NOVEMBER 2021

FINALISTS

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Absence by Wu Lang
Apple Tree by Olya Azhnakina
Barrier by Niels Bourgonje
Bluestar by François Vacarisas
Brother Troll by Gudmund Helmsdal
Drowning Fish by Xiang Zhang
Inheritance by Yana Riahi
Julia by Jean-Marie Bonny
Meadow by Klil Kovesh
Memories of Crossing by Alberto Segre
Phoenix by Balsem Errouh Oukhay
Shabnam by Zabiullah Saifi Askari
The Best Orchestra in the World by Henning Backhaus
The Tomatoes of Thessaloniki by Marina Dumont
The Wet Nurse by Arnold de Parscau
The Wolf by Guillerme Alain and Sensi Lucas
Undertow by Fareed Kairon
Us Two Or Nothing by Karina Beuthe Orr
Vortex by Congjian Xiao
Young Love in a Dirty Place by Reinis Spaile

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Ali’s Nature by Levent Cetin
Fra due battiti by Stefano Usardi
Night, Mother by John Patrick Lowrie
Rondinella by Domenico de Ceglia
The Bezonians by Savvas D. Michael
Vasectomia by Marc Décosterd
Where the Merrows Roam by Colin Hickey
Whistle Blowers by Antoine Collin

 

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Bertha and the Wolfram by Tijs Torfs
Forget me not by Giuseppe Petruzzellis and Fabio Marin
Guardians of Paradise by Ivan Maria Friedman
I am a Guardian by Bianca Butti and Claire Paparazzo
La Lixeira: the Invisibles’ Dignity by Guido Galante and Antonio Notarangelo
Mask Uncovered by Reilly Archer-Whelan
Team Lioness: Kenya’s All-Female Anti-Poaching Unit by Jake Tupman and Jack Somerville
The Last Extinction by Reilly Archer-Whelan
UTA: The Climb for Kosovo by Jake Tupman and Jack Somerville
Zenerù by Andrea Grasselli

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Architects by Olga Peretyatkova
BBoy Fiero: la passione è la mia forza by Roberto Pili
Before the Close of Day by Peter Lucas
Forgotten Dreams by Marwa El Sharkawy
Free Your Body! by Fabiomassimo Lozzi
Grass Between Cobblestones by Jorge Ruiz Abánades
On the Beat: From the Street to a Star by Carl Eneroth
The Makeover of Ashton Croyd by Øystein Kloster

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Coming Home by Yee Wei Chai
Daisies and Sparrows by Ervin Han
Ethereal Shift by Julie Goldstein
How to Meet 42nd Sheep by Yasu Tanaka
I still remember by Flora Chilton
Red 69 by Antonio Sergio Spagnol
Santiago by Andrey Koulev
Tramples: the Murderhorse by Rhys Reed-Johnson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Afuera by Matteo Zenini
Anna’s Manifesto by Mariana Modirca
Cold Single by Mel Hsieh and Item Idem
Dream of Water and Song by Sam Luk
Flux | Meltdown. Not a moment to spare… by Angela Eames
Humanic Disorder by Harry Liang
Humming in the Dark by Wynona Bakker
Nadia by Famil Agayev
Tempest by Jāzeps Podnieks
Winter Will Not Be by Dmitri Frolov

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Ælesya – Pyramid by Jean-Christophe Garcia
Célestin – Miss Lune by Geoffroy Virgery
Charlie McCarron – Language Breakdown by Vanessa Powers
De.Ville – Water by Jean-Vital Joliat
Emian – Januae by  Elio Nubes De Filippo and Jessica Squillante
Hush Forte – Look Closely by Cam DeMars, Simon Morrison and Hush Forte
Oberbaum – We Yearn by Gilles de Voghel
Toned – New Regimes by Kenji Jones

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

A Kill by Dagomir Kaszlikowski
A Woman by Andrea Castelli 
Burlington Line by Devin A. Rice
Colosseum by Adam Jay Crawford
Odette by Pascot Sebastien
Part 1: Sofia by Karina Sorelli
She Will Never Learn by Shannon Phelan

BEST FEATURE/TV SCREENPLAY

 

2nd Date by Jaik Andino
Code 10 by Matthew Margo
Moment of Glory by Ben Fiore
Spirits of Christmas by Deborah Blouet
The Ark of Memory by Giovanni Mondelli 
The Sicken by Danny Alex

BEST WEB-SERIE / TV PILOT

 

All Good by Alberts Vieglins
Arthur II by Nick Rusconi
Instant Karma by Annie Wood
Pandemic Stories by Raphaello
Seasoned by Aretha Tatum, Andre Blaze Rodgers, Brittney L. Hogan and Marion McMillan
Soiled Shorts: The Series by Giles Sander