After the death of his father, Aden and his mother, Sarah, find themselves responsible for the sale of his family home - a place they thought they’d left behind. When Sarah’s friends arrive to help, the task seems almost manageable. However, as they clear out the house, they uncover secrets in Sarah’s past and the sinister nature of the cultivated community Aden was raised in…. And his father’s family is not so eager to let the sins of the past go unpunished.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Director" - Vanessa M. H. Powers
"Best Horror"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Original Score"
"Best Young Actor" - David Michaeli
"Best Young Actress" - Nora O'Brien
"Best Actress" - Anissa Eisenberg
"Best Producer" - Tristan M. Corrigan
"Best Supporting Actor" - Anthony Tallarico
"Best Supporting Actress" - LaTrell Brennan

A young workforce struggles to adapt to life back at the office, post lockdowns.

"Best Short Film"

Malthe is depressed. His sister has moved in with him as she has no place to live and her annoying boyfriend has almost moved in too. Malthe just wants to be alone. But when he gets involved in a violent episode in a kiosk, he has to make a choice... Will he be passive as always - or will he act?

"Best Short Film"
"Best Actor" - Marcus Gert
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Drama"
"Best Editing"
"Best Closing Credits"

Is it more painful to be born into war or to accept it?..
Unfortunately, many people were born in the middle of war and abandoned. Millions of children could not grow up, scientists could not discover, potential artists could not produce their works, we could not hear their voices, we could not see their colors..
Echo/Yankı in memory of the people left alone...

"Best Short Film"
"Best Drama"

RETARDATION is the second short film in the Male Nature Studies series. The first film, REBIRTH, was produced in 2018. In these films, Nils Agdler examines alternative approaches to what is popularly called ”toxic masculinity”. In today's society, it has a great impact as a negative male role model, which could be expressed as a desire to constantly compete against and to dominate, both other people and the non-human.
RETARDATION takes its starting point in the emerging research field "Ecological masculinities", which is influenced by masculinities politics, deep ecology, ecological feminism and feminist care theory. ”The Great Acceleration” gained momentum in the 1950s with the Western man at the wheel. The growth curves turned sharply upwards and so did, and still do, the human impact on the biosphere. But what if this man begins to see himself as a small part of nature instead of striving to "conquer" it? What if he abandons the pursuit of status and the ever-expanding claims to power? What if he slows down and throws his paralyzing yoke? Is he still a Man then?
In RETARDATION, Nils Agdler visualizes ideas of another future man – the resigned man, the regressed man, the liberated man, and possibly – the last man.

"Best Experimental Film"

A 8 min VR-film about the Gothenburg Shipyard history dramatized in 3D. The crane operator Kerstin take us down memory lane at Lindholmen's shipyard shadows, when we slip and her whole life passes before our eyes.
Based on a true story, from Gothenburg's shipyard era, when everything fell into place...

"Best 360 Film"

A journey through the Onara Marshes Park, highlighting the naturalistic aspects and describing what can be found in these habitats with a little attention, as well as highlighting some little-known historical aspects of this place, home of the storical Ezzelini family.

"Best Educational Film"

A film I have written and co-directed in celebration of the 450th year of founding of Oton, a first class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. Founded in 1572, Oton is considered the oldest town in Panay Island.
It is a rich colourful film showcasing the history of Oton thru music, dance, Arts and theatre performance. ...from the death of Datu Paiburong and the golden mask, pagan beliefs and rituals, the Advent of Christianity and Babaylans resistance, various folkdances to modern dance. Katagman the movie has everything for you to enjoy!
Also, it is a film written, directed, performed and filmed in Oton by Ogtonganons themselves!

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best Director"
"Best Original Soundtrack"
"Best Actress" - Elena Santander Acosta Salinas
"Best Historical Film"

Many football players suffer from anxiety, distress or frustration as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. What are their personal feelings and thoughts?
Featuring: Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio), Miralem Pjanic (FC Barcelona), Alex Sandro (Juventus FC), Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea FC), Mauricio Pochettino (PSG), Aleksander Ceferin (UEFA President), and others.

"Best Sport Film"

Musician and painter, Randall Vemer, has once again expanded his talent pool; this time into filmmaking.
In a nearly 12-minute biographical documentary, Vemer reveals what happened when his ability to play his beloved viola was taken away.
The film is filled with striking portraits of the people and instruments by which he's been surrounded for much of his life. And always the educator, the hauntingly lovely music is scored and timed, not only to enhance the viewer's enjoyment of Vemer's classical style images but also to point out which instrument is highlighted within the rich and ethereal paintings.
Randall Vemer's musical bio-doc is a moving tribute to the creativity, discipline, and heart of this incredibly talented man.
If you need a pick-me-up, a gentle nudge in "the feels", or just a good old-fashioned American success story, you MUST watch this film.

"Best Original Score"

We all carry different experiences throughout life, which bring us yearnings, discoveries, joys and sorrows, all of which become a great baggage that we carry and learn to deal with, weights that can be difficult to carry or easy to bend. In Paper Weights we follow the character's trajectory from his first steps, through the evolution of self-knowledge, thus discovering the best way to take his experiences with him.

"Best Animation"

Drawing on images from a non-existent border between Santa Elena, Chihuahua, and Big Bend National Park in Texas. La Bi-vencia explores the reunion of a ghost town next to the Rio Grand that was abandoned after 9/11.

"Best Short Documentary"

Disillusioned Knight Antonius returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Antonius sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling player Mia and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives. But Death is always around the corner, biding his time. Knight Antonius cannot escape his fate, and the two begin their game.

"Best Symbolic Film"

A short doc. movie about Bono meeting with John Paul II.

"Best Short Documentary"

Why does someone become a football fan? Is it about excitement, passion, being in a group, or a club's unique history? What drives football fanatics? Cezary Grzesiuk spent a decade filming the lives of supporters of the Ruch Chorzów club. These many years of work allowed him to photograph the close-knit community of football fanatics. Not from the side-lines, not from behind a wall of police officers, but from the very heart of the ultras sector. This enabled him to show the brighter and darker side of the world of football fans in Poland and elsewhere. Themes in the film include the friendship between fans of Atletico Madrid and Ruch Chorzów and the hooligan code passed on from father to son. Penetrating different supporter groups, the director lets fans and fanatics speak, in an effort to find out who modern-day football supporters really are.

"Best Sport Film"

Ankh introduces audiences to the lifelong partner (Luc Verlinden) and showcases his hopeful treasure-hunting Egyptian adventure to find his departed husband Patrick Knight (As himself) and accidentally brings him back to life. During his resurrection, the viewer is taken into memories during a cruise down the Nile which ends in Cairo, where a complete transformation in the look-alike of Queen Nefertiti is accomplished. Ofra Haza, the Madonna of the east follows them closely and helps them in their search for the key to life, Ankh, the afterlife. Ankh is a travelogue through ancient Egypt and makes the beautiful soundtrack, (music by Gravity Noir), come to life. It's not about fame and fortune, it's about the footprints we leave behind.

"Best Experimental Film"

A teenage love story, that also battles with the huge weight of Mental Health and teenage emotions. Jake lives his life putting on a different persona each day, hiding the fact he is struggling with his emotions. What happens next, he was not ready for...

"Best Short Film"

Log Line: After the Russians invade Ukraine, a seven-year-old aspiring entertainer must survive the devastating and violent environment alongside her single mother.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

A Court Jester, "Public Official" of a warlike and decadent empire, wistful recounts his thoughts and questions about the power, while your king is sleeping. Accompanied by a throne, a skull, a bird of death, called Urubu and a soundscape that dialogs with the text, this epic monologue-comical a silly distills sarcastic discource against a government inept, corrupt and violent.

"Best Actor" - Alexandre Dacosta

Delta tells the story
of a love that wants to be reciprocal but is not
in its reality.
The two characters of the song do not understand each other
and live in a kind of dissonance.
The main character, therefore, walks through the story retracing his history and leaves room for mystery as to the interpretation that his interlocutor will make of it.

"Best Music Video"

Delta tells the story
of a love that wants to be reciprocal but is not
in its reality.
The two characters of the song do not understand each other
and live in a kind of dissonance.
The main character, therefore, walks through the story retracing his history and leaves room for mystery as to the interpretation that his interlocutor will make of it.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Experimental Film"

Through the images of broken memory, I constantly recombine them and collect the sounds of daily life. Finally it let me can released my mind from the bitter days to the better days.

"Best Short Documentary"

Picture book writer Kirihara had a brilliant past in which his debut work became a bestseller. However, after that, there were a series of misfortunes such as divorce from her wife and the emergence of alleged plagiarism of her debut work. Despaired, Kirihara jumps from the roof of the building and tries to commit suicide, but a strange girl appears and helps him. The moment he thought "Who ?!", Kirihara became the girl! In addition to that, the time goes back five days, and the girl and the picture book writer "Two Kirihara" spend a mysterious five days ...

"Best Feature Film"

A sudden disappearance of a mother calls into question a relationship between a child and her teddy bear.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Director"
"Best Young Actress" - Aadhya Jonnalagadda
"Best Drama"

Inside an artist's mind shows the dark side of being a young upcoming artist in the music industry. RUBKIN portrays a more fragile and human character, who is slowly crushed by the weight of being idolized. By utilizing spoken word, atmospheric pads and colors, the short movie takes the viewer on a journey about substance abuse, anxiety, mental disorder and the danger of fame for young artists.

"Best Director Debut" -  Joanna Lea Adams
"Best Original Soundtrack"
"Best Composer" -  Joanna Lea Adams
"Best Student Film"
"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Editing"
"Best Closing Credits"

A young woman, captive in a delusional state of mind, is drawn into the depths of a psychotic abyss.

"Best Dance Video"
"Best Experimental Film"

A million moments in time of a relationship at a crossroads is juxtaposed with the question about the future of physics and the existence of a multiverse.

"Best Experimental Film"

Despite the fear of being rejected by friends, family and loved ones, Yana tries to find a way out of the adult-industry when she is at a crossroad in her life.

"Best Short Film"

Two parallel monologues.
Two men of different ages, talk about their lives and what haunts them.
One, almost middle-aged, feels he has lost his way. Full of anxiety and metaphysical agony, he desperately seeks to find the path of return that will lead him to his paternal home and the years of innocence. At the point where he started his impasse, so far, wandering. The route looks like a strange dream. People, animals, machines, change form, properties, and actions in a nightmarish cluster full of paradoxical images, charged with passions and unacknowledged guilt.
The other, an elderly man, is nearing the end of his journey. Locked up in a small room, isolated, accompanied by memories and ghosts from the past, he has stopped being anxious. He watches the outside world through the window, with the same stoic calm that he also watches what happens in the strange circus that performs in his small room. Everything that his imagination, memory, and sensitive psyche puts in front of him. With laconic sentences that are more reminiscent of oracles, he raises questions about an absurd and perhaps futile world. An almost nightmarish world, the world that spent its life vulnerable to the alterations of time.
They are both the same person. The poet M. Sachtouris in different phases of his life. The questions he asks are not philosophical declarations or logical findings, but images. Images that seem to come from a dream and end up in his poetic iconography.
At the end of the imaginary journey, the poet "finds", among the ruins, his mother, and the room he recognizes as the home of his childhood. He returns to the womb without finding an answer to what tortured him along the way, since "there is no sanguine answer" because everything "is a vast void rather like a tomb".

"Best Animation"

An Aspiring Hollywood star is swept away in a fairytale day with the worlds youngest French billionaire as she begin to get a taste of his world and ponder the possibility for something more

"Best Romance"
"Best Actress" - Michelle Lynn

In 1925 , Magnolia trades in her gingham cooking aprons from Iowa for ritzy pearls and eye-catching flapper dresses in the Windy City. Upon arrival she reunites with her long lost sister, Lilly, who gets her a job at Chicago’s largest Speakeasy, The Green Mill. A riveting tale of the prohibition era between rivalry mobs, as Magnolia known as “Goldie” among Patrons begins to embark in the dangerous world of violence, mobsters, and booze, rising the ranks of cocktail waitress to a mobster’s girlfriend.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

Sienna Crawford is always a bridesmaid, never a bride. One day at a wedding she catches a magical bouquet that changes her luck . Her love life is on fast forward she meets a big time jewelry and art dealer , Antonio , and gets engaged , while developing a relationship with Greek Magnate , Jean LUc. Soon enough Sienna’s relationship will be tested , will she sail away with an Italian God, or mirror the next Romeo and Juliet with Greek God, or just stay unlucky in love ?

"Best Feature Screenplay"

(a modern-day retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde) A good-intentioned and brilliant scientist becomes infatuated with a naive, privileged young man, endangering his own ethics as he invents a custom, one-for-one, prototype humanoid android that can suspend the human aging process for those who reside on the highest levels of the social ladder in a grim, nihilistic, hyper-political society set in a not-too-distant dystopian future.

"Best Feature Screenplay", "Best Original Screenplay"

One black Quijote and one Sancho, alienated Latin American dreamers, compete for the love of a queen and a princess from Spain, whose identities they do not know: unintentionally, they enter a space previously denied them due to their ethnic and social condition. The dominant political status quo is scandalized. The outcome is regrettable. But the princess decides to form a conjugal bond with the only survivor: the black Quijote, with whom at last she has come to know beauty.

"Best Feature Film"

After the death of Harrison Hudson, Sophie Hudson is left with nothing but memories of her father and a special gift he was going to give her for her 15th birthday. Struggling to find the courage to open the gift, Sophie decides to finally unwrap the present on her 16th birthday which reveals a copy of the last film her father ever wrote. Having never seen the film, Sophie takes a different perspective while watching the film and soon discerns the underlying message her father has left her, using the clues left behind to solve the mystery behind his death.

"Best Thriller"

Two sister’s conduct a seance in order to find the truth surrounding the mysterious death of their younger sister.

"Best Student Film"
"Best Director"
"Best Producer"
"Best Editing"
"Best Horror"

A teenage girl struggles with her thoughts as they battle she seeks guidance in the House of God.

"Best Music Video"
"Best Dance Video"

"Best Experimental Film"

"Best ECO Work"
"Best Original Screenplay"

Two strangers meet at the rooftop of a 20-story hotel building, both with the intention to commit suicide.

"Best Dark Comedy"
"Best Duet"

A 6-foot tall humanoid-primate from the Amazon rainforest, called a “chilamasman,” the last of its species-- and an intense, deeply troubled, mentally unstable American adult male are both held captive by a U.S. government-funded program performing a psychological experiment, forcing the two of them to live together inside a single, maximum security containment habitat— and replica— of a modern-day condominium apartment.

"Best Feature Screenplay"
"Best Original Screenplay"

Inspired by RUI, the Chinese dependent designer brand, the core concept of body positive would be carried over. In particular, referring to “feminine≠woman=soft” indicated by Rui Zhou, we also appeal to gender fluidity. Meanwhile, considering knits as the stretchy fabric, which are very gentle, delicate but show strong power and tension on the skin. Therefore, we invited a soft boy (at the physical sex level) to present his personal struggling story of gender fluid through contemporary dance.
Escape from me, escape from me, escape from me… How is a reconciliation journey of a soft-masculinity boy lead by gender fluid?

"Best Experimental Film"

It was a personalized declaration, the first time I had gathered the courage to show the public my horrible skin full of wounds and scars.
Pink lips and smooth skin, a popular imagining of a young girl.
Without a doubt, I was a girl.
I was always praised for my cute doll face and pale skin. At the same time, they crawled densely all over my arms and legs under my deliberately chosen long sleeves and trousers. I never knew where they came from. It was only when the water ran over my skin in the shower and I felt the sudden pain that I realized: oh, so the skin here has broken again.
They are my permanent wounds, physical and psychological.
They live on with me, they are a part of me.

"Best Experimental Film"

“Voices” tells the story of Thiago, a software engineer, creator of an audio dating application called Voices. After starting a relationship with his first user, a young Spanish woman named Eva, his darkest side emerges, to the point of being left alone. This situation of loneliness leads him to relive episodes from his childhood, to distort reality and to create an artificial intelligence based on the voice of his former great love.

"Best Web Series"
"Best Original Soundtrack"
"Best Actor" - Stefano Salvini
"Best Young Actor" - Izan Alcázar
"Best Supporting Actor" - Juan Carlos Rey de Castro

It’s the future: climate change has continued to take its toll in the planet. It’s only a matter of time before Earth is completely uninhabitable. But not to worry. VITA is an exciting new company that promises to, for a small fee, relocate you and your loved ones to a newly discovered earth-like planet, untouched and uncorrupted by man. BRUNO, however, is skeptical and very much resistant to the idea. It is when his life takes an unexpected turn that relocating to a new planet definitely seems like a decent option.

"Best Student Film"

‘Evening Ritual’ depicts the love relationship between two elderly men and the distance they must cope with after one has moved to a nursing home.

"Best LGBTQ+ Film"

Daisy Blaine is an ordinary small town girl who moved to Hollywood to act in movies. After following the normal path of auditions, she realizes the film industry is overloaded with cash grabs, remakes, sequels, knock offs and lacks “original” inspirational movies. Using the power of the smartphone in her hand she quits auditioning to transform herself into a one person film crew and goes on a mission to create groundbreaking hit movies using only herself, her phone and a handful of other actors. Daisy’s journey of self realization unfolds over the course of her making 6 short films. To make ends meet along the way she works as a webcam girl and quickly realizes the consequences of sacrificing spiritual values to sharpen filmmaking skills. Subsequently through out her journey she is guided by God, her best friend, Trent, and Dr. Silk, her inexperienced psychiatrist. They tell her everything she does not want to hear but needs to hear… not only to become an extraordinary filmmaker but to become an extraordinary human being.

"Best Comedy"
"Best Director Debut"
"Best Actress" - Tessa Farrell
"Best Mobile Film"

As winter storms collide with crushing debt, a young man begins searching for a way out of his chronic depression. He believes his luck has changed when he stumbles onto a winning lottery ticket that offers a trip to a fantasy island called Ascension. However, when he begins to explore the island, he realizes that it has more in store for him than just a vacation.

"Best Animation"

When Fredo is making his exit from what appears to be a bank robbery, he’s unquestionably in the line sight of a police officer moving towards him. He starts a conversation with Carol in a bid to make it look as if he’s actually hitting on her and therefore could not possibly be the same man who’s wanted by the state. Carol, intelligent, flirtatious, headstrong, and mischievous, turns out to be quite the conversationalist. When she asks for his number at the end of their encounter, our Fredo is taunted by a difficult decision; Engage further with what is now a witness and risk all, or risk never seeing the alluring woman again.

"Best Original Screenplay"

In a world that is consumed by fake news, Eddie Lowry is getting squeezed out of the mainstream media because of his refusal to sellout to click bait and sensationalism, but when the truth-seeking reporter begins to gain notoriety on back page blogs for his journalistic integrity, an FBI task force discovers that he could be the key to solving their case of corruption while giving Eddie one last chance to salvage his career.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Director Debut"

A coming-of-age family drama story about a teenage girl who must reckon with her relationship with her parents when she uncovers her father's deepest secret during his well-intention trip to visit her.

"Best Cinematography"

An international high school girl is trapped in and digest a trauma nightmare that she never experienced before.

"Best Cinematography"

Jacob (30) is a Lithuanian artist who hitchhiked from Kaunas (Lithuania) to Lausanne (Switzerland) to meet Howey Ou, the Chinese Greta Thunberg. He is writing a master's thesis on Chinese climate change policy. He would like to have Howey's point of view. In Switzerland, he discovers that she is on a hunger strike and decides to do the same to support her.

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best ECO Work"

Vincent is an obsessed videographer dealing with a broken romance. He decides to take on a job for an engaged couple who we discover are deeply connected to his past and desire for vengeance. A dark psychological thriller where the fractured mind of an intense man narrates us through a path of faith, culture and discovery.

"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Director Debut"

A fairy tale gone wrong: A woman between two men

"Best Music Video"

Two men trek across the frigid expanses of 1890s New England. One has a price on his head, the other has a gun.

"Best Original Soundtrack

A young, psych ward gadfly-poet sets on a mission to stop her doctor who tests women with a date-rape drug.

"Best Original Screenplay"

"Best Feature Screenplay"

"Best Feature Screenplay"