SHORT TO THE POINT – APRIL 2020 AWARDS
BEST FILM
Doffice | Belgium | 2019 | 20’
Director: Leclercq David
Writers: Othmane Moumen , David Leclercq
Producers: Vincent Tavier
Cast: Michel Carcan, Othmane Moumen
Synopsis: An old guy works into the same office, everyday. But one day, a young colleague arrives and puts his world upside down.
BEST DIRECTOR
Doffice | Belgium | 2019 | 20’
Director: Leclercq David
Writers: Othmane Moumen , David Leclercq
Producers: Vincent Tavier
Cast: Michel Carcan, Othmane Moumen
Synopsis: An old guy works into the same office, everyday. But one day, a young colleague arrives and puts his world upside down.
BEST SCREENPLAY
G A B R I E L | Spain | 2020 | 20’
Director: Pierfrancesco Artini
Writers: Pierfrancesco Artini, Claudio Masenza
Producers: Claudio Masenza, Luis Morenes
Cast: Isabel Ordaz, Antonio Ibañez
Synopsis: Agatha is struck by her husband’s death. She feels old and lonely, yet she starts to experience unexpected sexual desires that would lead her to buy the ultimate version of a male sex robot, Gabriel. Will she find happiness?
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Ungbi and non-human friends | Republic of Korea | 2020 | 18’
Director: Da-min KIM
Producers: Junyong PARK
Cast: Siha KIM, Yunam KIM, Hyeongil Yoon, Jinmo KIM
Synopsis: Ungbi, in need of a playmate, and an unidentified creature covered in black fur. The relationship between these two, who were ‘human’ and ‘non-human animal’, gradually reverses.
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Doffice | Belgium | 2019 | 20’
Actor: Othmane Moumen
Director: Leclercq David
Writers: Othmane Moumen , David Leclercq
Producers: Vincent Tavier
Cast: Michel Carcan, Othmane Moumen
Synopsis: An old guy works into the same office, everyday. But one day, a young colleague arrives and puts his world upside down.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
G A B R I E L | Spain | 2020 | 20’
Cinematographer: Lucas Tucknott
Director: Pierfrancesco Artini
Writers: Pierfrancesco Artini, Claudio Masenza
Producers: Claudio Masenza, Luis Morenes
Cast: Isabel Ordaz, Antonio Ibañez
Synopsis: Agatha is struck by her husband’s death. She feels old and lonely, yet she starts to experience unexpected sexual desires that would lead her to buy the ultimate version of a male sex robot, Gabriel. Will she find happiness?
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Doffice | Belgium | 2019 | 20’
Set designer: Tanguy Thirion
Director: Leclercq David
Writers: Othmane Moumen , David Leclercq
Producers: Vincent Tavier
Cast: Michel Carcan, Othmane Moumen
Synopsis: An old guy works into the same office, everyday. But one day, a young colleague arrives and puts his world upside down.
BEST EDITING
Susie | United States | 2020 | 16’
Director: Jordan Doig
Writer: Jordan Doig
Producers: Stephanie Gould, Ian McGuire
Cast: Cat Olson, Andrea Murillo
Synopsis: Susie and Andy’s relationship has become toxic. In order to deal with Andy’s controlling and emotionally damaging actions, Susie begins to manifest a real and physical horror.
BEST NARRATIVE
G A B R I E L | Spain | 2020 | 20’
Cinematographer: Lucas Tucknott
Director: Pierfrancesco Artini
Writers: Pierfrancesco Artini, Claudio Masenza
Producers: Claudio Masenza, Luis Morenes
Cast: Isabel Ordaz, Antonio Ibañez
Synopsis: Agatha is struck by her husband’s death. She feels old and lonely, yet she starts to experience unexpected sexual desires that would lead her to buy the ultimate version of a male sex robot, Gabriel. Will she find happiness?
BEST COMEDY
Doffice | Belgium | 2019 | 20’
Director: Leclercq David
Writers: Othmane Moumen , David Leclercq
Producers: Vincent Tavier
Cast: Michel Carcan, Othmane Moumen
Synopsis: An old guy works into the same office, everyday. But one day, a young colleague arrives and puts his world upside down.
BEST DRAMA
PRASKOVYA | Russian Federation | 2019 | 06’
Director: Alexander Solovyov
Writer: Alexander Solovyov
Producer: Ksenia Kovaleva
Synopsis: Praskovya continues working in the Bank despite hunger in the freezing siege of Leningrad. Her husband went to war. The only thing he left is the ink pot. This gift is the onlyitem which makes Praskovya feel warm. In the most critical moment when no hopes or energy is left only the ink pot acts as a twist of destiny.
BEST HORROR
The Music Box | United States | 2020 | 25’
Director: Ryan Riddle
Writer: Ryan Riddle
Producer: Bryant Marcontel
Cast: Yuwi Kim, True Chan, Ginny O’ Keefe, Jasmine Orpilla
Synopsis: A girl and her father move to America after experiencing tragedy and are eventually haunted by the loved one they both lost.
BEST FANTASY/SCI-FI
G A B R I E L | Spain | 2020 | 20’
Director: Pierfrancesco Artini
Writers: Pierfrancesco Artini, Claudio Masenza
Producers: Claudio Masenza, Luis Morenes
Cast: Isabel Ordaz, Antonio Ibañez
Synopsis: Agatha is struck by her husband’s death. She feels old and lonely, yet she starts to experience unexpected sexual desires that would lead her to buy the ultimate version of a male sex robot, Gabriel. Will she find happiness?
BEST STUDENT
SCENES BY THE SEA | Russian Federation | 2019 | 20’
Director: Oksana Degtyareva
Writer: Oksana Degtyareva
Synopsis: Nina spends her time at her parents’ busy with the preparation for her younger sister’s wedding. Unexpectedly for her, her husband Nikita comes there too. Nina and Nikita have been going through a family relationships crisis. In order not to spoil the event, they try to pretend that everything is OK between them. How will their reluctant mutual vocation end? Will they be able to batter the wall between them down or will this wall get even higher?
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Header | Germany | 2020 | 13’
Director: Mark Kuhlmann
Writer: Mark Kuhlmann
Producer: Mark Kuhlmann
Cast: Doron Heegner, Anton Lindner, Yasmin Ott
Synopsis: When Lars (13) gets further and further behind in the initially still funny duel with his brother Kai (11) and thus also threatens to lose the love of his mother, he is faced with a decision: Will he fight against his unfairly playing brother or will he give up?
BEST ANIMATION
Melted | United States | 2020 | 02’
Director: Nikki Chapman
Writer: Nikki Chapman
Producer: Ringling College of Art and Design
Cast: Shelby Lewis
Synopsis: A macabre girl laments about the inevitability of death after being given a melting cartoon character popsicle.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
A Room in Moscow | Russian Federation | 2019 | 32’
Director: Alexander Zubkov
Writer: Marina Sapunova
Producers: Ekaterina Dyba, Alexei Novikov
Synopsis: Is it so easy to give up the idea of owning something in favour of renting? Now the urban people are learning the benefits of sharing. The proximity of housing to work, the gym, the city centre comes to the fore nowadays. And the house is just a set of boxes that you can always take with you in a small truck.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Go! | Italy | 2019 | 07’
Director: Vittorio Campanella, Riccardo Maione
Writer: Daniele Condemi, Luca Pescaglini, Vittorio Campanella
Producer: Lucia Carolina de Rienzo
Cast: Emanuele Piras
Synopsis: The dancing migration through a day, periphery and body.
BEST MINI SHORT
Murphy’s Law n.2 | Italy | 2020 | 02’
Director: Valerio Galli
Writer: Valerio Galll
Producer: Valerio Galli
Cast: Valerio Galli
Synopsis: A guy, locked at home for the Covid-19 emergency, reflects on the moment the world is living
BEST LOW/NO BUDGET
FREEDOM & FEAR | Germany | 2020 | 14’
Director: Johannes Ziegler
Writer: Johannes Ziegler
Producer: Johannes Ziegler
Cast: Sita Ziegler-Robert, Amalia Ziegler
Synopsis: The world in 2025. Strict restrictions and quarantine measures still apply. The global economy plunged into a deep crisis from which it has not yet recovered. The silent fear of the COVID-19 virus and state control are widespread. A mother and her daughter live in silent fear of a virus and the oppression, the invisible control that is supposed to protect our society. Everyday life has changed. He has become calm, characterized by simple tasks and the urge to survive. In these circumstances, the mother tries to complete a work whose completion becomes the symbol of our time. It is a serious decision that our society has to face: fear or freedom. – “This film was created during global quarantine efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.”
BEST AMATEUR SHORT
Esto si es negocio | Mexico | 2020 | 04’
Director: Mario Ayala Urias
Writer: Mario Ayala Urias
Producer: Mario Ayala Urias
Cast: Héctor Sauceda Ruiz, Jonathan Padilla Jaramillo , Áxel Sánchez López
Synopsis: [English] Omar is about to become a drug dealer, there is no other option.
[Español] Omar esta a punto de convertirse en un traficante, no hay otra opción.
BEST FASHION SHORT
My love is epiphyllum | Russian Federation | 2019 | 04’
Director: Maxett Pribylov
Writer: Maxett Pribylov
Producer: Alexander Ponomarev
Cast: Sofia Filileeva, Ivan Vorobev
Synopsis: My video has the spirit of the first pure love. The video “my love is epiphyllum” Lat. (your love is flower) tells about the summer dreams of lovers, when mutual care is metaphorically represented as the care of a person for a houseplant.
I chose the form of a science fiction film for my video. The voiceover used in the video is a plant care instruction from a gardening book. The sound is made by the voice of Siri.
Perhaps this work will be useful to the viewer in such difficult time in the world.
BEST COMMERCIAL/AD/TVC
Feel It | United States | 2018 | 01’
Director: Jono Seneff
BEST STOP-MOTION/TIME-LAPSE
Meaningless | Australia | 2017 | 05’
Director: Tyson Di Rosa
Writer: Tyson Di Rosa
Producers: Medo Rashed, Tyson Di Rosa
Synopsis: A quiet man struggles to get a boulder to the top of a hill however making it to the top might not be his only task.
