2022 – 2023 ANNUAL AWARDS

ELIGIBLE FILMS

BEST OF FEST

 

Deadline by Marie Galløe
Tsutsué by Amartei Armar
Du bout des doigts by Léo Poignard
Nakam by Andreas Kessler
Shut by Niels Bourgonje
Concrete Heart by Enrika Panero
The Eyes Of Doña Lucy by Juan Carlos Hinojosa Flores, Jonathan Gerardo Romero
Fatih the Conqueror by Onur Yagiz
Nocturnal Burger by Reema Maya
Violence by Emil Engesnes Bråthen
Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Deadline by Marie Galløe
Tsutsué by Amartei Armar
Lions by Beru Tessema
Vlada Goes to London by Arti Savchenko
Shut by Niels Bourgonje
Concrete Heart by Enrika Panero
The Eyes Of Doña Lucy by Juan Carlos Hinojosa Flores, Jonathan Gerardo Romero
Fatih the Conqueror by Onur Yagiz
Nocturnal Burger by Reema Maya
Violence by Emil Engesnes Bråthen
All is well by Karolina Ford, Mirosław Kłopotowski

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

The City of Abysses by Priscyla Bettim, Renato Coelho
Boys Will Be by Jake Moss
The last bath by David Bonneville
Près de Moi by Alex Guéry
XiaoCao by Caiping Huang
The Carpenter by Garrett Michael Batty
The Otherkind by Mary Christine Russell
A Cross In The Desert by Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic
Through life and death by Qing Chang
Shaakuntalam by Gunasekhar Karri
Flight animal by Mikael Palm

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Chieira by Luís Esteves
A portrait of the artist as an old woman by Alessandro Amico
Breathing by Victor Petrenko, Maria Pankova
I’ll come home by Björn Rallare
An Apple and Two Cherries by Mina Petrović
Ballada for Galilei by Ralitza Dimitrova
Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Everlasting by Tommaso Barbieri
Hidi Sleeps in the Bathtub by Caroline Andréason
Beyond the Mountains by Linhu LEE
Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Petro-Melancholy – The oil age in the mirror of art by Mathias Frick
America by Giacomo Abbruzzese
Wayward by Ross Casswell
Bombs Away – The bombing of Schaffhausen by Tobias Hongler, Claudio Mühle
Songs of The Living by Cécile Allegra
João Ayres, an Independent Painter by Diogo Varela Silva
A Refugee’s Guide to Rome by Ted Efremoff
Project Iceman by Ammar Kandil
THE DESERT THAT WAS NOT by Pablo Enrique Kühnert
En La Línea Del Horizonte by IÑaki Pinedo and Marcos Fernández Aldaco
What if Schools Taught Us to Love by Yannick Borit

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

The Truth Within by Gaby Soto, Juan Camilo Rincon
Sem by Joke Duwaerts
I knocked on my home’s door by Matthew Khoury
Season by Giovanna Lopalco
The Body is so Resilient by Moana Vonstadl
A guerra finita by Simone Massi Clinical Lycanthropy by Emilio Giacomelli, Francesco Pesiri
INTERGALACTIA by Takumi Shiga
Granny’s Sexual Life by Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard 

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Yesterday ended last night by Galenus Zhou, Jia Jie Lin, Ze Cong Kuang
Psyche Obscura by Craig Oty
Beginning by Jagan Vijaya Pulsion by Vincent Menjou-Cortes
Luftraum by Dirk Koy
Lost Images by Cesare Bedogne
Memories Of Rain by Elizabeth Mehling
Kodama by Dekang Liu
The world of Withoos by Hans Withoos, Inge Theunissen
The Secret History of Tardigrades in Early Soviet Cinema by Jeffrey Turboff
Little Black Dog by Cem Deniz Karakoçoğlu

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Oh Pandemic by Laurent Mercier
Follow by Piersaverio Pizzichemi
Giallo – Filth by Aliia Sagitova
Kogershin by Malik Zenger
Out of sight by Dirk Koy
Thirsty Eyes – Pop Sent (Yamaha) by Alexander Worsch
Nother feat. Moon Leap – Us by Marco Santi
DIVA Orchestra – Time in a Bottle by Aurelien Durand
Totemo – My Gravity by Young-Wook Paik
Imp by Pietro Graffeo
Us to Stop by Sagiv Avramov, Yair Mazar

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Daddy Issues by Ortal Odelia Biener
Private by Laurent Ardoint
L.I.F.E.: P’s & Q’s by Dathan Smith
Pastiche by Shivaan Makker
Stationheads by Stu Gamble
The Interview/The Inquest by Angeline Walsh
Old People by Karam Singh
Canis Familiaris by Joris Goulenok

BEST TRAILER

 

Yesterday ended last night by Galenus Zhou, Jia Jie Lin, Ze Cong Kuang
Boys Will Be by Jake Moss
Do You Really Get Me by Michael Ajazi
The Place She Dwells by Maurice Moore
Pink Fireworks by Lee Zhongqin
Die Finsternis by Matthias Horbelt
Project Iceman by Ammar Kandil
The Astral Woods by Isaac Rodriguez
Better Together by Justin Tang, Rishabh Trivedi
A Scene to Remember by Zhenyu Li

BEST POSTER

 

Treat by Rémy Barbe
Distant by Lucca Joël Donalies
Mosaic by Mars Lee Mckay
Zaqqum, The Tree Of Hell by Hesam Sharifi
Replacement by Jacek Redźko
Vuk: Murder in a Blue World by Nikola Gocic
Lesser fullness of grain by Wang Honglong
Fatih the Conqueror by Onur Yagiz
Lost Cos by Robin de Levita The Lunatic by Kasia Damulewicz
Neermukile – Essence, Nature, Universe by Unnee Udayakumar

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Face to Face by Christina Alagaratnam
Tolerance by Mairead deBlaca
Unsung by Alison McDonnell
Untold Pieces by Alexandr Borecký
Dive Into The Blue by Ge Gao
Three on a Match by Clara B. Zimmer, Tim Litwinschuh
WINTER by Roberto Romano
Play, Rewind, Play it Again by Soroush Hosseini
Adam & Eve by Filippo Lusiani
I Need a Light by Brandon Gates
Plastic Madonna by Elina Eihmane

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

Last Seen… Inside My Chest by Isaac Ballesteros Barba
The Skin of a Dog by Linda Fejzaj Jaupaj
1987 by Andrew Lane Fox
The Same River Twice by Pam Mandel, Amy Guth
Living Wild – Alaska by Dorene Lorenz
Steph by Oksana Prysiazhniuk
The Elvis Conspiracy by Rikki Lee Travolta
Demon’s Promise by Edward Gusts
Pictures of Us by Brian Lutes
Carnegie’s Call by Ryan J Skinner
Meteor by Line Rainville, Franco Pirrone

BEST DIRECTOR

 

Marie Galløe for Deadline
Amartei Armar for Tsutsué
Léo Poignard for Du bout des doigts
Andreas Kessler for Nakam
Raphaël Deslandes for The extravagant illnesses
Enrika Panero for Concrete Heart
Juan Carlos Hinojosa Flores, Jonathan Gerardo Romero for The Eyes Of Doña Lucy
Onur Yagiz for Fatih the Conqueror
Reema Maya for Nocturnal Burger
Jan Zebrowski for The Sixth Finger
Shuli Huang for Will You Look At Me

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Rémy Barbe for Treat
Lucca Joël Donalies for Distant
Andrea Benjamin Manenti, Giulia Grandinetti for Guinea Pig
Arti Savchenko for Vlada Goes to London
Bastiaan Tichler for Shut
Diogo Varela Silva for João Ayres, an Independent Painter
Juan Carlos Hinojosa Flores, Jonathan Gerardo Romero for The Eyes Of Doña Lucy
Onur Yagiz for Fatih the Conqueror
David Roger Juan for After All
Emil Engesnes Bråthen for Violence
Urška Djukić for Granny’s Sexual Life

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Julien Grandjean for Treat
David Münch for Distant
Marion Rivière for Du bout des doigts
Leonard Caspari for Nakam
Théo Reynal for The Black Hen
Quentin Devillers for Concrete Heart
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Andrii Lysetski, Konstantyn Klyatskyn, Denys Vorontsov, Denys Tokarev for Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles
Siwei Li for Tian Hei Hei Harshvir Oberai for Nocturnal Burger
Alma-Oline Weitling for Violence
Shuli Huang for Will You Look At Me

BEST EDITING

 

Jacob Fangel Løgstrup for Deadline
Nobuo Coste and Nicolas Milteau for Tsutsué
Niccolò Notario for Guinea Pig
Naaman Hoffman and Alex Khosid for Vlada Goes to London
Weiste De Zwart for Shut
Cesare Bedogne for Lost Images
Julia Danel for After Dawn
Adam Benjamin Lesiak for Nemetta
Daniel Weber for Look Around
Mariusz Gos and Aleksandra Smardz for The Sixth Finger
Urška Djukić for Granny’s Sexual Life

BEST SOUND

 

Nicolas Rivière for Treat
Linus Gramm for Distant
Dimitri Luttrell for The Party At The End of The World
Stuart Ankers for Mercy
Land Klevr for Shut
Lorenzo Danesin for A guerra finita
Mariia Nesterenko for Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles
Sasa Mirosavljevic-Don for A Cross in the Desert
SETHU VENUGOPAL, DEVRAJ BHOWMIK for Nocturnal Burger
Kristian Asbøll for Violence
Mattias Larsen for Flight Animal

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Arrigo Barnabè for The City of Abysses
Jan Vysocky for Tsutsué
Josè Alberto Gomes, Jonatan Blati for The Last Bath
Hugo Rossi for The Ball
Mathias Duplessy for Songs of The Living
Sebastien Damiani for Concrete Heart
Jean Thévenin, Pierre-Louis Clarin for The Midwife
Mafmadmaf for Tian Hei Hei
Zhang Disheng for The Female General`s Moustache
LIV ELI for Violence
Tomaž Grom for Granny’s Sexual Life

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Morgane Bellefet for Treat
Antoaneta Kostova for City of Ghosts
Paix Robinson for Lions
Laura Jasmin Schäffler for Nakam
Andrej Krasavin for About people and about war
Tryna Knock for The Carpenter
Lucile Auclair, Amélie Waille for The Midwife
Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic for A Cross in the Desert
Liu Erfang for The Female General`s Moustache
Yana Skopina for Summer Ends Soon
Matylda Hinc for All Is Well

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Sylvie Lachat for Treat
Yena Lee for The Painted Face
Badu Morais for August Sky
Michal Karni for Fully Effaced
Xuanyu Chen for The boy and her Mey
Ben El Fellah for Concrete Heart
Pauline Lorillard for The Midwife
Sylvie Lachat for Orgasm
Millo Sunka for Nocturnal Burger
Rozario Revuelta for Por Siempre
Fiona Lang for Membran

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Morten Burian for Deadline
Gregor Knob for Distant
Martim Canavarro for The Last Bath
Anton Krymskiy for Nakam
Paul Gomérieux for Fag
Frederic Andrau for The Hunt
Eduardo Arca for The Eyes Of Doña Lucy
Thomas Curel for Faith the Conqueror
Benn Northover for Alice
Zbigniew Suszyński for The Sixth Finger
Piotr Zajączkowski for All Is Well

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Carolina Castanho for The City Of Abysses
Stanka Kalcheva for City of Ghosts
Winne Imara for Lions
Noa Biron for Fully Effaced
Alice Thillard for The extravagant illnesses
Calypso Buijtenhuijs for Concrete Heart
Martha Morales for The Eyes Of Doña Lucy
Sabrina Bendjilali for Nemetta
Marilia Coelho for Look Around
Di Smith for Osiris
Sibei Li for Promedipus Flower

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Mathieu Lourdel for Treat
Gabriel Narh Addo for Tsutsué
Ka-Neileo Cope for Lions
Peter Miklusz for Nakam
Vernon Wells for Frost
René Schnoz for Sand Castles
Jean-Marie Frin for After Dawn
Emre Öcal for Faith the Conqueror
Yuri Ryabukhin for Cookie
Marek Kossakowski for The Sixth Fingers
Niko Niakas for All Is Well