Best Web/TV Series A no-nonsense medical student finds her life upended when she’s bonded to the soul of a long-dead dragon. Producer Idunn Marthinsen, Henry Webb, Craig Selbrede, William Stephenson, Caitlin Faulkner, Georgia Harris. Director Georgia Harris, Henry Webb Writer Craig Selbrede, Megan Berman, Henry Webb, Will Tiley Main Casting Bex Goulding, Matt Squance,
Winner Best Drama ALOHA SAMURAI II: THE SECOND SLICE continues the tale of the Hawaiian-clad hero who protects the Valley of Peace from the bandits and marauders who would seek to defile it. The Aloha Samurai will face his greatest foe yet. Challenged by the leader of the notorious Haruku gang to partake in a
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Winner Best Actress Short Film, Best LGBT Film Ireland 1778. Two women flout convention and scandalize society to escape the fate their families plan for them. They elope. Based upon the true story of the legendary “Ladies of Llangollen.” Producer Kathy Speirs, Stella Nwimo Director Tracy Spottiswoode Writer Tracy Spottiswoode Main Casting Tara Lee, Niamh
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What Else Is On? By Tyler Council. What Else Is On? is an experimental featured movie, which is based on addressing multiple issues and topics in funny and comic ways. What Else Is On? addresses many topics, from selling shoes to health-related stuff, fertility problems, and so on… The movie begins with a light introduction
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Winner Best Short Film, Best Actor Short Film, Best Director Short Film Sawyer is a poor farm girl taking care of herself and her radiation-poisoned mother. Unable to afford the energy to keep her mother alive, she must rebuild her father’s illegal homemade generator under the watchful eye of an oppressive government. Producer Rob Tode,
Winner Best Actress Short Film One stormy afternoon the electricity goes out and Granny entertains her squabbling grandchildren with her memory tin. A fascinating past is revealed. Producer Jane Sanger Director Jane Sanger Writer Jane Sanger Main Casting Kitty Sudbery
Winner Best Drama A missile engineer for the U.S. government becomes convinced he’s being followed by the U.S. government. Producer, Director, Writer Nicky Otis Smit Main Casting Nicky Otis Smith, Melissa Marloth, Mimi Owaske, Ralston Finney, Jason Willett, Cam Alvarez, Madison Krcnavy, Connor Kizer, Aaron Estes, Mickey Lusk, Julia Celtnieks, Austin Redwood, Joe Galarraga, M.C.
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Winner Best Actress (Special Award) A young woman finally stands up to her gay best friend for the path of destruction he leaves in his wake. Producer, Director, Writer J. Andrew Co-Producers Luke Powell, Todd Long, Scott C, Craig Souza, Vishnu Prasad, Main Casting Ash Tan, DJ Tinaz
Winner My 1st Short film This is a story about a brave young man with a lifelong dream of flying to the moon. To do so he needs to conquer his fears, build a rocket ship, and leave behind his loved ones. A difficult path is not set out for every individual. Will he succeed
Winner Best Feature Film, Best Actress Feature Film The main character “Shinya” lost her mother in a traffic accident. A woman appears in front of Shinya. The woman can only be seen by Shinya. Fairy? Ghost? Shinya must know. Producer Nobuo Nakagawa Director Nobuo Nakagawa Writer Keiji Kobori Main Casting Yuki Yamazaki, Kazane Nishimura, Keiju
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Winner My 1st Feature Film Two patients, Seth and Tia develop a friendship during their stay in a mental institution. They decide to make a plan to break out, but they can’t do it alone, so they ally with an enemy patient named Gnarly Daren who helps them. Seth then betrays Daren by locking him
Winner Best Actor Feature Film “Richter” is a story based on real events. A deadly earthquake hits the city of Durrës on November 26, 2019. Hundreds of buildings are damaged or fully destroyed. In one collapsed building, only 3 people remain alive, trapped under the ruins: Armando, a man in his early 30-s, and Jerina
Winner Best Feature Documentary A warm and sincere look of the protagonists who accompany and watch over the Virgin of Zapopan, the “Chaparrita” made of corn, the miracle worker, following a centuries-old tradition that makes this traveling virgin one of the most beloved in Mexico. Producer Rodolfo Guzmán Salas Director Ofelia Medina Writer Ofelia Medina
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Winner Best Short Documentary A desire to have a family becomes a nightmare. The man becomes more and more violent and crazy. The woman leaves the relationship but has to live with the consequences of the breakup long after the separation. A film about physical, sexual, psychological, and financial violence and how it affects an
