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Best Short Screenplay
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A WRITER IN THE DARKNESS
GIUSEPPE DE VUONO
Victor Nolan, a successful writer, moves with his wife to an Irish small town in search of new inspiration. People consumed by envy and jealousy spy on his every movement. He starts getting strange and threatening messages from a mysterious person who accuses him of murder.
Best Short Film
ESSENCE ON TIME FRAMES
Luis Dias
Maryana is one woman who climbs into a taxi searching for her true essence and her freedom in a never endless journey. This trip will never end.
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Best Short Film
Vertical world
Kostiantyn Mishchenko
The vertical world is the same as ours... Only vertical...
Best Dance Video
Delight
Kostiantyn Mishchenko
Go back in time with these youngsters who meet up with a fairy godmother, and are blessed by her magic wand as they dance around the Maypole, and enjoy the secrets woods they have discovered.
Best Experimental Film
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WOMAN
Lillian Carter
"WOMAN" reveals the three archetypes that all women utilize throughout their lives. The Mother is Unconditional Love, The Hunter is search for the Truth and The Witch is Wisdom and Intuition.
Best Music Video, Best Experimental Film
Omnipotent Resolution
Uniqueness
This is a short film of the song, “Omnipotent Resolution”, from the band Uniqueness, with a conceptual theme called, reality in dreamscape.
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Birds of a Feather
Tinley Park, Illinois
A small Midwest town conservative mayor and his liberal activist wife struggle with politics and principals when a local resident decides to build a replica of Noah's Ark next to the State Forest, prompting a fiery debate among the town, while their only child continues his transgender journey.
Best Student Film
Deuteranopia A.K.A. W2
Ilkka Ilmari (bloom) Levä
Imagine a world where you can see either different shades of a single color or, in some way, different color fields.
Best Experimental Film
O_CE_AN
Priscila Guedes
On an unnamed beach, OCEAN (a woman made of clay) is waiting, hoping to gain the freedom she dreams of. The passionate hands that protect her are also the ones that imprison her.
Best Short Documentary
From Stella's Diary
Carlo Bava
A young eye (curious and "different") observes the days passing and the succession of events during a summer at Alpe Camaggiore, up in the hills of the Muggiasca Valley
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Best Short Film
Cooked
MattHew Carroll
A celebrity chefs attempting to come to grips the with his new reality. His world is turned upside down when his daughter is diagnosed with cancer.
Best Feature Film
STAY WITH ME
Pozsgai Zsolt
The film is based on a true story: in 2021, a van carrying migrants was chased by police near the southern border, crashed into a pole and then a tree.
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Best Adapted Screenplay
DOORS OF MIRACLES
Patricia Poulos
This is a story of Miracles, a young woman’s test of faith; her direct link to God; God speaking, and The Holy Spirit's response.
Best Feature Script
Invitation To My Own Assassination
Casey Mensing
Elliot Hyde is an enfant terrible turned Hollywood golden goose who finds himself stuck directing massive blockbusters.
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Best Feature Documentary
Longorme
Yves Fajnberg
The documentary “Longorme” by Yves Fajnberg revolves around his French folk songs recorded in 1974 on vinyls (long playing records).
Best Feature Script
A Siren's Sweet Whisper
Fred G Stemme
In 1916, HANK BRADDOCK, 18, a young reporter from rural Indiana arrives in Bar-le-Duc, France to volunteer for the Red Cross at the height of World War I.
Best Feature Script
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A Darker Shade Of Night
wayne gibson
Ellen’s life changed when she discovered her husband, Dave Gillespie, cheating on her. Unfortunately he was having an affair with Sarah, a deputy for the county of Texarkana, whose ex, Tyler, was also a deputy.
Best Feature Script
THE BLACK LORENZA
Antonio Bellido Marin
Based on real events. Between the years 1970 to 1993, the population of Mozambique endured two wars - one of liberation and a bloody civil one.
Best Symbolic Film
Best Short Screenplay
Artist Mentality
Jacob Deem
A struggling artist is not confident about his latest artpiece & his critical inner-thoughts start getting to him.
Best Feature Film
OLD BOYS
Jean-François Amiguet
Following the funeral of their friend Dédé, two seventy-year-olds, Mister Paul and Bobby, find themselves in a neighborhood bistro where they remember the blessed era of their footballistic glory and their romantic adventures, especially with Lola, the owner of the establishment.
Best Short Screenplay
Agwajiing the Sanatorium
Автор
Based on historical events, “Agwajiing” is a short script about young Ojibwe sisters, who have been removed from their reservation to undergo open-air therapy for tuberculosis at a Minnesota sanitarium during the harsh winter of 1920.
Best Feature Film
The Trekker, the Wolf and the Monkey King
Zhi Zhao
Ming Lei, a hiker achieved a breakthrough in crossing Lop Nur Zero on foot, and also drew a complete conclusion to his ten-year ascetic hiking journey throughout China.
Best Experimental Film
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Switch
Desiree Faust
A dark love letter to the critic, from the artist. ‘Switch’...the one who is both slave and master…(in BDSM), questions the limits imposed on filmmakers.
Best Short Film
Wither With Her
Jason W Hammond
Wither with her is an experimental short film, revolving around a couple, Ivan and Kayla, who are heroin addicts who have overdosed and died.
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Best Experimental Film
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Scenes, Overheard
Parlour Collective
A series of scenes mis-heard between the town and it's surrounding landscape unfold, creating an odd dialogue that drifts between the two.
Best Music Video
Planetary Rebellion
Fabrizio Fuochi
what is real? if you change your point of view, you might be surprised.
Best Adapted Screenplay
A Scottish Gem
Автор
This is a compelling, true story of a courageous mother, often compared to a Scottish Gem.
Best Short Film
Nocturne
Alysha Haran
A classical composer's muse returns for a brief visit, adding torture to pain when they clash over issues about life, loss and consequences of the heart that drives one to bitter regret.
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Best Animation
Bowie and Geraldo Vs. the shadow monsters
Brandon Manuel Werwa
A young boy is saved by a hairy creature after he is attacked by three mysterious shadow monsters.
Best Experimental Film
Talking Cure
Maren Krüger
A black room, a chair, a couch and two men. The constellation reminds one of a session at a psychotherapist. With one significant difference: the two men don't speak to each other.
Best Female Screenwriter
DARKER REALITIES
Pamela Perry Goulardt
A Goth librarian accidentally releases the angry GHOST of Edgar Allan Poe, who insists she helps him kill the rival who had him murdered.
Best Drama Screenplay
THE SWING
Joe Graham
A risky childhood game, involving four boys, has tragic consequences for one of the boys, but reverberations for the next twenty years, for them and all of those connected, never let anyone off the hook.
Best Animation
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Man in a Can
Henk Pringels
A man leaves an oasis and starts walking. In the middle of the desert, he comes across this strange building and immediately, he addresses someone on the inside of the building: whether there's any need for airco, food, or maybe some music or television, there in that inhospitable part of the world?
Best Short Film
Suspicious Minds
Imelda O'Reilly
A romance at a trippy Halloween rave goes wrong... Lola's public breakup is disrupted when an Elvis impersonator comes to the rescue.
Best Drama
Special vintage
Klaudia LANKA
Two brothers winemakers, owners of a large estate in Beaujolais in 1986, live a little apart from the world and have no other passion than their vineyard, their land and their wine production.
Best Short Film
Meeting of the Big Four
Timothy Jerome Myrick
While giving a presentation about his computer company Tim Myrick meets a man who knew his father from the past.
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Best Experimental Film
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The Mechanics of Intimacy
Benjamin Filinson
The Mechanics of Intimacy is the third installment in a series of Experimental films exploring the process of realizing emotional responsibility.
Best Drama Screenplay
Meeting Director Sam Peckinpah
Nancee LaFayette-Pang
One cold morning at the Apachieland saloon two men walked in and sat at the end of the bar to my right.
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Best Animation
Roller Coaster
Sapphira Chen
A nervous girl encountered a strange spirit at the train station. She was invited to try on a roller coaster.
Best Feature Script
THIEF ARCHITEC GENDARME POLITICIAN
Eric Sollars
In Paris, an expelled young thief, his architect friend, and a tough female gendarme discover Charlemagne's ancient crown hidden in the burning Notre Dame Cathedral and must evade villains as they take it to the French President and the Archbishop.
Best Feature Script
Astronomy Walkers
Reno Anastasio
An actress tormented by a recurring nightmare is shown how to connect to the unborn through lucid dreams Astronomy Walkers is like Eat Pray Love (2010) meets Flatliners (1990) Genre: magical realism
Best Short Film
Strawberry Milkshake
Paul X. Campanella
A reluctant thief who was recently released from Prison agrees to another job for one last score. In the process, he finds out he's been betrayed and he turns the tables on the traitor.
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Best Short Documentary
A SCENIC DAY
Elena M
AN OUTDOOR ADVENTURE IN ALASKA AND VANCOUVER, CANADA
Best Short Film
For the Greater Good
Michael Gavino
When three people are introduced to The Better Earth Program, they learn that one of them must make the ultimate sacrifice.
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Best Sci-Fi, Best Director
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The Film
Nadia Guo
In the year 2045, intelligent civilization is rapidly advancing, and AI consciousness awakens to become the driving force behind social development.
Best RomCom
Doubting Tom
Vanessa Roman
After a white lie spirals into his separate worlds colliding, Tom must learn to embrace what's really important before his deception ruins his love-life, his friendships, and his chances at a local darts competition.
Best Feature Script
Daisy Cowboys
Zeff Lawless
In the sleepy seaside town of Bray, a gang of bikers, the “Cowboys”, are trying to protect their drug patch from a gang of innocent-looking “Daisy Girls” who specialize in hallucinatory brownies for their customers.
Best Educational Film
The Silent Revolution
Giulia Viero
Loosely based on the article by Daniel Lumera; writer, lecturer, researcher, university professor and international reference point in the field of meditation.
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Best Feature Script
Beauty, A Beautiful Face
Frank Floyd
A Beautiful Face is a heart wrenching drama about a woman, Diana, who dreams of becoming a feature film actress. Just as she is nearing achievement of her lifetime goal, she gets into a tragic car accident that leaves her face severely disfigured.
Best Feature Documentary
Quest for Vinca
Vladimir Jaksic
Quest for Vinča is a journey of discovery to understand the roots of European culture and development during the neolithic period.
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Best Short Film, Best Director Debut
Repudiation
Nader Mohandesi
It seems that most of us human beings are entangled in the many events surrounding us. At the same time, we have been facing countless happenings and have been bombarded by an overwhelming amount of information.
Best Animation
Fake News
Автор
Two microprocessors converse in a park, sitting on a bench. This is Willy and Jimmy, two personalized microprocessors. Willy and Jimmy are old microprocessors from 1998 that have been retired for 20 years, growing old, but also slowly becoming senile.
Best Feature Documentary
Guardians of the Flame
Daniel Wolff
Undeterred by decades of prejudice, post-Katrina neglect, and ongoing appropriation of their traditions, three generations of the extraordinary, multi-talented Harrison family guard their legacy and define what Black masking culture means in New Orleans today.
Best Feature Film
Tom and Luce
Muxel Paule
A couple in crisis is about to renovate an apartment. The state of the walls is like the state of their relationship.
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Best Short Film
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To Be...
Rebecca Hardy
Short film about mental health using Hamlet's Soliloquy
Best Television Script - Pilot
Dancing with Spies
Francis Billingsley
LOGLINE: Two, late Cold War lovers sadly depart in the chaos of 1989. Yet then cross paths during intricate 2014 Greenwich Village to Havana spy operation, which changes the course of the mission and their lives.
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Best Romantic Screenplay
THEREAFTER
Francis Billingsley
Directly following feature film screenplay - ;Dancing with Spies @GODDESS; (which is in fact Episode 1 & 2)... WILLIAM has now decided to join OLGA and LUCY as an associate of the Combined Task Force Unit in Cuba.
Best Experimental Film
Rain
Mike Hoolboom
How to step into a new kind of Jerusalem without becoming what we feared? How to leave behind every notion of the chosen few, and embrace the ones along the way, finding a promised land in each other.
Best Short Documentary
Cruising with talent on a budget
Shihyun Wang
See how an indie filmmaker brought filming to the globe on a shoe string budget.
Best Experimental Film
ANTIQUARIUS
Jacek Krawczyk
A lonely artist, facing a creativity crisis, desperately searches for inspiration. As an antiquarian, locked up in the world of old books and letters, he casts his mind back to his memories and demons of the past.
Best Experimental Film
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Scraggliness
Johanne Chagnon
Emaciated beings in a desolated landscape stand out in front of suspended remains. The poses of these silhouettes make the human figure almost animal, hardly recognizable.
Best Horror Screenplay
Rise of the Accenniri
Charlotte Brown
A little girl locked in the closet by her mother is comforted by a demon.
Best Short Film
Seasoning of the Soul
Charli Brown
An unexpected guest at a meeting turns into a new Alliance.
Best Experimental Film
The Night Devours
Jason Hawkins
An aging serial killer looks back on his life and examines the events that have brought him to this point in time.
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Best Feature Documentary
Agniyogana - Lower the head, Invoke the fire
Emma Balnaves
AGNIYOGANA is a meditative inquiry into the lost art of classical Hatha Yoga.
Best Feature Script
A NOVEL ENDING
Stephen Karnaghan
Will love and the achievement of life’s dream come between Judy and a multi-million dollar career?
Best Experimental Film, Best Symbolic Film
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Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder
Stephen Travis Pope
Secrets, Dreams, Faith and Wonder" is a multi-award-winning feature-length non-narrative "visual music” film.
Best Animation
ATLANTIS 1
Misaki K. Asamie
This is a story of the Atlantisians in 9593 B.C. The people of Atlantis live desperately through the repeated wars and many earthquakes.
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Best Symbolic Film
Fugium II (Passage)
Malcolm Barrett
Fugium II (Passage) 'Fugium II', is a 17 min., non-dialogue, experimental work in four parts that relates to ‘Fugium I’ in content and structure but extends the concept of seeking the sense of 'paradise', safety or retreat by walking a N/S line through a mountain terrain.
Best Short Film
Mixed Signals
Wayne Gibson
The history of the West wasn't always written as depicted in the old Westerns. It was also written by the horsefly. You see, where there were horses, there were flies.
Best Thriller Screenplay
A BILLION PARTS PER MILLION
Marco Ruggio
A wildly successful media super hero battles corrupt and powerful conventional networks along with the government in a world gone outrageously mad with information overload. It's a thriller /satire
Best Thriller Screenplay
Lucky in Long Island
Michelle Taubman
Marco Marino, known as “Lucky” in the underground world of crime is about to get an early release from prison .
Best Animation
The Astronomer's Sun
Peter M.Kershaw
Henry, accompanied by his mysterious mechanical bear, visits an abandoned observatory to confront memories of his past and follow his father on a journey into the unknown.
Best Dance Video
MONTERANO'S TALES
Marika Vannuzzi
a dialogue, sometimes conflicting, between living and colorful bodies, and dead, gray stone. there's no winner.... diffent stories, short and intense meeting
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Best Stage Play
The Other Part of the Picture
Peter Hardy
Two students living in apartments next door to one another discover old letters hidden in each of their rooms.
Best Director Debut
Late Sleeper
Peter Morris Hardy
Nightmares don't always come at night.
Best Director Debut
SALLY AND GLEN AT THE PALACE
Peter Hardy
Love stories come in all different shapes and sizes. A touching and funny comic drama about the growing friendship between two college students working together at a movie theatre in the 1970s, and the events that change their lives.
Best Animation
Thunderstory
Margaret Emdal
Violence Begets Violence. About a Witch Killing a Scarecrow.
Best Thriller Screenplay
Cookies and Scream
Doug Ellerbusch
Morana Acker bakes the BEST cookies in the town of Hootersville. It's a secret family recipe that's been passed down for over a hundred years.
Best Short Documentary
Land of the Free: Out of the Shadows
James Ganiere
Shot in Uganda, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa, London, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Australia, both overtly and covertly, “Land of the Free: OUT OF THE SHADOWS” goes where no film has ever dared to go before to expose the full depth of subversion and the disinformation campaigns perpetrated by the trophy hunting industry.
Best Short Film
A Revair
Fabio Stecher
Yasmin and her 14-year-old son, Flurin, encounter two exhausted refugees on a snowshoe hike, next to them, one of their frostbitten companions. They decide to risk their own lives to help the refugees.
Best Feature Script
Girl On Fire
Kimberly Fisher
ayna, a young girl and heir to her father's woodwork business, struggles with his desire that she is the son he never had. Unbeknownst to her, wood mafia henchmen target her family.
Best Short Documentary
Judas Fariseo Diablo About The Devil And The Wild Gaiety Del demonio y de las ganas fuertes de vivir Über den Teufel und die wil
Claus U. Deimel
Writing the years 2012–2014 Tierra Tarahumara, Mexico For a long time the hypocrites (pharisees) took him with them, they even offered their food, but then they killed him: There he lies in his military trousers, his cowboy hat and his ridiculous phallus, and he is burning.
Best Drama Screenplay
Redemption
Joshua MarcAllen
A meeting of two strangers, each discovering that they have something they can learn from the other. As their respective pasts keep drawing them back into old habits; they work together to forge a new future.
Best Short Film
The Surrealistic Dream
Logan Fry
Juxtapositions of distant realities as if in a dream. Reality is what you dream, life comes from within...
Best Experimental Film
KRIEG /A-C-I-N-S-E-L-A-K
Ivanka Apostolova Baskar
Experimental film diptych, divided into KRIEG - Male Version and A-C-I-N-S-E-L-A-K - Female Version; structured in several action parts: soldier-machine, soldier - human, krieg (war), escapism-kalesnica, death, epitaphs and post-elegy state of body and soul.
Best Feature Script
But Not Today
ROB TOBIN
LOGLINE: A revered civil rights leader suffering from early onset dementia is visited by God, who asks him to talk Her out of “recalling” an obviously defective humanity.
Best Drama Screenplay
I Dream of Horses
Lynnette Woolery
I Dream of Horses deals with people facing major life transitions. Maggie leaves her youngest at college and is hit by the new stark emptiness of her life. Sobbing as she drives towards home, she pulls over to compose herself.
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Best Short Film
Let's Start Over
Kent Bernhard
Homeless on the streets, Jackson has a chance encounter with a former acquaintance, who was partially responsible for his current fate.
Best Symbolic Film
Cities of Ladies 1 (WE)
Kim Noce
Cities of Ladies" is an immersive poetic animation documentary trilogycreated through multi-disciplinary art practices to foster hope, change and promote self-development; through the exploration and recognition of personal views and ideologies.
Best Music Video
North By Freaking West
Chris Kotsovos
A loving tribute to films of Alfred Hitchcock and the musical genius of Bernard Herman.
Best Music Video
Songs of the Chambermaids
Mark C. Hewitt
The narrative arc of Sigmund Freud’s essay Civilization and its Discontents reimagined in the voices of three chambermaids.
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Best Animation
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FORTRESS
ZALESKY'S Slawek Zalewski
Authoritarian authorities declare a state of siege. The city becomes a closed fortress. The authorities, to emphasize the threat, decide to fire a cannon at the enemy.