BEST FILM
By Halves
Director: Anastasia Melia Eleftheriou
Country: Greece
Duration: 16:13
Synopsis: A woman finishes a wooden boat in her workshop and then takes it to a beach. But she’s afraid to take the boat out on the sea. Watching the tide go away without her, she leaves the beach and abandons the boat, letting it deteriorate in a boat cemetery among other shipwrecks that she or other people have built. Back in her cabin, she starts with the construction of another boat.
BEST DIRECTOR
The Rabbit
Director: Lana Vlady
Country: Italy
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: Young sprinter Maria has to face the greatest race of her life in order to reunite with her best friend and find a long lost connection to her mother.
BEST SCREENPLAY
Hide and seek
Director: Venera Kairzhanova
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 28:30
Synopsis: Two little girls’ light childhood goes dark every time it contacts with the world of adults. Can they hide in the sunny world or the clouds of the stark realities of life will find them?
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
By Halves
Director: Anastasia Melia Eleftheriou
Cinematographer: Beata Rakoczy
Country: Greece
Duration: 16:13
Synopsis: A woman finishes a wooden boat in her workshop and then takes it to a beach. But she’s afraid to take the boat out on the sea. Watching the tide go away without her, she leaves the beach and abandons the boat, letting it deteriorate in a boat cemetery among other shipwrecks that she or other people have built. Back in her cabin, she starts with the construction of another boat.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Two’s Company
Director: Svend Colding
Country: Denmark
Duration: 09:57
Synopsis: A couple takes a bath together. It just doesn’t turn out to be as pleasant as they were hoping for…
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Valle de Goni
Director: Emilia Buchbinder
Country: Argentina
Duration: 09:49
Synopsis: In a town where animal sues are usual, a goat is put on trial for ruining Christmas Mass.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Nobody Dies Here
Director: Simon Panay
Country: France
Duration: 23:21
Synopsis: Perma gold mine, Benin. Some dream to find something, others realized there was nothing to be found. Some dig relentlessly hoping to become rich, others died in the process. And a few of them say that here, nobody dies.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Daisy
Director: Yu Yu
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 09:42
Synopsis: Daisy is a young girl who is being cared by Ben, a caring robot during wartime. After a bomb attack, Daisy vanishes. This begins Bens’ search for her.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
The Curse of the Internet Man
Director: Benjamin Lister
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 04:30
Synopsis: An expressionist nightmare about our obsession with social media and fame. Merch is an online superstar influencer. He’s adored by millions online. But in the dark depths of his own mind he is faltered. He is deeply depressed and losing a grip on reality. The life he has created online is false, and the life he has in the real world is lonely and full of pain. He seeks help from a psychiatrist. But it is too late. This isn’t an illness, it’s a curse. The curse of the Internet Man. The only way out is for Merch to end it all, to rid himself of the pain of real world – and to embrace the nirvana of the silicon. The Internet man is a comment on addiction to the internet and virality, and the terrifying impact it’s having on our mental health.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Mgzavrebi – Promise
Director: Ivan Sosnin
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 04:59
Synopsis: A couple of elders escape from a retirement home, hijack a truck and drive to the sea. They go shopping, buying things for a handful of pills, swim in the pool, make selfies on a stolen phone, float on serf on the waves. Live their lives to the fullest.
Main heroes of the clip are 85 and 86 years old.
The whole video was filmed on the phone.
