March 2024 – Easter Edition
WINNERS
Best World Short Film – Who Did This? (Director: Zhang Qu, China)
Best Africa Short – The Fetish (Director: Kouamé Mathurin Samuel Codjovi, Togo)
Best Asia Short – Who Did This? (Director: Zhang Qu, China)
Best Europe Short – Esther’s Tale (Director: Simone Barletta, Italy)
Best North-America Short – Relieve (Director: Rajesh Vemula, United States)
Best Oceania Short – Hard to Swallow (Director: Claire Riverland, Australia)
Best South-America Short – On Sundays (Director: Olavo Junior, Brazil)
Best World Feature Film – Mimist (Director: Gunho Jang, Korea, Republic of)
Best World Documentary Feature – Feminine Singular (Director: Dorian Shine, Argentina)
Best World Animation Short – The diary of a projectionist (Director: Dani Seguí Florit, Spain)
Best World Dance Short – Aquaballet (Director: Marianne Aventurier, France)
Best World Documentary Short – Cash Cow (Director: Dora Szelei, Hungary)
Best World First-Time Filmmaker Movie – Curiosity (Director: Kaja Jakubowska, Poland)
Best World Music Video – Closure (Director: Faraz Alam, Czech Republic)
Best World Smartphone Short – Farm to Fork (Director: Tschenda Rigzin Wangdi, Bhutan)
Best World Student Short – Don´t Leave Me (Director: Manuel Muñoz Valdez, Mexico)
Best World Trailer – The Legend of Us (Director: Robert L. Poole, United States)
Best World TV Pilot/Web Series – Pandari (Director: Tejaswat Kadam, India)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
On/Off (Director: Jurg Slabbert, South Africa)
Dark but Bright (Director: Nazanin Karimi – Iran, Islamic Republic of)
The Last Sketch (Director: Edgar Huebert, Germany)
Daisy (Directors: Aditi Dixit, Joffrey Atienza Zamora, Shecid Domínguez Aguilera – Spain)
The Patriot (Director: Cornelius Chen, China)
FINALISTS
| Project Title | Country of Origin | Directors |
| NGANDO | Cameroon | Blaise Eyong |
| DUNK | France | Valentine Milin |
| Syurga Atas Kertas (Heaven on Paper) | Malaysia | Mieykid |
| Dirty Water | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Ali Sabokbar |
| CALATTUBO. Memories to save | Italy | Lorenzo Guido Mercurio |
| Shell | Turkey | Mustafa Emir Uluocak |
| Kaala Jamun | India | Anjit Bhatnagar |
| Echoes of the Soul | Algeria | mourad hamla |
| In The Hood | Bulgaria | Ani Valentinova Haralampieva |
| Yvonna | Canada | Romain Le guillerm |
| Manto | Greece | Domenikos Koukas, Eleftheria Stefanouri |
| APPLAUSE | United Kingdom | Jinhao Ding |
| THE FOREST OF THE HONEY BEES | France | ERWAN LE GAL |
| Ore Vaathiyam | India | Karthika P |
| Berkeh | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Sarina Mehtar |
| Go Back Home 返屋企 | Netherlands | Chung Dha Lam |
| Mr. Bone | China | Joer Hsin, Amber Jiang |
| My Realm Beneath | Serbia | Dusan Popovic |
| Party of shadows | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Jamshid Abdollahi |
| My love | Russian Federation | Lucy Makhova |
| Salvar | Korea, Republic of | Sangwook Ahn |
| Good morning | Poland | Zuzanna Klara Bardian |
| BLACK DEATH | Colombia | STEPHANIE BATES |
| The Most Beautiful Kabuli Dress | Afghanistan | Kazim Ajram |
| Black Panther: Legacy | Mexico | Mario Durán Araujo |
| When Shall We Meet? | Serbia | Dejan Boskovic |
| Legendary Hungarian Boxers | Hungary | Szalma Sándor |
| Kissufim | Israel | Daniel Yitzhak Alter, Eli Gera Hofman |
| Tsomo | China | Wangyang Liu |
| gap | Russian Federation | Elena Muchnaya |
| A Nightcare on Elm Street | France | Michael Marie, Anthony Légal |
| In Madness You Dwell | Canada | Gabriel Harb |
| Samina | Tunisia | Ahmed Barkia |
| ZMIENA | France | Pierre Renverseau |
| ABOUT HOME | China | Guohuai Zeng |
| Dreams of the Past | Russian Federation | Dmitri Frolov |
| Revenge of the Roman Sorceress | United States | Nathaniel Jonathan Slater |
| “ILLUSION” | Turkey | MUSTAFA SANCAK |
| Psycho Samjo To | India | NIkhil Vasantrao Shirbhate |
| Piano | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Marjan Keshani |
| Middle Eastern Stories : FATHER | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Reza Daghagh |
| I’m going to stay | Spain | Frank Torres |
| The game of your life | Argentina | Fernando Martín Rojas |
| Hoyda | Germany | Susann Altmann, Lena Taßler |
| T-130 | United States | Samuel Felinton |
| The Cold | Turkey | Adar Baran Deger |
| THE DOORS OF THE STARS | Turkey | Süleyman Eskiocak, Süleyman Eskiocak |
| REKIYA | Nigeria | Wuraola Adeniran, Deborah Oluwatobi Ahmed |
| Migrants | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Masoud Ahmadi |
| Maintenant, j’ai peur | France | Franklin Dubiez |
| The house of Nan | Not Specified | |
| Done with living | Taiwan | SIN YING TAI |
SEMI-FINALISTS
| Project Title | Country of Origin | Directors |
| “Ultraviolent” project. | Bulgaria | Olga Volodina |
| 1 1 8 d B , O the light emanating from distant galaxies escaping from space | Italy | Leonardo Ricci Lucchi |
| A story of how i met a ghost | Taiwan | Bing Hung Chen |
| A criminal Film | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Zahra Korehei |
| A lover’s discourse | Japan | Pang Wen |
| A WISH | Taiwan | LIN Ting WEi |
| A Wishing Candle | Russian Federation | Marianna Frolova |
| Ablaze | Australia | Danni Fenech |
| AIma | Spain | Vanessa Rodríguez |
| Airless | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Roya Parsa |
| AL FINAL EL DIA | Argentina | Ana Carolina Vergara |
| ARITHAARAM (Facial Makeover) | India | B Suresh Kumar |
| Arman’s world | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Roohollah Fakhroo |
| Artery | Poland | Marek Suchenia |
| Aruirutra | Russian Federation | Олег Владимирович Кругликов |
| Banno | India | Sanyogita Paul |
| BETELGEUSE | India | Sunder Konar |
| Between This Life and Others | United States | Blake Knecht |
| BLACK CLOSET | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Asieh Asadzadeh |
| BOOMERANG | Uganda | KAWADWA FAHAD |
| BOUDO BUSH | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Mohammad Reza Vafaeinezhad |
| Buddy Love | Argentina | Almendra Groppo Trupia |
| Burning Girls | France | Arthur Dangréau, Lou-Anne Czaplicki |
| Butchery | Ukraine | Andrii Makarchenko |
| Cannot sleep！ | Japan | Yingjie Zhou |
| Capsule Memories | Indonesia | Nursyakbani Putri |
| Chamcheh Khatoon | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Mahdi Salehyar |
| Cherno | Israel | Valeriya Luchenzov, Shir Yosef |
| Cigarettes makers | Spain | Alejandro Nafría, Pablo Quiroga |
| Cinders | Spain | Oskar Luko |
| City Of Oz | Bangladesh | Sadik Ahmed |
| CNX´S | Argentina | Bernardo Alejandro LORENZO |
| DAMAGE À TROIS | United Kingdom | Jean Alper Heidemann |
| Dinner Date Do we have a chance? | United Kingdom Italy | Imran Naushad Valentina Galdi |
| Dream Bag | Nigeria | AJALA ISAAC |
| Drifting Alone In Beijing | China | Yuanhao Wang |
| Drown the Name | Argentina | Florencia Silva, Verónica Albornoz, Muriel Sago |
| Duel of the Boar & the Tiger Spirited Men | India | Arenla Subong |
| Edith | Hungary | Kiliána Kilián |
| El silencio del canto (The silence of singing) | Spain | Alan Luna |
| Expiration Date | Ireland | Sinead Cassidy Holt |
| EXPRESSION | Spain | LUIS SEBASTIÁN CASTRO |
| Face The Music! | Indonesia | Aldy Jualind Kusuma |
| Family Photo,Moving,Tomb Sweeping,Picking Mangoes,Going Home | Taiwan | 承澔 楊 |
| Forbidden holiness | Israel | doron neeman |
| Gli Appuntamenti | Italy | Gabriel Carlevale |
| Greyish Blue | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Abtin Salimi Tari |
| GUARDIANS OF TRADITION | India | Nitin Ganpatrao Goje |
| Hawaii | Poland | Sebastian Fabijański |
| Heaven on Earth | Lebanon | Marilyn Gaby Atallah |
| HOPE | Turkey | Volkan GİRGİN |
| I am Rain | Germany | Onur Bilmen |
| I Made My Mom Smile | India | Sathish kumar |
| IL CALCO (THE MOULD) | Italy | alessio falbo |
| Imago | Italy | Elettra Eletto |
| In The Moonlight | United Kingdom | Richard J Moir |
| In Their Own Time | India | Sourya Dipta |
| Inadmissible | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Soroush Yari |
| Inheritance | Belgium | Maarten Rogier |
| Insonnia delle 11:09 | Italy | Sara Rubeca |
| Insufficient | Brazil | Fernando Moura, Henrique Pinsdorf, Letícia Viana |
| Invisibles México | Mexico | Rafael Franco Gomez |
| Ìràpadà (Redemption) | Nigeria | Michael Akachi Eneje, Joel Innocent |
| IT´S NEVER TOO LATE | Spain | JUAN CARLOS IGLESIAS |
| Jano | Spain | Alejandra Beyron, Ana Beyron |
| JI | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Rojin Aflaki |
| Katora | India | Harsh Singh Rawat, Sanket Pramod Chothe, Shreshtha Rawal |
| Kintsugi | United States | Asher Freidberg |
| Konj (Horse) | Croatia | Marina Uzelac |
| LA LIXEIRA – the invisibles’ dignity | Italy | GUIDO GALANTE, ANTONIO NOTARANGELO |
| La Soglia | Italy | Nicolò Tonani, Sofia Gasparetti, Simone Colombo |
| LAMBORGHINI | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Roya Bababeigi |
| Last Voice for Lost Light | Indonesia | Yudis Maulana |
| long term care | Taiwan | |
| Loving in the wave of awakening – Why are we here? | Italy | Franca Maria Impallari |
| Mbali (Blossom) | South Africa | Makere Cross Thekiso, Katelgo Danke |
| Memoir of a Melody | Malaysia | Kabilan A/L Plondran |
| Merry-Go-Underground | Bulgaria | Damyan Krasimirov Damyanov |
| Modì | Italy | Enrico Musmeci |
| Modulation of The Dellusion | Indonesia | Spencer Gunawan |
| Monolog | France | Toma Turbain |
| Monstros (Monsters/Monstruos) | Brazil | Douro Moura |
| Mr Smile | France | Tony Biancucci |
| Mrs. Ravioli \ Señora Raviolis (ENG) | Israel | Amit Oz |
| Nadie en algún lugar | Argentina | DN Bianco |
| Nameless | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Hosein Mirza Mohammadi |
| Narcisse | France | Samuel BESTER |
| Never Knock at Faldini’s Mansion | Italy | Andrea Zanini |
| Nias | France | Baptiste Rambaud |
| Nostalgia nel vento all’imbrunire | Italy | Luca Carlomusto |
| Oniris | Argentina | Nano Bor |
| Ostomachion – the battle of the bones | Greece | Mary Klampoura |
| Pecan | Not Specified | Aline Gutierres |
| Point of Support | Poland | Maciej Janicki, Monika Stachowicz, Rafał Lipka, Rafał Lipka |
| PORFYRI LEMONIA | Greece | Dimitris Andjus |
| Porto’s Old Man | Portugal | Tânia Sofia da Costa Marques |
| Project R | Malaysia | Magissan Somasundaram |
| Proud To Belong to Mogi | Brazil | Heitor Cavalheiro, Heitor Cavalheiro |
| Psycho Act | Italy | Tiziano Giaccone |
| Raging Lion | Not Specified | Toom Chanda |
| round table | Iran, Islamic Republic of | iman kiarsi |
| Salty Lives | Uzbekistan | Rustam Meliev |
| SILENT LETTER | Turkey | EMRE KARADEMİR |
| Son of Adam | India | Amartya Bhattacharyya |
| Stress | Tajikistan | Azam Rozik |
| Struggle | Armenia | David Babasiev |
| Suitable circulatory deeds | Korea, Republic of | Jaiyun Lee |
| Swamp – Academy | Not Specified | Mirian Matsantsala Oragvelidze |
| Tarkarí (spicy goat), a restaurant whose main dish is chaos… | Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | Daniel Yegres, Francisco Denis |
| Terminal (Final Stop) | Brazil | Getsemane Silva; Guilherme Bacalhao |
| Terroir of Taiwan | Taiwan | Michael Chih-liang Cheng |
| The 9th Continent | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Mostafa Borzouyan Dastjerdi |
| The Absent Glint | Argentina | Alejo Parricelli |
| THE AI | Turkey | Burç Kaan SARAÇ |
| The Avengeress | Bulgaria | Ralitza Dimitrova |
| The deadline | China | Yuwei Jiang |
| The Deal | Japan | Hiroki Ohsawa |
| The End of Neslie | Italy | Gerry Ciccimarra |
| The Filmmaker | Brazil | Elcio Cabral Melo |
| The First Night | Czech Republic | Silvia Gregorova |
| The Land Of Golden Seeds | India | Deepankar Gohain |
| The last page | Italy | Antonio Sidoti |
| The Malady | United States | Thomas Furman |
| The Man Who Killed Cain | Spain | Álvaro Leivas |
| The Most Beautiful Fishes in the World | Brazil | Gabriel Saraiva, Gabriela Pazini |
| The Oxen Cathedral | Germany | Christian Beyer |
| The Photograph | Bangladesh | Rabi Ahmed |
| The Ride Home | Canada | Weston Snider |
| The shadow pandemic | Uganda | Ssekandi Jimmy |
| The Slaughterhaus | Chile | Gonzalo Sepulveda |
| The soldier | Spain | Alejandro Cabrera |
| The Stamp | Poland | Michał Sus |
| The story factory | Italy | Francesco Falaschi |
| The Strangers’ Case | Jordan | Brandt Andersen |
| The Tableherder | Russian Federation | Aleksandr Tretiakevich |
| The Ugly Ball | United Arab Emirates | Omar Ibrahim |
| The Vestibule | Turkey | Eser Tokas |
| TIME FOR WRATH | Bulgaria | Svetlin Mitrev Odadzhiev |
| Tomorrow Is a New Day | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Tvrtko Bubalo |
| TORBAL | Sudan | Ahmed Omer Mohammed Ali, Ahmed Galal Ahmed Salih |
| TOSKA | Italy | Tommaso Barba |
| TOUGH | Indonesia | Rico Michael |
| TOXIC | France | Francis FRENKEL |
| Toy | Greece | Natasha Smyrnaiou |
| TUNNEL | Turkey | Akın Güngör |
| Twilight without Ghosts (ผีจากผ้าอ้อม) | Thailand | Panitarn Boontarig |
| Two Old Fellas | Taiwan | Zhiyuan Pan |
| Ugly Bird | United States | Dan Hur |
| Umit | Kazakhstan | Tamerlan Assylbekovich Assylbek |
| Velas | Spain | Pablo Iranzo Pineda |
| VOICES by Ciinderella Balthazar | United Kingdom | Vittoria Rizzardi Peñalosa |
| Walk a Mile in My Shoes | Romania | Laura Georgescu Baron |
| We, The Damned (Visual Mood Reel) | United Kingdom | Edward Thompson |
| Wild Majesty: Africa’s Circle of Life | United States | Christian B. Roper |
| Wildlife Cameraman (Summer Farm) | United Kingdom | Erentia Bedeker |
| ZABAAN | India | KISHORE SRINIVAS |
