Above Her Lips An Actress falls love with university student. Her pursuit of being of the best and highly desired actresses means she must give up her relationship with her lover to instead keep heterosexuality which can help her in her career. However, she refrains from resorting to such measures, provoking the university girl to end things between them instead. "Best Actress" "Best LGBTQ+ Flm" "Best Romance" |
Portrait of a Writer A writer projects her fears and motivations into her written character. When that character realizes that he is just a manifestation of the writer's subconscious, he decides to take control of the story, leading to a journey inside the writer's innermost self. "Best No-Dialogue Film" "Best Student Film" |
Past Future Journey Nile Behold the Ancient Egyptian temples along the Nile in their ascending order of awareness and enlightenment; revealing their holistic wisdom and spiritual destiny. "Past Future Journey Nile" is composed from a vintage photo collection, a slideshow travelogue that has been transformed through specials effects into an audiovisual meditation on Ancient Egypt’s sacred vision of our world. Their gods are symbolically portrayed as aspects of the Spirit in Nature and along with their distinctive temples speak to both our rational and intuitive faculties. Traveling through their land as well as their history, philosophy and metaphysics, "Past Future Journey Nile" explores the deep influence of Ancient Egypt on Western civilization and its special meaning for us today and for tomorrow. "Best Original Score" "Best Historical Film" |
Poison Darnell, a timid young man, questions his tumultuous relationship with his abusive girlfriend of three years after coming home one night from a group of friends. He must fight his way to freedom and escape his vociferous lover before his whole world crumbles. "Best Student Film" |
I AM ADAM Who is Adam? It's just a dream or it's real ? "Best Short Film" "Best Actor" |
THE LAST SUPPER Who is Adam? It's just a dream or it's real ? "Best Comedy" "Best Actor" "Best Actress" "Best Opening Credits" |
Incidental A middle-aged daughter deals with the aftermath of her traumatic childhood. "Best Short Film" "Best Director" "Best Thriller" |
A FIGURE IN RED Revenge only leads to a murder most foul. When a wealthy arts collector is found brutally killed. Sergeant Louise Brown and Constable Shefaz Amin are embroiled into a story of secrets and a mysterious figure lurking in the woods leading to a series of murders and a tale of deceit. "Best Short Screenplay" |
Motherland It took 106 years before the United States formally recognized the Armenian Genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. On April 24,2021, President Joe Biden became the first US president to officially recognize the Armenian genocide and to recommit preventing such an atrocity from occurring again. Tragically, history is repeating itself with Turkey's ongoing genocidal attack and ethnic cleansing against Armenians as we've witnessed recently in Artsakh. "Motherland" tells the story of this ongoing tragic chapter through the lens of Armenian-American journalist and LGBTQ+ activist, Vic Gerami. "Best Feature Documentary" "Best Director" "Best Producer" "Best Editing" |
Dear Brother Albert, an English soldier, with a rifle in his hand, has just shot an enemy. In a panic, he runs away, in the direction of a forest, where he hopes to find relief. While the images of the atrocity he has just committed fill his head, footsteps herald the arrival of Theo, a German soldier wounded in the leg. After a game of glances with the gun pointed, the two succumb to the true humanity of war and help each other. Theo reveals that he ran away with his brother but that the two split up while they ran away. Albert's blood freezes convinced that he has killed Theo's brother. "Best Short Film" "Best Cinematography" "Best Director Debut" "Best War Film" "Best Poster" |