SHORT TO THE POINT – 2018 ANNUAL 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
Fear
Director: Juan Pablo Menchon
Country: Argentina
Duration: 10:00
Synopsis: Lucas is nine years old, in the immensity of the countryside, in the darkest of nights, sitting next to el Pira, his dog, he waits. Sometimes a scary story can also be a story of courage.
BEST SCREENPLAY
Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times
Director: Marcus Markou
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 12:12
Synopsis: Two strangers meet at five key turning points over the duration of their lives. Initial conflict gives way to compassion and eventual friendship.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
think of something blue
Director: jerry de mars
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 06:23
Synopsis: Think of something blue is based on a Dutch Poem by Martijn den Ouden. It portrays a man, dealing with loneliness and mourning, comforted by memories of his loved one.
BEST EDITING
Lau and Laudrup
Director: Charlotte Brodthagen
Country: Denmark
Duration: 30:00
Synopsis: Soccer-lover Lau lives a lonely existence at the refugee center, as his brother Laudrup is hospitalized. When an epidemic breaks loose in Copenhagen, Lau escapes the evacuation of the center and sets out to rescue his little brother.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Inspector W
Director: Matthieu Di Paolo
Country: France
Duration: 29:59
Synopsis: In the small town of Saint-Martin-des-Bois, the unthinkable happened: a woman was murdered. Inspector W, with his loyal right-hand man, Lieutenant Lanvin, will start an investigation full of whiskers, floral dresses and panna cotta…
BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM
The Confidence
Director: Stepan Sokolov
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 12:27
Synopsis: Vasya, a diffident young man, asks his smart friend Jenya to help him impress a cute girl Vika who is Vasya’s dream woman. Jenya offers Vasya to protect Vika from a fictional abduction with abductors being Jenya’s friends. Our friends couldn’t even imagine that alongside their fictional abduction 2 real criminals with nicknames Mathematik and Tychok want to abduct Vika in real time. Vasya’s confidence in dangerous and complicated situation will allow him not only to beat the criminals, but also win Vika’s attention.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
I am Art
Director: Roman Eich, Raphael Petri
Country: Germany
Duration: 29:19
Synopsis: In this mockumentary a first-time documantary filmmaker meets the artist of all classes Ischariot Wiesengrund. Despite their obvious differences the two men develop a strange familiarity.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Le Jeune Pâtissièr
Director: Ksenia Ciuvaseva
Country: Germany
Duration: 16:51
Synopsis: Kolja is 15 years old and already up to open his own business: a cotton candy franchise. As soon as he makes first steps towards his goal, having a stand at an open-air market, he doesn’t seem to be sure about anything anymore. A story about a young entrepreneur in a big city.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Twice Upon a Time
Director: Vojin Vasovic
Country: Serbia
Duration: 14:10
Synopsis: Twice Upon a Time, there was a king with split personality whose one half wants to become a poet and the other a fearless warrior. They share their conscience, but have opposing wishes and desperately want to get rid of each other.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
The suspended life
Director: Condino Fabrizio
Country: Italy
Duration: 15:48
Synopsis: The suspended life tells the repetitve and oppressive routine of a young boy in a provincial town in southern Italy.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
Subcutaneous
Director: Carlos Segundo
Country: Brazil
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Anne knows, the skin is not the limit.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Real Love by Inga-Dingo
Director: Eyal Be
Country: Israel
Duration: 04:26
Synopsis: What happens when your ex-boyfriend is a video editor that keeps trapping you in a loop in order to stop you from meeting your new boyfriend? This is the idea behind the music video for “Real Love” by the Israeli alternative band, Inga-Dingo.
BEST MINI SHORT
Cross the Bridge
Director: Marc Eikelenboom
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 02:29
Synopsis: A lonely bridgekeepers life changes if he falls in love.
BEST MOBILE PHONE
Insanity
Director: Georgi Martev, Teodora Vassileva
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 01:39
Synopsis: What is the impact of our stressful world on our mentality? “Insanity” is a Psychological thriller showing just that.
BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM
The Bird Sings With Its Fingers
Director: Mila Fakhurdinova
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 16:29
Synopsis: Life in the embrace of nature is beautiful. Stream water, coffee with a robin, nude walks through the forest. Life in the embrace of solitude is scary, especially solitude with two people. Young woman in a story on the border of dream and reality, horse and human, beautiful and scary.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
KAPITALISTIS
Director: Pablo Munoz Gomez
Country: France
Duration: 14:45
Synopsis: Santa is capitalist. He brings toys to the rich kids and swea shirts to the poor ones. Nikos, 5 years old.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Pipe Dream
Director: Normann Bjorvand
Country: Sweden
Duration: 04:42
Synopsis: Richard Wagner Jr. III lives within a prison. Walls of stone and the strong arms of men have their way with the small, frail shell of this man. But beyond these confines, beyond the harsh florescent lights that suck life from dreaming minds, awaits a lucid and fringe dream that seeks out hosts for its short-lived dance of the fantastic.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
The Ticket
Director: Haris Stathopoulos
Country: Greece
Duration: 17:00
Synopsis: We follow the course of a ticket for Public Transportation as it passes from hand to hand. Each person that holds the ticket carries his own story and a social problem as well. A social recording of the Greek crisis.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
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…
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
The Glass Pearl
Director: Tommi Seitajoki
Country: Finland
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: A 12-year-old boy plunders garbage cans in a suburb, searching for something that might lead to a reward.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
THE WAIT
Director: Eric DU BELLAY
Country: France
Duration: 24:20
Synopsis: Eloise, 21 years old, lives in a decrepit family-owned vineyard. On a winter’s sunday, she’s alone on duty for the winemaking cooperative. Her parents are running errands. They left a note saying her cousin, Matis, will spend the night at the domain. The wait starts.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Faith
Director: Tatiana Fedorovskaya
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: An old widower, former WW2 radio operator, perceives flashing bulb as his late wife’s messages from Heaven. His love will never die even when the lights are gone.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Leader
Director: Priwieziencew Katia, Priwieziencew Igor
Country: Poland
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: A group of men oppressed by women joins a course with the aim of regaining a healthy relationship. The coach turns out to have highly controversial methods…
