Winner Best Cinematography On a camping trip, two sisters deal with the death of their mother. Producer Bogdan Darev Director Benjamin Ross Johnson Writer Benjamin Ross Johnson Main Casting Bianca Raso, Adara Toop, Amanda Yeoman Brooke, Piper Saunders, Makenna Nabholz
Winner Best Experimental Film At 32, a tormented and incomplete woman learns that to mourn her brother, she must let the mystery of her own existence unfold. Producer Pauline Beauchamps, Théo Delarche Director Pauline Beauchamps, Théo Delarche Writer Pauline Beauchamps Main Casting Caroline Tillette, Maximilien Seweryn
Winner Best Animated Film Inertia is the story of a young woman who refuses to accept change in her life. Instead of facing facts, she chooses to look the other way and continue her life as it were. However, the change itself won’t let her. Producer Julie Verstraten Director Julie Verstraten Writer Julie Verstraten Main
Winner Best Web/TV Series A dark humor mockumentary about a dysfunctional family who recently lost connection with Neomi, the mother. Producer Ortal Odelia Biener Director Ortal Odelia Biener Writer Ortal Odelia Biener, Irad Barzilay Main Casting Irad Barzilay
Winner Best Screenplay Six souls in six different times, all of them alternately represented in the body of one man. all starting with the story of Jacob, The Plague of Walls, The Strong Left Leg, Fletcher the Tongue, Dr. Sycosta Paper Bags, and Overloaded. Producer Yousef Fatehi Ikhreis Director Yousef Fatehi Ikhreis Writer Yousef Fatehi
Winner Best LGBT Film The film “Quando Ousamos Existir” (When We Dare to Exist) relives the intense political-cultural fight for freedom and LGBT affirmation during the 70s until the first acts of liberation during the 80s. In over 40 years of the Brazilian LGBT movement, its actions blend with the changes in the country’s democracy.
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Winner Best Actress Short Film. Best Drama A young woman has been isolated in her house following the loss of her unborn baby and husband in a car accident. Her grief has consumed her, her whole life changed in one nightmare. What began as grief for her, has turned into regular physical panic attacks. While
Winner Best Actor Short Film The fifty-year-old, cranky Hajo lives with his grown-up, beloved son Hasso deep in the forest of Westerwald, where he has struggled to shield them from the temptations and distractions of the outside world. His incidental sellings make their living from the deceased grandfather’s paintings. Underneath the strong bond between father
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Winner Best Super Short Film The feeling of being alone with everybody written by Charles Bukowski was the main inspiration for this project. That’s when we came across this aquarium in a marginal motel in downtown São Paulo. The fishes swimming in circles while all the people come and go in the hotel have a
Winner Best Music Video Determined to rob a goldsmith, three young robbers break into his country house. The man and his wife turn out to be less defenseless than they seem. Producer Luis Castro, Yosu Menacho Director Luis Castro, Yosu Menacho Writer Luis Castro Main Casting Liss Da Silva
Winner Best Animated Film A dark family secret from the past is revealed unexpectedly and opens an abyss between two close friends: Jennifer, a German, discovers that she is the black granddaughter of a Notorious Nazi commander, and her life is turned upside down, while Noa, an Israeli, is doing whatever she can to prevent
Winner My 1st Short film A short film about what it’s like to work in an emergency department at a large hospital in Stockholm. When workload is against one’s own values. Producer, Director Marléne Alpglöd Writer Marléne Alpglöd, Michele Caroline Vollmer Main Casting Michele Caroline Vollmer, Nils Westman, Sabina Khamoshi, Erik Dahlin
Winner Best Actress Feature Film When a lockdown is imposed, the cast and crew of a film are taken from the set and sent home – alone. Actors without an audience. Directors without a script. Couples who fall apart. While others come together. A film composed of six interlinked narratives, ‘A Bird Flew In’ explores
Winner Best Actor Feature Film A mostly-true story of a man who travels to rural eastern Kentucky to deal with the unexpected death of his estranged father. Producer Matthew Alson Thornbury, Ryan Gully Director, Writer Matthew Alson Thornbury Main Casting TA Taylor, John Orr, Lynette Elliott, Ryan Gully, Terry Sikes, Natalie Williams, Lauryn McCoy, Billy
Winner Best LGBT Film The Indian film industry has mostly portrayed the transgender community in a cliché comic & negative light. In international movies & documentaries, “the world of the Hijras was described as a trans-utopia, where gender differences are celebrated & even revered. What we need to gauge in the depiction is the fact
Winner My 1st Documentary 10 Rounds is a Documentary about the training of boxer Mike Esteves before his fight for a belt and a national title. For 2 months we followed the physical preparation as well as the daily life of this young boxer, for a French championship title super-bantamweight category. The subject of the
Winner Best Horror Film Determined to rob a goldsmith, three young robbers break into his country house. The man and his wife turn out to be less defenseless than they seem. Producer Gianluca Vannucci Director Vincenzo Ricchiuto Writer Germano Tarricone Main Casting Stefania Casini, Giuseppe Pambieri , Gianluca Vannucci , Tania Bambaci, Mike Cimini
Winner Best Short Documentary Flotando is a documentary made in Nicaragua between 2017 and 2019, which attempts to explore the phenomenon of street children and the opportunities they have to rebuild their lives. Producer Entuals intercultura, Terra de Punt Director Valentina Bifulco Main Casting Fabio Ortu
Winner Best Feature Documentary Musher peels back the veil behind the bond that four women have between their dogs and the world of sled-dog racing. As each woman prepares for the Copperdog annual race, we reveal intimate insight into the mushing community, devotion to that lifestyle, and how women influence the sport. Producer Anuradha Rana,
Winner My 1st Feature Film, Best Director Feature Film Departing for college, Abbie leaves behind her parents and brother, Kayden, who is non-verbal and has autism. As Abbie falls in love with her new independence and budding relationship with a woman, her parents try to teach Kayden more independent life skills as they help him
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Winner Best Feature Film, Best Cinematography The life of a single mum (JO) spirals out of control when her fragile teenage daughter (IZZY) kills her violent boyfriend (KEV). Along with the angry son (DYLAN), this broken family flee the city and head for the coastal wastelands. Unbeknownst to them, they’re carrying drug money that belongs
Winner Best Actress (Special Award) Ellie is a young woman struggling with depression. On a cold Montréal spring day, she attempts to leave her apartment but is overwhelmed with the world outside. Not ready to take the step she retreats to the safety of her home. Producer Tiffany Lauren Bennicke Director Gilles Plouffe Writer Tiffany
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Winner Best Director Short Film The Carrot, a man who has turned into a vegetable under a unique family ‘blessing’, wants to convince her daughter Mindy, a nerdy beauty who loves vegan food and quantum theory, to accept and deal with his transformation. Producer Yann Chen, Katrine Dolme Director Yann Chen Writer Yann Chen Main
Winner Best Short Film Since the family broke in, Emilia has been living alone with her mom. Behind their loving mother-daughter relationship, unspoken darkness is now growing inside the mother. She uses an unorthodox method of dealing with her darkness, which Emilia later discovers. What happens when the unspoken darkness takes over? Will the mother’s
Winner COVID-19 FILM Two college students tell their stories about how they have dealt with mental health before and during the pandemic. Along with hearing from a psychologist and a psychiatrist, these four individuals will talk about how Covid-19 has affected mental health using personal experience and professional knowledge. Producer, Director, Writer Munro McLaren Main
Winner Best Short Film Faced with a power vacuum, the prodigal daughter of a crime syndicate must stake her moral compass in a bid to seize the throne. Producer ActionCAN Films Executive Producers, Benjamin Blais, John Fleming, Jeff Hanson, Tennille Read Director Benjamin Blais Writer John Fleming Main Casting Tennille Read, Matthew Gouveia, John Fleming,
Winner My 1st Short film Bekir (11) and his brother Ahmet (7), born in a world where violence is normalized and poverty and injustice begin, are two brothers who do not get along very well with each other… Producer Aykut Temel, Ousama Hijazi Director, Writer Aykut Temel Main Casting Kadir Bertan , Yusuf Bertan ,
Winner Best Experimental Film In 1921, the first Swedish documented expedition to summit the highest peak on Áhkká during winter took place. Legendary nature photographer Borg Mesch led an expedition and among the participants was a young local man named Arthur Thelin. Their adventure was well documented through Borg’s camera and Arthur’s pen, as he
Winner Best Feature Film, Best Director Feature Film, Best Actress Feature Film. Set in the heart of rural Ireland, in a seaside town, Róise & Frank follows the story of recently widowed Róise Uí Mheadhra and the aftermath of her husband, Frank’s passing two years previous. Grief-stricken, Róise has distanced herself from the world around
Winner Best Drama Shashthi is a short fiction about the struggles of an economically weaker woman to save her son from a medical emergency and about how knowledge under different circumstances changes perceptions. Producer, Director, Writer Jude Peter Damian Main Casting Semmalar Annam
Winner Best Actor Feature Film Two best friends from Los Angeles pretending to be highly acclaimed film directors in order to declare their love for an ex-girlfriend living in Bondi Beach, Australia. Producer James Pratt, Dan Musial Director, Writer James Pratt Main Casting James Pratt, Billy White. Brittany Hockley, Bella Valentini, Scott E Miller, Demitra
Winner Best Super Short Film A man is haunted by a Lady in White with unfinished business… Producer Charlene Golightly Director, Writer Charlene Golightly Main Casting Charlene Golightly, Mandy Linz.
Winner Best Short Documentary Film Malta, a tiny island-state in the Mediterranean Sea, has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 2004, and a member of the Schengen area since 21st December 2007. Since then Malta has shifted to become a country of immigration and has seemingly provided a golden gateway for
Winner Best Feature Documentary Film After losing her artist-father to Alzheimer’s, journalist Renée Brack confronts her own fears by undergoing medical experiments as a human lab rat, risking her career & dignity to find out if she too has early signs of the disease. While on this precarious journey with devastating revelations, she discovers wonderful
Winner Best Horror Film Stanko is an unusual young man, obsessed with weather forecasts. One day he kidnaps the weather forecasting host and traps her in his basement. Producer, Writer Velimir Grgić, Dario Lonjak Director Dario Lonjak Main Casting Mladen Sovilj, Lucija Šerbedžija, Mijo Jurišić.
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Winner Best Music Video Tackling heavy yet substantive subject matter, the video addresses the issue of domestic abuse faced by many men and women around the world. The video’s protagonist struggles to manage an abusive relationship while trying to maintain her normal life and happiness… Producer, Writer, Director Oscar de Leon Main Casting Tylar Frame
Winner Best Cinematography The disappearance of one of her animals leads the young cattle farmer named Sonja to meet a highly intelligent creature from an alien world. Producer Hyung-Guhn “Hugo” Yi Writer, Director Franziska Ida Müller Main Casting Kara Edenberg, Hannah Ruthel
Winner Best Animated Film Under a starry night, Grandpa shared with his granddaughter his big secret that he came from outer space. Grandpa decided to take the doubtful girl on a magical space journey to let her see for herself. Producer Ruohan (Eve) Ren, Zhenzhen (Rosy) Yue Director Ruohan (Eve) Ren, Zhenzhen (Rosy) Yue Writer
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Winner Best Screenplay A small college basketball player gets an unexpected opportunity to play professionally in Italy, falls in love, and tries to make his late grandmother’s prediction come true… Writer JK Jones
Winner Web/TV Series (mis)placed is a web series about the intersecting lives of twenty-somethings, all searching for love, work, and meaning in the world today. Producer Erin Roberts, Jeremy Bandow Director Adam Olson, Erin Roberts Writer Janet Kolterman, Clara Coyle Main Casting Maggie Cramer
Winner Best Actor Short Film Mortem tells the story of James, a young man in the throes of deep depression. Our story begins as James teeters on the edge, attempting to take his own life. At this point, his perception of reality collapses and we join James on an odyssey through his own psyche en
Winner Best Director Short Film, Best Actress Short Film Sarah can’t completely overcome the deaths of her grandfather and her older sister. The trauma and lack of sleep cause her to embark on a strange journey of apparitions and murders, apparently caused by her mind… Producer Luca Vannella, Alexis Continente, Vincenzo Mastrantonio, Bobby Holland Hanton,
Winner Best Actress Short Film Marilie is having doubts about her couple. She decides to take a risk in exchange for her freedom. What will be the price to pay? Producer Alyncka Palmiste Alex Savard-Ouimet Writer Laurence Deschênes Director Laurence Deschênes
Winner My 1st Short film A tenacious, young girl, going through hardship and struggling to pursue her education, finds solace and assistance in a friendly stranger with ulterior motives. Producer Ruby Igwe Chiemeka Osuagwu Writer Chiemeka Osuagwus Director Chiemeka Osuagwu Main Casting Ifeoluwa Eninla Baaj Adebule Chinelo Judith Ochasi
Winner Best Feature Film The MICRO is a character-driven, hard-hitting film that examines police misconduct, urban crime, personal responsibility, and race relations. The MICRO looks into the complex worlds of policing, family values (or lack thereof), and civil indifference, examining how they impact our society. Producer, Writer, Director Brian K. Burns Main Casting Curtis Von,
Winner Best Actress Feature Film This is the story of a struggling 11 years old girl maadhuri to change her brother and sisters life through her hard work and positive attitude; who takes care of herself and a drunken mad father by begging along with her younger siblings on traffic signal. Her father Raka used
Winner Best LGBT Film In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, extravagant life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses. Producer Patricia Delso Lucas, Al Nazemian Director, Writer Patricia Delso Lucas Main Casting
Winner Best Feature Documentary How long can you stay on the beautiful islands in our archipelago? The countryside here is being depopulated at too fast a pace. Fewer and fewer people use these beautiful dialects that differ between the islands and the mainland. How should this be preserved? How did you live here as a
Winner My 1st Documentary This documentary is about a Yazidi woman who had been enslaved during the attack of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Shengal (Sinjar) which started on 3 August 2014. It tells what she’d lived through at the hands of ISIS, how she managed to escape, and how she carried on with her
Winner Best Short Documentary The film discusses the story of a known Palestinian graffiti artist, Taqi sateen, a painter from the West Bank, that expresses his frustration towards the occupation, the checkpoints, and the Separation Wall through his paintings and personal life stories. Producer Aleen Shoufani, Elias shoufani. Writer, Director Aleen Shoufani
Winner COVID-19 FILM Germany in the first lockdown winter. Clubs and theaters are closed. Social and cultural life has dropped below the freezing point. Warming up for better times, an independent theater group goes on with rehearsals despite strict restrictions. Turning for solace to Goethe’s “Faust” all those involved are bringing their anger, fears, and
Winner Best Horror Film Sonia wanders around the gloomy mansion where she lives, obsessed with unraveling a dark hidden secret. Her past, her fears, her desire, and her terrible nightmares have created a deadly web in which she is trapped, taking her away from the little sanity she had left. Producer Norberto Ramos del Val
Winner Best Animated Film The Swedes pride themselves on animal welfare and believe it’s the best in the world. But is it really? Here are three chickens in different parts of life on a factory farm to tell you their stories. In this film, Djurens Rätt shows you the reality chicken producers don’t want you
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Winner Best Cinematography the sequel to Connection the movie, that is CONNECTION 2 THE MOVIE. For the sequel, you will be introduced to some new faces as well as say goodbye to an era for Swedish cycling. Director Niklas Wallner Main Casting Akarias Blom Johansen, Simon Johansson, Lukas Skiöld, Ludvig Eriksson, Emil Johansson, Oliver Zwar,
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Winner Best Experimental Short Film Sheena Tang decides to shoot a behind-the-scenes documentary about her husband, a first-time feature film director who is about to storyboard his entire film with storyboard artist, Lawrence. What begins as a documentary gradually shifts into something unexpected… Producer, Writer, Director Sheena Tang Main Casting Sheena Tang, Linq Yim, Lawrence
Winner Best Music Video December 24th, 1914: Late On Christmas Eve, British Expeditionary Force heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing Christmas carols and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be shouted between the trenches… Producer Viktor Kristof, Writer David Kocar, Par Sundstrom, Director David Kocar Main
Winner Best Short Film, Best Actor Short Film, Best Director Short Film A young son battles in an underground fight ring to earn money for his father’s cancer treatment. Producer Mike Sarcinelli Director Xandar
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Best Short Film Producer Cassie Ryan Director Juan Manuel Hoyos Posada Writer Juan Manuel Hoyos Posada
Best Cinematography Producer Stefan Sporbert Lorena Junghans Director Hannah Schweier Writer Hannah Schweier
Best Music Video Producer Chinedu Nwachukwu Richard Birdsall Tatiana Moshkova Mariana Moshkova Director Michael S.U. Hudson Writer Michael S.U. Hudson
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My 1st Documentary Producer Désirée Pomper Helena Müller Director Désirée Pomper Helena Müller Writer Désirée Pomper Helena Müller
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Best Short Documentary Producer Livar Hølland Director Torgeir Kalvehagen Writer Torgeir Kalvehagen
Best Feature Documentary Producer Jessica Oyelowo Nick Moon Daisy Mo Tamika Lamison Kai Bowe Gigi Pritzker TJ Martin Sandra Evers-Manly Aloe Blacc Director Mobolaji Olambiwonnu Writer Mobolaji Olambiwonnu
Best Feature Film Producer Kevin Eade Director Logan Alexander Mitev Writer Logan Alexander Mitev
Best Actress Feature Film Best Screen Play Producer Mark A France Troy Randall-Kilpatrick Heather Fairbanks Tricia L France Director Mark A France Writer Mark A France
Best Actor Feature Film Producer Bhekizizwe Peterson Ramadan Suleman Director John Hlongwane Writer Nathan Rice John Hlongwane
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Best Super Short Film Producer Mattias Königsson Veronica Pehrson Henrik Hallberg Maja Bieler Director Mattias Königsson Writer Veronica Pehrson
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My 1st Short film Producer Tatyana Leskova Oleh Kuzmychov Director Kateryna Paida Writer Kateryna Paida
Best Feature Film Best Actress Feature Film Best Actor Feature Film Best Director Feature Film Producer Jiri Tucek Director Robert Sedlacek Writer Robert Sedlacek
Best Actress Short Film Best Actor Short Film Producer Benjamin MARZIAC Director Benjamin MARZIAC Writer Josiane Oestreich
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Best Music Video Producer Pier Lando Baldinelli Stella Marega Director Simone Vrech Writer Stella Marega
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My 1st Short film Producer Geoff Bell Martin Serene Fiona-Maria Karagiannidou Director Geoff Bell Writer Geoff Bell
Best Actress Short Film Producer Siyu Yan Tianhe Hu Director Siyu Yan Writer Siyu Yan Quan Zhang
Best Short Documentary Producer Paolo Palomba Director Ignazio Mascia Writer Ignazio Mascia
My 1st Feature film Producer Ivan Tonev Lachezar Velinov Blagomir Alexiev Director Petya Iossifova Writer Nikolay Georgiev
COVID-19 FILM Producer Richard Jordan Director Richard Jordan Writer Richard Jordan
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My 1st Documentary Producer Ali Demirtaş Director Ali Demirtaş Writer Ali Demirtaş
Andala – Last Visit Read More »
Best Cinematography Producer Christian Becker Director Dennis Gansel Writer Dirk Ahner
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Best Super Short Film Producer Roland Foldi Director Roland Foldi Writer Roland Foldi
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Best Short Film Best Director Short Film Best Actress (Special Award) Producer Harde Samir Director Harde Samir Writer Harde Samir
Best Feature Documentary Producer Melanie Bahniuk Griffin Cork Director Griffin Cork Writer Griffin Cork
My 1st Short film Producer Jingwen Chen Director Rui Ge Writer Rui Ge
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Best Director Short Film Producer Maciej Ślesicki Director Elliot Rafael Engberg Writer Elliot Rafael Engberg
Best Cinematography Producer YU YIN Director YU YIN Writer YU YIN
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Best Feature Documentary Producer Alison Jayne Wilson Director Alison Jayne Wilson Writer Alison Jayne Wilson
Best Short Film Best Actress Short Film Producer Celina Skailand Director Celina Skailand Jean Beaulee Writer Celina Skailand Jean Beaulee
Best Experimental Short Film Producer Eva Malmberg Director Eva Malmberg Writer Eva Malmberg
Best Short Documentary Producer Nirman Chowdhury Director Nirman Chowdhury Writer Nirman Chowdhury
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Best Animated Film Producer Anna Lucia Pisanelli Cecilia Quattrini Director Maurizio Forestieri Writer Alessandra Valente Maurizio Forestieri
Best Drama My 1st Feature film Producer Lorna St. John Don Hamilton Jennifer Gatts Director Trevor St. John Writer Brett Clothier-Sharman Trevor St. John Graham Sharman III
Best Feature Film Best Screen Play Producer Komoto d’act Director Kyoichi Komoto Writer Ako Suizu
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Best Actor Short Film John Hennigan Russ Nickel Komoto d’act Director William J. Stribling Writer William J. Stribling
COVID-19 FILM Producer ASST Mantova My Sound STRONGVILLA Mantova Film Commission Director Mario d’Anna Stefano Mangoni Writer Mario d’Anna
Daniele Nicolini from Ancona, Italy, a wonderful small town by the sea in the middle of the Adriatic Sea. He completed his graduation from the University of Bologna with a B.A. in Literature and Philosophy, minor in Cinema Studies and later on he moved to Canada, where he studied Film Production degree at the Vancouver
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Would you like to share your profile details with our readers? such as your educational background, birth city, and country, etc? I’m a Norwegian, born in Narvik. After living for 10 years abroad, I’m presently back in Norway finishing a Ph.D. I’m also enrolled at the institute for film science and art history at NTNU
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