Official Selection Films
SOULMATE
Director - Pawan Shharma
Duration - 27 minutes 51 seconds
Country - India
Time to eat
Director - Houssam Jlelati
Duration - 1 minute
Country - Syrian Arab Republic
Stood Up
Director - Cjay Boisclair
Duration - 4 minutes 40 seconds
Country - Canada
DECOYED
Director - Pezhmann Mokary
Duration - 9 minutes 58 seconds
Country - Denmark
The sky with diamonds
Director - Lopach Viktoria
Duration - 3 minutes 54 seconds
Country - Russian Federation
The Transaction
Director - Matthieu VINEL
Duration - 3 minutes
Country - France
Cactus
Director - Lídia Milette Artigas
Duration - 4 minutes 14 seconds
Country - Spain
Horrorscope
Director - Pol Diggler
Duration - 4 minutes 30 seconds
Country - Spain
Level 13
Director - Samir Tewari
Duration - 12 minutes
Country - India
Dear John - Kristen Karma feat. Marian Hanna, Mr. ATP
Director - Ryan Ellis
Duration - 3 minutes 43 seconds
Country - Canada
Shadow Side
Director - Svyatoslav Denisov
Duration - 16 minutes
Country - Russian Federation
Time Crisis
Director - David Zhang
Duration - 10 minutes 31 seconds
Country - United States
Kulariut
Director - Mark Gregory "M.G." Bayani
Duration - 15 minutes
Country - Philippines
THE SONGS of LOVE
Director - Andrii Andreiev
Duration - 5 minutes 49 seconds
Country - Ukraine
Mistake
Director - Vinay Ruikar
Duration - 59 seconds
Country - India
Ruins
Director - Benoît Duvette
Duration - 14 minutes 10 seconds
Country - France
The Bee Rescuer
Director - Bidit Roy
Duration - 6 minutes 38 seconds
Country - India
Pardon
Director - Rositsa Trayanova
Duration - 12 minutes 10 seconds
Country - France
Darwin Awards
Director - Guillermo Arias-Carbajal Alonso
Duration - 10 minutes
Country - Spain
The Corners of Your Smile
Director - Mathilde Anglade
Duration - 15 minutes 45 seconds
Country - Australia
Open Doors
Director - Priyanka Jasani
Duration - 14 minutes 37 seconds
Country - India
Beyond Home
Director - David Sipoš
Duration - 20 minutes
Country - Slovenia
The basement
Director - Naima Chebahi
Duration - 14 minutes 46 seconds
Country - France
Touch
Director - Evan Morton
Duration - 9 minutes 45 seconds
Country - United States
Beautiful thing
Director - Adrian Kuciel
Duration - 14 minutes 8 seconds
Country - Poland
"Punarudaya" -Resurgence
Director - Sreemon Das
Duration - 5 minutes 45 seconds
Country - India
Any Creative Form - Series
Director - Daniel Fazio
Duration - 35 seconds
Country - United Kingdom
Shoebox
Director - Evan Morton
Duration - 4 minutes 45 seconds
Country - United States
DEBT OF 25 KILOGRAMS
Director - Aditya Vikram Chawla
Duration - 5 minutes 33 seconds
Country - India
DESTINY
Director - TEAM DESTINY
Duration - 3 minutes 31 seconds
Country - India
Days of rage
Director - Eli Jean Tahchi
Duration - 20 minutes
Country - Canada
Sincerely Yours
Director - Ali Memarchi
Duration - 4 minutes
Country - Sweden
Spinoza Hotel
Director - Robert David Duncan
Duration - 6 minutes
Country - Canada
The Way I Used to Know
Director - Don Swanson
Duration - 4 minutes 53 seconds
Country - United States
The Angriest Man In Town
Director - Bruce Wabbit
Duration - 13 minutes 57 seconds
Country - Canada
Júlia Martín - Laniakea, What's The Purpose?
Director - Marc Borràs
Duration - 3 minutes 16 seconds
Country - Spain
L'OBSESSION (THE OBSESSION)
Director - CMack
Duration - 10 minutes 27 seconds
Country - United States
The Photo
Director - Marcus Greco
Duration - 5 minutes 52 seconds
Country - United States
The Butterfly Cage
Director - Hélèna Serra, Maxime Sabisik
Duration - 6 minutes 44 seconds
Country - France
Natercia's Story
Director - Wendy Chandler
Duration - 7 minutes 13 seconds
Country - Timor-Leste
Rain Man Parody
Director - Richard Ruisi
Duration - 3 minutes 22 seconds
Country - Germany
YELLOW LINE
Director - Kionz.C
Duration - 7 minutes 10 seconds
Country - Malaysia
Suspect
Director - Ruairidh Duguid
Duration - 1 minute
Country - United Kingdom
I HATE GOODBYES
Director - Ashish Prashar
Duration - 19 minutes 11 seconds
Country - India
Secret Soup
Director - Cheryl Bayliss
Duration - 1 minute
Country - United Kingdom
The Other Me
Director - Joshua Rahymes
Duration -
Country - United States
Special Day
Director - Ajay shivan
Duration - 11 minutes 22 seconds
Country - India
ZUNI
Director - Sanjay Mathew & Jyoti Bajaj
Duration - 11 minutes 9 seconds
Country - India
Rocks in My Head
Director - Burt Chojnowski
Duration - 53 seconds
Country - United States
A Good Man
Director - Anthony Gainer
Duration - 13 minutes 42 seconds
Country - United States
Ek Jhalak- A Glimpse
Director - Deepmala
Duration - 18 minutes 47 seconds
Country - India
Words Of Seduction
Director - Abdullah Anees
Duration - 1 minute
Country - United Kingdom
Thanks For Watching
Director - LEE Chien-cheng
Duration - 14 minutes 48 seconds
Country - Taiwan
Winner Films
BEST CATEGORIES AWARDS
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
Rain Man Parody
Director - Richard Ruisi
Synopsis: This short film is inspired by the movie "Rain Main" starring award winning actor Andy Magro in the leading role.We wanted to give a homage to the movie "Rain Man" starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman and wanted to give a special attention to the topic autism and benefit charities who help these amazing people and do research.We wanted to bring this story to the global audience as we wanted to show that people wth autism are normal people like everyone else........
BEST INDIAN SHORT FILM
SOULMATE
Director - Pawan Shharma
Synopsis: Soulmate, tells the story of ‘Aditi Roy or Ada’ a beautiful young girl, who is in relationship with a married men Abhishek Malhotra. Though he never act on his urge. The relationship becomes an obsession for Ada. Who Involved in a extraneous environment, which poorly understands the Love universe. Ada is intensely jealous and fearful that Abhishek will soon lose interest and leave her for his wife, Kanika. Believing that Abhishek only dated her, he isn’t serious about their relationship. Ada takes ferocious move, ......
BEST ONE MINUTE SHORT FILM
Words Of Seduction
Director - Abdullah Anees
Synopsis: Two friends on how words are used as a way of seduction.
BEST LGBT FILM
Sincerely Yours
Director - Ali Memarchi
Synopsis: When school starts again after the holidays in a Stockholm suburb, a teenager with mental illness that endured bullying far too long, decided not to show up in class, but instead plans something else to revenge his bully classmates. All played out in a classroom. This short is not based on a true story, but it could have been.
BEST STUDENT FILM
DEBT OF 25 KILOGRAMS
Director - Aditya Vikram Chawla
Synopsis: A reporter along with his cameraman have come to a village to investigate regarding the murder of a politician ‘SHYAM LAL JOGI aka BHAU’ that took place a week ago. It is believed that the accused ‘BABLOO KHAN’ had a long history of rivalry with BHAU. Through the people the reporters meet we get to the root of their problems and what led to the current day. BHAU has a partner of crime and in the end he too is killed. Is Babloo associated with the crime or is it just the belief of the reporters? The end leads to a point where there is a sense of revenge being served.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO/BEST MUSIC
Shoebox
Director - Evan Morton
Synopsis: A young man is determined to find out what his ex put in her shoebox of memories of their time together.
BEST WEB SERIES
Any Creative Form
Director - Daniel Fazio
Synopsis: Any Creative Form is an original, six episodes, documentary series, each featuring a young international artist. A journey through the world of six rising talents and their new forms of expression as well as a meditation on artistic creation and its fruition in the digital era. The resulting films are six sumptuous and poetic pieces that document the compelling skills of the artists and their ambitious journeys; always different and yet with so much in common, despite being set in different parts of the globe. ......
BEST SPECIAL CATEGORIES AWARDS
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Open Doors
Director - Priyanka Jasani
Synopsis: This documentary is about a community set up more than 80years ago, when a few migrated from Andhra Pradesh to Yelahanka in search of work. A community which started off with just 20-30 people, now holds around more than 500 people where not only Hindus , Muslims or Christians but also people from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka conversing in Hindi, English, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada are living together in harmony within this community. ......
BEST ANIMATION FILM
The Butterfly Cage
Director - Hélèna Serra, Maxime Sabisik
Synopsis: A little boy is dead. His parents were trying to grieve until they found out about a cloning laboratory that could give them their son back.
BEST DRAMA FILM
A Good Man
Director - Anthony Gainer
Synopsis: Living in a time where abusive fathers and bullying are common place, a boy defends that he did what was right. Always searching for the right way to live, the realities of life surround him. He realizes that any advice, besides that that comes from within, is worthless. At 12 years of age, he is forced to now become a part of an adult world. The boy must immediately figure out how to live as A Good Man, regardless of the consequences.
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BEST EXPERIMENT FILM
L'OBSESSION (THE OBSESSION)
Director - CMack
Synopsis: Three Artists, a musician, painter and photographer becomes obsessively in love with their muse, a Prima Ballerina who's only love is dance. Their psychotic obsession becomes a self-destructive ending to their own creativity.
BEST HORROR FILM
Horrorscope
Director - Pol Diggler
Synopsis: An ordinary schoolgirl's life unravels after an evil creature takes over her body. Only her mother, with the help of a strange doctor, will be able to save her.
BEST ROMANTIC FILM
The Transaction
Director - Matthieu VINEL
Synopsis: In the heart of the Ardèche mountains, an elegant young man drives a 1965 Triumph TR4. On the winding road, he's having a great time. He looks great behind the wheel of the gleaming car! That's what this beautiful hitchhiker, picked up on the road, thinks...
BEST JURY AWARD
The Photo
Director - Marcus Greco
Synopsis: A young man is heartbroken and alone, until in his dream he reunites with his true love.
BEST INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
BEST DIRECTOR
Award goes to "Lídia Milette Artigas"
Cactus
Director - Lídia Milette Artigas
Synopsis: A girl diagnosed with Cactus Personality Disorder is analysed by her therapist who teaches about this kind of creatures and their mating and survival instincts.
BEST D.O.P
Award goes to "Evan Morton"
Touch
Director - Evan Morton
Synopsis: A young woman seeking love finds that listening is often more valuable than talking when she befriends a man who is deaf. The film incorporates sign language and features a first time, deaf actor, James Hausman.
BEST SCREENWRITER
Award goes to "Iman Abdullah"
YELLOW LINE
Director - Kionz.C
Synopsis: Yellow Line, a film written based on a true story about human psychological struggles. Struggles as such can't be cured by just medication. Sometimes, all it takes is just a simple connection that is relavant
BEST EDITOR
Award goes to "Munishwar Rao"
Level 13
Director - Samir Tewari
Synopsis: Rohit, a sycophantic, middle management executive, has recently relocated from Gurgaon to Mumbai as a Vice President of a company. He gets invited to his Managing Director Akash's anniversary party. Eager to win over his new boss and score some brownie points, he takes his wife Priya along and urges her to be at her charming best. Priya on the other hand is anti social in nature, and finds putting up appearance in parties extremely tiresome. .....
BEST MALE ACTOR
Award goes to "Jeffrey "Epy" Quizon"
Kulariut
Director - Mark Gregory "M.G." Bayani
Synopsis: A woman balances her relationships with her jealous, abusive husband and an elusive woodland creature dwelling in a bamboo grove near her small home in the middle of nowhere.
BEST FEMALE ACTOR
Award goes to "Naïma Pöhler"
The basement
Director - Naima Chebahi
Synopsis: A young man and a young woman find themselves locked in a basement by a mysterious killer.
Thanks to a series of clues, they will have to understand what connects them to get out of this hell.
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