SEPTEMBER 2023

FINALISTS

BEST SHORT FILM

 

A Spoon Of honey by Alex Plachkov
Balloons by Yuxiang Xie
Beyond You by Federico Amicosante
Contadores by IRATI GOROSTIDI AGIRRETXE
DEADLY BLUE by Diana Cignoni
Echoes from the lake by Aranud Khayadjanaian
Get Out by Ziming Zhou
Impatient by Quentin Delcourt
In Tenebras: Into The Darkness by Martin Nuza
Ka me kalu by Flonja Kodheli
KIDNAP by Aoxue Song
Loin des Yeux by Clément Joly-Gavache
Memory And Flame by Ivan Mo
Miss Windy by Yonglin Han
Off the Page by Joan Oliver Nadal, Diego Gómez Tejedor
ONLY THE WIND KNOWS by HUANG ZIYING
Ordinary Violence by Aretha Iskandar
SƐBƐN by Rokiatou Konaté
Stork by Khiray Tyrell Richards
Submersibles by Mathieu Naert
Summer-Past by Qiao Ru Zhang
Surface or Wasting Time in the Most Gleaming Spaces by Mauricio Uribarri
SWITCH by Daniela Giordano
The Boogieman by Maddie Harper
The First Bite by Ray Rajdip
The Jump by Daniel Woods
The Red Chamber by Paul Wolf McPherson
Ummi- Mother by Paolo Calì
Underdog by David Arslanian

BEST FEATURE FILM

 

Afterwards by Stephen Thomas Wallis
Skinjacker by David Izatt
Songs of Kamui by Hiroshi Sugawara
The Founder Effect by Justin MacGregor
The Performance by Stephen Wallis
Vincent by Alan King



BEST SHORT DOC

 

ARAVALI – A Quest For Survival by Akshay Jain
Gakyu by Mai Chouga
Home by Binzhi Zhang
The Swedish speaking migrants of Paris by Emilio Andreas Di Stefano
Weavers of Patan by Kiran Kesav

BEST FEATURE DOC

 

A World of Difference by Robin Newell, Simon Smithers
Behind the Mystery of the Manor by Joseph William Simmons
The Carnival: 125 Years of the Penn Relays by Justin Jarrett



BEST ANIMATION SHORT

 

In Spate by Sarah Skyrme
Inu_Bond by Shuyi Qiu, Xiangrui Chen
The Republic of Wine by Yuehang Li



BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 

Farewell Dreams by Daniel Wolters
Life After Death by Daniel Popovic
M A R S 001 by Tursun Sadykov
SINESTESIA by María Fernanda Marchant
The Decisive Moment by Dominic Kubisch

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

 

GIULIA VENTISETTE “Ho perso” by Simone Grazzi
Self Sabotage – Loc by Magnus Lyche



SHORT SCREENPLAY

 

Day Zero (or; How We Ended The World) by Isaac Scego
Minivan by Kayleb Lee
Pencil by Ahmet Serhat Ak
The Amanita Secret by Nicola Sorrentino, Gabriele Vivante
The Night Horses by Joshua Albalos

BEST FEATURE/TV SCREENPLAY

 

Behind Every Door by Brenda Malley
Lucky in Long Island by Michelle Lynn
Mammasantissima by Ieva Lykos
Pesadilla by Dylan Anglin
Which Way From Here by Alicia DeFonzo

 

BEST WEB-SERIE / TV PILOT

 

Mikael and the P.P. by Simone Laurora
Moments by Aaron Lewis, Malachi Rivers
WordLotto by Johnny Baca