BEST FILM
Tutu | China | 2022 | 25’
Director: Lu Zou
Writer: Lu Zou
Producer: Lu Zou
Cast: Tianmi Zhou, Xudong Huang, Tianchen Huang
Synopsis: Late summer, Tutu, an 8-year-old girl whose parents are almost never around, spends her entire summer holiday within the residential compound, accompanying by her pet rabbit alone. One day, the rabbit committed suicide by jumping off the balcony……
BEST DIRECTOR
Tutu | China | 2022 | 25’
Director: Lu Zou
Writer: Lu Zou
Producer: Lu Zou
Cast: Tianmi Zhou, Xudong Huang, Tianchen Huang
Synopsis: Late summer, Tutu, an 8-year-old girl whose parents are almost never around, spends her entire summer holiday within the residential compound, accompanying by her pet rabbit alone. One day, the rabbit committed suicide by jumping off the balcony……
BEST SCREENPLAY
Ten Essentials | United States | 2022 | 13’
Writer: Peter LeFevre
Director: Travis Greene
Producers: Aly Trasher, Eddy Acosta
Cast: Eddy Acosta, Galen Howard
Synopsis: A man wakes up in the desert chained to a corpse.
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Tutu | China | 2022 | 25’
Actress: Tianmi Zhou
Director: Lu Zou
Writer: Lu Zou
Producer: Lu Zou
Cast: Tianmi Zhou, Xudong Huang, Tianchen Huang
Synopsis: Late summer, Tutu, an 8-year-old girl whose parents are almost never around, spends her entire summer holiday within the residential compound, accompanying by her pet rabbit alone. One day, the rabbit committed suicide by jumping off the balcony……
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Ten Essentials | United States | 2022 | 13’
Actor: Eddy Acosta
Director: Travis Greene
Writer: Peter LeFevre
Producers: Aly Trasher, Eddy Acosta
Cast: Eddy Acosta, Galen Howard
Synopsis: A man wakes up in the desert chained to a corpse.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Tutu | China | 2022 | 25’
Cinematographer: Zheng Yang
Director: Lu Zou
Writer: Lu Zou
Producer: Lu Zou
Cast: Tianmi Zhou, Xudong Huang, Tianchen Huang
Synopsis: Late summer, Tutu, an 8-year-old girl whose parents are almost never around, spends her entire summer holiday within the residential compound, accompanying by her pet rabbit alone. One day, the rabbit committed suicide by jumping off the balcony……
BEST EDITING
Booksmart | France | 2022 | 03’
Director: Côme Ferré
Writer: Côme Ferré
Producer: Claude Fayolle
Cast: Liam Biermans
Synopsis: Since he wants to know everything about everything, this 8 years old boy spend all of his time reading books. But there are things no book can explain…
BEST NARRATIVE
Booksmart | France | 2022 | 03’
Director: Côme Ferré
Writer: Côme Ferré
Producer: Claude Fayolle
Cast: Liam Biermans
Synopsis: Since he wants to know everything about everything, this 8 years old boy spend all of his time reading books. But there are things no book can explain…
BEST DRAMA
SOLO MODE | The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | 2021 | 30’
Director: Tamara Kotevska
Writer: Tamara Kotevska
Producers: Ilija Tiricovski, Tamara Kotevska
Cast: Aleksandar Mikic, Vesna Stanojevska Mikic, Ivo Mikic, Ena Mikic
Synopsis: During COVID 19 pandemics, a worried husband and father invents a family board game so he can strengthen the bonds of his family, but instead, he ends up creating “a board game for one”.
BEST COMEDY
Casanoir | United States | 2022 | 22’
Director: John “JT” Schindler
Writer: Jonathan Geffner
Producer: Isabel Scott Ingram
Cast: Jonathan Geffner, Katharina Schmidt
Synopsis: “Casanoir” is a parody of the 1942 classic movie, “Casablanca”. It features NYC detectives Trillo & Suede – a ventriloquist and his wooden partner. Written and created by real-life ventriloquist Jonathan Geffner, who is also the lead actor and executive producer.
BEST HORROR
LINO | France | 2021 | 28’
Director: Aurélien VERNHES-LERMUSIAUX
Writers: Aurélien VERNHES-LERMUSIAUX, Stylianos PANGALOS
Producer: Brice RANVEL
Cast: Pierre LOTTIN, Lola LE LANN
Synopsis: Atlantic coast, night of December 31st, 2020. A group of soldiers is mobilized following the discovery of a bombshell on the beach where they now wait for the deminers. Among them, Lino, a young soldier back from a difficult mission abroad, seems to be miles away. A sudden intrusion will change the course of the night and of his life…
BEST FANTASY/SCI-FI
BENEATH | France | 2021 | 05’
Director: MORGAN LE FAUCHEUR
Writer: MORGAN LE FAUCHEUR
Producer: FRANCK CORBERY
Cast: GUILLAUME NÉRY
Synopsis: The film reveals the Cannes Underwater Museum by Jason deCaires Taylor through the legendary tale of the Man in the Iron Mask, who was detained in the royal prison of the Island of Sainte-Marguerite in Cannes during the 17th century,
BEST DANCE/MUSICAL
SZPULE | Poland | 2021 | 10’
Director: Maria Bijak
Writer: Tamara Alina
Cast: Ilona Gumowska, Dana Chmielewska, Anna Kamińska, Katarzyna Leszek, Ewa Noras, Sabina Romańczyk
Synopsis: Szpule is a short dance movie, inspired by women, their ability to function in complicated times, crazy situations, and finally to stand up for themselves and act together. The reality in Poland nowadays and the historic event of bobbin fillers’ strike in Żyrardów (1883, the first modern strike in the Kingdom of Poland) pushed us to speak up. We don’t agree for women to be decided for, to be underrated, and that’s why this movie exists. Movement, music and pictures create an oneiric and powerful story of women who decided to speak up and act in their own name.
BEST STUDENT
The Cabin Below A Diamond Sky | United Kingdom | 2022 | 20’
Director: Alex Coleborn
Writer: Juliette Holmes
Producer: Lee Preston
Cast: Tom Lister, Elianne Byrne
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
MOM’S CAT | Hungary | 2021 | 18’
Director: Annabella Schnabel
Writer: Annabella Schnabel
Producers: Csaba Pék, Miklós Bosnyák
Cast: Attila Fritz, Ágnes Máhr, Krisztina Urbanovits, Mihály Csernai, Lili Erdős, Crazy Cat Lady
Synopsis: Felix, a thirty-something Furry is still living with his mother. His life changes dramatically when he gets his dream job, which leads him to leave his mother and fulfill his weird coming of age dramedy.
BEST CHILDREN SHORT
Going | United States | 08’
Director: Carson G Smith
Writers: Carson G Smith, Joshua S Aucker, Nathaniel Merves
Synopsis: Reluctant to look at the past, a young man recalls an old memory that should not be forgotten.
BEST ANIMATION
I LOST THE WAY | Greece | 2021 | 08’
Director: Panagiotis Rappas
Writer: Panagiotis Rappas
Producer: Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos
Cast: Floros Floridis, Michail Marmarinos, Klaudia Delmer
Synopsis: Two parallel monologues. Two men of different ages, talk about their lives and what haunts them. One, almost middle-aged, feels he has lost his way. Full of anxiety and metaphysical agony, he desperately seeks to find the path of return that will lead him to his paternal home and the years of innocence. At the point where he started his impasse, so far, wandering. The route looks like a strange dream. People, animals, machines, change form, properties, and actions in a nightmarish cluster full of paradoxical images, charged with passions and unacknowledged guilt. The other, an elderly man, is nearing the end of his journey. Locked up in a small room, isolated, accompanied by memories and ghosts from the past, he has stopped being anxious. He watches the outside world through the window, with the same stoic calm that he also watches what happens in the strange circus that performs in his small room. Everything that his imagination, memory, and sensitive psyche puts in front of him. With laconic sentences that are more reminiscent of oracles, he raises questions about an absurd and perhaps futile world. An almost nightmarish world, the world that spent its life vulnerable to the alterations of time. They are both the same person. The poet M. Sachtouris in different phases of his life. The questions he asks are not philosophical declarations or logical findings, but images. Images that seem to come from a dream and end up in his poetic iconography. At the end of the imaginary journey, the poet “finds”, among the ruins, his mother, and the room he recognizes as the home of his childhood. He returns to the womb without finding an answer to what tortured him along the way, since “there is no sanguine answer” because everything “is a vast void rather like a tomb”. Panagiotis Rappas May 2021
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Alaska | Switzerland | 2020 | 29’
Director: Louis Hans-Moëvi
Writer: Louis Hans-Moëvi
Producer: Joëlle Bertossa
Synopsis: From the garden of his house in the Swiss countryside Luca, 19, dreams of another life, deep in the hostile northern wilderness. This fantasized territory could ba named “Alaska”. But around skulls, brains and deer skins, hasn’t he already reached his destination?
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Where there is wind | China | 2022 | 27’
Director: Pei Ge
Writer: Pei Ge
Cast: Pei Ge, Betty Ge
Synopsis: Conversations between a father and daughter unfold everywhere. They talk about tomatoes, kites, garbage, baby teeth, the Dead Sea, a missing hedgehog named Tuan Tuan and a mechanical beast with the same name, as well as a dream that father and daughter shared. Meanwhile, something is happening in a fish tank.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
XX LAB, A Scream into the future | France | 2021 | 04’
Director: Anne RAFFIN
Writer: Anne RAFFIN
Producers: Helene ORJEBIN, Nicolas MONGIN
Synopsis: A dystopian story where the human race’s heroic struggle for social freedom remains inevitably the key element for its ultimate survival.
BEST MINI SHORT
Booksmart | France | 2022 | 03’
Director: Côme Ferré
Writer: Côme Ferré
Producer: Claude Fayolle
Cast: Liam Biermans
Synopsis: Since he wants to know everything about everything, this 8 years old boy spend all of his time reading books. But there are things no book can explain…
BEST NO/LOW BUDGET
Forever Young
Director: Michel ARRIBEHAUTE, Nicolas ARRIBEHAUTE, SACHA ARRIBEHAUTE, ROBINSON ARRIBEHAUTE
Writer: Michel ARRIBEHAUTE, Nicolas ARRIBEHAUTE, SACHA ARRIBEHAUTE, ROBINSON ARRIBEHAUTE
Producer: Michel ARRIBEHAUTE, Nicolas ARRIBEHAUTE
Cast: SACHA ARRIBEHAUTE, ROBINSON ARRIBEHAUTE
Synopsis: This is just the story about 2 creative kids who want to create their first Short film…
This is just the story about 2 dads who got nothing else to do…
BEST FASHION
ARTISTIQUE | Czech Republic | 2021 | 04’
Directors: Kristýna & Kryštof Jankovec
Producer: David Vojtovič
Synopsis: The short film celebrates the synthesis of interior design, fashion and visual arts. This cinematic invitation to the Artistique design showroom represents an immersive aesthetic and emotional experience. Every element of design in the film manifests it’s incredible ability to become a source of storytelling and mirrors the power of our own imagination.
BEST TRAILER
Moon Knight | United States | 2021 | 02’
Director: Akshay Tiwari
Synopsis: A dynamic vignette about the bizarre and fractured realities of Marc Spector a.k.a Moon Knight. Inspired from writer Jeff Lemire and artist Greg Smallwood’s epic comic run on the character, it is a journey through death, doubt and delirium which culminates in symbolic rebirth.
