Best Works in February 2022 Programme
HUSH
"Best Short Film"
Synopsis
On May 10th, 1933 in Berlin, Germany Nazi Youth destroyed the Institute of Sexology and the famed Transgender Cabaret, the El Dorado was raided and turned into Hilter's Nazi Headquarters. Hush tells the story of Drick, one of the first successful transgender performers in the cabaret, who was operated on by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and the chaos that ensued in the path of the Nazi soldiers. Helene, a salon girl from the Nazi brothel, Salon Kitty, overhears the Nazi planning and escapes to warn the performers in the cabaret of the upheaval. When she arrives in the glorious cabaret she is looking for Magnus Hirschfeld only to find he is in Paris. She then confides in Drick and tells the performers that they need to get out of the cabaret as soon as possible. Drick and the performers follow their hearts and stay. This is their home! Instead of hiding from fear of certain death, the troupe decides to perform their most dangerous show ever. This is surely suicide for them, but they chose to stand up for who they are and what they believe in; leaving their legacy behind in the ashes of evil and destruction.
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The Dormouse King
"Best Feature Film", "Best Director", "Best Director Debut", "Best Actor", "Best Supporting Actor"
Synopsis
The film The Dormouse King tells about Frank who set out to learn to behave unreasonably. And on his way he finds Recep, music and words.
Frank (24) is a trainee biology and maths teacher.
He is disciplined and pretty uptight. When his girlfriend Luisa tells him about her being pregnant he doubts that he is the father. Luisa leaves him. Frank meets her by chance on the streets a few weeks later. She is obviously pregnant now and out with another guy. That encounter leaves him confused. He starts to lose his grip on things a bit and goes wandering through the city. Then one day he is caught up in the middle of a dispute between two of his neighbours.
Frank takes the side of one of them. His name is Recep. He is much older than Frank and works as a cook. What's more he plays the trumpet. Meeting Recep awakens a hunger for music in Frank. Slowly a friendship develops between Recep, a political guy who left Turkey in the eighties, and Frank, the nature-loving loner. 
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Directed by:
Marie Henin
Official Email: sednamar@yahoo.de
Best Actor
Oscar Hoppe
Best Supporting Actor
Hussi Kutlucan
America Boxed In
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best Producer"
Synopsis
America Boxed In is a story that examines a world where globalization reigns supreme. It explores the consequences of the “heart of the global economy”—the freight container. By greatly lowering the cost of moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, and the time it takes to do so, this mere metal box has delivered unprecedented prosperity, served as an agent of momentous political shifts, and forged a 21st century borderless age where insecurity prevails.
Official Website
Directed and produced by:
Casey G. Williams, Ian S. Williams
Official Email: alain.bidard@yahoo.fr
Larry Moon Boots
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Mobile Film"
Synopsis
At 74, Larry is a cyclist and loves to dance but after a bicycle injury, he gets orthopedic boots to recover and they transform his life.
Synopsis:
Larry is 74 years young and rides a bicycle everywhere, everyday...it's his only mode of transportation. He also loves to dance! Three years ago, he had a bicycle injury and decided to get orthopedic boots to help him recover. They quickly transformed his life and he became known as “Moon Boots”. Featuring music by Billboard Music Award-Winning producer MOBY & Producer at Large, ATARILOGIC.
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Directed by:
Luis Eduardo Villamizar
Insurrection
"Best Educational Film", "Best Costume Design"
Synopsis
Malta’s long and arduous process leading to statehood could only have occurred if it no longer formed part of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies and subsequently Italy. The question is how Malta found itself in this conundrum if Lampedusa forms part of the province of Agrigento in Sicily. This documentary recounts the French occupation of the Maltese Islands between 1798 till 1800.
Official Email: chrismicallef270667@gmail.com
Directed by:
Maurice Micallef
Entartete
"Best Student Film", "Best Makeup"
Synopsis
A war veteran is being interviewed by a reporter in a cafe. His memories, which are transmuted in the present, will affect the surrounding environment.
Directed by:
Nicola Barsottelli
Official Email: barsottellinicola16@gmail.com
APOCALYPSE
"Best Horror", "Best Sci-Fi"
Synopsis
In a world in ruins, economically annihilated, devastated by the germ of anger and reduced to an urban desert, a man moves alone.
He drags himself wearily, day after day, clinging to the daily routine of now useless work and the memories of his past life with his wife and daughter, reduced to death by the virus that has taken over the world.
But is it all true?
A single event, apparently insignificant, will precipitate everything into true (raw) reality.
Official Email: fdtstudio@inwind.it
Directed by:
 Roberto Loiacono
"Sushi"
"Best Actress"
Synopsis
One dead fish, a sweltering afternoon, and two estranged best friends. What could possibly go wrong?
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Directed by:
Tim Martin
The Clay and The Girl
"Best Composer", "Best Original Score", "Best Original Soundtrack"
Synopsis
Pavlos and Maria, a young married couple, face the recent loss of their daughter.
Pavlos, being a sculptor, decides to create a statue in her loving memory. He finds the model who triggers his inspiration but things go unexpectedly wrong.
Maria watches his affection for the young model growing and rings the bell for their marriage that is about to break.
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Directed by:
George Louridas
Official Email: giorgosps5@gmail.com
Best Composer
Christos Danakas
"Incognito"
"Best Cinematography", "Best No-Dialogue Film", "Best LGBTQ+ Film"
Synopsis
Our eyes don't lie: they're windows to the soul. They show the truth, no matter what face we put on. Incognito explores the reality of repressed sexuality and boxed self-love in the present-day world. Our protagonist is metaphorically trapped in an auto repair shop, with his longing to break free of the stereotype. Unfortunately, the mechanic industry is yet an archetype business for the testosterone-driven man. Maybe the broken mirror will reflect a broken soul - and a glimpse of recognition will occur before going back to a caged life as a masked woman - in a man's world.
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Directed by: 
Joey Moe
"It Lives Somewhere"
"Best Young Actress", "Best Poster"
Synopsis
This short film intends to show the horrors of mental health and the devastating affect it can have on an individual.
Official Email: ldb@live.co.uk
Directed by: 
 Lee D Barnes
"Inked in Blood
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Synopsis
A tortured man returns to the town he ran away from as a child to exact his revenge on all those who wronged him, and face the one man he fears the most - his father.
INKED IN BLOOD is a quirky, gritty horror screenplay about a tortured, tattooed young man named Aesop Quarrels. Seventeen years after escaping from a living hell, he has returned to exact his revenge on all those who wronged him. One by one he will make them pay. Not only to mend the shattered pieces of his own life, but for his mother’s suffering. Past horrors begin to unfold as he embarks on a twisting trail of carnage that will ultimately lead to Aesop facing the one man responsible for their suffering - his father, and in the process he will uncover a hidden family secret that threatens to tear him apart.

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Written by: 
Paul Corricelli
Official Email: extreamlucky14@yahoo.com
Evasion
"Best Music Video", "Best Color Editing", "Best Editing"
Synopsis
Guy is hanging in his flat. A text message from Maya urge him to join her. But, in the urban nightmare, Guy is struggling to find a way out. Will he succeed to overcome all the obstacles ? Wouldn't it be preferable to only dream about her ?
Directed by: 
 Alexandre Ortiz Hervias
Official Email: alexandre.oh@hotmail.fr
Jewels of Light Pilot
"Best Television Script
Synopsis
In the world of Upprunkna, a guilt-ridden elven warrior is tasked with the care of a powerful and untrusting royal. Together, they begin a journey that will unite the most adventurous beings of the different realms and force them to work together in order to restore the vital energies of a darkening era. But, one of them holds an ominous secret.
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Written by: 
Tessie Herrasti
Official Email: tessie.herrasti@gmail.com
Ang Motel
"Best Supporting Actress"
Synopsis
A young woman shares her motel room with an elderly Filipina woman, when she is stranded in a sleepy beach town.
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Directed by: 
Jon Matthews
Official Email: peter@peterhalpin.co.uk
Best Supporting Actress
 Virginia Soliman
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
"Best Comedy", "Best Closing Credits"
Synopsis
Two middle-aged quirky singles are at the same restaurant waiting, fretting, getting anxious to meet the other one they connected with on OK-cupid with a 90+ compatibility rating. Twenty minutes later, they can’t stand it anymore and text to see who has the better table. After his sip of liquid courage and a slip on split beer and her last swipe of lipstick, they meet. His compliment and her lack of conversation leads them to “laying all the cards on the table.” They go back and forth with his wants, her needs, their compatibilities, leading to a kiss until he declares, “I talk to my mother every day.” Among all of the outrageous revelations of themselves this is the deal breaker. His phone rings.
Official Website
Directed by: 
Bret Koehler
Love Affair in the Afternoon
"Best LGBTQ+ Film"
Synopsis
It's late afternoon when her husband is away. A married woman is seduced by a younger businessman and meets him repeatedly. She refuses and refuses, but her burning body is drowning in pleasure. Then, her husband suddenly comes home...
Directed by: 
Katsuhide Yamago
Official Email: katsuhide@nifty.com
RAGE
"Best Action Film", "Best Sport Film"
Synopsis
When Jasser joins his brother Salem at the MMA club he gets tested by Nick the MMA champion.
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Directed by: 
Abdulrahman Al Jandal
Official Email: aaljanda@gmail.com
FRAGILE
"Best Animation"
Synopsis
Music Video CGI.
This video celebrates all the incredible efforts of the medical and health personnel during the worldwide crisis of 2020 due to the Coronavirus.
The song Fragile wants to underline the human fragility as a necessary passage to find a new and better strength.
*This video was made during the quarantine.
Official Website
Directed by: 
Emiliano Leone and Max Nardari
Official Email: emilianoleone74@gmail.com
Blue Delusion
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Dance Video", "Best Young Director"
Synopsis
Novalis's unfinished novel Heinrich Vonnegut Von Ofterdingen expresses the longing for a meaning in life, which arises from the experience of mysterious meaning and is capable of overcoming death. The longing is seen as blue because it is associated with remoteness, just like loyalty. The color of blue is mysterious, romantic, and it is presented by the illusionary and lost Neptune, as depicted in Plato's ideal state that symbolizes the unattainable ideal.
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Directed by: 
Guan Fang
Official Email: 591642491gfgf@gmail.com
What Can Break This Echo
"Best Original Song"
Synopsis
The song "What can break this echo" is the theme song from the short movie "The Clay and the Girl" by George Louridas. It is a dialogue between piano and voice. It expresses the sorrow and the hard way to deal with a loss. The lyrics and the orchestration attempt to capture the metaphysical dimension of mental pain, the dark world of the movie heroes and the redemption they seek.
Official Website
Composer and pianist:
Christos Danakas
The Fronts of War
"Best War Film"
Directed by:
Thomas Gardner
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Susan - Rays of Hope
"Best Covid-19 Film"
Synopsis:
Oxford-based English Tutor Steve Ray is separated from his wife Corinne who has had to transfer to London with the MET Police during the first wave of the pandemic. The stress and turmoil of their relationship coupled by the events of the pandemic bring them further apart. Only Susan, their daughter can bring them together but Susan is faced with her own adversities as she catches the COVID-19 virus and is sent to hospital after a week's self-isolation. Susan finds the strength to recover and she comes back into her parents' lives with a greater commitment of hope and love to get them back together again and sets them back in the right direction. Together they all become a ray of hope for each other.
Official Website
Directed by:
 Neil Mukherjee
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