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RAGFF
RETRO AVANT GARDE FILM FESTIVAL
7 Colors Lagoon
Bacalar International Film Festival
Best Bacalar Feature Film
Winner 7 Colors Lagoon Best Feature Film
" Cult of the Natural History of Mexico "
Dir. Miguel Angel Sicilia,
Dir. Monserrat Armenta
Mexico
Winner Best Kids Feature Film
Kung Fu Girl
Dir. Kenny Gage,
Dir. Devon Downs
China
Winner Action Feature Film
Safe House 1618
Dir. Calvin T. Shepherd
United States
Winner Best Experimental Feature Film
Dreams of Las Vegas
Dir. Carl PA Nilsson
Sweden
Winner Best Drama Feature Film
Neeravam ( Silence )
Dir. Ajay Slvaram
India
Winner Historical Drama Feature Film
Darking Way
Dir. Zsolt Pozsgai
Hungary
Finalist
Tomorrow's Game
Dir. Trevor Wilson
United States
Best Bacalar MS Film
Winner
Rukh
Dir. Mikhail Pilsko
Kazahstan
Best Bacalar Short Film
WINNERS
Winner Short Film Student Project
A Summers Day at Sherwood Park
Dir. Conor Forrest
Canada
Winner Best National Short Film
Wolves aren't Meant for the Circus
Dir. Rafael Martinez Sanchez
Spain
Winner Best International Short Film
Sea Light
Dir. John Doe
Spain
Winner Special Award " Social & Community Health"
Bother
Dir. Lisanne Sweere
Netherlands
Winner Best Surrealism Short Film
Pleasure's Rondeau
Dir. Laura Miranda
Mexico
Winner Best Experimental Short Film
Mama Calls
Dir. Carlos Hernandez
Dir. Miguel Alzerreka
Mexico
Winner Best Drama Short Film
Draining
Dir. Guillaume Chevalier
France
Winner Best Sci Fiction Short Film
Dora
Dir. Joanne Delachair
France
Winner Best Comedy Short Film
You are Lucky
Dir. Lika Krylaeva
Russia Federation
Winner Best Action Short Film
Speechless
Dir. Diana Kadi
Russian Federation
Winner Best Adult " Ensamble "
Vapor
Dir. Jose Salof
Mexico
Official Selections
Take the Chocolate
Dir. Dr Shahid Kamal
United Kingdom
ReMi
Dir. Ramon Mayol Aranda
Spain
Dance under the Sea
Dir. Antonio Maria Cortese
Italy
Water Bullets
Dir. Luis
Mexico
The Prodigious Bifurcaria
Dir. Emiliano Fajardo Garcia
Mexico
The Task
Dir. Daniel Guillen
Mexico
Care Package
Dir. Dan Most
United States
Yound Love in a Dirty Place
Dir. Reinis Spaile
Latvia
And then what ?
Dir. Mario Trujillo
Mexico
Best Bacalar Documentaries
Best Bacalar Documentary Film National
Years of Glory. Life and work of Gloria Contreras.
Dir. Hernan Perera
Mexico
Best Bacalar Documentary Film Spanish Language
Winner Feature Film (Spanish Language )
Recharging the Present
Dir. Ines Criado Garcia, Nahuel Staudacher
Spain
Winner Feature Film (Foreign Language)
The Purple Thanaka of the Angels
Dir. Borit Yannick
Myanmar
Livestock or Desert
Dir. Francisco Jose Vaquero Robustillo
Spain
White Wloves - Ghosts of the Arctic
Dir. Oliver Goetzl
Germany
Dramayama
Dir. Jeanette Groenendaal
Netherlands
Studio 2091 - A Venetian Story
Dir. Nau Germoglio
Italy
Best Bacalar Documentary Short Film
Winner
Feather Dance
Dir. Alex Luke
Mexico
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.
Winner
Anima
Dir. Jennifer Jessum
United States
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.
Poetry in the Mist
Dir. Natalia Gaia
Mexico
Anatome
Dir. Adri Carrandi
Mexico
Birder
Dir. Nicolas Guitierrez Wenhammar
Mexico
Malpelo : Mountain of Sharks / Documentary short
Dir. Kevin Mannens
United States
Dourado
Dir. Marx Braga
Brazil
Can you hear her ?
Dir. Alilcia Carter, Lucas Pruitt
United States
Dajla : Cinema and Oblivion
Dir. Arturo Duenas Herrero
Spain
Unbroken : Saving Belize's Jaguar Corridor
Dir. Brandon Thompson
United States
Memories of Tress. The Southern settler.
Dir. Santiago Serrano
Chile
Bacalar Best Music Video
Winner
Dancing Trees
Dir. Strahinja Savic
Serbia
Samurai
Dir. Andrea Basile
Italy
Freaky
Dir. Christian D.K Long
United States
Safe Distance
Dir. Rona Soffer
Israel
Every Someday is Now an Always
Dir. Lindsey Willson
United States
Best Bacalar Kids Films
Winner Feature Film
Kung Fu Girl
Dir. Kenny Gage, Devon Downs.
China
Winner Feature Film
Poropopo
Dir. Luis Igreja
Brazil
Finalist Feature Film
Tomorrow's Game
Dir. Trevor Wilson, Jonathan Coria
United States
Winner Short Film
Giulia e il Capoposto
Dir. Antonio Maria Castaldo
Italy
Senza Nome
Dir. Gisella Gobbi
Italy
Cattle Market without Cattles
Dir. Junglin Chen
Taiwan
Water you waiting for
Dir. Leanne Read
Canada
The Chair
Dir. Raffaele Salvaggiola
Italy
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
Winner
Short Film
The Thief
Dir. Arturo Brena
United States
Uneven Pieces
Dir. Julieta Galvan
Mexico
Lola, Indomitable agrarian
Dir. Fidela Cisneros Rivera
Mexico
Alledoags
Dir. Moze Mertens
Netherlands
Farm Well, a story about farm life today
Dir. Pepijn Robben
Dir. Lucas De Man
Netherlands
The Deluge Fable
Dir. Michael Zamjatnins
Germany
Tio
Dir. Juan Medina
Mexico
Best Bacalar Audience Award ~
Winner
Short Film
Bosnian Broadway
Dir. Jasmina Beširević
Croatia
Derbent City of Stories
Dir. Eugene Moon
Russian Federation
The People we Serve
Dir. Francine M Cavanaugh
United States
Seaturtle watcher
Dir. Andrea Fiorito
Italy
Getsemani
Dir. Emma Vazquez Costa
Spain
In a Whole New Way
Dir. Jonathan Fisher
United States
Youth City Hall
Dir. Maaki Nurmeots
Belgium
Where the Wind Blows
Dir. Holger Mohaupt
Dir. Tracey Fearnehough
United Kingdom
Feature Films
Winner
Salud ! To the Health of Cuba
Dir. Frédéric Hausammann
Switzerland
Seaturtle Watcher
Dir. Andrea Fiorito
Italy
Food Forest
Dir. Louis De Jaeger
Belgium
Understandinglessness
Dir. Aleksa Maksimović
Serbia
A Silent Call : Can Anyone Hear me ?
Dir. Ana A Prickett Braunstein
United States
Black Daddy The Movie
Dir. Damon Jamal Taylor
United States
Without Kerosene To Berlin ( Ohne Kerosin Nach Berlin )
Dir. Roy Fochtman
Dir. Moritz Böll
Dir. Maximilian Blaß
Germany
Delivering Hope
Dir. Jordan Orsak
United States
Denying the Monster
Dir. David Seagull
United States
Where Luna Lives
Dir. Aliaksandra Markava
Belarus
GodChaserz The Documentary
Dir. Brinson Wright
Dir. Will Thomas
United States
The Undocumented
Dir. Sampsa Huttunen
Dir. Ann-Mari Leinonen
Finland
Ushiku
Dir. Thomas Ash
Japan
Terra Sospesa
Dir. Matteo Grimaldi
Dir. Giacomo Boeri
Italy
La Conversione
Dir. Giovanni Meola
Italy
The Fellowship of the Springs
Dir. Oscar Corral
United States
Gli anni folli della velocita
Dir. Federica Biondi
Dir. Gabriele Ogiva
Italy
The Innocents
Dir. Wojciech Lorenc
United States
Bacalar Film Festival Awards
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 "
Best Actor Feature Film
Wagner Kampynas
" Tomorrow you leave "
Best Actress Feature Film
Sonia Malhar
" Neeravam (Silence) "
Best Actor Short Film
John Doe
" Sea Light "
Best Actress Short Film
Yi Liu
" Removable "
Best Cinematography Feature Film
Shadow of the Night
Dir. Radhakrishnan Parthiban
India
Best Cinematography Short film
Surrender
Dir. Franziska Elisabeth Link
Australia
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
Best Screenplay on Feature Film
A Silent Call : Can Anyone Hear Me ?
Dir. Ana A Prickett Braunstein
United States
Best Screenplay on Short Film
Removable
Dir. Shu-Ying Chung
United States
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