Best Works in July 2022 Programme
Incidental
"Best Short Film", "Best Thriller"
Synopsis:
Members of a broken family go to a motel to work out their differences.
Directed by:
Dustin Nowlin
Air Over New Skin
"Best Dance Video"
Synopsis:
Dance film utilizing tulle & industrial fans. The devolution of the elevated balletic movement to the grounded modern echoes the exposure and vulnerability of shedding old paradigms to build a new ideology.
Directed by:
Megan Bradberry
Official Website
A MESSAGE TO HEAVEN
"Best Original Screenplay"
Synopsis:
ADRIAN IS A BOY WHO HAS A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AND IS LEFT QUADRIPLEGIC , FROM THIS MOMENT ON HE HAS TO ADAPT TO HIS NEW LIFE.
Official Website
Written by:
Ana Navasquillo Lorda
Official Instagram
Above Her Lips
"Best LGBTQ+ Film", "Best Romance"
Synopsis:
An Actress falls love with university student. Her pursuit of being of the best and highly desired actresses means she must give up her relationship with her lover to instead keep heterosexuality which can help her in her career. However, she refrains from resorting to such measures, provoking the university girl to end things between them instead.
Directed by:
Linda Wong
Official Instagram
Portrait of a Writer
"Best No-Dialogue Film"
Synopsis:
A writer projects her fears and motivations into her written character. When that character realizes that he is just a manifestation of the writer's subconscious, he decides to take control of the story, leading to a journey inside the writer's innermost self.
Directed by:
 Beatriz Cachulo
Past Future Journey Nile
"Best Original Score", "Best Historical Film"
Synopsis:
Behold the Ancient Egyptian temples along the Nile in their ascending order of awareness and enlightenment; revealing their holistic wisdom and spiritual destiny. "Past Future Journey Nile" is composed from a vintage photo collection, a slideshow travelogue that has been transformed through specials effects into an audiovisual meditation on Ancient Egypt’s sacred vision of our world. Their gods are symbolically portrayed as aspects of the Spirit in Nature and along with their distinctive temples speak to both our rational and intuitive faculties. Traveling through their land as well as their history, philosophy and metaphysics, "Past Future Journey Nile" explores the deep influence of Ancient Egypt on Western civilization and its special meaning for us today and for tomorrow.
Official Website
Directed by:
Mike Mannetta
THE LAST SUPPER
"Best Opening Credits"
Synopsis:
Bon appétit and let the clashes begin!
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Directed by:
Johan Humes
RUE
"Best Student Film", "Best Young Director"
Synopsis:
A middle-aged daughter deals with the aftermath of her traumatic childhood.
Official Website
Directed by:
Casey Eldridge
Dissociating Vulnerability
"Best Feature Film", "Best Drama", "Best Actor", "Best Actress"
Synopsis:
The main character "Shinya" lost her mother in a traffic accident. A woman appears in front of Shinya. The woman can only be seen by Shinya. Fairy? Ghost? Shinya must know.
Official Website
Directed by:
Nobuo Nakagawa
A Figure in Red
"Best Short Screenplay"
Synopsis:
Revenge only leads to a murder most foul.
When a wealthy arts collector is found brutally killed. Sergeant Louise Brown and Constable Shefaz Amin are embroiled into a story of secrets and a mysterious figure lurking in the woods leading to a series of murders and a tale of deceit.
Written by:
Jas Kaur
Motherland
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best Director", "Best Producer", "Best Editing"
Synopsis:
It took 106 years before the United States formally recognized the Armenian Genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. On April 24,2021, President Joe Biden became the first US president to officially recognize the Armenian genocide and to recommit preventing such an atrocity from occurring again. Tragically, history is repeating itself with Turkey's ongoing genocidal attack and ethnic cleansing against Armenians as we've witnessed recently in Artsakh. "Motherland" tells the story of this ongoing tragic chapter through the lens of Armenian-American journalist and LGBTQ+ activist, Vic Gerami.
Official Website
Directed, Produced by:
Vic Gerami
Uhm
"Best Comedy"
Synopsis:
Some are made to create masterpieces. Others try their best.
Official Website
Directed by:
Léo Lebesgue
De-Fault
"Best Horror"
Synopsis:
Some are made to create masterpieces. Others try their best.
Official Instagram
Directed by:
Gennaro Monforte
Dear Brother
"Best War Film", "Best Cinematography", "Best Director Debut", "Best Poster"
Synopsis:
Albert, an English soldier, with a rifle in his hand, has just shot an enemy. In a panic, he runs away, in the direction of a forest, where he hopes to find relief. While the images of the atrocity he has just committed fill his head, footsteps herald the arrival of Theo, a German soldier wounded in the leg. After a game of glances with the gun pointed, the two succumb to the true humanity of war and help each other. Theo reveals that he ran away with his brother but that the two split up while they ran away. Albert's blood freezes convinced that he has killed Theo's brother.
Official Website
Directed by:
Matteo Papetti
Burbujillo
"Best Animation"
Synopsis:
Baby growing in a womb, since the conception, and how he gets affected by the outside.
Official Website
Directed by:
Ursula Echeverria
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