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BEST FILM
Il tratto (The Line)
Director: Alessandro Stevanon
Country: Italy
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: Federico is an introvert and lonely child. A meeting with an old artist coming from Senegal helps him discover his talent and learn to see others for what they are. “The line” is a tale of a friendship that is founded on those differences that make each of us unique, and of the art of telling the story of ourselves through each other.
BEST DIRECTOR
Labor
Director: Cecilia Albertini
Country: United States
Duration: 13:00
Synopsis: A surrogate mother faces a harrowing dilemma when she’s asked to abort the baby she carries for another woman.
BEST SCREENPLAY
A short film about education
Director: Sebastián Nemo Arancibia.
Country: Chile
Duration: 19:00
Synopsis: Jorge is a fifty-year-old math teacher who is hired at a school with serious bullying issues. His feeling of powerlessness will lead to his own morals being corrupted.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Il tratto (The Line)
Director: Alessandro Stevanon
Country: Italy
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: Federico is an introvert and lonely child. A meeting with an old artist coming from Senegal helps him discover his talent and learn to see others for what they are. “The line” is a tale of a friendship that is founded on those differences that make each of us unique, and of the art of telling the story of ourselves through each other.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
The Domestic Fly
Director: Áron Horváth
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 10:24
Synopsis: An everyday routine of a lonely old lady is interrupted by an irritating housefly. An initial conflict between the two is soon replaced by a newly found friendship and grandma’s days become filled with life and joy.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Departures
Director: Nicolas Morganti Patrignani
Country: Italy
Duration: 16:42
Synopsis: Ludovico accepted the tough choice of his sick wife to be left to die. It takes some time to let him find the courage to reveal their daughter the truth through memories.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Framed
Director: Marco Jemolo
Country: Italy
Duration: 07:00
Synopsis: FRAMED is a noir animated short-film, which explores the sensitive subject of alienation in society.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
Tshweesh
Director: Feyrouz Serhal
Country: Spain
Duration: 25:00
Synopsis: Life moves nonstop and that’s what defines it, movement is what defines cinema as well. Cinema like life moves and doesn’t end with the end credits of a film. Lidia in ‘Tshweesh’ walks in Beirut after she has walked in Milan in Antonioni’s ‘La Notte’ in 1961, and as Lidia felt nostalgic in the old neighbourhood in Milan then, Lidia walks and fears for the old buildings in Beirut now. When Lidia looks up and sees the planes in the sky of Milan in 1961, she doesn’t know that many years in the future she will walk in Beirut and look up to see Israeli planes instead.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
CELLO
Director: Alberto Nacci
Country: Italy
Duration: 09:10
Synopsis: CELLO is the 11th short film of the Body&Sound series by Alberto Nacci. A movie about the relationship between a Swiss musician (Alessandra Doninelli) and her musical instrument (cello).
