Best Works in April 2022 Programme
For I Am Dead
Best Short Film, Best Scenography, Best Drama, Best LGBTQ+ Film
Synopsis:
In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, extravagant life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.
Directed by:
Patricia Delso Lucas
Snorrie
"Best Supporting Actor", "Best Comedy"
Synopsis:
Absurd tragicomedy about thirty-something Freek, who is reuniting with his imaginary friend from the past, who is looking for closure.
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Directed by:
Victoria Warmerdam
Best Supporting Actor
Wim Willaert
Frankie
"Best Actor"
Synopsis:
A young man named Frankie, who is autistic, runs away from home, to prove to his family that he can make it on his own. Frankie sells Chocolate and lives in a back house, with dreams of opening up his own Chocolate store.
Directed by:
Alvaro Orlando
Official Email: acting247actor@yahoo.com
Best Actor
Alvaro Orlando
A Fire in Africa
"Best Costume Design", "Best Producer", "Best Adapted Screenplay"
Synopsis:
The OvaHimba of the Namib Desert are descendants of the Ancient Egyptians from the era of Queen Nefertiti, and was once the richest nomadic tribe in Africa. Now, however, they find themselves on the brink of extinction. Trapped in the 1904 Herero-Nama war, they settled in the godforsaken wastes of Kaokoland after fleeing genocide at the hands of the German army and marauding Nama gangs. Having grown weary of the name 'OvaHimba', which means 'beggars', reigning Chief Nguzu believes their only hope for survival lies in the hands of his grandson, Omusuverua [the protagonist].
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Directed by:
 Gerhard Uys
Floor 14 "Reprieve"
"Best Director Debut", "Best Young Actress"
Synopsis:
Documenting the fight of a cancer patient who for a brief time found relief in an unlikely caregiver.
Official Website
Directed by:
Chuck Price
Fatherland
"Best Horror", "Best Sound Design"
Synopsis:
It’s a story of a family that rent an apartment in old commercial building. Fei, descendent of a Chinese man, lives with his mother Nok and together they attend his grandfather who’s sick in bed. Fei’s father was missing in a political event in 2010. But Nok still holds the belief that one day he will return, while Fei struggles to seek a way out for his family under the growing pressure that imposed by the invisible forces…
Directed by:
Panya Zhu
Hide & Sniff
"Best Feature Film", "Best Director", "Best Composer", "Best Supporting Actress", 
Synopsis:
“Hide & Sniff” is a hard-boiled love story that challenged a new technique: focusing on the sense of smell.
The wife has a good nose, and the husband is a bit dull. The story shows the peculiarity of their love as their feelings grow apart. This is an aspirational film challenging on showing smell – something that obviously exists but cannot be actually seen.
Official Website
Directed by:
Kousuke Hishinuma
Best Supporting Actress
Haruka Imou
Precursor
"Best VFX"
Synopsis:
Gea, who survived with other refugees, lives in the shelter away from robot that hunt and kill men. From her escape she will discover her father still alive. But her tenacity will cost her the life. And from her life a hope will be born. A new robot.
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Directed by:
Marco Castiglione
Lemonade Party
"Best Thriller", "Best Editing", "Best Sci-Fi" 
Synopsis:
A scientist has discovered the “interdimensional hop.” On a mission, she lands in an alternate universe where the world feels like an idyllic 1950’s lemonade party but she soon discovers something sinister lies beneath.
Directed by:
Alexander Minas
The child is hiding in the woods
"Best Young Actor"
Synopsis:
A man driving a car receives a phone call from his son warning him that he has been kidnapped.
Directed by:
 Francesco Maffei
BELLE-ILE IN ACADIE
"Best Short Documentary"
Synopsis:
Acadians from Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France, visit Canada to meet their "cousins" with whom they share a common culture and history. Descendants of the deported Acadians by the British from their original homeland, they walk on their ancestral lands and attend the international World Acadian Congress. This film is about exile, the power of memory and finding your roots
Directed by:
Phil Comeau
Marika... why be afraid
"Best Historical Film"
Synopsis:
On the fifth day of the Battle of Crete, Saturday 24 of May 1941, three Germans pass by the village of Kakopetros in the Municipality of Platanias, Chania, and approach the home of Antonis Loufardakis, located next to a creek below the central street.
Without any reason at all, they enter their home and kill with automatic weapons five women and a two-year old child.
Five-year old Maria witnessed everything, while remained hidden under the bed. Maria shares with us her story and remembers her father saying: Marika… why be afraid?!.
Directed by:
Matthaios Frantzeskakis
Praying the Hours
"Best Cinematography", "Best Color Editing", "Best Original Score"
Synopsis:
"Praying The Hours" uses story to reconsider the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer observed by the Abrahamic faith traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The film tells the story of a day by imagining each prayer as a character. The Traveling Man is hit by a car. During the time it takes for him to cross over from this life to the next, he visits eight people—seeing them with new eyes. He learns that eternity is not something that happens after you die, but a river that flows under the surface of ordinary life.
Directed by:
Lauralee Farrer
THE BADGER GAME
"Best Student Film"
Synopsis:
Two bodies lost in the summer steam. In one of the hostel rooms in the mountain city, a lonely art history professor is suddenly obsessed with a painting by a young girl, not aware of what is waiting for him...
Directed by:
ZIJIE ZHOU
Ichnos
"Best Animation"
Synopsis:
At dawn, a hunter follows the huge tracks of an animal all over a continent. At sunset, he loses the tracks at the top of a hill, so he decides to shout to catch the mysterious animal's attention. The answer outgrows any of his expectations.
Official Website
Directed by:
Simon Giraud
12 Shades of Grey
"Best Educational Film"
Synopsis:
To have followed mainstream media for best on four decades, together with countless films and
television programs relating to the Great White Shark, its no surprise that the overwhelming
public and social sentiment is one of fear and loathing.
In a similar light to foreign and domestic governments indoctrinating the populations to despise a
supposed enemy, the Great White has become the common foe of people throughout the globe.
There appears to be a gap between public sentiment and the views of scientist and shark
enthusiasts across the board. The question remains, how to we bridge this gap?
This is where Andrew Fox and his family legacy, along with incredible partners and crew come in.
Aboard their maritime Vessel Rodney Fox, guests, scientists, Hollywood film makers and pretty
much anyone get a fins and all experience diving in secure cages with the Great Whites.
Having the worlds only bottom cage and filled with decades and generations of knowledge, the
ANZ Chapter of the Explorers Club were to embark on a journey that was hoped to make a
difference in changing public perception of this majestic and grossly misunderstood creature.
One cannot gain a true appreciate and understanding without firstly experiencing it first hand.
12 Shades of Grey is the story of this expedition and the first hand, uncut views of those
adventurers that looked below the waves and surfaced with a new appreciation for the Great White Shark
Directed by:
Anthony Gordon
ROCK-A-BILLY
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Synopsis:
A college nerd is possessed by an enraged spirit and used as a tool for bloody vengeance.
Official Website
Written by:
BOBBY BAHAM
Nocturnal
"Best Original Screenplay"
Synopsis:
A visionary theatre director, who nearly drowned when he was a boy, becomes fascinated with a woman who wanders through neighborhoods at night, stealing into people's yards and swimming in their pools. When he tries to unlock her secrets he comes face to face with the enigmas of his own past. A psychological mystery in the classic Hitchcock tradition.
Written by:
 Peter Hardy
Cold Tommy
"Best Short Screenplay", "Best Poster"
Synopsis:
Cold Tommy recounts the suicide of 12-year-old Thomas Bartlett Stuart through the eyes of his best friend, Zach Mellon.
Written by:
Janice Walker
The Theory of Pigeons
"Best Photography"
Synopsis:
Life on street and beyond.
Photography by:
Abdullah Al Kandari
Art in crisis
"Best COVID-19 Film"
Synopsis:
From 12th of March to 31st of May 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic was declared in Slovenia.
It was a time to question everything that had previously seemed granted to us.
Including art.
Directed by:
Irena Gatej
FOR ONE
"Best Black & White Film"
Synopsis:
Two employees of a private bank subtly plan their revenge against a client, a pretentious and unscrupulous man. But things don't go as planned...
Directed by:
 Mathieu Rivolier
Where the Noise Ends.
"Best Experimental Film", "Best No-Dialogue Film"
Synopsis:
Two strangers are bound by their mental illnesses.
Directed by:
Lee D Barnes
THE VOICE OF THE PAST
"Best Symbolic Film"
Synopsis:
Gilgamesh, who is in the place of 2000/4000 BC, is the hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is the first written text. He grieves deeply after the death of his dearest friend Enkidu. Sinemis, who is the character of today's 2021 modern women, has a successful career and a happy life. Until all her family in a car accident one night. We see two different characters coming together in the intersecting life and the end reached in the scenario.
Official Website
Directed by:
 SETENAY URUÇ
It's Always Been You!
"Best Original Soundtrack", "Best Opening Credits"
Synopsis:
A tapestry; the spiritual, the material, and the digital. On the hottest day of summer, the neighborhood is boiling.
Official Website
Directed by:
Andrew McCardle
blue earth
"Best ECO Work", "Best Dance Video"
Synopsis:
This short film is a nature dance film. In the film the dancers connect with the 4 elements of nature. Body painting and movements of the dancers let them become one with nature. Fire, water, air and earth become inspiring dancing moments in the film. The nature itself - a work of art. The film wants to give a different view on nature. An inner view - a view that connects with nature. It is a homage to nature. It invites the viewer to pause, to listen, to immerse, to empathise, to find back.... Only when we understand that we also consist of the 4 elements fire, water, air and earth, we will be able to enter into a healthy and sustainable relationship with the earth.
Official Website
Directed by:
Petra Eischeid
Chaotic justice
"Best Action Film"
Synopsis:
[A peaceful and stable society - they have never seen it before.]
The film uses Taiwan's international status as the protagonist of a special secret intelligence unit that no one knows, and speaks for us. Transform other countries' perceptions and behaviors of Taiwan into a storyline, strung together into an action-drama movie.
Official Website
Directed by:
Hsin-Che Cheng
Welcome to the Galaxy
"Best Romance"
Synopsis:
Falling in love is like flying through space
Official Website
Directed by:
Suz Mawer
SHOT DOWN: Howard Snyder and the B-17 Susan Ruth

"Best War Film"

Synopsis:
This documentary short is based on the awarding winning book SHOT DOWN: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth written by Steve Snyder. After being shot down by by German fighters over occupied Belgium on February 8, 1944, Steve's father Howard was missing in action for seven months but evaded capture. He was hidden by members of the Belgian Underground for several months and then joined the French Resistance to fight against the Germans. The film is a tribute to Howard, members of the 8th Air Force who fought the air war over Europe during World War II, and to the courageous Belgian patriots who risked their lives to help downed airmen. It also includes Steve's amazing discovery of and resulting friendship with Hans Berger, the German Luftwaffe pilot who shot down the B-17 Susan Ruth, and at the same time, who was shot down by the gunners on Howard's bomber crew.
Directed by:
Michael R Mazur
The eternal asker
"Best Feature Documentary"
Synopsis:
Portrait film about Lajos J. Takács who left Hungary in 1970. He settled in Sweden and there he founded the Layota Art Studio which provided scholarships to more than hundred Hungarian artists. At a time when Hungarian artists could not enter the world because of the Iron Curtain. It was a one-man revolution against communism at the time. After his return to Hungary in 1990. he compiled a book that collected the works created within the Szentendre-based Lajos Vajda Studio, and also he was the creator of the art project called A Subway Train Emerging from the Ground located in Csákberény. His personality, and peculiar philosophy, his diversified interest and constant desire for freedom through his love of his homeland created a continously expanding huge oeuvre that is important not only for Hungarian society. The film set out to show that.
Directed by:
Ernő Nagy
Joey Skaggs: Fish Condos
"Best Web Series"
Synopsis:
Since the 60s, artist Joey Skaggs has used outrageous tactics to make social political commentary. In 1983, fed up with urban gentrification and the destruction of the environment, he created “Fish Condos”, better homes for upwardly mobile guppies, and forever changed the status quo of fish tanks.
This short documentary is the fifth in the ongoing series, Joey Skaggs: Satire and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond.
Official Website
Directed by:
Judy Drosd and Joey Skaggs
Marloe - Remember Me
"Best Music Video"
Synopsis:
A young boy dreams of traveling to a faraway place only to realise his dreams.
Directed by:
 Michael S.U. Hudson
The Ken Zacher Story Trailer
"Best Trailer"
Synopsis:
Trailer for the feature length Documentary
Official Website
Directed by:
Chuck Price
Nirvana
"Best Original Song"
Synopsis:
"I know not of the maker's intent,
in heaven belong, or to ugly hell sent.
Cup, lover, and music next to the field
exalts more than heaven's promise"
"How sweet is mortal Sovranty!"—think some:
Others—"How blest the Paradise to come!"
Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest;
Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!
"before you vanished from this world,
drink, once drunk sparrows are gone"
Official Website
Composed by:
Amir Hossein Nouri
Mel's Kitchen
"Best Mobile Film"
Synopsis:
"Mel's Kitchen" is based on my true stories, while living in Hell's Kitchen, New York City in 1982. These stories, told by 5 women are about the challenges we face and the choices we make.
Directed by:
Melanie Futorian
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