Official Selections
April - May 2023 Period
"REVERSE" by Christophe Lenoir
"Best Short Film", "Best Director", "Best Actress" (Camille Solal), "Best Thriller"
With the help of her alters, an ex-spy with dissociative identity disorder hatches a plan to get revenge on the one-eyed, the man who tried to kill her.
Morgane has many characters who live inside her, and with their help she develops a plan to track down her target: a one-eyed double agent. As each day their identity is alternated, the alters use a Dictaphone to record their days and share the information of their daily investigations. But along the way they are betrayed by one of their own, Louise, who joins forces with two thugs to be freed from this life under control, who agree to help her in exchange for a fortune. The two men manipulate the identities, pretending to be the man they are looking for -the one-eyed. But soon the trap closes on them, and they become the victims of the obsession of this woman with many faces.
"Maladaptive Daydreamers" by Emilija Riviere
"Best Experimental Film"
Maladaptive daydreamer is someone who spends an excessive amount of time preoccupied with elaborate daydreams, and often prefers these fantasies to their real life. The film is about a man who decides to stop daydreaming, but finds himself slipping into his fantasies for hours.
"Alright Forever" by Jeffrey Richards
"Best Short Documentary"
In this sequel to "I Think He'll Be Alright" and "I Still Think He'll Be Alright," director Jeff Richards sets out to prove that the global COVID pandemic has created shared trauma. As he interviews people directly affected by this event, he struggles with his own health anxiety that stemmed from the pandemic.
"Little pile of things I & II" by Virginie Balabaud
"Best Feature Documentary"
This documentary made in two parts, begins with Jeanette, an old lady explaining her life with her things. While, in the second part, her objects and archives tell us different things about her.
A 90 years-old lady explains the origin of her perception of possessions and the personal reasons which drive her to amass things. Things that have taken over her living space. Confronting the problem of emptiness and fullness, the story follows Jeanette with her hoarding disorder. A poetic journey following a lady who represents herself with the past, present and future through her relationship with things. Virginie Balabaud (filmmaker) offers her an artistic alternative by suggesting to build a tent with all her accumulated fabrics.
It’s the second part of the movie, the filmmaker plays the role of Jeanette in a burlesque way. Through Jeanette’s objects, archives, we develop the History of France : the feminist fight against bourgeoisie education, the second world war and the after war, emancipation and adaptation of a woman in the modern time. Melting the past and present, the viewer can have an image of the life of Jeanette.
"Emergency Musical Response" by Cosmo Swevens
"Best Music Video", "Best Original Soundtrack"
LOGLINE: Emergency Musical Response Team 421 responds to distress calls using music as a healing therapy (EMR Part 1). What is initially perceived as a routine service call devolves into an existential challenge where the very fate of pop music hangs in the balance (EMR Part 2).
SYNOPSIS: Emergency Musical Responders, Sage and her partner Cosmo, provide emergency music as a service to those in need of music as medicine. Ride with EMR Unit 421 as they help people in distress on their journey to Netherworld.
"Baby" by Edin Alain Martinez
"Best Thriller"
Two girls stay alone with a women pregnant.
"The Gaze" by Charlotte Coffey, Sydney Amaya, Scout Phillips, Cordelia McGovern and Audrey Hill
"Best Director Debut"
After watching a film, Jane, a young women finds herself trapped within the theatre, under the haunting gaze of the man who resides there.
She discovers the truth of reality - that women face a predatory gaze throughout the course of their lives, and The Gaze captures Jane’s journey trying to escape harsh reality.
Created by 5 talented and accomplished young women, this film can relate to so many people from different perspectives on how people often feel trapped from predatory behavior.
"FREEDUMB" by John Johnson
"Best Animation"
Two convict robots are exiled to deep space.
"IF THEY ASK WHAT IT IS; IT IS A LEAF" by İdil Oğuzhan
"Best Young Director", "Best Student Film"
Iranian painter and academic Farzin Rahneshin tried to create himself and his art in Iran, but faced a series of great obstacles. Alienated from society, Farzin comes to Istanbul temporarily. Stating that he had the same strong influence in his post-immigration art in Istanbul, the painter tells how the place where he lived affected his art.
"Unlikely Valentine" by Harry J Wormald
"Best Short Film"
On Valentine’s night, two couples in adjacent hotel rooms uncover emotions, truths and reach a romantic reckoning.
"Superheroes" by Rafael de Andrade
"Best Fantasy"
Famous superheroes take care of adult problems, but children also have their superheroes, always ready to help solve their dilemmas. Anonymous heroes may be closer than we think, and in this fun movie, they will be taken back.
"Small Child and Mother" by Young Man Kang
"Best Music Video"
When I was child, I was really short. I was so short that my heavy bag dragged on the ground when I went to school. After seeing that, my mother finally carried the bag. My mother passed away and I make this music while thinking of her.
"Die Finsternis ( The Darkness )" by Matthias Horbelt
"Best Short Film"
For Anton, living has been a struggle almost since he can remember. He has no word for it, only ways to get through the long days, the short nights. He has been unemployed for a while, and his sister has arranged an interview for him at a company in a distant part of town. While he struggles to get there, we accompany him, observe him, and share in his inner life. What is it that he is feeling and thinking? Is it real, is it unreal, is it an inner weakness or an external threat? Is there a word for it, a concept - and above all: What could really help him?
"Oliver and the Pool" by Arcadi Palerm Artis
"Best Feature Film"
Oliver –a 13 years old single son from a fractured family—arrives home from the crematory and sits in the chaise long next to the pool, holding his father ashes. In that chaise long Oliver will learn to forgive himself and other, recover his will for pursuing happiness and maybe even fall in love.
"Holidays" by Ernestine Azeh and Posser Erasto
"Best Short Documentary"
Two little school girls, Stephanie and Aurelie decide to save part of their pocket money in their piggy banks, in order to help their parents in the holidays. This eventually leads to enterprise and business as the two girls end up raising money and start a micro business. Great turn of events; they do not only help their parents but discover that they build a better entrepreneur future for themselves.
"I Know Two Boys" by Samanya Gandavarapu
"Best Music Video"
I Know Two Boys is a music video supporting LGBT movement in India.Samanya and Alexandria Godala penned the lyrics and Samanya developed the concept and screenplay for the video and also directed it.
"Belles paroles" by Mohamed Ouaddah
"Best Director Debut"

A young handicapped man fights to show his writing talent to other rappers who judge him on his physique. Through this work it is the true story of Massyl Kasri.

"Talking to a survivor" by Milena Olip
"Best Short Film", "Best Composer"
The whole extent of globalization and capitalism is often reflected in day-to-day actions.
A man leaves his picturesque mountain farm every day to go to the neighboring small town to assist in the production, in several shifts at a conveyor belt, of articles that - in both his own immediate neighborhood and on the other side of the world - can cause extreme distress.
A boy who observes these things happening, and who is not impervious to their effects.
A cautionary narrator who shows that the words of Erich Fried, now more than fifty years old, are more relevant and more far-reaching than ever.
"Gina" by Michelle Piana
"Best Short Film", "Best Director Debut", "Best Supporting Actress" (Julia Cash)
Gino is a 10 year old child. His parents, Alba and Lorenzo, left Italy for France a few years after having Gino. Gino quickly joined a football club in his new city, his new life. In his 11th year, Gino wants to join the female football team of his club. Although his parents had already noticed Gino's attitude change for a long time, they were still shocked, especially his father. Lorenzo loves his son, Gino, with all his heart, but is not sure he can love Gina in the same way. However, the work of acceptance seems more natural for his mother, Alba, who will support her until she feels like herself. No matter how long it takes, Alba will accompany Gina until the end, hoping that one day she will be able to share moments of happiness with her daughter and her husband, Lorenzo.
"This couch is too big for my trunk" by Victor Toth
"Best Feature Film", "Best Student Film"
After agreeing to share an apartment, friends Alexandre and Gustavo put themselves in the hard task of carrying a couch, on foot, between one house and another. Along the way, their small differences added to their developing masculinities end up revealing huge divergencies in the perspective of sharing a home.
"LANA & TONI" by Predrag Peter Rajčič
"Best Comedy", "Best Director Debut", "Best Actress" (Inja Zalta), "Best Supporting Actress" (Leya Kos)
Lana and Toni are a couple in a long-term relationship. Lana wants children and a large family, but Toni lives in his own world and shows no signs of wanting to take a step forward in their relationship.
One day, Lana and her best friend Maja head to a castle where Toni's birthday party is supposed to be happening, but to their surprise, there is no one there. The situation gets even more complicated when they bump into Alex, Toni's best friend.
As they are about to walk out of the castle, they come across a box with a very special surprise in it.
"Super Nova" by Jonathan Cardell Sims
"Best Short Screenplay", "Best Original Screenplay"
Super Nova" is a heartwarming story about the bond between a father and daughter, and the ways in which that bond can shape and influence our lives. Nova's father works for NASA and each night he shares his space explorations with her, sparking her imagination and allowing her to dream. But when he becomes a workaholic and distant, Nova's dreams stop and she grows up to be just like him - cold and unhappy. It's only when she has a daughter of her own that Nova realizes the importance of pouring into and encouraging the imagination of the next generation. Can she break the cycle and be a better parent to her daughter and rediscover the power of dreaming?
"Queen Vernita's Guide to the Solar system" by Dr. Dawn Menge
"Best Short Screenplay", "Best Trailer"
Dr. Dawn Menge has won thirty-four international literary awards as the author of the Queen Vernita educational series. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, a master's degree and a Credential in moderate/severe disabilities, and a bachelor's degree in human development. Dr. Menge has been teaching students with severe cognitive delays for twenty-years. She has three children and five beautiful grandchildren and lives in Southern California.
"Oroboro Island" by Oleg Bazylewicz & Karen Buckton
"Best Television Script"
Three time-travel ships are sent from the 23d century to a distant past with an important research mission. Unaware of a huge planetary time-stream loop, the expedition goes through many unexpected adventures and produces stunning results. Even though there is no way to change anything, the remaining crews still try to fix at least something...
"IMPENDING CATASTROPHE" by Yoram Marcus
"Best Feature Film"
What was the mysterious event at the villa? Then the consequences?
A genius researcher - The millionaire Dr. Gerry Frank, divorced, no children - informs his guests at his villa that he has created here, in his laboratory, by genetic engineering, a universal vaccine against all human pathogenic viruses. The virus that biologically engineered and used becomes - later - lethal, threatens to destroy the human race, and Dr. Gerry Frank infected with it is doomed to die. Live on Facebook, from the villa's yard, He reveals all this asks for forgiveness from everyone he hurt, and announces that he will set the house on fire while inside so that the lethal virus will be eliminated and will not spread to the world.
"Examining Eloise - a case study in mental illness and demonic influence" by Delores Flynn Flynn & Jeffrey Checker
"Best Feature Documentary"
Folks have often wondered how much influence, if any, demonic entities have on those people that are oppressed by demons. Eloise Psychiatric Hospital has its' share of spirits, and Dr. Jeffrey Checker explores this decrepit, dark building, hoping to answer questions to theories he's posed to the supernatural world for years.
"A message for Christmas" by Emanuele Pellecchia
"Best No-Dialogue Film", "Best Young Actress" (Aurora Pellecchia)
An ordinary family is celebrating Christmas in solitude and silence until a wish that comes true will change everyone's life.
"A NEW DAWN" by Manny Soto
"Best Feature Documentary"
DEPICTING THE LIVES OF CUBANS ESCAPING THE CASTRO COMMUNIST REGIME IN THE 60, and 70.
"The Home" by JULIO DE LA FUENTE SANTOS
"Best Feature Film", "Best Director", "Best Adapted Screenplay", "Best Comedy", "Best Black & White Film" "Best Producer" (Jose Luis Cuendia Palacios), "Best No-Dialogue Film", "Best Young Actress", "Best Original Soundtrack", "Best Costume Design"
A humble family with three children live in the forest. One day they pass by a house they believe to be empty and occupy it, spending the best seven days of their lives there.
"Mask" by Shiraz Khan
"Best Short Film"
Un precendated murders in the local community are spreading fear, anxiety and isolation to a man who watches the world through the eyes of a determined news presenter and from the from the confindes of his home. As his isolation and mundane life progresses more details emerge as the Mask begins to slip.
Masks... we all hide behind them
"Talking Cure" by Maren Krüger
"Best No-Dialogue Film", "Best Experimental Film"
A black room, a chair, a couch and two men.
The constellation reminds one of a session at a psychotherapist. With one significant difference: the two men don't speak to each other. Why are they silent? One of them is perhaps tired of talking, the other possibly fears his own voice. Or maybe it is because they are meeting inside a film whose narration relays mainly on pictures.
We look through daring mimings and gestures beyond which fantastic visions and imaginations are dwelling. What the two men don't say the pictoriality of silence reveals...
"Let's Start Over" by Kent Bernhard
"Best Short Film", "Best Sci-Fi"
Homeless on the streets, Jackson has a chance encounter with a former acquaintance, who was partially responsible for his current fate. Moments after the encounter a mysterious stranger shows up, pausing to read Jackson’s beat up, cardboard sign. Rather than offering him money, this mysterious man in Shades offers him something far more valuable, the chance to start over. Placing him at a point of limbo between what is so and what is possible. Jackson now has to traverse through a world he doesn’t fully understand to change his fate for the better, or risk repeating his life all over again.
"The Sunrise" by Mansoor Ahmed
"Best Short Film"
A multi-genre experimental film depicting a tragedy, disguised as a comedy, disguised as a horror film. This is a story about age-old loneliness, unquenched thirst and waning abilities to sustain life.
"What do we do?" by Roderick Fenske
"Best Short Film", "Best Director", "Best Comedy"
Some employees of a massive corporation make the mistake of actually questioning their purpose.
"Sweetest Vacation" by Ryan Stevens Harris
"Best Closing Credits"
Some employees of a massive corporation make the mistake of actually questioning their purpose.
"Ridge Run II: Familiar Places" by Terrance Brashun
"Best Closing Credits"
Axel, now in captivity, must escape and find his way back to the stashed hard drive in the jungles of Mexico.
"Born To Be Someone" by P.J. Bracco
"Best Music Video"
"EN-PERFECCION fest" by Domiziano Cristopharo
"Best Dance Video"
"Who's Annie?" by Sophia Peer
"Best Director", "Best Actress" (Annie Pisapia), "Best Television Script", "Best Comedy"
After jail-time, 12-step programs and five marriages, Annie begins her acting career in her mid-fifties with the help of a young director she met at a Burger King. In this show within a show, Annie tackles both her gigs as an actor and the role of herself in her own life story.
"Asphodel Fields" by Luigi Calabrese
"Best Fantasy", "Best Experimental Film", "Best Sound Design", "Best VFX"
"The BuncinoMexicano" by Kaspars Buncis
"Best Animation"
The story is about a Mexican man running through the desert in search of the meaning of life. The Mexican man is so focused on himself that he doesn't notice the various desert dwellers who want to get to know him until he finds himself in a situation where he wants to get to know a beautiful girl who also doesn't notice the Mexican man. And then the man comes to a place where the friendly inhabitants of the desert gather and has finally found the long-sought meaning of life.
"Party Quest" by Débora Rocha
"Best Short Film", "Best Student Film", "Best Director Debut"
In order to get the girl of his dreams, a college student with Autism embarks on an epic adventure: a party. It’s just as bad as he thinks it will be—until maybe it isn’t.
"Ray's Second Act" by Robert Toms
"Best LGBTQ+ Film", "Best Mobile Film", "Best Actor"
Ray and Ronnie are a gay couple that have been together for 25 years. Ray comes home to find that Ronnie has decided to leave him for a bigger calling. Leaving Ray confused and questioning his second act of life.
"Home Cookin - Over 100 Years in the Making" by Rich Allen
"Best Feature Documentary"
A personal look back on family and self using film collected 1908 to 2020.
"Sound of the Shadow" by Gairah Praskovia
"Best Music Video"
The animated short talks about the real pandemic experienced in Spain since 2020. The whole world is suffering from an economic crisis, but also a health crisis in the field of mental health. Sound Of Th Shadow is the reflection of pain, anger, frustration, the blood of thousands of people who suffer mentally and many commit suicide and people who suffer from mental disorders.
"The Liberator's Daughter" by Deborah Levine
"Best Television Script"
The daughter of a WW II military intelligence officer battles disabilities, sexual harassment, hate and antisemitism as she strives to heal herself and repair a broken world.
"Spell Card Night Hunters" by Antonio Mastroianni
"Best Fantasy"
The deadly game between monster and hunter has begun. Forced into a fight for survival, a group of friends, after starting an esoteric game, wake up in the eighteenth century hunted by a companion who has turned into a bloodthirsty beast. Time is running out and the game demands victory or death for the players.
"Down Memory Lane" by Nada Serhan
"Best Feature Screenplay"
In the near future where social classes have been redefined, procreation is limited to the upper class, and AI replacing the third class, third class citizens with good behaviour are offered a
merciful killing before their 41st birthday in which they have the opportunity to watch their memories before their consciousness is uploaded onto Pleasant Dimension. Yasmeen, a Palestinian refugee coder, who is turning 41 and as a well behaved citizen third class citizen , is given a session to watch her memories before her merciful killing . While watching her memories, she begins to notice something is weird about her memories. The details are not adding up. In a light slumber and watching her memories form, she decides to figure out why.
"Mood Circus" by Eddy Falconer
"Best No-Dialogue Film"
Figurative animated fantasy reflecting precarious inner states. We visit trauma and unease, yet also futuristic conjecture and whimsy.
"Meet Cute" by Shawn Patrick Tilling
"Best Animation"
Inspired by the silent films of the 1920s, Meet Cute tells the story of a fateful day between two people waiting for the bus.
"Rachel's Reason" by Dajour Ashwood
"Best BLM Film"
Rachel invites her sisters, Rebecca and Rochelle, over to her place for a night of wining and laughing over their childhood and adulthood lives. Amidst the laughter, Rebecca and Rochelle discover a truth about Rachel. A night of fun turns into Rachel’s Reason.
"If It Ain't Broke..." by Doug Ellerbusch
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Lily Kamura was a golf prodigy who won pro tournaments as an amateur and reached world number one on the LPGA. But with the fame came more attention, more responsibilities, a team of people, and a new club deal, all of which contributed to Lily dropping out from number one and all the way down to 50th in the world.
After Lily's umpteenth caddy quits, her father enlists the aid of Terry Osterling, his former college roommate and a golf prodigy himself who fell off the world after his former girlfriend, now Lily's mother, left him.
Terry's loosey-goosey, out-there approach to the game (sizing down her golf bag, not using a yardage book, and slipping Lily's old clubs back in the rotation) definitely rubs Lily the wrong way, but his abrasive style gets results, so the pair form a reluctant alliance in order to get Lily back on top, each teaching the other a few things about life and golf along the way.
"The Incomparable Jennifer Helm" by Doug Ellerbusch
"Best Original Screenplay"
Jennifer Helm, A-list movie star and print model, works as a government agent to foil a plot to contaminate the U.S. food supply and and destroy the country's economy. But juggling her commitments while jetting all over the world and still have a boyfriend leads to some problems, especially when it looks like her boyfriend may be part of the plot.
"Full Circle" by Noel Brady
"Best Feature Film"
The lives of two men, an Irish war journalist and an American living in Ireland intertwine in an unusual tale of enlightenment and redemption.
Documentary Film-Maker and war journalist, Malcolm Walker (Michael Bates) returns to Ireland after his last production in Gaza went horribly wrong. A tragic accident occurred while filming his documentary about underground tunnels used by ‘Hamas’. This accident caused the death of Malcolm’s wife and producer Linda Walker (Susan Bracken).
Two years on and Malcolm barely recognizes himself or the man he has become. Poor life-choices leave Malcolm facing a night in the local police cell following an unfortunate altercation… But he’s not alone in the cell.
Enter Travis Sear (Mark Schrier), an American that met Malcolm some three years earlier and his cellmate for the night. Malcolm had interviewed Travis and his wife at the ancient site of Newgrange Co.Meath for another TV show at that time. Following the interview Travis and his wife Rose (Annette Kelly) were in a car accident. Travis survived, but his wife Rose was left in a catatonic state.
Travis now believes this car accident to be the result of the curse of the ‘Órach Stone’. An ancient stone that Rose found at Newgrange that day. And her taking it from the ancient site caused this curse and the subsequent accident. Travis believes that the ‘Órach Stone’ has to be returned to Newgrange and an ancient ritual performed with the chosen ones. Only this ritual can lift the curse that plagues Rose.
Having met Malcolm once again after all these years, Travis believes that Malcolm is a sign, and a chosen one. And he and only he can help perform this ancient ritual and bring Rose back. Seeing the opportunity of a story, Malcolm reluctantly agrees to help Travis on his journey. This journey will take Malcolm to places other than Newgrange as he struggles to face his own demons and deal with his own loss and the nightmarish memories of Gaza.
"Somebody's Baby" by Mervyn McCracken
"Best Short Film", "Best Producer" - Robert Ebejer, "Best Cinematography"
A homeless woman who, driven by grief, snatches a baby.
"Raising Faith — Stories About Dyslexia" by Stacey O. Irwin
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Educational Film"
Raising Faith — Stories About Dyslexia shares real talk with nine families with dyslexic children. The film, set in each families' home, shares poignant stories, advice, strategies and struggles from experiencing the learning difference called dyslexia. This film provides hope, inspiration, and a feeling of camaraderie for families of unique learners, and those who wish to open themselves to learning something new about neurodiverse individuals. The film also discusses the genetic component of this learning difference through the experiences of Faith, a young dyslexic, her father, and others. Ability advocates, unique learners, and those who know and love them, will feel "heard" by the end of this film. The film raises faith about dyslexic life, as Faith's parents experience raising her. This current under thirty minute cut of the film was completed in 2020.
"Garbage People: Trash Conspiracies + Trash Carnival" by Brit Tobin
"Best Dark Comedy"
Double Feature, 2-for-1 episode!
Trash Conspiracies
Ever wonder what Garbage People eat? Or where the dead Trash go when they die? Patches and Peel know... but maybe it's just a Trash conspiracy.
Trash Carnival
Patches and Peel experience a day full of fun and follies at the annual Trash Carnival, that is, until they take a ride on 'Epidemic Alley' they won't soon forget.
Garbage People is an adult animated sitcom created by Brit Tobin. The series follows a jaded plush bunny, Patches, and a savage banana peel (Peel) through their madcap adventures in the dumpster town of Trash.
"My fears" by Claudia Marcela Ruiz
"Best Animation"
One morning in the pandemic of 2020, a woman runs through her fears of loneliness.
"Seaper Powers Mystery of the Blue Pearls Film" by Kim Cameron
"Best Animation", "Best Original Soundtrack"
Emma works for NOAA as a diver and researcher. She is put on a mission to find mysterious blue pearls in the deep Caribbean seas, but first, she needs to call upon her octopus and starfish (played by Vanilla Ice) friends, from the past, to help. During her dive, dangerous pirates plague her way to uncover a secret that only a few know about. She must find a way to protect the secret or risk destroying an underwater world which is vital to our oceans.
Seaper Powers: Mystery of the Blue Pearls is the second in the Seaper Powers movie series and features an all-new, original soundtrack by John DePatie and Kim Cameron, the Billboard-charted duo behind hits such as "Not Into You." Inspired by Cameron's award-winning bok series (Purple Dragonfly Book Award, 2018), this film brings beloved characters to life through memorable songs and a captivating adventure.
Popular among educators and the homeschool community, Kim Cameron's five-book Seaper Powers series is accompanied by an official Lesson Plan Guide. Likewise, Seaper Powers: Mystery of the Blue Pearls is the perfect introduction for young audiences to engage in fun learning activities about the ocean environment.
"The Bobbsey Twins Go to Hell" by Gil Luna
"Best Feature Screenplay"
To break a family curse, descendants from the present-day attempt to escape hell with their dead relatives from the 1930s and 1980s by saving them from their discriminatory ways when Lucifer traps them in the underworld.
"The Planting of Trees" by Fabio Seferi
"Best Short Film"
The story is based on a true event.
A young boy, Lindi, a final-year student, is arrested on charges of propaganda of decadent literature and failure to report attempted escape.
Lindi lives alone with his mother, a primary school teacher, who, after the arrest of her son, takes the bed.
In the investigation, Lindi admits to reading the banned book, without telling who gave it to him ("I found it on a desk ..."), and for the accusation of attempted escape, he does not accept it, as among other things "how can he?" to abandon the mother he loves so much. "
"The Love in the Fury: Stories of Boxing Through Despair" by Laren Stover
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Sport Film", "Best Trailer", "Best Poster"
A short documentary film created and produced by Laren Stover with her interviews from the boxing and theatrical communities about courage, overcoming despair and the extreme magic of boxing. Filmed during the pandemic at Overthrow New York, March 2021. Directed, filmed and edited by Director Melo.
"Trust Me" by Leonard Martin
"Best Thriller"
A crazy couple,Noel and Maria,in their forties,lose a baby in a late miscarriage and soon after ,a younger professional couple,Sarah and Rob,move into the apartment below them expecting a baby. Noel and Maria plan to be friends with them and gain their trust, and steal the baby when it’s born.
"Searching for Halifax NP711" by Rob Leicester Wagner
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best War Film"
Seven crew members of the Royal Canadian Air Force were killed in a bombing raid over Germany on Feb. 21, 1945. The cause of the crash was a mystery. Their Halifax bomber was discovered 73 years later. We examine the crew's final hours, its flight path, the conclusions on why it crashed and the search for the wreckage.
"The Neighborhood Storyteller" by Alejandra Alcala
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best Director" - Alejandra Alcala, "Best Producer" - Francisco Alcala, "Best Original Score"
War tragically pushed Asmaa out of her home country, Syria, where her destiny had been written as a wife and mother with only 16 years of age. Asmaa rebuilt her adult identity as the neighborhood storyteller and began using reading aloud to children for fun as a bridge to tackle critical issues in her new community at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.

Six years later, with Asmaa’s first born daughter reaching adolescence, a flashback of her education deprived past emerges and inspires her to embark on a new read aloud project to empower teenage girls to build a future of opportunities she never had. Despite her complex living situation as a refugee and the community’s conservative mindset, Asmaa is determined to raise a conscious generation of successful women.

The Neighborhood Storyteller is a documentary feature film that explores human resilience, the transition from child to adult and one's capacity to turn hardships into an opportunity for self growth.
"BELIEVE" by Edward Monge
"Best Short Film"
A young man who has been through difficult times in life since he was a kid. Years later he loses his job, after searching for an open position al over his city in New Jersey, he finds himself at a Christian book store. Wanting to buy a book called "The Prayer Of Jabez" but he didn't have enough money.
Somehow he runs into a stranger older man, who through a simple game bring back his sense of hope and faith.
"Insane" by Abraham Onofre
"Best Short Film"
A psychiatric patient escapes and meets three women, one of whom is very similar to his mother, who mistreated him and therefore decides to kill them.
"American Clown Story" by Kyle C Johnson
"Best Student Film"
A clown has been murdered in Big Tent City. Pockets the Clown is on the case, a hard-boiled detective living on the fringe. Can Pockets catch the elusive perp? Or has he already gone over the edge?
"Shoulder Dreaming" by Stephen Karnaghan
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Barry has looked after his aged father who cannot do anything for himself. When his father falls, he is taken to a Nursing Home because of his injuries. There Barry meets Jennifer whose father has also fallen and admitted to the same room as Barry’s father.
Although attracted to each other Barry and Jennifer have a responsibility to their fathers. Barry is an artist and when Jennifer sees his work, she is shocked. Jennifer has a gallery and knows that she can sell Barry’s painting.
Jennifer’s best friend Lisa reminds Jennifer that she promised her that once free of her father for a while they would go on holiday together. Barry is devastated when Jennifer goes to Paris for a holiday. When depressed Barry paints and does so until he collapses from lack of food and exhaustion.
While in Paris Jennifer realizes that she is in love with Barry. When checking on her father she is told that Barry has not been to the Nursing Home for a few days. She rushes back to find Barry collapsed on his living room floor. She saves his life and they are joined as a couple.
"Mirona" by Paula Blanco Pérez
"Best Student Film", "Best Cinematography"
A thriller about two roommates who battle guilt and paranoia after stumbling upon a tragedy next door.
"Dixon Mason - The Scent of The Woman" by Rey Janjua
"Best Short Film", "Best Animation", "Best Director"
On a stormy night in Sun Down City, legendary detective Dixon Mason chases the stalker of famed actress Rita Munroe. The mysterious being know as Shadow Grin may be his most deadly adversary yet.
"Once means forever" by Katarzyna Bińko
"Best Animation"
"Once means forever" is short animated film, which shows us, without delusion, story of young women. Girl who could be any other women. Looking by her's eyes, we will be troubled by her one day. The day which will change her life forever.
"Room Available" by Frank van der Meijden
"Best Short Film"
A student wants to go for ghost hunting out of sensationalism, but after a fatal accident where his best friend dies, he is feeling so guilty that he cannot connect to his own girlfriend.
"Get the bloody money" by Frank van der Meijden
"Best Short Screenplay"
Student Guss has money problems. In a local magazine he sees the advertisement of a certain William. This turns out to be an older man who has a simple assignment: 'Give me an authentic picture of a rainbow, and you will get the money you want.'
Guss thinks it is almost too good to be true, but by necessity he takes the job anyway.
After delivering the photo, he gets what the old man promised: a suitcase full of money. When Guss spends this money, something strange happens. His body changes in a nasty way. When he goes to William to get revenge, he finds out that it was a premeditated plan. Guss must now make a choice that is irreversible.
"Love In Vain" by Rudy Strukoff
"Best Music Video", "Best Cinematography", "Best Sound Design", "Best Color Editing"
A music video that tells the story of Robert Johnson's lament, LOVE IN VAIN. The film takes the viewer on a journey on old Route 66 from New Mexico, Arizona, Amboy California and Palm Springs as our hero chases his lost love (the woman in red) only to be rebuked. But, does he still have a chance? The viewer must decide...
"Searching for Camelot: The Queen of Camelot" by Roger Paradiso
"Best Historical Film"
In the dark days after President John F. Kennedy’s murder, did you ever wonder what was going on with Jackie and Robert as they grieved over the greatest murder mystery of our history?
Our chorus of Millennials and Elders wants to know the answers and they express their memories and opinions of this tragic period. I also express my memories of this revolutionary period in our history.
In this film we try to understand why Jackie used the Camelot mythology as a metaphor for her husband's presidency. We search for the reasons why Robert ran for the Presidency even when he knew 'there was a gun between me and the White House''. In our search for Camelot, we discover an epic time in our history full of blood, tears and a romance that will last forever
"Planetary Rebellion" by Fabrizio Fuochi
"Best Music Video", "Best Original Song"
What is real? If you change your point of view, you might be surprised.
"SIGNED, BABA" by Yankee Zhou
"Best Original Screenplay"
"The hitchhiker's revenge" by Zoe Cosette Anth
"Best Student Film"
A girl picks up a hitchhiker not knowing she's a vengeful spirit.
"Mariposas" by Adrian Carey
"Best Original Screenplay", "Best Fantasy"
Set in a universe of magical realism, a boastful father prattles on superficially about his daughter to another parent in the school pick up line, but is unable to perceive her when it matters most.
"The Swim" by Frank Van Der Meijden
"Best Feature Screenplay"
A journalist interviews a writer about his most talked-about book in which a swimming afternoon ends in tragedy. The book is more autobiographical than the writer has admitted in the past. In the confrontational interview, the truth comes to light.
"The Power of Choice" by Anton Algrang
"Best Director Debut"
Bettina Mumm from Wiesbaden is one of the few remaining contemporary witnesses. She reflects on
her childhood in the mid-1930s. The Nazis seize power and nothing is the way it used to be. The
radical new attitudes put friendships to the test. Pastor Franz von Bernus, as well as many young
parishioners of the Bergkirche put up resistance and took a clear stand, each in his own way. They
turn to the "Confessing Church" and fight for humanity and freedom. They are faced with the burning
question: Is this God's will what is happening out there?
"The Verge" by Elena Panchenko
"Best Short Film"
The millionaire decides to commit a suicide because of an oppressive feeling of emptiness and pain due to the loss of his daughter. But then there is a call from volunteer Anastasia, who asks to save the boy from an incurable illness.
"Il Ritorno" by Ugo Moriano
"Best Director Debut"
In the eternal and ongoing war between Good and Evil, a handful of people of faith belonging to the Order of St. Andrew, gives its life in service to the New Coming.
Ten cardinals, under the guidance of the First-Called, have to protect the return of the Saviour from Devil’s wiles, aided by a sword blessed by the waters of the Jordan River.
Their devotion and spirit of sacrifice are unshakable, but Lucifer’s force has no boundaries and soon each one of them will have to face his own destiny.
It’s a story that repeats itself for thousands years and unites its protagonists up to the present day.
"Cai Lun's Key: How the Kam People Preserved the Earliest Papermaking" by Marie Anna Lee
"Best Short Documentary"
An art professor and her students apprentice with Kam minority artisans deep in the mountains of southwest China to learn early papermaking technology. The Kam have lived secluded from the rest of the world for centuries. Their papermaking tradition can be traced directly to the Chinese official Cai Lun, who is credited with inventing paper over 2000 years ago. Kam artisans adopted his technique after the addition of mulberry bark to the pulp mixture but before he invented the dipping method of forming paper. Their current practice takes us back two millennia the way no archaeological discovery can.
"Sushi Loves Sake" by Nelson Beltran
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Romantic Comedy Coming of Age Drama of 2 Comedy Actors and Screenwriters who run an Improvisational theatre troupe on Community TV inside the dying Michigan Film Industry and fall in love. They begin to rebuild their lives from Divorce amidst Suicide, Drug Addiction And write a sold screenplay in New Hollywood together.
"Sushi Loves Sake" by Nelson Beltran
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Romantic Comedy Coming of Age Drama of 2 Comedy Actors and Screenwriters who run an Improvisational theatre troupe on Community TV inside the dying Michigan Film Industry and fall in love. They begin to rebuild their lives from Divorce amidst Suicide, Drug Addiction And write a sold screenplay in New Hollywood together.
"Skin Deep" by Anthony Lolli, Tereza Hakobyan-Lolli
"Best Feature Documentary"
Alex Porro lost over 300lbs on his weight loss journey, from the heaviest weight of 480lbs. After completing his journey he was left with a lot of excess skin, to compete in the bodybuilding competitions and stand a chance, he has to remove it and go through the painful recovery process.
"The Super Lollis" by Anthony Lolli, Tereza Hakobyan-Lolli
"Best Producer" - Anthony Lolli, Tereza Hakobyan-Lolli
Tereza made the journey from Armenia to America during college. After graduating with a Finance degree, she followed her dreams in the entertainment industry by moving to NY, where she met the love of her life, her husband, Anthony Lolli. After years of trying to convince him to lose weight, he finally succeeded in a major way. While watching Anthony transform, she was withering away under the pressure of motherhood. However, seeing Anthony’s weight loss success, she decided to follow his footsteps and start her own journey, to show all moms that you can look better than ever even after having 2 children. The couple ventures to Florida for Tereza's first ever fitness competition and we see Anthony continue his journey as he tries to break through the transformation world into the world of competitive bodybuilding.
"Mistakes & Dear Shadow" by Paula Blanco Pérez
"Best Music Video"
Music Video of the songs “Mistakes and Dear Shadow” by Boyperfect. The music video explores what Van feels when he makes music and what he wants to transmit to his fans as he shares his personal experiences through his music and his brand “Evol”.
"The Magic of Manners!" by Miles Johnson, Leslie Braginsky, Cicely Mitchell
"Best Animation"
What better way to celebrate the magic of saying "please" and "thank you" than with GRAMMY Award-inning and legendary sextet Take 6? Listen to them sing about the magic that happens when you use your manners! With their pitch-perfect harmonies, Take 6 shares how using manners makes life wonderful! Take 6 is comprised of: Claude V. McKnight III, Mark Kibble, Joey Kibble, Alvin Chea, Khristian Dentley and David Thomas!
"Seven Days of the Week!" by Miles Johnson, Cicely C. Mitchell
"Best Animation"
It's time to enjoy the jazziest celebration of the days of the week! Legendary A Capella group Take 6 offers you an upbeat, fun and festive way of learning those days of the week!
"That's The Shape I'm In" by Cicely C. Mitchell, Miles Johnson, Leslie Braginsky
"Best Animation"
Are you ready for an amazing jazzy tune about our shapes? Then join Reba to the Rescue as well as "Kalunda" (Christian) McBride! Take a trip with Reba as she celebrates our shapes!
"Clown" by Daniel Michael Thomas
"Best Short Film"
With a knock at the door Joe, not realising, allows a strange toy clown into the house. All the Clown wants to do is have a bit of fun. The clowns mischief leads Jake to believe his older brother Joe is playing tricks on him. There is only so many pranks Jake will take, he stomps on the clown on his way to confront Joe. However, the clown doesn't take being mistreated well and soon escalates his shenanigans, will the brothers pay the price?
"Bloody Night" by Cristian Suárez
Best Director - Cristian Suárez
"Sophia, where are you?" by C.A. Leduc
Best Horror
Sophia, where are you? is a short film made in 2021. It showcases the horrific found footage of a person who believes a stranger is hiding in their house.
"ANIMAL MESSENGER - A True Story" by Bonnie Norton
Best Feature Screenplay
"ANIMAL MESSENGER" is the true story about a woman who communicates telepathically with a variety of animals including Keiko the orca whale after his starring role in the movie, "Free Willy." Despite a gallant attempt to return Keiko to the wild, Lisa struggles to help Keiko be heard and convince his caretakers that Keiko does not want to be set free.
"Long Path" by António José de Lemos Ferreira
Best Short Documentary
He lived the past returning to Macao. This reencounter surprised him with a different reality. He grew up with a Chinese family in the Catholic neighbourhood of St. Lázaro. Brought unseen images from Macao, saved for sixty years.
"ANWAR" by Rosa García Loire
Best Feature Documentary
Alex Txikon’s winter ascension on Manaslu, Nepal, is the seed of a story that will bring sustainable light to two very different places: Newton, Sierra Leone, and a special school in Diamer, Pakistan. Alpinism, solidarity and renewable energy are key to this story.
"The Bagman" by Matthew Banholzer
Best Student Film
The Bagwoman contacts the CEO to help her bury the past.
"Teyuna - Lost City" by Stuart Fortune
Best Short Documentary, Best Opening Credits, Best Editing
A journey to seek out the lost city of Teyuna in the jungle of Sierra Nevada Colombia.
"All In" by Aidan Culver
Best Student Film
A high schooler struggles at his weekly poker game after breaking up with his girlfriend.

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