The International Competition
The Song of the Beasts- BEST EDITING
Editor&Directed by: Titouan Ropert
The Jury’s Comment: You managed to create a complex and unsettling story that starkly contrasts the raw power of reality with the protective veil of fiction, all while employing groundbreaking cinematic language that blends different formats and time periods.
Paul and Paul – BEST FILM
Director& Screenwriters: Hugo Drechsler
The Jury’s Comment: A humanistic film that navigates from a family tragic to a bitter sweet and absurd moments in a turbulent family story , and all of this, through a
virtuosic use of clever story telling.
Electra- MOST PROMISING DIRECTOR
Director & Screenwriter: Daria Kashcheeva
The Jury’s Comment: The film demonstrates the intelligence and confidence of an artist whose willful worldmaking lets’ the audience see on old myth as if for the
first time.
ANCELLA D’AMORE – BEST SCREENPLAY
Director & Screenwriter: Emanuela Muzzupappa
The Jury’s Comment: For crafting a surprising, strange, mystical and heartwarming story that captures a young girl’s moment of growth while also asking essential questions about the power of belief and the shadow of deceit, all with dynamic screenwriting and sharp character development
Runaway – BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Director & Screenwriter: Salome Kintsurashvili
Cinematographer: Anton Gromov
The Jury’s Comment: For its great talent in framing with a strong sense of details and the sutil and yet expressive cinematographyc decisions to show the multiple situations that can be given in one same house, giving the public the possibility of understanding the diverse feelings that go across one family during an unexpected problem.
A State of Absence – HONORABLE MENTION FOR FIRST FILM
Director & Screenwriter: Mlk Al Halabi
The Jury’s Comment: The award is given for your ability to take a tragic and relevant story and, through your unique cinematic language, transform it into something with mythological, poetic, and unforgettable qualities.
Single Light- HONORABLE MENTION
Director & Screenwriter: Shaylee Atary Wiener
The Jury’s Comment: for her astonishing capacity to find a unique visuality for the unspeakable horror of sexual assault as well as for showcasing the beauty of a true friend who understands you without words.
The Need of a Witness- HONORABLE MENTION
Directors: Mariana Sanguinetti, Renzo Cozza
Screenwriters: Mariana Sanguinetti
The Jury’s Comment: For daring to craft a peculiar gem of a film and an hommage to quirky humans.
The International Experimental Film & Video Art Competition
Amphibolos Lithos- BEST PROJECT
Director, Producer & Screenwriter: Valery Grysha
The Jury’s Comment: A violent bloom of fire, tectonic plates, ballistics pathways, futuristic techno-poetics which is abstract and concrete at the same time. In a cohesive cinematic language, the film sews together powerful images, technologies of vision and visions of war, into a compelling image. An ongoing state of existential apocalypse.
Little Boney and his Winter Extinguisher (at last!)- HONORABLE MENTION
Director, Screenwriter & Producer: Jonathan Omer Mizrahi
The Jury’s Comment: The film focuses our attention on an ancillary military product—a heating bag activated by the blending of its components. Mixing notions of warmth, coldness, violence, and solace, the heating bag transforms into a charged metaphor. The work touches the exposed nerves and edges of contemporary reality.