OFFICIAL SELECTION

Best Feature Film

Left of Chopin

THE SEASONS, four love stories

Million Loves In Me

Phantoms of the sea

Manasvi

Tom and Luce

MOONLIGHT DINER

Shoveling Pixie Dust: a Memoir

Run Rabbit.

Edward and Isabella

The Chosen Path

An Egypt Affair 

 

 

Best Short Film

LAST FIRST

Polished

“HAMZA – The Lion”

Viva

Ripple in the Mirror

To Father

Color Black

ᐃᔨᔫ ᐊᔅᒌ Eeyou Istchee Trauma Rescue

MAMA

BIRHA – The Journey Back Home

KOLD

Everything I Could

ROAD

 

 

Best Director – Feature

Jörg Reichlin – Am Rande der Zeiten

Dani Menkin – AULCIE

Byron Lamarque – The Desiring

Ronan Tynan – Bringing Assad To Justice

Nayo Titzin Atanasov Neykov – La Scuola Kabaivanska

Christopher M. Allport – Emily or Oscar?

Bengt Olov Danneborn – Open minds, Sharp brains, Big hearts

Paul Schwartz – THE SEASONS, four love stories

Alex A Harz – ‘THE QUEST: Nepal’

Igor Biddau – Like there’s no tomorrow

Tim Landry – Shoveling Pixie Dust: a Memoir

Peter Stein & Dawn Freer – Out of Exile – The Photography of Fred Stein

Chris Valentino – José Baselga: Cancer’s Fiercest Opponent

 

 

Best Director – Short 

DIZIUS – Riu Lohri

Christian Ghammachi – Adventures of Aya – Dubai

DeMarcus Brown – Gravel Wounds

Madge – Fix

Gary Beeber – Emily’s Do

Kostiantyn Mishchenko – … Lucid dreams

Sushant Kaushik – Color Black

Jae-Feel Hwang – To Father

Marley Hasselbach – KOLD

Lani Cupchoy – Aloha Soul Food

Delphine Montaigne – OUT OF TIME

 

Best Producer

Soukaina Alaoui El Hassani – Fix

Özcan Geçer & Hakan Aytekin – The Instant

Dolly Vyas-Ahuja & Mayur Ahuja – The Land of Ahimsa

Christopher Samuel Siriano – House of David “Life Everlasting”

Sam Graham, Kyle Mac, & John Edwards – MAMA

Milo Beyts – THAT?

Kenny Chan – The Unknown Mother

George Chiang – Golden Lotus

Amir Hossein Nouri – White Dream

Marisa Nikole & Raymond Edwards – No Apologies

Graham Pritz-Bennett – The Desiring

Sampo Lenzi – SWISSMAN is getting ready for you

Les Wieder – DO SOMETHING

 

 

Best Feature Documentary

Bringing Assad To Justice

The Promise

House of David “Life Everlasting”

ELEMENTAL, reimagining our relationship with wildfire

Case for Kindness

Open minds, Sharp brains, Big hearts

Swordsman: Gabriel Moked

My promise to PJ

‘THE QUEST: Nepal’

AULCIE

A Cuban Documemory

The Land of Ahimsa

 

 

Best Short Documentary

The Other Face of the Mountain

EARTH MAN

Emily’s Do

Under Custody

Mission Documentary: interview with Refugee Jerusalem Marathon Winner, Valentyna 

Veretska and her daughter, Alisa

Lulu

Documentary: Ukranian Refugee Interview for Peace with Ukranian Cat Art

Taste of the Indigenous

CONNECT 4

Look At Us Now: A Comic Book Movie

The Longest Race

The Silent Revolution 

 

 

Best Television Documentary

SYRIA, WOMEN IN WAR

#HIPLET

House of David “Life Everlasting”

Case for Kindness

The Human Trial

As Organism

ELEMENTAL, reimagining our relationship with wildfire

WAGNER, PUTIN’S SHADOW ARMY

DREAMS OF DARAA

UKRAINE : IDENTITY ON THE FRONTLINE

African Democracy/Hopes and Challenges

An Encounter With Banting

 

 

Best Tv Pilot

Fifteen Times a Killer

Luminescence ★

Workforce – The Pilot

13TH STEPPING

Like there’s no tomorrow

 

 

Best Actress

Vivian Davidson – Mi Vida

Susan Shaw – The Unknown Mother

Judith Michel – DIZIUS

Gravel Wounds – Adriene Brathswaithe

Koon-Lan Law (Lo) – Million Loves In Me

Allison Dayne – Madly

Leona Clarke – Charlotte and the therapist 

Arami Malaisé – Viva

Jennifer Scott – Eyes Upon Waking

Juana Samper – MAMA

Camila Llano – The Chosen Path

Joanna Pickering – DIVA

Bonnie Bangz – DISCLAIM

Best Actor

George Zouvelos – Ashes to Ashes

Ravi Mittal – Manasvi

Craig Charter – Ripple in the Mirror

Alexei Bondar – Tito

Billel Sakhri – Out of bounds

Rich Henkels – Workforce – The Pilot

Rodrigo Alfonso – Healthy mind in a healthy body

John Y – Million Loves In Me

Christopher Studenka – Run Rabbit.

Uwe Schwarzwalder – The Radicalization of Jeff Boyd

Niels Knop Madsen – KOLD

Jarred Harper – An Egypt Affair

YOON Bak – Swallow

 

 

Best Acting Ensemble

The Radicalization of Jeff Boyd

Red Rooms

THE SEASONS, four love stories

LAST FIRST

A Streetcar Named Desire

Emily or Oscar?

MURMUR

The Three Bilinguals

BLUE MOON

Golden Lotus

Edward and Isabella

Vultures

 

 

Best Young Actor/Actress 

Aarav Bhatt – “HAMZA – The Lion”

Aya Ghammachi – Adventures of Aya – Dubai

Indiana Edwards – MAMA

Bozhi Yang – Little Yellow Flower

Shamsul Danish – EVA

Hattie Gotobed – THAT?

Keira Lassor – THE SEASONS, four love stories

Madison Swallow – Distraction

Clarisse Marlois – Luminescence ★

you are here, you were here

Eito Hayashi – Kadoma City ZOMBIE Human Resources Center

Estovan Reizo Cheah – CTRL

 

 

Best Animation

Being A Dog

And So I Begin.

Anacronte

born in 1938 Kim Han-ok

Supreme Motherhood: The Journey of Mata Sahib Kaur

Tomorrow, an animated film about climate change

UnSafe House

The Cookie Cutter

Seven Grams

 

 

Filmmaker of the Year

Paul Zagaris – Wedding 93

Yuri Maslak – EARTH MAN

Chirag Shah – “HAMZA – The Lion”

John Edwards – MAMA

Trip Jennings – ELEMENTAL, reimagining our relationship with wildfire

Gloria J Browne-Marshall – “SHOT: Caught a Soul”

Dani Menkin – AULCIE

Diyana Ismail – EVA

Leonardo Antonio Avezzano – The Promise

George Chiang – Golden Lotus

Sven Britt – A Feast That Never Comes

Nick Swezey – Warren’s Gold

Matthew Luppino – Fragments

 

 

Best 1st Time Director – Short

Marley Hasselbach – KOLD

Sohina Sidhu – Vuka

Shi Qi Yang – White Feather

Anthony Notarile – Tito

Vinisha Kundlani – Living In Fear

HaiQun OU – Palingenesis

Benita Vera von Sass – The Yesterday

Moe Taylor & Kathryn E F Taylor – As Organism

Josephine Lilla Bono – Taste of the Indigenous

Luca Werner-Tutschku – Try To

Karlo Garcia Gino – Ballesteros on My Mind

Ariana Feiner – A Story of Courage

 

 

Best 1st Time Director – Feature

Adam Morris – Edward and Isabella

Steve Mortimer – Connect A Creative Response To Climate Change

Silviu Radu – A TIME I’VE BEEN THROUGH

Andrey Arutyunov – Phantoms of the sea

Justin Rose – Run Rabbit.

Catherine Chabot – Lines of Escapes

Baris Celiloglu – Lockedown Locked In

Laura Wetzler – What Happened at the Veterans Home?

Talamieka W Brice – 5, A Mother’s Journey

Irvin D. Reid – African Democracy/Hopes and Challenges

Vaibhav Dixit – Five Point Three

Christoforos Roditis – THE ROSE VALLEY

 

 

Best Cinematography

Christian Ghammachi – Adventures of Aya – Dubai

James Langley – How Much Sadness Can You Swallow?

Hershal Stamp – Edward and Isabella

Chou Yi-Hsien – INTRUSION

Andrey Arutyunov – Phantoms of the sea

Bianca Bauer & Valentin Bernauer – Try To

Leonardo Antonio Avezzano – The Promise

Turhan Yavuz – The Instant

Justin Rose – Run Rabbit.

Rob Dicaro – MURMUR

Matthew Luppino – Fragments

Steven LucheL – Smoking Kills

Best Sound Design

Cody Troyer – ‘THE QUEST: Nepal’

Yossi Gal – Let’s talk

Philippe Gozlan – AULCIE 

Peter Mark – A Cuban Documemory

Max Phillips – Polished

Urs Katomz – The Other Face of the Mountain

Subash Sahoo – Color Black

Sean Byrne – And So I Begin.

Fayzan Faraz – Explicit

Roland Köstler – Try To

Jose Luis Ramos – Christopher Kenji – Summer Fog

Best Soundtrack

Sandrine Dedieu – Out of bounds

Hugh Schulte – THAT?

Sara Barone – The Desiring

Sergei Stern – The Chosen Path

Anacronte

Fay Yvonne Goodman & Mark Wolski – Lady Samurai

Left of Chopin

Marinho Nobre – José Baselga: Cancer’s Fiercest Opponent

Davide Van Der Sfroos – Minör 

 

Best Song

White Dream

My Own

How Much Sadness Can You Swallow?

U SO MEAN NOTHING 2 ME

No Apologies

MISS THE HEAT

Surto

For You

Toy Llama by Willow & Banjii

Old Montreal

Every single day 

 

 

Best Music Video

One Way Ticket

How Much Sadness Can You Swallow?

Surto

Toy Llama by Willow & Banjii

Fadi Awad – To Glory Land

Adventures of Aya – Kenya

Old Montreal

My Own

A Feast That Never Comes

No Apologies

Christopher Kenji – Summer Fog

 

 

Best Female Filmmaker

Olga Tugaeva – EARTH MAN

Mayuri – One Way Ticket

Maria Juranic – A Feast That Never Comes

Marissa Chibás – A Cuban Documemory

Colleen Dodge – Polished

Brooke Lewis Bellas – Red Rooms

Baris Celiloglu – Lockedown Locked In

Anne Daly – Bringing Assad To Justice

Margarethe Baillou – And So I Begin.

Pei Ju Huang – The Will to Live – Yes, I was diagnosed with breast cancer

Sihan Cui – Lulu

Yoshino Takemoto – Left of Chopin

Peppur Chambers – ​​DO SOMETHING

 

 

Best American Filmmaker 

DeMarcus Brown – The Pitchman

Steven Sawalich – Case for Kindness

Allison Dayne – Madly

Gary Beeber – Emily’s Do

Oren Kaya Dayan – Ripple in the Mirror

Paul Zagaris – Wedding 93

Christopher M. Allport – Emily or Oscar?

Daniel Baldwin – My promise to PJ

Emily Ruhl – BLUE MOON

Joshua Butler – Red Rooms

Richard Benter – A Still Eye

Marlin Darrah – An Egypt Affair

Erik Jacobsen – Egypt

 

 

Best Asian Filmmaker

Jae-Feel Hwang – To Father

Sihan Cui – Lulu

Jenn Liu – SHN (Stay Home Notice)

Shuhei Kondo – Left of Chopin

Shi Qi Yang – White Feather

Chien-Ping Lin – Little Yellow Flower

Wataru Iwata – Miroirs

Tsung-Fan Tan & Sandee Chan – INTRUSION

Kyoji kamui – MOONLIGHT DINER

John Y – Million Loves In Me

Pei Ju Huang – The Will to Live – Yes, I was diagnosed with breast cancer

Kousuke SAKODA – you are here, you were here

Allen Ai – The Earthly Paradise 

 

 

Best European Filmmaker   

Felix Swahn – Being A Dog

Brice Blanloeil – Pianocide

Bence Kotány – A Streetcar Named Desire

Igor Biddau – Like there’s no tomorrow

Frank Ariza Tirado – CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN

Jörg Reichlin – Am Rande der Zeiten

Markus Otz – The Other Face of the Mountain

Bengt Olov Danneborn – Open minds, Sharp brains, Big hearts

Peter Georgiev Barbalov – La Scuola Kabaivanska

Billel Sakhri – Out of bounds

Uwe Schwarzwalder – The Radicalization of Jeff Boyd

Christoforos Roditis – THE ROSE VALLEY

 

 

Best Indian Filmmaker 

Shubhanjan Das – THE WAITING ROOM

Sailaja Bandyopadhyay – Inheritance

Manoj Thakkar – Manasvi

Onir – Pine Cone

Puneet Prakash Pandey – BIRHA – The Journey Back Home

Karandeep Singh – Supreme Motherhood: The Journey of Mata Sahib Kaur

Aryeman Ramsay – The Land of Ahimsa

Sushant Kaushik – Color Black

Roman Jiwani – DISCLAIM

Vaibhav Dixit – Five Point Three

Harshada N Patankar & Swar N Patankar – Monya

 

 

Best Latin American Filmmaker

Eric Iglesias – The Chosen Path

Raúl Koler & Emiliano Sette – Anacronte

Rodrigo Alfonso – Healthy mind in a healthy body

Esteban “Steven” Petersen – Viva

Marissa Chibás – A Cuban Documemory

Sonia Machado Hines – #HIPLET

Maylen Calienes – The Three Bilinguals

Olivia Sandoval – Love, and the Deadly Virus

Guillermo Arcaya – Christopher Kenji – Summer Fog

Miguel Lepe Jr – The Guitar Thief

 

 

Best Filmmaker/Artist of the Future

Harriet Chung – Old Montreal

Fadi Awad – To Glory Land

Caitlin Boddy – Complicit, A True Mystery Podcast

Christopher Samuel Siriano – House of David “Life Everlasting” a Documentary Film

Steve Mortimer – Connect A Creative Response To Climate Change

Alex A Harz – ‘THE QUEST: Everest VR’ Experience

소리 이 – born in 1938 Kim Han-ok

Yulia Petrova & Madukwu Chinwah – For You

Debra Gussin – U SO MEAN NOTHING 2 ME

Amir Hossein Nouri – White Dream

Ben Tedesco – No Tomorrow

Louise Dente – AJASS: Pioneers of the Black is Beautiful Movement

Dyan C McBride & Daniel G Smith-Rowsey – Persephone

Best LGBTTTIQ Project/Film

BLUE MOON

Pine Cone

Mi Vida

whistlings

The Veil

Madly

 

 

Best Comedy

Ashes to Ashes

CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN

Love, and the Deadly Virus

The Three Bilinguals

Emily or Oscar?

Like there’s no tomorrow

DIVA

TIMESALAD

Diversity and Desolation

The Land Whale Murders

The Guitar Thief

Bizzarro e Fantastico

Tomorrow’s Game

 

 

Best Thriller

THE WAITING ROOM

Red Rooms

Surto

Vuka

Fifteen Times a Killer

Some are Silent – a Lovecraftian story

The Radicalization of Jeff Boyd

SHN (Stay Home Notice)

Try To

LOST

Drip

A Package of Dreams 

 

 

Best Inspirational Film/Project

For You

Complicit, A True Mystery Podcast

Explicit

THE BLACK MAGICIAN

Gravel Wounds

Viva

My promise to PJ

The Promise

Phantoms of the sea

Fix

Black Rainbow

Bella Ciao, Song of Rebellion

SARA’S Journey 

 

 

Best Script

Steve Crawshaw – Fifteen Times a Killer

Byron Oróstica & Sofía Aliaga – Under Custody

Elizabeth Stevens & James Bruner – FREEDOM

Raúl Koler & Sabrina Pace – Anacronte

Shlomit Carmeli & Raphael Carmeli – Swordsman: Gabriel Moked

HaiQun OU – Palingenesis

Andrei “Wolf” Constantinescu & Mihai Constantinescu – Some are Silent – a Lovecraftian story

Mario Louis Gandolfo – GERONIMO’S REVENGE

Hecham Elhajoui – WAR CRIMINAL

Rey E de la Cruz – Ballesteros on My Mind

 

 

Best Screenplay

Graham Pritz-Bennett – The Desiring

Shubhanjan Das – THE WAITING ROOM

Mario Louis Gandolfo – GERONIMO’S REVENGE

Sergei Tsimbalenko – Macbeth

Dianne DeLeon & Bill Kelman – Flamencas

Kykesha S. Jones – THE BLACK MAGICIAN

John Y & Stan Chow – The Unknown Mother

James McCoy – Sacred Sky

Hecham Elhajoui – WAR CRIMINAL

Elizabeth Stevens & James Bruner – FREEDOM

Matthew R Scarpa – The Sword in the Sprawl

Mark Stokes – Drip

Christopher Petrou – Toxteth

Gustavo Gregorio – LA VOZ

 

 

Best Student Film

LOST

Let’s talk

Living In Fear

Palingenesis

Documentary: Ukranian Refugee Interview for Peace with Ukranian Cat Art

A boat heading for the Desert

UnSafe House

Sister 

Moon-calf

 

 

Filmmaker Globe Award

Fadi Awad – To Glory Land

DeMarcus Brown – The Pitchman

Jörg Reichlin – Am Rande der Zeiten

Moe Taylor, Kathryn E F Taylor – As Organism

Lisa Hepner – The Human Trial

Byron Orostica – Under Custody

Juliette Short & Kevin Short – Charlotte and the therapist

Shlomit Carmeli & Raphael Carmeli – Swordsman: Gabriel Moked

Josephine Lilla Bono – Taste of the Indigenous

Kostiantyn Mishchenko – … Lucid dreams

Daniel Baldwin – My promise to PJ

TA Opre – Killing the Shepherd

Katherine Sheyno – Jack & Blue

 

 

Best Original Story

LAST FIRST

DIZIUS

Am Rande der Zeiten

FREEDOM

“HAMZA – The Lion”

ᐃᔨᔫ ᐊᔅᒌ Eeyou Istchee Trauma Rescue

“SHOT: Caught a Soul”

THE BLACK MAGICIAN

Pine Cone

MOONLIGHT DINER

Eyes Upon Waking

Ballesteros on My Mind

The Fairy Hunter

 

 

Best Experimental Film

Miroirs

Ripple in the Mirror

A Streetcar Named Desire

COMMEDIA

Lockedown Locked In

“SHOT: Caught a Soul”

… Lucid dreams

Deoch Dance

Healthy mind in a healthy body

A Feast That Never Comes

NORTH STAR

Extraterrestrial Message