| Project Title |
Synopsis |
Duration |
Country |
Language |
Trailer URL |
Award |
| Arthur Hotel |
A man and a woman end up spending together their last night in a luxurious hotel because of an error in the delivery of a mysterious box. |
0:20:00 |
Italy |
Italian |
https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/18126817 |
Best Short |
| Hidden Waters |
Neela finds herself in the middle of a fearful scenario of her husband finding out about a cherished secret of hers: the past is neither easy to explain nor appropriate to divulge, but her blackmailer has his own demands. She cannot fulfil them without crossing her overbearing yet loving husband. The stakes for marital security rise, as do questions about self, love and marriage. Who decides the meaning of her actions even if they appear dubious to society, including her husband, for whom judgment is truth? Based on Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” Rallalo Neeru (‘Hidden Waters’) is a Telugu language film, set in contemporary, semi-urban milieu of coastal Andhra. |
1:45:00 |
India |
Telugu |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVCzsjjKJfY |
Official Selection |
| The Song That Calls You Home |
THE SONG THAT CALLS YOU HOME is a personal, scientific and mystical exploration of Amazonian curanderismo - with focus on Ayahuasca and Master Plants, their healing and visionary properties and risks - along with the wondrous world of the Shipibo people and Song. |
1:12:00 |
Not Specified |
English, Spanish |
https://vimeo.com/291572004 |
Official Selection |
| The Black Lights |
MATT SULLIVAN, a mentally struggling man, is arrested by the suspicion of murder after witnessing a chilling dissappearance, caused by a seemingly ordinary object of light. After a tense police interrogation, Matt is ordered to a mental hospital, where he begins to seek connections between the dots. Meanwhile below groundlevel, a sinister organization constructs new mechanisms to conduct silent crime. |
51 Pages |
Finland |
English |
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Best Screenplay |
| We Want the Airwaves |
Filmed over the course of 10 years, "We Want the Airwaves" chronicles the journey of a trio of first time TV makers as they set forth on a daring adventure. The group creates and films an activist focused docuseries ("Manifesto!") in the year 2005, with the goal of launching the first citizen’s platform on network television. Cut from countless hours of behind the scenes footage and interviews with TV & Cultural insiders and outsiders, "We Want the Airwaves" follows the making of "Manifesto!" all while exposing the harsh realities of the ethically challenged unscripted television world. The roadblocks for the trio quickly become monolithic. |
1:22:00 |
United States |
English |
https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/18118831 |
Best Comedy |
| The Seventh String |
The seventh string is a movie about a girl named Nishtha Kashyap who had fallen in love with a thirty one year old man when she was only thirteen. She had to permanently leave her hometown and go to Mumbai where her father worked. After a long gap of twelve years she comes back to her hometown to meet her relatives and in the back of her mind she knows that she might the man she had loved. In these years she had changed a lot and she wasn’t the same girl she was when she left her hometown. While roaming around her hometown with her cousin brother and his friends, she came across a hut where a lot of people meet and talk to each other and share their own stories. |
1:44:56 |
India |
Assamese |
https://youtu.be/TF-c2tBICSI |
Best Feature |
| The Great Escape |
Now is the perfect time for Abigail and Charles to begin their family. Or is it? On paper, the results from the pregnancy test should fit into their mutual plan; instead, it leads them to question the stability of their foundation. |
0:17:52 |
United States |
English |
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Best Producer |
| Talk |
The story follows a man in his 40's who on the outside has everything that anyone would want. A great job, nice car, perfect family. However, on the inside, it is a different story. The man has been dealing with trauma that has been plaguing him since a child. These are issues that have sat with him for years and now they have begun to bubble over. The man is at the breaking point and is now contemplating suicide. |
0:17:04 |
Canada |
English |
https://youtu.be/ol-_2EYuq3Q |
Best Actor |
| Behind the glass |
Mario thinks he is in control. He thinks he knows what he is doing, and he looks down to the people on the other side of the glass, but what Mario doesn't know is that the glass itself is not on his side. |
0:05:00 |
Spain |
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Best Animated Film |
| Life Appointment |
A man in his seventies suffering from loneliness blames himself for the past and gets into a life changing situation |
0:29:57 |
Egypt |
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https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/17623068 |
Best Foreign Language Film |
| 12 Hours 2 Steal |
A struggling artist must navigate a series of instructions to steal a valuable treasure for an unknown puppetmaster after she downloads an audio tour podcast for a specific painting in a gallery. |
90 Pages |
United Kingdom |
English |
|
Official Selection |
| Zurich Scenes |
Video recordings from Zurich, four views arranged to scenes like: Sunbathers at a canal; celebrating a soccer World Cup victory; watching TV at Café Odeon; a busy commuter railway station; a traffic policewoman and a fountain; the high-rise ‚Prime Tower‘; scaffolders at a facade; crowds at Zurich Central Station; water birds on Lake Zurich; a candy shop on the famous Bahnhofstrasse ... Urban everyday life in a highly efficient, blithesome, rich, small cosmopolitan city. Every now and then, an Alien* appears - as a symbol for everything that is being suppressed. *The character Alien, from the movies of the same title, was created by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger who lived and worked in Zurich. |
0:08:55 |
Germany |
No Dialogue |
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Best Editing |
| The Great Journey |
The film tells the story of how an astronomer sees the world around him, how he approaches it through the historical realm of science and how this world is captured on the basis of modern scientific evidence. The film is full of impressive images of celestial objects, planets, comets, galaxies, stars, our sun, and with extensive reports on how this knowledge was shaped over the centuries. |
0:43:18 |
Greece |
Chinese, English, Modern Greek (1453-) |
https://youtu.be/JEDYnt2Phmk |
Best Documentary Feature |
| Peter, Shirley and Louis |
Peter, Shirley and Louis is one of a series of portraits of creative families. With this work I am principally exploring the traditional portraiture type pose through the medium of moving image to create what I call cinematic portraits that sits between photography and film. Here I imagine I'm capturing what might occur if the sitters were posing for a painting or photograph, with the subtle changes to their positions that can take place over longer periods of time. I enjoy the contemplative visual spaces between stillness and movement, and the viewer interpreted narrative this may produce. I usually work intuitively at a location, in a small number of single takes (at fast frame speeds) so a selected entire take is used (there are no edits). I also look for an element which has a continuous subtle motion, which in this particular instance is the bouncing cantilevered light. |
0:04:30 |
United Kingdom |
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Best Director |
| SPRING in NAPLES |
At the city beach of “Santa Lucia,” in the center of Naples, the bathing season has begun. People from the surrounding districts come here to take a refreshing dip or sunbathe. There is gossip, fishing, singing, flirting and kissing, and many earn their living with this unique city habitat. The unofficial lifeguards of the beach hope that the police will turn a blind eye to them so that they can earn "a thousand lire" for cigarettes or coffee by renting chairs, which in turn are rented. The beach is also the starting point for a cinematic expedition to the city on Vesuvius and into the personal stories of some of its inhabitants. Stories about life, love and the art of surviving. Betty Bee, an artist known in Naples and a personality with depth, tells of her childhood, which she spent in a typical Naples ground floor apartment. Her father wanted them to live in isolation because he had an aversion to all of humanity. |
1:36:00 |
Austria |
Italian |
https://vimeo.com/374920481 |
Official Selection |
| A Back Pain In Three Parts |
A back pain in three parts is a surreal satirical tragicomedy about Jöns, a man suffering from unexplainable and unbearable back pains. The film is told in three sequences, three parts, that all explore Jöns inner fears, how the people in his life views and processes his pain and how the pain slowly is destroying who Jöns is. Everything in the story is unrealistically centered around Jöns and his bad back. That's the perspective. No one in his surroundings can truly understand what his pain means to him and all of them tries to “fix” his back problem even if they´re probably not that qualified to do so. The film ends tragically since all the noise, pity and madness drives Jöns to the brink of self destruction. So what the hell is this? |
0:29:12 |
Sweden |
Swedish |
https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/18110764 |
Official Selection |
| Primavera |
Dance Film |
0:04:11 |
United States |
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Best Dance Film |
| Hope |
Four women, four heroines, who share a common fate. They have been brutally stricken by misfortune. It is not their shared past that brought them together, but it is “Hope” that keeps them alive, encouraging them to move on. “Hope” is what keeps mother Ferdonije alive who, during last Kosovo’s war, lost her four sons and husband. Two of her sons’ bodies have been recovered, while her husband and two other sons remain missing. She does not accept the loss of her husband and two other sons but hopes that they are alive somewhere and that they’ll return one day. “Hope” is what Auntie wishes for a better life in the future. She provides for herself by collecting cans. |
0:49:49 |
Kosovo |
Albanian |
https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/17716653 |
Best Cast |
| Three honest unemployed women |
Three women in their fifties are left without work. In a macho society and with the cult of youth, they realize that there is no more room for them. Then they go into the most profitable business of the moment ... |
0:20:00 |
Italy |
English |
https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/18061361 |
Best Music Score |
| New York Minute |
This work continues Lynn Bianchi’s relationship with New York City and its inhabitants - her home and inspiration since 1968. New York Minute was developed and created during lockdown - the year of loneliness and isolation - yet Lynn never felt lonely because the city was right outside her window - still alive and forever hopeful. A love letter to New York, this work is an abstraction of one day in the city - from dawn till dusk - moments that last a minute, or maybe a lifetime. |
0:04:37 |
United States |
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https://vimeo.com/520410007/settings |
Best Cinematography |
| Caring for your carcass |
"Caring for your carcass" is made up of short performances, the result of creative explorations, grouped into sections like the chapters of a poetic collection. This dark montage is made up of elements related to death, injury, decomposition like rituals of mourning and desolation, but is also crossed by the tenderness of gentle gestures, a healing and soothing red. The staging of this video was made both in a closed studio where I can create fictional universes and outdoors, using natural elements. The whole develops symbolic spaces that are both cruel and sensitive. I like video art because it allows me to integrate into the same whole my practice as an interdisciplinary artist for years, as was the case with "Caring for your carcass". In addition to gathering the required items (dead birds, seal rotting, crustacean caption, strange object crafted), I realized myself all the components of this video, including the audio. |
0:11:01 |
Canada |
|
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Best Experimental Film |
| When The Roads End |
Divided into four chapters, and narrated by Maurizio Lombardi's voice over "When the roads end" aims to raise awareness among road users - primarily the youngest - about the high degree of danger related to driving a motor vehicle. Through different witnesses- ranging from relatives of road accident victims to first aid operators - the documentary tells the pain of those involved in a road accident, recalling the enormous responsibility that affects anyone who drives in the roads. |
1:06:39 |
Italy |
Italian |
https://vimeo.com/521064998 |
Official Selection |
| Water Demon |
Water is scarce in this village. The womenfolk of the village, have to walk a long distance, to a well, in an old fort, to fetch water. One day, while they were approaching the fort, they saw Laajo, a mentally deranged village girl, lying semiconscious, with obvious signs of rape and molestation. This was the third such event in the village, in recent times. Tunu is a young inquisitive school girl. She’s happy that her Baba (father) is back from the city. While coming home with her Amma (mother) that day, she happens to see Laajo chained-up from her ankle. She’s keen to know what had happened to Laajo, and questions her Amma. To avoid unnecessary queries from her girl, she tells her that Laajo was attacked by a demon, a water demon, at the fort. She worries that her Amma, like all women in the village who go to fetch water, are at risk of being attacked by this water demon. |
0:20:47 |
India |
Hindi |
|
Best Sound Editing |
| Lo Spirito del Tor |
The documentary Lo Spirito del Tor tells the adventure of Daniele, an amateur athlete, who attempts the feat of finishing the Tor des Géants route in the classic 150 hours, as per regulations. A solo undertaking, made even more epic by the lack of the ordinary assistance that the official organization offers when the race is held. The runner is monitored along the entire route by a team of directors and has a guide during the hours of darkness and informal refreshment points that ensure an experience in total safety. |
1:07:58 |
Italy |
Italian |
https://vimeo.com/453283719 |
Official Selection |
| An Open Letter to My Younger Self: A Personal Documentary |
This is a personal documentary that confronts my racism, especially as a white cisgender male. It’s approximately 16 minutes long. This video follows and explains my racist behaviors as a teenager and young adult and my transition into having anti-racist values. It explores the location in which I was raised, and how my relationship with Traverse City, Michigan played a role in developing my racist behaviors. This is not meant to be an excuse for my racism, nor a justification of it, but rather it’s an exploration of the journey it took for me to let go of old behaviors and embrace new values. The video is woven together through an open letter to my younger self, and supplemented by videos and stills that reflect how my relationship with the environments I’m in and have been in, have influenced me. |
0:15:57 |
United States |
English |
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Best Documentary Short |
| Beijing 120 |
55-year-old Zheng Senior migrated from his village to Beijing years ago and has been working in Beijing since then. He lived with his only son, Zheng Junior. After losing his job driving ambulances for the 120 Emergency Rescue Center, he started to make a living by driving unlicensed ambulances. Out of desperation, he planned to grow his illegal business. Feuds with his rivals and betrayals from his partners cornered him to a despicable path. |
1:19:32 |
United States |
Chinese |
|
Best Drama Feature |
| The End of Aaron |
Aaron is a young man in his twenties. He lives with his parents and has suffered from paranoid disorders since childhood. He has locked himself in the basement of his home to escape the apocalypse he believes is imminent. Grace, his girlfriend, is playing the game of survivalism with him to try to ease his torment. She dreams of a brighter life, but something draws her deep into the darkness of Aaron's character. |
1:12:00 |
France |
French |
https://youtu.be/p5sWm3PJPik |
Best Actress |
| Attila |
Attila, a paraplegic, attempts to break the 24 Hour Hand Cycle world record by riding more than 403 miles in a 24 hour period. |
0:30:17 |
United States |
English |
https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/18083431 |
Jury Award |
| No Roses On A Sailor's Grave |
73 years after Royal Navy veteran Patrick Thomas' ship vanishes during World War II, he is the last of the handful of survivors still living. Fate brings Patrick and completely stranger, archaeologist John Henry Phillips together. Fuelled by their unexpected bond and the rapid passing of the Second World War generation, John makes a shocking promise to find the ship and build a memorial with Patrick by his side. |
1:23:00 |
Canada |
English, French |
https://vimeo.com/240577153 |
Best Narrative |
| Sunshine In The Rain |
As his ordinary life goes on with his lover. The sudden presence of the new woman leads him to the past he tries so hard to forget. |
0:26:00 |
United States |
English |
|
Official Selection |
| Contract lovers |
After working undercover contracts in The Middle East and South America for a mercenary company he left the war life to start a new one in The city but instead he become a contract killer after his girlfriend dead . |
1:20:00 |
United States |
English |
|
Official Selection |
| TICKER: A G- Thang |
Two volatile LA gang rivals anxiously stew in a hospital waiting room, confronted by the dashed dreams of their past and the nightmares of their present reality. |
0:08:24 |
United States |
English |
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Best Series |
| Avalakki Pavalakki |
The film is a suspense/adventure, concentric to story on Archaeology, three children and a tribe. Directed by Durga Prasad and Produced by Ranjitha Subramanya, It is conceptualized based on Dharma, as is stated in the great Indian epic Mahabharata - Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah. It means to say that Dharma protects those who uphold Dharma. In today's modern era, this concept has lost its sheen. The film depicts the lives of a tribal community residing deep in the dense forests of south India. They have been bestowed by an auspicious gift by the Almighty. The story-line has a series of events that lead up-to the Charan Pooja day, wherein the tribe offers prayers to the Gods to Protect the auspicious gift bestowed upon them by the Almighty himself, which would be lost. The film is a bundle of twists and turns, and how the lives of those involved are affected. |
2:00:00 |
India |
canada |
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Official Selection |
