Official Selection Films
Horizon
Director – Daniele De Muro
Duration – 15 minutes
Country – Italy
Millennial Jenny
Director – Emmett Skilton
Duration – 1 minute 59 seconds
Country – New Zealand
Rocks and Crows
Director – Anne Thorens
Duration – 4 minutes 10 seconds
Country – Switzerland
Dajla: cinema and oblivion
Director – Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Duration – 15 minutes
Country – Spain
Hannyta - Wildflower
Director – Jerry Housen
Duration – 3 minutes 23 seconds
Country – United Kingdom
Bloom
Director – Paul De Cinque
Duration – 8 minutes 40 seconds
Country – Australia
KOLD
Director – Marley Hasselbach
Duration – 18 minutes 7 seconds
Country – Denmark
The Cat The Mouse and The Sausage
Director – Joel Simon
Duration – 6 minutes 10 seconds
Country – United Kingdom
Dresses
Director – Nayan Sarma
Duration – 3 minutes
Country – United States
Used Furniture
Director – Conor Forrest
Duration – 9 minutes 59 seconds
Country – Canada
ACES
Director – Jordan-Paige Sudduth
Duration – 9 minutes 33 seconds
Country – United States
EXPECTATION
Director – Kseniya SHUTKA
Duration – 6 minutes 8 seconds
Country – Russian Federation
Rainbow
Director – Hui Tan
Duration – 8 minutes 24 seconds
Country – United States
SADA
Director – Alex Andre
Duration – 27 minutes 29 seconds
Country – United States
FROM SILENCE AND NOTHINGNESS
Director – Brice Ormain
Duration – 4 minutes 58 seconds
Country – France
Life on the Fast Track
Director – Yeonsu Shin
Duration – 9 minutes 6 seconds
Country – Canada
All Your Word
Director – James de Vries
Duration – 2 minutes 55 seconds
Country – Canada
In Natur
Director – Marcel Barelli
Duration – 5 minutes
Country – Switzerland
Welcome to the Galax
Director – Suz Mawer
Duration – 10 minutes
Country – Australia
A Feast That Never Comes [10m]
Director – Maria Juranic
Duration – 9 minutes 59 seconds
Country – United States
A Feast That Never Come
Director – Maria Juranic
Duration – 16 minutes 22 seconds
Country – United States
JUNE
Director – Dwayne Cameron
Duration – 14 minutes 54 seconds
Country – New Zealand
When She Was Goo
Director – Margarita Milne
Duration – 20 minutes
Country – United Kingdom
Why Can't We Be Friends?
Director – Jeremy M Goldstein, Eric Stumpf
Duration – 19 minutes 44 seconds
Country – United States
A little someone
Director – Ramya Ankilla
Duration – 6 minutes 40 seconds
Country – India
CHROMA KE
Director – Max Puglisi
Duration – 15 minutes
Country – United Kingdom
MORE
Director – Vaibhav Madhukar Piwlatkar
Duration – 3 minutes 55 seconds
Country – India
Who? How? and Where?
Director – Victoria Garza
Duration – 11 minutes 29 seconds
Country – Mexico
Trees for Sale
Director – Rajesh Rajan
Duration – 12 minutes 22 seconds
Country – India
I Loved Her First
Director – Braydon langford
Duration – 6 minutes 51 seconds
Country – Canada
A Lost Chil
Director – Jean-Pierre Flayeux
Duration – 7 minutes
Country – Canada
Winner Films
BEST CATEGORIES AWARDS
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
CHROMA KEY
Director - Max Puglisi
Synopsis: James is a death row inmate. For his good behavior he is rewarded with his great dream, to be free in virtual reality. The experiment will be conducted by Gwyneth, psychologist who using the classic Chroma Key effect, will make James the protagonist of a film set outdoors. The results and the emotions will be tested by the psychologist in an exciting context.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
A Lost Child
Director - Jean-Pierre Flayeux
Synopsis: Follow the adventures of a mysterious young woman in a desolate world.
BEST LGBT SHORT FILM
Used Furniture
Director - Conor Forrest
Synopsis: Making a splash on the LGBTQ short film scene is Used Furniture. On an idyllic afternoon at the beach Philly faces his unrequited love for his roommate Jamie while trying to distance himself from their trio friendship.
BEST WEB SERIES
Millennial Jenny
Director - Emmett Skilton
Synopsis: In this new bite-sized social media-exclusive comedy, selfie-loving, digital-savvy Jenny is at a crossroads; she's bored, she hates her job, and she desperately wants to make her mark on the world.
It's time for her to find her purpose.
Now with over 3.5million Tik Tok views, see the full series here: https://www.instagram.com/millennialjenny/
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Hannyta - Wildflower
Director - Jerry Housen
Synopsis: music video from 17 year old singer-songwriter. "Wildflower is a very positive and patriotic vibe, a lovely electric folk-pop love song with many artistic angles. I wrote the song after I have watched a film about the Navajo Code Talkers titled Windtalkers with Nicolas Cage, a 2002 movie and it really touched my heart. The Navajo language was an unbreakable code used by the US Navy during WWII. Despite the historical injustice that happened to the Native American Indians centuries ago the ..........
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Dajla: cinema and oblivion
Director - Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Synopsis: Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.
BEST ANIMATION FILM
The Cat The Mouse and The Sausag
Director - Joel Simon
Synopsis: Three strangers - a cat, a mouse and a sausage - have to share a small flat in a large city, in order to save money.
Although everything goes smoothly at first, the equilibrium of their daily routine is disrupted when one of the flatmates starts to wonder if he is being taken advantage of.
This seed of doubt escalates dramatically in this animated film which is based on a 19th century folk tale by the Brothers Grimm.
BEST DRAMA FILM
Rocks and Crows
Director - Anne Thorens
Synopsis: Lucas is playing in the yard of his building with his plastic pistol. But his game takes another twist when he starts playing with crows.
BEST EXPERIMENT FILM
A Feast That Never Comes
Director - Maria Juranic
Synopsis: Four characters inhabit cycles within cycles of contentment, discontentment, inertia, movement, desire, and betrayal. A story emerges—told through the marriage of music (Ex-Fiancée) and dance (ChrisMastersDance)—functioning as a set of nesting dolls, inviting you to uncover as many layers as you wish. Directed by Maria Juranic.
BEST HORROR FILM
Horizon
Director - Daniele De Muro
Synopsis: In the borderlands, crossed by climate refugees looking for safety, men face their primordial nature, in a bleak reality where the law of the strongest rules the world. Hidden in an underground shelter and resigned to his fate, the main character observes the definitive decline of society as it surrender to the evil nature of men, until a special encounter, interpreted as a divine sign of light, turns on his faith and hope for the future of humanity.
BEST ROMANTIC FILM
KOLD
Director - Marley Hasselbach
Synopsis: A young woman tired of being coddled because of her hereditary heart condition enters an intense physical relationship with a young man obsessed with ice swimming.
During a wintery night out in Copenhagen, Louise spots a young man swimming naked in the canal. What starts as a confrontation ends in frenzied passion in Magnus' apartment. They dive into a relationship almost competitive in its intensity, both struggling to trust one another. .............
BEST JURY AWARD
SADA
Director - Alex Andre
Synopsis: A young street hustler roams the neighborhoods of Paris during Christmas. When she meets her next target, events take a surprising turn.
BEST DIRECTOR
Award goes to: Rajesh Rajan
Trees for Sale
Director - Rajesh Rajan
Synopsis: LOGLINE
A farmer is forced to sell his agricultural land to Villa Builders only to realize that they are also a Tree Planting organization.
SYNOPSIS
Akshay is a young entrepreneur who is being interviewed by a leading media firm on his achievements. The interview is to acknowledge, appreciate ............
BEST DOP - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Award goes to: Bjørn Vea
KOLD
Director - Marley Hasselbach
Synopsis: A young woman tired of being coddled because of her hereditary heart condition enters an intense physical relationship with a young man obsessed with ice swimming.
During a wintery night out in Copenhagen, Louise spots a young man swimming naked in the canal. What starts as a confrontation ends in frenzied passion in Magnus' apartment. They dive into a relationship ...................
BEST SCREENWRITER
Award goes to: Jordan-Paige Sudduth
ACES
Director - Jordan-Paige Sudduth
Synopsis: When Summer and Phoebe meet, it’s practically love at first sight. But as their relationship progresses, Phoebe discovers a part of her identity that causes a roadblock between the two, and it’s up to them to find their way back to each other, or call it quits.
BEST EDITOR
Award goes to: Dwayne Cameron & Peter Roberts
JUNE
Director - Dwayne Cameron
Synopsis: June is a story about the fragility of life; the primal forces that drive and control us and the mystery of hope and new beginnings. Willow and David receive a serious diagnosis from their doctor and attempt to deal with the mundane as their world disintegrates in the following 24 hours. This one day in June for the couple holds raw despair, unleashing carnal natures but a transcendent occurrence offers them the hope of new life.
BEST MALE ACTOR
Award goes to: Niels Knop Madsen
KOLD
Director - Marley Hasselbach
Synopsis: A young woman tired of being coddled because of her hereditary heart condition enters an intense physical relationship with a young man obsessed with ice swimming.
During a wintery night out in Copenhagen, Louise spots a young man swimming naked in the canal. What starts as a confrontation ends in frenzied passion in Magnus' apartment. They dive into a relationship ...................
BEST FEMALE ACTOR
Award goes to: Mikka Chantal Deleuran
KOLD
Director - Marley Hasselbach
Synopsis: A young woman tired of being coddled because of her hereditary heart condition enters an intense physical relationship with a young man obsessed with ice swimming.
During a wintery night out in Copenhagen, Louise spots a young man swimming naked in the canal. What starts as a confrontation ends in frenzied passion in Magnus' apartment. They dive into a relationship ...................
BEST QUARANTINE FILM (COVID-19 VIRUS FILM)
Dresses
Director - Nayan Sarma
Synopsis: .............