Several widespread wildfires have occurred in the western United States in recent years, impacting many of our urban-wildland communities. At Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County, California, two major wildfires separated by only two years have burned through the landscape. How will this fire-adapted ecosystem respond, how have the wildlife been affected? What are scientists and ecologists doing to better understand and prepare for future wildfires? What can we learn from indigenous people's land stewardship practices? Can we improve our natural lands to better sustain the environment and protect our communities?

"Best Feature Documentary"

Franck try to survive in a world where human kind became extinct.
An unexpected encounter will disrupt habits that he's trying to keep for years ...

"Best Short Film"
"Best Drama"
"Best Actress" (Laury Thiriet)
"Best Cinematography"

It is very early (6h) in a residential area of the Paris region still asleep. An unmarked police car is parked in front of the only house with lights already lit. A man comes out of it, 1.75m, in his 30s, stocky, short hair, wears a 70 year leather, raw jeans and Jordan sneakers .
It’s Inspector Warren, it’s a special day for him today.
He has to announce a terrible news to his best friend, his wife whom he believed in his brother is found dead in the company of a stranger.
Who is this unknown person? Is it a crime of passion, if he is the author?

"Best Short Screenplay"
"Best Original Screenplay"

Maya and Victor's second date appears to be a dream come true evening. But Victor's murderous passion can mess this up.

"Best Short Screenplay"

For years Alan has been horribly abused and terrorized by his sadistic homophobic father and a group of merciless young hoods for being different. And on a beautiful summer day in a small logging town, the brutality reaches a new level of mental and physical cruelty. Alan will vanish that day, without a trace. Presumed dead by the authorities and his family, he is all but forgotten until the death of his mother draws him back. But the years bring changes, changes that no one will suspect. Alan, who is now Allison, seeks out those who victimized her so many years ago, and none will realize until it’s too late that they are being hunted down for the sins of their past. But is it the revenge of a psychopath or an avenger of the tortured, persecuted and helpless victims of murder?

"Best Feature Screenplay"

Thirty years ago, Dax Swayze was a rock star but he soon fell into oblivion. Struggling with serious health problems, he still sings karaoke in a local pub. One day he meets Dallas, an aspiring artist with a tough life who has never had the courage to leave home. Dax and Dallas will soon learn that time doesn’t change anything unless you take a step forward.

"Best Actor" (Iván Gisbert)
"Best Original Soundtrack)

Nina (24) is in a kind of trance while dancing to electronic music alone in a decadent nightclub in downtown Lima, until she is interrupted by a man who wants to hug her and dance with her, but she rejects him. Moments later, however, she is the one who goes to look for him in a small red room in the club. He is, now, the one who rejects her. They argue because she already wants to leave and they struggle, until he throws her on a mattress that is in the place. Two mute witnesses look at the scene in astonishment. The night turns into the unexpected mockery of a society that rolls its eyes at Nina when she goes to ask for help.

"Best Short Film"

Miguel, an adult with visual disability, already resigned, gives up his aspiration to be an architect, given society's refusal to give him a chance.

"Best Short Film"

This is a story of Miracles, a young woman’s test of faith; her direct link to God; God speaking, and The Holy Spirit's response.
Based on a true story.
Adapted from my non-fiction book, "My Reply".

"Best Adapted Screenplay"

Discover, with Noor and Martin, a magnificent place, where the Rhône flows into Lake Geneva. It's sublime! Les Grangettes in Switzerland, which is part of the Convention of Wetlands of International Importance RAMSAR, is a multitude of ecological environments, waterbirds and plants. With Sophie Swaton, philosopher and economist, senior lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability of the University of Lausanne and Paul Ouédraogo, Senior Advisor for Africa, RAMSAR.

"Best Short Documentary"

The song is against wars in every sense.

"Best Composer" (Boris Rifkin)

In 1916, HANK BRADDOCK, 18, a young reporter from rural Indiana arrives in Bar-le-Duc, France to volunteer for the Red Cross at the height of World War I. He’ll be working with Red Cross ambulances transporting wounded soldiers from the battlefield to a grand old chateau converted to a hospital.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

"Best Original Screenplay"

When Matt, a jobless student, and his science-loving girlfriend Hanna capture and bring home a lovable blue Monster, hilarity and adventure ensues. Matt and Hannah try to protect the Monster from mad scientists and crazed monster hunters with their own unique methods of Monster behavioral training.

"Best Comedy"
"Best Closing Credits"

A Palestinian girl, a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman meet at a celestial lake, the meeting triggers a conflict between the man and the woman caused by previous encounter, the girl tries to mediate. Will she succeed? Would it be possible to bridge between them?

"Best Animation"

A country road. A shelter. At night.

"Best Dance Video"

With an unspeakable femicide as a background, two women confront each other and themselves, they wander through a maze made up by memories, dreams, emptiness and conflicts, all from the vulnerability of their own nakedness, reappropriating their bodies in the process, which has been socially and culturally violated.
From this statement, and always haunted by an indecipherable fear, they reflect on the meaning of being a woman nowadays.

"Best Experimental Film"

On true events; 10 billion in cash went missing during the Iraq War. 6 billion recovered from a bombed out Iraqi bank 010 - this story is a theory extrapolated from true events on what happened to the still missing 4 billion.

"Best Original Screenplay"

In india religion in its all dimension and diversities is the very base of the life line. Recently when out of nowhere corona pandemic came and spreads all over the world, death came crawling everywhere . No country , no town and no neighbournood escaped its deathly impact. Since Indian psyche is deeply rooted in religious belief, it is natural that most of the Indian seeks refuge in various religious practices along with whatever medical help came their way.
When in times pandemic effects got milder, age old traditional 'Kumbh Mela' was anounced- it is a centuries old traditional gathering of various Hindu sect on the bank of river ganga at holy city of Haridwar. Rakesh with no experience of film making on his own whim decided to make a film on the theme of river Ganga and Kumbh Religious fair. So he got hold of a amateur camera person 'Siddharth' and started to shoot the documentary film, with no story line and no prior written script and any plot.
And this is the very theme of this musical film 'KALRAV -The sound of running water'. How frame by frame a story is born and characters came into being and how the making of the documentary spiritually transformed the makers and also the various characters in their own ways..

"Best Original Soundtrack"

A high school video gamer blasts the lead enemy character in "Invaders" causing the game to come alive and seek revenge.

"Best Original Screenplay"

For almost three and a half decades, a slight and unassuming Brazilian researcher has been bringing forth evidence of an Afterlife via various processes of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC). Using technological devices such as telephones, televisions, recorders, computers and cameras, Sonia Rinaldi has been able to record both voice messages and visual images of those who have passed on from this life providing comfort to those who have lost a loved one and helping to prove, definitively, that life continues after bodily death.
Over time, the quality and quantity of these voice messages and visual images have become increasingly clearer, and her work has caught the attention of many well-respected researchers. Hear from some of them, as well as from a small sampling of parents who have lost a child, who attest to the amazing influence Sonia Rinaldi's work has on current understandings of concepts such as life and death.

"Best Feature Documentary"

Two microprocessors converse in a park, sitting on a bench. This is Willy and Jimmy, two personalized microprocessors.
Willy and Jimmy are old microprocessors from 1998 that have been retired for 20 years, growing old, but also slowly becoming senile.

"Best Animation"

A large space in ruins is abandoned by who knows how many years. On the walls enormous canvases recall altarpieces whose classicism seems projected into the future. Was it an art gallery? The study of a painter? A museum? The place is imbued with the memory of someone who lived and worked in it.
An artist takes possession of space again and paints coexisting with the mystery that lives in those walls and the distressing presences that still live inside that space. The painter remains involved by the suggestions that are breathed by the abandoned altarpieces, true protagonists of the film.

"Best Short Film"

The Protagonist a former SAS Soldier upon being released from Colchester Military Correctional Center after doing his Duty as a Soldier in Afghanistan, finds his Home Town of Luton is not the same & becomes disgusted with the vast changes & the People, employment, Immigration & discovers the country he once defended treats its own people like third-rate citizens & after an act f Self-Defence he is branded a Criminal & made to do Community Service, following the loss of his job to a Foreign worker pushes him to the brink & soon finds solace in a Far-Right Movement, soon he discovers a Smaller Movement the 'Red Right Hand' & decides to lead & train them as a Paramilitary Group using his former skills as a Soldier, they gain information by asking British Citizens Survey questions on what is wrong with the U.K take notes of each towards their feelings on Religion, Foreign Workers, Politics, Benefit System, the NHS, Wages & Terrorism. Leading to a full siege of the House of Commons taking the entire British Government hostage to form a ‘British Bill of Rights’ to change the Laws to favour its own People. Upon surrendering our Protagonist is transported to the Tower of London, many hail him a hero, others see him as a Tyrant. After being locked up for 10 years in the Tower a group called the 'People's Liberation Army' break him out with an ulterior motive.

"Best Feature Screenplay"