"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: Simone Albano

• simonealbano.0@gmail.com

"Best Short Screenplay"

► Written by: Simone Albano

• simonealbano.0@gmail.com

"Party? Do we have to do that now?" "Yes!" says Alexander Dettke.
In 2013, he and his team founded the music and culture festival "Wilde Möhre" in Lusatia. A space that makes encounters possible without the conventions of everyday life. It's not just about dancing and partying. It's about a place that inspires change.
Due the pandemic, this cultural experiment is about to come to an end. But Alex doesn't think so...
Patrick Protz and Dennis Groß accompanied Alexander Dettke and his team from the first lockdown in spring 2020 until summer 2021. A time full of uncertainties, extraordinary encounters and many thoughts about the value that music, dance and culture has for all of us - on carefree but even more on gloomy days.

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Covid-19 Film"
"Best Original Score"
"Best Original Soundtrack"
"Best Sound Design"

• Directed by: Patrick Protz, Dennis Groß
• trickpat@gmx.de
• Official Website

A conversation between a Soul and a Spirit about previous lives when they were incarnated in different bodies while being on Earth.

"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Original Score"
"Best Poster"

► Directed by: Francesco Samas Tribuzio

• tribuziofrancesco@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

A septuagenarian and his 8-year-old grandson are isolated in a small village in Gaspesie. The grandfather's Alzheimer progresses and feel a certain attachment to his love, his wife, a memory that lasts. She stays in his mind, while the rest crumbles. The grandson tries his best to be a support, a safe place, for his grandfather as the film of his memory slowly burns.

"Best Experimental Film"

• Directed by: Thomas Soto
• tbelangersoto@gmail.com

A minor ethnic group, Miao, in Guizhou, China, holds butterfly as their totem and applies the symbol in their embroidery. 

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by: Yuqian Cao

• yuqiangabriella@gmail.com
• Official Website

When WWI is abiut to end, Robert finds the love of his life, Vera. But their meeting does not go as one may expect.

"Best Romance"

• Directed by: Krzysztof Pietroszek
• krzysztofvr@gmail.com

When an affair goes wrong, two lovers deal with the aftermath.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Young Director"

► Directed by: Daniel Lewis Wilson

• daniellewiswilson@outlook.com

Thomas Machliar is a young and successful writer. He is about to close a great deal with Hollywood. Hollywood wants to film its trilology. However, the third book is still missing.
Time is running out and Thomas hasn't finished the third book yet. It turns out that Thomas is not the actual writer, but that his father is the real author of his books. Thomas vehemently denies that. A fanatical fan of Thomas doesn't believe him and feels cheated.
The fan tries to shoot Thomas at an event. But it only hits him on the shoulder. All this excitement leads to his father having a stroke and having to go to the hospital. He can no longer write for his son. Desperate, Thomas believes the deal with Hollywood is off. But he finds out that his father has already written the third book and the manuscripts are in his office. Thomas is saved. The deal takes place, so there's a big party going on in Los Angeles.
At this party, Thomas learns that his father has died. Desperate, Thomas flies home again. He decides to finally tell the truth and writes a script about himself and his father called
"Machliar".

"Best Feature Screenplay"

• Written by: Robert Kouba
• robert@kouba.ch

An inspiring and insightful journey to over 20 countries, opening your eyes and heart to Autistic individuals. Learn about their challenges, environment and social life. Discover their strengths, talents and unique abilities. Autistic people share their experiences, feelings and desires. Families discuss therapies and support that made a difference in their child’s life. Teachers describe strategies that help their students learn and perform at their best. Employers state how they modify the workplace to help them perform at their best potential. Specialists highlight their studies. “Autism across the globe” takes viewers on the most heartfelt, emotional and educational journey. It is meant to be the catalyst for a worldwide change, aiming to improve autism awareness and acceptance.
N. B: The project has also English, French and Italian subtitles.

"Best Educational Film"

► Directed by: Rima Joseph Irani

• rima.j.irani777@gmail.com

Movie Based On The Disappearance Of A Teenage Daughter

"Best Feature Screenplay"

• Written by: Skyla Caldwell Bryant
• skylatalent@yahoo.com
• Official Instagram

Hal a first time wildlife filmmaker created this film during a one month internship in South Africa. He trained in wildlife documentary film making and used his knowledge from film school and the internships wildlife documentary training to create a compelling story. Hal presents his first short wildlife documentary 'IMARA'.
This is a story of survival amongst lions showing the strength and fragility of family relationships and status within the pride.

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best Young Director"
"Best Editing"

► Directed by: Hal Hollingworth

• halza101@outlook.com
• Official Instagram

“Os, Ingen” (“We, nobody”) is a dance short that takes place on man-made territory, a group of people forms in a sterile universe and moves in the contradiction between the primordial and the socially accepted.
It reflects on instinctual behaviour: What is human instinct ? What is suppressed ? Is individuality a new form of primal survival ? A new Instinct ?
While questioning the default to blindly follow community, “Os, ingen" is an ode to the primal desire to connect.
What would happen if you woke up one day and found your self in a world of blind bodies ?
We the nobodies, the humans -- when did we become somebody ?

"Best Dance Video"
"Best Experimental Film"

• Directed by: Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen
• edithbp@outlook.com

I never knew you are my life
I never knew you’re by my side ‘cause you are an angel by my side And I
I will believe it
And I can see that
I feel my way inside
I feel my way
I never heard your voice inside

"Best Original Song"

► Directed by: Maria Cristina Guidetti

• cristinaguidetti@gmail.com
• Official Website

This is a proof of concept for children series.
A group of kids, raised in the heart of the jungle called Paranata by wild animals, learn the values and laws of the jungle. Overall, they learn that nature is the beauty of life to balance harmony. The kids manage to survive and adapt to the land of the wild. They love to stay in the jungle, but there are mysteries about men’s destruction of nature, and they set out to save the jungle.

"Best Animation"
"Best Student Film"
"Best Original Score"

• Directed by: Henry Zhinin
• Hzhinin1@gmail.com
• Official Website

Two brothers are sent to an unspecified war. Despite being both soldiers, their different background and past will pull them apart just when they'll need to stick together the most.
A tale of choices and redemption.

"Best War Film"

► Directed by: Federico Stern

• federico.stern98@gmail.com

A Palestinian girl, a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman meet at a celestial lake, the meeting triggers a conflict between the man and the woman caused by previous encounter, the girl tries to mediate. Will she succeed? Would it be possible to bridge between them?

"Best Animation"
"Best Opening Credits"

• Directed by: Hisham Zreiq
• hishamzr@hotmail.com
• Official Website

Discover, with Noor and Martin, a magnificent place, where the Rhône flows into Lake Geneva. It's sublime! Les Grangettes in Switzerland, which is part of the Convention of Wetlands of International Importance RAMSAR, is a multitude of ecological environments, waterbirds and plants. With Sophie Swaton, philosopher and economist, senior lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability of the University of Lausanne and Paul Ouédraogo, Senior Advisor for Africa, RAMSAR.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Hassan Lakhdar

• anne@teenergy.ch
• Official Website

Tension bubbles to the surface as a group of high school seniors go on a class camping trip.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

• Written by: Peter Zale
• new23festival@gmail.com

A lifelong rancher whose love of theater, dance, and entertaining drove her to develop a very special and unique skill - Fire Spinning. Miranda talks about her life, and how she hopes her love of fire spinning opens some doors and spreads joy.

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best Cinematography"

► Directed by: Anthony Stengel

• stengelanthony@gmail.com

A young homeless mother's life changes, when she meets a rich woman who finds solace in a NYC laundromat.

"Best Drama"

• Written by: Surina Nel
• suri3thewriter@gmail.com

Sabrina is the coach of the soccer men's team at Aubervilliers, Seine Saint-Denis, France. The club plays a decisive game and its star striker is not in good shape. Worse, the police burst into the middle of the match to arrest him. Sabrina ‘s nerves will be put to high stress-test.

"Best Sport Film"
"Best Actress"

► Directed by: Noah Gaoua

• noahgaoua@gmail.com

A man trying to understand if he holds his destiny or if it's the stars. God won't answer his calls and justify this imperfect world, justify his ill fate

"Best Actor"

• Directed by: Diljot Jawanda, Dil Buttar
• dil.buttar6@gmail.com

A documentary that shows how the pandemic affected People of Colour in Los Angeles and how they navigated to keep themselves inspired and productive.

"Best Covid-19 Film"
"Best BLM Film"

► Directed by: Denise Khumalo

• khumalo.denise@gmail.com
• Official Website

Immediately after joining a news channel as cameraman Abhin was assigned to cover Ronchordji, the most dreaded terrorist, accompanied by veteran reporter Sujit secretly. A bike-rider picked them up into the jungle from a specific spot. However the slated meeting was declared cancelled by two armed men on the way. They decided to stay back. Next day Abhin left the hotel to capture the landscape as it had a distinguished clarity, but didn’t return ; neither could he be contacted. Paranoid Sujit intimated his immediate senior. Concerned authorities conducted an emergency meeting and concluded the incident as abduction by the terrorist due to a previous threat on media. Actually authority was in a hurry to capture the moment for a sensational breaking news than to find out the truth. Next day their arc rival channel scooped out the news of his inglorious death in a road side red light area. Emotionally broken, mentally perplexed, socially ostracized Anandi, Abhin's wife, stood alone in this crossfire of truth, half truth and lie. Anandi seemed to be a classical media war victim, who finally started to fight her own battle.

"Best Director Debut"

• Directed by: Indranil Ghosh
• indranilghosh65@gmail.com

A down on his luck drug addict seeks forgiveness and salvation from an alienated prostitute in need.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Angelo Perez Lebbink

• angeloperezlebbink@hotmail.com
• Official Facebook

Animals and plants - they all need optimal living conditions to survive and reproduce. But how do elephants, whose skin is 50 times thicker than that of humans, deal with heat? What adaptations have plants acquired to deal with periods of drought? The secret lies in their anatomical and physiological adaptation mechanisms, which have developed over millions of years.
This short animal documentary "The Secrets of Adaptation" (32 min, english with english subtitle) shows adaptation mechanisms of some animals and plants in South Africa that enable them to survive in their specific habitats.

"Best Short Documentary"

• Directed by: Guyslaine Thalmann
• guyslaine@gmail.com

Inspired by a desire to be educated, Zainab has to deal with her illiterate father who believes education is only for boys. But Zainab is determined to break the barrier regardless of her father's worry that she will go astray with education. Her mother can't seat on the fence any longer. She has to pick a side and it's either her daughter or her husband.
Based on true story.

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Mohamed Lansana Kamara

• wowstudio232@gmail.com
• Official Website

In their sixties, a couple is looking for the best solution to guarantee their daughter and granddaughter a possible future...

"Best Short Film"

• Directed by: Joel Delsaut
• joeldelsaut@gmail.com

In a futuristic society, an AI driven dating app gauges new couples' compatibility. By monitoring their interactions, this app decides if they are compatible enough to be together...if not, their memories of each other will be erased.

"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Nick Hiratsuka

• J4u.filmfest@gmail.com
• Official Website

"Best Feature Film"

• Directed by: Oluyinka Davids
• oluyinkadavids@gmail.com

A dreamy bassist singer embarks on a trip to the moon in a hot air balloon.

"Best Music Video"
"Best Original Song"

► Directed by: Anders Sundstedt

• karl@mls.nc
• Official Website

A down and out guy has a rare change of fate when a meteorite hits a magnetite rock giving him magnetic powers. He faces insurmountable odds and his own fears before he can become a true hero.

"Best Director"
"Best VFX"

• Directed by: Eddie Eniel
• eaglefocusmedia@gmail.com
• Official Website

The knight comes to rescue the Sleeping Beauty with the kiss of true love only to find out that she is not asleep. After many tries to make the reality match the story in the book he painfully pays for his actions and only then learns the truth.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Gog Mkrtchyan

• gmkrtchy@c.ringling.edu
• Official Website

The series presents the work from two analysts who use different artistic languages in a dual approach in the treatment of their patients, breaking down prejudices and unraveling new approaches with surprising results.

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Web-Series"

• Directed by: Adriana Siqueira Lopes
• adrianasiqueiralopes@gmail.com
• Official Facebook

Freely inspired by the novel "Things fall apart" by Chinua Achebe, this short film is a modern and allegorical "Odyssey" of a migrant, Chinedu, who cross the Mediterranean sea in search of fortune...

"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by: Stefano Recchia

• sensistar81@gmail.com

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.

"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Symbolic Film"

• Directed by: Jacek Krawczyk
• sopot.dance.theatre@gmail.com
• Official Website

NYPD detective Jimmy O'Neill has a run-in with the Mob (Mafia). Now they want to whack him. He goes to Fort Worth, TX to take over his inherited, by his late uncle Charlie's failing Bail Bonds business. The mob follows him. All the high-jinx, now begins.

"Best Web-Series"

► Directed by: Dennis O'Neill

• actorfc@aol.com
• Official Website

What starts as a normal day for Eric the Erythrocyte becomes an action-packed adventure as the Golden Staph Gang invades the body and battles with the white blood cell army. As the general leading the army, Mike the Macrophage finds himself caught between leading the battle and keeping Eric out of harm's way. MicroToons entertains and explores the science of the microbiological world with original characters.

"Best Animation"

• Directed by: Aaron Welch, Rina Fu
• aaronw3d@gmail.com
• Official Website

4 film grads give 4 film pitches, but there's only 1 outcome!
Four close film obsessed friends and recently graduated film students hold a production meeting to plan their first feature film. They discuss the state of Hollywood and how are they ever going to come up with an original idea if Hollywood has struggled since 1903, when Edwin S. Porter' first film 'The Great Train Robbery ' was remade only a year later in 1904!
A very nuanced film with heaps of film history buried in a laugh out loud script with great characters who you will fall in love with really quickly. We will feel and see each of their fantastical streams of consciousness ooze from every pore as they tell the others of their 'great movie ideas'. The meeting soon collapses in a moment of chaos as their college day instincts overrun the meeting and their dreams of grandeur quickly fade away with the inevitability of a trip off to the pub!

"Best Short Film"
"Best Comedy"
"Best Editing"
"Best Director"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Original Score"
"Best VFX"

► Directed by: James O'Donnell

• jimmyodee@btinternet.com
• Official Website

Carlos is a successful writer, despite his peculiar habits and attitude. When he decides to start watching the young couple next door from his window (seeking inspiration for his next book), he begins to witness increasingly unusual events.

The problem is that Carlos has schizophrenia, and the “events” may be nothing more than a symptom.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Young Director"
"Best Director Debut"

• Directed by: Teresa Beirão
• trbeirao@gmail.com
• Official Website

This is an account of one of the most significant, and bloodless revolutions in Eastern Europe in Poland by a courageous ,young woman on the front lines.
The untold story of the impacts of preseverance and diplomacy that was the catalyst for eventual and successful transition from communist rule in Poland to the modern democracy it is today.
One night in a dark forrest Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Lech Walesa, an American high ranking priest MonsignorGeorge Higgins and an interpreter / aide meet for a secret meeting . Responding to a desperate appeal for help from Solidarity leader to support their movement ,the American priest joins the cause to raise awarness and funds to help end oppresion of the Polish people.
This meeting of 1981 changed history.
And in the process saved the life of that courageous , young woman.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Tomasz Radziemski, Grazyna Czerny, Piotr Tomaszkiewicz

• grazynaczerny83@gmail.com
• Official Website

A documentary about police misconduct, revealing the problems that led to this stage of uncontrolled violence.

"Best Producer"

• Directed by: Eve Jablonkay, Alexandra Newe
• eve.ji7@gmail.com

Nora wants to save insects from extinction, but she owes a magical creature a debt. In order to get closer to her goal, she has to face her fear and free herself from misconceptions. The confrontation with the magical creature puts her in an unfamiliar situation and finally gives her an important insight. The realisation that it is important to stand up for your own wishes and dreams.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Silvia Knödlstorfer

• silvia.knoedlstorfer@me.com
• Official Website

The dreary and emotionless life of the nameless protagonist becomes exciting only through letters from an old friend. After even they lose their importance to him he tries to fill his life with emotions again through pain.

"Best Cinematography"

• Directed by: Rafael Winkler, Christian Deusel
• film.rawinkler@gmail.com

A woman finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong emotive memories as well as a love and hope for the world around us that transcends time.

"Best Short Film"
:Best ECO work"

► Directed by: Stuart Rideout

• stuart@rideout.co.uk
• Official Instagram

THE SPIRIT OF THE SHADOWS, introduces us to the young Ameba and Ambar, imposing their will of order in Ciudad Paraiso.
Night Angel turned into the most respected and feared assassin by those who have confronted her.
Clans, hitmen, and conspiracies with Director Kraft are made in the shadows of the city....

"Best Short Film"

• Directed by: Juan manuel Fagetti, Alejandro Maidana
• dagasyrosas@gmail.com
• Official Website

The basis of the film is the clash of conservative religious principles and the main character, who went against this system. This conflict gives birth to visual poetry. A short but vivid manifesto against the authorities that restrict the freedom of a person and punish for his desires.

"Best Cinematography"

► Directed by: Roman Duneshenko

• assistant@eastwood.agency

‘Life of 3 is a suspenseful thriller featuring young filmmakers’.
This is the story of Bharti a film academy student who directs and produces a horror flick. Strangely, those who watch this movie are haunted. As the mystery starts to unveil, it engulfs the life of all those around her with peculiar incidents. A crime entangles all the cast and crew of the movie and complicates their lives. The remaining half of the movie is about how she struggles and battles the challenges. It is a suspenseful crime investigative story.

"Best Feature Film"

• Directed by: Sashi Preetam Pratapgiri
• crsp1522@gmail.com
• Official Website

The classic notes of the piano, powerful and simultaneously soft, sustain in their essence the enchanting/embracing melody of "fammi sentire in un sogno/let me be in a dream" the new single of Claire D.
This poetic and melancholic monologue claimed and celebrate an elapsed time/a past in which takes place a story of lost empathy and sharing. The main character's desire to find another link is that deep that he tries to reach a new shareable dimension, within dream and reality, past and present: a privileged scope/main space that is used by a son in order to see once again his mother behind the eyes of a woman affected by Alzheimer, a woman that not only is a stranger for him but also for herself.
The song/the tune belongs to the new album "voglio vivere così/I want to live this way", that is an author music project with a predominantly jazz arrangement and the lyrics deal with consistent social topics.

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: Mattia Bello

• tonyroman.video@gmail.com
• Official Website

Nandhu, a wealthy, film financier is absconding from the media and the police, wanted in connection with a suicide he may be responsible for.
With his wife and child gone, fallen prey to the rumours, he finds no will to stick around. Trying to get away from everything and everyone, he journeys through the struggles of his internal
guilt, whiles searching for the man responsible for it all.
He’s not guilty of the crime he’s been accused of, but that isn’t to say that he hasn’t been tormented by guilt for a long time. He goes to an old dilapidated building of some consequence to his past, now sealed by the court.
He records a voice note on his phone, to make it clear to the world who he really is. He clarifies that he’s not as bad as the media portrays him to be, he’s way worse! As
he walks through the shambles covered in plant growth, he speaks about the defining moments of his life; and corresponding visuals appear on screen, as randomly as his
stream of thought. Unaware that his mother is dead, all covered in her blood, lay his tiny infant hands gripping her chest, trying to suckle for milk. So horrific was his introduction to the
world. He grew up in a valueless society, filled with lust, greed, temptation and betrayal. Having seen only downers all his life, he learnt to fight hard, to do whatever it takes to survive in this cruel world which metamorphosed him into someone he
despises himself.
This story of guilt and trauma unfolds in the most unexpected ways when the protagonist interacts with the elements of his past. We follow him, as a reflection of his shadow, eventually leading us to only one question… will Nandhu find redemption?
This is a tale about a dark, gloomy man, searching for a tiny speck of light, ignoring the shadow that walks behind him; not realising that the shadow is evidence of light’s
existence.

"Best Feature Film"

• Directed by: Radhakrishnan Parthiban
• iravinnizhal22@gmail.com
• Official Website

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: Piersaverio Pizzichemi

• piersaverio.pizzichemi@gmail.com
• Official Website

Hunters must hunt. Blood begets blood.

"Best Horror"

• Directed by: Albin Glasell
• albin.glasell@hotmail.com
• Official Website

"The Wind Breathes Where He Wills" is a film about the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, an event that deeply affected the life of a Crimean priest known among people as Father Ivan, and his family. When the “little green men” took over Crimea in 2014, Father Ivan openly condemned the invasion. It was impossible for him just to calmly observe what was happening, and just keep quietly living in his house with a garden, an apiary, and a church that he built with his own hands. From this point on the lives of Father Ivan, his wife Svetlana and their four children, two of whom are also priests, became forever divided into "before" and "after"... As it turned out, what happened in Crimea in 2014 was just a “rehearsal” for what we are witnessing in Ukraine today.

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Olga Antimony

• marynak@ethnicchannels.com

The end is actually just a virtual beginning for Aimee- but those cloest to her may not fully understand the last vestiges of herself in this new format.

"Best Black & White Film"
"Best Poster"

• Directed by: Mike Madigan
• mike@fivecloverfilms.net
• Official Website

'Hurt' follows Stone Scriven as he plans for his own death... at least until he meets Fin Snell, another young man struggling with the weight of the world. Together, they will help each other learn to live.

"Best Web-Series"

► Directed by: Gavin Matthews, Sonia Forcada, Trey Jordan

• craigmselbrede@gmail.com
• Official Website

"Solstice" is a film that moves from light to darkness, opposes water and fire. In this stage of life, our choices influence our destiny, but it is a path that all must walk.

"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Symbolic Film"

• Directed by: Miguel Raymond
• miguelraymond1234@gmail.com
• Official Website

When Jasser joins his brother Salem at the MMA club he gets tested by Nick the MMA champion.

"Best Spot Film"
"Best Color Editing"

►Directed by: Abdulrahman Al Jandal

• aaljanda@gmail.com
• Official Website

In the dying echo of an intimate performance, a young artist sings a yearning love song to her boyfriend who is far away.

"Best Music Video"

• Directed by: Anders Helde
• andersheldedirector@gmail.com

A young woman recovering from trauma-induced memory loss, undergoes a dangerous medical procedure in order to remember the cause of her accident and to identify the man who murdered her younger brother.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Director"
"Best Actress"

►Directed by: Michelle Noland

• micrenbon1@gmail.com
• Official Website

When Summer and Phoebe meet, it’s practically love at first sight. But as their relationship progresses, Phoebe discovers a part of her identity that causes a roadblock between the two, and it’s up to them to find their way back to each other, or call it quits.

"Best LGBTQ+ Film"
"Best Young Director"

• Directed by: Jordan-Paige Sudduth
• sudduthjordanpaige@gmail.com

In india religion in its all dimension and diversities is the very base of the life line. Recently when out of nowhere corona pandemic came and spreads all over the world, death came crawling everywhere . No country , no town and no neighbournood escaped its deathly impact. Since Indian psyche is deeply rooted in religious belief, it is natural that most of the Indian seeks refuge in various religious practices along with whatever medical help came their way.
When in times pandemic effects got milder, age old traditional 'Kumbh Mela' was anounced- it is a centuries old traditional gathering of various Hindu sect on the bank of river ganga at holy city of Haridwar.

"Best Experimental Film"

►Directed by: Jagdish Gupta

• meediawin@gmail.com

The splitting of the Fairytale-Land is imminent.
One party wants to become modern while the other party wants to hold on to tradition.
Can the supreme authority restore peace?

"Best Fantasy"

• Directed by: Cem Arslan
• nilswitt@gmx.net

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall Singer Marco
Hoffmann has reached the height of his popularity.
Suddenly, the ex-frontman of the East German rock combo DIE KOSMONAUTEN is accused of being by his former band colleague Volker Hinze, that "IM singer" who betrayed him to the Stasi at that time.
Hinze demands a meeting, otherwise he threatens his evidence
to the press and destroying Hoffmann's life like him
destroyed his life.
Although Hoffmann assures his innocence, he still relies on the conspiratorial Meet with Hinze.
Between the former "blood brothers" a bill arises on life and
Death.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Drama"
"Beat Director"

►Directed by: Nicolai Tegeler

• nico@nicolai-tegeler.de
• Official Website

The Gloved One
Synopsis
During the Civil War era, a notorious horse thief terrorizes small farming towns in Indiana.
One hot and windy summer night in Wingate, a man discovers his best steed was stolen. He sets out to “catch a thief” with the help of the National Horse Thief Association.
The man’s farmhand, a young man with physical limitations, desires to find the horse and return him to his employer. He is confident that with his secret weapon he will guarantee the horse's safe return. Although the man is moved by the farmhand’s confidence, he urges him to stick to farming and let the men from the Association find the horse.
The farmhand’s eagerness gets the best of him as he sneaks away to find the horse.
Trouble rises with the sun when the man discovers that his farmhand is missing and the handmaid confirms the farmhand's quest to locate the steed.
The man, and his farmhand, are met with challenges when searching for and retrieving the steed.

"Best Short Screenplay"

• Written by: Alice Bowden
• abowden7949@gmail.com

Sergeant Al Ramon and Officer Luis Mendez know that policing New York City essentially means managing chaos. The volume of radio calls for police service makes it virtually impossible to patrol and enforce the law for every infraction of state penal law. Beneath the city, policing is even more challenging. Officers patrolling Transit Manhattan South face the same hazards as street crime cops, but the tunnels and trains make it much more difficult to affect an apprehension; the transit systems provides criminals with an elaborate labyrinth that help them elude to police.
When Sergeant Ramon is ordered to tighten discipline and improve the transit cops' performance through the N.Y.P.D's tickets and arrests quotas, he faces a tough decision: motivate "activity" or lose his job due to department budget cuts. Watching his platoon every move is newly-assigned Inspector Dek, sent in to ensure transit officers meet the departments demands.
MoleMen, a dark, fictional comedy, is loosely based on the politics and policing in New York City. Follow Ramon and Mendez as they try to save their transit buddies' jobs. You'll experience the same day-to-day frustrations and pressures police officers feel to issue summonses and make the arrests that sell the public on efficient policing. MoleMen shows how quickly officers can lose touch with the public as they generate the quotas for which One Police Plaza and the mayor hunger.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

►Written by: Antonio Arecibo

• arecibocinema@aol.com
• Official Website

In a college gym where insanity ensues, one man is responsible for it all. Join The Jungle Gym’s GM, Graham, as he navigates through a sea of dramatic co-workers, wacky patrons and strict managers.

"Best Television Script"

• Written by: Tyler Feingold, Avi Garg
• tyler.a.feingold@gmail.com

A former secret agent finds himself in an insane asylum in the present day. He befriends a nurse and attempts to unravel the mystery of his past and why he has been placed there before his time runs out to prevent the deka bombings.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

►Written by: Ty Caudle

• caudlet@bethel.k12.ok.us

As the only heir of the Grand Duke of Nesselrode, Charles-Edward must find a wife and produce an heir before his grandfather dies. A college internship sends him to an Oklahoma cattle ranch, where his challenge seems nearly impossible.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

• Written by: Jim Norman
• jimnormanwriter@gmail.com

A CIA Agent tasked with sending an Unofficial Team to assist with the Fight against ISIS alongside the Kurdish Brigade, recruits the Best Female Special Forces Soldiers from around the World, Codenamed: ‘Band of Sisters’ the Team Leader discovers none of them have operated in Syria & need a Guide. Pulling some Strings, the CIA Agent discovers Natasha within a Maximum Federal Penitentiary & offers her a chance to join the Mission to gain a shorter Prison Sentence. Natasha agrees & meets the Team, some she has previously worked with or trained. Once deployed in Syria the ‘Band of Sisters’ rescue the Kurdish Brigade & are taken to their Village on the outskirts of Ar-Raqqah. The Kurdish Brigade Commander tries to convince the Syrian Democratic Forces & the Peshmerga to attack the City together fails, the Men will not fight alongside Women. Leaving the Brigade & the Band of Sisters to assault the City alone, Natasha tasked with a Side Mission to extract an Mi6 Operative within ISIS to an SAS Extraction Team, Natasha safely gets the Mi6 Agent to safety & returns to help her Teammates, overwhelmed by the vast number of ISIS Fighters. Natasha becomes mortally wounded saving her Teammates, the C.I.A Agent convinces the President to send in Air Support, eventually the S.D.F & Peshmerga invade the city & destroy ISIS. In the Aftermath Ar-Raqqah is liberated, the ‘Band of Sisters’ survive the Battle, but does Natasha survive?

"Best Feature Screenplay"

►Written by: Michael John Chase

• mikechase26@gmail.com

Derik has always had a crush on Peggy Evans, and now that it's his senior year at Venice High School, he's pulling out all the stops to try and woo her, despite the fact that she's never been more than a friend and has a boyfriend. Some guys like an impossible challenge.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

• Written by: Doug Ellerbusch
• d.ebusch45@gmail.com

The daughter of Remington Steele and Laura Holt, now playing pro golf, gets roped into investigating her parents' apparent disappearance, unwittingly carrying on the family brand and Steele name in the world of private investigation. An updated story based on the characters from the 1980's detective show.

"Best Television Script"

►Written by: Doug Ellerbusch

• d.ebusch45@gmail.com

Eric and George Perez are two brothers once inseparable as kids. Now divided by the their dislike of each other's lifestyle. Eric works as a female impersonator and George is a homophobic cop.
Daniel Connors, is George's closeted new police partner. He befriends Eric, and they hide their relationship from George. When Eric becomes the next target for Karl. A serial killer obsessed with boys in drag. George and Daniel must work fast to save him.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

• Written by: Alex Acevedo
• anyc321@yahoo.com

A woman finds herself struggling with the weight of her past when becoming a newly consecrated nun.

"Best Short Screenplay"

►Written by: Tia L King

• Tiaking.writer@gmail.com

During Argentina’s infamous ‘Dirty War,’ a pregnant Maria de Quinto is dragged from her home, torn from the arms of her husband, imprisoned and brutally tortured. Separated during their detention, her husband soon becomes one of the 30,000 people who “Disappeared” under a harsh military junta.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

• Written by: Michael Thomas Holliday
• mikeholliday2020@gmail.com

"Best Original Screenplay"

►Written by: Karen Mussette

• kmussette@me.com

CRISPR - A top secret super-soldier program is sabotaged and finds itself exposed. Two renegades are being hunted in post-war Afghanistan and must fight to stay alive while searching for a cure. When a powerful and even more dangerous alien crossbreed escapes captivity, the government is now relying on them to save the world.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

• Written by: Mark Donnell
• markadonnell@yahoo.com

Fighting fear a young woman is transcended into the Universe as the Doors to God's Miracles are flung open wide to return to Earth with supernatural powers to performing miracles, and God speaks.​

"Best Adapted Screenplay"

►Written by: Patricia Poulos

• patricia.poulos1@gmail.com
• Official Website

Aliens abduct an old man ETHAN dying of cancer to use his body as an experiment to create a virus free healthy young body the aliens want to inhabit after wiping out the human species with killer viruses. ETHAN'S new body is injected with viruses then antidotes.ETHAN is chosen to return to Earth to collect Ebola samples - his head implanted with chips to control him. While ETHAN is on Earth a scientist aboard the ship uses alien codes to open lab doors and releases killer viruses - every living being on board dies. ETHAN survives and wants to share antidotes with the world but he must evade corrupt governments who want antidotes at

"Best Adapted Screenplay"

• Written by: Jamie sutliff
• uselves@gmail.com
• Official Website

It's "Death Note" meets "The Evil Dead".
JOE (29) works in a construction company in Salem with CARLOS (24), an illegal immigrant from Chile, who is also his assistant, friend, and a very good computer expert. Joe's main problems are of two kinds: financial and familial.
Financially, he owes the interest from horse-racing bets to a mobster (over which his goons slash Joe’s right cheek with a dagger), a lot of instalments for his professional truck and a large sum for his home mortgage. Joe has a three day deadline to repay his debtors, otherwise he will lose everything. Including his life.

"Best Television Script"

►Written by: Gianis Athanasiou Totonidis

• gianistotonidis@gmail.com

A short film about the extraordinary power of our imagination. Schoolgirl Jenny's father has been diagnosed with cancer. To help herself cope, this deeply creative child makes scenes inside shoe boxes Into which she escapes...One day a chance encounter with a seemingly ordinary cafe owner provides the catalyst for a truly magical happening..

"Best Short Screenplay"

• Written by: Janie Price
• janieprice@hotmail.com
• Official Instagram

In 1916, HANK BRADDOCK, 18, a young reporter from rural Indiana arrives in Bar-le-Duc, France to volunteer for the Red Cross at the height of World War I. He’ll be working with Red Cross ambulances transporting wounded soldiers from the battlefield to a grand old chateau converted to a hospital.
Hank gets acquainted with his fellow Red Cross volunteers, who include American college professor BRUCE McALLISTER, 32, young Americans JIMMY KELLY, 20s, and HERB BEHR, 20s, and resourceful French Sergeant MARCEL ST. CLAIR, 40s.
As Hank gets to work out in the field, he soon meets lovely Scottish nurse KYLA LAURENS, 20s, who’s also working at the chateau- hospital with her new friend and English fellow nurse CONNIE RAWLINS, 20s.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

►Written by: Fred G Stemme

• hourglasshistoricals@runbox.com
• Official Website

Film Talk With AJ Dean Presents, AJ Dean and Paul Vato interview Special Guest Deborah Richards, Film Director & Screenwriter from Las Vegas, Nevada

"Best Web-Series"

• Directed by: AJ Dean
• adsapphire3@gmail.com
• Official Website

Riley takes her kite out for some flying as the sun is about to set, when a thundering loud noise from above grabs her attention. Immediately forgetting all about her kite, she stares at the sky, unsure if she in awe or fear, witnessing the mysterious yet deadly flying machine.

"Best Animation"

►Directed by: Amir Qasim

• vmir0000@gmail.com
• Official Website

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.

"Best Animation"

• Directed by: Tiago Eugenio dos Santos, Matheus Abrami Sansão
• tiagoeugeniodossantos@gmail.com
• Official Facebook

Filmmaker James M. Storm takes you on this real-life adventure with treasure hunters Christian Swanson and Jack Nicholes as they go in search of lost Spanish ships. Filmed on Location in the Florida Keys, Lost Galleon Quest is a visually stunning peek into amazing and dangerous world of real-life treasure hunting.

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best Educational Film"
"Best Director"

►Directed by: James Matthew Storm

• jamesmstorm@gmail.com
• Official Website

In space, not too far away, there is a moon. Living on this moon is an alien called Solir. Solir spends a lot of time watching over planet Earth, and is always on the hunt for rare and unique items.
One day, the little alien spots a young boy and girl who seems to communicate differently to the other children. Solir is not able to communicate, so it decides to steal what is important to the young boy and girl - all just to get what it needs.
Will Solir get away with it?

"Best Animation"

• Directed by: Paul Miller
• paulsrorystudio@gmail.com
• Official Website

Power of Intimate Touch is short film was created because there appears to be a pretty global misunderstanding about what intimacy is. Many people think intimacy means physical sex, but true intimacy is first the connection of the heart and soul and then the mind, and then to the physical in many ways than sex. We filmed 2 couples exploring the 6 basic exercises of close intimacy that all beloveds should learn and practice to strength their relationships.

"Best Erotic Film"
"Best Educational Film"
"Best Director"

►Directed by: Leslie Dotson

• trustinfaith@gmail.com
• Official Website

The song is against wars in every sense.

"Best Music Video"
"Best Composer"
"Best Original Song"

• Directed by: Boris Rifkin
• boris.rifkin@gmail.com
• Official Website

Jason Pell's Pinpricks is an animated anthology short film. It's a mix of horror and science fiction. Think the Twilight Zone set in rural America. It's the first release by Quicksilver Cinema, a division of Quicksilver Creative Enterprises.

"Best Animation"

►Directed by: Adam Stover

• 466adamstover@gmail.com
• Official Facebook

The strict traffic policewoman Rita loves control and order in her workplace. That’s why she has drawn up a rigid, rectangular road network, through which she directs the drivers with precise instructions.
But as more and more cars find their way into her narrow network and it soon threatens to burst, Rita loses control in the traffic.
A short story about stress, traffic jams and how to make the best of it.

"Best Animation"

• Directed by: Elena Madrid
• info@fragola.ch
• Official Website

“In Venus” is a short dance film taking place in a sunlit milky universe. Four women dressed in wedding dresses and pastel colours, move their way through a sports field, the cover of a magazine, a laundromat and somewhere with their limbs in the clouds with the view over the city. The expression of the music and the movement is contrasting the pastel aesthetic as it subtilely opposes the expectation.
It is based on the need of 4 characters to question their own identity as women and their relationship to desire and shame.
It reflects on the moments when growing up in which we loose part of our Innocence and fluidity. We realise shame. A change in the gaze of the other. Our sexuality, our need to objectify or to be objectified. Our need to be good, respectful, respectable, desirable and our need to be everything but.
During the film we as viewers are confronted with the shame and stigma of female body. At the same time brought to a state of simplicity and childlike purity in the physical presence.
“In Venus” is an ode to womanhood and its community, an ode to the pure and the vulgar, a re-evaluation of "woman", and a feast on an almost utopian power of womanhood. Womanhood as the potency to not solely be “woman”.

"Best Dance Video"

►Directed by: Edith Buttingsrud Pedersen

• edithbp@outlook.com

The European borders are the deadliest in the world. More than 48.000 people lost their lives on their way to Europe, trying to reach safety and dignity. Have we lost our minds?

"Best Short Documentary"

• Directed by: Roel Swierenga
• contact@roelswierenga.com
• Official Website

A Pencil inside the pencil factory gains consciousness and tries to find the exit to his freedom but as he roams about the factory and finds out the terrible truths of it's functioning he soon realizes that there's never been an exit.

"Best Animation"

►Directed by: Artur Muharremi

• arturmuharremi@gmail.com

A country road. A shelter. At night.

"Best Dance Video"

• Directed by: Arturo Marinho
• arturomarinho@gmail.com

The crew from Bungle are on a top secret mission.

"Best Animation"

►Directed by: Joey Ahlbum

• joeyahlbum@gmail.com

The Tarahumara in northwestern México are among the poorest native peoples in Latin America. Not often you may find peoples like them living in a kind of cultural resistance but even though in an unespectedly peacefull manner. The french poet and surrealist Antonin Artaud while staying with the Tarahumara in the late 30’s last century then wrote: „They are a challenge for this world which undoubtedly is talking so often about progress because it already lost any hope for enhancing so much.“ These people live according to their own statements as if they already were dead. They call themselves „Rarámuri“ what means „the footrunners“. In fact they are among the best long range runners in the world. Inspite of the pressures of modern civilization they maintain until these days their traditional behaviour and organization. This documentary is examplifying this culture by describing the life of maskcarver Simón Morales.

"Best Feature Documentary"

• Directed by: Claus Deimel
• clausdeimel@mac.com

The crew from Bungle are on a top secret mission.

"Best Animation"

►Directed by: Joey Ahlbum

• joeyahlbum@gmail.com

A model takes a fashion shoot job in order to seek her next prey.

"Best Horror"
"Best Actress"

• Directed by: James Caley
• jamescaley@hotmail.com
• Official Website

Every capable person should adopt a girl and educate her cause if you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

"Best Short Film"

►Directed by: Chandrasekhar Rath

• rajlaxmifilms@gmail.com

"Best Short Film"

• Directed by: Brice Zephir, Damien Carré
• brice.zephir@hotmail.fr

A once attractive woman grows depressed due to her disfigurements brought about by her many autoimmune disorders.
About to take a drastic turn to solve her problems permanently, albeit very jovially, she's saved by an unlikely intervention.
Her last hope literally slaps her in the face, and she learns that the appropriately named Lifestyle Salon is seeking an "extremely aesthetically challenged" woman to be their "Before and After" makeover billboard model for the whole of the following day...Valentine's Day.
The makeover, though temporary, changes her life: And poses far more challenges after... Challenges she now must face.
And the woman that once stood at the edge of a cliff now stares at the abyss of her fate.
"This is based on a true story...my story. Because a picture paints a thousand words, this tale is told without them."-Geraldine Tan

"Best Short Film"
"Best No-Dialogue Film"
"Best Director"

►Directed by: Santiago Larrauri

• sandboxproductions1992@gmail.com
• Official Facebook

"Best Experimental Film"

• Directed by: Angel Yau
• yauangel@gmail.com

poems of now deceased irish poet Macdara Woods, mixed up with the original music of italian collective Militia and with images created by over 30 artists from all over the world under the direction of Visual artist Massimo Rossi, create a unique blend that describes "sounds of 21st century poetry".

"Best Original Score"

►Directed by: Massimo Rossi

• fabcroce@gmail.com
• Official Website

The Montana Special Election of '17 pitting folk singer Rob Quist against Billionaire Greg Gianforte captivated the nation and culminated in the body-slam heard around the world.

"Best Feature Documentary"

• Directed by: Guthrie Quist
• enigmaticfeatures@gmail.com
• Official Website

A guard to a house gets more than he bargained for during a night of surveillance.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Color Editing"
"Best Thriller"

►Directed by: Devon Doyle

• theseahawk87@gmail.com
• Official Facebook

"Reflections of Entanglement" is an experimental performance project inspired by butoh aesthetic/philosophical approaches and was created as an aid for a certain alchemical transformation in the psyche, after having faced repeatedly the deep and gruelling challenges of love and loss. It includes both a film and an ongoing and organically evolving live performance aspect.

"Best Experimental Film"

• Directed by: Alice Karveli
• blackarrowsinspace@outlook.com
• Official Website

Downtown Kingston, is the epicenter of trade, commerce and culture in Jamaica’s capital. This city has seen many comings and goings. The one constant has been the Push Cart!.
Transporting goods, fruits, food stuff, materials and services, not many think of how important they are. And the men who make them, repair them, rent them and take care of them. And the
women who make a living from these said Pushcarts. If they stop, Downtown stops, Kingston stops, St. Andrew stops!!. The Push Cart is the “Heartbeat of the city”. The Film looks to investigate the complexities of this industry. The ins and outs of what exactly does it mean to people of Downtown, Kingston, The wider Kingston/St. Andrew and in essence the wider Jamaican society. The vast majority of the population are largely unaware of how important this link is in the supply chain.

"Best Short Documentary"

►Directed by: Ryan Eccleston

• ryan@thmvic.com

"Us" is a short film of animation which mixes several Stop Motion techniques, proposing a journey through the conflicted human condition. War, loneliness, nature, crossings, fallen dreams are some of the recurring aspects in this animated poem on paper.

"Best Animation"

• Directed by: Nelson Fernandes
• nfcontactos@gmail.com
• Official Facebook

Her passion for music is ENDLESS...
Fate plays with this woman. And she plays the piano.
Her passion is reflected in the music. And music is a source of her passion. It is an endless spiral. It is a vicious circle.
Could anything break it?

"Best Composer"

►Directed by: Gia Kereselidze

• artmangia@gmail.com

is a dance film that can be combined with performance that evokes a gothic world through the lens of the 21st Century. It features a charismatic cast caught in a moment of time; sensual, strange, unsettling and gender fluid it is inspired by two tales and a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, and the visual art of Aubrey Beardsley.
Created in 2019 it is a gothic romance filled with ambiguity and both beautiful and unsettling. Three characters emerge from the dark and interact and we, the viewer are left with a sense of disquiet over half realised encounters and a possible murder.

"Best Experimental Film"

• Directed by: Dora Frankel, Andy Wood, Kevin Wong
• frankeldora@gmail.com
• Official Website

Preferring the company of none, Robin searches to find out why all her beautiful and successful friends are single. She uncovered one of the biggest secrets in the world...Child Sexual Abuse.
The eloquent words of Robin’s journey to face her past begin a tidal wave of healing hearts at Poet's Jazz House....just somewhere to go in the midst of searching your soul. A poetry lounge where spilling your heart is art and searching your soul is mandatory to get in the door. Young & Naive delves deep into the mind a of the poet; creating a masterful work of art in this remarkable and profoundly affecting story; as seen through the eyes of a spoken word artist spitting the powerful intensity of truth.
We can save our children, we can change the world! Young & Naive is the First in a series of Poetry-Films designed to Heal the Soul and Educate Minds.

"Best Experimental Film"

►Directed by: Tuesday Conner, Phil Tyler

• ctuesday@yahoo.com
• Official Website

A New York Mayor dares to stand against the Terranova Crime Syndicate

"Best Drama"
"Best Historical Film"
"Best Director"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Producer"

• Directed by: Chris Lythgoe
• chrislythgoe777@yahoo.com
• Official Facebook

With an unspeakable femicide as a background, two women confront each other and themselves, they wander through a maze made up by memories, dreams, emptiness and conflicts, all from the vulnerability of their own nakedness, reappropriating their bodies in the process, which has been socially and culturally violated.
From this statement, and always haunted by an indecipherable fear, they reflect on the meaning of being a woman nowadays.

"Best Experimental Film"

►Directed by: Ignacio Ferreyra

• ignacio.ferreyra07@gmail.com
• Official Website

A tip from an old friend sends ex-cop Eldridge Haas and his "best good boy" Tanner to investigate a bizarre death that may lead to the trail of his brother's killer.

"Best Director Debut"
"Best Web-Series"
"Best Original Screenplay"
"Best Costume Design"

• Directed by: Michael Henry
• spiritmantis@gmail.com

A freelance writer fears insanity.

"Best Experimental Film"

►Directed by: Michael Everett Johnson

• mikejohnsonmediagroup@gmail.com

When a father leaves, not only can it have a profound effect on the lives of his children, especially when they are very young, but there is a real possibility that this premature abandonment will cause them to feel a sense of grievance and disappointment. Julieta is only 22 years old and must deal with the absence of Juan, her father, even though his departure is unavoidably justified.

"Best Short Film"

• Directed by: Andy Montana
• landy500@hotmail.com
• Official Website

The film comes to appropriate and re-discuss the Brazilian reality, based on the dialogues, excerpts and scenes from Glauber Rocha visceral films and his desire to "remove the masks", from ou third world saga. In this scenario where love and violence coexist in a state of inequality and often abandonment.
The language of the film dialogues with the style of the program ABERTURA showned in 1979 on Brazilian TV , during the end of the military dictatorship. Today, forty years later, our fragile democracy is once again at risk and, unfortunately Glauber's words are still very much alive, and the backdrop of his characters are the Brazilian people with their political and social contradictions. We aspired to bring forth the creative energy of Glauber, his nonconformist behaviour and desire to interfere in the Brazilian reality.

"Best Feature Documentary"

►Directed by: Paloma Rocha

• rochapaloma53@gmail.com
• Official Instagram

Footprints tell the story of five college friends, who are settled in their lives. Mohsin, the protagonist, loves to capture the natural beauty of Kashmir through his still camera as he is going to lose his eyesight in the next six months which his non-Kashmiri friends are not aware of. He wishes to spend some time with his friends and invites them to Kashmir. Despite resentment of the families of non-Kashmiri friends, they make it happen and the friends start their journey, which somehow from a charming expedition turns to be an odious one.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Drama"
"Best Director Debut"
"Best Producer"
"Best Original Soundtrack"

• Directed by: Javid Banday
• info@mediamark.tv
• Official Website

With the help of a wizard, a little boy with a sister fetish enters a realistic dream in which he can do whatever he wants. He raped his sister and ate her nipples and heart. But he turned into the elder sister and was killed by another "self" in the same way. The little boy who killed his elder sister became his elder sister again, and there is no end to it.

"Best Short Film"

►Directed by: Yanlong Liu

• shaunsturdevant7@gmail.com

Jimmy is punk tells the story of the Dutch punk band PANIC. The heart of the movie is a registration of a concert in Gouda in 1978. You become an eyewitness and part of the spirit of the early days of punk. PANIC ends up playing in CBGB in New York, but then the band falls apart.

"Best Feature Documentary"

• Directed by: Duco Donk
• ducodonk@hotmail.com

Those images represent the cultural places and well-known spots in Morocco, each image has its own power visually and compositely with a simple phone to define the idea of making good quality needs a camera, and this shows that's wrong in fact you need the talent and the passion.

"Best Photography"

►Directed by: Salah Eddine Saadouni

• salahkingx1@gmail.com
• Official Website

In August and September of 1922, the beautiful port of Smyrna became Ground Zero for one of the greatest human tragedies. It was the last violent episode in a ten-year holocaust that had killed three million people—Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians, all Christian minorities—on the Turkish subcontinent between 1912 and 1922. It would also serve as a marker of the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Smyrna was reduced to ashes as the Armenian quarter of the city was set fire with petroleum gasoline by the Turkish troops on September 13th according to sources. The Greek, Armenian and Levantine quarters were completely incinerated while the Turkish and Jewish sections survived.
The respected peace between Christians and Muslims was over in Smyrna. What ensued over the next months was nothing less than tragic and catastrophic.

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Historical Film"
"Best Director Debut"

• Directed by: Mike Damergis
• madsportsmedia1@gmail.com
• Official Website

The movie is a visual stimulation raising unique human qualities - compassion, empathy, trust, spirituality, unconditional love, and forgiveness. There is no difference between religion or those that practice them - we are all one, praising divine love.
The hunter and the prey all belong of the cycle of life. Compassion leads them to oneness, erasing duality. All art forms - music, paintings, poetry, mathematics, and dance - glorify the beauty of creation. Human relationships come in turbulent waves but dissolve into an ocean of forgiveness. The mother and child form an unbreakable bond of unconditional trust and affection.
The human mind is capable of shining like a thousand stars if left unhindered in the darkness and the quiet. We are many lost souls, woven into the fabric of the cosmos. Stitched together by spirit and love.
— Under the Sun

"Best Cinematography"

►Directed by: Alla Dulh

• dulhalla@gmail.com

The history of the moon exploration is very interesting and exciting. But one of the most intriguing question is: Are there aliens on the moon? The most famous mission Apollo 11 makes more questions than answers.

"Best VFX"
"Best Sound Design"

• Directed by: Sergei Patlai
• serjpatlaj@gmail.com
• Official Website

A talented student from the North-East of England returns home after the death of her mother. Her life now dominated by absences, she struggles to reconnect with her father, and is overwhelmed with the decision between her friends and family back home and her future in London.

"Best Actor"
"Best Actress"

►Directed by: Matthew Lee

• mattlim8@gmail.com
• Official Website

Deoch Dance centres around Sheila who is weighed down from the effects of living with active addiction.

"Best No-Dialogue Film"

• Directed by: Orlagh Heverin
• orlagh_06@yahoo.ie
• Official Website