WINNERS

MONTH OF FEBRUARY

Woman Captains

Marilyn fishes lobster with her father and dreams of becoming a captain herself. She meets other determined women captains who encourage her. But, when her husband suddenly dies in an accident, she becomes a single mother and questions her dream.

Best Director(Documentary/ Over 40min ) -Phil Comeau

Tom and Luce

A couple in crisis is about to renovate an apartment. The state of the walls is like the state of their relationship.

Best Film(Over 40min) -Directed by Muxel Paule

The Nineveh Constant

For thousands of years mankind has been greatly impressed by the majestic regularity of the stars moving in the skies. Many tried in vain to find the great constant of the solar system and finally gave up. But this magic number finally appeared on an old clay tablet from nineveh.

Best Screenplay (Script under 40min) - Dr Ing. Chris Micallef

The Lodge

The facts about LGBTQ residents in conventional/heterosexist retirement communities are grim. 1/3 of LGBTQ people over 50 fear they will be forced back into the closet when they retire. The Lodge takes us inside Fountaingrove Lodge, the first of its kind LGBTQ retirement community, created specifically for LGBTQ seniors and their allies. Two versions of The Lodge are available

Best LGBTQ+ Short Film (Under 40min) -Directed by Pam Walton, Ruth Carranza

The Ghost Under My Bed

On the brink of the civil war, a lonely young girl moves to a southern plantation. She befriends a ghost under her bed, only to discover there are much greater human horrors in store.

Best Animated Short Film( Under40min) - Sara Caldwell

The First Outbreak

January 2020. Chinese New Year started when several cases of viral pneumonia have been detected in the city of Wuhan. A few days later, the epidemic is real, and chaos takes the province, the country... and the whole world. This film shows the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in its epicenter. Be prepared for a unique document inside Wuhan houses and hospital rooms. It is not about the numbers, but the feelings of the real people who suffer this terrible disease.

Best Documentary Film(Over 40min) - Directed by Luis Galán, Ramón Campoamor, Haiyan Tan

The Boy's Gone

A husband and wife deal very differently with the fact that their little boy is gone.

Best Film (Under 40min) - Directed By Sarah Polhaus

Red Fause

The Bishop and the Actor. In the same prison cell in 1944. The Actor's task: to guide the Bishop through his tragic life until his death. Time travel. Will you take the role of Bishop Faust? Wouldn't it be better to give up now? A real life, an extraordinary fate. The passionate, constant struggle between Priest and Actor, which is in all of us.

Best Director (Over 40min) - Zsolt Pozsgai

Shalom Putti

When a little-known Jewish community in rural Uganda comes into contact with a group of Orthodox Israeli rabbis, everyone is destined to be transformed. Director Tamás Wormser documents the extraordinary encounter over seven years, crafting a nuanced and visually arresting documentary reflection on identity, religion and the long shadow of colonialism.

Best Film on African Americans, natives & visible minorities(Over 40min) - directed by Tamás Wormser

Miki Maniaco

MIKI MANIACO follows Miki and his friends as they grapple with reality after being cast away from a world of magic and unfulfilled dreams. Now depressed and stuck somewhere in South Florida, the trio looks back at an era of fame and glory that will never come back.

Best Emerging Film maker (Over 40min) - Carla Forte

Best Lead (Male) - Carlos Antonio Leon

Sky Is The Limit

The film, produced by the mother, is about the life of her 33 yrs old daughter Emma who has Down's Syndrome.
Despite all social, physical and psychological adversities she is a symbol of success as a prolific artist and emanates positive energy with calm, humor and affection. She is a genuine star !

Special Jury Award - Emma Anderson & Mirka Anderson

The Choices We Make

Arthur gets visited by his future-self who travels back in time. When he finally discloses his devious plan he tricks Arthur and sends him off to 2055. However, Arthur manages to outsmart his future-self, returning in a new and upgraded 'Time Machine' to dashingly send his future-self back to the future for good!

Best Emerging Filmmaker(Under 40 min) - Joachim E.H. Lang

I'm Here

Zoya returns from shopping to her grandmother's house. There she comes across one of the most natural and sure parts of life, which, however, always catches us unprepared. How will she react? A story about one of the thousands possible encounters with HER, the outcome of which is always unique.

Best Screenplay(Under 40min) - Vilma Kartalska

Best Cinematography - Rosen Savkov

Deep Shock

Sarah can't completely overcome the deaths of her grandfather and her older sister. The trauma and lack of sleep cause her to embark on a strange journey of apparitions and murders, apparently caused by her mind...
Italian Giallo is ready to make its return!

Best Producer(Under 40 min) - Luca Vannella, Alexis Continente, Vincenzo Mastrantonio, Bobby Holland Hanton,Ferdinando Merolla, Roberto Paglialunga

Best Lead(Female) - Muireann Bird

Go On And Bleed

Heading north to avoid the US draft in the summer of 1971, Monty meets the beautiful, enigmatic Marianne. They share an unexpected connection yet when he awakes, she is gone. He spends the rest of the heady summer thinking of her, as he begins to realize the land to which he ran is not as benign as imagined.

Best Director (Under 40min) - J.Christian Hamilton

Best Lead -Male - Mitch Myers

The Midas Touch

Felix, a young advertiser, is not happy. Constantly ridiculed by his boss, without any idea how to improve his life, his outlook is miserable.
To make matters worse he meets the woman of his dreams only to realize that she is already married.
In the vain hope to improve his life he attends a self-improvement seminar only to find himself at the centre of the merciless humiliations of Rau, the seminar organizer, who forces him to „volunteer“ only to mock his attempts at talking to his assistant as an example of how not to approach women.
Devastated Felix leaves the seminar and meets an elderly gentleman who is followed by a group of admiring women. We soon find out that the gentleman is the current bearer of „The Midas Touch“, the ability to drive every woman crazy with a mere touch.
Having lived trough the experience long enough he is willing to pass „The Touch“ on to Felix.
Felix soon finds out that his new talent needs to be executed very carefully because otherwise the female reaction gets out of hand easily.

Best Screenplay(Over 40min) - Tilman Borck

Buddha Buddha

The monks are preparing a feast for a festival but someone keeps stealing food. A ghost? A demon? Or a mischievous cat?!

Special Jury Award - Karen Smith (Illustration Work )

Brotherhood

Greed, revenge, jealousy and pain heat up a chance and long overdue reunion of two brothers separated at an early age by an angry, spiteful mother. Frank, the younger brother had it all and threw it away, through his arrogance, avarice and recklessness. Alone, scared and left to fend for himself, Joey had to do what he could to survive. It took him years, but he finally carved out a niche for himself. Tensions rise as one brother tries to manipulate his way out of the trouble he has brought on to himself; the other is just doing his job. And no one will ever be the same again.

Best Emerging Filmmaker (Under 40min) - Maggie Grant