May - June 2022 Programme
Our festival répertoire
Best Horror
Grinders Feature
Directed by: Andrew Heller
Best Experimental Film
BITE THE BULLET
Directed by: Mousa Ghodratifard
Best Short Film
Best Director Debut
Best Young Actress
The First Bath
Directed by: Carlos Puig Mundó
Best Feature Film
Best Actor
Endless Night
Directed by: Hamid Tamjidi
Best Television Script
THE LISTS
Written by: Mousa Ghodratifard
Best Short Film
Cell Phone Madness
Directed by: Dave McGrath
Best Short Screenplay
A Christmas To Remember
Written by: Tiffany Colling
Best Short Screenplay
A Colorado Christmas
Written by: Tiffany Colling
Best Animation
MORE
Directed by: Vaibhav Madhukar Piwlatkar
Best Animation
Roses in the Night
Directed by: Pencho Kunchev
Best Feature Screenplay
Called Back
Written by: Matt Hagemann
Best Feature Film
Best Original Score
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Praying the Hours
Directed by: Lauralee Farrer
Best Feature Documentary
Best Inspirational Film
A Survivor Amongst Survivors PT1
Directed by: Alfred Samuels
Best Feature Screenplay
City of Silence
Written by: E.B. Hughes
Best Adapted Screenplay
Shark's Instinct
Written by: Bethany Maines
Best Experimental Film
LEVIATHAN
Directed by: Eyal Segal
Best Feature Screenplay
Mia
Written by: Matthew Townsend
Best Horror
Bat Bunnies
Written by: Chris Flynn
Best Feature Film
Best Director
Best Costume Design
Best Supporting Actor
SUGAR
Directed by: Jermaine Quick
Best Feature Documentary
Best Producer
America Boxed In
Directed by: Casey G. Williams, Ian S. Williams
Best Short Film
Best Director Debut
Best Drama
Mom dies Saturday
Directed by: Damian Matyasik
Best Short Screenplay
Murder In The Adirondacks
Written by: Tiffany Colling
Best Short Screenplay
Frame My Mind
Written by: Xandar
Best Feature Screenplay
The Handstand Heard 'Round the World
Written by: Leland Thomas Faegre
Best Original Score
Serengeti Serenade
Composed by: Leland Thomas Faegre
Best Web Series
Kaliderson melody - The one who knew
Directed by: Laurent Combaz
Best No-Dialogue Film
Best Inspirational Film
Best Composer
ONE
Directed by: Ray DeRoyce Sharp
Best Inspirational Film
Best Student Film
The loneliness of those who do not exist
Directed by: Alfonso Burgos Risco
Best Short Film
Best Actor
Best Actress
Without a Promise
Directed by: Tati Baramia
Best Feature Documentary
Best Inspirational Film
Digital For Humanity - #SkillandoItalianTour
Directed by: Alessandro Maso, Raffaele Petrigliano
Best Short Screenplay
Guns A Blazing
Written by: Tiffany Colling
Best Animation
Home with the Nine Little Bears
Directed by: Woody Yocum
Best Short Documentary
INVISIBLE
Directed by: Filippo Filetti
Best Director Debut
Best Young Director
Best Student Film
Best Dark Comedy
Best Original Screenplay
Best Black & White Film
Forty W
inks
Directed by: Will Parker
Best Experimental Film
The Real Court of Shards
Directed by: Jan Eilhardt
Best Short Film
Shadow Man
Directed by: Roberta Pyzel
Best Short Film
Best Short Documentary
Best Director
Best Director Of Photography
Floor 14 "Reprieve"
Directed by: Chuck Price
Best Feature Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay
G.I.A.
Written by: Joe Boi
Best Dance Video
ABSENCE
Directed by: Diego Funes
Best Feature Film
Trouble Is My Business
Directed by: Tom Konkle
Best Drama
CONFRONTATION
Directed by: Thanh Ingle Lai & Nicky Naudé
Best Experimental Film
TRIP TO THE TAX PARADISE - RUMBO AL PARAISO FISCAL
Directed by: Antonio Bellido Marín
Best Experimental Film
Blue Light
Directed by: Rachael Greenfield
Best Short Film
Ofelia
Directed by: Fabiola Stevenson
Best Director Debut
THE VOICE OF THE PAST
Directed by: SETENAY URUÇ
Best Feature Screenplay
Alien Traitor
Written by: Andrew Cahill-Lloyd
Best Short Screenplay
Ian
Written by: Andrew Cahill-Lloyd
Best Trailer
The Ken Zacher Story Trailer
Directed by: Chuck Price
Best Dance Video
Best No-Dialogue Film
Suidae
Directed by: Marina Ni
Best Music Video
Best Original Song
Best Young Actor
"Gaslighted" (Official Music Video by Banjii & Mayuri)
Directed by: Mayuri
Best Short Film
Best Actor
Everything I Could
Directed by: Christopher Armienti
Best Original Score
Best Historical Film
Keeping Christmas
Directed by: Rick Van Velsor
Best Director Debut
Best Young Director
Best Actress
Best Thriller
Best Covid-19 Film
ISOLATED
Directed by: Charlotte Rinaldi
Best Short Film
Best Director Of Photography
Best Director
Best Supporting Actor
True Friend
Directed by: Matthew J. Roch
Best No-Dialogue Film
Wacko
Directed by: Matthew J. Roch
Best Short Screenplay
Sleeps Like the Dead
Written by: Peter Hardy
Best Feature Screenplay
SALLY AND GLEN AT THE PALACE
Written by: Peter Hardy
Best ECO Film
Arrogance
Directed by: Tova Beck-Friedman
Best Dance Video
FACE TO FACE
Directed by: Florent Mahoukou
Best LGBTQ+ Film
And The Crab Turned Out Not To Be Immortal
Directed by: Digcy Mejias
Best Short Film
Best Romance
Heaven's Gap
Directed by: Robert Berg
Best Short Documentary
A Burst of Song
Directed by: Lia Beltrami
Best Original Screenplay
I.D.
Written by: Darryl Gardner
Best Animation
Two Different Kinds of Love
Directed by: Alyce Vest
Best Experimental Film
The Dark, Debra
Directed by: Dina Yanni
Best Feature Film
The Haunted Jizo of Shimo-Mizuno, Sayama City
Directed by: Mitsuo Kurihara
Best Animation
Andrew’s Parallel Worlds
Directed by: Angela En-Yu Lao
Best Sci-Fi
Best Action Film
The eye of TERRA
Directed by: Spinassou Cédrick
Best Comedy
Fakov in Amerika
Directed by: Vladimir Lyubushko
Best LGBTQ+ Film
In casa con Claude 2.0 (theatrical version)
Directed by: Giuseppe Bucci
Best Short Film
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Director Debut
Best Cinematography
Best Color Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Scenography
Best Director Of Photography
Best VFX
Best Horror
Best Original Score
Best Sound Design
Best Supporting Actress
Best Editing
Best Producer
Best Composer
Best Makeup
Best Closing Credits
The Eve
Directed by: Luca Machnich
Best Mobile Film
Jasmin's Paintings From The Heart
Directed by: Chin Fook On @ Robert
Best Dark Comedy
The Invitation (Die Einladung)
Directed by: Thorsten Schade
Best Original Screenplay
SCRIPT
Directed by: Piero Cannata
Best Short Documentary
For Love of the Land
Directed by: Cynthia Matty-Huber
Best Short Screenplay
THE NEW WORLD
Written by: Larisa Vödisch-Nikitina
Best Feature Film
Mambo Man
Directed by: Mo Fini, Edesio Alejandro
Best Actor
Down The Rabbit Hole
Directed by: Yasser Nabil
Best Covid-19 Film
my dear quarantine
Directed by: Ewa Maria Wolska
Best Experimental Film
Last Voice
Directed by: Chin Fook On Robert
Best Short Documentary
Dream connections
Directed by: Julia Solovieva
Best Web Series
HOTBUNNY420
Directed by: Francisco García
Best Feature Screenplay
In Reverse
Written by: Gini Graham Scott
Best Short Film
Best Covid-19 Film
Best Horror Film
Best Actress
Best Closing Credits
Best Original Song
Routine
Directed by: Russ Emanuel
Best Feature Screenplay
Paranoia
Written by: Gini Graham Scott
Best Feature Screenplay
Dark Cabin
Written by: Gini Graham Scott
Best Original Screenplay
Legal Passion
Written by: JK Jones
Best Director Debut
Best Director Of Photography
Best Horror
Sub Terra
Directed by: Andreas Hentze Madsen, Mathias Sørensen
Best Black & White Film
Queen of the Dead
Directed by: Justin Head
Best Historical Film
Cartas de Amor a un Torero
Directed by: Reyes Caballero
Best Short Screenplay
New Beginnings
Written by: Surina Nel
Best Historical Film
In their eyes
Directed by: Arnaud Blin
Best Original Score
Best Original Soundtrack
THEYSUCK (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Composed by: Jordan Paul Rousseau
Best Student Film
Eliot George
Directed by: MIA CORAZON AJERO AUREUS
Best Horror
Best Producer
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Original Score
Best Editing
Best VFX
Best Poster
Best Opening Credits
Best Makeup
Deep Shock
Directed by: Davide Melini
Best Short Film
Flash/Crash
Directed by: Angelo Perez Lebbink
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Scenography
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Best Composer
For I Am Dead
Directed by: Patricia Delso Lucas
Best Feature Film
Best Director
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Best Actress
UNION
Directed by: Whitney Hamilton
Best Comedy
Paracide
Directed by: Paul Heron
Best Short Film
Best Actor
Best Director Debut
WRITTEN IN THE STARS
Directed by: Diljot Jawanda, Dil Buttar
Best Short Film
Best Student Film
Best Poster
The Story of Mama Butterfly
Directed by: Yuqian Cao
Best Short Film
Best Photography
Best Director
SECRET RECIPE
Directed by: Ming Kun
Best Animation
Best Student Film
Izzy's Demons
Directed by: Greg Garay
Best Covid-19 Film
Kettling
Directed by: Alan Del Castillo
Best Feature Screenplay
Little Things Mean a Lot
Written by: Michael Monteith
Best Symbolic Film
THREADS
Directed by: David Bickley
Best Original Screenplay
Machliar
Written by: Robert Kouba
Best Short Film
#ISFJ
Directed by: Joe Jennings Jr.
Best Short Film
Best Young Actor
Best Closing Credits
Splendid
Directed by: Roberto Leite
Best Experimental Film
SO(G)NO (DreAM)
Directed by: Martina Mele
Best Short Screenplay
She Will Never Learn
Written by: Shannon Ama Phelan
Best Short Film
Best No-Dialogue Film
Deoch Dance
Directed by: Orlagh Heverin
Best Animation
In Your Room
Directed by: Alessandro Amaducci
Best Horror
The Last Warning
Directed by: Eryka Vasconcelos
Best LGBTQ+ Film
The Weight of Time
Directed by: Noel Thomas Brady
Best Short Screenplay
Candelabra
Written by: Shannon Ama Phelan
Best ECO Film
Best Student Film
As usual
Directed by: Baptiste Darricarrère
Best Short Film
Nowhere To Escape
Directed by: Ziyuan Wang
Best Feature Screenplay
Blood runes
Written by: Jonny Bjørkhaug
Best Experimental Film
My body has a story to tell
Directed by: Nihad Isa
Best Feature Screenplay
Max
Written by: Natalie Gomez
Best Experimental Film
Question Everything
Directed by: Shaun Rylee
Best Black & White Film
You Don't Deserve This
Directed by: Shaun Rylee
Best Television Script
Herbert West - Reanimator: "Miskatonic"
Written by: Paul Grammatico
Best Web Series
SWAP 3 First Chapters
Directed by: Andre Gaumond
Best Web Series
Ap-Cal Craft Beer Festival
Directed by: Stephanie Fernández
Best Original Screenplay
Just World
Directed by: Konstantina Palli
Best Short Screenplay
Cycle of Pain
Written by: Mikos Zavros
Best Experimental Film
The Quantum Hoop
Directed by: Nirina Ralantoaritsimba
Best VFX
Best Sci-Fi
Child:Indigo
Directed by: Trei Hill
Best No-Dialogue Film
Best Short Film
Best Student Film
Writer's Block
Directed by: Matt Kops
Best Short Documentary
He Ara Anō [There is another way]
Directed by: Holly Beckham
Best Music Video
Freaky
Directed by: Christian D.K. Long
Best Feature Screenplay
Alta California
Written by: Lynn H. Elliott
Best Original Screenplay
Heartbreak Glass
Written by: John Ervin
Best Short Film
Naoka (to be illusions!! dying and lies!!)
Directed by: Arindam Barooah
Best No-Dialogue Film
Makeover #2dye4
Directed by: Santiago Larrauri
Best Experimental Film
THE ABDUCTION OF EUROPA
Directed by: Justus Alkon
Best Short Film
Best Sci-Fi
The Conduit
Directed by: Brian Wanjugu
Best Director
Surreal Reality
Directed by: Dr. Teresa Mular
Best Feature Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay
Black and White
Written by: Benjamin Burgess Jr.
Best Original Screenplay
Possum Man
Written by: Eddie Yaroch
Best Drama
In bondage
Directed by: Gabriela Bruckner
Best Director Debut
Best Fantasy Film
Rose of Blood
Directed by: Klaudia LANKA
Best Animation
Fake News
Directed by: Joachim Weber
Best Director
Best BLM Film
Best Director Of Photography
Best Young Actor
Best Actor
Best Original Score
Best Composer
Best Color Editing
The Good Deed
Directed by: Eugene E~NRG
Best Short Film
Best Short Documentary
30 Years of Decadence - The Defeat of Falun Gong and the Undercurrents of the Remaining Forces
Directed by: Tony Robert
Best Short Film
The Great night
Directed by: Sharon Hakim
Best Animation
The Last Step
Directed by: Stanislav Matveev
Best Comedy
Halo
Directed by: Reva Zane
Best LGBTQ+ Film
A Chit Tu
Directed by: Dylan Chow
Best Original Screenplay
Bad Seed
Written by: Ron Chepesiuk
Best Music Video
Who I Am
Directed by: Dawn Young
Best Short Documentary
Isle of Capri: A Song of My Mother
Directed by: Dawn Young
Best Short Film
Choise
Directed by: Kaye Tuckerman
Best Feature Documentary
Beneath the Surface: Water Polo
Directed by: Dawn Young
Best Black & White Film
For the Greater Good
Directed by: Michael Gavino
Best Original Screenplay
Lions of Florence
Written by: Ken White
Best Original Screenplay
A Fire in the Mind
Written by: Ken White
Best Director Of Photography
Best VFX
Best Sci-Fi
Best Music Video
Best Editing
Best Poster
What Remains
Directed by: Stefan Fitzner
Best Horror
Part Forever
Directed by: Alan Chung-An, Ou
Best Short Film
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best ECO Film
I Wish for You
Directed by: Stuart Rideout
Best Dance Video
Music for waxing
Directed by: Giulia Giannola
Best Experimental Film
Sea`s Lion
Directed by: Iulik Lomba de Farias, Raquel Fernandes Canário
Best Thriller
Under a Bad Moon
Directed by: Stephen Franklin Blanton
Best Actor
Adam In Aeternum
Directed by: Pedro Jaen R.
Best Experimental Film
screaming in plastic
Directed by: Ryan Akler-Bishop
Best Experimental Film
Best LGBTQ+ Film
GENDERF*CKER
Directed by: Pascale Drevillon
Best Scenography
Best ECO Film
Winter
Directed by: Patricia Coates
Best Feature Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay
Across the water
Written by: Josh Cunningham
Best Symbolic Film
FooDie
Directed by: Giovanni Pannico
Best Experimental Film
Black Sheep
Directed by: Shogo Hashimoto
Best Feature Screenplay
THE ULTIMATE MOMENT
Written by: Jean-Claude Nader
Best Feature Film
KALRAV - The sound of running water
Directed by: Jagdish Gupta
Best Short Film
Best Actress
Best Covid-19 Film
The Van
Directed by: Amanda Ales Graeff
Best Short Screenplay
Hell-Earl
Written by: Anshul Pal
Best Animation
Incidents - Way home
Directed by: Jessica Laurén
Best Feature Screenplay
Shampoo Horns
Written by: Daniel Falcone
Best Original Screenplay
It Really Is About Me
Written by: Karen Mussette
Best Sci-Fi
Max : Shadow of apocalypse
Directed by: mr. Bouhaïk
Best Short Film
Burn Out Love
Directed by: Joachim Glaser
Best Experimental Film
Mélodie de Ceylan
Directed by: Arvind Appadourai
Best Actor
Best Original Song
Best BLM Film
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
BabyGirl
Directed by: Donald Welch
Best Animation
Desk Defender
Directed by: Sebastian Soler
Best Experimental Film
When Light Takes Form
Directed by: Joe Cimino
Best Young Director
Aniyah (2022)
Directed by: Shubhavi Arya
Best Actor
Best Student Film
FooDie
Directed by: Giovanni Pannico
Best Short Film
Best Young Actress
Escape
Directed by: Jill Minton
Best Adapted Screenplay
Fifteen Times a Killer
Written by: Steve Crawshaw
Best Original Screenplay
LES BLESSÉES (The Wounded)
Written by: Bob Canning
Best Short Screenplay
The Big White Veil Mistake
Written by: Bridget Wixted
Best Short Screenplay
I.V.F***ED
Written by: Amy Etra, Michael Etra
Best Comedy
Best No-Dialogue Film
999
Directed by: Vincent Leplat
Best Short Documentary
Unexpected
Directed by: Luc Godonou Dossou
Best Feature Documentary
HERO DOG
Directed by: Vanessa Schulz
Best Short Screenplay
Rising Up
Written by: Scott Bastedo
Best Director Debut
Best Scenography
Best No-Dialogue Film
Best Fantasy Film
In Passing
Directed by: Anna Johnson
Best Young Director
Best Director Debut
Best Director Of Photography
Best Student Film
Swimming with Stones
Directed by: Amber Yang
Best Short Documentary
Redeemable Son
Directed by: Imani Mfalme (J.King) Shu'la
Best Actress
Best Photography
Best 360º
Best Drama
Best Trailer
Best Producer
Quiver
Directed by: Kristen Petrarca
Best Short Screenplay
I KILLED ELVIS - Short Screenplay version 2
Written by: Wolf Bukowski
Best Music Video
Finding Paradise
Directed by: Emma Waters, Tess Campbell, Joseph Shrimpton
Best Experimental Film
SAKURA
Directed by: Miguel Raymond
Best Actress
Best Editing
Best Thriller
THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME
Directed by: Marc Saez
Best Short Film
Best Director Debut
Best Scenography
FOLLOW THE ARROW
Directed by: Marc Saez
Best Sci-Fi
the temporal anomaly
Directed by: Cédrick Spinassou
Best Short Film
Best Young Actress
a LIV e
Directed by: Jim Winton Porter, Hanni Witt
Best Dance Video
PHOBIA
Directed by: Dóri Kapitány
Best Inspirational Film
A Different Kind of Trash Talk
Directed by: Patricia A Burke
Best Short Film
Best Dance Video
Through Her Eyes
Directed by: Emma Dickson
Best Comedy
Harvest
Directed by: Peter Halpin
Best Short Film
Where thunders were heard
Directed by: Santiago Campos
Best Experimental Film
The Reading
Directed by: Martin Goldman
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
Best Sound Design
The Piano
Directed by: Lee Morgan