Best Works in September - November 2022 Program
The Sky Was Pink
"Best Short Film"
Synopsis:
Despite the fear of being rejected by friends, family and loved ones, Yana tries to find a way out of the adult-industry when she is at a crossroad in her life.
Directed by:
Jules Comes
Sins of the Father
"Best Feature Film", Best Director", Best Young Actress", "Best Original Score", "Best Producer",  Best Horror", "Best Supporting Actor", "Best Supporting Actress",  "Best Trailer", "Best Poster"
Synopsis:
After the death of his father, Aden and his mother, Sarah, find themselves responsible for the sale of his family home - a place they thought they’d left behind. When Sarah’s friends arrive to help, the task seems almost manageable. However, as they clear out the house, they uncover secrets in Sarah’s past and the sinister nature of the cultivated community Aden was raised in…. And his father’s family is not so eager to let the sins of the past go unpunished.
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Directed by:
Vanessa M. H. Powers
The Day, at the Beach
"Best Cinematography"
Synopsis:
A coming-of-age family drama story about a teenage girl who must reckon with her relationship with her parents when she uncovers her father's deepest secret during his well-intention trip to visit her.
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Directed by:
"Cindy" Di Xin
Voices
"Best Web Series, "Best Young Actor"
Synopsis:
“Voices” tells the story of Thiago, a software engineer, creator of an audio dating application called Voices. After starting a relationship with his first user, a young Spanish woman named Eva, his darkest side emerges, to the point of being left alone. This situation of loneliness leads him to relive episodes from his childhood, to distort reality and to create an artificial intelligence based on the voice of his former great love.
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Directed by:
Mauricio J. Irigoyen
KATAGMAN
"Best Short Documentary", "Best Historical Film", "Best Actress"
Synopsis:
A film I have written and co-directed in celebration of the 450th year of founding of Oton, a first class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. Founded in 1572, Oton is considered the oldest town in Panay Island.
It is a rich colourful film showcasing the history of Oton thru music, dance, Arts and theatre performance. ...from the death of Datu Paiburong and the golden mask, pagan beliefs and rituals, the Advent of Christianity and Babaylans resistance, various folkdances to modern dance. Katagman the movie has everything for you to enjoy!
Also, it is a film written, directed, performed and filmed in Oton by Ogtonganons themselves!
Directed by:
Ramon Castillanes Tenoso and Peter D Deocos
Babu & I
"Best Drama"
Synopsis:
A sudden disappearance of a mother calls into question a relationship between a child and her teddy bear.
Directed by:
Randika Perera
Happy Pills
"Best Actor", "Best Editing", "Best Closing Credits"
Synopsis:
Malthe is depressed. His sister has moved in with him as she has no place to live and her annoying boyfriend has almost moved in too. Malthe just wants to be alone. But when he gets involved in a violent episode in a kiosk, he has to make a choice... Will he be passive as always - or will he act?
https://towboat.dk/lykkepiller/
Directed by:
Andreas Hentze Madsen and Mathias Sørensen
Wither With Her
"Best Experimental Film"
Synopsis:
Wither with her is an experimental short film, revolving around a couple, Ivan and Kayla, who are heroin addicts who have overdosed and died. The film follows them through their final days, blurring the lines between documentary and classic narrative, to create something uniquely surreal.
Directed by:
Jason W Hammond
GBG Crane Memory
"Best 360 Film"
Synopsis:
A 8 min VR-film about the Gothenburg Shipyard history dramatized in 3D. The crane operator Kerstin take us down memory lane at Lindholmen's shipyard shadows, when we slip and her whole life passes before our eyes.
Based on a true story, from Gothenburg's shipyard era, when everything fell into place...
Official Website
Directed by:
 Jonas Myrstrand
The Onara Marshes Park
"Best Educational Film"
Synopsis:
A journey through the Onara Marshes Park, highlighting the naturalistic aspects and describing what can be found in these habitats with a little attention, as well as highlighting some little-known historical aspects of this place, home of the storical Ezzelini family.
Official Website
Directed by:
Gianluca Doremi
Inside an Artist's Mind
"Best Original Soundtrack", "Best Composer"
Synopsis:
Inside an artist's mind shows the dark side of being a young upcoming artist in the music industry. RUBKIN portrays a more fragile and human character, who is slowly crushed by the weight of being idolized. By utilizing spoken word, atmospheric pads and colors, the short movie takes the viewer on a journey about substance abuse, anxiety, mental disorder and the danger of fame for young artists.
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Directed by:
Joanna Lea Adams
I Lost The Way
"Best Animation"
Synopsis:
Two parallel monologues.
Two men of different ages, talk about their lives and what haunts them.
One, almost middle-aged, feels he has lost his way. Full of anxiety and metaphysical agony, he desperately seeks to find the path of return that will lead him to his paternal home and the years of innocence. At the point where he started his impasse, so far, wandering. The route looks like a strange dream. People, animals, machines, change form, properties, and actions in a nightmarish cluster full of paradoxical images, charged with passions and unacknowledged guilt.
The other, an elderly man, is nearing the end of his journey. Locked up in a small room, isolated, accompanied by memories and ghosts from the past, he has stopped being anxious. He watches the outside world through the window, with the same stoic calm that he also watches what happens in the strange circus that performs in his small room. Everything that his imagination, memory, and sensitive psyche puts in front of him. With laconic sentences that are more reminiscent of oracles, he raises questions about an absurd and perhaps futile world. An almost nightmarish world, the world that spent its life vulnerable to the alterations of time.
They are both the same person. The poet M. Sachtouris in different phases of his life. The questions he asks are not philosophical declarations or logical findings, but images. Images that seem to come from a dream and end up in his poetic iconography.
At the end of the imaginary journey, the poet "finds", among the ruins, his mother, and the room he recognizes as the home of his childhood. He returns to the womb without finding an answer to what tortured him along the way, since "there is no sanguine answer" because everything "is a vast void rather like a tomb".
Directed by:
Panagiotis Rappas
La Bi-Vencia
"Best Director Debut"
Synopsis:
Drawing on images from a non-existent border between Santa Elena, Chihuahua, and Big Bend National Park in Texas. La Bi-vencia explores the reunion of a ghost town next to the Rio Grand that was abandoned after 9/11.
Directed by:
Mariana Gongora and Analaura Cárdenas
John's Journey
"Best Feature Screenplay"
Synopsis:
Written by:
Paul Hodgson
Delta
"Best Music Video"
Synopsis:
Delta tells the story
of a love that wants to be reciprocal but is not
in its reality.
The two characters of the song do not understand each other
and live in a kind of dissonance.
The main character, therefore, walks through the story retracing his history and leaves room for mystery as to the interpretation that his interlocutor will make of it.
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Directed by:
Paul Hodgson
The Sister's Seance
"Best Student Film
Synopsis:
Two sister’s conduct a seance in order to find the truth surrounding the mysterious death of their younger sister.
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Directed by:
Christopher John Desiderio
Paper Weights
"Best Young Director" - Matheus Abrami Sansão
Synopsis:
We all carry different experiences throughout life, which bring us yearnings, discoveries, joys and sorrows, all of which become a great baggage that we carry and learn to deal with, weights that can be difficult to carry or easy to bend. In Paper Weights we follow the character's trajectory from his first steps, through the evolution of self-knowledge, thus discovering the best way to take his experiences with him.
Official Instagram
Directed by:
Tiago Eugenio dos Santos and Matheus Abrami Sansão
Ouverture
"Best Dance Video"
Synopsis:
A teenage girl struggles with her thoughts as they battle she seeks guidance in the House of God.
Directed by:
Ioannis Koutroubis
An Ever After Drama
"Best Romance"
Synopsis:
An Aspiring Hollywood star is swept away in a fairytale day with the worlds youngest French billionaire as she begin to get a taste of his world and ponder the possibility for something more.
Official Website
Directed by:
 Michelle Lynn
Blue Scallywags
"Best Feature Documentary", "Best Sport Film"
Synopsis:
Why does someone become a football fan? Is it about excitement, passion, being in a group, or a club's unique history? What drives football fanatics? Cezary Grzesiuk spent a decade filming the lives of supporters of the Ruch Chorzów club. These many years of work allowed him to photograph the close-knit community of football fanatics. Not from the side-lines, not from behind a wall of police officers, but from the very heart of the ultras sector. This enabled him to show the brighter and darker side of the world of football fans in Poland and elsewhere. Themes in the film include the friendship between fans of Atletico Madrid and Ruch Chorzów and the hooligan code passed on from father to son. Penetrating different supporter groups, the director lets fans and fanatics speak, in an effort to find out who modern-day football supporters really are.
Official Website
Directed by:
Cezary Grzesiuk
SVEN
"Best Original Screenplay"
Synopsis:
A 6-foot tall humanoid-primate from the Amazon rainforest, called a “chilamasman,” the last of its species-- and an intense, deeply troubled, mentally unstable American adult male are both held captive by a U.S. government-funded program performing a psychological experiment, forcing the two of them to live together inside a single, maximum security containment habitat— and replica— of a modern-day condominium apartment.
Written by:
Jesse Dorian
The Scent of a Killer
"Best Thriller"
Synopsis:
After the death of Harrison Hudson, Sophie Hudson is left with nothing but memories of her father and a special gift he was going to give her for her 15th birthday. Struggling to find the courage to open the gift, Sophie decides to finally unwrap the present on her 16th birthday which reveals a copy of the last film her father ever wrote. Having never seen the film, Sophie takes a different perspective while watching the film and soon discerns the underlying message her father has left her, using the clues left behind to solve the mystery behind his death.
Official Website
Directed by:
Luke Mascioli and Sam Sungmin Lee
Deep clean water
"Best ECO Work"
Synopsis:
Jacob (30) is a Lithuanian artist who hitchhiked from Kaunas (Lithuania) to Lausanne (Switzerland) to meet Howey Ou, the Chinese Greta Thunberg. He is writing a master's thesis on Chinese climate change policy. He would like to have Howey's point of view. In Switzerland, he discovers that she is on a hunger strike and decides to do the same to support her.
Official Website
Directed by:
Kevin Rumley
ROOFTOP
"Best Dark Comedy", "Best Duet"
Synopsis:
Two strangers meet at the rooftop of a 20-story hotel building, both with the intention to commit suicide.
Directed by:
 Nevena Nikolova and Petar Gerzilov
Evening Ritual
"Best LGBTQ+ Film"
Synopsis:
‘Evening Ritual’ depicts the love relationship between two elderly men and the distance they must cope with after one has moved to a nursing home.
Directed by:
Nanna Hauge Kristensen and Ruth Storm
Cinema Rebel
"Best Comedy", "Best Mobile Film"
Synopsis:
Daisy Blaine is an ordinary small town girl who moved to Hollywood to act in movies. After following the normal path of auditions, she realizes the film industry is overloaded with cash grabs, remakes, sequels, knock offs and lacks “original” inspirational movies. Using the power of the smartphone in her hand she quits auditioning to transform herself into a one person film crew and goes on a mission to create groundbreaking hit movies using only herself, her phone and a handful of other actors. Daisy’s journey of self realization unfolds over the course of her making 6 short films. To make ends meet along the way she works as a webcam girl and quickly realizes the consequences of sacrificing spiritual values to sharpen filmmaking skills. Subsequently through out her journey she is guided by God, her best friend, Trent, and Dr. Silk, her inexperienced psychiatrist. They tell her everything she does not want to hear but needs to hear… not only to become an extraordinary filmmaker but to become an extraordinary human being.
Official Website
Directed by:
Tessa Farrell
The Seventh Seal
"Best Symbolic Film"
Synopsis:
Disillusioned Knight Antonius returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Antonius sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling player Mia and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives. But Death is always around the corner, biding his time. Knight Antonius cannot escape his fate, and the two begin their game.
Official Website
Directed by:
Jacek Krawczyk
Here's My Card
"Best Short Screenplay"
Synopsis:
When Fredo is making his exit from what appears to be a bank robbery, he’s unquestionably in the line sight of a police officer moving towards him. He starts a conversation with Carol in a bid to make it look as if he’s actually hitting on her and therefore could not possibly be the same man who’s wanted by the state. Carol, intelligent, flirtatious, headstrong, and mischievous, turns out to be quite the conversationalist. When she asks for his number at the end of their encounter, our Fredo is taunted by a difficult decision; Engage further with what is now a witness and risk all, or risk never seeing the alluring woman again.
Official Website
Written by:
Oscar Ballyvolane
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