BEST FILM
AURORA
Director: Philip Escobar Jung
Country: Germany
Duration: 24:14
Synopsis: 1979. Aurora, ein kleines Mädchen, das in den Bayrischen Alpen lebt, macht mit ihrem Vater Valentin einen Ausflug in die Berge, um einen Sternschnuppenregen zu beobachten. Aurora und Valentin machen von dem Ereignis Fotos, die Aurora am nächsten Tag ihrer Mutter Sylvia zeigen will. Doch beim Abstieg passiert etwas Unerwartetes, dass für Auroras innere Welt eine große Herausforderung sein wird…
BEST DIRECTOR
AURORA
Director: Philip Escobar Jung
Country: Germany
Duration: 24:14
Synopsis: 1979. Aurora, ein kleines Mädchen, das in den Bayrischen Alpen lebt, macht mit ihrem Vater Valentin einen Ausflug in die Berge, um einen Sternschnuppenregen zu beobachten. Aurora und Valentin machen von dem Ereignis Fotos, die Aurora am nächsten Tag ihrer Mutter Sylvia zeigen will. Doch beim Abstieg passiert etwas Unerwartetes, dass für Auroras innere Welt eine große Herausforderung sein wird…
BEST SCREENPLAY
Lullaby
Director: Roger Villarroya
Country: Spain
Duration: 17:20
Synopsis: In Laura’s dreams, a wound demands to be healed, deeper than anything that time and space define and reason explains.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Beyond Her Lens
Director: Tereza Hirsch
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 19:01
Synopsis: BEYOND HER LENS is inspired by the life and work of female conflict-zone photographer Jana Andert. It follows Alex’s (portrayed by prominent Czech actress Lucie Vondrackova) return to Prague as she attempts to piece together a sense of normalcy after shooting footage in Mosul, Iraq.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
THE MISSING PIECE
Director: Julien Chavaillaz
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 14:54
Synopsis: Baptiste, a lonely outsider, is in love with Mina, the girl from the sex hotline. One day, Baptiste gathers his courage and succeeds in convincing the young woman to accept a rendez-vous at a café in town…
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Eurydice
Director: Nina Moiseeva
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 12:05
Synopsis: Single mother has a child with a serious illness. Their life is an endless line of doctors, medications and worries that almost end in a breakdown. The woman believes that she can magically save her daughter with control and strict discipline, while the girl fights desperately for her freedom and youth.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
ALBA: NOT EVERYONE WILL BE TAKEN INTO THE FUTURE
Director: Tomas Leach
Country: Spain
Duration: 10:00
Synopsis: An intense, intimate and beautiful journey into the mind of Alba, a 16-year-old ballet dancer at the acclaimed Corella Dance Academy in Barcelona. Her inner thoughts start to question the life she is leading, her lost adolescence, and her place in the world.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
GELATO – SEVEN SUMMERS OF ICE CREAM LOVE
Director: Daniela Opp
Country: Germany
Duration: 12:18
Synopsis: The 20th Century was still young when Italian mountaineers conquered Germany with a sensation: gelato! Tiny stalls developed into beautiful ice cream shops. But suddenly sunny days of childhood turned into dark years of war.
The love story between Rosa and Paolo ended before the seventh summer had even started… Up until little Molly decides to take matters into her own hands almost 60 years later.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
People doing moves
Director: Таэт Vremya art group
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 08:39
Synopsis: The movement of everyday life is often so familiar to us that we barely consciously perceive it. Our work is the attempt to make the seemingly-familiar movements unfamiliar (and vice versa) through repetition and alienation with the question: „Who actually controls whom?“
The Mini-Move research deals what an individual body can do. The intention is to recognize movements that have relevance to its body. For a short moment individual or social sculptures can emerge in space.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Guillotine
Director: Oleg Rakovich
Country: Russian Federation
Duration: 07:40 Synopsis: There are always those who are willing to cut off the main part… In 1989, a 16 mm film was shot. Never these shots were not shown. Then the song People was written. Almost 30 years later they met.
