WINNERS

Best Animation Winner

Via

Via tells of the journey of life through epic, beautiful environments and meaningful character animation. It shows how we should open our eyes to the good things that happen every day, to the experiences we share with the people we love, and that we should find the silver linings, or the lessons to be learnt, in even the lowest times.

Izzy Burton

Best Cinematographer Winner

Andromeda

ANDROMEDA is a sci fi short film about an android who, through her friendship with a little girl, becomes alive.

Emily Dean

Best Director Winner

Entre Deaux Eaux

Catherine, a single woman, lands into the countryside of Marrakech in order to complete the purchase of a luxurious villa with pool. But while viewing it, she suddenly changes her mind. When she accepts Ali’s – her Moroccan taxi driver – proposal to play the estate agent, it’s all another trip which comes up to her.

Patrice Cordonnier

Best Editor Winner

Mountain People

Rolf Ulf is confronted with the aftermath of his grandfathers death in rural Norway.

Sascha Taylor Larsen

Best Experimental Winner

Edyfing Thoughts od a Tobacco Smoker

It’s a journey through three different and ever-deeper phases that unmasks and deconstructs the false convictions of the character and his way of perceiving reality. First through the five senses, then deeper on a mental level, and finally in his subconscious represented by a cave, where he overcomes the fear of being himself imposed by society and break up the cage represented by the Celestial Sphere. Finally, the character returns in the opening place transformed and realizes that it was thanks to himself that he can now know a life far from false beliefs and mental stereotypes.

Valentina Ghiringhelli

Best Feature Documentary Winner

That Which Is Possible

Musical, bracing, and tender, That Which Is Possible is an intimate portrait of an unconventional community of artists working at the Living Museum, an art-space on the grounds of a large state-run psychiatric hospital in Queens, New York.

Michael Gitlin

Best Feature Film Winner

Original Sin

After moving to Spain for her husband, Eva, a Paraguayan woman of class and elegance who always behaves in an appropriate way, finds herself bored, unhappy, and sexually frustrated. After Eva compulsively buys a provocative and offensive piece of art the painter shows up to hand-deliver his work. Their sexual tension grows until they inevitably end up in bed. When Eva’s husband returns home early, an absurd battle of strengths and weaknesses among the three characters ensues.

Jean Lee

Best Foreign Documentary Winner

Ink of Yam

A bomb hits. The windows vibrate – and a few minutes later the needle continues to whiz. In a city full of conflicts, Poko Chaim and Daniel Bulitchev, two Russian tattooists| have created a place without walls. Here they perpetuate the stories of the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the ink under the skin connects them all. A look at their tattoos allows a completely new approach to the heart of the Holy City – its inhabitants. The studio is open to everyone, regardless of nationality, religion or skin color. In the conversations under pain, which often come close to a confession, the customers talk intimately about their life in this controversial city, their beliefs and their fears in the never ending conflict which often is part of the everyday life. These are the moments that make Poko and Daniel psychologists and artists alike. In order to escape the constant noise of the needle, the tattooists repeatedly lead us to special places of the city: to the shore of Tel Aviv and – on their Harleys – to the mountains near Jerusalem.

Tom Fröhlich

Best Music Video Winner

Mesa

After passing from our world to the after life, a cowboy finds himself as the newest member of a chain gang led by death. As the prisoners march through desert terrain in an alternate universe, the cowboy forms a plan to break free and ultimately, destroy death.

Charlie Schwan

Best Picture Winner

Rosemarie

A burned out soap opera writer, under pressure to deliver new episodes, turns his gaze upon his dysfunctional neighbours. Transforming their tragic everyday encounters into a light hearted serial| he gets more than the inspiration he bargained for.

Adonis Florides

Best Producer Winner

An Untold Story of Paperboats

This action packed film is the story of a school boy who gets drawn into the dark life of child soldiers. Set in the Naxalite infested jungles of Bengal.

Amit Khanna

Best Screenplay Winner

The Legend

A tenacious and brilliant girl born in the 11th century dares to live as a boy so successfully that she becomes the most powerful man on earth: the Pope. When she falls in love she finds a deeper meaning to life and is willing to die for having had it all.

Best Short Documentary Winner

The Recipe

A recipe with an old story and deep roots revisited by a crew which bears a mixture of cultures and knowledges, where a migrant manpower and a land with its inhabitants' hospitality break down all possible walls…

Giordano Acquaviva

Best Short Film Winner

Gray

Because homosexuality is still a crime in many parts of the world, people are afraid of taking a stand for their individuality. There have been number of movements and protests for the freedom of homosexuality, but no thought have been given to those girls who have married to homosexuals because they are afraid of exposing the truth in our bitter society. Nandini is one such girl who got married to Rohit, who is a homosexual. Zoel, Rohit's partner, is an artist and aware of Nandini's suffocation. The story takes a turn when Rohit tells Zoel that he is planning to have a kid through IVF, so that Nandini will get busy in her life and it may release him of his guilt too. Opposite to Rohit's expectations, Zoel felt disgusted with this thought and discards Rohit's intention of managing his life between him and Nandini. If it was a sacrifice for Rohit to get married against his gender's choice for the sake of social integrity, it was a crime to Nandini also whose dreams of a married life devastated. The protagonist's insight towards his wife's sacrifice becomes a prime point to reconsider his ideas of love and marriage. "Gray" not just touches upon the homosexual aspects of human beings but also take us beyond our gender choices to understand and connect to a human being.

Preet

Best Student Documentary Winner

Those Who Stay

An ethnography of the aftermath of the earthquakes that destroyed central Italy in 2016 and 2017. The documentary, through intimate stories and an ethic approach, drives us into the lives of the ones that, despite the difficulties, the trauma and the loss, decided to stay.

Arianna Nacci

Best Student Film Feature Winner

Graduation

Hae-Rang is a production design major student in her final year of university. One day she comes home to find out that her mom suddenly decided to sell their house and return to her hometown. Hae-Rang is forced to figure out a way to live on her own as an adult. Hae-Rang is doing her best to get experience on film sets while also balancing a part-time job. When her best friend Eun-Ah decides to go a different path| hae-Rang struggles between reality and her own dreams.

Joan Ji Yey HUI

Best Student Film Short Winner

Love Me Not

The film illustrates the common problem of raising a child in an insecure environment of two people with a complicated past. The film presents the life of Edina, a single mother. The storyline begins with the father coming back in order to build the family that the child needs. The emphasis of the film is on the sentiments and contemplation of Edina.

Lili Fenyvesi