2022 – 2023

ANNUAL NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

Du bout des doigts by Léo Poignard
Nakam by Andreas Kessler
Nocturnal Burger by Reema Maya
The Eyes Of Doña Lucy by Juan Carlos Hinojosa Flores, Jonathan Gerardo Romero
Tsutsué by Amartei Armar
Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang

BEST SHORT FILM

 

All is well by Karolina Ford, Mirosław Kłopotowski
Lions by Beru Tessema
Nocturnal Burger by Reema Maya
The Eyes Of Doña Lucy by Juan Carlos Hinojosa Flores, Jonathan Gerardo Romero
Tsutsué by Amartei Armar
Violence by Emil Engesnes Bråthen

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

A Cross In The Desert by Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic
Flight animal by Mikael Palm
Près de Moi by Alex Guéry
The City of Abysses by Priscyla Bettim, Renato Coelho
The last bath by David Bonneville
The Otherkind by Mary Christine Russell

BEST SHORT DOC

 

An Apple and Two Cherries by Mina Petrović
Ballada for Galilei by Ralitza Dimitrova
Breathing by Victor Petrenko, Maria Pankova
Chieira by Luís Esteves
Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

João Ayres, an Independent Painter by Diogo Varela Silva
Petro-Melancholy – The oil age in the mirror of art by Mathias Frick
Project Iceman by Ammar Kandil
Songs of The Living by Cécile Allegra
THE DESERT THAT WAS NOT by Pablo Enrique Kühnert
Wayward by Ross Casswell

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

A guerra finita by Simone Massi
Clinical Lycanthropy by Emilio Giacomelli, Francesco Pesiri
Granny’s Sexual Life by Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard
I knocked on my home’s door by Matthew Khoury
Season by Giovanna Lopalco
Sem by Joke Duwaerts

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Little Black Dog by Cem Deniz Karakoçoğlu
Lost Images by Cesare Bedogne
Luftraum by Dirk Koy
Pulsion by Vincent Menjou-Cortes
The Secret History of Tardigrades in Early Soviet Cinema by Jeffrey Turboff
Yesterday ended last night by Galenus Zhou, Jia Jie Lin, Ze Cong Kuang

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Kogershin by Malik Zenger
Nother feat. Moon Leap – Us by Marco Santi
Out of sight by Dirk Koy
Thirsty Eyes – Pop Sent (Yamaha) by Alexander Worsch
Totemo – My Gravity by Young-Wook Paik
Us to Stop by Sagiv Avramov, Yair Mazar

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Canis Familiaris by Joris Goulenok
L.I.F.E.: P’s & Q’s by Dathan Smith
Old People by Karam Singh
Pastiche by Shivaan Makker
Stationheads by Stu Gamble
The Interview/The Inquest by Angeline Walsh

BEST TRAILER

 

 

A Scene to Remember by Zhenyu Li
Better Together by Justin Tang, Rishabh Trivedi
Boys Will Be by Jake Moss
Pink Fireworks by Lee Zhongqin
Project Iceman by Ammar Kandil
Yesterday ended last night by Galenus Zhou, Jia Jie Lin, Ze Cong Kuang

BEST POSTER

 

 

Fatih the Conqueror by Onur Yagiz
Lesser fullness of grain by Wang Honglong
Replacement by Jacek Redźko
The Lunatic by Kasia Damulewicz
Treat by Rémy Barbe
Zaqqum, The Tree Of Hell by Hesam Sharifi

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Adam & Eve by Filippo Lusiani
Dive Into The Blue by Ge Gao
Plastic Madonna by Elina Eihmane
Play, Rewind, Play it Again by Soroush Hosseini
Untold Pieces by Alexandr Borecký
WINTER by Roberto Romano

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

1987 by Andrew Lane Fox
Carnegie’s Call by Ryan J Skinner
Meteor by Line Rainville, Franco Pirrone
Pictures of Us by Brian Lutes
Steph by Oksana Prysiazhniuk
The Same River Twice by Pam Mandel, Amy Guth

BEST DIRECTOR

 

 Andreas Kessler for Nakam
Amartei Armar for Tsutsué
Juan Carlos Hinojosa Flores, Jonathan Gerardo Romero for The Eyes Of Doña Lucy
Léo Poignard for Du bout des doigts
Reema Maya for Nocturnal Burger
Shuli Huang for Will You Look At Me

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Andrea Benjamin Manenti, Giulia Grandinetti for Guinea Pig
Diogo Varela Silva for João Ayres, an Independent Painter
Emil Engesnes Bråthen for Violence
Lucca Joël Donalies for Distant
Rémy Barbe for Treat
Urška Djukić for Granny’s Sexual Life

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Andrii Lysetski, Konstantyn Klyatskyn, Denys Vorontsov, Denys Tokarev for Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles
Harshvir Oberai for Nocturnal Burger
Julien Grandjean for Treat
Marion Rivière for Du bout des doigts
Shuli Huang for Will You Look At Me
Théo Reynal for The Black Hen

BEST EDITING

 

Cesare Bedogne for Lost Images
Mariusz Gos and Aleksandra Smardz for The Sixth Finger
Niccolò Notario for Guinea Pig
Nobuo Coste and Nicolas Milteau for Tsutsué
Urška Djukić for Granny’s Sexual Life
Weiste De Zwart for Shut

BEST SOUND

 

Klevr Sounddesign for Shut
Lorenzo Danesin for A guerra finita
Mariia Nesterenko for Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles
Sasa Mirosavljevic-Don for A Cross in the Desert
SETHU VENUGOPAL, DEVRAJ BHOWMIK for Nocturnal Burger”
Stuart Ankers for Mercy Land

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Arrigo Barnabè for The City of Abysses
Hugo Rossi for The Ball
Josè Alberto Gomes, Jonatan Blati for The Last Bath
Mathias Duplessy for Songs of The Living
Sebastien Damiani for Concrete Heart
Zhang Disheng for The Female General’s Moustache

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic for A Cross in the Desert
Laura Jasmin Schäffler for Nakam
Liu Erfang for The Female General’s Moustache
Lucile Auclair, Amélie Waille for The Midwife
Morgane Bellefet for Treat
Tryna Knock for The Carpenter

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Badu Morais for August Sky
Fiona Lang for Membran
Michal Karni for Fully Effaced
Millo Sunka for Nocturnal Burger
Sylvie Lachat for Orgasm
Sylvie Lachat for Treat

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Anton Krymskiy for Nakam
Eduardo Arca for The Eyes Of Doña Lucy
Gregor Knob for Distant
Martim Canavarro for The Last Bath
Piotr Zajączkowski for All Is Well
Thomas Curel for Faith the Conqueror

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Alice Thillard for The extravagant illnesses
Calypso Buijtenhuijs for Concrete Heart
Martha Morales for The Eyes Of Doña Lucy
Sabrina Bendjilali for Nemetta
Sibei Li for Promedipus Flower
Winne Imara for Lions

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Emre Öcal for Faith the Conqueror
Gabriel Narh Addo for Tsutsué
Ka-Neileo Cope for Lions
Marek Kossakowski for The Sixth Fingers
Mathieu Lourdel for Treat
Peter Miklusz for Nakam