Festival Honors & Awards
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Day I Licked a Pebble
On an ordinary summer afternoon in the countryside, three sibling...
Nominee
Gone Wrong
Stuck in her miserable apartment in Hong Kong, Mei, a young woman...
Nominee
The Boy Who Cheated Death
A little boy tries to hide his mother from Death. They embark on...
Nominee
The City of Silence
In a world where breaking the silence will get you killed, Ethan...
Nominee
Trading Cards
An enigmatic man journeys back in time to find his younger self,...
Nominee
Wisdom Tooth
One night, Caël; a spoiled and entitled child, catches the tooth...
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
This is Pike County
Mounting pressures – including an unsolved family murder – test a...
Nominee
Brannu: The Urban Horseman
Wild Man. Animal Abuser. Squatter. Crazy. Outlaw. Troublemaker. T...
Nominee
Unheard Voices: A Mother's Quest for Freedom
When 17-year-old Blake is sentenced to 40 years in a Texas prison...
Best Documentary Short
Winner
Conquering the Six
As war rages in his homeland, Ukrainian amputee Roman Kasphur run...
Winner
My House, My Father
A family home is used as a vehicle to explore the life and death...
Nominee
Collective Memory
In 1983, during the darkest days of Peru’s Armed Conflict with th...
Nominee
Danza Propia
Danza propia explores touch, memory and intergenerational transmi...
Nominee
The Blind Reggaetonera
This documentary chronicles the journey of Precious Perez, a youn...
Best Georgia Short
Winner
Tapestry
A desperate mother performs an occult ritual to resurrect her los...
Nominee
Blank Slate
Claiming to remember every moment of her life, a woman spirals be...
Nominee
The Damned Thing
A coroner’s inquest into an inexplicable death uncovers the exist...
Nominee
The Marleys
A dark comedy about two cousins on their final graveyard shift.
Best International Short
Winner
Drifting Tides
Maite, a young graffiti writer in Puerto Rico, faces a life-alter...
Nominee
How To Hide It
Despite her strict Muslim faith forbidding gambling, Zahra impuls...
Nominee
Ker
A young man tasked with guarding a mosque is forced to secretly s...
Nominee
Portrait
In a photography studio, a woman struggles to capture an innocent...
Nominee
The Last Screening
The night before the full-scale invasion, a mysterious girl named...
Best Music Video
Winner
Yup!
A visit home to NYC turns into a wild chase through the streets o...
Nominee
Dance With Me (My Synth-Pop Queen)
An estranged lover returns to her old home in an attempt to win b...
Nominee
FOAM
When Benoit decides to go to a party to overcome his gloomy daily...
Nominee
Monday Anthem
While making music in the park, DJ Corey Grand gets jumped by a v...
Nominee
Quartermain and Victoria
A pair of private detectives with otherworldly abilities must nav...
Nominee
Best Narrative Feature
Winner
Risa And The Wind Phone
After losing her father in a tragic fire, 10-year-old Risa discov...
Nominee
Frogtown
Frogtown is a unique genre-breaking film following a woman’s obse...
Nominee
My Turn
After dying in a violent clash, teen Lang wakes in his sister’s b...
Nominee
Once Upon a Time in Macon
A man struggling with severe OCD tries to keep his new found rela...
Nominee
That Friend
All Henry wanted was a romantic weekend away in Palm Springs with...
Best Narrative Short
Winner
Portrait
In a photography studio, a woman struggles to capture an innocent...
Nominee
Bedbug
A couple goes to bed as an insect infestation looms in their apar...
Nominee
Drifting Tides
Maite, a young graffiti writer in Puerto Rico, faces a life-alter...
Nominee
IDYLL
IDYLL follows a young woman who, after getting hooked on a VR pla...
Nominee
Ker
A young man tasked with guarding a mosque is forced to secretly s...
Best Student Short
Winner
Bedbug
A couple goes to bed as an insect infestation looms in their apar...
Nominee
Clucky's
A driven fast food worker's day is turned upside down when the ne...
Nominee
Drifting Tides
Maite, a young graffiti writer in Puerto Rico, faces a life-alter...
Nominee
The City of Silence
In a world where breaking the silence will get you killed, Ethan...
Nominee
The Last Screening
The night before the full-scale invasion, a mysterious girl named...
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Ones who Never See the Moonlight
A dog, abandoned on the Moon, desperately tries to escape. With u...
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Documentary Feature - Middletown
A teacher inspires a group of teenagers in the early 1990s to mak...
Best Documentary Short
Winner
Chelu
Portrait of Florin, a 45-year-old man living with residual schizo...
Best Georgia Short
Winner
Still Life
Assigned to paint a still life portrait of objects from her daily...
Best International Short
Winner
Wrong Number
Nyamu is a convicted prisoner who spends his days running an elab...
Best Music Video
Winner
Macaroni Moon
A frog and a cow experience a fantastic love.
Best Narrative Feature
Winner
Withdrawal
A passionate singer-songwriter and her rebellious boyfriend must...
Best Narrative Short
Winner
Sins of a Father
Amidst echoes of his past, Bryan embarks on a heartfelt quest to...
Best Student Short
Winner
Diminuendo
Ruth, a 25-year-old, has put her life on hold to care for her mot...
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Leak
In the quietness of an apartment the irruption of a water leak le...
Nominee
Au Revoir Mon Monde
The world is about to end, and a man stuck in a fish costum attem...
Nominee
The Old Hag and The Crow
Larisa, a curious girl, enters the house of the old hag, who has...
Nominee
Mum's Spaghetti
MC mastermind Poppy and her beatboxing border terrier Snoop are t...
Nominee
Electra Wasp
ELECTRA WASP is an experimental animated psychobiography about th...
Best Feature
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The Founder Effect
When a young boy goes missing in the town of Hope, his grandfathe...
Nominee
Ugly Sweater
Determined to study astrophysics at an Ivy League college, high-s...
Nominee
BOYS ABOUT TOWN #1
Bobby and Calvin are two music-obsessed friends in their early tw...
Nominee
The First Two
After an unsuccessful marriage attempt Sasha needs to leave Budap...
Best Georgia Short
Winner
Chessboxer
After a debilitating cheating scandal, a hotheaded chess player t...
Nominee
Chipper
After receiving a mysterious letter, a wayward son returns to his...
Nominee
Stick Season
Alex has never left his hometown. He is stuck in the rhythm of a...
Nominee
Midnight Run
A devoted wife & mother is trapped in a cycle of unspeakable torm...
Nominee
Nana Dara Is Gay
Based on characters in the award winning novel SUGAR LAND, "Nana...
Best International Short
Winner
How About My Lipstick?
Elena's life is at a standstill. After living a traumatic experie...
Nominee
Leila
After years of absence, Leïla, a young filmmaker in need of inspi...
Nominee
Devour
A man and his girlfriend are invited to an elegant dinner as spec...
Nominee
The Last Paper
In a french hotel, a depressed couple must endure the most hardes...
Nominee
For Roy
Inspired by true events, an imaginative Asian-Canadian girl attem...
Best Narrative Short
Winner
Nobody
@nobody is a young girl who cams on social media through the avat...
Nominee
Are You Awake?
Dale (Ellyn Jameson) is a detached woman who earns a living by wa...
Nominee
Devour
A man and his girlfriend are invited to an elegant dinner as spec...
Nominee
Leila
After years of absence, Leïla, a young filmmaker in need of inspi...
Nominee
Chipper
After receiving a mysterious letter, a wayward son returns to his...
Best Student Short
Winner
Offerlamm
A sheep writes a letter to his sister whilst being prepared for a...
Nominee
I Want, I Can´t, I Won´t
A manager who wants to relief the stress dearly asks to waitresse...
Nominee
Mum's Spaghetti
MC mastermind Poppy and her beatboxing border terrier Snoop are t...
Nominee
Stick Season
Alex has never left his hometown. He is stuck in the rhythm of a...