SHORT TO THE POINT MARCH 2021 AWARDS
BEST FILM
The Death Of My Father | United States | 2021 | 19’
Director: Lex Kimbrough
Writer: Lex Kimbrough
Producer: Lex Kimbrough
Cast: Christopher Harvey, Tony King, George Lima
Synopsis: An eerie, yet touching, tale of a son’s unyielding love for his immobile father.
BEST DIRECTOR
The Death Of My Father | United States | 2021 | 19’
Director: Lex Kimbrough
Writer: Lex Kimbrough
Producer: Lex Kimbrough
Cast: Christopher Harvey, Tony King, George Lima
Synopsis: An eerie, yet touching, tale of a son’s unyielding love for his immobile father.
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Death Of My Father | United States | 2021 | 19’
Director: Lex Kimbrough
Writer: Lex Kimbrough
Producer: Lex Kimbrough
Cast: Christopher Harvey, Tony King, George Lima
Synopsis: An eerie, yet touching, tale of a son’s unyielding love for his immobile father.
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
The Burning Blue | United States | 2019 | 14’
Actress: Kiri Hart
Director: Ablay Nurmanbetov
Writer: Ablay Nurmanbetov
Producer: Anila Nugmanova
Cast: Kiri Hart, Thomas Ernst
Synopsis: Lost in a desert, a couple’s relationship is put to the test when they discover they are not alone.
BEST LEADING ACTOR
The Death Of My Father | United States | 2021 | 19’
Actor: Christopher Harvey
Director: Lex Kimbrough
Writer: Lex Kimbrough
Producer: Lex Kimbrough
Cast: Christopher Harvey, Tony King, George Lima
Synopsis: An eerie, yet touching, tale of a son’s unyielding love for his immobile father.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
A Father’s Job | Germany | 2021 | 20’
Cinematographer: Jens Schaffner
Director: Frank Christian Wagner
Writer: Frank Christian Wagner
Producer: Frank Christian Wagner
Cast: Christian Harting, Dorothee Frauenlob, Jessica Stautz, Mara Hoebusch
Synopsis: “A Father’s Job” tells the story of a Jewish woman’s fate in the middle of the last century in Germany. Step by step connections become apparent and result in an overall view that doesn’t just comes up with an unexpected counterpart but also turns temporal orientation upside down.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
A Father’s Job | Germany | 2021 | 20’
Production designer: Lena Kalt
Director: Frank Christian Wagner
Writer: Frank Christian Wagner
Producer: Frank Christian Wagner
Cast: Christian Harting, Dorothee Frauenlob, Jessica Stautz, Mara Hoebusch
Synopsis: “A Father’s Job” tells the story of a Jewish woman’s fate in the middle of the last century in Germany. Step by step connections become apparent and result in an overall view that doesn’t just comes up with an unexpected counterpart but also turns temporal orientation upside down.
BEST EDITING
A Father’s Job | Germany | 2021 | 20’
Editor: Carmen A. Schaffner
Director: Frank Christian Wagner
Writer: Frank Christian Wagner
Producer: Frank Christian Wagner
Cast: Christian Harting, Dorothee Frauenlob, Jessica Stautz, Mara Hoebusch
Synopsis: “A Father’s Job” tells the story of a Jewish woman’s fate in the middle of the last century in Germany. Step by step connections become apparent and result in an overall view that doesn’t just comes up with an unexpected counterpart but also turns temporal orientation upside down.
BEST NARRATIVE
Kamouflage | Sweden | 2020 | 15’
Director: Joaquim Berglund
Writer: Joaquim Berglund
Producers: Christofer Nilsson, Rebecca Sjöstrand
Cast: Frans Zethraeus, Joe Toroczkay, Patrik Karlson, Max Shore
Synopsis: 17 year old Elliot has never gone hunting. When one of his older brothers suggests he should join, his stern father, to Elliot’s surprise, lets him.But it turns out this acceptance comes at a heavy price. A modern nordic noir horror story about the rituals of men, the heredity of sins, and the innocent boys caught in it all.
BEST COMEDY
THE LOTTERY | Russian Federation | 2021 | 30’
Director: Vadim Valiullin
Writer: Vadim Valiullin
Producer: Maria Ivanova
Synopsis: An ordinary working man, Vasya Kosoy, wins 50,000,000 rubles in the lottery. The only thing is that he can collect his winnings on Monday, but he wants to live and spend them right now. Vasya and his family decide to take out a loan, but something unexpected happens, and a default almost cancels Vasya’s winnings. But the whole family has time to overwhelm with wealth for two days and realizes that it is not enough just to have money for a happy life, but it is necessary to live and work honestly.
BEST DRAMA
A Father’s Job | Germany | 2021 | 20’
Director: Frank Christian Wagner
Writer: Frank Christian Wagner
Producer: Frank Christian Wagner
Cast: Christian Harting, Dorothee Frauenlob, Jessica Stautz, Mara Hoebusch
Synopsis: “A Father’s Job” tells the story of a Jewish woman’s fate in the middle of the last century in Germany. Step by step connections become apparent and result in an overall view that doesn’t just comes up with an unexpected counterpart but also turns temporal orientation upside down.
BEST HORROR
BLACK ICE | United Kingdom | 2020 | 08’
Director: Chris Goodman
Writers: Chris Goodman, Mel Barnes
Cast: Abe Buckoke, Joe Warner
Synospis: A British expedition to Antarctica goes terribly wrong. Carter and Williams must seek shelter in the hull of a ship where something very strange lives.
BEST DANCE/MUSICAL
Where We’re Going | United States | 2019 | 04’
Directors: Heidi Duckler, Katherine Helen Fisher
Producers: Caroline Haydon, Raphaelle Ziemba
Synopsis: Where We’re Going: Filmed on the rooftop of the historic Bendix Building in the garment district of Los Angeles where Heidi Duckler has her office space, this work is choreographed by Heidi Duckler and performed by her dancers, her staff and several workers from the building. This short work explores a common feeling in Duckler’s oeuvre – a sense of belonging and how we define family.
BEST STUDENT
814 – eightfourteen | Germany | 2020 | 10’
Director: Victor van Wetten
Writer: Carina Obrecht
Producers: Victor van Wetten, Carina Obrecht
Cast: Gerhard Fehn, Frank Albrecht, Antonia Mohr
Synopsis: Two geezers are debating intensely about time travelling to the Middle Ages, not knowing what unfolds around them.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Nudity | United Kingdom | 2021 | 07’
Director: Jáchym Bouzek
Writers: Jáchym Bouzek, Claire Saint-Pierre
Producers: Isis Hope Lloyd, Luca House
Synopsis: In a fabric society, a young figure diverges from rigid the gender binaries to explore where their identity lies.
BEST ANIMATION
Lost Time | Hungary | 2021 | 06’
Director: Melinda Szabó-Nyulász
Producer: Gyöngyi Petre
Synopsis: An extraordinary journey of a young man, who during a visit to his mother is led to deep realization by the sheer sight of antiques and the memories attached to them. A story about how our sense of time changes due to pure love and about the influence the past has on our present.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Palace | United Kingdom | 2021 | 29’
Director: Jo Prichard
Producer: Jo Prichard
Synopsis: Every day, on the top floor of an iconic 1960’s shopping centre near the heart of the city, hundreds of regulars take up their usual spots in the London Palace Bingo Club. Some come for the cheap dinners and the free tea and coffee, many stay to relax, socialise, play bingo, dominoes, gossip, and party together. As this area’s billion pound redevelopment nears its finish, the club finds itself the last piece of the old neighbourhood now sitting in a drastically altered picture, surrounded on all sides by gleaming towers of high-end apartments. The Palace film is a loud, emotional portrait of a unique community rooted in South London saying goodbye to their social hub and playground of the past 20 years. Told through the stories of the regulars that loved it, and the owner who couldn’t save it.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
The Secret Walls | France | 2020 | 15’
Directors: Anne Charrin, Lise Charrin, Aude Charrin, Jean-Marie Gatin
Writers: Anne Charrin, Lise Charrin, Aude Charrin, Jean-Marie Gatin
Producer: Pauline Carriot (Les Forges Vives)
Cast: Juliette Plumecocq-Mech, Raphaël Gatin
Synopsis: (freely inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy) A theatre in the rain, people outside crowding to get in. A tired man comes through the stage door where a child -the master of the place- has been waiting for him. Engulfed in that theatrical machinery and caught up in the beguiling cogs of time, guided by some unknown force, the man plunges deep into a maelstrom of many faces…
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Crónico | Puerto Rico | 2020 |04’
Director: Claudia Calderón
Writers: Claudia Calderón, Fernando de Peña
Producers: Claudia Calderón, Nasha Santiago
Cast: Bebo Dumont
Synopsis: During the 2020 worldwide quarantine, a young hip hop singer finds solace in marihuana. Crónico is a collage animation music video that explores the daily rituals of a man during these uncertain pandemic times, combined with fantasies that help him escape reality and even reimagine his own history.
BEST MINI SHORT
Forgettable Man | Germany | 2020 | 03’
Director: David Schuster, David Wunderlich
Writer: David Schuster
Producer: David Schuster
Cast: Steven Preisner, Christos Raptis, Josy Issac
Synopsis: A robbery doesn´t go as planned.
BEST MOBILE PHONE
ROY | Austria | 2021 | 05’
Director: Peter Steele
Writer: Peter Steele
Producer: Peter Steele
Cast: Peter Steele
Synopsis: A tale of loneliness, companionship & above all, love. Roy is a puppet. A puppet with a toilet roll for a head. A puppet that wants to find ‘the one’. This is his story…
BEST LOW/NO BUDGET
Superhuman | Germany | 2021 | 04’
Directors: Michael & Mathias Jener, Lisa Brandt
Writers: Lisa Brandt, Mathias Jener
Synopsis: West-Germany, 1970s. People are suffering severe illnesses due to the polluting coal industry. Before it was too late, people started to take action. But nowadays we’re facing another problem.
BEST DEBUT
MOTH | Russian Federation | 2020 | 20’
Director: Arseny Nazaruk
Writer: Arseny Nazaruk
Producers: Arseny Nazaruk, Daniil Vershinin, Ksenia Zemlyanushina
Cast: Ksenia Lukyanchikova
Synopsis: A lonely woman tries to enter relationships, but every attempt to become closer with a new partner ends up with a deep trauma. After a series of failures to share her love with her beloved ones, she decides to literally share it with the whole world by becoming a prostitute.
BEST AMATEUR
Scales | United Kingdom | 2020 | 04’
Director: Leeseul Oh
Synopsis: The girl finds fish with shimmering scales under the sea. She developed a special bond with the fish.
BEST STOP-MOTION/TIME-LAPSE
Main Ballet Tank | Singapore | 04’
Director: Bernhard Schmitt
Writer: Bernhard Schmitt
Producer: Bernhard Schmitt
Cast: Matias Liebrecht
Synopsis: Machines of War are reassigned for a more meaningful task than destruction: Dancing the CanCan. A group of T54 Main Battle tanks let the their hair down and get into some serious track-shaking, cannon-spinning and turret-twerking
