JUNE 2022

NOMINEES

BEST OF FEST

 

Bolero Station by Rolf Brönnimann
Fading Away by Tian Lan
Life Agreement by Lu Li
Monster Heart by Priyanga Burford
Of the Waiting by Adriano Vessichelli
Witness by Ali Asgari







BEST SHORT FILM

 

Life Agreement by Lu Li
Monster Heart by Priyanga Burford
Witness by Ali Asgari







BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Fading Away by Tian Lan
Paper Man by Motae Ki
When Time Got Louder by Connie Cocchia







BEST SHORT DOC

 

Bloody Tradition: Agree to Disagree by Jitse de Graaf and Martijn Kramer
Happy Independence Day by Ville Ilmari Seppänen
The Story of Mama Butterfly by Yuqian Cao




BEST FEATURE DOC

 

100 Cans by Mazen Al Khayrat
Bella Ciao, Song of Rebellion by Andrea Karena Vogt
Girls! GO! by Xiaolan Xu





BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

Archie Brown – Reality by Tom Fuller
Bolero Station by Rolf Brönnimann
Of the Waiting by Adriano Vessichelli







BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Rudolf Duala Manga Bell: A German Story by Henrik Langsdorf
Saint-Désir l’Exil by Natacha Nisic
Tunnel Vision by Lara Marlies Rabitsch







BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

Alessandro D’Alessandro feat. Elio & David Riondino – Tiritera Delle Canzoni Che Volano by Gianluca Abbate and Alessandro D’Alessandro
Archie Brown – Reality by Tom Fuller
Palindrome – First Time by Fabio Giavara and Samir Fennane







BEST WEB SERIES / TV PILOT

 

Lizzy’s Plan: 3 Peas in a Podcast by Jeremy Mowery
Off Guard by Emile Rizk
The Chambers: In God We Trust by Sura Khan







BEST POSTER

 

Fading Away by Tian Lan
Witness by Ali Asgari
Homo Ignarus by Joshua Scattergood







BEST TRAILER

 

Bella Ciao, Song of Rebellion by Andrea Karena Vogt
Of the Waiting by Adriano Vessichelli
Rudolf Duala Manga Bell: A German Story by Henrik Langsdorf







BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

A Night In by Eduardo Olmos, Connor Tyler Gray
High Surge by Rick Shepherd 
La Giostra by Eleonora Puglia



BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

 

The Ideal Traits of a Hunting Dog by Loren A. Armstrong
Hello Cello by Felicity Bolitho 
Fifteen Times a Killer by Steve Crawshaw







BEST DIRECTOR

 

Ali Asgari for Witness
Priyanga Burford for Monster Heart
Tian Lan for Fading Away







BEST SCREENWRITER

 

Fernoosh Samadi and Ali Asgari for Witness
Lu Li for Life Agreement
Priyanga Burford for Monster Heart







BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Max Kollreider for Tunnel Vision
Sarah Cunningham for Monster Heart
Shuo Chen for Life Agreement







BEST EDITING

 

Ehsan Vaseghi for Witness
Julian Emig for Rudolf Duala Manga Bell: A German Story
Lan Tian for Fading Away







BEST SOUND

 

Amir Partozadeh, Mohammad Reza Hosseini and Saman Shahamat for Witness
Marian Mentrup for Of the Waiting
Sam Mason for Monster Heart







BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

Florian Walser for Bolero Station
Ilan Bedner for Bloody Tradition: Agree to Disagree
Marco Messina and Sacha Ricci for Of the Waiting







BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Costume Department of Aller Simple
Hayley Nebauer for Monster Heart
Kévin Tage for The Madness Store







BEST LEADING ACTOR

 

Jean-Pierre Clami for Aller Simple
Jonathan Simao for When Time Got Louder
Tu Hu for Fading Away

 





BEST LEADING ACTRESS

 

Anahita Afshar for Witness
Anastasia Hille for Monster Heart
Pearl Chanda for Monster Heart





BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Lochlyn Munro for When Time Got Louder
Sammy Kamara for Monster Heart
Yu Changhe for Fading Away







BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Elizabeth Mitchell for When Time Got Louder
Maria Austin for Monster Heart
Nasrin Kourdi for Witness