2023 – 2024 ANNUAL AWARDS

ELIGIBLE FILMS

BEST OF FEST

 

As One by Haihan Chen
Musher by Guillaume Moscovitz
Burning Rage by Sam Yazdanpanna
Summer-Past by Qiao Ru Zhang
Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez
Supper by Andor Berényi
LIKES by Shuyue Su
FÁR by Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
No More Gravity At Night by Jaron Wong
BITTER by Hanieh Bozorgnia
WITH ALL DUE HUMANITY by Kacper Checinski
NADA DE TODO ESTO by Patricio Martínez, Francisco Cantón

BEST SHORT FILM

 

As One by Haihan Chen
Musher by Guillaume Moscovitz
Burning Rage by Sam Yazdanpanna
Summer-Past by Qiao Ru Zhang
Empty Heights, Moonlit Night by Canghai Lu
Supper by Andor Berényi
LIKES by Shuyue Su
FÁR by Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
No More Gravity At Night by Jaron Wong
BITTER by Hanieh Bozorgnia
WITH ALL DUE HUMANITY by Kacper Checinski
AUXILIAIRE by Lucas Bacle

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Peripheric Love by Luc Walpoth
Tiger Mom by Wei Zhang
Flowers bloom and wait for the groom to come by Zhong Hu
Afterwards by Stephen Thomas Wallis
Mist by Xin Ai
The Trap by Lena Headey
Eternal Playground by Joseph Rozé, Pablo Cotten
Song of Goats by Andrzej Jakimowski
The Other Shape by Diego Felipe Guzmán
The last act by Shahab Hossieni
EFC by Jaze Bordeaux
Lake George by Hamid Antonio Castro

BEST SHORT DOC

 

YAO by Dário Coelho
Requiem for a Whale by Ido Weisman
Weavers of Patan by Kiran Kesav
In His Pursuit – A Photographer’s Journey by Kiran Kesav
The Sowing by Jacek Redźko
LUCY – A pioneer destiny by Roberto Pili
She is still waiting for an apology by Xiaoxin Hong
TITI – In cyclone’s wake by Natasha Blatsiou 
Pathways for Peace by  JUANMA CASAS
intermezzo: The Art of Danilo Fiorucci by Saverio Mannocci
All Quiet On The Westlake by Wei Zishuo

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Food & Design by Mu-Ming Tsai
Unhusk by Jue Wang
Dalinor Lake by Heqian Tan
The Carnival: 125 Years of the Penn Relays by Justin Jarrett
This is Edik: A tale of a Gifted and Stolen Childhood by Ivan Proskuryakov
Black Sugar Red Blood by Luigi Toscano
Cassino Then and Now by Paolo Ameli
RESET by Min Bae
From Dust To Light by Antonis Kartezos
Primo – Sempre Grezzo by Guido Maria Coscino
Sunday League: Tales of Football Passion in Aba Charles by Francis Solomon
VAYCHILETIK by Juan Javier Pérez

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Chroma Wheel by Zechen Li
The Republic of Wine by Yuehang Li
Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez
Cause and Effect by Thomas McNicholas
Ship Down the Well by Xi Chen, Xiaolin Zhou, Liaoyu Chen
The First by Tiago Iúri
Panopticon by Woo Hyemin
The Running Man by Nikolay Nachev
WHAT RHYMES WITH TOXIC by Lynn Smith

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

The Collection by Xinyu Gao
Fallen cherries by Rong Duo
Life After Death by Daniel Popovic
Painful Flavours by Julian Hand
Chaos is King by Eduardo Stachow Figueiredo
The Art of Weightlessness by Moshe Mahler
The Same View Wherever You Look by Carmen Bamba
Nervio by Celia Arias, Manuel Mollá
Honestly, I’m not sure by Ross Casswell
Little Yellow Flower by Chien-Ping Lin

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Ciecho (by KAYLO) by Pawel Stokajlo, Piotr Smolenski
RECALL by Erik Jasaň
The Kill by Alexandrine Khoury
Volcan by Rafael Andres Russo
Bunun adı Şam by Emir Yener
Bansa 7aly by Luis Villanueva, Anton Esteban
Sacramento by Alessandro Gagliardo
First & Last by DeAnda Mechelle Frost
Scarlet O’Hara by Liz Krause
NonNonNon – Mada Mada feat. Orlanda (Director’s Cut) by Alexandre Richard
Colors Of The Amazon by Francisco Barboza

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Along Came Ruby by Riccardo Suriano
Moments by Aaron Lewis, Malachi Rivers
Relic (Part 2) by Jack Hawes, Will Tiley, Idunn Marthinsen
The Mystery Man in the Dark by Martin Sommerdag
The Mediator by Isabelle Garneau
l’ora alternativa by Mouadh Ben mohamed, Ali Ben mohamed

BEST TRAILER

 

Farewell by Jian Bo Huo
Phobos by Zafir Ahmed
SCORPION by Krstover Luaay 
Loin des Yeux by Clément Joly-Gavache
PINKY SWEAR-Whatever She Wants by Tau Tau Menghan
Cash on delivery by Udara Buddika Wijesinghe
Me too by Rui Cao
Miracle Zone by Alexander Sadreddini
The touch by Nikolay Aristarkhov
The Other’s Words by Corentin Burguiere
Deja Vu by Jean Frenette

 

BEST POSTER

 

Food & Design by Mu-Ming Tsai
Tintown by Tiange Sun
Her Last Day by Jiacheng Wang
Beyond You by Federico Amicosante
Psalm by XIE BAI
Marie s’envole by Léa Sassi
I Matter by Chris Sato, Peter Lambrinatos
The Same View Wherever You Look by Carmen Bamba
Morto-Vivo by Sivanesan Ramdass
We, The Damned by Edward Thompson
Chhava by Anurag Srijit, Deep Kadam, Azzam Khan, Kshitij Jagdale
EGGSHELL by Thomas Barbarisi

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Chains by Lorenzo Gonnelli
Beyond The Curtain by Tom Sys
The Wedding Countdown by Xinshu Cui, Zuyou Liu
Day Zero by Isaac Scego
Grandma Böse by Alicia Hayes
Intrappolata in casa by Barbara Perisse Montilla
Il sentiero sulla laguna by Roberto Pareschi
A Faithful Man by Daniele Balboni, Filippo Marchi
Indefinite term by Livia Sisi, Andrea Cantafio
Law is equal for everyone by Alessia martina Dubini
Shells by Lavinia Lazzaro, Veronica Neulichedl
In the Void by Marco Coppola

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

Drama Queen by Stephanie Scott
Asphyxiating Whispers by Isaac Ballesteros Barba
Quality by Jedediah Lee Parker
Mammasantissima by Ieva Lykos
Hattie’s House by Dewane Alexander
The Shubert Orphans by Daniel Edwin Doble
Kollegiate Kareers by Brenden R Torres
Pardon The Interruption by Olivia Lee
Castle by Przemek Wojtach
Not a Love Story by Brian Lutes
Direct Action by Tor Kristoffersen
The Most Changeable of Rules by Michele Iovine

BEST DIRECTOR

 

Haihan Chen for As One
Guillaume Moscovitz for Musher
Sam Yazdanpanna for Burning Rage
Qiao Ru Zhang for Summer-Past
João Gonzalez for Ice Merchants
Andor Berényi for Supper
Joseph Rozé, Pablo Cotten for Eternal Playground
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter for FÁR
Diego Felipe Guzmán for The Other Shape
Hanieh Bozorgnia for BITTER
Kacper Checinski for WITH ALL DUE HUMANITY
Patricio Martínez, Francisco Cantón for NADA DE TODO ESTO

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Yuhui Li and Liu Sanjin for Filthy Soul
Ido Weisman and Alex Hosid for Requiem for a Whale
Viktoria Janoki-Kis for Online
Quentin Delcourt for Impatient
João Gonzalez for Ice Merchants
Tim Aspert for Being Angela
Stefano Cau for Dust
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter for FÁR 
Nina Bhatt for M jako Máma
Hanieh Bozorgnia for BITTER
Gerald Lepkowski for Broono
Marisa Ingold for Impatient Pain

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Taoquan Fu for As one
Remi Mazet for Musher
Casper van Oort for Burning Rage
Ion De Sosa for Contadores
Xin Ai for Mist
Jon Mushamp for The Trap
Tu Do for Likes
Andreas Bjorseth for Tits 
Riven Wu for No More Gravity At Night
Domen Martinčič for A Tree Grows in My Dreams Every Night
Alessio Avezzano for Ivy
Matthew Ballard for NADA DE TODO ESTO

BEST EDITING

 

Jean Reusser for Peripheric Love
Zechen Li for Chroma Wheel
Adhil M Ashraf for Weavers of Patan
Vivien Casamian for Underdog
Robbie Morrison for Scale
Natalia Gozdzik for Beneath a Mother’s Feet
Sige Feng for Likes
JEAN-BAPTISTE DE LESCURE for H2O MY LOVE
Etienne Boussac, Luka Melero for Interlude
Kapusi Krisztián for The Low and Mighty
Remi Langlade for WITH ALL DUE HUMANITY
Youri Tchao Debats for Impatient Pain 

BEST SOUND

 

Oscar van Hoogevest for Peripheric Love
Jeremy Chi for The Dive
Andrea De Fusco for Night Song Of A Wondering Cowboy
Thouraya El Ouadie for Echoes from the lake
Huang JingXiu for Mist
James Bulley for Beneath a Mother’s Feet
Creighton Yanchar and Jialiang “Leon” Sun for Likes
Doris Parunov for TITS
Bigyna Dahal for M jako Máma
Mehdi Hosseini for The last act
Daniel Alejandro Ortiz Rivera and Erick Alejandro Quintana for Pieces of my Life
Ruud Bouma, Camiel Povel, Coen Bruins for About me

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Aven Shi for As One
Mathilde Ferry for The Dive
Allan X Chen for In The Shadows of War
Frederic Alvarez for Echoes from the lake
Alfonso Corte-Real for Velvet &
Jonathan Bingham and Ivan Issa for Marie s’envole
Kids Return for Eternal Playground
Noa Margalit for Song of Goats
Henning Grossmann for Interlude
Cor Veleno for Primo – Sempre Grezzo
Anikesh “Niko” Chetia for Ivy
Mateo Yaya for NADA DE TODO ESTO

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Chen Yong for The Vacation Show
Matt Harley for Kamerad
Kiki Rockwell for The Landvaettir
Javier Bernal Bechi for Contadores
Ahmed Riad for Roaring in the darkness
Mark Anthony Bradley and Felix Forma for The Trap
Yi-Lun Chien for Likes
Sean, Zhichao Zhang for MEMORIES SEAL
Vasileios Tsikaras for Operation Star
Rui Deng, Ziyang Liu for Open House at Floralville’s Orphanage
Fabienne Menguy for WITH ALL DUE HUMANITY
Alice Lespiau for AUXILIAIRE

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Diane Sykes for As one
Laura Marino for The Dive
Marta Szabo for Online
Lihn-Dan Pham for Impatient
Yang Liu for Me? Your mom!
Judit Rezes for Supper
Clover Hong for Likes
Gunnur Martinsdottir Schluter for FÁR
Angelika Sbouli for M jako Máma
Konya Ruseva for Fracture
Mylène Mackay for The Mediator
Adèle WISMES for Impatient Pain

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Julien Graux for Épave ( Wreck )
Miklos Szekely B for The Rocking Chair
Ali Fardi for Burning Rage
Jules Ritmanic for Underdog
Gattlin Griffith for What Rhymes With Reason
Ivan Olivieri for U Scrusciu du Mari
Andranic Manet for Eternal Playground
Mehdi Djaadi for H2O my love
Linus Scherz for Interlude
Ferenc Köles for The Low and Mighty
Adam Kerr for Broono
Laurent Target for AUXILIAIRE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Ursina Lardi for Peripheric Love
Roxane Mesquida for Musher
Xueqin Liang for Wandering Alone
Agnes Soral for Impatient
Giselle Torres for What Rhymes With Reason
Lilla Litauszky for Supper
Alba Gaïa Bellugi for Eternal Playground
Ifigenia Tzola for Song of Goats
Shirin Lilly Eissa for Interlude
Sevil Mokhtare for Bitter
Imelda Sanchez for Pieces of my Life
Miranda de la Serna for NADA DE TODO ESTO 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Fabio Troiano for Peripheric Love
Bela Meszaros for The Rocking Chair
Balint Kollar for Online
Jason London for Afterwards
Benoît Finschi for Velvet &
Győző Szabó for Supper
Alassane Diong for Eternal Playground
Themis Panou for Song of Goats
Syrus Shahidi for Universe Zone
György Gazsó for The Low and Mighty
Marcquis Foster for Broono
Etienne Cocuelle for AUXILIAIRE