HONORABLE MENTION
OCTOBER 2021 PROGRAM
If a man is given a choice, what would he prefer first? Luck? Power? Wisdom? Maybe it's more damaged than it helps.
To the man who has lost his hands and his life, God of wisdom comes to him and promises to fulfil any desire of wisdom. But in the heaven's office there is something confusing, and to man instead of one, and God good luck, God of Fun and God of War. What choice do you make? Maybe not choose anyone and accept another guest who's not expecting? And is the Man ready for the consequences of his choice?

Official email: ms.krylaeva@mail.ru

You're lucky
"Best Short Film"
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner. The woman persuaded her husband to save the love of her youth. At the same time, Haynau is uncompromising. In secret, he has the convicted prisoner and Charlotte’s daughter, who grew up in a boarding school of evil repute, brought to the castle. This is Ignác Török’s first encounter with his daughter, who was sent to the boarding school after her birth, as Charlotte was already married at the time. The confrontation with the girl makes the general realise how his fault lead to her disgraceful fate. He does not accept the Emperor’s quarter. Török is not able to cope with the pressure of the meeting and dies of a heart attack. Only his dead body can be hung from the gallows. Passionate encounters in the storm of history. A night that decides everything. The film is based on a real story.

Official Email: horatiofilm@gmail.com

DARKING WAY
"Best Feature Film", Best Director", "Best Original Soundtrack","Best Scenography", "Best Color Editing", "Best Costume Design"
The last fishermen of Lake Maggiore, a photograph of a vanishing world.
On Lake Maggiore there are 25 remaining, the last professional fishermen who bring among themselves stories and ancient knowledge, almost forgotten.
MARCO RODELLA (45) is one of the youngest fishermen left on Lake Maggiore to live solely on his passion: fishing.
Life on the Fishermen's Island has changed quickly, Marco's memories of his grandfather are distant echoes.
Marco wakes up every day at 2 a.m. and goes out on the boat on his own until he returns at 5 a.m. The rest of the day is made to rest and prepare the next day's fishing work.
His friend IVAN SPADONI (48) is now a former fisherman. What’s left is passion and memories that the two share in a fishing museum.
GIORGIO BROVELLI(60) has a business that carries on with the family, the days pass quickly between boat trips, the fish market and the family’s restaurant.
Giorgio tries to train young boys at the job, but everyone leaves him alone at some point.
Giorgio and Marco are distant relatives, but they hardly ever meet.
They and the other fishermen live far apart on the same lake. They are a presence that becomes more and more silent.
Despite everything, Marco doesn’t give up and keeps living on his
catch, solitary on the waters, at night and in the evening,
constantly looking for the freedom to live in nature and with
nature.
Last of us is a slow portrait of a life totally lived on the water
of the lake, far from the noises of the modern world which takes
over. Fishing is no longer what it used to be.
Fishing is easier, but truly a reality with an uncertain destiny.
In a journey of voices and stories, images of the past and
photographs of the present, the last fishermen reveal themselves
in their intimate secrets that, in the future, it is not known who
will keep them again.

Official Email: andreamarcovicchio@gmail.com

Last of Us: The Last Fishermen of the Lake
"Best Short Documentary"
Man is a victim of his circumstances, a man who is forced to flee his country, a victim of a communist regime for being an artist and homosexual, a man who has to adapt and survive a new culture and language and who fights tirelessly for years to bring an International Ballet Festival to Miami and create different cultural organizations to enhance the Hispanic culture in South Florida, specifically in the city of Miami. This documentary to showcase the life,work and legacy of Pedro Pablo Peña through interviews with personalities of culture national and international.

Official Email: laekimfilms@gmail.com

La amable euforia de la danza
"Best Feature Documentary"
While searching for answers to the mass disappearance of locals, a man is pushed to his wits end in this waking nightmare as he is tortured by the ghosts of this small town.

Official Email: bonesawmcgraw1989@gmail.com

MADNESS
"Best Short Screenplay"
A meeting of two strangers, each discovering that they have something they can learn from the other. As their respective pasts keep drawing them back into old habits; they work together to forge a new future.

Official Email: vmail.comanyel515@

Redemption
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Thomas Crane is a singer/songwriter and a writer/director. He wrote and recorded this track and directed/filmed/edited the music video. In "Monsters Walk Among Us", he plays the Gemini Killer, a ruthless but flamboyant serial killer who attracts fame and notoriety on his cross country crime spree.

Official Email: killdevilfilms@gmail.com

Monsters Walk Among Us
"Best Music Video"
It all begins with a peaceful sleep which turns into a dreadful nightmare. A girl is enjoying the nature on a field surrounded
by pure nature. Suddenly a terrible city noise appears, out of nowhere a forest emerge. Among all the noise a creature comes out of the forest and the girl is in danger.

Official Email: maren.nordtorp@hotmail.com

Ignorance
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Black & White Film"
He walks in one direction. She walks in the opposite and … they come across each other. L’amour starts from this collision … the first date, the cinema evening, the picnic. Suddenly, she takes out her mask and discovers … el amor ciego.

Official Email: pantomato@gmail.com

El amor ciego
"Best No-Dialogue Film"
A lonely old man avoids society, finding a replacement in his bird. However, the outside world does not leave him, penetrating into the old man's life and destroying the "cage" created by him.

Official Email: egderevyanko@mail.ru

Cage
"Best Student Film"
K., the land surveyor, the man who measures the World, relives the nightmare and the dream, the obsession of full life and the ambition of a dignified death always denied in the non-linear plot of rules, laws and social obligations. Inspired by Franz Kafka's “Das Schloß” (1926) this adaptation chooses four archetypal characters to show in action: Mistress, Barnabas and Bürgel in addition to the protagonist K. who absorbs and impersonates them by shifting the limit of his identity in an increasingly challenging game. Klamm - who represents the illusion of being able to reach the power - and the beautiful Frieda - who’s the pure and vain love - are only evoked by the passion and frustrated ambitions of the protagonist. Luigi Mezzanotte acts the bewilderment of humanity that faces the World and History. The same humanity is condemned to eternal repetition and to the “eternal return” of its defeat in a mysterious and ancestral space which is seductive and full of promises for an eternal golden and inaccessible summer.

Official Email: irenegianeselli@gmail.com

The man who measures the World
"Best Young Director", "Best Cinematography"
A story about a man who is skeptical of being alive and explores absurdity. He is informed that he had a daughter ,who died recently. He accepts his existence by thinking about her life.

Official Email: fortommovie@gmail.com

She Q
"Best Director Debut", "Best Actress"
After a widower relocates to a new house in an attempt to move on with his life, strange things begin to happen causing him to question his sanity.

Official Email: johnathonfarrell@live.com

Billy
"Best Actor", "Best Drama"
After her pregnancy, Carmen starts to have nightmares and behaviors which are damaging the relationship with her husband Chava. Frustrated, she allows her reality to get distorted by putting all her desires and attention on her daughter Amara.

Official Email: alejandra.castro.flo@gmail.com

Amara
"Best Producer"
This is a musical documentary, exploring the roots of Vietnamese American refugees, entreating the audience to experience their contribution to their culture.
Log Line
Songs of Little Saigon is a documentary about Vietnamese Americans whose musical talent, hope and resilience propelled the rebuilding of their lives in Southern California after fleeing a war-torn Vietnam.

Official Email: jairo_de_la_cruzz@yahoo.com

Songs of Little Saigon
"Best Original Score"
A and B have just met through a dating app, both, without knowing it and looking for it, have the same question; What does it feel like to kill someone? Without further delay, they will go in search of the answer to this proposition that makes A to B.

Official Email: alexis_cifuentes@hotmail.es

The Proposal
"Best Thriller"
When Criticism of faith, and the freedom to offend is outlawed by the Politically Correct Militia. Bella and her gang of cyber punks push Darwinism door to door.
But with violent agnostic thugs in the street, and the terrorist "Atheist Revolutionary Army" attacking the liberal establishment, Bella and her friends are driven underground into a dark fetish existence, where the future and the past collide, allegiances are strained, and old scores must be settled. In this frighteningly bizarre and surreal feature film. 

Official Email: theplumery@btinternet.com

Learning Hebrew
"Best Dark Comedy"
VIK. Mini-Series | First Ever One-Character Mini-Series
Made 1ndependently, with NO CREW.
PLOT - The Story is Set in Future, year 2028, VIK the Titular Character is a Private Detective, And He is involved in a Messed Up High Profile Case, VIK was Supposed To Solve Everything!
But Something went wrong and VIK was Backfired!
And Now They are Behind Him!
Who is VIK ?
Who are they ?
Find Out Everything, Soon!

Official Email: vigneshnagaraja.vn@gmail.com

VIK.
"Best Web-Series"
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