BEST FILM
PLAY | Greece | 2017 | 30’
Director: Vangelis Liberopoulos
Writer: Thomas C. Dunn, Avraam Sekerglou
Producers: Stelios Cotionis, Vangelis Liberopoulos, Rodolfos Valentinos Kriezis
Cast: Yannis Drakopoulos, Nikos Georgakis, Panis Kalofolias, Yiorgos Kentros, Sofia Kokkali
Synopsis: Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever and going through life like in a game, free of society’s rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is that you may escape the rules but you can’t escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.
BEST DIRECTOR
PLAY | Greece | 2017 | 30’
Director: Vangelis Liberopoulos
Writer: Thomas C. Dunn, Avraam Sekerglou
Producers: Stelios Cotionis, Vangelis Liberopoulos, Rodolfos Valentinos Kriezis
Cast: Yannis Drakopoulos, Nikos Georgakis, Panis Kalofolias, Yiorgos Kentros, Sofia Kokkali
Synopsis: Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever and going through life like in a game, free of society’s rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is that you may escape the rules but you can’t escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.
BEST SCREENPLAY
THE 100TH VICTIM | Canada | 2018 | 20’
Director: Anthony von Seck
Writer: Anthony von Seck
Producer: Anthony von Seck
Cast: Devon Graye, Anthony von Seck, Tamara Duarte, Tymothy Paul Coderre
Synopsis: A truck stop diner, a killer confesses his bizarre experiments to a blogger for the LA Times. An unassuming middle-aged man shares his appetite for twisting fate and playing God. He has polaroids of his ninety-nine victims, by the end of their meal, one of them will be the next.
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Un cortometraje sobre la educacion | Chile | 2017 | 19’
Actor: Alejandro Trejo
Director: Sebastián Nemo Arancibia.
Writer: Sebastián Nemo Arancibia.
Producers: Sebastián Nemo Arancibia, Valentina Roblero, Javiera Zurita
Synopsis: Jorge is a fifty-year-old math teacher who is hired at a school with serious bullying issues. His feeling of powerlessness will lead to his own morals being corrupted.
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
CLAC! | France | 2018 | 20’
Actress: Geneviève Emanuelli
Director: Fabien Ara
Writer: Fabien Ara
Producer: Fabien Ara
Synopsis: A family dinner at a Chinese restaurant. MOTHER : « I have Alzheimer. I am going to kill myself. Tonight. » The last meal of a family ready to blow and freaking out.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
PLAY | Greece | 2017 | 30’
Director: Vangelis Liberopoulos
Writer: Thomas C. Dunn, Avraam Sekerglou
Producers: Stelios Cotionis, Vangelis Liberopoulos, Rodolfos Valentinos Kriezis
Cast: Yannis Drakopoulos, Nikos Georgakis, Panis Kalofolias, Yiorgos Kentros, Sofia Kokkali
Synopsis: Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever and going through life like in a game, free of society’s rules and restrictions. Five employees in a metal company put this dream into effect. What they find is that you may escape the rules but you can’t escape the consequences or your personal responsibility.
BEST EDITING
Fire Flames | Canada | 2019 | 05’
Directors: Briggs Ogloff, Tiana Franks, Erin O’Connor
Writer: Erin O’Connor
Producer: Erin O’Connor
Cast: Isla Pouliot, Owen Brackman
Synopsis: During summer’s final moments, Bill reflects on his mother leaving.
BEST SCENOGRAPHY
Champion | Sweden | 2015 | 19’
Director: Måns Berthas
Writers: Daniel Burman, Måns Berthas
Producers: Måns Berthas, Daniel Burman
Cast: Sten Ljunggren
Synopsis: Harsh midwinter. A frozen marriage in a remote cabin. An man from the past returns to seek revenge, and long lost feelings come alive. A wordless battle begins and the eternal triangle finally comes to an end.
BEST COMEDY
Date Night | Romania | 2017 | 17’
Director: Stela Pelin
Writer: Stela Pelin, Ioachim Stroe
Producers: Stela Pelin, Alexandru Mihai, Claudiu Mitcu, Ioachim Stroe , Robert Fița
Cast: Ionuț Niculae, Ilona Brezoianu
Synopsis: Andrei works at a crummy car-wash. Due to a series of unfortunate events he get’s fired. This is terrible news for Andrei giving the fact that he is getting married soon. At home the couple gets in quarrel and Andrei tells a story to avoid the fight. Who knew this was going to be a bad idea?
BEST DRAMA
BLOCK | Islamic Republic of Iran | 2018 | 15’
Director: Mostafa Rabbani
Writer: Mostafa Rabbani, Farshad Najafi
Producer: Mostaf Rabbani
Cast: Farhang Omrani
Synopsis: Ehsan, a 16-year old teenage boy, takes a prostitute home for the first time in the absence of his religious family and with the support of his friend. The prostitute gets into trouble by accident. Ehsan who fears the consequences does something irreversible…
BEST HORROR
HOMBRE | Chile | 2017 | 22’
Director: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
Writer: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
Producers: María Ignacia Melo & Maximiliano Scheleff
Cast: Franco Tapia, Daniel Candia, Eduardo Reyes
Synopsis: It’s been several days of cross-country for Miguel and his father. Despite of them walking deep into the wild, they can’t find any animals to hunt. Exhausted by the boorish demands of his traveling companion, Miguel enters the forest during the night, finding a strange monster that dwells there. The boy decides not to reveal the episode and hide the fear he begins to experience. Miguel is torn between his deepest fears and the desire to be a “real man” as dictated by his father, putting his own identity and nature in question.
BEST FANTASY/SCI-FI
Birthday | Italy | 2017 | 15’
Director: Alberto Viavattene
Writer: Alberto Viavattene
Producers: Claudio Bronzo, Lorenzo Lotti, Alessandro Regaldo
Cast: Roxane Duran, Sydne Rome, Stewart Arnold, Viola Sartoretto , Loredana Armanni
Synopsis: Night. An abusive nurse wanders through the halls of a nursing home. She integrates her salary by secretly selling prescription drugs to junkies and stealing from the most vulnerable patients. The only thing she hates more than her job is old people. Upon entering room 12, occupied by three sisters, she discovers that one of them has just turned one-hundred years old: there must be a birthday present somewhere… that will change their lives forever.
BEST NARRATIVE
Pillowface | Hungary | 2018 | 11’
Director: Péter Vácz
Writer: Péter Vácz
Producer: Bálint Zágoni
Cast: Dezső Derzsi, Anna Sándor
Synopsis: An introverted man creates a pillow friend in his hotel room to ease his loneliness but this new friendship is short-lived when the maid makes the bedding again and again…
BEST STUDENT
TILL THE END OF THE WORLD | Netherlands | 2018 | 27’
Director:Florence Bouvy
Writer: Jessie Tiemeijer
Producers: Eefje Helmus, Charlene Vos
Cast: Linde van der Storm, Juda Goslinga, Gino Mutunda, Fred Goessens, Mike Libanon, Elisa Beuger Synopsis: Marie is eight years old and loves her dad. In a world where playful dreams can suddenly turn into empty eyes that don’t seem to see her, she tries to stand her own. A story about the strength of a child fighting for the unconditional love of her father.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Dreamland | Poland | 2019 | 19’
Director: Natasza Parzymies
Writer: Natasza Parzymies
Producer: Maciej Ślesicki
Key Cast: Krzysztof Rogucki, Sylwia Gola, Wojciech chorąży
Synopsis: When 19-year-old Boy takes up a job at a local amusement park, he falls in love with a much older Girl who works as his replacement as a bear mascot. There is just one ploblem- The Girl is in a long-lasting toxic relationship with the Boss of the theme park.
BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM
Vacant Rooms | Poland | 2019 | 27’
Director: Bartłomiej Jakubiak
Writer: Bartłomiej Jakubiak, Katarzyna Górat-Rzepka (dialogs)
Producers: Maciej Ślesicki, Warsaw Film School
Synopsis: 11- years old girl called Zosia – the girl from the rich family, who came to visit her aunt in a small village. Everything seems normal except the fact that her aunt’s mansion is known to be haunted. At the beginning Zosia doesn’t really like neither the place nor her aunt. But when she meets a boy at her age and it turns out that they get along really well she seems to enjoy her vacations a little bit more. But one day they decide to take a risk and solve the mystery of that mansion by doing everything what her aunt told her not to do.
BEST ANIMATION
Tangle | Islamic Republic of Iran | 08’
Director: Malihe Ghloamzadeh
Synopsis: A life of a girl in war
BEST DOCUMENTARY
INTO MY LIFE | United States | 2018 | 15’
Director: Ivana Hucîková, Sarah Keeling, Grace Remington
Producer: UnionDoc
Cast: Cassandra Bromfield, M. Elaine Bromfield Synopsis: Growing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. Today, Cassandra examines and edits these films, gaining insight into the challenges her mother faced as a creative black woman and the importance of her vision.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
THE DIVINE WAY | Germany | 2018 | 15’
Director: Ilaria Di Carlo
Writer: Ilaria Di Carlo
Producer: Ilaria Di Carlo
Cast: Ilaria Di Carlo
Synopsis: “The path to paradise begins in hell” — Dante Alighieri Loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Divine Way takes viewers along on the protagonist’s epic descent through an endless labyrinth of staircases. As the woman journeys deeper, the staircases mutate and she is trapped and pulled into their dangerous landscape, conducting us through more than fifty magnificent locations.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
THIRSTY EYES – 838 | Austria | 2018 | 06’
Director: Ioan Gavriel
Writer: Ioan Gavriel, Samuel Ebner
Producer: Ioan Gavriel
Cast: Samuel Ebner, Marcin Morga
Synopsis: 838 is a music-video taking place in its own dark & obscure Eastern European world, a constant escape from oneself in a schizophrenic nightmare. Triggered by a sudden encounter on a lonely road, the protagonist’s grasp of reality starts to fall apart — at fast pace.
BEST MINI SHORT
Beautiful Colors | United States | 2018 | 03’
Director: J. A. Moreno
Cast: Naomi Morillo
Synopsis: Beautiful Colors is a glimpse into a forgotten way of seeing. As we make our way into adulthood, the intensity of how we experience the world as children gradually fades away. Flavours are not as sharp, smells are not as pungent, and colors are not as beautiful. This is what director J.A. Moreno visually illustrates with his latest short film. Inspired by Tennyson’s Favorite Things, Beautiful Colors tells us of how we’ve become tainted by society, losing focus of the dreams, hopes and goals we initially set out with. Helped by those who have managed to stay true to themselves, Beautiful Colors is a reminder of those special moments when we are finally able to truly see again.
BEST MOBILE PHONE SHORT
2FACES | Martinique | 2018 | 1’
Director: Amingo THORA
Writer: Amingo THORA
Producer: Amingo THORA
Cast: David-Alexandre Fatna, Malaï Lise
Synopsis: A couple preparing a love journey …
BEST AMATEUR
Stockholm Noir | Sweden | 2019 | 5’
Director: Olof Sylvén
Writer: Olof Sylvén
Producer: Olof Sylvén
Cast: Jenny Berg, Gino Estéra
Synopsis: Jonas is Stockholms most gruesome assassin. When the mother to Jonas daughter Julia, suddenly dies in a car accident, his fate becomes tied to a woman: The Queen.
BEST SERIES
In bed | Russian Federation | 2018 | 05’
Director: Shota Gamisonia
Writer: Shota Gamisonia
Producers: Elizaveta Matrosova, Iakov Dubrovskiy, Shota Gamisonia
Cast: Svetlana Kamynina, Valeriy Prusakov, Nino Ninidze , Kirill Kaganovich , Denis Shvedov, Dasha Belousova, Varya Shmykova
Synopsis: This is a story about relationships between men and women in bed, particularly about exhausting sex life of Anya and Andrey, about joyful and emotional love of Larissa and Denis , about Katya’s loneliness and promiscuous sex life of Jenya.
BEST FASHION SHORT
Moncler Fragment Hiroshi Fujiwara | Poland | 2018 | 02’
Director: Michal Socha, Kuba Socha
Writer: Michal Socha, Kuba Socha
Producers: Ron Diamond ACME Filmworks, BrosFX Synopsis: Film is a part of Moncler genius immersive event that took place in September in Milan. Ispired by collection Hiroshi Fujiwara, our idea was to destroy old to create new. Surrealistic mix of animated scenes in another dimension, different world including defragmented element such as fire, water, wind . Revolution brings defragmented chaos that evolve to an new world and order.
BEST COMMERCIAL/AD/TVC
Be Ready | Italy | 2018 | 2’
Director: Giacomo Boeri e Matteo Grimaldi
Synopsis: The Milan-based production company The Blink Fish returns with the latest fashion film produced for the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (National Chamber of Italian Fashion). Shot to celebrate Milan Fashion Week SS/19 (18-24 September, 2018), Be Ready sees Ukrainian model Nastya Timos determined to be in top shape for the upcoming Milanese fashion season. Frantically trying on outfits, rehearsing for selfies and relentlessly working out, the result is a humorous and light-hearted interpretation of the excitement taking place during fashion week and the preparation involved. As is customary for the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Be Ready supports the local design scene by featuring a wide range of brands based in Italy, from emerging to more established, namely Arthur Arbesser, Gabriele Colangelo, GCDS, Giannico, Lucio Vanotti, Marco de Vincenzo, Paula Cademartori, Sara Battaglia, Stella Jean and Vivetta. The Blink Fish and the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana have been collaborating since 2016, developing an increasingly strong online presence with fresh and relevant video content with each fashion season. Some of their most recent works, such as Start the Buzz and Waiting Room, have been internationally recognised and selected by several film festivals, including Berlin Fashion Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival and the Muse Creative Awards.
