Official Selection
Nov-Jan
Best Short Documentary
Terror in Toulouse: Has the Community Recovered?
In 2012, a radical Islamist opened fire on a Jewish High School in Toulouse, France, killing three children and a religious instructor. In this documentary, Lisa Burkhardt Worley will retell the story of this antisemitic attack and will explain the state of antisemitism in France today.

►by: Lisa Burkhardt-Worley
Best Short Screenplay
Hollowed
A loving husband and new father discovers that new blessings sometimes come with terrible prices. How can something so fulfilling make him feel so empty?


► by: Ryan Michael Coby
Best Feature Screenplay
MUOSSAIEF RED - BLOOD DIAMONDS
Angela Speranza (36) is a former commissioner downgraded to the road section following an accident in which her son Edo was killed

►by: Roberta Mormando
Best Dance Video
From Homeless to Hollywood
The Script depicts the story of Shaneen Bonner being homeless in Los Angeles to becoming a business owner in the music business.

► by: Shaneen Charese Bonner
Best Short Film
Standoff
a feminist comic short about a four way standoff that goes differently than anyone expected

►by: Lisa Channer
Best Short Screenplay
A Delicate Design
Two scientists aim to engineer the perfect children, but when their creations exhibit exceptional talents, the world takes notice, and society begins to question the concept of 'ideal'.
► by: Antonio Michael Leaks
Best Short Screenplay
Just Talk
Paul is the life and soul of the party. Behind closed doors however, is a different story. His mental health is at an all time low, and he has turned to drugs and alcohol to try and cope. Can he get his life back on track?

►by: Patrick Bailey
Best Covid-19 Film
Zizhong, 23. october
On October 23, China's new national leader was born in Beijing, and the quarantine and lockdown management of the community epidemic prevention and control was still being implemented in remote Zizhong county.

► by: Guozhi Zhang
Best Web-Series
The Cosmic Companion
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a dinner table conversation with some of the greatest scientists, authors, and developers around the globe advancing the human race toward a better future?
►by: James G. Maynard
Best Short Screenplay
UNO SCRITTORE NELL’OSCURITÀ
Victor Nolan, a successful writer, moves with his wife to an Irish small town in search of new inspiration. People consumed by envy and jealousy spy on his every movement.
► by: UNO SCRITTORE NELL’OSCURITÀ
Best Animation
Fake News
Two microprocessors converse in a park, sitting on a bench. This is Willy and Jimmy, two personalized microprocessors. Willy and Jimmy are old microprocessors from 1998 that have been retired for 20 years, growing old, but also slowly becoming senile.

►by: Joachim Weber
Best Short Film
HONEYMOON
Just married couple is coming back home from honeymoon to celebrate the new year. no other plans from honeymoon to staycation. (Based on a true story)

► by: Avtandil Druid
Best Animation
Peria: The World Just Beyond The Shadows
A young man ventures into the forbidden lands of shadows to rescue the woman he loves, only to discover that the journey will lead him down a path of lost memories.

►by: Marcus Looney
Best Feature Film
Hide&Sniff
Information “Hide & Sniff” is a hard-boiled love story that challenged a new technique: focusing on the sense of smell. The wife has a good nose, and the husband is a bit dull. The story shows the peculiarity of their love as their feelings grow apart.

► by: kousuke hishinuma
Best Student Film
If I Knew
A man, suffering from a psychiatric disorder, tries to understand what exactly is going on in his difficult life.

►by: Piro Gjylameti
Best Symbolic Film
Messages from the Animals-The Gift of the Wolf
We are the Wolf Nation, dwellers of the Northern Hemisphere, harbingers of the Spirit of the WILD. We are returning to take our place with you awake and aware and conscious humans at the dance of life.

► by: Elke Duerr
Best Short Screenplay
Pants, Comrade!
Ruffled by the summer heat, 13-year-old PANDA protests his school's uniform rules. To what lengths will he go to bend the rules, bug his mother and test Head Teacher TARKIN?

►by: Shekhar Bassi
Best Animation
It's Winter
Whimsical winter romp for kids and spirited adults

► by: Tom Hambleton
Best Symbolic Film
THE QUESTION MARK
Una nascita, un nuovo inizio, un passaggio dal non conosciuto al non definito. Un recapito filtrato nel non manifesto per quel che genericamente definiamo realtà. A birth, a new beginning, a passage from the unknown to the undefined. A delivery filtered into the non-manifest for what we generically define as reality.
►by: DAMIANO ROSSI
Best Short Screenplay
PENUMBRA
After losing the woman he loved, a lonely man must confront his internal demons and the violence in his city while struggling to find redemption and overcome the guilt that threatens to consume him.

► by: Sandro Hernandez Oritz
Best Comedy
Lizzy's Plan: 3 Peas in a Podcast
When the fame-seeking female leader of a mature trio of lifelong veteran friends gets a call, during a funeral, to immediately fill in on a podcast, she forms a plan-but - complications ensue.
►by: Jeremy Mowery
Best Experimental Film
Buanderie (daydream # 13)
experimental independent ART film (questioning weird "daydreams" of a society that is still trying to shape the image of women)

► by: Dieter-Michael Grohmann
Best No-Dialogue Film
strategic meeting (daydream # 7)
experimental art film; a regular mid-level manager is distracted by his phantasies during a strategic business meeting.
►by: Dieter-Michael Grohmann
Best Feature Documentary
Where's the Craic?
On the west coast of Ireland lies Ireland’s best kept secret... The town of Sligo on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way has more live music than anywhere else in the country, and that’s saying something. Perhaps it’s something intrinsic in the culture that gives rise to this remarkable gift.
► by: Lauren Hakulinen
Best Animation
Love And Trembling
The ocean is infested with sirens. The shipping industry is halted except for one ship whose crew is immune to the siren song. A traveler applies to join the crew, and finds out why,

►by: Levin Alexander Diatschenko
Best Experimental Film
Her Magnum Opus
A circle of friends gather to celebrate their mentor and learn that what lasts is those you leave behind.

► by: Marta Renzi
Best Short Film, Best Director
The Neon Ballerina
A rich Russian oligarch named Rusov secures the services of an elusive dancer named Sophia aka "The Neon Ballerina". He has only three unique dances to enjoy and seduce her. Sophia harbors a deep secret that may prove to be deadly.
►by: REY JANJUA
Best Feature Film
FOSSIL of JUNE
Akira and Haruko Nishida, an elderly couple, visit an abandoned mountain village for the first time in 50 years to visit a grave. However, on the way, the car breaks down and he has to visit the grave on foot and gets lost in the mountains.

► by: Hiroshi Toda
Best Feature Screenplay
ASK NOT
A man shows up at Langley and tells CIA officers that he’s from the future and that others just like him came in 1963 to kill JFK because it was necessary to save the planet.
►by: Jack Polo
Best Feature Film
Chain Of Events (The Movie)
A romantic comedy shot entirely in the city of New Albany Indiana... A couple down on their luck encounter divine intervention and a inheritance that changes their lives forever. Starring... KATIE STEWART, ALEX MUNCY, DALE MILLER, STACI WESTRICK, MARDELL ELMER and Silvio Wolf Busch.

► by: Mark McDonald
Best Short Screenplay
Standing in Line
Sam is standing in line at the grocery store with his grandson when an incident sparks a memory, and Sam is stunned as he watches the Food Lion transform into the haunting landscape of Auschwitz he escaped seventy years ago.

►by: Jules Corriere
Best Animation
Nanakorobi (Seven Falls)
A story by Glenna Burmer based on the Japanese saying Nanakorobi-Ya Oki, or fall seven times, but get back up the eighth. A little girl faces seven challenges to save an orphan who is lost in the snowy woods of Hokkaido.

► by: Glenna Burmer, Gaby Breiter
Best Music Video
Molasses Foxtrot
This Music Video celebrates the Film Noir Femme Fatale. "Molasses Foxtrot" is one of six original songs in my Feature Length Sci-Fi Horror screenplay "Femme Fatale in Stiletto Heels".
►by: Pamela Price
Best Feature Film
Nameless Feature (different)
Colette is a screenwriter who has to write 280 pages in two days in order not to have to move out from her boss, Mani, who owns the house. Thomas, her roommate, has already packed his bags and is moving to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a fashion designer. But suddenly Colette is misled by a stranger in the mysterious house and her horror script quickly becomes reality.

► by: Veronika Esslinger
Best Music Video, Best Director
Don't Wanna Love You
It's late at night. All the clientele has already left. But Ana still has work to do washing the dishes at the restaurant, and her boss is already leaving, but only after reprimanding her for always daydreaming. Of course, her boss doesn't know Ana dreams of falling in love with her.

►by: A Diego Ante
Best Short Documentary
THE LAST HOMERUN
My personal experience with the New York Yankees with my dad, who was sick with a rare form of cancer. https://player.vimeo.com/progressive_redirect/playback/755255006/rendition/1080p/file.mp4?loc=external&signature=0a6330b105b92fabe1d09ff810679bacb02d93b9fe16eed0ac62532e74f99b8e

► by: Gavin Hunter Checchi
Best Experimental Film
The Anomaly - A Short Cinematic Experience (An Experimental Short Film)
This short film is meant to be an emotional experience. Where you not only watch everything you see, but feel it too. It's meant to takeyou with it on the journey, and completely immerse you. That is why I advise to watch it with headphones. This is an experimental piece.
►by: Muhammad Hassan Masood
Best Experimental Film
Roger Clark's Red Dead Redemption 2
Motion capture actor Roger Clark revels in the stunning success of his western themed video game which has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. Clark plays the main character, Arthur Morgan.
► by: Wes Skotko
Best Short Film
The Last Breath
This is a suspense film about smoking

►by: Bilal Ahmed Siddique
Best Feature Documentary
Priced Out Of Paradise
Hawaii has been a popular visitor destination for more than a century. Since the pandemic, the island has become a victim of its own success as ‘One-Percenters’ keep buying homes on the islands.
► by: Annie Menendez, Sam Menendez
Best Experimental Film
Travel Le Bilocazioni dell'anima- The Bilocations of the Soul (English version)
Elia is an artist for particular performances. Guest of a mental health center he manages to bilocate mentally and in metaphysics. He will join sub-Saharan Africa - which has always been a source of inspiration for the character Elia - represented by the Gambian refugee Seku Jatta, who plays the role of the south of the soul and that Piscopo himself describes as part of it where all the discarded stones are placed by the builders of humanity

►by: Flavio Piscopo
Best Original Screenplay
Jewels of Light Pilot
In the world of Upprunkna, a guilt-ridden elven warrior is tasked with the care of a powerful and untrusting royal. Together, they begin a journey that will unite the most adventurous beings of the different realms and force them to work together in order to restore the vital energies of a darkening era. But, one of them holds an ominous secret.

► by: Tessie Herrasti
Best Short Screenplay
ONE WAY TO MARIUPOL
In the throes of war-torn Ukraine, two people have a chance encounter in a railroad station many years after their youthful love affair; but they have only a short time before they must leave each other forever.

►by: WOLF BUKOWSKI
Best Short Film
RAKEL: Story About Misery
Rakel is a young woman who, one day, locks herself in her apartment after getting some bad news. She is about to die. Her mom and boyfriend wait anxiously in front of the door for her to come out. Rakel pushes them away and goes into a deep depression. She asks herself if she’s ready to walk out and accept what’s coming for her.

► by: Kristján Jónsson
Best Short Film
STEAK

►by: Federico Gatti
Best Feature Documentary
Il lavoro è una forma di prostituzione? ITA
Dal momento che ogni individuo svolge un qualsiasi lavoro per guadagnare del denaro, egli pratica a tutti gli effetti la prostituzione. Vendere il proprio organo sessuale non è diverso dal vendere una qualsiasi altra parte del proprio corpo, come la voce, il cervello, i muscoli e altro ancora, unicamente per ottenere in cambio del denaro.

► by: Gian Elio Ezael de marco
Best Original Screenplay
Ghul
Two teen girls from different background connect when they find themselves on opposite sides of a horrific home invasion.

►by: Jason Hawkins
Best Feature Documentary
All short films about the work & the exhibitions of "BrückenKunst" from 2014 to 2019, a group of unrecognized artists in Berlin.
These short films show how difficult it is to achieve recognition in our world as an unknown and unrecognized artist. Bridges stand for the connection between two different poles. The name Brückenkunst is intended to express this intention to establish connection. The connection between two different banks. Between art and life. Between East and West. Asia and Europe.

► by: Gilbert Brüning
Best Feature Documentary
The Grapepickers - Le Temps des Vendangeurs
Silvana Marconi is a survivor of domestic violence, that after writing a book telling her story, she decides to make a documentary to give voice to those who are going through the same. For Silvana the book has not been enough, as domestic violence is a never endless reality, and very few people dare to talk about. This has taken her to the media, such as television, radio programs, theatres and now, to the movies.
►by: Jeanne Pope
Best Short Film
BEYOND THE DARKNESS
An old man takes a difficult path through a long, almost holy night. He has a mission, to save his son that was wounded in a foreign war. The man continues his journey through the mountain paths that lead nowhere.
► by: Lorena Sopi
Best No-Dialogue Film
Wondering Eyes
A girl on her balcony observes the dark and silent night, when all of a sudden she sees the wonder where it was unexpected.
►by: Simone Redeghieri Baroni
Best Short Film
Hazbin Hotel Animation The Spider And Fawn Demon In The Rain


► by: Cristina Amendola
Best Short Film
Type Till You Bleed
Resurrected as an urban legend in the dark corners of the internet; The Jupiter P55 is a Soviet-era mainframe computer at the heart of a mysterious lab fire that killed its creators.

►by: Richard Jackson
Best War Film
"Chee Lai"
After successfully bombing Japan in the world famous Doolittle Raid of Tokyo on April 18, 1942, a U.S. Army Air Force mechanic has to bail out of his aircraft in China, where he is rescued by a local Chinese resistance group and, as he is escorted to safety from behind the enemy line, witnesses the most brave and selfless heroism of the Chinese people, all for one.

► by: Daxing Zhang
Best Feature Screenplay
Cry Baby Hill
A mysterious force draws a brother and sister back to their hometown after 20 years to face an accidental crime that took place on Cry Baby Hill.

►by: Juan Pablo Reinoso
Best Feature Screenplay
Theirs
After a lifetime of abusive men and a bitter divorce, a mother finds hope for herself and her teenage daughter in a new home, only to quickly find their newfound freedom tested by malicious secrets within its walls.

► by: Juan Pablo Reinoso
Best Short Film
Cooked
A celebrity chefs attempting to come to grips the with his new reality. His world is turned upside down when his daughter is diagnosed with cancer.
►by: MattHew Carroll
Best Feature Documentary
Di Ankh: The Science Of Kemetic Yoga.
Some of the earliest depictions of yoga positions and their meanings are hidden in plain sight on the temple walls in ancient Egypt (Kemet) in North Africa.

► by: Gaile C Ferguson
Best Experimental Film
ZAPPER!
In a surreal universe where bananas shoot laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game against one another in order to claim a mystical relic known as "The King's Board."

►by: Nick Gatsby
Best Short Film
A Blade in the Grass
A Blade in the Grass is a coming of age short film that takes place in Detroit Michigan during the spring of 1986 when three high school friends decide to cut class and attend a day party under curious circumstances. The events of that day left unanswered questions until a chance reunion 25 years later between two of the friends gave meaning to the true definition of friendship.

► by: Lisa Renee Branch
Best Horror, Best Director
Under the Rose
In this psychological horror short, a lonely Florist is forced to confront his dark side after taking drugs that were dropped in his shop.
►by: Chase McAulay
Best Short Film
Dissociation
An exaggerated look into a day in the life of a twenty one year old girl suffering from mental health issues.
► by: Andrew Graziosa
Best Music Video
I Am Change
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was elevated to a statutory holiday by the Parliament of Canada in 2021. Every year, on September 30th, the nation will honour and promote awareness of the devastating impact that the residential school system brought upon the indigenous cultures and communities for over a century.

►by: Reno Anastasio
Best Short Film, Best Actor
Star Club
A popular musician past his prime entertains a young star-struck journalist by pulling back the curtain on his troubled life.

► by: Daniel H Burkett
Best Horror
Death Will Lead the Way
A supernatural tale of death and the jack-o'-lantern.

►by: Dean Mallison
Best Experimental Film
House in the Mist
Teen boy is disturbed by what he encounters in an old house in the misty woods. A highly experimental animation film using AI text prompts with Gab.com's animation AI to generate each "shot" of the story prior to editing.

► by: Pia Justine Cruz
Best Horror
MARGOT
If your biggest fear suddenly materialized, what would it look like? Jennifer, Riccardo, Francesca and Luca are four brothers who meet again in their hometown after being separated for seven years. Returning to their old house will lead them to face their greatest fears...
►by: Daniele Costi
Best Director
Going Out Is Forbidden
Carolina and Bernabé decide to separate after 15 years of marriage, just as the world faces the pandemic and social confinement. The problem is that Bernabé is a hypochondriac epidemiologist who will soon return home.

► by: Sandro Ventura
Best Short Film
Liquid Ice Ice Baby
A struggling scientist grows increasingly insane as he attempts to complete his lifelong experiment.

►by: Will Jones
Best Experimental Film
Neo Dusk
"Neo Dusk" invites you into an interactive odyssey set in a world teetering on the edge of dystopia and hope. This choose-your-own-adventure film blends storytelling with the audience's choice, crafting a unique experience for each viewer.

► by: Leonard Menchiari, Manfredi Montemaggi
Best Original Screenplay
Hollow Earth Quest
Hollow Earth Quest In 1985 Dan interviews Ritter Von X, German scientist living at secret Arctic Nazi military base disguised as weather station. X tells Dan about Hollow Earth, and alien being, Thal. Coded Biblical stories conceal the truth of Jesus’ magnetic powers common to citizens of Earth's interior. Assisted in his resurrection by UFO commander, Thal, Jesus lives inside the Earth to this day.
►by: Kathy Krantz Stewart - screenplay by
Best Short Film
SCREENPLAY MOVIE: MAGNET MAN
A young private investigator has an accident that causes him to develop magnetic powers. He tries to use them for good, but there is one person on earth who knows about his powers and tries to stop him.
► by: Matthew Toffolo
Best Short Film
DRACULA, Son of the Devil
Vlad Dracul, also known as Dracula loses his wife to be on his wedding day and is damned to walk the earth for all eternity until he finds the doppelganger of his wife who was killed over 500 years later.
►by: Brian Pinkus, Chris Völkle
Best Director, Best Actor
Money Over Fame
LeeLee is on the verge of success in her music career, but her boyfriend might not be on board. She'll have to decide between money, fame, and love. Money Over Fame is inspired by true events of an artist and her relationship with her partner.

► by: Leeonessa Maria Cruz
Best Actor
Shadow Assassins
A bloodbath raged through the serene landscape of Assam, India, during the late 90s and early years of the millennium. Several decapitated bodies were found scattered across the countryside, by secret assassins, spreading a reign of terror. This carnage was thought to be in response to a banned terrorist organisation, ULFA, who held Assam hostage for the better part of the century.
►by: Nilaanjan Reeta Datta
Best Short Film
The Solitary Cell (POC)
A forgotten man wakes up with no memory in a strange cell. Seeking to discover the reason for his imprisonment, he starts to uncover old messages scattered around the cell. But when strange, unnatural events occur, and an unseen voice tries to communicate through haunting characters, the man starts to fear for his sanity.

► by: Daniel Cohn
Best Short Film
Bestia
Based on true events, "Bestia" explores the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveals a grim fracture of her mind and of the country.
►by: Hugo Covarrubias
Best Web-Series
Filter
When a pastor is forced to make a statement to either accept or reject the LGBTQIA+ community, a spirit who delivers a message while she experiences sleep paralysis visits her each night.

► by: Lauralee Sheehan
Best Short Screenplay
Coke and A Smoke
A meeting with a Warden, Detective and a Death Row Prisoner that will lead to open cases for closure to the grieving families.

►by: Charli Brown
Best Comedy
Finding Dan
Two socially awkward young adults set out to overcome their social anxieties and hopefully find true love with the help of their friends

► by: Abraham Lopez
Best Director
Roberta Lane
In a garden of secrets, will Roberta Lane find peace?
►by: Darren J. Perry
Best Short Film
Wedding Song
A married woman makes a move on her personal trainer.
► by: Clara Altimas
Best Experimental Film
AA9MXE00TJOL
This asemic short-movie has no synopsis. Only images, sounds and subjective emotions are involved.

►by: Giuseppe Calandriello
Best Feature Film
The Burden of Nine Lives
► by: Vega Montañez
Best Feature Documentary
HAPI - The Role of Economics in the Development of Civilization
The HAPI film presents a snapshot of our economic history spanning from the dawn of civilization to today. It begins by investigating the failure of a ‘consumption driven Black economy’, systematic poverty, disenfranchisement and the decline of entrepreneurship. It later addresses its complex problems and provides innovative ideas to successfully compete in the global economy.

►by: Taaqiy Grant
Best Short Screenplay
I KILLED ELVIS
Two job weary reporters, Dave and Norah, on assignment for a sleazy tabloid, stumble into possibly the biggest story of their career that entangles them in a mysterious and dangerous cabal.

► by: WOLF BUKOWSKI

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