2021 – 2022

ANNUAL NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

 

A Brief History of Us by Etgar Keret
Absence by Wu Lang
Censor of Dreams by Leo Berne and Raphaël Rodriguez
Eli by Nate Milton
The Secret of Mr. Nostoc by Patrice Seiler and Maxime Marion
Witness by Ali Asgari

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Absence by Wu Lang
Casu by Magnus Møller Bakke
Censor of Dreams by Leo Berne and Raphaël Rodriguez
Gum Cigarette by Angelika Katsa
The Ocean of Loneliness by Lau Tin Yam
Witness by Ali Asgari

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Ali’s Nature by Levent Çetin
Fading Away by Tian Lan
Ground Control by Helmut Karner
Mother of Apostles by Zaza Buadze
The Road to Eden by Bakyt Mukul and Dastan Zhapar Uulu
The Vanished by Arben Thaçi

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Children of the Dead by Luay Al Basha
Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion by Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Guardians of Paradise by Ivan Maria Friedman
Taqi by Aleen Shoufani
Walking On Clouds by Renan Kamizi

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Before the Close of Day by Peter Lucas
Bella Ciao, Song of Rebellion by Andrea Karena Vogt
Do you remember me? by Désirée Pomper and Helena Müller
Operation Berlin: The Children who fought War in Colombia by Mat Charles
Sal by Paco Álvarez
Wedding 93 by Paul Zagaris

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

A Brief History of Us by Etgar Keret
Bolero Station by Rolf Brönnimann
Eli by Nate Milton
Last Cigarette by Jiacun Li
Nestling by Marat Narimanov
The Secret of Mr. Nostoc by Patrice Seiler and Maxime Marion

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Dafne Is Gone by Julie Gun
Duyiqingjing by Yuan Lingxi
Other Worlds by Ivan Maria Friedman
Rudolf Duala Manga Bell: A German Story by Henrik Langsdorf
Shore by Yvonne Zhang
The Revile by Emre Ergenç

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Archie Brown – Reality by Tom Fuller
Benji & Rita – Impetuous Attraction by Rita Figueiredo
De.Ville – Water by Jean-Vital Joliat
Dennyiah – Recall by Erik Jasaň
Ilam – Dodo by Jean-Vital Joliat
Meek, Oh Why? – Night Sky by Bartosz Szpak and Helena Ganjalyan

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Arthur II by Nick Rusconi
Machines by Cristian Ciumac
Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd by Aron Quadu
The Strange Case of Lucy Chandler by Christopher Schrader
The Strange Incident in Room 36 by Kiana Klysch
Valdís by Aidan J Crowley

BEST TRAILER

 

 

Ali’s Nature by Levent Çetin
Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Misplaced by James Demitri
The Ocean of Loneliness by Lau Tin Yam
The Others by Like Xu
Wall of Air by Yu Yao

BEST POSTER

 

 

A Poet’s Life by Brandon S. N. Butler
Dennyiah – Recall by Erik Jasaň
Night, Mother by John Patrick Lowrie
Snake by Miroslav Kiss and James Longman
The Ocean of Loneliness by Lau Tin Yam
Umbra by Luca Pietro Beuthan

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Colosseum by Adam Jay Crawford
Fading Out by Laura Winter
One of Us (Red-Handed Screenplay) by Alan David Pritchard
Taking Things Elsewhere by Jacob Vincent Robicheau
The Kind That Kills by Sebastien Basset
The Neighbor by Piper Gaul

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

All my friends are dead by Shlok Shukla
Fifteen Times a Killer by Steve Crawshaw
Mali Ya Mungu by Kirmi Kiage and Teddy Gitau
Sapone by Nicholas Di Valerio
Summer 2012 by Mohamad Alghandour
Valence by Michael Jay Iannacone and Benjamin Jacob Ginther

BEST DIRECTOR

 

Ali Asgari for Witness
Dante Jiayu Liu for San Gabriel Valley
Lau Tin Yam for The Ocean of Loneliness
Magnus Møller Bakke for Casu
Pavaret Udompatthanakit for Eternal Void
Pelle Gøtze Johansson for A Stone Cannot Fly

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Etgar Keret for A Brief History of Us
Henning Backhaus, Rafael Haider and Albert Meisl for The Best Orchestra in the World
Josh Pickup for Gates
Lewis Rose for Pops
Marco Lawson for The Dinner
Nate Milton for Eli

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

François Schneider for Hegoak
Ivan Maria Friedman for Guardians of Paradise
Ivan Maria Friedman for Other Worlds
Khalib Mohtaseb for Censor of Dreams
Manu Dacosse for LYNX
Yuan Lingxi for Duyiqingjing

BEST EDITING

 

Bjørn Vea for Kold
Christin Veith and Bernhard Mayr for Ground Control
Espen Skjong Knutsen for Edderkoppen
Laure Saint-Marc for Censor of Dreams
Pavaret Udompatthanakit for Eternal Void
Yuan Lingxi for Duyiqingjing

BEST SOUND

 

Kyle Sawaia for Eli
Nora Czamler for The Best Orchestra in the World
Olivier Philippart, François Aubinet and Pierre Bruyns for LYNX
Sally Kwok Tsz Lam for The Ocean of Loneliness
Stuart McCowan, Thomas Jaine, Craig Irving and Harry Jones for Cognition
Théophile Chauchat for Hegoak

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Amaury Sabau for The Secret of Mr. Nostoc
Florian Walser for Bolero Station
Laetitia Pansanel-Garric for The Swap
Pásztor Sámuel for Darking Way
Rocco De Rosa for Flumina
Ruka Ohta for Umbra

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Arnold de Parscau for The Wet Nurse
Kiara Mendes for A Stone Cannot Fly
Mariya Chernysh for Mother of Apostles
Tiphaine Fouquet for The Secret of Mr. Nostoc
Valentin Lessner for Eternal
Yasmine Maes for Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Anahita Afshar for Witness
Audrey Bonnet for A Day Will Come
Chloé Dumond for The Swap
Judith State for Memories of Crossing
Lily Walbeoffe and Iona Champain for Gates
Mathilde Storm for Casu

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Andrew Scott for Cognition
Luke J Morgan for In Halves
Marcus Andre for Floaters
Søren Malling for The Dinner
Thomas Kristian Bek and Marcus Gad Johansen for A Stone Cannot Fly
Walt Klink for Barrier

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Hila Harush for A Dead Sea
Kathrine Høj Andersen for A Stone Cannot Fly
Liv Winter for Hello
Sabine Heinen for The Strange Incident in Room 36
Yoko Higashi for Censor of Dreams
Zita Gaier for Ground Control

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Andreas Radlherr for Ground Control
Anton Hjejle for The Dinner
Cyril Durel for Hegoak figlio
Darrien Crisp for Color Me Black
Koen Van der Sande for LYNX
Milo Panni for Cognition