FEBRUARY 2021

NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

Aquatic Bird by Nan Zhang
Daily Bread by Ruby Challenger
Disconnected by Nard van Vrijaldenhoven
It’s So Charming by Svend Colding
Rosa by Jean-Michel Gervais and Gabriel J. Lemay
The Stage of Golden Beach by Xiang Tiange

BEST SHORT FILM

 

Aquatic Bird by Nan Zhang
It’s So Charming by Svend Colding
Rosa by Jean-Michel Gervais and Gabriel J. Lemay

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Beijing 120 by Yu Yiping
From Where There Is Nothing by Tylor Myers
Squilibrio by Luca Rabotti

BEST SHORT DOC

 

Leni Riefenstahl: an Artist’s War by Zach White
Odd Man Out by Antonio Donato
Samma by Davide Catena and Alessandro Truffa

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

Between Heaven and Earth by Zenon Kristen
Candidato 34 by Ryan Marley
Dam(ned) Lifes by Cid Faria

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Chocolate by Lili Zhang
Finite Soil by Isidro Jiménez Gómez and Mariola Olcina Alvarado
Shift Simmers Slips by Lars Nagler

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Maps by Alex Barrera
My Morning Routine by Georgina Cowan-Turner
Vincenzo Vela: The Dream of Matter by Adriano Kestenholz

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

All Of Us Is One by Xavier Zahra
Anything but science fiction by Filippo Giovagnoni, Francesco Ronchi and Giovanni Baracchi
Yamakasi by Egor Tarasov and Vladimir Ivanov

BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

B&B by Monty Dickson
Fish on a Stick by Jan Linhart
The Nitwits by Jan Linhart

BEST TRAILER

 

Aquatic Bird by Nan Zhang
Chocolate by Lili Zhang
Disconnected by Nard van Vrijaldenhoven

BEST POSTER

 

Aquatic Bird by Nan Zhang
Morsure by Léonore Calles
Rosa by Jean-Michel Gervais

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

By the Sea by Rona Castrioti
Mancha by Don DiPetta, Nicole Mejia and Xochitl Portillo
Tainted by Caner Kaldı

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

At the Flash by Sean Chandler and David Leeper
Hardwood Heroes by Austin Lauer and Colin Kissel
Thieves in the Night by Maximilian Feurstein and Ted Dontchev

BEST DIRECTOR

 

Antonio Donato for Odd Man Out
Nan Zhang for Aquatic Bird
Svend Colding for It’s So Charming

BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Jean-Michel Gervais for Rosa
Pernille Hyllegaard for It’s So Charming
Xiang Tiange for The Stage of Golden Beach

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

James L Brown for Daily Bread
Lukas Daugbjerg for It’s So Charming
Song Yidi for Aquatic Bird

 

BEST EDITING

 

Coen Hagenaars for Disconnected
Enric Batalla and Valèria Cuní for Pas A Dos
Tian Jiaming for Aquatic Bird

BEST SOUND

 

Thomas Kellar for Daily Bread
Wang Zhuo for Aquatic Bird
Zhang Lili for Chocolate

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Joris Saaltink for Disconnected
Tao Chen for Aquatic Bird
Squilibrio

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Bao Kaiyue for The Stage of Golden Beach
Johanna Glassborow for Daily Bread
Juan Eduardo Becerra Bastias for It’s So Charming

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Fanny Bernth for It’s So Charming
Liu Lu for The Stage of Golden Beach
Ruby Challenger for Daily Bread

BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Jørgen Rudshaug and Guus Hoogeboom for Disconnected
Théodore Pellerin for Rosa
Xue Gong for Aquatic Bird

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Brianna Leonard for From Where There Is Nothing
Clara Casado for Pas A Dos
Gabrielle Labadie for Rosa

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Bas van der Rhee for Disconnected
Henrik Birch for It’s So Charming
Nobuaki Shimamoto for Daily Bread