Official Selection Films
GWYR II Vision of Times
Director - GEORGIOS DIMITROPOULOS
Duration - 13 minutes
Country - United Kingdom
Subject Zero
Director - Jason Liao
Duration - 6 minutes 35 seconds
Country - Pakistan
Rabb Mileya - Have you ever met GOD?
Director - Gurlove Singh Ratol
Duration - 6 minutes 49 seconds
Country - India
Sleepless
Director - Christian Ludwig
Duration - 1 minute 51 seconds
Country - Germany
We´ll never grow old
Director - Titus Paar
Duration - 11 minutes 12 seconds
Country - Sweden
God has already gone ahead
Director - PETER BÖVING
Duration - 10 minutes
Country - Germany
I Remember Nicole
Director - Renee Sotile , Mary Jo Godges
Duration - 3 minutes 59 seconds
Country - United States
BHISHMA
Director - PARTH R
Duration - 7 minutes 33 seconds
Country - India
PIXIE DUST
Director - SWAGATA NAIK
Duration - 15 minutes
Country - India
The beginning of the end according to Nostradamus
Director - Shihyun Wang
Duration - 11 minutes
Country - United States
Strangers
Director - Austin Lauer
Duration - 10 minutes
Country - United States
Closet
Director - Niranjan Bharati
Duration - 3 minutes 34 seconds
Country - India
10 ka 4 / Dus Ka Chaar / 4 for 10
Director - Rahul Yadav
Duration - 9 minutes 48 seconds
Country - India
THE FLYING OF LEAVES
Director - Juan Pablo Etcheverry, Nathalie Signorini
Duration - 7 minutes 13 seconds
Country - Italy
Sare Jahan Se Accha
Director - Gurprasad Singh
Duration - 5 minutes 51 seconds
Country - India
Becoming
Director - Tyna Ezenma
Duration - 7 minutes
Country - United States
The 9ª
Director - Daniel H. Torrado
Duration - 14 minutes
Country - Spain
Bringing schools where there are none!
Director - Gianmarco D'Agostino
Duration - 1 minute
Country - Italy
Blind Text
Director - Katalina Kovecses
Duration - 11 minutes 17 seconds
Country - Canada
Vitha
Director - Avishkar Bharadwaj
Duration - 15 minutes 33 seconds
Country - India
Trapped
Director - Mohamed Maged
Duration - 2 minutes 43 seconds
Country - United States
On the Verge of ___
Director - Anna Antonova
Duration - 16 minutes
Country - Russian Federation
Departures
Director - Nicolas Morganti Patrignani
Duration - 16 minutes 42 seconds
Country - Italy
Mirchi Cafe
Director - Mehkansh Kathuria
Duration - 15 minutes 19 seconds
Country - India
Ticket
Director - Abhik Das
Duration - 14 minutes 54 seconds
Country - India
Do Animals Feel Pain?
Director - Archna Singh
Duration - 4 minutes
Country - India
King of Norway
Director - Götz Raimund
Duration - 9 minutes 22 seconds
Country - Austria
Prom Queens
Director - Cory Souto
Duration - 4 minutes 31 seconds
Country - United States
Winner Films
BEST CATEGORIES AWARDS
BEST INDIAN SHORT FILM
Sare Jahan Se Accha
Director - Gurprasad Singh
Synopsis: Sare jahan se acha” is a story of little girl who has a little secret stored inside her little heart, a secret that breaks her heart into a million pieces when she thinks about it. The movie uses Iqbal’s famous tarana-e-hind to showcase the ground reality of a nation called great by many. The little girl’s trauma is used as a background to explain the deplorable condition our nation is in. It addresses the issue of child abuse in a subtle ......
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
GWYR II Vision of Times
Director: GEORGIOS DIMITROPOULOS
Synopsis: This is a short documentary about Gower's outstanding natural beauty and the Welsh culture. The film aims to present the harmonious blend and integration of Welsh culture over time.. an outlook of how local culture was shaped by natural phenomena, climatic conditions, geology, flora and other environmental factors. It shows visuals from local residential and castle architecture, coastal topography, tidal events and habitat...........
BEST ONE MINUTE SHORT FILM
Bringing schools where there are none!
Director: Gianmarco D'Agostino
Synopsis:60 seconds to help an Italian NGO to build schools in the South of Bangladesh, where poor children can't afford the state schools.
BEST LGBT FILM
On the Verge of ___
Director: Anna Antonova
Synopsis:
BEST STUDENT FILM
Mirchi Cafe
Director: Mehkansh Kathuria
Synopsis:A cafe harbours three stories; an ex serial killer is set on a blind date but he suffers from withdrawal symptoms controlling urges to kill his date; To escape a break up situation, a guy cons his girlfriend into believing that he is a
contract killer; A death artist, an actor who is practising or doing method acting by dying in different places.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO/BEST MUSIC
King of Norway
Director: Götz Raimund
Synopsis: A king, with the help of his daughter, seeks the source of fate to regain his power. But the source decides against the king..
BEST WEB SERIES
"Not Enough Entries"
BEST SPECIAL CATEGORIES AWARDS
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Do Animals Feel Pain?
Director: Archna Singh
Synopsis: I came across this heart-wrenching scene while on safari at the Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India. As I waited near a water body, where a Tiger was napping, I heard a commotion on the tree above and noticed this mother Langur, holding a barely two-day-old baby, who was breathing his last as I looked up. Before I could even start filming, the baby was gone. What followed was two-hour long pursuit of the grieving Mother Langur, before it was time for me to head out of the Park as safari timings ..........
BEST ANIMATION FILM
God has already gone ahead
Director: PETER BÖVING
Synopsis: The Egyptian geese marches through the ages: From the bird´s perspective, a centuries-long settlement history is told. While the water level in the pond continues to fall, the inhabitants have the water up the neck. In the end, nothing stays as it was, only the goose suspects nothing bad.
BEST DRAMA FILM
Strangers
Director: Austin Lauer
Synopsis: A woman caught in an abusive marriage and a secret affair risks it all to free herself.
BEST ACTION FILM
The 9ª
Director: Daniel H. Torrado
Synopsis: Inspired by the real story of the Ninth Company, a unit of the allied army formed entirely by Spanish exiles from the civil war who fought united in the Second World War, They was protagonists of the liberation of Paris. One of them, Manuel will join to the Ninth Company to save his daughter from Paris occupied by the Nazis.
BEST JURY AWARD
Ticket
Director: Abhik Das
Synopsis: A lower middle class man searches for the ticket of his existence in the socioeconomic scenario of daily Indian city life.
2ND BEST JURY AWARD
Vitha
Director: Avishkar Bharadwaj
Synopsis: Based on a true story which is set in rural India during 1964 of the Theater Empress Vithabai Narayangaonkar, who goes on to performs in a live show while her pregnancy is due. During which her water breaks and she has to go in the backstage to deliver the baby by herself. As the audience create ruckus and demand her back she decides to return to the stage and continue her performance. As she starts feeling dizzy, the crowd out of guilt asks her to stop performing and retires her with a standing ovation. She .......
BEST INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
BEST DIRECTOR
BHISHMA
Director: PARTH R
Synopsis: A military lawyer tries to get final answers from Brigadier Chhabra- the man she defends, before she heads to trial. Will she find the truth?
BEST D.O.P
Trapped
Cinematographer: Mohamed Maged
Synopsis: Trapped in the same place, same time, same loop.
don't know why, don't know what to do... maybe need a hand, or maybe... just a karma.
BEST SCREENWRITER
Rabb Mileya - Have you ever met GOD?
Writer: Gurlove Singh Ratol
Synopsis: Keerat, a 5 years old kid is curious to know where and how will he meet God. His grandmother gives him an insight on God. He gets a chance encounter of meeting his God the same day.
2ND BEST SCREENWRITER
10 ka 4 / Dus Ka Chaar / 4 for 10
Writer: Rahul Yadav
Synopsis:A country where food, cloth and shelter comes as priority to education of a child, Article 21a of Indian constitution seems frivolous. This is a story of an Indian citizen who instead of seeking her primary education even after 70 years of independence is walking miles from her home to school, not to receive education but to find some food. While this problem remains old but the solution is spars and India remains a third of worlds illiterate. This girl too is trying hard to bring all the arithmetic she knows to earn her livelihood ...........
BEST EDITOR
Blind Text
Editor: Teddy Freeman
Synopsis: A hopeless romantic lets her guard down when she has a serendipitous encounter with a wrong numbered texter.