Best Feature Film
My Amish World
Dir. Samuel Wickey
2017 USA
A film produced and directed by an Amish man, Samuel Wickey. In this incredible story based on true events, the mother and father are overwhelmed with emotion when their children are severely bullied in a public school, and the father wants his family to leave the Amish.
In this story about an Amish family struggling with the upbringing of a boy born with an enigmatic mental disorder, they are gripped by fear and astonishment when they witness the boy has unusual artistic abilities. The mother and father are deeply concerned since their strict Amish religion, teaches that any form of artistic expression is forbidden.
The boy and his siblings are raised by a mother who cannot embrace them, praise them or even say I love you. They must only pray that God heals them. In a family deeply ingrained in a religion where parents are forbidden to express love for their children, the father breaks the chains of fear and oppression to allow hope, the expression of love and freedom to leave the Amish.
Best Short Film
Blessed Days
Dir. Valentina Casadei
2017 France
Adele, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.
Best Documentary Film
Through the Looking Glass
Dir. Yi Cui
2017 China
On a high-land Tibetan pasture, a screening event unfolds quietly. Monks, herdsmen and their families gather by the screen to observe life captured through their own lenses.
Best Animation
Saturn in Leo
Dir. Anna Sagadin
2018 Croatia
In outer space with no common physical laws, where on each planet lives but one creature, they’re faced with heaviness of free time. Each of them spends it differently indulging in useless activities and setting artificial goals for themselves due to lack of purpose, not knowing they were created merely for one lonely person’s amusement.
Best Music Video
Wax Dance
Dir. Laura Fernandez K.
2018 Spain
With strokes of the Greek myth of Pygmalion, an adult and solitary man falls in love with a mannequin. He buys it and takes it home. In the intimacy which four walls offer him, the man will dress and love her. During this process he faces small problems that remind him that she is not a real woman. Nevertheless, with a little bit of imagination and a lot of love, anything can be solved. Combining confusion with an equally disturbing and beautiful atmosphere, in the end even we will doubt of the real existence of life in that mannequin
Best Experimental
MEDIUM RARE
Dir. Luca Cioci
2018 Italy
Analyzing human interaction with objects and their functional and aesthetic presence in recurrent, yet questionable domestic scenarios.
Best Video Art
The Little Chapel
Dir. Richard Schertzer
2016 USA
A young girl attempts to bring back the dead in a little chapel.
Best Actor, Best Actress
Ignacio Garcia-Bustelo, Valentina Brodsky
Silencio
Dir. Paphangkorn Punchantarak
2018 USA
A lonely composer secludes himself from the outside world until he finds companionship with a young deaf female who lights him up with a mysterious, beautiful song.
Best Screenplay
The Tea Room Terrie Anderson USA 2018
Best Director
Oudos
Dir. Apostolos Karoulas
2017 Greece
A man crosses the threshold of his memory to face the eternal questioning of human existence. Oudos (the ancient greek term for threshold) is a trip to the perpetual transition from life to death and vice versa.
Best Cinematography
The Long Wet Grass
Dir. Justin Davey
2017 Ireland
As dawn breaks over a remote lakeside in the West of Ireland, a car comes to a halt and a man all in black exits. He opens the boot (trunk) and we find there a terrified, barefoot woman. As he leads her to the edge of the lake they start to argue and we discover that they have been there before as children. We learn that under his harsh rules she has committed a crime worthy of execution, but she defends herself, her humanity, and challenges his fanaticism. As the missed chances of their past come to light we watch to see if she can convince him to let her go.
Best Editing
Incidences
Dir. James Woods
2017 Australia
An irreverent Australian adaptation of Daniil Kharms’s 1936 short story, Incidences follows a principled journalist whose integrity is called into question as she investigates the mysterious death of a Russian ambassador.
FEATURE
SINGLE PALM TREE
Dir. PUTHIYAVAN RASIAH
United Kingdom
Sex Weather
Dir. Jon Garcia
USA
A Girl Who Loves A Girl
Dir. Laurent Boulanger
Australia
Te absolvo
Dir. Carlo Benso
Italy
SHORT
Maria
Dir. Giovanni Rustanto
Czech Republic
REBIRTH (PUNARJANAM)
Dir. AMAR JYOTI JHA
India
The Sconfessions
Dir. Pasquale Cangiano
Italy
Hannya
Dir. Daniel Mine
Italy
Shinrin-Yoku (forest bathing)
Dir. Mark Knight
USA
SOMETHING IN THE DARKNESS
Dir. Fran Casanova
Spain
DOCUMENTARY
SARA
Dir. Eva Cruells Lopez
Spain
Stranger in The Mountains
Dir. Li-Shao Lee
Taiwan
Days in Panic
Dir. Haemyung Kwon
Korea, Republic of
Murder on the Reef
Dir. Allen Dobrovolsky, Alex Fitzwater
Australia
Masters of Resonance
Dir. Francois Driessen, Jeremy Bout, Larissa Hofman
Canada
Reinventing Rosalee
Dir. Lillian Glass
USA
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists
Dir. John L Potash
USA
A dignified death
Dir. Jesse van Venrooij
Netherlands
ANIMATION
The last fiction
Dir. Ashkan Rahgozar
Iran, Islamic Republic of
I-OCCUPY
Dir. Lorenzo Lodovichi
Italy
Spanish Onion
Dir. Brian Neong San
Australia
Dante’s Hell Animated
Dir. Boris Acosta
USA
Pensioners Chips Episode 5 US Presidential Campaign
Dir. Joachim Weber
Germany
UnSketched
Dir. Leonardo Cantu
Brazil
EXPERIMENTAL
Bent On Somnolence
Dir. Timothy McCarthy
USA
Victor Goodview
Dir. Vincent Turturro
USA
Me Too — Fuck You — It’s Time For Action
Dir. Jenny Hsia, Paul Ruven
Netherlands
THEOX
Dir. Giorgos Nikopoulos
Greece
Maria’s Silence
Dir. Cesare Bedogne
Greece
MUSIC VIDEO
Red Omen — Ed Roman
Dir. Ed Roman, Nelson Diaz and There Be Dragons Creative Media
USA
Maladie
Dir. ALESSANDRO D’AMBROSI, SANTA DE SANTIS
Italy
Boom goes Julian
Dir. Stevie Big Gee
Australia
Corridor
Dir. Cassandre Emanuel
Canada
Scandal
Dir. Pablo Mengin-Lecreulx
Reunion
Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) — Sparks
Dir. Joseph Wallace
United Kingdom
Why We Run — A Moment To Return
Dir. Andrew Seaton
Australia
VIDEO ART
Broken Nature
Dir. Priscila Forone
Brazil
Experiments in the resonance of control
Dir. Charlie Ford
USA
Nirvana of Sodom
Dir. Xie Tian(B.R.Sky)
China