WINNERS

MONTH OF JUNE

Between Root And Wings

Vera decides to leave home after finding out that her husband Eugenio, an ethics professor, becomes involved in a love affair with a student. After sixteen years, she goes in search of her self-love, the way to find herself again. While Eugenio, a man of middle age, allows himself to live a jovial love, his son Robinho, a teenager, has problems with the broke up of his parents.

Best Director - Wlado Herzog, Gabriel Muglia

Best Original Score
- Anselmo Mancini

Lovely Rita

The strict traffic policewoman Rita loves control and order in her workplace. That’s why she has drawn up a rigid, rectangular road network, through which she directs the drivers with precise instructions.
But as more and more cars find their way into her narrow network and it soon threatens to burst, Rita loses control in the traffic.

A short story about stress, traffic jams and how to make the best of it.

Best Editing - Annette Brütsch

The End

After watching her gallant knight die at the end of the film, it’s up to the determined Princess Hilderose to take matters into her own hands to stop her love and earn her happily ever after.

Best Animated Short Film - Directed By Alexandria Siah

Mavshi- A Journey of Emotions

This is story about Tara Bai Shinde. She used to go with her mother to learn baby birth job
When she is married the whole village calls her Mavshi because of her helping nature and skill of baby birth job. Time passes but she herself is not able to conceive it. All the villagers started talking about her and they never invite her on events and festivals. Same thing is done by her in-laws and they said they want baby otherwise she has to leave the house. Ultimately she leaves the house and then she starts Gokul Orphanage at the age of 20 just to help the peoples and support the society.

Best Emerging Film maker - Ajit Maruti Sable

For I am Dead

In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, extravagant life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.

Best Director - Patricia Delso Lucas
Best Lead Male (Under 40 min) Al Nazemian

Grydscaen: scout eve - "Light Codes"

When eccentric autistic hacker "AYOR" aka "At Your Own Risk" due to his quirky behavior known as the "Eyes of The Black Market" hacks into the Elite City Mainframe he steals Top Secret intel uncovering a conspiracy that could destroy the social order enabling the wealthy Elite Aristocrat minority to wage a systemic campaign stripping refugees know as "Blanks" of their rights because they are psychic followers of the Prophet Religion. The Prophets beliefs threaten to shatter the Elite's control declaring their devotion violates oppressive Article 15 Thought Crime Laws criminalizing free speech, religion, spiritualty. Furthering their control, the Parliament declares using psychic powers on public and display of faith destroy the social order.

Best Emerging Filmmaker (Under 40min) - Natsuya Uesugi DuBois

Delivering Hope

Delivering Hope is a feature film documentary that tells the ultimate story of people coming together for something bigger than themselves. On November 16, 2019, eight days before his 50th birthday, ultra-runner Kevin Kline set out to become the first person in history to run the northernmost 300 miles of Alaska's dangerous Dalton Highway, in winter, to raise awareness for children battling pediatric cancer. Traversing the world's 10 most dangerous road, Kline and his crew face a hostile environment of -40F temperatures on a road made of ice in near total darkness to run an 8lb backpack full of childhood cancer names to the virtual top of the world. When Kline's body shuts down after 200 miles, the crew is faced with a life-changing dilemma.

Best Documentary - Directed by Jordan Orsak
Best Cinematography -Marcel Melanson & Reese Reissig
Special Jury Award - Kevin Kline

Enemy of the Heart

The life of an Anglo-Italian family living in Liverpool during the Second World War is thrown into turmoil when Mussolini joins forces with Hitler to attack the country they've come to call home.

Best Film - Directed by Claryn Scott, Jason Lamar Ricketts, Jay Podmore

Best Lead Male - Joseph Stanley

Best Lead Female - Claryn Scott

Shoreline Socialites

Cormorants have long been maligned and killed based on misleading and inaccurate claims by extremist angling organizations. Thousands of beautiful birds are maimed and killed needlessly every year. This film is part of a larger advocacy campaign and was developed to dispel the myths about these beautiful birds and help the audience gain a new understanding and appreciation of why cormorants belong in our Great Lakes ecosystem and should be celebrated rather than killed.

Best Film on Nature & Wildlife - Directed by Inder Nirwan

Dinner Table

A story film about the disconnection of the family

Best Lead Female (Under 40min) Leah Sullivan

1888

A thriller where the plot unfolds when a major demonetization exercise in India causes 3 strangers to cross paths affecting their lives and in the middle of all this is a car journey.
This guerrilla film is loosely inspired from certain true events that happened between 2016 and 2021.

Best Screen Play - Sourabh Shukla , Devdas Nayak

Featherweight

A hawk attempts to find a new home.

Best Producer - Sean Gregory Pecknold

Africa Day

A day that symbolizes the determination of Africans to free themselves from foreign exploitation and dominance. Acknowledging the progress Africa have made - success and challenges. The Film highlights three (3) countries on the (Ghana, Rwanda & Kenya); the success, the cultural and economic potential that exists on the African continent. Each year, Africa Day brings a new theme, and for this year 2022 it was Nutrition.

The First Congress of Independent African States was held in Accra, Ghana in 1958. Africa day, originally celebrated April 15, marks an onward progress of the liberation movement. A day that symbolized the determination of Africans to free themselves from foreign exploitation and dominance. As more African countries gained independence; there arose a need for an organization who would articulate the needs of the people. On May 25 1963, thirty plus (30+) African countries converged in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (hosted by Emperor Haile Selassie) and thus, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was formed.

Best Emerging Filmmaker (Under 40min/Documentary) - Eyette Rose Green

Plato's Cake

Lukas can’t wait to start his relaxing holiday, but what he doesn’t realize is that Louis has his eyes on the same prize. As the two races for the last set of the things necessary for their vacation, sabotaging each other every step of the way, little did they know that their struggle would reveal how this world “actually” works, or didn't they?

Special Jury Award For Director Weiyang Chen

Carrotism

The Carrot, a man who has turned into vegetable under a unique family ‘blessing’, wants to convince her daughter Mindy, a nerdy beauty who loves vegan food and quantum theory, to accept and deal with his transformation.

Best Film - Directed By Yann Chen