SHORT TO THE POINT – NOVEMBER 2017 AWARDS
BEST FILM
FUCKING DRAMA
Director: Michael Podogil
Country: Austria
Duration: 17:01
Synopsis: A young couple admits to see an off theater play in a mysterious dark basement. The play begins as ‘arty’ as expected – some people film it amused with their phones. But the mood changes, when Manfred Amour, the author of the play enters the cellar.
BEST DIRECTOR
FAMILY FOR SALE
Director: Sebastien Petretti
Country: Belgium
Duration: 14:29
Synopsis: A small hole in a condom back in 1980, and Xav is conceived… Ironic when you know
that Oscar owns a sex shop. Oscar is the father. Typhaine, the mother, is a disinherited
bourgeois. Since the arrival of Petra, Typhaine can’t stop throwing herself against the
wall to express her discomfort. Petra is Oscar’s mistress. Xav has tried getting used to
his family, but eighteen years later, he’s had enough…
BEST SCREENPLAY
THE INNER SIDE – A BELSŐ OLDAL
Director: Dániel Reich
Country: Hungary
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: Domi is a 33 years old autistic boy, who never speaks and lives with his mother and father. They try everything to cure him, but no effect. The mother cynically tells the story of their unlucky family, she is hopeless. Only the books bring happiness in Domi’s life. He is obsessed by books. The family tries a new psychologist, Aliz, who soon realizes how important the books are for Domi. Now Aliz starts to write a story for Domi. This book changes the world around Domi, we see the story becoming alive and driving the boy towards the solution.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
RECALL
Director: Dániel Reich
Country: Hungary
Duration: 19:50
Synopsis: We are in the 80’s, the young boy Beni spending the holiday with his mum and sister, Gilla at lake Balaton. Beni finds an old photo camera and starts taking photos, obsessively. Gilla suddenly disappears while swimming in the water. They caný find her, but Beni doesn’t give up the search and with the help of a local investigator they keep looking for her. 10 years earlier in the same place , a girl disappear in similar circumstances, so they both feel that the answer to be sought beyond rationality.
BEST EDITING
QUAND LES POULES ONT EU DES DENTS – THE HEN
Director: David Braun
Country: France
Duration: 24:09
Synopsis: Year 2137, animals have so long disappeared that the younger generations do not even have a memory. While the reigning environmentalist dictatorship is trying to reintroduce a hen in the forest, the eco-citizens are formally banned on coming up to it. But Oscar, who illegally kept an ancient cookery book at his place, has a bee in his bonnet: eating it!
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
CAUTIONARY TALES
Director: Chris Barrett, Luke Taylor
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 08:04
Synopsis: A bizarre incident as a young boy left Aaron with an unusual facial disfigurement. Isolated and vulnerable, Aaron seeks comfort in the friendship and understanding of an unexpected group of outcasts.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
ACHERON
Director: Matthias Kreter
Country: Germany
Duration: 13:47
Synopsis: During a 10-minute ride, we witness in 2 parallel long-takes the changing rivalries between three gangsters and the growing panic of their hostage in the truck. The kidnappers are only minutes away from delivering the captive to their boss. They just have to cross a river.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Lawman
Director: Matthew Gentile
Country: United States
Duration: 13:11
Synopsis: 1875, Indian Territory. Bass Reeves, is the first African-American to be deputized by the U.S. Marshal service. His wife, Nellie Jennie Reeves, tries to persuade Bass not to leave for his own safety, but Bass argues that it’s the best job he can get to keep a roof over his family’s head.
When Bass charges into the desert, he engages in a shootout with two outlaws, Maha and Glen Huddleston, also African-American. Bass kills Maha in the gunfight, and arrests Glen, ordering him to carry Maha’s body across the desert back to Fort Smith.
Over the course of their journey, Glen questions Bass’ choice of career and tries to psych Bass out in an unorthodox attempt at escape, a tactic that works as Bass begins to question his own mind in regards to the idea of justice and choosing to fight for a law and a country that may never fight for him.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
CARMEN
Director: Natalia Preston
Country: Spain
Duration: 16:06
Synopsis: Sacrifice, a love story, longing and a difficult life far away from home: Carmen is a poignant and heartfelt portrait of a woman who follows her heart from Venezuela to Madrid, but finds a hard reality.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Agent 327: Operation Barbershop
Director: Hjalti Hjalmarsson, Colin Levy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 03:51
Synopsis: Agent 327 is investigating a clue that leads him to a barbershop in Amsterdam. Little he knows that he is being tailed by mercenary Boris Kloris…
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
TASTE OF LOVE
Director: Paul Scheufler
Country: Austria
Duration: 04:32
Synopsis: „What is the taste of love?“ Could it be sweet, sour, bitter or even salty? A girl embarks on an aromatic journey of love, stimulating her taste buds to the point of climax. With all senses, she explores the various forms love can take on.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
EVE
Director: Artem Skiy
Country: Japan
Duration: 02:01
Synopsis: The first AI (Artificial Intelligence) did not have a specific location, rather it was spread through a global network of computers. The birth of Eve, a manifestation of AI in a physical human body, was not made in a lab, nor grown in a petri dish. Eve was born underground, deep in a utility level, constructed in the air from carefully rearranged elements.
BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM
The Loop
Director: Francisco Javier García
Country: Spain
Duration: 09:11
Synopsis: A normal day, on the way home, strange things, and an escape from something incomprehensible.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
SCHIRKOA
Director: Ishan Shukla
Country: India
Duration: 13:31
Synopsis: In the city of Bag-heads, a senate member faces a tough choice between political career, brothels and love for a mysterious woman. A choice that will transform his life and the city in unimaginable ways.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
THE FARE
Director: Santiago Paladines
Country: United States
Duration: 24:55
Synopsis: Javier, a 19-year-old Ecuadorian works transporting undocumented immigrants from the Mexican border to stash houses in Southern California. Working his way up a gang of human traffickers, everything changes the day he meets Cristina, a 14-year-old girl from his same hometown in Ecuador. As Javier is forced by the gang to use her as an instrument of his initiation to the gang, his memories and long forgotten past is uncovered. On the way to deliver her to a sex trafficking organization, Javier will have to decide between being loyal to the man that gave him everything or save Cristina’s life.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
CUBEMAN
Director: Linda Dombrovszky
Country: Hungary
Duration: 18:30
Synopsis: An elderly man is unable to accept that he is made to retire and his life takes a dramatic turn, when he realises that he cannot finish the work of his life.
