Best Retro Avant Garde Feature Film

Winner

Finding Ophelia

Dir. Stephen Rutterford

United States

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Finding the Girl of your Dreams can be a Nightmare.

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Best Retro Avant Garde Short Film

Winner

Aufm Deich

Dir. Jakob Reuter

Germany

 

“The tides are coming. Feelings disappear. Saying goodbye to an era.

On the dyke. ” In the new music video of german pop singer Lisa

Spielmann, we dive into an eerily beautiful parallel world made of

concrete and water.

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Finalist

In Your Room

Dir. Alessandro Amaducci

Italy

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Planet M in Outer Space

Dir. Peter Meng

United States

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Best Art Feature Film

Winner

Darkness of Otherwhere

Dir. Ayoub Qanir

Japan

 

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Best Drama Feature Film

Winner

Makhom

Dir. Leila Rastyamovna Salakhatdinova

Russian Federation

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Honorable Mention Films

Winners

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Mind Exchange Music Presents :

Layne Marie Williams The Adventures of Ms Glitch

Live Film Score

Dir. Donny Walker

United States

 

Psychology of Migration 30’

Dir. Ferhat Atik

Turkey

 

Traditional Indigenous Ways of Being

Dir. Ed Breeding

United States

 

 

Artist Unmasked

Dir. Dario Mohr

United States

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Best Documentary Feature Film

Winner

Koshukuro

Dir. Victor Castro

Portugal

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A group of rare birds flew over northern Mozambique, two wingless rare

birds were left behind and got lost from the group ... lost and in despair,

the two wingless rare birds were saved by Helpo, a non-governmental

organization.

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Studio 2091- A Venetian Story

Dir. Nau Germoglio

Italy

 

The Common Ground

Dir. Andrea Franceschini

Italy

 

Still the Spy of God

Dir. Thomas Josef Roth

Germany

 

 

 

 

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Best Documentary Short Film

Winner

Victims of Fun

Dir. Dan Schwert

United States

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A retrospective graffiti documentary featuring some of Seattle's most

prominent street artists, as well as the perspectives of representatives

from anti-graffiti entities such as Goodbye Graffiti and Project Paint Out.

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Physical Thoughts

Dir. Anne Hollowday

United States

  

Uncaught

Dir. Paul Kelly

Dir. Shabbir Ghadiali

United States

 

Shahiya Lahoriya – The Account of an Anti-Hero

Dir. Muhammad Razi

Pakistan

  

Talking Portraits

Dir. Jeronimo Sarmiento

Belgium

 

 

 

 

 

Best Musical Documentary

Winner

Pietà

Dir. Andrea DelGiudice

United States

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Cast against the dark, sinful city of Venice glows the mesmerizing

Ospedale della Pietà, is an orphanage that takes in girls abandoned,

often from their families because of physical disfiguration, illegitimate

pregnancy, or unknown origin, and trains them in music..

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Best Drama Short Film

Winner

Amend

Dir. John Patrick Hayden

United States

 

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Finalist

The Space Since and In Between

Dir. Francisco Solorzano

United States

 

 

8 Loops

Dir. Nils Lane

France

 

Dance Dance !

Dir. Ralph Reyes

United States

 

 

The House

Dir. Saoud Bouebaid

Kuwait

 

Black Koffee

Dir. Rodney Cox

United States

 

Just Like Water

Dir. Manos Triantafillakis

Greece

 

The Girl at Number 42

Dir. Sarane McDougall

United Kingdom

 

Rejects

Dir. Austin Buchanan

Dir. Samuel Niall

United States

 

Worried about the matches ?

Dir. Angelina Turska

Ukraine

 

Dark Hearts

Dir. Kevin Van Stevenson

United States

 

 

Orphism

Dir. Tristan Szabo Culbert

United States

 

People Show 138 : Last Day

Dir. Gareth Brierley

United Kingdom

 

Emi

Dir. Arnaud Prochasson

France

 

 

Skip Her

Dir. Sara key

Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Best Comedy Short Film

Winner

The Time Paradox

Dir. Cary Sandoval

United States

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Charles Ochoa, a physics professor, invents a machine that allows him

to send and receive images through the timeline.

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All the Time

Dir. Alessio Naddeo

Italy

 

Flash Thunder93

Dir. Reuben Harvey

Ireland

 

 

Matty Boy

Dir. Dr Shahid Kamal

United Kingdom

 

Social – Security

Dir. Hugo Brument

United States

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Best Horror Short Film

Winner

Porcelain Doll

Dir. Cecilia Seaward

United States

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Lisa arrives at her vacation rental apartment to find that it's been

double-booked. It all seems to be an honest mistake until she's forced to

fight with the other guests for what's rightfully hers.

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The Performing Chef

Dir. William Oates

United Kingdom

  

 

Best Noir Short Film

Winner

Music Box

Dir. Simon Richards

United Kingdom

 

 

Echoes of Kerberos

Dir. Steve Brock

United States

 

 

New Year’s Kiss

Dir. DT Kofoed

Dir. Lee Ivy

United States

 

 

 

 

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Best Sci Fiction Short Film

Winner

Q : Ghostly remote Effect

Dir. Marcus Hanisch

Germany

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In the future. A hi-tech-lab. Scientist P is testing quantum-gynoid Q and

sets off on a mission to an undiscovered nature. On the journey she

discovers a ghostly remote effect between herself and the robot. Will she

maintain in control, when nature starts changing?

 

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Protector

Dir. Chris Lee

China

 

 

Shedding

Dir. Alessandro Amaducci

Italy

 

 

 

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Best Experimental Short Film

Winner

Quantum Superposition

Dir. Clara Janzen

United States

 

 

Save Me

Dir. Michael Coppola

United Kingdom

 

Gates

Dir. Antoine Marc

United Kingdom

 

The Detached Observer

(L’observatrice Detachee)

Dir. Serena Marija

United Kingdom

 

 

4.5m

Dir. Kim Je Hyun

Republic of Korea

 

New York Minute

Dir. Lynn Bianchi

United States

 

 

Rebirth of Venus

Dir. Robin Noorda

Netherlands

 

The Road of the Weather

Dir. Afroditi Tavri

China

 

Sugar Sweats

Dir. Matthew Lo Re’

United States

 

Human Applications

Dir. Marina Landia

Germany

 

 

 

 

 

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Best Art Short Film

Winner

Hairless

Dir. Madyha Leghari

Pakistan

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Studies at Huningue / Basel or the tree to sleep

Dir. Luz P. Kayser

Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Best Surrealism Short Film

Winner

Among Dreams

Dir. Joaquim Pavao

Portugal

SCULP is a cinematographic project created by the director Joaquim

Pavão around the sculptures from the collection of the International

Museum of Contemporary Sculpture - MIEC. In SCULP is constructed a

dystopian narrative where, in a context of struggle for human survival

on planet Earth, the free will of most human beings is replaced by the

"right will" established by a small group and communicated to each

individual by a voice generated in an algorithmic system.

 

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Toad, Leaf, Grass, Rock

Dir. Federica Foglia

Italy

 

Prazan Hod

Dir. Anisa Hodzic

United States

 

 

 

 

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Best Expressionism Short Film

Winner

Nine White Moons

Dir. Seth Gabrielsson

Australia

 

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Sodo Express

Dir. Suridh Hassan

United States

 

 

Anima

Dir. Mo Qian

China

 

 

Just Three Words

Dir. Graeme Finlayson

United States

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Best Psychedelic Fantasy

Winner 

See Me : A Walk Through London’s Gay

(UN) Seen (2020)

Dir. Lee Campbell

United Kingdom

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This film is made using digital transfer versions of c90 tape compilations

I made between 1992-1995, juxtaposed with moving image footage of

me in 2018 and 2020 and a typeface font graphic ‘See Me that I designed

in 2005. The c90 cassette on screen is the cassette compilation that I still

have from 1994.

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Driftwood III – Baby Aien

Dir. Roberta Wallach

United States

 

 

Big Hand Nick : First Assignment

Dir. Paul Stamas

Dir. Matthew Stamas

United States

 

 

Vanilla Purple

Dir. Matthew Lo Re’

United States

 

 

Dada Ship

Dir. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

United States