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Discover the award-winning films of the 6th Santorini Film Festival’s 8 competition categories and learn more about all the inspiring filmmakers we featured this year.
Best Experimental Film Winner
2gether
Hampus, a young ex-on-the-beach participant, is playing his videogames when his girlfriend Olivia comes home and complains about the dishes. He realises that he has to break up with her. Director Kim Ekberg has long wanted to make a film about his brother. But the couple breaks up before Kim gets a chance to finalise the film. The previous script needs to be revised, and suddenly it becomes a film with an unexpected meta-level. Now it's a movie about breaking up instead of being 2gether. During an afternoon and night we follow the newly separated couple through the city in a slice of life until they both meet in their sleep and give each other a final dance goodbye.
Kim Ekberg
Best Feature Documentary Winner
Love, Deutschmarks and Death
LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH tells the story of the independent and largely unknown music of immigrants from Turkey and their children and grandchildren in Germany in a very lively way, full of rhythm. In the form of a documentary essay, director Cem Kaya takes his viewers into a dazzling universe of musical diversity. In a cinematic experience of the highest sound quality| he brings the energy and spirit of those years to life. E.g., the stage shows of the eccentric folk duo Derdiyoklar at a wedding with thousands of guests in a multi-purpose hall redecorated as a festival hall somewhere in the Ruhr region: melancholic, but danceable, political, but cheerful, larmoyant in expression, but sincere.
Cem Kaya
Best Feature Film Winner
Talia's Journey
Talia is a 19 year old Belgian girl, with Senegalese roots, visiting her country of origin for the first time. She starts off in Dakar, in the luxurious villa of her cousin’s family| hoping to meet her grandmother. But her grandmother is nowhere to be found and the villa quickly becomes a “golden prison”. Until she meets Malika, a mysterious bird street seller.
Christophe Rolin
Best Short Documentary Winner
Familiar Stranger
Sara's grandfather has left a void in her family. Who is Kamran Taan? The filmmaker sets off in search of clues and travels to La Spezia – the coastal city where he is said to have lived. What does kinship mean when you've never met? Unexpected events and revelations gradually form a narrative. A road movie about family and identity.
Sara Furrer, Fabian Lütolf
Best Short Film Winner
On my Μind
Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It's a question of life, death and karaoke.
Martin Strange-Hansen
Best Student Film Winner
Familiar Stranger
Sara's grandfather has left a void in her family. Who is Kamran Taan? The filmmaker sets off in search of clues and travels to La Spezia – the coastal city where he is said to have lived. What does kinship mean when you've never met? Unexpected events and revelations gradually form a narrative. A road movie about family and identity.
Sara Furrer, Fabian Lütolf