JANUARY 2024

FINALISTS

BEST SHORT FILM

 

A Plus by Gong Cheng
ARLO AND THE SEA by Damian Overton
Date of Birth by Abel Guan
Diabolika by Dexter Wilson
Esther’s Tale by Simone Barletta
FÁR by Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Go Back Home 返屋企 by Chung Dha Lam
H2O My love by Laëtitia MARTINONI
INVISIBLE SCARS by SERGE ALHELAYEL
Malarema by Giovanni Suriano
Me too by Rui Cao
MELODRAMA by Giuseppe De Vuono
Overclocking by Alexander Vikulov
Slough by Yuzhu Lan, Yutong Wang
Statistical Probabilities by Ryan O’Leary
The British Man by Paula Rivera
the club by Raimondo Franzoni
THE LAST DREAM by Davide Maria Marucci
Through The Gate by Ben Sibulkin
TITS by Eivind Landsvik
U=Me by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
UNFINISHED PORTRAIT by Han Xu
Your Voice by Do-Gyung Yoon

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Gulag Eros of the Russian Mind: Sex in the Soviet Union by Chad Gracia
MEMORIES SEAL by Sean, Zhichao Zhang
My Carpathian Grandpa by Zaza Buadze
Plum blossoms have fallen all over the South Mountain by Shu Su
Song of Goats by Andrzej Jakimowski
Tether by Gian Arre
The Carrier by Andrei Turcan



BEST SHORT DOC

 

Only Stones by Gabriele Carrus
Sandcastle – The Secret Life Of Potter Wasps by Roman Willi
TITI – In cyclone’s wake by Natasha Blatsiou

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

50 Hours Underwater by Shahrzad Mazloumsaki
Able to be saint by Romeo Pizzol
Black, Queer & Done by Nyasha Daley
Polyrhythmic by Ameen Mokdad
RESET by Min Bae



BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Nobody (Little Pig Demon) by Shui Yu, Liaoyu Chen
Ship Down the Well by Xi Chen, Xiaolin Zhou, Liaoyu Chen
The Art of Weightlessness by Moshe Mahler
The Kidnapping (Old Man Yang) by Yang Gu, Kuang Liu, Liaoyu Chen
The Tale of Two Cruel Rulers by Anastasia Rykova

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Hood Safari by Jake Moss
No Wall… by Steven Siegel
Re-encounter by Xiaochu Dai
The Same View Wherever You Look by Carmen Bamba

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Moxy The Band – You Feel It Too (Animated Music Video) by Evan Doll
OUR GAME IS OVER – Odd Chap & Loredana Grimaudo by Andrea Carrara
Sacramento by Alessandro Gagliardo
Won’t Be Around (Music Video) by Terry Blade



SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

A Faithful Man by Daniele Balboni, Filippo Marchi
My Vision Board Bites by Mark Steensland
Survivor by Dion Marcos
The Taxidermist by Onnoleigh Sweetman

BEST FEATURE/TV SCREENPLAY

 

City of Birds by Alena Alova
Cookbook for Southern Housewives by Josie Hull
Le strade bianche by Michele Iovine
Pardon The Interruption by Olivia Lee

BEST WEB-SERIE / TV PILOT

 

“Slab, You Can Bet!” by Renata Freire
Go(o)d things come in two by Antonio Esposito
The Mystery Man in the Dark by Martin Sommerdag