2021 – 2022 ANNUAL AWARDS

ELIGIBLE FILMS

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
Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Gum Cigarette by Angelika Katsa
LYNX by Julien Henry
Mother in the Mist by Kay Niuyue Zhang
The Guitar Thief by Miguel Lepe Jr
The Ocean of Loneliness by Lau Tin Yam
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
In Halves by Tim Williams
Live by Baggio Jiang
LYNX by Julien Henry
Mother in the Mist by Kay Niuyue Zhang
The Guitar Thief by Miguel Lepe Jr
The Ocean of Loneliness by Lau Tin Yam
Umbra by Luca Pietro Beuthan
Witness by Ali Asgari

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Ali’s Nature by Levent Çetin
Darking Way by Zsolt Pozsgai
Eddie. by Dylan Grey Martin
Empty Nest by Wei Zhang
Fading Away by Tian Lan
Ground Control by Helmut Karner
Mother of Apostles by Zaza Buadze
Once Upon a Time in Iran by Gholam Reza Jafari
Seven Seas by Marcelo Adrián Sánchez
The Road to Eden by Bakyt Mukul and Dastan Zhapar Uulu
The Vanished by Arben Thaçi
Tres by Carlo Alvarez

BEST SHORT DOC

 

A Contact by K. Sarkyte
Best Foot Forward by Seán Hart
Bloody Tradition: Agree to Disagree by Jitse de Graaf and Martijn Kramer
Children of the Dead by Luay Al Basha
Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion by Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Eva Ray by Ross Casswell
Gagua by Luka Kupunia
Guardians of Paradise by Ivan Maria Friedman
Taqi by Aleen Shoufani
The Matrix tell us by Caesar Nie
Walking On Clouds by Renan Kamizi

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

A Taste of Politics by Juan Hidalgo and Sandrine Mercier
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
Finding Courage by Kay Rubacek
Lemon Island by Gabriella Bácskai
Operation Berlin: The Children who fought War in Colombia by Mat Charles
Sal by Paco Álvarez
Spanish Olive Grove by Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada
Wedding 93 by Paul Zagaris

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

A Brief History of Us by Etgar Keret
Aifort Sorcery Academy by Yi-Zhen Zhang
Bolero Station by Rolf Brönnimann
Eli by Nate Milton
Flumina by Antonello Matarazzo
I still remember by Flora Chilton
Kunu by Onias Landveld
Last Cigarette by Jiacun Li
Nestling by Marat Narimanov
Star-Crossed by Rita Chen
Sundown Polaroid by Mazatl Aguilar and TJ Cousler
The Secret of Mr. Nostoc by Patrice Seiler and Maxime Marion

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Dafne Is Gone by Julie Gun
Duyiqingjing by Yuan Lingxi
Eternal by Nicolai Sagasser
Macker’d by Jax RF McAtee
North of the Night by Olivier Simon
On the Bones by Anastasiya Sovashchenko
Other Worlds by Ivan Maria Friedman
Rudolf Duala Manga Bell: A German Story by Henrik Langsdorf
Shore by Yvonne Zhang
Tempest by Jāzeps Podnieks
The Revile by Emre Ergenç
You by Nicole Eckenroad

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Angelo Di Mino & The Hysterical Sublime – The~Ship by Mirko Bonanno
Archie Brown – Reality by Tom Fuller
Benji & Rita – Impetuous Attraction by Rita Figueiredo
Cinema Nova – June by Carina Wachsmann
Close My Eyes by Viktor Jonsson
De.Ville – Water by Jean-Vital Joliat
Dennyiah – Recall by Erik Jasaň
Ex-Fiancée – A Feast That Never Comes by Maria Juranic
Ilam – Dodo by Jean-Vital Joliat
Luis Villanueva – Pécho by Pier Piccoli, Mason Coburn and Luis Villanueva
Meek, Oh Why? – Night Sky by Bartosz Szpak and Helena Ganjalyan
No Plexus – Manicurism by Roel Wouters

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Arthur II by Nick Rusconi
Machines by Cristian Ciumac
Off Guard by Emile Rizk
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
Welcome To Melville by Brett Knickrehm and Andrew Mitchell

BEST TRAILER

 

 Ali’s Nature by Levent Çetin
Dreaming An Island by Andrea Pellerani
Eternal Void by Pavaret Udompatthanakit
Hello by Christopher Gribbin
Misplaced by James Demitri
Mother in the Mist by Kay Niuyue Zhang
Mother of Apostles by Zaza Buadze
Rudolf Duala Manga Bell: A German Story by Henrik Langsdorf
Taqi by Aleen Shoufani
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
City Of Broken Dreams by Chen Yi Tang
Dennyiah – Recall by Erik Jasaň
Fading Away by Tian Lan
Larvae by Alessandro Rota
Live by Baggio Jiang
Mother in the Mist by Kay Niuyue Zhang
Night, Mother by John Patrick Lowrie
San Gabriel Valley by Dante Jiayu Liu
Snake by Miroslav Kiss and James Longman
The Ocean of Loneliness by Lau Tin Yam
Umbra by Luca Pietro Beuthan

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

A Night In by Eduardo Olmos and Connor Tyler Gray
Agnes Dei by Livia Kovacs and Agota Zakar
Colosseum by Adam Jay Crawford
Fading Out by Laura Winter
Night Shift by Peter Salisbury
One of Us (Red-Handed Screenplay) by Alan David Pritchard
Sweetbreads by Fred Perry
Taking Things Elsewhere by Jacob Vincent Robicheau
The Back Room Game by Sebastien Basset
The Kind That Kills by Sebastien Basset
The Neighbor by Piper Gaul
Witness by Lorenzo Trane

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

Adulting by Michael John Dunker
All my friends are dead by Shlok Shukla
Cassie by Elisabetta Salvan
Constant by Dorian Iribe
Fifteen Times a Killer by Steve Crawshaw
Mali Ya Mungu by Kirmi Kiage and Teddy Gitau
Moment of Glory by Ben Fiore
Ropers by Seppe Van Beneden
Sapone by Nicholas Di Valerio
Street Soldiers by Marc Castaldo
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
Etgar Keret for A Brief History of Us
Julien Henry for LYNX
Kay Niuyue Zhang for Mother in the Mist
Lau Tin Yam for The Ocean of Loneliness
Magnus Møller Bakke for Casu
Miguel Lepe Jr for The Guitar Thief
Pavaret Udompatthanakit for Eternal Void
Pelle Gøtze Johansson for A Stone Cannot Fly
Tim Williams for In Halves
Zabiullah Saifi Askari for Shabnam

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Angelika Katsa and Stergios Paschos for Gum Cigarette
Brandon S. N. Butler for A Poet’s Life
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
Lu Li for Life Agreement
Marco Lawson for The Dinner
Nate Milton for Eli
Pavaret Udompatthanakit for Eternal Void
Xavier Diskeuve for The Little Prodigy
Xue Yiwei, Min Zhang, Lian Xiufeng and more for Empty Nest

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Bryce Holden for You
Eleonora Castiello for Dafne Is Gone
François Schneider for Hegoak
Ivan Maria Friedman for Guardians of Paradise
Ivan Maria Friedman for Other Worlds
Jax RF McAtee and Leo Lam for Macker’d
Khalib Mohtaseb for Censor of Dreams
Manu Dacosse for LYNX
Mu-Ming Tsai for Universe Memory
Petter Brenni Gulbrandsen for Casu
Shuo Chen for Life Agreement
Yuan Lingxi for Duyiqingjing

BEST EDITING

 

Bjørn Vea for Kold
Christin Veith and Bernhard Mayr for Ground Control
Christopher Gribbin for Hello
Espen Skjong Knutsen for Edderkoppen
Giuseppe Petruzzellis for Forget me not
Indigo Parer and Raquel Rose Potenza for I Wanted To Be a Butterfly
Lan Tian for Fading Away
Laure Saint-Marc for Censor of Dreams
Lilly Wild and Nicole Eckenroad for You
Ning Qiongbin and Xu Like for The Others
Pavaret Udompatthanakit for Eternal Void
Yuan Lingxi for Duyiqingjing

BEST SOUND

 

Bruno Ehlinger for A Day Will Come
François Kukla for The Secret of Mr. Nostoc
Hubert Woźniakowski and Beat Shop Sound Studio for Dog’s Field
Huo Jinhua and Liu Tong for The Others
Kyle Sawaia for Eli
Marian Mentrup for Of the Waiting
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
Xenofontas Kontopoulos for Gum Cigarette

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Amaury Sabau for The Secret of Mr. Nostoc
Cyrille Marchesseau for The Wet Nurse
Domenico Verga and Antonio Zonno for Machines
Florian Walser for Bolero Station
Kipp T. Jarden for Ixestum
Laetitia Pansanel-Garric for The Swap
Pásztor Sámuel for Darking Way
Rocco De Rosa for Flumina
Roman Grygoriv and Iliya Razumeyko for Mother of Apostles
Ruka Ohta for Umbra
The composers of Kunu
Tiziano Bellu for Star-Crossed

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Albulena Burovci for The Vanished
Arnold de Parscau for The Wet Nurse
Kiara Mendes for A Stone Cannot Fly
Mariya Chernysh for Mother of Apostles
Mi Jun for The Flag Guardian
Sandra Axinte for Ground Control
Sergey Yordanov for The Big French Robbery
The costume department of Misplaced
The costume department of Aller Simple
Tiphaine Fouquet for The Secret of Mr. Nostoc
Valentin Lessner for Eternal
Yasmine Maes for Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Ailish Castillo Symons for Journey
Ana Mandic for Gum Cigarette
Anahita Afshar for Witness
Audrey Bonnet for A Day Will Come
Chloé Dumond for The Swap
Erika Sainte for LYNX
Galit Hershkovitz for Middle Ground
Judith State for Memories of Crossing
Lily Walbeoffe and Iona Champain for Gates
Mathilde Storm for Casu
Xijuan Zhu for Empty Nest
Yi Song for Trajectory

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Andrew Scott for Cognition
David Marciano for A Poet’s Life
Jason Delane Lee for Lifeline
Jonathan Simao for When Time Got Louder
Kieron Moore for Hello
Luke J Morgan for In Halves
Marcus Andre for Floaters
Miguel Lepe Jr for The Guitar Thief
Quintus Lim for An Island Drifts
Søren Malling for The Dinner
Thomas Kristian Bek and Marcus Gad Johansen for A Stone Cannot Fly
Walt Klink for Barrier

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Bianca Pieterse for Quiet On Set
Edith Alibec for Memories of Crossing
Elizabeth Mitchell for When Time Got Louder
Hila Harush for A Dead Sea
Jane Asher for Fire Ants
Kathrine Høj Andersen for A Stone Cannot Fly
Liv Winter for Hello
Matia Marks for In Halves
Sabine Heinen for The Strange Incident in Room 36
Wang Xiwen for Mother in the Mist
Yoko Higashi for Censor of Dreams
Zita Gaier for Ground Control

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Alain Eloy for Bluestar
Andreas Radlherr for Ground Control
Anton Hjejle for The Dinner
Cyril Durel for Hegoak figlio
Darrien Crisp for Color Me Black
François Maniquet for The Little Prodigy
Justin Strydom for Quiet On Set
Keming Xu for Lucky
Koen Van der Sande for LYNX
Milo Panni for Cognition
Sammy Kamara for Monster Heart
Vernon Mina for The Guitar Thief