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
Winner Best Covid-19 Film Dorothy Marshall, MD, is an avid Star Trek fan. From her snatches of memories about the show and its view of the universe, she draws a good spring of hope for humanity. There is a lyrical, forever feel to Star Trek. Marshall treats patients from 8 to 80. She gives them
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Winner Best Horror Film When an offbeat war veteran embarks on a weekend “shooting soldiers” hunting trip, he discovers that his hosts have their own disorders. Producer Eric F. Adams Director Eric F. Adams Main Casting Emma Graves, Cody Wise, Carol Jean Wells, Britton Webb, Eric F. Adams, Blain Quam
Winner Best Music Video A man and a woman meet, chase each other, and get lost between rivers and rails. This quest will turn into a dreamy walk from one bridge to the other, and into an aesthetic experience. A dive into the intimacy of a city and a couple. “Everything explains itself. Producer Olivier
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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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