BEST OF FEST
A Day in the Life of a Boy by Niklas Bauer
A Girl and a Gun by P.E. Joubert
Coffin by Y. Cai, N. Crabot, H. Huang, M. Janiw, M. Lebon and T. Tran Ngoc
Em Chu Em Nie Zi Bo by Edward Lai
Grandma‘s House by Dante Jiayu Liu
It’s So Charming by Svend Colding
Loves, with love by Jomin Chan Po-man
Make Aliens Dance by Sébastien Petretti
Pathfinder by Adam Rubin and Dan Lior
Servus Karl by Thomas Bischof
Shimmer Summer by Tong Mao
The Last Nazi Hunter by Yuval Berger and Matan Galin
BEST SHORT FILM
A Day in the Life of a Boy by Niklas Bauer
A Girl and a Gun by P.E. Joubert
Astronauts by Mariano Cabaco
Haute Cuisine by Merryl Roche
Mars Colony by Noel Fuzellier
Panda by Jacob Fangel Løgstrup
Rebel by Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Rosa by Jean-Michel Gervais and Gabriel J. Lemay
Signals by Bryan Wynn Sutton
The Speech by Haohao Yan
Tom. by Matan Abramovitz
With Arms Wide Open by George Paraschiv
BEST FEATURE FILM
12 Words by Juan Antonio Anguita
By the Grace of… by Dylan Reid
External by Jonathan and Leandro Taub
From Where There Is Nothing by Tylor Myers
Green Flake by Mauli Junior Bonner
In The Shadows by Erdem Tepegöz
Like a Friend by Yi Han
Mambo Man by Mo Fini and Edesio Alejandro
Pulk by Julian Filigno
Senior Citizen by Marinos Kartikkis
Stand Up! Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places by Timo Jacobs
Veneer by Maximillian Aguiar
BEST SHORT DOC
12th Street by Gregory Lovett and Matthijs Heesemans
2020: A Diary of Isolation by Mariusz Wirski
Big Food: The Power of the Food Industries by Anderson dos Santos
Bussi, Baba by Bahare Ruch
Delivery by Christopher Haddock
Fluffypunk by Thomas Harman
Mimmo by Matthew Bell
Navras by Marco Huertas
Odd Man Out by Antonio Donato
Pathfinder by Adam Rubin and Dan Lior
The Flame of Memory by Rod Aloras
Una tempesta di sabbia by Andrea Gadaleta Caldarola
BEST FEATURE DOC
Alone Across the Arctic by Francis Luta
And Crying Out I’m Going To Die by Luis Bruzón Delgado
Between Heaven and Earth by Zenon Kristen
Cap20100: A Common Goal by Paolo Marelli
Cryptopia by Torsten Hoffmann and Michael Watchulonis
Elian by Julián Lona
Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickle and Rebecca Tickell
No Roses On A Sailor’s Grave by Daniel Oron
Route 4 by Martina Chamrad
The Man Who Shot Beckett by David Bickley
Under Threat by Ewa Stankiewicz
When The Roads End by Lorenzo Borghini
BEST ANIMATION SHORT
Birth on the Other Side of the Mountain by Arisa Wakami
Chocolate by Lili Zhang
Coffin by Y. Cai, N. Crabot, H. Huang, M. Janiw, M. Lebon and T. Tran Ngoc
Gekou by Ajisa Asai
Hostess by Alexander Bubnov
Renai Dance by Zhike Yang, Wenjie Wu and Han Chen Chang
Snow Shelter by Robertas Nevecka
Stereotype by Nahyun and Dahyun Beak
The Promise by Boris Bubnov
The Winter by Xin Li
To be a Goat by Milda Kargaudaitė
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Contain by Dani Maloneyv
In Remembrance by Hali Traina
Infinity of the Universe by Evren Özgür
It Won’t be in Words by Cora Rozencohn
Lyric Suite by Inaki Abalos and Samuel Gonzalez
Maps by Alex Barrera
Nexilis by Robin E. Lee
Rain Pot by Gordon Moore
The Mermaid & the Artist by Ruby Phelan
Tricot by Jacopo Greco d’Alceo
Wild Will by Alan King
You are (not) the only one by Riccardo Albertazzi
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
2 Down by Sam Farage
Birds of Spray by Ted Griswold
Dormo Poco Sogno Molto by Paolo Santamaria
Flux by DFTCNT
Flying by Alexandre Richard
Hand of Time by Lejla Subasic
Hey Boy by MissMe
Just A Candle by Berkay Türk
Katerinha – Trippin by Milena Viitman
Past & Present by Juliette Balthazard
Short Term by Andre Cahoun
Yamakasi by Egor Tarasov and Vladimir Ivanov
BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT
Check please! by Elea Clair
Dirty Sean by Nicolas Vasseur
Fish on a Stick by Jan Linhart
Nightfire by Brando Benetton
Resistance by Maxime Chefdeville
Silent by Leonardo Saggese
The Coroner by Fabio Soares and Mike Zonnenberg
Vif by Sébastien Iannuzzi
We Are at War by Emmanuel Fricero
BEST TRAILER
By the Grace of… by Dylan Reid
Disconnected by Nard van Vrijaldenhoven
Hannya by Eva Muñoz
Mambo Man by Mo Fini and Edesio Alejandro
Nexilis by Robin E. Lee
Pathfinder by Adam Rubin and Dan Lior
Pulk by Julian Filigno
Renai Dance by Zhike Yang, Wenjie Wu and Han Chen Chang
Servus Karl by Thomas Bischof
Signals by Bryan Wynn Sutton
Vif by Sébastien Iannuzzi
Wild Will by Alan King
BEST POSTER
It’s look Sunshine by Kim Seunghwan
Exile by Gandongying
Kiss me Through the Window by Kodaka Sari
Mambo Man by Mo Fini and Edesio Alejandro
Pathfinder by Adam Rubin and Dan Lior
Pulk by Julian Filigno
Rosa by Jean-Michel Gervais and Gabriel J. Lemay
Scarlet by Lisa Ranran Hu
Singing Alone With A Farewell by Yi Xiong
The Long Journey by Ying Zhang
Tick by Jack Settipane
When the Tide Rises by Alex Jiang
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
By the Sea by Rona Castrioti
Can I Jog Your Memory by John Pope
Desert Rose by Aina Swartz
Firecracker by Robert L. Richard, William Stewart
Grey by Marc Castaldo
I Wouldn’t Touch That by Meik V. Fischer
I’m not a Superhero by James Tyler
Keep an Eye on David by Kevin Wilde
Mute by Stephanie Zachariadis
Obolus by Kim Fabienne Hertinger
Ripple by Rory Tasker
Shooting Rats by Cameron Millar-Turner
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
1000 Pesos by Todd Tavolazzi
At the Flash by Sean Chandler and David Leeper
Black by Alexander Penn and Michael Tapakoudes
In Between by Piotr Tołoczko and Piotr J. Lewandowski
Meet The Beatles by Adam Hall, Kahle McCann
Oscar’s Group Home by Isaac Ballesteros Barba
Paper Tiger by Brad Porter
Southern Gothic by John Budge and Adam Davenport
Swank’s! by Ed Bookman
The Lamplighter by Pamela Hanson
The Red Clot by Bo Svenson
The Wolf-Pointe by Julianna Pitt
BEST DIRECTOR
Dylan Reid for By the Grace of…
Haohao Yan for The Speech
Edward Lai for Em Chu Em Nie Zi Bo
Jacob Fangel Løgstrup for Panda
Jonathan and Leandro Taub for External
Li Yunrui for Peacock
Matan Abramovitz for Tom.
Niklas Bauer for A Day in the Life of a Boy
Sébastien Petretti for Make Aliens Dance
Svend Colding for It’s So Charming
Walter Della Mura for The Chant of the Sea
Yi Han for Like a Friend
BEST SCREENWRITER
Chris Casey and Alex Redd for All the Changes
Gautier Renault for a Girl and a Gun
George Paraschiv for With Arms Wide Open
Hu Yudi for Always Be Green
Jean-Michel Gervais for Rosa
Merryl Roche for Haute Cuisine
Niklas Bauer for A Day in the Life of a Boy
Noel Fuzellier for Mars Colony
Thomas Bischof for Servus Karl
Tong Mao and 2Fmaze for Shimmer Summer
Yuval Berger and Matan Galin for The Last Nazi Hunter
Wang Miaoyan for Heat Death
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Azeem Mohammad for MOMme
Chris Song for The River Will Carry Them
Gabriel Brault-Tardif for Rebel
Judith Stehlik for Servus Karl
Jaco Wong for Em Chu Em Nie Zi Bo
Kuan-Kai Chen for The Gift of All
Lukas Daugbjerg for It’s So Charming
Nicholas Bupp for The Falconer
Ori Ben Ari for The Last Nazi Hunter
Sylvain Freyens for Make Aliens Dance
Tang Xiaohu for The Hanging Garden
Wenchuan Lu for Shimmer Summer
BEST EDITING
Alan King for Wild Will
Éric Pinéda for Anna
Julian Filigno for Pulk
Kodaka Sari for Kiss Me through the Window
Matan Abramovitz for Tom.
Miguel Lomana for Astronauts
Pia Dumont for Do You Also Feel a Tingle?
Pier-Philippe Chevigny for Rebel
Qiu Chaoyue for Take a Breath
Tian Jiaming for Aquatic Bird
Vinay for MOMme
Zoë S. Taylor for Signals
BEST SOUND
Cavallo Pazzo for Pachamama
Echoic Audio for Blindsight
James Autery for Mantra
Kim Dong Myeong for Unwanted Gift
Kwok Ka Ki, Chan Chi Fung and Fung Yiu Tong for Lemon Milk
Marco De Bonis for You are (not) the only one
Nicolas Rivière, Elias Cheyroux, Ronan Mallejac and Lionel Guenoun for Hannya
The Sound Department of Signals
Sagtens Film Collective for Marbles
Wang Zhuo for Aquatic Bird
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Amc Studio for A Girl and a Gun
Clemens Salesny for Servus Karl
Dvir Golan for Minus One
Joris Saaltink for Disconnected
Lanterns On The Lake for Make Aliens Dance
Matúš Široký for The Silence
Michel Chereau for Sandier
Pengjie Wang for The River Will Carry Them
Sagtens Film Collective for Marbles
Simon Greenberg for Contain
Slow Meadow for Nexilis
Vladimir Khlopovsky for Aquatoria
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Bao Kaiyue for The Stage of Golden Beach
Diana Strausz for The Silence
Heike Mirbach for Servus Karl
Iria Cabado for De Perfil
Kris Deskins for Alina 2020
Little One
Naomi Larocque for You Should Do Better
Oksana Markina and Alana Bitarova for Пuzzle
Peter Sparke for One War
Teresa Grosser for Stand Up!
The Young LC for Young, Broke n Boujee
Xiao Fang for Em Chu Em Nie Zi Bo
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Ailís Logan for Wine Lak
Ailish Castillo for The Widow
Alai Yangmei for Em Chu Em Nie Zi Bo
Anai Gonzáles Prieto for De Perfil
Anaïs Parelló for Hannya
Birgit Stauber for A Day in the Life of a Boy
Fanny Bernth for It’s So Charming
Gao Yunli for Always Be Green
Mollie Cowen for 3 Sleeps
Roberta Misticone for The Chant of the Sea
Sishuo Le for The Good Day
Suzie Léger for Astronauts
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Dylan Reid for By the Grace of…
Eduardo Olmos for Grandma’s House
Hans Jesse Beyerling for A Day in the Life of a Boy
Liyang Sima for Shimmer Summer
Nathan Au Yeung for Blue Hour
Nicholas Waters for Little One
Raphael Reboul for Native Speaker
Shilo Abelard for Mti
Theo Van de Voorde for Mars Colony
Théodore Pellerin for Rosa
Timo Jacobs for Stand Up!
Yuval Jonas for The Last Nazi Hunter
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Au Ga Man Patra for Before It Melts
Brianna Leonard for From Where There Is Nothing
Claudette Williams for The Colour of Spring
Eileen Pollock for Make Aliens Dance
Elizabeth Ehrlich for External
Evdokia Germanova for My Mom is (not) the best one
Laura Bellomo, Kahli Williams, Bianca Clare and Jessica Greenall for Reality Cheque
Minjia Zhao for Shimmer Summer
Rebeca Robles for Alina 2020
Sophie De Fürst for Hannya
Susan R. Taylor for Signals
Tatjana Marjanovic for Little One
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Abhinav for MOMme
Álex Ramos for 12 Words
Augustin Groz for The Last Nazi Hunter
Edin Gali for Alina 2020
Henrik Birch for It’s So Charming
Homer Shew for By the Grace of…
Jasper Bagg for Rage
Liao Jiajun for The Hanging Garden
Mariano Cabaco for Astronauts
Philippe Rebbot for Mars Colony
Philippe Résimont and Sébastien Houbani for Haute Cuisine
Vedat Erincin for In the Shadows