Official Selection Films
INNER CITY
Director - ASHUTOSH JHA
Duration - 10 minutes 14 seconds
Country - India
Dare Not Fly
Director - CHUYI CHEN
Duration - 18 minutes 18 seconds
Country - Taiwan
MASHA AND DASHA TWO HEARTS IN ONE
Director - DIANA TAYLOR
Duration - 16 minutes 9 seconds
Country - United Kingdom
EMPATHY
Director - Larry Colsa
Duration - 50 seconds
Country - Spain
Buchcha
Director - Pankaj Kumar
Duration - 1 hour 28 minutes 34 seconds
Country - India
Job Life
Director - Roberto I. Ercolalo
Duration - 19 minutes 36 seconds
Country - Argentina
Corridors
Director - Nishanth Gopinath
Duration - 1 minute
Country - India
Achoo!
Director - Robert Keane
Duration - 1 minute
Country - Ireland
Black Coffee
Director - Jason Perez
Duration - 19 minutes
Country - United States
Semantics 1: Nationalism and Patriotism
Director - Aroop Dwivedi
Duration - 1 minute
Country - India
Maybe I'm Gay
Director - Rebecca Bendheim & Mark Bucknam
Duration - 3 minutes 27 seconds
Country - United States
PRAWNS
Director - Swapnil Shetye
Duration - 15 minutes 51 seconds
Country - India
Frank
Director - Filippo Di Piramo
Duration - 5 minutes 41 seconds
Country - Italy
period.
Director - Palwasha Azimi
Duration - 2 minutes
Country - United States
NEKYDALLO
Director - Eleni Molfeta
Duration - 8 minutes 37 seconds
Country - Greece
OSMOSIS
Director - Carolina de la Vega
Duration - 1 minute
Country - Uruguay
Yushka
Director - Lolita Naranovich
Duration - 18 minutes 54 seconds
Country - Russian Federation
The Void
Director - Saurabh Thakur
Duration - 1 minute
Country - India
A Choice
Director - Adriana Ledesma
Duration - 13 minutes 21 seconds
Country - United States
Azula
Director - Renan Diegues, Juliana Soares
Duration - 14 minutes 35 seconds
Country - Brazil
Quintessential The Movie
Director - Sammie Johnson
Duration - 2 hours 36 minutes
Country - United States
Story Of A Love
Director - Daniel Alejandro, Venetia Taylor
Duration - 4 minutes 28 seconds
Country - Australia
AH
Director - Yoginee Arul
Duration - 8 minutes 17 seconds
Country - India
PULPETTE
Director - Michele Bevilacqua, Arcangelo Iannace , Francesco Spaziani
Duration - 3 minutes
Country - Italy
Unexpected Confrontation
Director - Luis Lobato Macedo
Duration - 1 hour 20 minutes 10 seconds
Country - Portugal
written by?
Director - Kankana Chakraborty
Duration - 15 minutes 30 seconds
Country - India
Des3ngaño
Director - Aniez Atlas
Duration - 9 minutes 17 seconds
Country - Spain
Conditioning
Director - Philip Pugh
Duration - 7 minutes
Country - United Kingdom
HUNG BETWEEN THE SKY AND THE EARTH
Director - Noemi Rossano, Dario Patrocinio
Duration - 8 minutes 23 seconds
Country - Italy
What is Classic Rock?
Director - Daniel Sarkissian
Duration - 1 hour 32 minutes 24 seconds
Country - Canada
Matt Stern - One More Night
Director - Matt Stern,Brandon Challen, Allan Nichols
Duration - 2 minutes 55 seconds
Country - Canada
Mister Pig
Director - Cédric Friedli & Yann Moeckli
Duration - 1 minute
Country - Switzerland
Winner Films
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM
NEKYDALLO
Director - Eleni Molfeta
Synopsis: To become a butterfly, a caterpillar first digests itself. But certain groups of cells survive, turning the soup into eyes, wings, antennae and other adult structures. All that the caterpillar was and all that the butterfly will be are contained in the cocoon, but one form must relinquish itself that another might emerge. This kind of change is mysterious, hidden, and full of surprise. Metamorphosis is a process, which involves struggle, dissolving, reimagining and revising. It is not always easy, however, when you emerge, you ......
BEST INDIAN SHORT FILM
AH
Director: Yoginee Arul
Synopsis: Ah (அ) is a pure Tamil word which means ‘the sperm’ in English. Apprehensions and incertitude of a teenage Indian female sex worker who works at a brothel in her town having lost her mom to death and dad to ignorance. She kept on asking the customers whether they know someone called ‘Mallika’ .
BEST LGBT FILM
AZULA
Director: Renan Diegues, Juliana Soares
Synopsis: Rafael is a rent boy that begins an unexpected and torrid love affair with a serious business man that quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality and threatens to turn his life and personality upside down.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
WHAT IS CLASSIC ROCK?
Director:Daniel Sarkissian
Synopsis:How do you define classic rock? Is it a genre, a radio format, or music from a specific period of time? Filmmaker & lifelong rocker Daniel Sarkissian travels the world, interviewing iconic artists in search of an answer: An exploration of the evolution of the term classic rock, the influence the political landscape of the 60s/70s had on the music of the time (ex. The Vietnam War) & the changes in the music industry since the internet boom.
BEST INDIAN FEATURE FILM
BUCHCHA
Director: Pankaj Kumar
Synopsis:This story belongs to the era when Bioscope was near about to end. The story is about seven year old orphan kid , Who stay in remote village. He wanted to fulfil his dream but he doesn't have money. One day he came to know on the day of Ramnavmi festival Bioscopewala will come but he don't have money to see Bioscope. So he decides to collect money by his own strength. And thus his adventures journey begins from here.
Through this film I have tried to represent our Indian heritage like Qutub Minar & Taj Mahal.
BEST STUDENT FILM
YUSHKA
Director: Lolita Naranovich
Synopsis:
Vanya tells his younger brother a story of his childhood, how he secretly tried to find out where Yushka, the holy blacksmith's assistant was going every year. And, by chance, he became a witness of Yushka's murder. Later he would find out that Yushka was giving all his money to a poor orphan.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
MATT STERN - ONE MORE NIGHT
Director: Matt Stern, Brandon Challen & Allan Nichols
Synopsis: Matt Stern sings of fleeting passion, longing, and desire in One More Night. The lyrics to this song tell the story of a past love and are embodied by two dancers, one of whom depicts Matt as a younger man. While the melodies are cheerful, the meaning of the song is also melancholic in nature and the dancers help bring the story within the lyrics to life through their movement and playful chemistry.
BEST WEB SERIES
BLACK COFFEE
Director: Jason Perez
Synopsis: BLACK COFFEE is a scripted sitcom following the ventures
of four Howard graduates who open a black owned coffee
shop in the nation’s capital. Each driven by a unique motive,
these late 20-somethings come together to make their mark
in the city as proud entrepreneurs. As business picks up,
these first-time business owners face several unexpected
challenges in the diverse community of DC behind the capital.
BEST ONE MINUTE SHORT FILM
THE VOID
Director: Saurabh Thakur
Synopsis: 2 children are re-arranging the decor in their father's room. But when the soldier father returns, he is in for a shocking surprise as his children have prepared a coffin for him.
BEST DRAMA FILM
A CHOICE
Director: Adriana Ledesma
Synopsis: Nestor is a bi latino businessman who is struggling against his inner demons, and while facing his conventional bosses, he has to make a choice between himself or his conventional lifestyle.
BEST HORROR/THRILLER FILM
CONDITIONING
Director: Philip Pugh
Synopsis: Love will tear them apart.
A gory horror film that's more than meets the eye! Going beyond the gore and exploring deep rooted prejudice and it's influences.
BEST ROMANTIC FILM
AZULA
Director: Renan Diegues, Juliana Soares
Synopsis:Rafael is a rent boy that begins an unexpected and torrid love affair with a serious business man that quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality and threatens to turn his life and personality upside down.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
PULPETTE
Director: Michele Bevilacqua, Arcangelo Iannace & Francesco Spaziani
Synopsis:
BEST ANIMATION FILM
PERIOD
Director: Palwasha Azimi
Synopsis: THE ORDINARINESS OF SOMETHING REGULAR.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
MASHA AND DASHA TWO HEARTS IN ONE
Director: DIANA TAYLOR
Synopsis: uliet Butler qualified with a degree in Russian. In 1982 she became a journalist in Moscow. She met the world's most extreme siamese twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova. Juliet discovered that the twins had been used for human experiments by the russian physiologist Anokhin and institutionalised all their lives. Juliet tells the incredible story of the twins who were hidden away from society for 50 years.
BEST DIRECTOR
WRITTEN BY?
Director: Kankana Chakraborty
Synopsis: Story of two writers... two generations.
Kamalesh Roy, a writer who has seen his golden days, but has not written anything in the last 10 years. Literally, lives in his study.
Natasha Sen, a young writer, fresh out of University, interns for Kamalesh Roy.
The Short takes place in a study room, on a rainy evening, between a time-span of an hour and a half (7:30 pm – 9:00 pm.)
The 15 minutes Film mainly highlights couple of questions.......
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
AZULA
Director: Renan Diegues, Juliana Soares
Synopsis: Rafael is a rent boy that begins an unexpected and torrid love affair with a serious business man that quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality and threatens to turn his life and personality upside down.
BEST SCREENPLAY
PRAWNS
Director: Swapnil Shetye
Synopsis: Our Short Film Prawns is talking about up & downs between relationship of Father & Son and how some situations change the father's prospective about education.
BEST EDITOR
DES3NGAÑO
Director: Aniez Atlas
Synopsis: The story about a woman in love with another woman in love with a man
BEST PERFORMANCE (MALE)
AZULA
Award Presented to: KAYQUE MARQUES
Director: Renan Diegues, Juliana Soares
Synopsis: Rafael is a rent boy that begins an unexpected and torrid love affair with a serious business man that quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality and threatens to turn his life and personality upside down.
BEST PERFORMANCE (FEMALE)
INNER CITY
Award Presented to: TINA BHATIYA
Director: ASHUTOSH JHA
Synopsis: One harassed and distressed comes to Mumbai with his wife from a far flung native place of Bihar in search of a livelihood and comfortable life. Dazzling,bewildering,confounding and magnificent buildings and overcrowded and baffling traffic of the metro thrills him.He is amazed and excited in the new atmosphere.From day one he starts to look out for a job what so ever to support his basic needs but a considerable time elapsed, he could not .......