SUBMIT WORK
January 2023 - February 2023 Programme
Works with big potential
The pandemic has left single mom Jackie feeling isolated, lonely, and like her life is slipping from her. She finds solace in the routine of running, and on her daily runs she passes the same man again and again. An invitation from him sets her into a panic, but her daughter encourages her to take a risk. Lies are told, but somehow Jackie may just find the connection we are all longing for.

"Best Romance"
"Best Covid-19 Film"
"Best Mobile Film"

► Directed by: Vasile Flutur and John McEneny
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Zoom With Me
January - February 2023 Programme
A bounty hunter rides for days looking for a bandit.... He finds him reveling in a saloon and decides to challenge him in a different way

Un cacciatore di taglie cavalca per giorni alla ricerca di un bandito.... Lo trova a far baldoria in un saloon e decide di sfidarlo in un modo particolare

"Best Short Film"
"Best Original Screenplay"
"Best Original Soundtrack"

► Directed by: William Delli Quadri

Il Duello
January - February 2023 Programme
Jacob (30) is a Lithuanian artist who hitchhiked from Kaunas (Lithuania) to Lausanne (Switzerland) to meet Howey Ou, the Chinese Greta Thunberg. He is writing a master's thesis on Chinese climate change policy. He would like to have Howey's point of view. In Switzerland, he discovers that she is on a hunger strike and decides to do the same to support her.

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best ECO work"

► Directed by: Kevin Rumley

Deep clean water
January - February 2023 Programme
Jose who is popularly known as Puli Jose (Puli means Tiger) is a famous Pulikali (Tiger dance) artist in Thrissur. Years back a terrible tragedy hits his life as his eight year old son Michael died when he performing Pulikali with Jose. From that incident Jose takes to drinking alcohol and abandons the love of his life, Pulikali, forever. Manoharan who had left his hometown twelve years ago following a heart break returns. He is a huge fan of Jose's Pulikali. Manoharan puts pressure on Jose to perform Pulikali as part of the Onam celebrations of the Arts and Sports club of the village. But Jose refuses. Finally after a lot of mental struggle Jose stopped drinking and also overriding his wife Mary's resistance, decides to once again perform Pulikali. This is followed by a lot of emotional events that turn around the lives of both Manoharan and Jose. 'Puliyattam’ is a glimpse of the mental conflicts of the Pulijose, who lived his whole life for the extinct art form Pulikkali.

"Best Feature Film"

► Directed by: Santhosh Kallatt

PULIYATTAM-The Tale of a Tiger
January - February 2023 Programme
Pina Bausch, the world-famous dancer, choreographer and director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, died in June 2009. She left behind one of the most important artistic legacies of our time – not only in dance. Why is her legacy still important to us? Why do we need to remember? Marc was born in Wuppertal and for two years at the age of thirty, he was the personal assistant to Pina Bausch. “touched” is a film about identity and loss, the function of art in society, the citizens of Wuppertal and their memories. A reflection on the heritage of Pina Bausch, a counter-archive.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Jukka Rajala-Granstubb, Marc Wagenbach

touched
January - February 2023 Programme
Horny Teenagers Must Die! is an over-the-top homage to '80s slasher fare with a difference, pitting a tale of sexual intrigue and weekend hedonism against a violent and bloody dead-teens-in-the-woods backdrop. A group of recent high school graduates head out into the woods for a weekend of sex, drugs and booze-drenched debauchery...only to meet their maker at the hands of a demented killer who uses anything from farm tools to sex toys in a non-stop orgy of eye-popping slaughter. Part pitch black comedy, part body count horror, Horny Teenagers Must Die! fuses the narrative structure of the Friday the 13th movies with the caustic wit of Heathers and the gory, anarchic insanity of cult classics like Re-Animator, Street Trash, Cabin Fever and The Evil Dead.

"Best Horror"
"Best Director"

► Directed by: David Zagorski

Horny Teenagers Must Die!
January - February 2023 Programme
A dreamlike symbolic journey into the modern world. Anima – the human soul – is threatened by dark forces, who besiege her as hooded strangers. Hyperion – the mad sage, and Clotho – the Moira seamstress of fate who spins the thread of human life, measure up against infinity and fate. Maya – queen of fire and illusion, evokes the lifeforces needed to sustain Anima in the confrontation that awaits her. On the chessboard of good and evil, where the struggle is being fought with tamasic forces, Anima appears to capitulate – but the immortal current of life will prove stronger than everything else.

"Best Music Video"
"Best Symbolic Film"

► Directed by: Camilla Martini

In a Tamasic World
January - February 2023 Programme
A young dad in rural Ireland must face his anxiety around gender and bullying when his baby is born intersex.

In modern-day rural Ireland, David meditates on his own childhood the day before his son is born. He is so haunted by his father bullying him for being weak and effeminate on the family farm that he now doubts his own abilities as a father. Though the young couple are excited for the birth, his wife Caoimhe senses his anxiety and worry as they settle down to sleep.

When the baby is born with both male and female sex organs, David is unable to cope with the diagnosis. He mentally shuts down and walks out of the room without a word. The pressure, shame and secrecy of the medical process is driving the young parents apart. Caoimhe and the baby take an ambulance to Crumlin Children’s Hospital to await the surgical panel’s decision, without David.

As lambing season continues on his father’s farm, David spends his days hiding away in tension and silence. When the day of the appointment arrives, it is unclear if he will show up for his wife and baby, or if the gendered trauma he has suffered will ultimately stop him from loving his own child.

"Best Short Film"
"Best LGBTQ+ Film"

► Directed by: Katie McNeice

Lambing
January - February 2023 Programme

Two years after the loss of their father, the youngest of two daughters comes home for the birthday of her niece. The family discomfort caused by her sudden return is aggravated after she finds out about their mother's new relationship.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Gabriela Neves
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NANA
January - February 2023 Programme
A young woman pays tribute to her late husband by hanging photos on a wall and reminiscing old memories.

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: Arthur de la Rambelje
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CANYON - Stay
January - February 2023 Programme
Fabiano, Lúcia and Clélio are siblings and live in an old house with their cousin Henrique. On a stormy night, they receive an unexpected visit from Mr. Tijo, a family friend. There is a blackout in the city, the lights go out. In a candlelit environment, supernatural events begin to happen. Judging that someone invisible wants to communicate with them, they decide to play a dangerous game with the supernatural: a message emerges bringing to light terrible facts from the group's past, warning of a great risk for one of them.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Drama"
"Best Supporting Actor"

► Directed by: Marco Aurelio Giangiardi

Lunares
January - February 2023 Programme
Cosmic Echoes is a celestial journey powered by stunning visuals and stellar guitar riffs. Both capture the grandeur and vast expanse of a beautiful universe that has infinite wonders to explore.

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: John Leslie Hulcombe

Cosmic Echoes
January - February 2023 Programme
Petter is forced to face his siblings and tell them he is a pedophile after having lived with this in secret for many years. Questions about empathy and understanding are put to the test when he chooses to be honest for the first time.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Director Debut"
"Best Original Screenplay"
"Best Young Actress"
"Best Actor"

► Directed by: Johanna Ställberg

I´m a pedophile
January - February 2023 Programme
Mired in losses dating back several years, and desperate to turn things around, owners of Protocol Industries hire Anthony Scolari to rescue the company. Experienced and anecdotally funny, but wrestling with his own myriad demons, Scolari learns early, NOTHING will be easy in his latest professional setting. Conflict is everywhere, inside the organization and out. Set in the greater Philly area during the recession of 2007-2009, Workforce is the tale of white and blue collar workers trying to work together, find common ground and unearth a little of the lighter side of humanity in the process.

"Best Drama"

► Directed by: Phil Kwarta

Workforce - The Pilot
January - February 2023 Programme
A modern couple "over 30" has a relationship crisis. Four years of marriage brought many mutual reproaches. The wife invites her husband to an expensive hotel for a night of love. But numerous issues they have accumulated over the years, make them talk, not make love. The film is based on a number of articles about the generation born after 1990.

"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by: Aleksey Zyzin
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SLEEP/TALK
January - February 2023 Programme
Nature's Bounty depicts an unconventional hero and her quest for a huge cash reward. However Maeve, the bounty hunter, has a problem.

She's fallen for the bounty.

As she fights her unresolved feelings towards her target. Maeve must make an impossible decision. Will she take her out or take her out...

"Best Animation"
"Best LGBTQ+ Film"

► Directed by: Chloe Linscomb

Nature's Bounty
January - February 2023 Programme
Maimulu, a young Nuragic warrior, has a nightmare, a terrifying vision. Danger is coming from the sea. As soon as he wakes up he sees the fire signals, the alarm raised by his people. He must leave his wife and son and begin his silent journey; an arduous journey but also a spiritual one. Maimulu crosses valleys and climbs ridges, reaching the summit in an almost alien, lunar environment. Roman ships are approaching. The epic battle begins.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Andrea Vacca
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Maimulu
January - February 2023 Programme
Leading viewers on a dark comedy fantasy romp through the mind, an elder is thrust into a different world . . . via some assistance.

"Best Closing Credits"

► Directed by: Ryan Stevens Harris

Sweetest Vacation
January - February 2023 Programme
???? Two dogged F.B.I. Agents work together to unleash the truth behind a string of murders and find the buried bones. ????
Starring Take One's Cory J. Phillips, as Agent Hardy, Danielle Phillips, as Agent Spade & making his film debut, Toshi as Dogter Lickter.
Directed, Written, & Edited by Kevin Huckabee
Audio by Matthew David Rudd

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Kevin Huckabee

Criminal Pets - Dogter Lickter
January - February 2023 Programme
10 diverse directors. No easy answers.

An anthology film of 9 original tales about the moments when life isn't simply black and white and the stories we tell ourselves to process those memories.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Horror"
"Best Poster"

► Directed by: Clarence Gaines IV, Katherine DuBois, Connor Foley, Evan Cannon, Jimmy Heisner, Aria Jackson, Andrea Kohn, Greg Neemer, Nathan Letteer, David Velo Stewart

I will not take care of you.
January - February 2023 Programme
6 Nordic Performance Artists invited to perform in, and with water. Filmed in the waters of Öresund, at Ribergsborg city beach, Malmö, Sweden. "We are all water in the same Ocean" Yoko Ono

"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Original Soundtrack"

► Directed by: Felicia Konrad, Johan Haugen

Precious Balance Walk
January - February 2023 Programme
Roomates depicts the lifestyles of the American Elite, Middle Class, and the Blue- Collar working-class bringing to attention that the American dream doesn’t exist for an average American and is just something that might work for people with privilege and power.

"Best Web-Series"

► Directed by: Franklin Livingston

Roomates
January - February 2023 Programme
How do we maintain dignity in the face of adversity?

Movement, sound, and silence paint a vivid journey of migration and the act of leaving home, not as a choice, but in desperation.

‘The Water Station’ is a film adaptation by playwright, director, and NYU Abu Dhabi professor Abhishek Majumdar of a play by Japanese playwright Ōta Shōgo, written in 1981. It is about our experience of the world and how it is shaped by what we have to leave behind, who we can leave with, and what happens when we meet others in our journeys.

Inspired by Ōta Shōgo’s childhood experiences of walking long distances with other refugees as his family migrated from China to Japan, the piece – having no spoken words – foregrounds ‘slowness’ and ‘quietude’ and was crafted through movement, sound, and silence across space and landscape. Movement sequences for this adaptation were developed using techniques of the Sanskrit theater form Kutiyattam as a natural choice to drive an entire language of slowness. Its creative development honored Ōta Shōgo’s original form of a devised performance text which was open to improvisation and development in partnership with the student actors, and was rehearsed as a play before being captured as a feature film. This openness allowed the diverse cast of NYUAD students from across the world to bring their own experiences with international forms of theater and film to the piece.

An NYUAD Theater Program production in collaboration with the NYUAD Film and Music Programs, and creative professionals Fowzia Fathima (Director of Photography), Suresh Kaliyath (Movement Director), Arthur De Oliveira (Assistant Director), Abhi Tambe (Music and Sound Composer), and Vandana Menon (Dramaturg and Editor).

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Actor"
"Best Actress"
"Best Director"

► Directed by: Abhishek Majumdar

Ōta Shōgo's The Water Station
January - February 2023 Programme
El olivo ha sido y es, sin ninguna duda, una de las señas identitarias más reconocibles de la cultura mediterránea a lo largo de su historia. Sin embargo, no está tan claro que vaya a continuar siendo así en un futuro próximo, al menos en Mallorca, donde el propio paisaje ha comenzado a mostrar síntomas de agotamiento. El documental es una inmersión en el mundo del olivo de la Serra de Tramuntana, en su história y la cultura que lo rodea, sobretodo la parte musical buscando las canciones de trabajo que los lugareños cantaban en el pasado.

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Alex Dioscorides Gomis Fernandez
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Stone and oil
January - February 2023 Programme
This documentary covers more than a century of archaeological discoveries in the great necropolis of Olisipo, the Roman Lisbon, from the first finding in 1850 to the discoveries made during the subway construction works in 1960 and the construction of the Praça da Figueira parking lot, in 1999.

Meanwhile, our perception of its great extension – along the road that linked the Roman city to its territory to the north – has been amplified by recent archaeological excavations, namely those that took place at Rua das Portas de Santo Antão, Calçada do Lavra and Rua de Santa Marta.

As discoveries and investigations continue, we are presented with the remains of graves, funerary monuments, human remains, and funerary objects that accompanied the deceased on their final journey.

In the midst of skeletons and the remains of cremations, there were also pots, jugs, oil lamps, silver rings, game pieces, the rare compass from a woman who worked in gold jewellery, the skeleton buried with a coin to pay for the journey between the world of the living and that of the dead, and the kit that went along with a Roman doctor to his grave – many stories that call to mind those who lived in ancient Roman Lisbon.

The great necropolis of Olisipo is thus gradually unveiled, offering us new and fascinating knowledge about our Roman ancestors.

The documentary presents the first recreation of what that necropolis would have been like. Through its 3D virtual archaeological recreation and featuring animations that help us to travel to the ancient time of Olisipo, the value of archaeology is there for everyone to see.

The work of archaeologists and conservators-restorers was covered for a period of four years, an effort that resulted in knowledge, narratives to be told and the finding of extraordinary objects that reveal the ways of living and dying – during approximately two millennia – in the westernmost municipality of the Roman Empire.

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Raul Losada

Echoes from the City of the Dead The great necropolis of Olisipo
January - February 2023 Programme
Emily returns from vacation and becomes a hostage of her own smart home. At first, it looks like a minor glitch in the system, but soon she realises that everything is much worse...

"Best Sci-Fi"
"Best Closing Credits"

► Directed by: Alexander Fedchin

H.A.S.I.
January - February 2023 Programme
Jopel a less fortunate kid from the streets of Manila , who wanted to make his mom happy by buying her a birthday cake. He did not have any money but was fortunate to have the heart & talent to overcome it all, “Embrace your talent and pursue it, you won’t believe what you can accomplish.” we hope we can touch the world with this one of a kind & amazing film....Jopel

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Clifton Abuan

JOPEL
January - February 2023 Programme
The Boy and the Girl were in love. They led a plain yet loving life, sharing profound resonance with each other. The Girl loved the sea and they made a deal to travel to the sea someday. However, a sudden illness took the Girl's life. Before the Girl died, she had told the boy that the shadows of the two who are in love will move for one another, even when they are not physically together; and one’s longing for the loved one would send one’s shadow to the other.

After the Girl was gone, the Boy was overwhelmed with longing and sadness. When brushing his teeth, he hears the juicer play a sad love song. When having breakfast, he sees the Girl crying silently in the clouds. When passing by a lake, he sees the Girl smiling in the water; As he lays in bed, he remembers what the Girl had told him before she left. He remembers that the Girl liked to have him scratch her back while they were in bed, so he scratches his back as well on the countless sleepless nights.

The Boy went to the hospital for the scratches on his back. And the Doctor developed a special affection for the Boy, hoping to get closer to him. But the Boy, after losing the Girl, was already dead inside. That night, the Doctor had a long phone call with the Boy, where they told the stories of their lost loved ones, shared the haunting sadness, and mourned the losses in silence.

This night, as the moonlight shines on the Boy's face, the Girl turns into a bird and flies over to the Boy. At that moment, the shadow of longings cast on the wall. It turns out that some lost ones are never really gone, as the love is always there.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Director"

► Directed by: Nadia Guo
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Wish You Well
January - February 2023 Programme
Finding Feathers follows Abel Herodes, a bodyguard sent to put an end to the wild goose chase that took place just a few days before....

Sequel to our film "Goose Chase".

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Black & White Film"

► Directed by: Adam Golden, Scott McDonald

Finding Feathers
January - February 2023 Programme
This heart-warming film tells the story of students who became teachers and returned to their former primary school to 'give back' and make a difference to following generations.

Plot Summary:
This inspiring documentary film takes us on a journey into the world of education and the crucial role it plays in social development. This heart-warming film tells the story of students who became teachers and returned to their former primary school to 'give back' and make a difference to following generations. Dandenong North Primary School, a multi-cultural school situated in a Melbourne suburb, welcomes all children and their families with open arms. The school's goal is to give children the best start on a path of lifelong learning. The importance of learning and 'giving back' is the heart of this unique and uplifting educational film, made by multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker, Amel Tresnjic.​

For more info on Dandenong North Primary School visit: https://www.dandenongnorthps.vic.edu.au/

For more info on the film visit: https://www.bravearcherfilms.com/our-projects.html

Official Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/GivingBackTheDocumentary

IMDB Title Page:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21159634/

"Best Educational Film"
"Best Director"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Editing"

► Directed by: Amel Tresnjic

Giving Back: Students Who Returned As Teachers
January - February 2023 Programme
Jack is a down and out struggling law student desperate for a loan to pay his school tuition. An Irishman with questionable business practices, has the cash Jack needs to pay off his tuition, but that loan comes with a steep and treacherous price.

"Best Feature Film"

► Directed by: Ari Taub
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69 Parts
January - February 2023 Programme
With the help of a special apparatus, brother and sister can now communicate despite their being in different dimensions. How exactly will the brother's message from the astral world change the sister’s course of life?

"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: Karolina Trace
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Bronsis 2
January - February 2023 Programme
After the Dakota Uprising of 1860, 303 Dakota men were sentenced to death. President Lincoln commuted 264 of those sentences. On December 26, 1862 in Mankato, MN 38 Dakota men were hanged until dead in the largest single day mass execution in American History.

In April 1863, the remaining men, women and children were moved by boat to Nebraska and South Dakota.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) ride was created to raise awareness and give thanks for those who endured that hardship.

Riders also bring their own names of loved ones who have been affected by violence since then, those who have been lost and left without a voice.

Their names are not forgotten..

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Historical Film"

► Directed by: Zeke Hanson
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The Missing and Murdered
January - February 2023 Programme
Three stories intersect at Humanitas.

The first is that of a doctor who, in a moment of pause outside the Emergency Room, looks annoyed at a message from a lover with whom he no longer wants to deal. A minute of tranquillity and boredom that will end a few seconds later when the Covid 19 pandemic emergency begins.

And it is right in the middle of the pandemic, amidst so many deaths and so much pain, that he will realise he has lost the most important thing in his life: the love of his wife who, having learned of the affair, leaves him.

The second is the story of a middle-aged entrepreneur, a typical negative stereotype of the Veneto businessman who, in accumulating wealth, deludes himself into thinking he is accumulating happiness. In his eagerness to grasp, he drives a young freelancer to ruin by handing over the last saleable thing he has left: his mother's fur coat.

But the pandemic takes the entrepreneur's wife. And he eventually only mutates and realises, with a kind of epiphany, that everything he owns is worthless in the face of his wife's death. And he realises that everything is as ephemeral as the snow that falls but then melts, on all men, indiscriminately.

And finally, there is the story of a nurse like so many others who loves what he does but not the fact that he is always on the bill and is therefore angry at anyone who has more than him.

This character is the link between the doctor and the entrepreneur, a Charon who ferries the fur from hand to hand, realising at the end of the story that his envy and anger are meaningless in the face of human and common suffering.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Diego De Francesco

HUMANITAS
January - February 2023 Programme
A metaphorical astronaut explores his past, in order to venture forward.

"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Colin Gaszak
  • colingaszak@gmail.com

Spaceman
January - February 2023 Programme
The whole extent of globalization and capitalism is often reflected in day-to-day actions.

A man leaves his picturesque mountain farm every day to go to the neighboring small town to assist in the production, in several shifts at a conveyor belt, of articles that - in both his own immediate neighborhood and on the other side of the world - can cause extreme distress.

A boy who observes these things happening, and who is not impervious to their effects.

A cautionary narrator who shows that the words of Erich Fried, now more than fifty years old, are more relevant and more far-reaching than ever.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Covid-19 Film"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Composer"
"Best Color Editing"

► Directed by: Milena Olip
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Talking to a survivor
January - February 2023 Programme
In Raymond Chandler's classic story, private dick Phillip Marlowe is dragged into a case involving a missing girlfriend, a lovesick ex-con, the usual lineup of grifters and gangsters, and of course murder in spades. Can our not-so-humble detective solve the case, before it drags him in so deep he can never get out?

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Sean Silleck

FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
January - February 2023 Programme
A young man turn into a creature after falling in a polluted pond

"Best Black & White Film"

► Directed by: Stephane Laurencin

FROGGER, THE CREATURE OF THE LAKE
January - February 2023 Programme
A couple's Sunday evening is interrupted when a mysterious stranger crashes a car in their front yard.

"Best Horror"

► Directed by: Joshua T. Wagner
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Something Weird Is Going On
January - February 2023 Programme
A man is psychically sent to the future to witness the condition of our planet. What he sees and experiences forever changes his life.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Ethan Wearn
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Losing Heaven - What kind of planet will we come back to next life?
January - February 2023 Programme
Based on a true story which morphed into a Country Romance song . The narrative lends itself readily to the imagery of a music video. Filmed in Texas and regional Australia. The song has been sound produced by one of Australia's leading Country musicians Bill Chambers.

"Best Music Video"
"Best Original Song"

► Directed by: CARL EMERTON

I CRASHED MY DRONE IN TEXAS
January - February 2023 Programme
The Fate of Cysalion is a three-hour live-action musical that blurs the line between film and theatre. It is the centrepiece of a fantasy saga that tells an epochal story of heroes, villains and ancient powers. The story takes place in a distant place called Cysalion. In 1898, the boy Tayen Knightway is sent on a risky mission by the last living Vartori and ponders seminal events that took place some two hundred years earlier. An epic adventure unfolds before the viewer's eyes as two young girls embark on a breathtaking journey amidst kingdoms and empires.

"Best Fantasy"
"Best Composer"
"Best Director"
"Best Original Soundtrack"
"Best Costume Design"
"Best Poster"

► Directed by: Marc Blasweiler

The Fate of Cysalion
January - February 2023 Programme
Two old friends revisit the major venue of their childhood to honor a lost friend — though they soon realize that they, along with their friend, are trapped in the past.

"Best Student Film"
"Best Composer"
"Best Director"

► Directed by: Samuel Mitchell

Last Memory of Spring
January - February 2023 Programme
Wax Tailor unveils "Craftsman" from his new album "Fishing For Accidents". The music video is signed by Mathieu Le Proux who had already directed "Worldwide" ft Ghostface Killah (Wu Tang Clan)
This work required 3 months of meticulousness, all the sets were made by hand and nearly 2500 images were assembled for the final result.

This short film takes us on a poetic journey through the process of creating a record. 3 minutes to summarize the work of a music craftsman at the antipodes of standardization who refines his sound material like a goldsmith.

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: Mathieu Le Proux

The Fate of Cysalion
January - February 2023 Programme
How do we best nurture a beautiful relationship?

Bub and Rabbit enjoy a dynamic and spontaneous relationship full of intense love, adventurous travel, earth shattering sex, fiery arguments, and profound connection. So what happens when Rabbit insists on moving in?

"Best Short Film"
"Best Actress"
"Best Romance"

► Directed by: Brett Cousins

Habitat
January - February 2023 Programme
In a desert by the sea, an ancient culture endures modernity. A grandmother and her granddaughter intertwine in estrangement over memory. The myth sheds controversy; time falls in dreams of sand, old songs and rock music.
First full-length feature drama to be ever produced in Cmiique Iitom (Seri language)

"Best Experimental Film"
"Best Producer"
"Best Young Actress"

► Directed by: Antonio Coello

Seven Ridges
January - February 2023 Programme
AGNIYOGANA is a meditative inquiry into the lost art of classical Hatha Yoga.

Offering an experiential collage of action and stillness, light and darkness, sound and silence, AGNIYOGANA explores the richness of traditional Hatha Yoga teachings and the deeply connected states of heart, mind, and freedom these practices deliver to sincere truth seekers.

AGNIYOGANA takes the viewer on a journey through time and space to rediscover the inner dimensions of Hatha Yoga and reconnect the human spirit to the true meaning of “yug,” the connecting root of all yogas.

Our documentary film begins with a visual and aural initiation.

The journey inward then explores the key requirements of Hatha Yoga:

FIRMNESS of mind;
The importance of FAITH;
The necessity of a qualified TEACHER;
The benefits of MODERATION;
The methods to RESTRAIN the senses; and
The practice of universal EQUANIMITY.

Throughout the film we examine the microcosm of the internal self in relation to the macrocosm of the elements, seasons, time of day, and other external forces of nature. The narrative is woven together through commentary, wisdom, and insight from those who continue to uphold and live by the ancient ways of yoga. AGNIYOGANA offers rarely seen glimpses of traditional Hatha Yoga practices as expressed by modern day yogins.

AGNIYOGANA is a meditation.

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Emma Balnaves

Agniyogana - Lower the head, Invoke the fire
January - February 2023 Programme
A simple do-gooder, or a maniac on the loose? That is the question. You be the judge.

"Best Action Movie"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Actor"
"Best Original Screenplay"

► Directed by: Glenn Christopher Ganley

Honest Police
January - February 2023 Programme
The Rebellion, written by lawyer/artist Ari Scharg, shines a spotlight on corrupt practices in the legal industry. It finds its roots in the real life $100m+ client Ponzi scheme perpetuated by celebrity lawyer, Tom Girardi, the husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Erika Jayne. The song focuses on how Scharg’s firm, Edelson P.C., exposed the fraud and how there is currently a little known battle waging in his industry between reformers and the Old Guard – the attorneys that want to keep everything the same so they can continue exploiting a broken system.

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: Gabriel Hostetler
  • scharg@gmail.com

The Rebellion
January - February 2023 Programme
From the Oscar® Winning team behind The Silent Child comes 'in too deep'.

Mourning the death of his young daughter, a grieving father goes to extreme measures to relive their fondest memories.

Starring Academy Award® Winner Rachel Shenton and Olivier Award Nominee Stephen Wight.

"Best Cinematography"

► Directed by: Chris Overton

in too deep
January - February 2023 Programme
Inspired by the allegorical approach of Eastern European cinema, "A Day At the Beach" addresses a larger political problem through the small story of a collision of 2 individual lives. Stuck in the transphobic hell of small-town Trumpland, a non binary teen walks into the ocean to escape. Forced to see someone else's pain, middle-aged Buck, played by Brian Kelly of The Andy Warhol Diaries, is jolted out of his resentment-fueled self isolation and back into engaging with the world, one person at a time.

Isn't it about time for us boomers to listen instead of proclaim and let the younger generation take the lead? While we on the Left were obsessed with dogma and political orthodoxy and ignoring the spiraling economic inequality pushing us all down into a lower class, the fascist Right infected our culture with hate, highjacked our institutions and stripped us of human rights we had taken for granted. To keep all our kids safe, it's time to "try something different."

"Best Student Film"

► Directed by: Chris Arnold
  • culturalanimal@yahoo.com

A Day At The Beach
January - February 2023 Programme
From the Oscar® Winning team behind The Silent Child comes 'in too deep'.

Mourning the death of his young daughter, a grieving father goes to extreme measures to relive their fondest memories.

Starring Academy Award® Winner Rachel Shenton and Olivier Award Nominee Stephen Wight.

"Best Cinematography"

► Directed by: Chris Overton

in too deep
January - February 2023 Programme
A humble family with three children live in the forest. One day they pass by a house they believe to be empty and occupy it, spending the best seven days of their lives there.

"Best Black & White Film"
"Best No-Dialogue Film"
"Best Comedy"
"Best Actress"
"Best Actor"
"Best Young Actress"
"Best Costume Design"
"Best Composer"

► Directed by: JULIO DE LA FUENTE SANTOS

The Home
January - February 2023 Programme
BLACK TEAR ON WOLF SKIN reveals the transformation of a woman who lives a duality between an internal social imprisonment and external artistic freedom. Her conflicts are expressed through her body and mind, in a transgression between fantasy and reality.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Actress"
"Best Color Editing"
"Best Poster"

► Directed by: Chris Overton

BLACK TEAR ON WOLF SKIN
January - February 2023 Programme
"Julia" is a little story about loss and loneliness, told only with images and music.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Drama"
"Best Actress"
"Best Director Debut"
"Best Composer"

► Directed by: Víctor Muñoz

Julia
January - February 2023 Programme
Serbia alone had lost a third of its entire population in the Great War, almost half its men.
This film talks about those that never returned home from the two biggest Austria-Hungarian prisoner camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic - Jindřichovice and Broumov.
A film that I owed to my nation.
SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic, Jindrihovice and Broumov. The camps had about 500 facilities where there were about 60,000 prisoners of war.
Extremely difficult working conditions, no food, no shoes and clothes, winter and infectious diseases, all this affected the fact that 7,100 Serbs did not survive the camps. There is a mausoleum in Jindrihovice where the remains are
victims of these camps - 7100 Serbs and 189 Russians. It is the second largest Serbian tomb in the world.
The film also contains memories of soldiers who survived the camps, writen by a Dutch journalist Henri Aber in 1919. The descendants of soldiers from Serbia also speak in the film.
The topic of Serbian prisoners and internees from the First World War is a neglected topic and even today, during the first centenary of the end of the First World War, they are completely forgotten and this injustice has not been corrected. From the time of the war, it seems that they could not fit into that, say, warrior, liberation narrative, where, above all, a soldier with a rifle in his hand was valued. If you look at any Serbian military monument, it is usually a soldier holding a rifle that is raised high. We have only a couple of sculptures of Serb civilians who died ... there are no monuments or they are very rare that generally concern the role of civilians, let alone civilians who were in slavery.
But, as defined by the military legislation, a prisoner is someone who, by force of circumstances, ended up in captivity and he continues to perform his military duty. We can say the same for the civilian internees, that they were citizens of the Kingdom of Serbia who remained to be citizens even though they were faced with these completely unexpected and terrible opportunities. It is very unfortunate that, practically, for a whole century, they remain outside the collective memory of the Serbian people, even though it is a very dramatic suffering. I just think that these people were unfairly marginalized and almost thrown out of our general perception of the First World War.
The film stars Lordan Zafranović, Jelena Ćirić, priest Srdjan Jablanović, etc.
and the narrator is Jim High (english version), Jan Kacer (czech version), Tihomir Stanic (serbian version), Mihal Fedorov (russian version).
Duration 59 minutes.
Director: Sanjin Mirić (born in Visoko, BiH, permanent residence in the Czech Republic)
Production: RODOLJUB z.s. Czech-Serbian Friendship Association Prague

"Best Historical Film"
"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best War Film"
"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by: Sanjin Miric

Seven Thousand Souls
January - February 2023 Programme
Ryan (Ray Cunningham) is Haunted by his past and not sure how to cope with the state of the world. Josh (Daniel Repas) Keeps trying to help Ryan emotionally but is Ryan to isolated and secluded to be saved? Kaitlyn (Emily Waterhouse) and Sam (Sheila Weiss) Try and figure out why people are mysteriously disappearing from camp. With only one doctor left in the camp being Chris (Tim Novotny) is there any hope or chance of survival in a zombie apocalypse?

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Horror"
"Best Action Movie"
"Best Makeup"
"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by: Andrew William Chapman

Scavengers
January - February 2023 Programme
In order to get the girl of his dreams, a college student with Autism embarks on an epic adventure: a party. It’s just as bad as he thinks it will be—until maybe it isn’t.

"Best Student Film"
"Best Comedy"
"Best Director Debut"
"Best Young Director"

► Directed by: Débora Rocha

Party Quest
January - February 2023 Programme
This Saturday is a Turkish wedding day at Espace Venise (France). Huddled in a car in the parling lot, Fatih, 21, wants to get married. He has set his sights on Ipek, Recep’s sister. But neither Murat, his best friend, nor Recep, nor even Ipek are aware of this yet.

"Best Short Film"
"Best Comedy"
"Best Actor"
"Best Supporting Actor"
"Best Poster"

► Directed by: Onur Yagiz
  • festivalsbaxterfilms@gmail.com

Fatih the Conqueror
January - February 2023 Programme
Family ties are revealed when an unknown enemy emerges seeking revenge, as the hunt for Breeze is on!

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Poster"

► Directed by: Robert L Butler Jr

The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
January - February 2023 Programme
A woman gives up her inheritance for a chance to stand on her own two feet, but when life becomes full of rejection and tragedy, she must choose between her career and the one that got away.

"Best Feature Film"

► Written by: Alyxandrya Prynce
  • alyxprynce@gmail.com

The Christmas Gift
January - February 2023 Programme
A young artist isolates from her family to define her view, her vision, her form of art.

"Best Short Screenplay"

► Written by: Jeffrey Morin
  • jmorinehp@gmail.com

Not Gauguin
January - February 2023 Programme
Resisting tragedy, a man and a woman tempt fate and the darkness of suicide to find love.

"Best Original Screenplay"

► Written by: Steven Howard
  • showard32@hotmail.com

The Garden of Earthly Delights
January - February 2023 Programme
A determined college student stumbles upon a vast, absurd conspiracy when investigating a potential laundry thief on campus.

"Best Short Screenplay"

► Written by: Connor Lawless
  • clawless3221@gmail.com

Threads of Desire
January - February 2023 Programme
When Blake picks up a young Marine hitch hiking his way down the highway, he has no idea giving the veteran a simple ride will have such a life-changing effect on both of them.

"Best Original Screenplay"

► Written by: Alysha Haran
  • alyshaharan@aol.com

The Ride
January - February 2023 Programme
In pursuit of an ordinary existence, the heir to an Italian mafia organization becomes an accountant, but family loyalties, past crimes, and a mind tortured by mental illness threaten to derail his plans.

"Best Television Script"

► Written by: Danny Range

The Prince of The Black Hand
January - February 2023 Programme
In middle-class Brooklyn in 1971 a mixed race family was simply not the norm. The S.S. Robin takes place in Brooklyn, New York in 1971. It tells the story of the DeLucas - a working-class Italian/American family who struggle with the turbulence of the early 70’s, while facing new and unexpected challenges stemming from the inclusion of a mixed race child into their home.
The S.S. Robin opens with the unexpected arrival of Robin, a 3 year old Hispanic/black foster child into the DeLuca family. A child with a fully-formed personality who interacts with the family, develops a strong bond with each member and calls the DeLuca parents mommy and daddy as natural as if they were her own. The story spans 18 months where we watch the family celebrate birthdays and holidays, experience day-to-day family activities as playful as learning how to swim in the family pool to tension-filled, near violent arguments and dramas between neighbors and strangers and children and parents all of which could potentially alter relationships forever – many of those conflicts centering around Robin. The DeLuca’s story reflects the social and political clashes of the time. We see the racism that is present in both the world outside of the DeLucas and within their own family and community. While the DeLuca’s love for Robin develops so deep as to consider the lifelong commitment of adopting her, they never expect the reactions that a mixed race child fosters in their circle of family, friends and neighbors. The main characters include the mother Rosie, a 50 year old Italian/American woman who lives for her husband and children. Her own issues of childhood loss and abandonment complicate her choices as she mothers her own maturing family. The father, Gianni, is a proud 47 year old man who lives for God, country and family. Is Gianni’s allegiance to the New York Yankees and Italian music enough to validate his patriotism and family values? Their three children are Johnny, Christopher and Anna. The 50’s born children are caught between their parent’s WWII generation of unquestioned duty and obedience and the Vietnam War generation of questioning authority and maintaining suspicion. And, of course, Robin. We watch Robin, a rejected, innocent interloper, expose the DeLucas to a sobering new world of conflict that they never knew existed right in their own backyard - along with an unconditional love and acceptance that even they didn’t know they were capable of.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written by: Camille DeBiase
  • camille@mediaracket.com

The S.S. Robin
January - February 2023 Programme
Intersexual banker Alex * lives as a man. When his intersexuality becomes public, Alex * threatens to lose everything because of the traditional perception of his industry of a binary understanding of genders and roles.

"Best Original Screenplay"

► Written by: Joachim H. Böttcher
  • joachim@joachimboettcher.com

Alex*
January - February 2023 Programme
Resourceful Gendarme Margaux is joined by her former beau after the Notre Dame fire as they follow clues left centuries earlier by Napoleon and Victor Hugo, ultimately leading them to the lost Charlemagne's Crown.

"Best Original Screenplay"

► Written by: Michael David Sollars, Geoffrey Durand Sollars, Eric Gerard Sollars
  • esollars1@suddenlink.net

NOTRE DAME IS IN FLAMES
January - February 2023 Programme
SOUL PAST FUTURE EXCHANGE TECNOLOGY NAMED: X-CAPE TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLICLY KNOWN AS ALTER EGO IS CONTROLLED BY A BIG TECH CHINESE CORPORATION WHOSE BOSS HAVE JUST BEEN ASSASINATED BY HIS OWN WIFE: AN AMBITIOUS FANG THAT DECIDES TO SEND HER OWN DAUGHTER' SOUL IN THE BODY OF A CHINESE PRINCESS IN THE 18 CENTURY TO TEACH HER THE LOVE OF POWER. BUT, LIU XI YIN -HER DAUTHGER- HAS DIFFERENT PLANS AND ESCAPES HER MOM AND HER AGENTS SAVED BY A STRANGER: RINGO -A CHILEAN COMMANDO- WITH WHO SHE WILL START AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT...

"Best Short Screenplay"

► Written by: CHRISTIAN LEONARDO TALARICO

ALTER EGO
January - February 2023 Programme
A superhuman NFL superstar with missing memories of his past finds himself in the center of a conspiracy that reveals him to be a human puppet that mad doctors put together using high tech cloning as part of a dark experiment.

"Best Feature Screenplay"

► Written by: Terry Luke Podnar

The Red Zone
January - February 2023 Programme
A dispirited, young man makes a startling discovery in a laboratory that could change his life forever.

"Best Short Screenplay"

► Written by: Terry Luke Podnar

The Chance
January - February 2023 Programme
Asked to run the Asian branch of his twin brother's A.I. software company, Stephen Wilson jumps at the chance, leaving his floundering screenwriting career behind.

Stephen immediately befriends the company’s biggest client, Cash Cheang, a colorful casino operator whose VIP room is being used to launder vast sums of money out of China. Stephen’s soon flying private, courting the rich and powerful, and falling deeper and deeper into a fantasyland of gambling, cryptocurrency, and moral corruption even more surreal than Hollywood.

When loan sharks kill a gambler playing in one of his VIP rooms, Cash is arrested. Corrupt politicians on both sides of the Chinese border want him silenced. Cash’s only chance is to turn the tables on those threatening him, but he needs Stephen’s help to do so. Unaware he's an expendable pawn in a dangerous con game, Stephen agrees to cooperate.

“You always cheat the ones closest to you,” warns an old Chinese proverb. As he dodges hired hitmen, evades corrupt officials, avoids arrest by nosy Macau cops, and falls head over heels for a woman whose intentions might not be so pure, Stephen recognizes how true those wise old words are. Even his brother’s greed threatens everything when Cash offers to buy the company with money-laundered loot. A fortune awaits if Stephen can navigate a treacherous world where everyone wants him dead. Fame’s on the line, too, if he can just stay alive long enough to tell his story. “Write what you know” is great advice if you can stay alive – or even ‘dead’ – long enough to tell the tale.

"Best Adapted Screenplay"

► Written by: Andrew W. Pearson

The Dead Chip Syndicate
January - February 2023 Programme
In 2015 a 7.8 earthquake devastated Nepal and the ancient city of Bhaktapur. Brick productions has become the country's main economic activity.The film tells the dramatic life of the workers

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by: Nicola Bozzo
  • nicolabozzo8444@gmail.com

Bhaktapur / A human story
January - February 2023 Programme
Joseph guides fellow refugees through the Eternal City to acclimate them to a new life and tell stories of displacement, flight and finding home.

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Cinematography"
"Best Editing"

► Directed by: Ted Efremoff
  • tefremoff@gmail.com

A Refugee's Guide to Rome
January - February 2023 Programme
After a newly wed couple inherits a home far from town, they let their friends move in and within months they find themselves trapped, trying to escape after a group of masked men searching for something break into the house.

"Best Original Screenplay"

► Written by: Genevieve Sipperley
  • gsipperley@yahoo.com

The Break In
January - February 2023 Programme
DEPICTING THE LIVES OF CUBANS ESCAPING THE CASTRO COMMUNIST REGIME IN THE 60, and 70

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Manny Soto

A NEW DAWN
January - February 2023 Programme
Leyl is about the holidays of those living as a minority in Hatay Turkey. During these festivals, sacrifices are made and a dish similar to keskek, which the locals call 'hriyse', is made. This meal is distributed to the children of the neighborhood by filling them in containers they bring from their homes. On the occasion of this holiday, the features of minority culture such as cooperation and solidarity are shown. An answer is sought to the question of why this cultural activity, which is about to become extinct, should be continued.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Mehmet Tolga Eskiocak

NIGHT/LEYL
January - February 2023 Programme
The most tragic story in Chinese music history, while the most successful rhythm spread around the world. The erhu musician A Bing, who were blind, visualized the music into several fancies. All of his life’s reflection concentrated into the famous music The Moon Over The Fountain.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Zhenxing Zhang
  • jasonzhang_603@hotmail.com

A NEW DAWN
January - February 2023 Programme
Two detectives arrive at a country house to solve a case, but upon finding the body of the victim, the female detective named Ivanna, realizes that her connection with that place is greater than what she has ever imagined.

She knows the country house, because she went there to play when she was a child. Back then, the park was abandoned and the legends hidden in its surroundings seemed to come back to life.

Now, she begins to understand that her return to the country house more than twenty years after her childhood plays, does not seem to be a coincidence.

"Best Mobile Film"

► Directed by: Juan Pablo Bornio
  • jpdimension@hotmail.com

The country house and its karma
January - February 2023 Programme
After a "panic" induced coma, Kazahaya finally believes that he has not been chosen and that he is also an ordinary person who cannot change the world. Losing faith, Kazahaya was consumed by fear. Facing the "panic" that could happen at any moment, he was in great confusion and anxiety. To overcome his fear, Kazahaya and his girlfriend decided to go on a soul-searching trip

"Best Fearure Documentary"

► Directed by: baby sun

Soul Lost Guide
January - February 2023 Programme
Amplify, an Indigenous hiphoppa and member of the Edmonton based hip hop group Unspittable reflects over the three years the group has been together in the hour before a gig. Full of intimate performances, Unspittable is an improvised ethno-fiction film that brings the audience into the reality of Indigenous hip hop in urban Canada following the group from its formation to its maturity.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Michael B MacDonald

Unspittable
January - February 2023 Programme
IN A TAMASIC WORLD
Lyrics and music by Alessandro Orlandi

Got to cry for their souls, will the rage soon be shown?
People running round asking for a war
Feeding only lies they will never know
But they are dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
Om...
And when the feeling to be a fool seems so cool, it breaks the rules
Soft explosions in their minds wake up dark sides from behind
Om...
And when the feeling to be a fool seems so cool, it breaks the rules
Soft explosions in their minds wake up dark sides from behind
Got to cry, for my soul, I need a shelter from the stones!
Should I jump or fly in a well or in the sky?
My prison's in the Net: a Chimera warm and wet
And I am dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming
Om...
Now I feel that I'm fool, it looks so cool, so I'll break the rules
If the Mirror says that I'm a freak, come and see to watch the Geek
Got to cry for their souls, will the rage soon be shown?
People running round asking for a war…

"Best Original Song"

► Directed by: Alessandro Orlandi

In a Tamasic World (The Song)
January - February 2023 Programme
"Best Original Song"

► Directed by: Daniel de la Rosa Oliva

A Demon's Dream
January - February 2023 Programme
This is a documentary about a sister from a dysfunctional family interviewing her brother who has muscular dystrophy.

"Muscular Dystrophy(MD)", an intractable disease that causes progressive muscular weakness and necroses.
My brother is a MD patient.

He may some of the time mention his physical agonies but does not make any remark of pessimism around his life.
As this interview moves on, however, he starts to speak out….
He says he's an in-between of a handicapped person and healthy, with pressure of “looking normal”.

official Site
https://aikokomeda.com/movie-1

（Fetching 2013,Completion 2022）

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Aiko Komeda

"Onii(Bro) ～Are Muscular dystrophy in despair? Abused sister asks～"
January - February 2023 Programme
RETARDATION is the second short film in the Male Nature Studies series.

”The Great Acceleration” gained momentum in the 1950s with the Western man at the wheel. The growth curves turned sharply upwards and so did, and still do, the human impact on the biosphere. But what if this man begins to see himself as a small part of nature instead of striving to "conquer" it? What if he abandons the pursuit of status and the ever-expanding claims to power? What if he slows down and throws his paralyzing yoke? Is he still a Man then?

In RETARDATION, Nils Agdler visualizes ideas of another future man – the resigned man, the regressed man, the liberated man, and possibly – the last man.

"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: Nils Agdler

RETARDATION
January - February 2023 Programme
Experimental sound collage. Voice concert.
Collective portrait of women of different ages and parts of the world who share ideas about who they are and the society that surrounds them during the year 2020.

"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: Rebeca Saavedra Gironás

We are voices
January - February 2023 Programme
The filmmaker makes frequent visits to her old mother who lives far away. The visits are trying. Invaded by the past she loses her creativity and sinks into lethargy. Why mother and daughter couldn’t they build a bond of trust? How was the life of her female ancestors? The filmmaker decides to tell this period starting with the family photos, and the videos and artistic photos made during this period. She sees her mother in a last encounter.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Barbara Erni

Making of Making Nothing
January - February 2023 Programme
"Zevi – Our Story" is a partially autobiographical view of Professor Bruno Zevi’s genius. It is meant to show how ideas and a rich cultural environment like that of Rome can impact the minds of young people, as they did to us.

"Best Historical Film"

► Directed by: Rick Meghiddo

Zevi - Our Story
January - February 2023 Programme
IIn the midst of World War II, a young soldier escapes from an enemy plane that has crashed in the Boso Peninsula. A woman who lives in an isolated cottage in the forest rescued the injured man. When the unconscious man wakes up, he sees a hand-made cello in the room. "My dead son made it," she says. He asks if he can play the cello. She brings the cell to him and he begins playing sarabande from Bach's Suite No. 3 with his wounded hands.
The ghost of her dead son wanders in the forest and around his mother's cottage with a kettle to draw water, but only birds can see the ghost, not the mother.
One day the mother hears the sound of a kettle.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Director"

► Directed by: Ryosuke Handa

FOREST ISLAND
January - February 2023 Programme
Princëney is a Caribbean boy that begins a journey towards the unimaginable to achieve his greatest wish: he just wants to be a prince.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: ARIEL ORAMA LOPEZ (AG ORLOZ)

PRINCËNEY
January - February 2023 Programme
Long long ago, the ogres and the villagers decided to live in separate mountains a short distance apart. But as time passes, the promise has been forgotten by everyone. The curtain tied to the tree vaguely shields them from each other, while the salt vaguely tries to connect them. The samurai rush to the villagers' fear, but everyone is unable to understand what is so terrible.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Misa Nishihara
  • misairuna@gmail.com

The ogre, the curtain and salt
January - February 2023 Programme
The story of a bronze statue with a strong pose that inspires many on a daily basis. One day, a little girl notices that the statue is hiding how it truly feels and she decides to do something to help him out. After a while, a construction crew brings a new item to the park, but what is it?

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Tony Pham

The Happy Statue
January - February 2023 Programme
A Study of the Unknown and the individual Reaction to it.

"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: Jan Niederprüm

A Song of starless Skies
January - February 2023 Programme
Whilst taking a shortcut home, an ordinary guy from the 21st century bumps into Cinderella and points out the plot hole.

"Best Comedy"
"Best Actress"

► Directed by: Barbara Spevack
  • barbaraspevack@outlook.com

If The Shoe Fits
January - February 2023 Programme
The story is about a Mexican man running through the desert in search of the meaning of life. The Mexican man is so focused on himself that he doesn't notice the various desert dwellers who want to get to know him until he finds himself in a situation where he wants to get to know a beautiful girl who also doesn't notice the Mexican man. And then the man comes to a place where the friendly inhabitants of the desert gather and has finally found the long-sought meaning of life.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Kaspars Buncis
  • buncis4@inbox.lv

The BuncinoMexicano
January - February 2023 Programme
Ben made a promise to fulfill his friend's dying wish. Now, after having taken unusual steps to carry it out, Ben must convince his stunned ex-fiancee to join him on a wild adventure in Iceland.

"Best Dark Comedy"

► Directed by: Hamid Khosravanipour
  • imdbhamid@gmail.com

Ashes Over Coffee
January - February 2023 Programme
An aspiring musician’s heroic struggle with loss of vision uncovers a hidden truth as her life spirals around her.

"Best Short Film"

► Directed by: Amy Susan Guggenheim

Blindsight
January - February 2023 Programme
On the night he plans to propose, a young scientist experimenting with time travel gets a visit from his future self...and his bitter future ex-wife.

"Best Sci-Fi"

► Directed by: John Kestner
  • y2jrk@msn.com

Beverly Ever After
January - February 2023 Programme
The movie FEMINAM, Latin for woman is an autonomous visual work by Marijke De Belie in which the artist plays with representations of women throughout the centuries.
Still it has not become a scientifical chronological enumeration of all female icons but more a flood of images like the one we experience in our REM sleep.

For this she uses a direct animation technique. With a black aquarel pencil on a white panel of wood she registers the drawing process itself, in an authentic and uncomplicated drawing style.

"Best Symbolic Film"

► Directed by: Marijke De Belie

FEMINAM
January - February 2023 Programme
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more;
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.
By Antonio Machado

"Best Director Debut"
"Best Original Soundrack"

► Directed by: Quike F. R.

TANATOCHRESIS
January - February 2023 Programme
Based on the ancient cultures and tradition in sub division of Murshidaabad Kandi, West Bengal. The live story and cast are implemented in Cinematic Form of 17 Years Research Documents.

After the Turkish invasion, Brahmanism came to an end.
Historically, the responsibility of country, protection of life and religion in the hands of the Baseborn.
Covering an area of ​​about 30 km in 24 to 28 hours 10 to 12 Bolan Pala served tirelessly Bolan artist team.
The devotees are the circle of the tradition. Their accomplishment is the main phase of the culture. They're responsibility and duty is to cirumb The Od to the doorsteps of the mortal.
The Social Reunion, The divine cultivation of life beyond all the caste, religion, ages.
The Folk Tradition which can't be sold, can't be nab from the Baseborn society.
As they cultivate the culture Genealogical way, by their hearts, bloods and lastly to fulfill their hobby being down and bowing to the earth.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Amitava Halder

Antyaja Kaal
January - February 2023 Programme
"The Art of Eduardo Tavares - Keep Going", presents the work and ideas of the Brazilian artist and tattooist Eduardo Tavares. Directed by Nêio Mustafa, the film, shot in the artist's studio in Australia, reflects the universe of fine arts and body art tattooing, where these languages intersect in the artist's life.

It is not only a life story, but an art proposal for a good world for all. In this historical context and moment marked by tyranny and oppression, the artist calls people to build a new world and criticizes false morals and the naturalization of perversity. In addition, he signals the importance of ethics, beauty and nature in the life of human beings. "The Art of Eduardo Tavares - Keep Going" is an action for a new world.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Nêio Lúcio Mustafa
  • neiolm@gmail.com

The Art of Eduardo Tavares - Keep Going
January - February 2023 Programme
A master poet loses her muse but tries to pass on her art and craft to a young talented poet.

"Best Feature Film"
"Best Drama"
"Best Director"
"Best Composer"
"Best Actress"
"Best Supporting Actress"
"Best Closing Credits"

► Directed by: Robert Fritz
  • robert_fritz@robertfritz.com

POEM
January - February 2023 Programme
Discover the Magic Shoe’s fantastical journey in search of its lost twin, where it lives an adventure like no other shoe before! Episode Four: While sailing away on its umbrella boat, the Magic Shoe gets swallowed by the unpredictable tide of Venice! This new episode of the series relies on traditional, hand-drawn animation combined with post-production effects. Concept to completion required three years of work..

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Florian Guillaume

No Ink (The Magic Shoe-Ep4)
January - February 2023 Programme
W.B.L. is a music video directed by William GUENFISSI. This is the trailer of his novel. The song was written and performed by Faouzi and William GUENFISSI. It is composed by Josse GERARD, FAOUZI and William GUENFISSI. The song is performed in French sign language by Claire MATZ.

"Best Music Video"
"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by: William Guenfissi

W.B.L.
January - February 2023 Programme
This is story about summer. The one that will be forever in our memories. The one that will be the part of us.

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Sophie Malakhova
  • linerle.tit@gmail.com

Summer
January - February 2023 Programme
How you deal with adversity defines you as a person. The subject of this documentary, John Dutton, has dealt with adversity. Not only does he have multiple sclerosis but was also diagnosed with an aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease, which manifested itself with debilitating tremors. John tried everything, every drug regimen and holistic approach there was. Nothing worked. He turned to the medical mecca of Boston for a groundbreaking form of surgery which uses soundwaves as opposed to scalpels. The audience will get to witness, in real time, non invasive brain surgery with results that are immediate. A Best Picture Oscar winner calls this documentary amazing and inspirational and considers John to be a walking miracle who will change the world. We will, together, benefit society by illuminating this form of surgery to the millions of people who have tremors.

"Best Short Documentary"
"Best Mobile Film"

► Directed by: Rob Scherer
  • im3puttin@aol.com

Tremor Documentary 2022
January - February 2023 Programme
A Clown dreams of being a Circus performer, but soon learns that practice makes perfect!

"Best Animation"

► Directed by: Robert Brown

Clowning Around
January - February 2023 Programme
A surreal mosaic pieced together from fractured memories and childhood recollections as told by an unnamed narrator who relives a traumatic incident from his past. A time when people went about their lives, and yet, they told tales of a predator who stalked the streets at night, sneaking into windows and adducting the innocent; this menace went by one name, Pastor Jessup.

"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: Alexander Walker Miller

Burnt by the Sun
January - February 2023 Programme
A tennis player gets irked by a strange figure watching him practice

"Best Horror"

► Directed by: Alec Palumbo

Sphinx
January - February 2023 Programme
Naruemon Chaingam, a veteran investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker is battling her recently found Cancer in Bangkok amidst the Covid pandemic.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Stephane Lambert
  • slnews@bagamail.com

"Shopping for Oldies but Goodies", whilst Cancer battles Covid
January - February 2023 Programme
Chase a better version of yourself.

Along a path, an exhausted and breathless runner meets a trained and faster runner who looks very similar to him. After seeing him several times, he starts chasing him, trying to keep up with his pace.

"Best No-Dialogue Film"

► Directed by: Simone Redeghieri Baroni
  • simoredeghieri@gmail.com

The path
January - February 2023 Programme
Contemplations is a 2 hour documentary based on over 50 interviews, distilling the wisdom of experienced psychedelic explorers in the Australian scene. Interspersed with deep “contemplations” about the psychedelic state, are animations depicting some of the deeper and most interesting experiences that people have shared.

"Best Feature Documentary"

► Directed by: Julian Austin Palmer

Contemplations: On The Psychedelic Experience
January - February 2023 Programme
A Star Wars Fan Film. On the far corners of the galaxy, a lone Jedi Guardian, Cal, suffers in exile while protecting a powerful relic from a new Sith cult. Haunted by visions of his past family and the voices of the dead Sith within the relic, Cal is slowly drifting into madness, not sure what is real and what isnt. Endlessly tormented by his wife, the Sith cultist Aaylia, and hunted by her army of cloned assassins, Cal believes he is making the ultimate sacrifice to protect the galaxy. But when a Republic pilot, Ilia, crashes on his world, Cal is forced to confront his past and present, while determining the fate of not just the galaxy, but his family.

"Best Sci-Fi"

► Directed by: Kyle Parish

The Last Guardian
January - February 2023 Programme
Music video for the movie The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze

"Best Music Video"

► Directed by: Robert L Butler Jr
  • rlb-jr@comcast.net

The Alliance 2 the Hunt for Breeze Music Video
January - February 2023 Programme
Twenty one long years. That’s how many Angelo Massaro spent under lock and key, before he was found innocent of a crime he never committed. He was the protagonist of one of the most glaring miscarriages of justice that has ever occurred in Italy. A human odyssey that brings back to life - emotionally and physically - the key places and people that frame the story of this man’s unjust incarceration, and the shocking events surrounding it.

"Best Feature Film"

► Directed by: Francesco Del Grosso
  • info@errorigiudiziari.com

Dead Weight
January - February 2023 Programme
A documentary about singers and songwriters.
Showcasing the talents of participants at the Wild West Songwriters Festival in Deadwood, South Dakota.
This is a story about what it takes to "make the cut," both in song and determination.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Zeke Hanson

Three Minutes Away
January - February 2023 Programme
My photo portrays the traditional dress style of Azerbaijani woman

"Best Photography"

► Photography by: Alfiya Salavatullina

Ethnic Azerbaijani Dress Style
January - February 2023 Programme
In a culture war of oppression and fear, comes an idea both daring and controversial.

Shot on the battle lines of our current culture war on Atlanta campuses, Our Bus is On Fire gathers clear voices, history, and the dark architecture of oppression together in compelling narratives.

Welcome to the changing world.

"Best Feature Documentary"
"Best Director Debut"

► Directed by: Lisa Gray

Our Bus is On Fire
January - February 2023 Programme
A young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother, Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles into his new city. The two polar opposite personalities begin to clash as Jeremy's presence poses a threat to Brian's way of life. Brian's uptight personality and unreasonable living standards rub off on Jeremy, creating an incredible amount of tension. Bad blood, stemming from a traumatic past event reveals the shocking truth of the brothers' current situations, as Brian struggles to differentiate between reality and his worst nightmares.

"Best Horror"

► Directed by: Harry Waldman

Enter the Room
January - February 2023 Programme
A black room, a chair, a couch and two men.
The constellation reminds one of a session at a psychotherapist. With one significant difference: the two men don't speak to each other. Why are they silent? One of them is perhaps tired of talking, the other possibly fears his own voice. Or maybe it is because they are meeting inside a film whose narration relays mainly on pictures.
We look through daring mimings and gestures beyond which fantastic visions and imaginations are dwelling. What the two men don't say the pictoriality of silence reveals...

"Best No-Dialogue Film"

► Directed by: Maren Krüger
  • krueger@strandfilm.com

Talking Cure
January - February 2023 Programme
Andrew and Trevor are a happy gay couple, until Andrew's secret girlfriend - who also happens to be Trevor's best friend - shows up, and Andrew is forced to come to terms with his sexual identity.

"Best LGBTQ+ Film"

► Directed by: Brad McDermott, Fred Kuhr

Poly Andrew
January - February 2023 Programme
She needs help now, and only the young are listening.

"Best ECO work"

► Directed by: Lesley Manning
  • lesley.a.manning@btopenworld.com

HELP
January - February 2023 Programme
When a young woman uses a magic spell to get back with her ex boyfriend she gets more than she bargained for.

"Best Actress"

► Directed by: Rayna Campbell

The Spell That Backfired
January - February 2023 Programme
What happens when a cat and especially an FIV+ cat is rescued? The cat is removed from danger? Not necessarily! The rescued cat needs to navigate the moral maze of the rescuer who may decide to kill the cat instead. Let our rescued cat Rabbit show you the trail from rescued to safety.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: chow wah chan

Saving Sawyer T. Rabbit
January - February 2023 Programme
Chamsundar, an Indian living in Dharavi slums, lives a full day together with Dmitry Iuanov, mathematican and filmmaker. Together they sleep on a clod floor, brush teeth with fingers, sort plastic in the factory and between all of that try to better understand each other's life vision. This raw and wildly original blog-style-documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled look at what it means to be a sitizen of slums.

"Best Short Documentary"

► Directed by: Dmitry VanDimKinson Iuanov
  • yeah.little.wing@gmail.com

I spend a day like inhabbitant of Dharavi slums
January - February 2023 Programme
Connie Lynn suffering post traumatic stress and depression navigates her way through life with Benny Lynn, she enters in to a whole new world she does not even know she is in without help to figure out where and who she is. The number 15 fast becomes a number she associates with happiness. Suffering with regular flashbacks from past trauma's she meets people along the way old and new searching for happiness.

"Best Experimental Film"

► Directed by: Lee Westwick
  • westwickreview@gmail.com

Connie Lynn
January - February 2023 Programme

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