Two families on neighboring farms on the border between Brazil and Uruguay. Decades drive these people away. The physical proximity is separated by a fence and the set of prejudices, inexplicable hatred and lack of generosity. In the end of the year, between Christmas and New Year, the families gather on their respective farms. What nobody knows is that a love between two young people is about to break this barrier that is much bigger than the fence that divides the fields. The passion between Rodrigo and Juliana could be the point of recovery for a relationship marked by so many years of hatred, but, like Shakespeare's original story, the human being is much more complex and inexplicable. Whether in Verona, Italy, or on a border farm. Tragedy lives inside people and is sometimes impossible to control...

"Best Director Debut"
"Best Romance"

Movie Based On The Disappearance Of A Teenage Daughter

"Best Feature Screenplay"
"Best Original Screenplay"

Meet Dick Zigun, “Honorary Mayor of Coney Island” and learn about the beginnings of Coney Island USA.
Under Dick, Coney Island USA developed and produced a number of beloved summer programs including the Mermaid Parade and the Coney Island Circus Sideshow.
Dick moved to Coney Island in 1979, when the historic amusement park was just getting by on life support. At that time Coney Island was a scary place to be, but Dick had a vision and over time has been able to see his vision come to pass.
Dick also talks at length about Lillie Santangelo and her famous Wax Musee where Coney Island USA was born.


"Best Short Documentary"

Emerging from the mist of the past, six characters meet in the ethereal town of Bronze Bell Sorrow, the city of last chance. Only one of them is a living human being; the five others hide diverse identities. Anamorphic time and space are the stage on which they confront each other and themselves. Murderers, executioners, victims…who are they really? Behind the crimes they have committed are simply lost creatures wishing desperately to be members of humanity, even for the short time of a card game.


"Best Feature Film"
"Best Composer"

"Best COVID-19 Film"

A close interrogation between a police commissioner and Yves, a gay, young escort living between alcohol, drugs and prostitution, who denounced himself of Claude's murder.
What are the reasons that led Yves to kill Claude?
a good boy with whom he had a relationship?
The surprising and exciting answer will only be discovered at the end.

"Best Director"
"Best LGBTQ+ Film"

A JOURNEY INTO IN THE AESTHETIC OF A PHOTOGRAPHER - SHADOWS IN THE BOX
Shadows in the box is the the exploration of the life and times of mercurial existentialist photographer, Thomas Clark.
As an artist, Thomas Clark started his career at eleven years old when his mother, Gloria Clark, offered him an eight millimeter movie camera as a birthday present. From the steps of his St Albans House, home of many cultural american icons, including John Coltrane, Fats Waller and Ella Fitzgerald, to name a few, to the border of Nepal and India more than forty years later, this amazing photographer graced the streets of the world with an uncanny sense for still images in motion. Streets after streets, in New York, in San Francisco, in LA, in Warsaw and more, Thomas roamed within an idea: What if these faces, encounters, scenes and places where linked together by an invisible force, that primal force in the universe, a force called love? As he gained confidence with the technique, the camera became an extension of his mind, heart and soul, as if it was capturing the elusive magic of the canvas of life itself. To the untrained eye, this would have been invisible, like a mystery left to the ether made by the creator, but not to Mr Clark who felt that there was no mystery for an awaken eye that could see, just a discovery of each breath through, as quoted by himself, "Silent Rhythms". In essence, it is the work of a photographer, as it is born inside the camera until revealed in the picture for all of us to witness it in the light, when the shadows come to life.
As the passion grew, relationships started to form with fellow artists, muses and lasting friendships associated from further or closer to Thomas Clark's body of work which needed to be shared at some point. And, that point is now. This documentary is a testimony made from his point of view. As best as the medium of film could create, Thomas Clark narrates in his own words the journey that he took upon himself to undertake half a century ago till the present day. As he reconnects with old photographer friends Peter Hill, and Stanley Greene, and discusses one of his essays on Off Track Betting with legendary photographer Robert Frank, Thomas Clark comes to life before our eyes as his shadows do outside the box.

"Best Feature Documentary"

Two lonely detectives investigate a series of mysterious midnight deaths. The first victim has a picture of her with the next, and with each death the picture changes to show the next victim, sending the detectives on a paranoid journey into the victim's past.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Director Debut"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Producer"
"Best Thriller"

A young woman wakes up tied in an underground parking lot. To save her life, she will have to submit to a game and discover her true nature.

"Best Thriller"
"Best Actor"

MAP OF THE WORLD is a conceptual photography series that started with a single picture of my eyes, taken during the isolation of quarantine. The series would grow as I started to blend images of patterns, places and things that I love across my face. Most importantly, maps of the world would adorn my likeness, to signify that we would soon be able to travel and take this world back again.

"Best Photography"

Lucca, a 30-year-old man fanatic about the Italian mafia universe, has strange and unnecessarily dramatic habits: He
has henchmen, he walks like a mob boss, cultivates meaningless rivalries, and no one knows exactly what he does. His Friend
Juan has an important job interview and asks him to take care of his son, Gustavo.
Lucca takes Gustavo to lunch, accompanied by his two henchmen. One of them is fully aboard the gangster “trip” of
Lucca. The other looks at the situation from a more realistic perspective. Everything is fine until Gustavo grabs the last piece of pizza.
The protagonist then has no options, other than retaliation, given the clear disrespect he suffered. He takes the boy to a location abandoned to shoot him. But after dramatic speeches, he ends up having his heart touched by the boy and lets him go, as long as the kid leaves town

"Best Short Screenplay"

Betrayed and arrears, Jorge deducts all your anger at the bricklayer working at his home. However, at times, banal decisions have unexpected consequences.

"Best Thriller"

Moni, a ten year-old boy, lives with his father Xhema in great poverty. During a fatal meal, his father Xhema accidentally kills his son. All his life he will live cursed, blaming himself for what happened. In his last days, when he is very old, Xhema returns to the house where the tragedy happened to ask forgiveness of his son in order to release his soul and be able to pass away.

"Best Short Film"

A talented student from the North-East of England returns home after the death of her mother. Her life now dominated by absences, she struggles to reconnect with her father, and is overwhelmed with the decision between her friends and family back home and her future in London.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Actress"
"Best Actor"
"Best Supporting Actor"
"Best Original Screenplay"

Retired cowgirl Callie attends the funeral of a former lover on an Indian reservation. She meets his family and goes on a crazy adventure to learn what happened to her friend and their relationship.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Actress"
"Best Director Debut"
"Best Color Editing"
"Best Original Score"
"Best Producer"
"Best Editing"

The sins of the Ancient Japanese Gods have come back to haunt the land of Heian Era Japan. The Sun Goddess Amaterasu chooses her Samurai, and sends a rice farmer on a quest recover her three treasures to complete the Samurai's armor. Once complete, the samurai will have the power to defeat the evil dragon.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

After a home invasion, a depressed father must save his family, or they'll be premiered in the prime time news.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Thriller"
"Best Horror"
"Best Makeup"
"Best Director"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Poster"

The script of the film was based on the correspondence of St. Lem and Sł. Mrożek. The correspondence of two great writers is a valuable document not only of intellectual friendship. It is a document of the epoch in its entirety. A strong accent in the of Mrożek's correspondence with Lem is the reference to Mrożek's open letter, published in Le Monde and in the Paris-based Kultura, protesting against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. The journey marked by the steady clatter of the wagon wheels, similar to the sound of the typewriter font striking, set the rhythm of the mutual narratives between the sender and the recipient. This is how we begin the journey with image and sound in abstract time. A specific sense of humor is what binds the friendship of both writers. This correspondence "chess game" gave the filmmakers full freedom of creative expression. Interpreting through animation, they combined artistic virtuosity with understanding the intentions of interlocutors. The great advantage of the film is that it maintains the priority of the servile, in this case, the role of visualization, without giving up the broadly understood sphere of artistic freedom. This also applies to perfectly selected music, which resembles the background music of Fellini's films. The producers made sure that the visuals did not compete with the text, but only emphasized it. At the beginning, life itself with all the baggage of absurdity, which then grows into a canvas of texts that finally lead to the creation of animation.

"Best Animation"
"Best Experimental Film"

'Fighting For His Life' - The Journey from an Advanced Prostate cancer survivor to Advocating for Fellow Cancer Survivors...
A documentary about Advanced Prostate Cancer examined through the eyes of a patient, carer and medical professionals...

"Best BLM Film"
"Best Web Series"

Alder is a guardian spirit that protects the forest and nature. It takes the shape of a female-tree form embodying the Alder tree’s inner qualities of protection against malevolent beings and humans.
When a handsome young forager strays into Alder’s glade, it opens the possibility of changing its destiny. It longs for being loved and for the intimacy of a touch, like humans do. Very aware of the high price to pay for falling in love with a human its dilemma and vulnerability are exposed.
Every time the forager clips a branch or steals berries, it manifests in Alder’s pain and it bleeding orange sap. Alder encounters him in the woods and seduces him, but will her heart overcome her loyalty to the forest?

"Best Director"
"Best Composer"
"Best Fantasy"

4 is an experimental short film featuring music & dance that brings the audience to a research space to identify the source of balance and proportions in the combined art forms. Two pianists and two dancers travel together in a retro-futuristic quest for knowledge through pulse and rhythm, creating a progressive and hypnotic piece, and placing the piano as a common operating table for their interaction. The music features extended piano techniques in an intense, minimalist score.

"Best Dance Video"

This is the story of how the 'Acompañando-T' volunteer program fights unwanted loneliness in the heart of Emptied Spain.

"Best COVID-19 Film"
"Best Student Film

We used our classically-influenced New Age music to create this music video that shines a spotlight on the fragility of Earth's grandest bodies of water. Meant to inspire viewers to help protect the blue planet.

"Best ECO Work"

The Tiger has incited a sense of both awe and admiration throughout history - the prowess, ferocity, beauty and a harmony of opposites comes to mind with this powerful animal totem. Full of life, Tiger embodies spirit, the drive to achieve and make progress. In Asian culture, Tigers are an animal of the Zodiac and are thought to control the wind. They are considered sacred, standing for courage and long life.
Our fast-paced and fluid film showcases dancer Airu Matsuda. Director Daniel Belton's cut to Mark de Clive-Lowe's jubilant music (with Taonga Pūoro from Al Fraser), honours Lunar New Year of the Tiger and makes a bow to the sister peaks Mt Fuji (JPN) and Mt Taranaki (NZ). The renowned design and digital film team features Donnine Harrison, PJ Illustration, Jac Grenfell, Patxi Araujo, Jeong-Hee Shin, and Stuart Foster with Belton. In Ancient Asian philosophy, Yin and Yang is a concept that describes how contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected and interdependent in the natural world - they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another, cultivating diversity. The TIGER (Silver Lotus) film is a high energy dance opus to celebrate the great cat in the meadow of our consciousness throughout 2022.

"Best Dance Video"
"Best Experimental Film"

A former sheriff deputy moves to the country after a breakdown following her partner's murder. The perpetrator is still at large when she awakens to the sound of a gunshot and distressing voices. She seeks out the source and finds a dead body, and three young men and a woman. She's forced to deal with her trauma so she can handle the situation at hand.

"Best Thriller"

Sergeant Al Ramon and Officer Luis Mendez know that policing New York City essentially means managing chaos. The volume of radio calls for police service makes it virtually impossible to patrol and enforce the law for every infraction of state penal law. Beneath the city, policing is even more challenging. Officers patrolling Transit Manhattan South face the same hazards as street crime cops, but the tunnels and trains make it much more difficult to affect an apprehension; the transit systems provides criminals with an elaborate labyrinth that help them elude to police.
When Sergeant Ramon is ordered to tighten discipline and improve the transit cops' performance through the N.Y.P.D's tickets and arrests quotas, he faces a tough decision: motivate "activity" or lose his job due to department budget cuts. Watching his platoon every move is newly-assigned Inspector Dek, sent in to ensure transit officers meet the departments demands.
MoleMen, a dark, fictional comedy, is loosely based on the politics and policing in New York City. Follow Ramon and Mendez as they try to save their transit buddies' jobs. You'll experience the same day-to-day frustrations and pressures police officers feel to issue summonses and make the arrests that sell the public on efficient policing. MoleMen shows how quickly officers can lose touch with the public as they generate the quotas for which One Police Plaza and the mayor hunger.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

An unintentional killing at Camp Koba leaves Layla to live in secrecy where it eats away at her subconscious. Upon trying to take her own life for the pain she burdens, she is rescued by the greatest force.

"Best Young Actress"

A powerful and gripping story about a white terminally ill businessman who uses racism to force an African American man he never met before to kill him in order for his family receive his life insurance money.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Director"
"Best Drama"
"Best Supporting Actor"

A story of three Bboys (Breakdancers) from different backgrounds but with the same passion in life. The Philippines has amazing bboys (breakdancers) with many struggles & hardships. Unknown stories that must be known to the world. This is not just a dance, but a dance that gives hope in a place where hope is hard to find. Puso ng Pinoy Bboy...the heart of the Philippine Bboy.

"Best Feature Documentary"

The film creeps into issues of the Anthropocene while moving deeper into the psychological landscape of Lucy Palustris, the artist’s alter-ego. A solitary woman in the wetlands of southern Ontario, Lucy is a manifestation of our human psyche and our animal selves. Her role is ambiguous: Is she an agency of care, a psychologically (de)-stabilizing force or an intrusive presence? Illogical associations convey the strangeness and intensity of a dream. Disjuncture and incongruity colour the protagonist’s actions and costume within her surroundings, revealing the beauty and brutality of a degraded landscape and our transient existence within it. The film attempts to uncover something about who we are and how we have come to a tipping point of crisis. Fecundity, violence and death interweave. A call for restitution plays out like a Sisyphean gesture where tenacity and futility reign.

"Best ECO Work"
"Best Symbolic Film"

Penelope’s search for the kind of love that's missing in her life leads her to a motel room with another woman - only to be confronted by the realities of her marriage.

"Best Short Film"

The story is about two teenage girls with totally different backgrounds. Jodie Davis was born with a physical disability. She lives with her mother and grandfather on a dilapidated old farm. After the recent passing of her dad, Jodie`s mom Sandy works two jobs to make ends meet. Jodie`s first love is to someday ride horses and eventually compete in horse shows. But physical disabilities and financial problems make this vision quite impossible.
Bridgett Van Heusen lives a complete opposite life. She resides on a beautiful farm and has a championship horse, as well as a talented horse trainer named Jimmy. She is very spoiled and wants for nothing. Both of her parents are involved in everything but their daughters love. Bridgett is an extremely talented rider.
Witness how fate brings together these two distinctly different young girls. See the magnificence of unconditional love that transcends physical and emotional trials throughout the film. A roller coaster of emotions will consume the viewer. A family film with many of life`s lessons that can be enjoyed by the entire family.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Young Actress"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Drama"
"Best Original Score"
"Best Trailer"

Maya, a shy 14 year-old girl, is walking home with the cynical boy she likes, Matan. When Maya loses her keys, the two waits in the front yard, and Maya is forced to face her feelings and speak out.

"Best Student Film"
"Best Young Actress"

A Man goes through life mechanically while the state eggs him on into submission and complicity.

"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Student Film"
"Best No-Dialogue Film"
"Best Young Director"

A teenage bully sees his future self when his actions are confronted head on with the face of the future.

"Best Young Director"
"Best Young Actor"
"Best Student Film"

John Farrow - Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Hollywood’s most prolific yet forgotten filmmakers John Villiers Farrow (1904 - 1963). Part mystery, part biography, part film noir – the documentary follows the stranger than fiction story of this Australian born, Oscar-winning filmmaker.
One of Hollywood’s most enigmatic figures – Farrow was the director of some 50 films, a sailor, a poet, a war hero, a best-selling author, a religious scholar, a family man and a philanderer – a man who lived many lives - yet who left behind no memoirs, no interviews and no archival footage – and who today is only a shadow in the pages of film history.

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Director"
"Best Producer"
"Best Color Editing"
"Best Opening Credits"
"Best Editing"
"Best Poster"

In a dilemma where one is faced with a choice between the past and the future, the past often has to make way for the future, despite the pain it causes.
The film 'Conclusion' shows a similar dilemma of a man whose daughter's marriage is knocking on the door while his mother is in Ventilation with no chances of survival. Ultimately the man lets his mother go, so his daughter's marriage doesn't get affected.

"Best Animation"

OUR TRIUMPHANT HOLY DAY chronicles filmmaker Greg Di Roma’s journey on a pilgrimage into the Holy Land in Israel and Palestine with 28 other pilgrims in January 2020. The film explores major sites of the Holy Land and their impact on Salvation History. The pilgrims follow the footsteps of Jesus Christ and discover the human side of His story that highlight the true meanings of Love, Faith and Suffering. Along the way, the trip leads to a deep conversion in Greg’s Catholic Faith and Life that he never thought possible.

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Producer"

In a life full of struggles, the old man finally encounters one that he cannot overcome. For the first time, he is unable to fight back. Past, present, and future are torturing his mind. There is no escape, no way out. He's trying to ignore anxious thoughts but is repeatedly brought back to them.

"Best Black &  White Film"

Twelve-year-old Star often carries the world on her fragile, prepubescent shoulders. Learning the Word of God from the church and her grandmother, she uses it to keep her father Cordell from turning back to the streets; the streets that have claimed her uncle’s life and caused her father to miss the last five years of her life while he served time in prison. Will her faith be enough to bring her father to Christ?

"Best Young Actress"
"Best Original Score"

“The Path Of Stones” reflects on the relationships and social spaces built from the popularization of psychoactive substances “crack” and “basuco”, having as reference, for that, the cities of Salvador and São Paulo, in Brazil, and Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia. In a lyrical way, prioritizing a psychological approach, the documentary proposes a reflection a historical journey in the use of psychoactive substances that that, pari passu, from its representations, places us before ourselves, before the other, before life.

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Educational Film"
"Best Director Debut"