August 22

WINNERS

Best Short Film – Dharani (Director: Dongjing Chen, China)
Best Feature Film – Dissociating Vulnerability (Director: Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan)
Best Documentary Feature – Our Lens Our Story: Ethiopia (Director: April Yvette Hall, United States)
Best Script (Feature Film) – Valentina, Relationship Killer (Writer: Iannis Aliferis)
Best Script (TV Pilot) – Thousandaire (Writer: Benjamin King, United States)
Best Amateur Short – NQ
Best Animation Short – Shadowland (Director: bellopropello, Switzerland)
Best Comedy Short – GAP (Director: Monica Pokorna, Germany)
Best Dance Short – NQ
Best Documentary Short – She He It (Director: Tony Hickson, United Kingdom)
Best Drama Short – Closer to Clouds (Director: Eileen Griffin Karlsson, Sweden)
Best Experimental Short – Dark Room (Director:  Juha Antero Lilja, Finland)
Best First-Time Filmmaker Movie – Your Sweet Love (Directors: Audley Wade Smith, Fritz Francois – United States)
Best Horror Short – The Exorcism of Isabella Ramirez (Director: Kevin Ruiz, United States)
Best Micro Short – The Mask (Director: Sam Bajoghli, Austria)
Best Mobile Short – NQ
Best Music Video – Girl in the mirror (Director: Greg L. Hines, United States)
Best Romance/Romantic Short – Bloom (Director: Nick Hiratsuka, United States) 
Best Sci-Fi Short – Laminae Veritas (Director: Axel Paulous, France)
Best Student Short – Lost father (Director: Wanti Liu, China)
Best Thriller Short – Pastiche (Director: Shivaan Makker, United States)
Best Trailer – The Float Folks (Director: Monica Dzikowicz, United Kingdom)
Best TV Pilot – Roommate (Director: Curran Sullivan, United States)

ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES


​Best Director – Nobuo Nakagawa (Dissociating Vulnerability)
Best Editing – Ella Grace Qin (The Exorcism of Isabella Ramirez)
Best Actor – Yuki Yamazaki (Dissociating Vulnerability)
Best Actress – Kazane Nishimura (Dissociating Vulnerability)
Best Cinematography – Zakaree Sandberg (The Exorcism of Isabella Ramirez)
Best Sound Design – Descension Part II (Director: Adrian Campbell, Canada)
Best Screenplay – Kyoji Kobori (Dissociating Vulnerability)
Best Acting Ensemble – Dissociating Vulnerability (Director: Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan)
Best Poster – Stay (Director: Oluyinka Davids, United States)

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Patient Zero (Director: Ilia Smirnov, Russian Federation)
Italiana (Director: Diego Fiorani, Italy)
Elephant Moose (Director: Whit Lane, United States)
Farewell to my love (Director: Xinyang Zhang, China)

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Be Right Back (Director: Arturo Márquez, Mexico)
ReMi (Director: Ramon Mayol Aranda, Spain)
The Ghost of Everything (Director: Anila Jaho, United States)
<The True Story of the REALIFE Crash> (Director: Srdan Jankovic, Germany)
Who is Xiang? (Director: Tong Wu, China)
The Tryout (Director: Michael Jonathan Gellis, United States)
Descension (Director: Adrian Campbell, Canada)
Straw Man (Director: Nanhui Li, China)
One-Way Mirror (Director: Dominic DiCaprio, United States)
Seamless Journey (Director: Elio Castello, Canada)
Lyrical Justifier : Journey Of An Mc (Gregory L. Hines, United States)
Stand your ground (Frank P. Mancuso, United States)