Best Feature
Few Hours in Athens
Dir. Ari Papargyropoulos
When a young man’s grandfather dies, he returns to Greece. On the last day of his trip, in Athens, he meets Ellie. They decide to spend his remaining hours together, but as time goes by, it becomes more difficult for them to say goodbye.
Best Short
No. 7783B
Dir. Julian R. Garcia
Being different and questioning the system condemns us. Fitting into the system guarantees our survival.
Best Documentary
98
Dir. Evripidis Karydis
98 is an affectionate and poignant portrait of Eleni, an elderly woman living alone in her apartment. As Eleni reminisces about the old days in the village while struggling to perform everyday tasks, this short film expresses the fine line between solitude and the loneliness of ageing.
Best Web Series
The Elite 8
Dir. Jeryl Parade
The Elite 8 are Lane’s eight girlfriends from middle school to middle age. The relationships & episodes reflect Lane’s journey from math whiz kid to trader on Wall Street to soulful human being.
Best Animation
The Ribbon
Dir. Polla-Ilariya Kozino
The Ribbon is a beautiful short film about a little girl who wakes up in a magical world. Riddled in this little girl’s journey of beautiful sceneries and enchanting creatures, a deeper significance lies behind what meets the eye. The Ribbon is not just a children’s film after all. Join us on a little girl’s journey to find out why!
Best Music Video
Black Champagne
Dir. Jeremiah Williams
Black Champagne is an animated musical journey about a young priestess queen named Suraya and her confidant, priest king Jamari, who are both the spiritual and political leaders of an ancient, magical, Black civilization located on an island off the coast of Morocco.
Best Experimental
Me Too
Dir. Jose Luis Anaya
Based on Julio Cortazar’s short story «Graffiti», a young man and a young woman find themselves through art even though political pressure wants to separate them.
Best Video Art
Chromosoma
Dir. Sonia Kechagia
Chromosoma is a video art project heavily based on the art of body painting and the use of movement as a means to creating shifting sets.
Best Director
Tiara
Dir. Carrie Love
Marie struggles with issues of identity and belonging as her sister passes through a coming of age ceremony at church.
Best Actor
Your Own Good
Dir. Caleb Pilgrim
Actor Tyson Larter
A young boy, Hugo who lives under abusive environment and witnesses domestic violence in the family. He starts losing his own childhood and innocence, and one day he decides to stand up for his own and protect his mother.
Best Actress
Dust In The Abyss
Dir. Hongnian YU
Actress Xin TIAN
Like her 2 dead ex-husbands, the protagonist Qin Juan’s third husband suffers from severe pneumoconiosis due to the dusty working environment in the mine. Since her husband has no labour contract with the mine, he cannot get industrial compensation for getting occupational disease. Qin Juan can’t afford her husband’s treatment. However, Qin Juan cannot trap herself in the destiny tragedy of losing husband anymore. She plans to leave her husband to earn money in the town for his treatment.
Best Cinematography
Allegory of the Cave 2.0
Dir. Filippo Becciani
Modern revisitation of the «Allegory of the Cave» by the Greek philosopher Plato
Best Editing
Creation
Dir. Marcelle Abela
Award-winning poetic experimental short film about the conflicting nature of creation.
Best Feature Screenplay
THE LAST 12 HOURS OF JESUS
Writer Demetrio Casile
IS HE A LUNATIC? A JOKE? NO, IT’ S THE REAL JESUS. ON AN ORDINARY DAY , IN AN ORDINARY CITY, HE STOPS AT A CROSSING, AT A LOSS. NO ONE CAN GET CLOSER THAN FOUR INCHES FROM HIS BODY. THE QUIET LIFE OF THE CITY IS SOON DISRUPTED, THEN THE ONE OF THE NATION. IN A FEW HOURS, THE WHOLE WORLD IS OVERTURNED BY THE APPARITION OF THIS MOST ENIGMATIC FIGURE.
Best Short Screenplay
Williams Academy
Writer Colin Mulligan
In the hopes of rekindling his love for the job, a burned-out teacher from the Midwest becomes Vice-Principal at Manhattan’s most incongruous high school. Inspired by true events.
FEATURE
Immortal Hero
Dir. Hiroshi Akabane
Mocking of Christ
Dir. Jani Bojadzi
Convergence
Dir. Steve Johnson
The History of Everything Circa 1993 to the Present F/K/A Kissy Cousins Monster Babies and Morphing Elvis
Dir. Wayne Keeley
A Soldier Home
Dir. Jay Nuzum
Gross Century
Dir. Adam Samuel Cuttler
SHORT
Brunch Before Baptism
Dir. David C. Luck, Kent J. Arceneaux
Innocent Boy
Dir. Brock Cravy
Volkov
Dir. George Dibble
Skye Steele — Rise of Nefertiti
Dir. Howard Perry
Portrait of a Woman at Dawn
Dir. Cullen Douglas
SAVE 2.0
Dir. Ivan Sainz-Pardo
doomsday
Dir. Katsuhide Yamago
Peccatrice
Dir. Karolina Porcari
DOCUMENTARY
North Korea world 2019
Dir. Guyuan Tian
The Minds of Men
Dir. Aaron Dykes, Melissa Dykes
My Brother’s Pigeons
Dir. Hardi Qadir
Caffe e sigarette…please!
Dir. Alessandro Capone
Ever, Reve
Dir. Olivier Morel
WEB SERIES
TIANA — «Beginning»
Dir. Rachel Tucker
Demonologist For Hire: Exorcism For Beginners
Dir. Uisdean Murray
Location Scouts
Dir. Christiaan Van Vuuren, Connor Van Vuuren
How To Hate Yourself — Better Than You
Dir. Matt Danner
Chapter 2 | Tell me about Free Lanka
Dir. Moran Moradi
ANIMATION
To Your Last Death
Dir. Jason Axinn
See Me
Dir. Linghsiu Alice Tsai
Red Hands
Dir. Francesco Filippi
Super Science Friends — Episode 6 «Full Metal Scientist»
Dir. Laurel Dalgleish
It’s A Comedy, RELAX
Dir. John Williams
EXPERIMENTAL
Pink Bubblegum
Dir. Summa Cilem
Tunnelblick
Dir. Alek Imanov
TRISKELION
Dir. Stuart T Birchall
The Overground
Dir. Norberto Moran
Abandon
Dir. PAINT VK
MUSIC VIDEO
NU
Dir. Casota Collective, First Breath After Coma
Whitebone
Dir. Abhilash K
I Remember Nicole
Dir. Renee Sotile, Mary Jo Godges
Your Eyes, Will I Ever
Dir. Felicien Colmet Daage
Unspoken Spoken
Dir. Fin Walker, Ross McGibbon, Ben Park- Composer
VIDEO ART
Merga Bien — Damnatio Memoriae
Dir. Alex Memento & Tuby Divorami
Isle of the Dead
Dir. Benjamin Nuel
Dreamscape #1 — Lovers
Dir. Natasa Prosenc Stearns
Decomposition
Dir. Duygu Karabayraktar
[3+20]
Madam M.A
FEATURE SCREENPLAY
LAJJAWATI
Sumathy Ram, Charles Leopardo
Seven Acres
Paul William Miley
The Boy Who Rode The Dragon
Ian Feldman, Scott Morgan
Made In America
B K
Perry
RJ Watson
NINA
Bojana Sutic
The Sacred Sea
Jonathan Fear
Eddie the King
Phil Lombardi
Airborne — The Trials of Nine
Richard Clarke
MISERY MARCUS
LUCAS PAVETTO
Tesla
Walter Stewart
The Haunting of Reactor Five
Robert Leo Cox
SHORT SCREENPLAY
Fathers
Clarence Boyce
Maxim
Tim Brade
An Odyssey of Vengeance
Alex Barbu
Good Night Series, 1-4
Duncan Payne
Raymond Carver and Derrida’s Zombie Army
James Fitzmaurice
Forerunner
Geebran Warchausky Cristo
Kitchen
Vasil Mihail
Why?
Terrie Anderson
Herculean Task
Mark Allard-Will
Data Breach
Bethan Rees