BEST FILM
The Magic Flute | France | 2021 | 27’
Director: Geordy Couturiau
Writer: Geordy Couturiau
Producer: Eliott Brunet
Cast: Esdras Registe, Guillaume Dietrich
Synopsis: While he is covered in debts and has a dying mother, Arnaud meets Momo, a magician from his neighborhood with singular and malicious behavior from his neighborhood who does sleight of hand tricks. But this meeting will not ward off bad luck, quite the contrary… Could the discovery of an old flute be the solution to all their problems and change their fate?
BEST DIRECTOR
The Magic Flute | France | 2021 | 27’
Director: Geordy Couturiau
Writer: Geordy Couturiau
Producer: Eliott Brunet
Cast: Esdras Registe, Guillaume Dietrich
Synopsis: While he is covered in debts and has a dying mother, Arnaud meets Momo, a magician from his neighborhood with singular and malicious behavior from his neighborhood who does sleight of hand tricks. But this meeting will not ward off bad luck, quite the contrary… Could the discovery of an old flute be the solution to all their problems and change their fate?
BEST SCREENPLAY
The Magic Flute | France | 2021 | 27’
Director: Geordy Couturiau
Writer: Geordy Couturiau
Producer: Eliott Brunet
Cast: Esdras Registe, Guillaume Dietrich
Synopsis: While he is covered in debts and has a dying mother, Arnaud meets Momo, a magician from his neighborhood with singular and malicious behavior from his neighborhood who does sleight of hand tricks. But this meeting will not ward off bad luck, quite the contrary… Could the discovery of an old flute be the solution to all their problems and change their fate?
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Daughter of the Sea | United States | 2022 | 20’
Actress: Princess Nokia
Director: Alexis Garcia
Writer: Alexis Garcia
Producer: Debora Perez
Cast: Princess Nokia
Synopsis: After the death of her grandfather, a young woman experiences a spiritual awakening when she is called by Yemaya, the orisha Goddess of the Sea.
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Delivery to Hell | France | 2022 | 25’
Actor: Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
Director: Michael Drai
Writer: Michael Drai
Producer: Mael Andre
Cast: Barbara Carlotti, Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
Synopsis: A recently deceased bike courier finds himself in the grim reaper’s administrative office. But it’s hard to choose where to spend eternity when you’ve spent your entire life in a state of total indecision.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Daughter of the Sea | United States | 2022 | 20’
Cinematographer:Joshua Echevarria
Director: Alexis Garcia
Writer: Alexis Garcia
Producer: Debora Perez
Cast: Princess Nokia
Synopsis: After the death of her grandfather, a young woman experiences a spiritual awakening when she is called by Yemaya, the orisha Goddess of the Sea.
BEST EDITING
Hold the Lighthouse | Canada | 2021 | 10’
Editor: Ludauvick Geoffroy
Director: Thomas Soto
Writer: Thomas Soto
Producer: Marie-Christine Toupin
Cast: Jacques L’Heureux, Édouard Biron-Laroque
Synopsis:A septuagenarian and his 8-year-old grandson are isolated in a small village in Gaspesie. The grandfather’s Alzheimer progresses and feel a certain attachment to his love, his wife, a memory that lasts. She stays in his mind, while the rest crumbles. The grandson tries his best to be a support, a safe place, for his grandfather as the film of his memory slowly burns..
BEST NARRATIVE
Home by two | Netherlands | 2021 | 05’
Director: Bart Dokter
Writer: Bart Dokter
Producer: Bart Dokter, Rutger Veenstra
Cast: Janni Goslinga, Susan Radder
Synopsis: Maaike and her daughter Sytske get into an argument about their differences in coping with their recently broken family. Will this argument tear them apart for good?
BEST COMEDY
Delivery to Hell | France | 2022 | 25’
Director: Michael Drai
Writer: Michael Drai
Producer: Mael Andre
Cast: Barbara Carlotti, Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
Synopsis: A recently deceased bike courier finds himself in the grim reaper’s administrative office. But it’s hard to choose where to spend eternity when you’ve spent your entire life in a state of total indecision.
BEST FANTASY/SCI-FI
The Wreckers | France | 2022 | 15’
Director: Julien Fontaine
Writer: Julien Fontaine
Producer: Julien FONTAINE
Synopsis: “A young man names Jacques, blended in a group of wreckers in order to wreck and harvest a specific ship. But the night might take a stranger turn than expected and certainly not at all restful for any of our three protagonists.”
BEST STUDENT
The Shepherd | Denmark | 2022 |17’
Director: Janis Mikolajczak
Writer: Louis Sund Jongsma
Producer: Mila Kreft-Sietnicka
Cast: Oliver Overgaard, Michael Robdrup
Synopsis: A young priest meets God and is challenged in his beliefs, as he slowly realizes that his life is shaped by a comforting ignorance.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
The Shepherd | Denmark | 2022 |17’
Director: Janis Mikolajczak
Writer: Louis Sund Jongsma
Producer: Mila Kreft-Sietnicka
Cast: Oliver Overgaard, Michael Robdrup
Synopsis: A young priest meets God and is challenged in his beliefs, as he slowly realizes that his life is shaped by a comforting ignorance.
BEST ANIMATION
Curiosa | United Kingdom | 2022 | 10’
Director: Tessa Moult-Milewska
Writers: Tessa Moult-Milewska, Matthew Dicky
Cast: Sychelle Kristina Yanda
Synopsis: Curiosa tells the story of overly curious Mary, who visits her boyfriend’s flat for the first time, just to discover it’s been stripped bare of all personal belongings. After being denied an explanation, she climbs into his head.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Painting Pain | Greece | 2021 | 22’
Director: Antonis Kartezos
Writer: Antonis Kartezos
Producers: Cinéma Expérimental, Vassilis Grigoriou, Antonis Kartezos
Cast: Nikos Koniaris, Stella Tripolitaki
Synopsis: The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through a film – a hybrid of real recording and directed material. The grief, the sick body, is reflected in self-portraits, portraits of dying strangers and paintings of dead models. The paintings, apart from his work, also express a different version of himself. Αll together contribute to the depiction of man as a “garment of pain”
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
On The Other Side | Canada | 2021 | 08’
Director: Patrice LaCroix
Writers: Patrice LaCroix, Naïma Moreira Laliberté
Producers: Maude Lahière, Patrice LaCroix
Cast: Naïma Moreira Laliberté
Synopsis: A pandemic strips a young equestrian athlete named Naïma of a chance of competing in the Olympics. This unwelcomed pause triggers a domino effect, where the pressure to perform is released, and her wild imagination takes over to lead her into a journey where she revisits the dream paradox.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
COPIKORRUPT – SEEMS LIKE HUMAN CORRUPTED | Russian Federation |2022 | 03’
Directors: Igor Eyt, Alexandr Krasnovitskii
Writer: Artur Danielian
Producer: Igor Eyt
Synopsis: The video Seems Like Human Corrupted is a story of the emotional state of a person, who has highly developed psychological traumas, a person who is forced — by family and society — to look at life through the lens of his fears.
BEST FASHION SHORT
People Wonderland and Attention | China | 2021 | 4’
Director: Bessy Huang
Writer: Bessy Huang
Producer: Bessy Huang
Cast: James Ducker, Josha Gwynne, Marin Kawamori, Sim Zeng, Michelle Burckley, Michelle Cverly
Synopsis: After three years learning in styling and production. I prepare to do an Autobiographical short film for my final project. 2020 will be a severe year for anyone. We were forced to stay at home for a long time. During this abnormal time, I spent the longest time with myself. The resulting psychological pressure made me have many strange dreams. It also allowed me to conduct long-term psychological counseling and treatment. While examining myself, I found that my personality has a great need for attention. The result of the diagnosis by the psychologist is: when I lack attention, I will have the fear of death. The whole work will revolve around my personal experience, dreams and self-psychological exploration.
BEST STOP-MOTION/TIME-LAPSE
PIANO | Peru | 2022 | 04’
Director: Mariana Osores Benfenati
Writer: Mariana Osores Benfenati
Producer: Mariana Osores Benfenati
Synopsis: A disheartened man is reunited with an old forgotten talent, that kind of talent that excites us, mentally transports us and fills our souls. Un sujeto desmotivado se reencuentra con un talento olvidado, de esos talentos que nos apasionan, nos transportan mentalmente y nos llenan el alma.
