SEPTEMBER 2021

FINALISTS

BEST SHORT FILM

 

A Cry For Help by Steven Esteb
A Glass of Desire by Yusuf Olmez
Afterglow by Rina Naganuma
All In Good Time by Bonnie Dempsey
Climate Change Is Going to Kill Us All by Anatoly Koblov
Cognition by Ravi Ajit Chopra
Crimson by Keerian Flammang
Distance by Kristina Luninskaia
Dizius by Riu Lohri
Fake World by Gabriel Da Silva
Fire Ants by Katerina Philippou-Curtis
Journey by Panji Kaonga
Lifetime by Charles Calixte
Live by Baggio Jiang
The Big French Robbery by Tina Markovich
The Game The Doubt by Hamid Reza Mahmoudi
The Wind and the Whimpering by Laurence McManus
Tina Times Two by Bonnie Dempsey
Verzasca in Red by Nadina Miriam Dollie
White Sheets by Carolina García

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Capriccio: The False Child by Tobias Lenel
Crushed Wings by Lalit Bhusal
Die Grenze by Ronald Unterberger
Djagassa by Hyacinthe Hounsou
Makhom by Leila Rastyamovna Salakhatdinova
Once Upon a Time in Iran by Gholam Reza Jafari
Two Is a Magic Number by Holger Borggrefe and Stefan Hering
Undone by a Touch by Rina Naganuma

 

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Gus Alva: Paradigm+++Mas by Vic Huber
Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Postponed by Ali Ahmad Chakaroun
Shelter by Pierre Muys
The Irishman by Xiangning Hong
Traded by Harshit Bawa and Simran Arora
Trustfall by Stefan David Witts
Wolf in his Belly by Oluwaseyi Thomas

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Envoy: Shark Cull by Andre Borell
Fragments by Stephanie Seungmin Kim
#KidsOnTech by Paul Zehrer
Niños Maya by Veronica Succi
Operation Berlin: The children who fought war in Colombia by Mat Charles
The Album by Kevin Hosmann
Transition by Sas Carey

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Goodnight Mr. Vincent Van Gogh by Lindsey Doolittle
Ixestum by Kipp T. Jarden
Last Cigarette by Jiacun Li
On / Off by Nicolas P. Villarreal
The Boy and The Mountain by Santiago Aguilera and Gabriel Monreal
The Tuesday Mid-Morning Report by Seth Brady

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Balance by Quentin Monroe
Elle s’appelle Beyrouth by Richard Sammour
Everlasting Tape by Haley Keegan
Macker’d by Jax RF McAtee
The Best Version by Luis Felipe Sá and Daniel Herz
The Purple Thanaka of the Angels by Borit Yannick
The Whole In Parts by Donna Cameron
Withering and blooming by Alya Kautsaranti

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Cordepazze – Operativo by Giuseppe Lanno
Francesco Perissi – Soul by Peppe Catalanotto
L’ultima fila – Contro di me by Pierluigi Braca
No Plexus – Manicurism by Roel Wouters
Space Chaser – Remnants of Technology by Lucas Fiederling
Susmita Das – Malhara by Dev Meher
Taycan – Ovala by Firat Gürgen

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

A place by Silvia Estella Ondina Sanna, Andrea Barni
Bau Bau Tu by Federico Pieri
The Neighbor by Piper Gaul
Who Are You? by Jedediah Lee Parker

BEST FEATURE/TV SCREENPLAY

 

Eve on Trial by Alla Turovskaya
Heart of Glass by Carla Celia Cristina Pekander
Non-Official Cover by Jodi Shelton and Hudson Shelton
Ropers by Seppe Van Beneden

BEST WEB-SERIE / TV PILOT

 

Not a great month for web series and tv pilots, see you the next one!