WINNERS

MONTH OF JUNE

Writing About A Love

Francesca is a young actress who is facing a serious existential crisis, a situation exacerbated by the recent death of one of her dearest friends. The cause of this crisis can be found in the relationship with Alessandro, her husband. He has changed a lot over the years and he is now interested only in his career and social media: slowly but constantly drifting away from his wife, he seems not to comprehend her growing feeling of loneliness. Meanwhile, Francesca is still seeing her psychotherapist Fabio.

Best Emerging Filmmaker(Over 40min) - Mario Roccato

The Words

poetic video about an aspect of emigration

Best Emerging Filmmaker (Documentary Under 40min) - Liliana Paganini

The World Through Pink Feathers

Pinkie, a young genderfluid „babbling flamingo“ made of plush travels the world with an undisguised gaze and philosophises about life: Community, isolation, work, culture, parallel universes, chaos, structure… and of course the colour pink.

Honorable Mention - Claire Walka

Talk as I can feel

A good looking drunk man. An apparently deaf boy. They meet, almost clash, in an impersonal and cold setting. The characters and their interaction seems stifled and suffocated by the grey tones of this nondescript space. Communication is stunted and escalates rapidly into a paradoxical dynamic alternating between revelation and misunderstanding.

Best Producer (Under 40min) - Alessia Massimi,Stefano Di Fiore, Idria Niosi

Best Screenplay - Idria Niosi

Jacks Mom

An Auti-Mom uses love, brains, and humor to help her son overcome his disability while battling close-minded individuals. A powerful dramedy laced with humor, strength, and love.

Best Documentary(Under 40min) - Directed By Lori Mizzons, Lawrence Riggins

Shelter

A man and a boy, united by chance, wander through a desolate world following the signal of a compass that should lead them to a bunker, safe from the horrors of the outside.

Best Director (Under 40min) - Lorenzo Scalzo

Every man on journey

EVERYMAN ON YOURNEY tells the story of an impossible encounter between the Syrian author Omar Khir Alanam and the legendary theater director Max Reinhardt. In this process, the author first relates himself and his story to the historically rich Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg and its genius loci Max Reinhardt. While in the further course of the film he encounters the iconic actor Philipp Hochmair as a the real-life version of this Everyman. As different as the three characters seem at first glance, they are all united by the meaningful search for identity and home.

Best Documentary (Over 40min) - Directed By Wolfgang Tonninger, Walter Fanninger

Fire Flower

A nun, four orphans and a glitchy robot on a quest for beauty. . . what could possibly go wrong?
Princess, Fabio, Pigtails and Curly, from St. Mary's Home for unfortunate Children, are on a field-trip to the botanical garden to celebrate Princess' birthday. On the way they meet a curious grounds keeper and the fireworks begin. . . quite literally.

Best Animated Film (Under 40min) -Directed By Stephan Leeper

Colorblind

Magdalene, a colorblind black artist moves into a new neighborhood with her son; they are challenged to see the true colors of people.

Best Film (Over 40min) - Directed by Mostafa Keshvari

Best Lead (Female) - Chantel Riley

Best Producer - Kirk Moses, Ian Nsenga, Mostafa Keshvari

A Human Picture

A look at Basic Income from the ground level perspective of participants in a pilot program that was canceled before completion in Ontario, Canada

Special Jury Award - Luke Mistruzzi, Simon Brothers

The Case

A retired special victims detective is pulled back into the world of sex trafficking on a case he thought was dead cold.

Best Short Film (Under 40 min)- Directed By Patrick House

Catherin In Love

On the verge of being banished from the French Royal Court for failing to provide an heir to the throne, Catherine de Medici has been taking lessons in the Art of Seduction. She needs to seduce her husband create a baby, or else!
Her stress and anxiety are building and she has been experiencing vertigo attacks, especially now when she has an encounter with a young Admiral from her husband's army.

Special Jury Award- For Technical Excellence

Shot Boot Three

A new pet friend “MAX” enters the lives of four kids bringing great joy. When Max is not to be found one day, the kids embark on a journey to find him, encountering experiences on the way that shape their understanding of life and their personalities.

Best Lead- Male (Over 40 min) - Venkat Prabhu
Best Support (Male) - Yogi Babu

WAQT

Made on a poem which the director feels is about time and it limitlessness.. It's about how people are affected and how their thinking changes with circumstances and time.. The poet feels that faith and belief can make time go by in a beautifully and fast specially during painful periods

Honorable mention - Shailesh Acharekar