Official Selection
June-August
Best Short Film
With Time
Estela learns that her cancer has returned. She begins to see her dead son in dreams and is forced to look into a past that she had, until now, successfully managed to forget. When her daughter visits, Estela feels compelled to talk about a traumatic event that marked them both and turned their already strained relationship into an abyss of silence. An abyss that, with time, grows deeper and darker.

►by: Eva Urrutia
Best Symbolic Film
Grimoire
A short story about magic, loss and self discovery. It's a film that explores our relationships, it could be called a love story... but it's more than that. It's a story about the people we meet on our journey, the people that become significant part of our lives; our family, our friends, our mentors and our lovers. And the choices we make; what is important and what is just noise that distracts us.


► by: Joanna Kolodziej
Best Short Film, Best Original Screenplay
Fate
A burnout hit man wants to leave the criminal world behind to raise his daughter and dedicate himself to his family.

►by: Manny Gonzalez
Best Original Screenplay
Why Me?
Nothing ever seems to go right for Stanley, a young man struggling to cope with his anxiety while trying to make a living and find love in fast paced New York City.

► by: Jason Capirchio
Best Short Film
JOPEL
Jopel a less fortunate kid from the streets of Manila , who wanted to make his mom happy by buying her a birthday cake. He did not have any money but was fortunate to have the heart & talent to overcome it all, “Embrace your talent and pursue it, you won’t believe what you can accomplish.” we hope we can touch the world with this one of a kind & amazing film....Jopel

►by: Clifton Abuan
Best Short Film
Remember: Pilot
Life is a journey and often there is an emphasis on the journey to appear to be moving forward. However that is the thing about ones own journey. It does not have to appear to be anything other than what it is and means for that person. Remember is pilot to a series in development, largely exploring these themes creatively and sharing the journey and stories of our province.

► by: Luyanda Sosibo
Best Feature Screenplay
A NOVEL ENDING
Will love and the achievement of life’s dream come between Judy and a multi-million dollar career?

►by: Stephen Karnaghan
Best Symbolic Film
Uprooted
We are resisting, but we can no longer keep grip of our Lebanon.

► by: Ghada Youssef
Best Symbolic Film
Paths
A dreamscape with three scenarios in the form of a visual Haiku poem depicting an evolution of escalating events projected onto nature...

►by: olof thiel
Best Original Screenplay
Foam der Attack
A foam sucks water from wherever it is. Scenario taking place in a swamp

► by: Art Vidger
Best Short Film
Decisions
Tal Movshovitz is a 20-year-old ballroom dancer. When she arrives at an international dance competition, the judge asks her why she came to the competition, and she remains on stage without an answer. The film is a journey into her head, heart, thoughts, and feelings.

►by: Bar Mardix
Best Short Film
Eiffel Tower
Nick and Zuzana visit Eiffel Tower in Paris for the first time. What could possibly go wrong?

► by: Nick von Schlippe
Best Dance Video
MONTERANO'S TALES
a dialogue, sometimes conflicting, between living and colorful bodies, and dead, gray stone. there's no winner.... diffent stories, short and intense meeting

►by: Marika Vannuzzi
Best Director
Honorary Mayor Sandra Massie Hines
When an underserved historical black community goes south, a Houston resident steps in to take back her community. Honorary Mayor Sandra Massie Hines of Houston, Texas has worked effortlessly to rebuild her community. Based on a true story.

► by: Arlene Russell
Best Music Video, Best Editing
Phone Call From Leavenworth
As the man enters Leavenworth Prison, he remembers what he had, what he did and what he lost. Realizing that he'd been standing with the devil all along. Take the journey into madness with this death row prisoner as he takes the last stop on the subway to hell.

►by: Rudy Strukoff
Best Mobile Film, Best Poster
Artist Mentality
A struggling artist is not confident about his latest artpiece & his critical inner-thoughts start getting to him.

► by: Jacob Deem
Best Short Film
The Waves in Eflat & F (A Conversation with my Mother)
With a knock at the door Joe, not realising, allows a strange toy clown into the house. All the Clown wants to do is have a bit of fun. The clowns mischief leads Jake to believe his older brother Joe is playing tricks on him. There is only so many pranks Jake will take, he stomps on the clown on his way to confront Joe. However, the clown doesn't take being mistreated well and soon escalates his shenanigans, will the brothers pay the price?

►by: Daniel Michael Thomas
Best Sound Design
Jealousy
Jealousy is an experimental 3D animation. It features an elemental digital construction of the plantation house meticulously described in the seminal 1957 novel La Jalousie by French writer Robbe-Grillet. No characters are depicted in the animation – just as the novel emphasizes settings and objects over characters/dialogue. The compulsively observed settings and objects reveal the obsessive mindset of the main character, a jealous husband who suspects his wife of having an affair. The soundtrack features sounds described in the novel; nocturnal animal cries, insects whirring, etc. The animation expands on the novel by making settings and objects dynamic; furniture self-constructs, objects move, and lights shift.

► by: Kimberly Burleigh
Best Original Screenplay
El Capitan
A young Latino Boy promises his dying Uncle that he would make something of himself. He becomes the Golden Boy of boxing and fulfills his destiny by fighting for something much bigger than himself, for injustice and prejudice. Follow RC through the wonderful heartfelt 80's, as he finds his way into his calling!

►by: Raul Cantu
Best Student Film
Past, Future, Now
While the nightmares she sees in her daily life turn into delusions and hallucinations, Arzu decides to apply to the hospital. The owner of this hospital takes people on a journey in their own minds. Arzu's wish is to remember the mysterious man in the depths of her mind, who continues to be a part of her nightmares. The things she will remember will drag her into big traumas.

► by: Ferit Doğan
Best Original Screenplay
"Child of the Shroud"
An overly-ambitious scientist creates controversy and heartache in his effort to prove the validity of the Shroud of Turin. The increasingly obsessed scientist switches the Shroud DNA with the frozen embryo of a couple from Cincinnati, believing that once a child is born with Christ’s DNA, the world will finally know the truth.

►by: David Young, Lana White
Best Short Film
Save My Sole
A detective on the last leg of his career has the case of the century fall into his hands. Detective Curieux must find the culprits behind the theft of the rare African Sole Diamond and the murder of an employee at the wrong place at the wrong time, all the while batting personal demons, and a decision that will change his life forever.

► by: Kenneth Garner
Best Short Film
This Strange Eventful History
The innocence of infancy, the blessings of childhood, the toil of work, the wretchedness of hard times, the pain of growing old. In short, the stages of our lives. It's the same - and yet not the same - the whole world over. All portrayed in this film by much-loved poetry and evocative photography.

► by: Richard Slater
Best Short Film
Son of Carnival
In Rio de Janeiro a director of a samba school and a german traveller live a love affair that can only survive by winning the carnival and bridging an ocean. A passion is running high in the carnival 2020, when Baco (Marcelo Brou), the director of Rio de Janeiro’s samba school Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel, gets to know the German Mark (Ralf Itzel) in a rehearsal. Although very different one from the other, they get enchanted by their opposite worlds and decide to go for a relationship. Baco invites Mark to stay with him in his apartment and Mark extends his stay. What is supposed to go on for weeks turns into two years. Even trying hard, Mark doesn´t succeed to take his big love to Germany and, due to professional compromises, has to go back alone to his home country. That´s the start of our story, that begins from the end. The fact that they live in different countries and time zones with different habits undermines their relationship. Their love gets lost in the everyday life. Mark starts to hate the carnival, that had united them in the beginning, because he wants Baco at his side. But Baco is a son of carnival, with the life goal to win Rio´s carnival championship at any cost. Desperate, Mark returns by surprise to Brazil and has a discussion with Baco at the door of his apartment. The principal location of the story is the hall of the building where we see starts and ends, arrivals, waits and departures and also sex, love and betrayal. The story is not only about love but about where love can take us. How many mountains can it move and what can two lovers do when there is an ocean in between them? “What happens in the carnival, stays in the carnival.”


► by: Pedro Milward
Best Short Documentary
The last balafon master
Exploring the life of Burkinabe musician Mamadou Diabaté and the art of the Seenku language, which is expressed in extend with a music instrument, the balafon.

► by: Götz Raimund, Katharina Rusch
Best Feature Screenplay
LEARNING TO BE HUMAN
Rodney King asked the question: "Why can't we all just get along?" An ensemble of conflicting characters illustrate: Why... in Orange County, California. Boiled down, difference is essential.

► by: J Frederick
Best Feature Film
That Girl from Ukraine
This is a story inspired by true events, about a girl who moved out of Ukraine, because of the war in her country. Upon arriving to Poland, in the camp, she meets with an older guy, who seems helpful and responsible and caring and helps hosting her for a night before she travels to her friend to another city. As events unfold, they seem to have found a friend in each other. But his past troubled experiences with women, and his life experiences, let his male ego come into this new relationship, which eventually takes a turn and a friendship which could have done well for both to start a new life, comes to an end.

► by: Mohinder Pal Singh Sobti
Best Web-Series
Football is Sexy Talk Show
Football is Sexy is a new concept of women who talk and teach football.

► by: Jenny Lizette Alas
Best Short Film
Cipher
A psychotic courier's daughter is kidnapped in order to force her to deliver a package from Coney Island to the Bronx.

► by: Garfield Boston
Best Short Film
Best Director
Best Producer
Best Feature Film
Boschi, cavar carbone
Marco Riva
Best Short Documentary
Best Feature Documentary
Best Animation
Best Music Video
Best Thriller
Best Romance
Best Drama
Best Dark Comedy
Best Black & White Film
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Best No-Dialogue Film
Best Experimental Film
Best Student Film
ZAUBERWEGE - On the path to music
Francesca Canali
Best Educational Film
Admonition
Katelin Stack
Best Short Screenplay
Best Feature Screenplay
You Must Be This Tall
Randall R. Reese
Best Television Script
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor
Best Photography
Best Cinematography
ACES
Jordan-Paige Sudduth
Best Actress
Best Editing
White unicorn
Anna Lvovna Мakeeva
Best Original Score
Best Costume Design
Best Poster
Best Short Film
The Chief of Nash Valley & The Saga Continues
Aundra' Michael Segrest
Best Feature Film
Best Short Documentary
Best Feature Documentary
Best Animation
Best Music Video
ACES
Jordan-Paige Sudduth
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Best No-Dialogue Film
Best Experimental Film
Best Student Film
Best Educational Film
A Vampire's Dilemma
Wayne Landreth
Best Short Screenplay
The Coal Miner's War
Randall Reese
Best Feature Screenplay
Retribution 03.10.16
Michael W. Reid
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Photography

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