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RETRO AVANT GARDE FEATURE FILM
Winner
Quel Genio del mio Amico
Dir. Alessandro Sarti
Italy
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Il film, interamente girato in Toscana, è una storia di fantasia che si sofferma su un periodo cruciale della vita del grande artista Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo eÌ€ in un periodo di crisi creativa, durante il quale Lorenzo il Magnifico in persona gli commissiona un quadro per rafforzare l'alleanza fra la famiglia Medici di Firenze e gli Sforza di Milano. Nel frattempo, Francesco de' Pazzi, deciso a rovinare i piani di Lorenzo, commissiona ad alcuni mercenari il furto dell'opera.
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The film, shot entirely in Tuscany, is a fictional story that focuses on a crucial period in the life of the great artist Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo is in a period of creative crisis, during which Lorenzo the Magnificent himself commissions him a painting to strengthen the alliance between the Medici family of Florence and the Sforza of Milan. Meanwhile, Francesco de' Pazzi, determined to ruin Lorenzo's plans, commissions some mercenaries to steal the work.
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RETRO AVANT GARDE SHORT FILM
Winner
Ater
Dir. Marie Fages
France
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Sahar tirelessly explores volcanic landscapes to find a rare mineral. But what she finds out shakes her research, her connection with the atmosphere and our Milky Way.
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Documentary Feature Films
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Best Documentary Feature Film
Winner
Tijuana – Storie di confine
Dir. Matteo Abbondanza
Italy
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Documentary Journalism
Winner
Siren Lullabies
Dir. Kristina Atovska
Macedonia, the former Yogoslav Republic of
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Musical Feature Film
Winner
Honorable Mention
Montelago la Citta’ Nomade
Dir. Maurizio Serafini
Dir. Luciano Monceri
Italy
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Human Stories
Winner
On These Mountains
Dir. Andrea Sbarretti
Italy
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Winner
Honorable Mention
Beneath The Ash
Dir. Amir Saleh
Italy
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Winner
Honorable Mention
Blind Vision
Dir. Dario Butelli
Italy
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Musical Tribute
Winner
Honorable Mention
Nothin’ at all
Dir. Mateo Malatesta
Italy
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World Cultures Feature
Winner
Recuerdo de Travesia
Dir. Elia Misesti
Italy
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Honorable Mention
The Innocents
Dir. Wojciech Lorenc
United States
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Honorable Mention
The Beautiful youth
Dir. Raffaella Verga
Italy
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Honorable Mention
Kath Duncan – The untold struggle for civil rights
Dir. Ray Barron Woolford FRSA
United Kingdom
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Honorable Mention
Il Sapore della terra
Dir. Giulio Filippo Giunti
Italy
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Honorable Mention
Be Ready – The Keys of Pope Celestine V
Dir. Luke Anthon
Dir. Giuseppe Tandoi
Italy
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Honorable Mention
Motherland
Dir. Vic Gerami
United States
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Documentary Short Films
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Best Documentary Short Film
Winner
The Last Potter
Dir. Fabio Oliveira
Portugal
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Official Selection
Behind a Mask
Dir. Niccolo Orlando
Italy
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Official Selection
Assma porta il velo, gioca a calcio
Dir. Dimitri Feltrin
Italy
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Official Selection
Dir. Dance under the Sea
Antonio Maria Cortese
Italy
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Official Selection
Io Credo
Dir. Lena
Italy
Honorable Mention
“Qualcosa Resta” (What remains)
Dir. Pasquale Napolitano
Italy
Honorable Mention
Breaches
Dir. Amanda Cagliero
Italy
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Honorable Mention
Isolate
Dir. Pedro Albuquerque Vieira
Portugal
Honorable Mention
Pievecchia : 8 Giugno 1944
Dir. Alessandro Sarti
Italy
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Honorable Mention
Frozen in Fear
Dir. Mattias Low
Dir. Oinam Doren
India
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Honorable Mention
Take Notice : A Camp for the Homeless
Dir. Anthony Collings
United States
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Honorable Mention
You win the war when you are satisfied
Dir. Luca Falorni
Dir. Sabrina Basilico
Dir. Luca Boriani
Italy
Honorable Mention
The People We Serve
Dir. Francine M. Cavanaugh
United States
Honorable Mention
Fuocodentro
Dir. Vincenzo Caricari
Italy
DRAMA
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Clouds of Chernobyl
Dir. Ligia Ciornei
Romania
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SHORT FILM
Winner
A Dead Sea
Dir. Nahd Bashir
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Official Selection
The House in the Middle of the Sea
Dir. Marcel Ruizendaal
United Kingdom
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Official Selection
LYNX
Dir. Julien Henry
Belgium
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Official Selection
Giovanna
Dir. Cesare Rossi
Italy
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Official Selection
Here is Where the Monsters Live
Dir. Chance Fuerstinger
United States
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Official Selection
Georgia’s Love
Dir. David Mastinu
Italy
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Official Selection
Confetti
Dir. Maddalena Stornaiuolo
Italy
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Official Selection
Black Wool
Dir. Elisabet Terri
Spain
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Official Selection
Fuochi
Dir. Mirko Genduso
Italy
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Official Selection
Kernel in the pit
Dir. George Chrysanthakopoulos
Greece
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Official Selection
Paradis
Dir. Chris Akoury
Lebanon
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Official Selection
Colonie
Dir. Romain Daudet Jahan
France
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Honorable Mention
Maryam - A Mother's Passion
Dir. Luca Liotti
Dir. Raffaele Musumeci
Italy
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Honorable Mention
Marie
Dir. Yudi Zhang
United States
Honorable Mention
Midwife Man
Dir. Juliette Denis
France
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Honorable Mention
The Return
Dir. Qianyin Tan
Dir. Andrea Marcheselli
Italy
Honorable Mention
Unmade
Dir. Stanislav Kacar
Australia
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Honorable Mention
Aion
Dir. Giulio Meliani
United States
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COMEDY
FEATURE FILM
Winner
Honorable Mention
Striving for the Present
Dir. Oded Farber
Dir. Gilad Kahana
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Hearing the Moon
Dir. Vincent Eckert
Germany
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Finalist
Candied Lips
Dir. Hina Effie Ogino
United States
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Official Selection
GPS Mon Amour
Dir. Javier Ideami
Spain
Official Selection
Vices
Dir. Ilaria Meo
Italy
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Official Selection
The 7 Lives of Sara Blanchard
Dir. Kevin Ruiz
United States
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Official Selection
The Library
Dir. Geraldine Ottier
Italy
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Official Selection
Fase 3
Dir. Omar Nedjari
Italy
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Official Selection
The Delay
Dir. Mattia Napoli
Italy
SCIENCE FICTION
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Honorable Mention
True Believer
Dir. Hideki Kojitani
Japan
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Pale Blue Dot : A Tale of Two Stargazers
Dir. Matteo Scarfo
Italy
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Official Selection
The Atomic Dream
Dir. Angad Aulakh
United States
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Official Selection
The Muse
Dir. Max Karpylev
United States
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NOIR
FEATURE FILM
Winner
Honorable Mention
Inexistentia
Dir. Salvatore Vitiello
Italy
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Finalist
Honorable Mention
Murmur
Dir. Mark Polish
United States
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SHORT FILM
Winner
For I am Dead
Dir. Patricia Delso Lucas
Belgium
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Finalist
Honorable Mention
Never Love Again – Truth or Dare ( part 1 )
Dir. Erik Jayce Landberg
Sweden
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Official Selection
Atonement
Dir. Kaveh Akaber
Sweden
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Official Selection
Honorable Mention
Where I’m From
Dir. Sina Nazarian
Canada
HORROR
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Handshake
Dir. Robert Shupe
United States
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Deliver You
Dir. Massimiliano Reina
Italy
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Official Selection
The Cadaver
Dir. Volkan Ozgumus
Turkey
Official Selection
Sedalia
Dir. Brandon L. Pennick
United States
Official Selection
Cinnamon
Dir. Shahid Kamal
United Kingdom
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ART
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
“Meden Agan” Nothing Beyond Measure
Dir. Alessandro Vantini
Italy
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Lucid Dream
Dir. Maria Dimou
Greece
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Official Selection
Human Condition
Dir. Aneka Manners
Dir. Rose Alice
Australia
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Official Selection
Rivolta e Malinconia
Dir. Mattia Biondi
Italy
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Official Selection
Palindrome – First Time
Dir. Fabio Giavara
Dir. Samir Fennane
Italy
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Official Selection
The Murmur from the leaden sea
Dir. Chiara Borredon
Italy
SURREALISM
FEATURE FILM
Winner
Honorable Mention
The Bytes Dreams are Made of
Dir. Alessandro Amaducci
Italy
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Wander
Dir. Dimitri Luedemann
United States
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Official Selection
Astra Inclinant
Dir. Nicolo Grasso
Italy
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Official Selection
Hellhole
Dir. Andreas Rothbart
United States
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Official Selection
Lorsque
Dir. Vanessa Bonnet
France
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Official Selection
Senti Mento
Dir. Michele De Bari
Italy
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Official Selection
Isola
Dir. Aymone G
France
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Official Selection
The Girl from Saturn
Dir. Goncalo Almeida
Portugal
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Official Selection
Black Hole
Dir. Romain Claris
France
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Official Selection
Film Rosa
Dir. Silvia Bertocchi
Italy
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Official Selection
Passio Sanctae Felicitatis, or the value of freedom
Dir. Samuel Cimma
Italy
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Official Selection
The Parable of the Leaf Blower
Dir. Rachel Ara
Jersey
FANTASY
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
The Wind and the Whimpering
Dir. Laurance McManus
United Kingdom
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Cochlea
Dir. Lisa Battocchio
Italy
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Official Selection
Sunglasses
Dir. Silvia Estella Ondina Sanna
Italy
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EXPERIMENTAL
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Honorable Mention
Love at War
Dir. Maxime Desruisseaux
Canada
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SHORT FILM
Winner
The Lamb
Dir. Helene Matte
Dir. Marco Dube
France
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Official Selection
Three Pride Flags
Dir. Tom Bessoir
United States
Official selection
The Farewell
Dir. Kitty McNamee
United States
Official Selection
Nexum
Dir. Flavia Mazzanti
Austria
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Official Selection
Losing You
Dir. Rose Alice
Dir. Aneka Manners
Dir. Martins Dabolins
Dir. Rachel Claudio
Australia
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Official Selection
2020
Dir. Tom Bessoir
United States
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Official Selection
Vexoh – A memory capsule
Dir. Cyrill Durigon
France
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Official Selection
Frame – Slime Mold Aliens
Dir. Christoph Theiler
Dir Renate Pittroff
Austria
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Official Selection
Technopoetics
Dir. Alexandre Dacosta
Brazil
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Official Selection
Sola al mondo
Dir. Kazuya Ashizawa
Japan
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Official Selection
Casual Leaker
Dir. Paloma Gonzalez H
Uruguay
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Official Selection
Tragodia
Dir. Marco Latour
Italy
Official Selection
Disparate fragments form patterns
Dir. Paul Edmund Fletcher
Australia
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Official Selection
White
Dir. Keum-Taek Jung
United States
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Official Selection
Whole
Dir. Aris Vedertsis
Greece
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Official Selection
Particle Magic
Dir. Kostiantyn Mishchenko
United States
EXPRESSIONIST
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
The Court Jester
Dir. Luiz Rosemberg Filho
Brazil
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Asavan
Dir. Carlo Somale
Italy
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Official Selection
Wildflower
Dir. Chiara Sabatini
France
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Official Selection
Anatomy of Chaos
Dir. Benjamin Juhel
France
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Official Selection
Outputs
Dir. Teresa Marcos Blanco
Spain
Official Selection
Kinesis
Dir. E. Vesper
Italy
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Official Selection
Bele Beltza
Dir. Andrea Hackl
Netherlands
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Official Selection
Personal
Dir. Zofia Bystydzienska-Dolata
Poland
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Official Selection
Plague under the olive tree
Dir. Youssef Ksentini
Tunisia
ANIMATION
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Winner
The Blind Writer
Dir. Georges Sifianos
Greece
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Official Selection
P.O.W.E.R.S : Book One
Dir. Mahalia Jackson-Butler
Dir. Christopher Delao
United States
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Official Selection
Unspoken
Dir. Milica Denkovic
Serbia
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Official Selection
Ulysses Alphabet
Dir. Christoph Theiler
Austria
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Official Selection
aLone
Dir. David Lopez Ramirez
Colombia
Official Selection
The Combine
Dir. Micah Chambers – Goldberg
United States
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Official Selection
Flumina
Dir. Antonello Matarazzo
Italy
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Official Selection
The Cloud Princess
Dir. Sheldon Christopher Noble
South Africa
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Official Selection
Estuary
Dir. Warren Bass
United States
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Official Selection
Nursery Crimes Part One : The Ominous Overture
Dir. Charles Kline
United States
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Official Selection
Whitelines
Dir. Evan Curtis
United States
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Official Selection
Transparent Black and Iron Rich Red
Dir. Mario Kreill Cirillo
Dir. Isabel Emily Wiegand
Italy
MUSIC VIDEO
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Winner
Little Big – Moustache ( feat. Netta )
Dir. Alina Pasok
Dir. Iliya Prusikin
Russian Federation
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Choreography
Winner
Come close to me
Dir. Pablo Fidanza
Argentina
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Music Artist Collaboration
Winner
Oliver Tree & Little Big – The Internet
Dir. Oliver Tree
Dir. Alina Pasok Pasok
Dir. Maxim Semyonov
Russian Federation
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Winner
Oliver Tree & Little Big – Turn it up ( Feat. Tommy Cash )
Dir. Alina Pasok
Dir. Iliya Prusikin
Dir. Oliver Tree
Russian Federation
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Official Selection
I am Rosie – My Reputation
Dir. Jan Moravec
Czech Republic
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Official Selection
Tahrikator – The Game of Love
Dir. Turgay Aksoy
Turkey
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Official Selection
Last D’Annunzio – A trilogy
Dir. Alfredo Marasti
Dir. Chirs Mazzoncini
Italy
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Official Selection
Operativo
Dir. Giuseppe Lanno
Italy
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Official Selection
Istinto Primordiale
Dir. Simone Albano
Italy
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Official Selection
Freaky
Dir. Christian D.K. Long
United States
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Official Selection
Koala Voice – Spaghettification
Dir. Miha Subic
Slovenia
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Official Selection
Cosmic Storm
Dir. Tane McClure
Dir. Sandra Stenzel
United States
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Official Selection
Occhiali da Vista
Dir. Claudio Melis
Dir. Karsten Zinser
Italy
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Official Selection
Mr. Alone
Dir. Alberto Grosso
Italy
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AWARDS
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DIRECTORS
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MALE DIRECTOR
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
“ Dr. Aibek Daiyrbekov ”
The Scent of the Wormwood
Kyrgyzstan
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SHORT FILM
Winner
“ Dir. Marcel Ruizendaal ”
The House in the Middle of the Sea
United Kingdom
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Female Director
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
“ Dr. Ligia Ciornei ”
Clouds of Chernobyl
Romania
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SHORT FILM
Winner
“ Dir. Juliette Denis ”
Midwife Man
France
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Journalism / Doc Director
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
“ Dr. Kristina Atovska ”
Siren Lullabies
Macedonia, The Former Yogoslav Republic of
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ACTING
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Best Actor
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
“ Jon J Peterson ”
George M. Cohan Tonight !
Dir. Jon J Peterson
United States
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Finalist
“ Dastan Aibek ”
The Scent of the wormwood
Dir. Aibek Daiyrbekov
Kyrgyzstan
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SHORT FILM
Winner
“ Doug Wiggins ”
A Dance through Time
Dir. Michael Carzo
Dir. Derrick Caballes
Australia
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Best Actress
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
“ Eli Jane ”
The Way
Dir. Dastan Khalili
United States
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SHORT FILM
Winner
“ Julien Henry ”
LYNX
Dir. Julien Henry
Belgium
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Retro Short Film
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Winner
Cycles
Dir. Harold Charre
France
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Official Selection
PRESS(ED)
Dir. Senne Driesen
Belgium
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Official Selection
Exterior Day ( Esterno Giorno )
Dir Giulia Magno
Italy
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Official Selection
Information
Dir. Dominick Gray
United States
Official Selection
Tenjinsan Textiles
Dir. Michael Lyons
Japan
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Official Selection
Lullaby to My Father
Dir. Michael LaRocco
United States
Official Selection
Abstract Film
Dir. Kostiantyn Mishchenko
United States
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RETRO DOCUMENTARY
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Life work of Akira Kurosawa
Dir. Mitsuhiko Kawamura
Japan
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Finalist
Honorable Mention
The Trust Game
Dir. Aaron Dykes
Dir. Melissa Dykes
United States
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Official Selection
Asbestos grave : Chronicle of an announced disaster
Dir. Nina Toussaint
Belgium
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ADULT ENSAMBLE
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Scarpedicemente
Dir. John Vamvas
Canada
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COLLABORATION PERFORMANCE
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Third Body
Dir. Zohar Melinek Ezra
Dir. Roey Victoria Heifetz
Israel
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FILMMAKER STUDENT
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SHORT FILM
Winner
First Love
Dir. Beatrice Woo
Canada
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CINEMATOGRAPHY
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Quel Genio del mio Amico
Dir. Alessandro Sarti
Italy
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SHORT FILM
Winner
LYNX
Dir. Julien Henry
Belgium
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Finalist
Hearing the Moon
Dir. Vincent Eckert
Germany
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SCREENPLAY
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
The Scent of the Wormwood
Dir. Aibek Daiyrbekov
Kyrgyzstan
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SHORT FILM
Winner
The House in the Middle of the Sea
Dir. Marcel Ruizendaal
United Kingdom
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Finalist
All Over Again
Dir. Joseph Mc Govern
United States
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EDITION
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
The Trust Game
Dir. Aaron Dykes
Dir. Melissa Dykes
United States
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Deliver You
Dir. Massimiliano Reina
Italy
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ORIGINAL MUSIC
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FEATURE FILM
Winner
Bandidos and Balentes “ The Unwritten Code ”
Dir. Fabio Manuel Mulas
Italy
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Otonashi
Dir. Martin Gerigk
Germany
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ORIGINAL SONG - SHORT FILM
Winner
All over again
Dir. Joseph McGovern
United States
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MAKE-UP AND HAIR STYLE
FEATURE FILM
Winner
Bandidos and Balentes “ The Unwritten Code ”
Dir. Fabio Manuel Mulas
Italy
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SHORT FILM
Winner
Double Act
Dir. Lotte Thomas
Spain
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