Best Works in January 2022 Programme
The First Bath
"Best Short Film', "Best Young Actress", "Best Director Debut"
Synopsis
María is a teenager who lost her mother a year ago, during this time she has had to occupy her role. He realizes when he travels on vacation that even his friends have changed and he cannot go back to his childhood. She is trapped and wants to escape.
Official Website
Directed by:
Carlos Puig Mundó
Official Email: vancarl@gmail.com
Best Young Actress
Noa Flores
UNION
"Best Feature Film", "Best Director", "Best LGBTQ+ Film"
Synopsis
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. With the help of Indians hiding in the mountains 'Henry' is reunited with the widow, Virginia, who saved his life at the battle of Antietam and marries her to rescue Virginia from an unfortunate arranged betrothal. They keep each others secrets and forge an unusual family. It is the alchemy of gratitude.
Official Website
Directed by:
Whitney Hamilton
Official Email: whithamilton.wh@gmail.com
Opal
"Best Animation"
Synopsis
Once upon a time a magic kingdom where summer lasted forever and where the animals and the inhabitants were immortal. The source of all magic was a young princess called Opal. Legends said that her joy would bring wonders and prosperity to the kingdom. But her sadness would only bring chaos and darkness…
Directed by:
Alan Bidard
Official Email: alain.bidard@yahoo.fr
Em Hassoun
"Best Short Documentary"
Synopsis
A portrait into the lives of Em Hassoun and her husband, my grandparents. It tells stories of their mariage, lives and past experiences together.
Directed by:
Elie Sahyoun
Official Instagram
When Life Hands You a Pandemic
"Best Feature Documentary, "Best COVID-19 Film"
Synopsis
An Artisan perspective on Covid-19. Meet three Okanagan artisans, a fine art painter, a beekeeper and a forager to see how they were affected by the Canadian pandemic lockdown and how they innovated as a result of the pressure to survive. What beauty did they discover despite Covid shutdowns? What innovations grew from Covid limitations? What opportunities did they discover when Covid changed everything?
Directed by:
Renee Braun
Official Instagram
Watermelon Sugar Land
"Best Short Screenplay"
Synopsis
In New York City, Melissa manipulates her way into a group of spiritually inclined individuals to appear more holy to the object of her lust, Miyamoto.
Written by:
Daniel Noah Goldberg and Catherine Weingarten
Official Email: danielnoahg@gmail.com
What Remains
"Best Music Video", "Best VFX", "Best Cinematography", "Best Scenography", "Best Sci-Fi", "Best Poster
Synopsis
"What Remains" is a narrative-driven music video about a renowned Quantum Physicist who disappears after an alleged routine test in a research facility. His brother, left behind, struggles to keep his sanity while in pursuit of finding his twin brother. After almost going mad, he has a sneaking suspicion and tries the impossible... unaware that the effect might be the cause for his brother’s disappearance. Because everything is interconnected.
Official Website
Directed by:
Stefan Fitzner
Official Email: stefan@releasemeiamrestless.com
"The Dinner Party"
"Best Thriller", "Best Color Editing", "Best Sound Design", "Best Dark Comedy"
Synopsis
A group of friends enjoy a dinner party until one of them wakes up in the middle of a horror film with no way out.
Official Website
Directed by:
 Jennifer A Davis
Official Email: jenniferdavis520@gmail.com
"LIFESHOT"
"Best Producer"
Synopsis
An assignment to complete, an enigmatic woman and a professional called to carry it out. “Life shot” that touch the souls of each of them in a mysterious mountain chalet. But fate plays mockingly with one of the two.
Directed and produced by:
Roberto Loiacono
Official Email: fdtstudio@inwind.it
"Kevin and Winnie"
"Best Drama", "Best Actress"
Synopsis
True love is defined as one truly beloved or loving. Kevin and Winnie take us on a journey of soulmates whose love is tested through a discovery of loss.
IMDb page
Directed by: 
George Elias
Best Actress
Brenna Daly
"KUTOO"
"Best Experimental Film", "Best Young Director"
Synopsis
Louze an actress. Through the theater, she gradually rebuilds herself from the violence suffered during her adolescence. In search of the role that will take off his career. She accepts the role of a woman assaulted out of a room. This will plunge her back into a horrible painful memory. All those scenes of violence. Faced with her gruff, the latter must face her demons and overcome her past.
Directed by: 
Armel Mboumba
Official Email: armelmboumba24@gmail.com
"Downing The Anchors"
"Best Student Film", "Best Sport Film"
Synopsis
A short documentary telling the story of the David of Middle Tennessee State University taking on the Goliath that is SEC Champions Vanderbilt University.
Directed by: 
Nathanial House
Official Email: extreamlucky14@yahoo.com
WHY? You can be the next one!
"Best Actor"
Synopsis
The film “WHY? You can be the next one!” is about the terrible experiences of the student Jan Herzog during his graduation year. He is experiencing a martyrdom of bullying, dissing, coercion, ignorance, extreme violence and sexual dominated power games. These perfidious events have made him go beyond despair and let him fall into an abyss of hopelessness throughout history.
The story is based on real events and, despite the fictional narrative, is to be regarded as an absolutely realistic event. A film with a very socially critical background; startling, shocking and scary at the same time.
Official Website
Directed by: 
Thorsten Kramer
Official Instagram
Best Actor
Thorsten Kramer
Return To Normality
"Best Original Soundtrack"
Synopsis
This is a story of Angeliki, a young Greek woman, who left London, in order to spend the weeks of confinement at the exact opposite end of the city and specifically in a very small village in the mountains of Greece. Her lifestyle violently changed and the people she met they brought her face to face with the primitive nature of her lifestyle. Primitive as a creation, as a way of living and as an erotic existence.
Directed by: 
Kostas Kolimenos
Harvest
"Best Comedy"
Synopsis
Besides getting a job, 42 year old Harvey has little else to do with his time but become the next big thing on the internet. So he's created himself an online persona: rapper and music producer DJ Harvest, oozing seduction, charm and a unique way with words.
He's got local dullard Paul, recruited for his ownership of a half decent camera, to film him in the most awesome... no, rad... no, sick... whatever... vlogumentray of Harvey's rise to to fame.
Who can't fall in love with DJ Harvest...?
Official Website
Directed by: 
Peter Halpin
Official Email: peter@peterhalpin.co.uk
A Witcher's Tale - The Lost Souls
"Best Action Film"
Synopsis
A Witcher from the Bear School, named Chaim, finds himself facing the collateral damages of an endless war, in a village abandoned by the Nilfgaardians, where a curse remains. This adventure will confront him to his past and his true nature.
Official Website
Directed by: 
Gabriel Sengès
Official Email: gabriel.senges@hotmail.fr
Here's Lookin' at You, Kid
"Best Black & White Film"
Synopsis
In wartorn Casablanca, anything can happen when two lovers reunite in this spoof of the classic film.
Official Facebook
Directed by: 
Karen Goldfarb
Official Email: karengoldfarb@aol.com
A new place called home
"Best Web Series"
Synopsis
For many different reasons, people change their lives completely and find themselves starting over… in a rural area! Whether they are refugees or want to leave the hustle and bustle of the city behind or fulfill their dreams of becoming BnB hosts, chefs, or farmers, they all have a story!
Set in Prince Edward County, Ontario, this series of documentary shorts explore the reasons, challenges, and personal resiliency behind these inspiring life changes and shows how to build a life in a new place called home.
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Directed by: 
Chrystelle Maechler, Andreas Krätschmer
Official Email: maechlerchrystelle@gmail.com
Sighs
"Best Original Song"
Synopsis
On the touching notes of the musical piece "Pour la Lune" a girl walks through the bare streets of Venice, plagued by Covid-19.
Alone, deprived of every contact with the surrounding world, the main character dwells on the bittersweet memories of a past too close to be forgotten, yet helplessly fading away. The vivid memory of the just-ended relationship lingers in her mind, despite being nothing more than a mere recollection, vanished from reality.
The city on water feels grey and hollow, and is home to the young girl’s lonesome feelings, whose nostalgia flows out of the notes of a song with no words.
Directed by: 
Iago Riet
Official Email: iago.tognon11@gmail.com
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