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RAGFF
RETRO AVANT GARDE FILM FESTIVAL
7 Colors Lagoon
Bacalar International Film Festival
Best Bacalar Feature Film
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Winner 7 Colors Lagoon Best Feature Film
" Cult of the Natural History of Mexico "
Dir. Miguel Angel Sicilia,
Dir. Monserrat Armenta
Mexico
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Winner Best Kids Feature Film
Kung Fu Girl
Dir. Kenny Gage,
Dir. Devon Downs
China
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Winner Action Feature Film
Safe House 1618
Dir. Calvin T. Shepherd
United States
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Winner Best Experimental Feature Film
Dreams of Las Vegas
Dir. Carl PA Nilsson
Sweden
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Winner Best Drama Feature Film
Neeravam ( Silence )
Dir. Ajay Slvaram
India
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Winner Historical Drama Feature Film
Darking Way
Dir. Zsolt Pozsgai
Hungary
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Finalist
Tomorrow's Game
Dir. Trevor Wilson
United States
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Best Bacalar MS Film
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Rukh
Dir. Mikhail Pilsko
Kazahstan
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Best Bacalar Short Film
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WINNERS
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Winner Short Film Student Project
A Summers Day at Sherwood Park
Dir. Conor Forrest
Canada
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Winner Best National Short Film
Wolves aren't Meant for the Circus
Dir. Rafael Martinez Sanchez
Spain
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Winner Best International Short Film
Sea Light
Dir. John Doe
Spain
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Winner Special Award " Social & Community Health"
Bother
Dir. Lisanne Sweere
Netherlands
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Winner Best Surrealism Short Film
Pleasure's Rondeau
Dir. Laura Miranda
Mexico
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Winner Best Experimental Short Film
Mama Calls
Dir. Carlos Hernandez
Dir. Miguel Alzerreka
Mexico
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Winner Best Drama Short Film
Draining
Dir. Guillaume Chevalier
France
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Winner Best Sci Fiction Short Film
Dora
Dir. Joanne Delachair
France
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Winner Best Comedy Short Film
You are Lucky
Dir. Lika Krylaeva
Russia Federation
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Winner Best Action Short Film
Speechless
Dir. Diana Kadi
Russian Federation
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Winner Best Adult " Ensamble "
Vapor
Dir. Jose Salof
Mexico
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Official Selections
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Take the Chocolate
Dir. Dr Shahid Kamal
United Kingdom
ReMi
Dir. Ramon Mayol Aranda
Spain
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Dance under the Sea
Dir. Antonio Maria Cortese
Italy
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Water Bullets
Dir. Luis
Mexico
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The Prodigious Bifurcaria
Dir. Emiliano Fajardo Garcia
Mexico
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The Task
Dir. Daniel Guillen
Mexico
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Care Package
Dir. Dan Most
United States
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Yound Love in a Dirty Place
Dir. Reinis Spaile
Latvia
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And then what ?
Dir. Mario Trujillo
Mexico
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Best Bacalar Documentaries
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Best Bacalar Documentary Film National
Years of Glory. Life and work of Gloria Contreras.
Dir. Hernan Perera
Mexico
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Best Bacalar Documentary Film Spanish Language
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Winner Feature Film (Spanish Language )
Recharging the Present
Dir. Ines Criado Garcia, Nahuel Staudacher
Spain
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Winner Feature Film (Foreign Language)
The Purple Thanaka of the Angels
Dir. Borit Yannick
Myanmar
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Livestock or Desert
Dir. Francisco Jose Vaquero Robustillo
Spain
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White Wloves - Ghosts of the Arctic
Dir. Oliver Goetzl
Germany
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Dramayama
Dir. Jeanette Groenendaal
Netherlands
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Studio 2091 - A Venetian Story
Dir. Nau Germoglio
Italy
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Best Bacalar Documentary Short Film
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Winner
Feather Dance
Dir. Alex Luke
Mexico
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The Dance of the Feather is one of the most respresentative dances of Oaxaca, Mexico.
One of the most colorful and ancient, with pre-hispanic origins that over the years became
a way of evangelization. Today it gives identity to people that, full of pride, continues to
represent it.
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Winner
Anima
Dir. Jennifer Jessum
United States
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Anima is a short Documentary film created with the goal of decreasing violence against
animals by raising awareness of what different faiths teach about compassion,
animals and the environment. The Film Features leaders across religious and
cultural backrounds.
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Poetry in the Mist
Dir. Natalia Gaia
Mexico
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Anatome
Dir. Adri Carrandi
Mexico
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Birder
Dir. Nicolas Guitierrez Wenhammar
Mexico
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Malpelo : Mountain of Sharks / Documentary short
Dir. Kevin Mannens
United States
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Dourado
Dir. Marx Braga
Brazil
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Can you hear her ?
Dir. Alilcia Carter, Lucas Pruitt
United States
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Dajla : Cinema and Oblivion
Dir. Arturo Duenas Herrero
Spain
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Unbroken : Saving Belize's Jaguar Corridor
Dir. Brandon Thompson
United States
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Memories of Tress. The Southern settler.
Dir. Santiago Serrano
Chile
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Bacalar Best Music Video
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Dancing Trees
Dir. Strahinja Savic
Serbia
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Samurai
Dir. Andrea Basile
Italy
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Freaky
Dir. Christian D.K Long
United States
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Safe Distance
Dir. Rona Soffer
Israel
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Every Someday is Now an Always
Dir. Lindsey Willson
United States
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Best Bacalar Kids Films
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Winner Feature Film
Kung Fu Girl
Dir. Kenny Gage, Devon Downs.
China
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Winner Feature Film
Poropopo
Dir. Luis Igreja
Brazil
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Finalist Feature Film
Tomorrow's Game
Dir. Trevor Wilson, Jonathan Coria
United States
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Winner Short Film
Giulia e il Capoposto
Dir. Antonio Maria Castaldo
Italy
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Senza Nome
Dir. Gisella Gobbi
Italy
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Cattle Market without Cattles
Dir. Junglin Chen
Taiwan
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Water you waiting for
Dir. Leanne Read
Canada
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The Chair
Dir. Raffaele Salvaggiola
Italy
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Cult of the Natural History of Mexico is a project that aims to celebrate and offer the biodiversity of this land full of ecological complexity and geographical benefits.
This work compiles 20 years of uninterrupted experience of Miguel Ángel Sicilia touring the natural corners of Mexico.
Kung Fu Girl is an action fantasy about Lisa, a 12-year old student who challenges the school bully, and in her journey through real and virtual worlds learns to strengthen a fractured bond with her father.
A revenge plot traps 3 sisters and their getaway driver in a safe house until they can escape the country, but they may be running from so much more than just the police.
Made in Northern Colorado
In post apocalyptic Sweden, Elin longs to escape her life as a stripper at a local club. When she meets the troubled musician Erland, who at first glance seems to be her ticket out of there, she has no idea that her life is about to turn into a nightmarish fight for survival.
Neeravam Movie is a Semi Art Movie with social awareness subjects are included
6 October 1849
The Hungarian War of Independence failed, its thirteen leaders were sentenced to death. The European royal courts and even the Russian tsar himself protested against the executions. However, Haynau, one of the leaders of the victorious forces, did not give quarter. Among the prisoners was General Ignác Török, an artificer officer, whose life was full of secrets and legends. He never married. He had neither children, nor a family. He devoted himself to the memory of his one-time only lover, Charlotte. Now, on the night before his execution, Charlotte arrives with her husband, Sternberg, who is a high-ranking official in the Imperial Court, and, on the orders of the Emperor, they try to save the prisoner
The lives and struggles of Micheal an aspiring artist, Frank an unemployed graduate and Sade a teenager mirrors the travail of ordinary people in the Nigerian society and how we would have a better society if only we all show love with our words and actions.
A middle-aged driver, Kazakh Yergalym, who is trying to find the meaning of life in material gain, files for divorce from his childless wife. At this time, a 12-year-old boy, Uyghur Farukh, escapes from the orphanage. Fate unexpectedly brings Yergalym and Farukh together, resulting in both life changing.
Life and work of Mexican choreographer Gloria Contreras, through the body, archive, and memory of hers closers collaborators.
Best Bacalar Animation Film
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Short Film
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The Thief
Dir. Arturo Brena
United States
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Uneven Pieces
Dir. Julieta Galvan
Mexico
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Lola, Indomitable agrarian
Dir. Fidela Cisneros Rivera
Mexico
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Alledoags
Dir. Moze Mertens
Netherlands
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Farm Well, a story about farm life today
Dir. Pepijn Robben
Dir. Lucas De Man
Netherlands
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The Deluge Fable
Dir. Michael Zamjatnins
Germany
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Tio
Dir. Juan Medina
Mexico
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Best Bacalar Audience Award ~
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Winner
Short Film
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Bosnian Broadway
Dir. Jasmina Beširević
Croatia
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Derbent City of Stories
Dir. Eugene Moon
Russian Federation
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The People we Serve
Dir. Francine M Cavanaugh
United States
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Seaturtle watcher
Dir. Andrea Fiorito
Italy
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Getsemani
Dir. Emma Vazquez Costa
Spain
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In a Whole New Way
Dir. Jonathan Fisher
United States
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Youth City Hall
Dir. Maaki Nurmeots
Belgium
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Where the Wind Blows
Dir. Holger Mohaupt
Dir. Tracey Fearnehough
United Kingdom
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Feature Films
Winner
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Salud ! To the Health of Cuba
Dir. Frédéric Hausammann
Switzerland
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Seaturtle Watcher
Dir. Andrea Fiorito
Italy
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Food Forest
Dir. Louis De Jaeger
Belgium
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Understandinglessness
Dir. Aleksa Maksimović
Serbia
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A Silent Call : Can Anyone Hear me ?
Dir. Ana A Prickett Braunstein
United States
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Black Daddy The Movie
Dir. Damon Jamal Taylor
United States
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Without Kerosene To Berlin ( Ohne Kerosin Nach Berlin )
Dir. Roy Fochtman
Dir. Moritz Böll
Dir. Maximilian Blaß
Germany
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Delivering Hope
Dir. Jordan Orsak
United States
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Denying the Monster
Dir. David Seagull
United States
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Where Luna Lives
Dir. Aliaksandra Markava
Belarus
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GodChaserz The Documentary
Dir. Brinson Wright
Dir. Will Thomas
United States
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The Undocumented
Dir. Sampsa Huttunen
Dir. Ann-Mari Leinonen
Finland
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Ushiku
Dir. Thomas Ash
Japan
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Terra Sospesa
Dir. Matteo Grimaldi
Dir. Giacomo Boeri
Italy
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La Conversione
Dir. Giovanni Meola
Italy
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The Fellowship of the Springs
Dir. Oscar Corral
United States
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Gli anni folli della velocita
Dir. Federica Biondi
Dir. Gabriele Ogiva
Italy
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The Innocents
Dir. Wojciech Lorenc
United States
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Bacalar Film Festival Awards
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Best Director Feature Film
Oliver Goetzl
" White Wolves - Ghosts of the Arctic "
Best Director Short Film
John Doe
" Sea Light "
Finalist Director Short Film
Dr Shahid Kamal
" Take the Chocolate "
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Best Actor Feature Film
Wagner Kampynas
" Tomorrow you leave "
Best Actress Feature Film
Sonia Malhar
" Neeravam (Silence) "
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Best Actor Short Film
John Doe
" Sea Light "
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Best Actress Short Film
Yi Liu
" Removable "
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Best Cinematography Feature Film
Shadow of the Night
Dir. Radhakrishnan Parthiban
India
Best Cinematography Short film
Surrender
Dir. Franziska Elisabeth Link
Australia
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Best Original Music Feature Film
Eight Colours a Week
Dir. Aaron Stevenson
Australia
Best Original Music Short Film
The Last Cherry Blossom
Dir. Hector Hernandez
Mexico
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Best Screenplay on Feature Film
A Silent Call : Can Anyone Hear Me ?
Dir. Ana A Prickett Braunstein
United States
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Best Screenplay on Short Film
Removable
Dir. Shu-Ying Chung
United States
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Best Edition Feature Film
The Game is Up : Disillusioned Trump Voters Tell Their Stories
Dir. Melissa Jo Peltier
United States
Best Edition Short Film
Wrong Approach
Dir. Piotr Matyja
Poland