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WINNERS & NOMINEES

JANUARY 2018

Blessed Days

WINNER - Best Film

Director: Valentina Casadei

Runtime: 13 minutes
Release date: October 17, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: France

Synopsis: Adèle, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.

The Good Dark

RUNNER-UP - Best Film

Director: Lucas Chih-Peng Kao

Runtime: 12 minutes 39 seconds
Release date: March 27, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: A poet wonders through a desolated house and see lives of the previous tenants Jim and Flo reanimated. As they struggle to grasp the last breath of their relationship where everything is unspoken, the past, present and imagination co-exist as the poet recites his poem and brings the two world closer.

A Bright Day

RUNNER-UP - Best Film

Director: Lorenzo d'Amico De Carvalho

Runtime: 22 minutes
Release date: October 2, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Italy

Synopsis: Ludovica and Alessandro are relatively young, quite pretty, and barely occupied.
Today is their day, the one they have been waiting for for weeks: today they will make a baby. But just has they are getting at it, the world around them suddenly decides to get in their way.

Apples

NOMINEE - Best Film

Director: Milda Baginskaite

Runtime: 18 minutes 15 seconds
Release date: March 30, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: A coming-of-age short drama that follows a story of a mixed-race loner living with his grandfather in a small seaside village in the 1990s.
After losing granny, his one protection and human connection, Zac is now ready to discover and develop new relationships. In order to do so, he gets a job at the local apple orchard.

Jewels

NOMINEE - Best Film

Director: Ottilie Wilford

Runtime: 15 minutes
Release date: June 30, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: When a naive art student comes to stay with her successful older sister in London, their elation turns to unease as past and present lies are exposed and they are forced to reconcile the people they’ve become with the dreams they once shared.

The Telephone

NOMINEE - Best Film

Director: Stuart Wheeldon

Runtime: 26 minutes 23 seconds
Release date: June 23, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: When Richard arrives in a small town, following the receipt of a letter and glassfish sent to his newspaper office, he is unaware of what he is about to become embroiled in. Intrigued by the story of a mysterious disappearance of a young woman Jane. Richard takes a room in the pub, the last place Jane was known to be alive.

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Best Documentary

Doctor

WINNER - Best Documentary

Director: Yavuz Ücer

Runtime: 10 minutes
Release date: July 11, 2017
Genre: Documentary, Student
Country: Turkey

Synopsis: Turkoman Beşir and his family forced to flee to Türkiye from Syria because of their village was bombed in the civil war of Syria. Beşir’s dream because the civil war was being a doctor and helping people, but after , he Is just smiling and not answering to the question “What’s your dream?”.

Salty Memory

NOMINEE - Best Documentary

Director: Orwa Alahmad

Runtime: 2 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: December 4, 2017
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden

Synopsis: A documentary film tells the experiences of Syrian refugees who left their country and now live in Europe.

Dinner with Ms.Chris

NOMINEE - Best Documentary

Director: Andrea Claire Morningstar

Runtime: 3 minutes 52 seconds
Release date: January 1, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States

Synopsis: East side Detroit resident Christina Lumpkin makes dinner for her grandchildren and reflects upon the things in her life for which she is grateful.

All That We Carry

NOMINEE - Best Documentary

Director: Erin S Kokdil

Runtime: 9 minutes 6 seconds
Release date: June 15, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States

Synopsis: A Guatemalan woman tries to make a new home in Oakland. But can a new beginning erase a painful past?

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Lasting Beast

WINNER - Best Experimental

Director: Nagi Gianni & Raphaëlle Mueller

Runtime: 17 minutes 45 seconds
Release date: June 30, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Experimental
Country: Switzerland

Synopsis: Lasting Beast explores the relation between two characters in a human size terrarium. Their relationship unfolds through parades and actions where human affects hybridize animal behaviors.

The Loneliest

NOMINEE - Best Experimental

Director: Dan Azoulay

Runtime: 7 minutes 37 seconds
Release date: June 29, 2017
Genre: Experimental, Animation, Student
Country: Israel

Synopsis: "The Loneliest" is an animated series dealing with loneliness. Based on "An Existential Perspective On Loneliness" by Michele A. Carter, each episode deals with a certain aspect of the concept and illustrates it by telling the story of the loneliest something.

Swoosh

NOMINEE - Best Experimental

Director: Leevi Ikonen & Heikki Ikonen

Runtime: 5 minutes 58 seconds
Release date: January 2, 2018
Genre: Experimental, Silent Film
Country: Finland

Synopsis: Swoosh is a modern silent film about ageing.

It's an experimental mixture of modern editing styles, animation, progressive music and Kaurismäki-esque humor in the form of a 6 minute silent film.

The film is written, produced and directed by a father and son duo, and it took 35 years to make in total.

Nirvana of Sodom°

NOMINEE - Best Experimental

Director: Xie Tian（B.R.Sky）

Runtime: 19 minutes 13 seconds
Release date: February 1, 2016
Genre: Fiction, Experimental, Student
Country: China

Synopsis: ‘NIRVANA OF SODOM°’ is an experimental film, which explores the transform of the inner and outer world. It emphasizes the imagery and metaphor by deconstruction, reconstruction, explanation of classics as well as spatiotemporal transformation and modeling language transformation.

In A Free Sound Field

NOMINEE - Best Experimental

Director: Monteith Mccollum

Runtime: 11 minutes
Release date: April 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Experimental
Country: United States

Synopsis: In a home filled with rare art objects from around the world, a disjunctured set of tales unravel about the travels of collector Don Boros. Dislocating fact from fiction and time from place, the tales are intermixed with the notable text “Sensations of Tone” by Helmholtz, the 19th century physicist.

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Best Student Film

The Messenger

WINNER - Best Student Film

Director: Hansel Rodrigues

Runtime: 8 minutes 12 seconds
Release date: October 19, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: With his current dole money frozen and an impending threat of having all his benefits taken from him, Frank is desperate for a get-rich-quick scheme. Opportunity comes in the most unusual of places when an awkward schoolboy enlists the help of Frank to help him break up with his girlfriend.

The Immortalized Moment

RUNNER-UP - Best Student Film

Director: Shu Zhang

Runtime: 17 minutes 10 seconds
Release date: October 31, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: France

Synopsis: Daniel and Maddy used to work as war photographers. They fell in love because of the same ambitions. But Maddy quitted her career while Daniel still continues. Recently Maddy finds Daniel behaves strangely after he came back from Iraq. He avoids their conversations deliberately and often goes out without telling Maddy.

Headphones

NOMINEE - Best Student Film

Director: Thomas Line

Runtime: 7 minutes 33 seconds
Release date: August 31, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: Sarah, an introverted 17 year old living in Northampton, shuts out the world with music via her ever present headphones. When these break she is forced to interact with her surroundings. A coming-of-age drama in which elusive detachment must make way for blossoming new relationships.

The Loneliest

NOMINEE - Best Student Film

Director: Dan Azoulay

Runtime: 7 minutes 37 seconds
Release date: June 29, 2017
Genre: Experimental, Animation, Student
Country: Israel

Synopsis: "The Loneliest" is an animated series dealing with loneliness. Based on "An Existential Perspective On Loneliness" by Michele A. Carter, each episode deals with a certain aspect of the concept and illustrates it by telling the story of the loneliest something.

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Best Animation

The Loneliest

WINNER - Best Animation

Director: Dan Azoulay

Runtime: 7 minutes 37 seconds
Release date: June 29, 2017
Genre: Experimental, Animation, Student
Country: Israel

Synopsis: "The Loneliest" is an animated series dealing with loneliness. Based on "An Existential Perspective On Loneliness" by Michele A. Carter, each episode deals with a certain aspect of the concept and illustrates it by telling the story of the loneliest something.

The Cities Are Moving

NOMINEE - Best Animation

Director: Benjamin Esterlis

Runtime: 3 minutes 32 seconds
Release date: March 1, 2016
Genre: Fiction, Animation, Experimental, Music Video
Country: Israel

Synopsis: "In the silence of the night, the cities are moving"
A short surreal music video animation.

Morfrusis

NOMINEE - Best Animation

Director: Santiago Castaño

Runtime: 10 minutes 1 second
Release date: November 2, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Animation
Country: Colombia

Synopsis: MORFRUSIS is a delirious fable about Rena, an enslaved ordinary frog who becomes a liberator. Where once existed a lush and paradisiac forest, now agonizes a desolate landscape of enslaved frogs forced by other stronger, armed frogs to operate a huge industrial, tree swallowing mill.

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Best Music video

Plus Minus

WINNER - Best Music Video

Director: Julian Ticona Cuba

Runtime: 1 minute 27 seconds
Release date: December 15, 2017
Genre: Experimental, Music Video, Web / New Media
Country: Germany, Spain

Synopsis: In mathematics, plus minus indicates a choice of exactly two possible values, one of which is the negation of the other.
This is my interpretation of a couple trying to survive the insurmountable differences between them.

Long Time

NOMINEE - Best Music Video

Director: Cassandre Émanuel

Runtime: 3 minutes 52 seconds
Release date: February 28, 2018
Genre: Music Video
Country: Canada

Synopsis: A young boy dreams of doing gymnastics but does not dare to take action. He therefore chooses to camouflage himself to spy on the gymnasts more closely.

The Cities Are Moving

NOMINEE - Best Music Video

Director: Benjamin Esterlis

Runtime: 3 minutes 32 seconds
Release date: March 1, 2016
Genre: Fiction, Animation, Experimental, Music Video
Country: Israel

Synopsis: "In the silence of the night, the cities are moving"
A short surreal music video animation.

Engine of Progress

NOMINEE - Best Music Video

Director: Sasha Svirsky

Runtime: 3 minutes 25 seconds
Release date: September 28, 2017
Genre: Music Video, Animation
Country: Russian Federation

Synopsis: A trippy animated video for Russian rap-star Oxxxymiron featuring Ka-tet.
The song about perfectionism in art and life. Ones are controlling the roll of the Engine of Progress, others are just its passengers.

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Best Web Short

Champion - The Franz Stampfl Story

WINNER - Best Web Short

Director: Sally McLean

Runtime: 2 minutes 27 seconds
Release date: August 31, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia, Austria, Ireland, United Kingdom

Synopsis: Champion is a new feature-length documentary about the life of world-renowned Athletics Coach and Dunera Boy, Franz Stampfl - who produced over 450 Olympians, Commonwealth Games athletes,

There Could Be Nothing After This

NOMINEE - Best Web Short

Director: Andrew Huggins

Runtime: 3 minutes 45 seconds
Release date: August 31, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United States

Synopsis: A mother seeks closure.

Dinner with Ms.Chris

NOMINEE - Best Web Short

Director: Andrea Claire Morningstar

Runtime: 3 minutes 52 seconds
Release date: January 1, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States

Synopsis: East side Detroit resident Christina Lumpkin makes dinner for her grandchildren and reflects upon the things in her life for which she is grateful.

Motorcity Horseman

NOMINEE - Best Web Short

Director: Andrea Claire Morningstar

Runtime: 4 minutes 27 seconds
Release date: February 1, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States

Synopsis: Amidst the gentrification and ruins of downtown Detroit a self styled urban cowboy named Durrel Montgomery rides his horse down the middle of Michigan Avenue. 'They say what's good for the outside of a horse is good for the inside of man' Durrel tells us.

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Best Director

The Good Dark

WINNER - Best Director

Director: Lucas Chih-Peng Kao

Runtime: 12 minutes 39 seconds
Release date: March 27, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: A poet wonders through a desolated house and see lives of the previous tenants Jim and Flo reanimated. As they struggle to grasp the last breath of their relationship where everything is unspoken, the past, present and imagination co-exist as the poet recites his poem and brings the two world closer.

Blessed Days

RUNNER-UP - Best Director

Director: Valentina Casadei

Runtime: 13 minutes
Release date: October 17, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: France

Synopsis: Adèle, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.

A Bright Day

RUNNER-UP - Best Director

Director: Lorenzo d'Amico De Carvalho

Runtime: 22 minutes
Release date: October 2, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Italy

Synopsis: Ludovica and Alessandro are relatively young, quite pretty, and barely occupied.
Today is their day, the one they have been waiting for for weeks: today they will make a baby. But just has they are getting at it, the world around them suddenly decides to get in their way.

Orizaba's Peak

NOMINEE - Best Director

Director: Jaime Fidalgo

Runtime: 11 minutes 20 seconds
Release date: May 2, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Mexico

Synopsis: In a cozy bistro, an increasingly heated discussion between two good buddies reveals their latent sexual prejudices, as one admits to feeling finally set free by a book he has just read, and the other mistakenly assumes that he is coming out of the closet!

The Telephone

NOMINEE - Best Director

Director: Stuart Wheeldon

Runtime: 26 minutes 23 seconds
Release date: June 23, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: When Richard arrives in a small town, following the receipt of a letter and glassfish sent to his newspaper office, he is unaware of what he is about to become embroiled in. Intrigued by the story of a mysterious disappearance of a young woman Jane. Richard takes a room in the pub, the last place Jane was known to be alive.

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Best Actor

The Telephone

WINNER - Best Actor

Director: Stuart Wheeldon

Runtime: 26 minutes 23 seconds
Release date: June 23, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: When Richard arrives in a small town, following the receipt of a letter and glassfish sent to his newspaper office, he is unaware of what he is about to become embroiled in. Intrigued by the story of a mysterious disappearance of a young woman Jane. Richard takes a room in the pub, the last place Jane was known to be alive.

Time Left

NOMINEE - Best Actor

Director: Roxana Bazgoneh

Runtime: 13 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: November 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United States, France

Synopsis: In the near future, the new VEDA Watch can calculate each person’s life expectancy. We are able to observe and witness the life of a man once he has bought this device until his progressive fall into obsession as he desperately tries to control his life up.

A Bright Day

NOMINEE - Best Actor

Director: Lorenzo d'Amico De Carvalho

Runtime: 22 minutes
Release date: October 2, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Italy

Synopsis: Ludovica and Alessandro are relatively young, quite pretty, and barely occupied.
Today is their day, the one they have been waiting for for weeks: today they will make a baby. But just has they are getting at it, the world around them suddenly decides to get in their way.

Single Player

NOMINEE - Best Actor

Director: Robert Odegnal

Runtime: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Release date: August 31, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Hungary

Synopsis: According to a research from 2013, 9% of the young who play video games become addicts. The most popular games are the realistic ones, where the main features are creativity and aggression and where the young players get used to the sight of killing.

Apples

NOMINEE - Best Actor

Director: Milda Baginskaite

Runtime: 18 minutes 15 seconds
Release date: March 30, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: A coming-of-age short drama that follows a story of a mixed-race loner living with his grandfather in a small seaside village in the 1990s.
After losing granny, his one protection and human connection, Zac is now ready to discover and develop new relationships. In order to do so, he gets a job at the local apple orchard.

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Best Actress

Blessed Days

WINNER - Best Actress

Director: Valentina Casadei

Runtime: 13 minutes
Release date: October 17, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: France

Synopsis: Adèle, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.

Jewels

NOMINEE - Best Actress

Director: Ottilie Wilford

Runtime: 15 minutes
Release date: June 30, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: When a naive art student comes to stay with her successful older sister in London, their elation turns to unease as past and present lies are exposed and they are forced to reconcile the people they’ve become with the dreams they once shared.

Detour

NOMINEE - Best Actress

Director: Sumi Mathai

Runtime: 10 minutes 9 seconds
Release date: September 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: India

Synopsis: Two strangers who meet in an Uber Pool, make a wonderful connection, but eventually go their separate ways, cherishing what they had, instead of pursuing more.

The Other Capulet

NOMINEE - Best Actress

Director: Afonso Henrique

Runtime: 17 minutes 30 seconds
Release date: November 30, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Romance
Country: United States

Synopsis: Two strangers who meet in an Uber Pool, make a wonderful connection, but eventually go their separate ways, cherishing what they had, instead of pursuing more.

Penny

NOMINEE - Best Actress

Director: Louisa Harris

Runtime: 14 minutes 57 seconds
Release date: August 15, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Dark Comedy
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: Penny finds herself getting closer to office colleague Gregg, but her dark secret might get in the way of romance.

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Best Cinematography

Blessed Days

WINNER - Best Cinematography

Director: Valentina Casadei

Runtime: 13 minutes
Release date: October 17, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: France

Synopsis: Adèle, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.

The Good Dark

NOMINEE - Best Cinematography

Director: Lucas Chih-Peng Kao

Runtime: 12 minutes 39 seconds
Release date: March 27, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: A poet wonders through a desolated house and see lives of the previous tenants Jim and Flo reanimated. As they struggle to grasp the last breath of their relationship where everything is unspoken, the past, present and imagination co-exist as the poet recites his poem and brings the two world closer.

Plus Minus

NOMINEE - Best Cinematography

Director: Julian Ticona Cuba

Runtime: 1 minute 27 seconds
Release date: December 15, 2017
Genre: Experimental, Music Video, Web / New Media
Country: Germany, Spain

Synopsis: In mathematics, plus minus indicates a choice of exactly two possible values, one of which is the negation of the other.
This is my interpretation of a couple trying to survive the insurmountable differences between them.

Apples

NOMINEE - Best Cinematography

Director: Milda Baginskaite

Runtime: 18 minutes 15 seconds
Release date: March 30, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: A coming-of-age short drama that follows a story of a mixed-race loner living with his grandfather in a small seaside village in the 1990s.
After losing granny, his one protection and human connection, Zac is now ready to discover and develop new relationships.

A Bright Day

NOMINEE - Best Cinematography

Director: Lorenzo d'Amico De Carvalho

Runtime: 22 minutes
Release date: October 2, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Italy

Synopsis: Ludovica and Alessandro are relatively young, quite pretty, and barely occupied.
Today is their day, the one they have been waiting for for weeks: today they will make a baby. But just has they are getting at it, the world around them suddenly decides to get in their way.

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Best Editor

Blessed Days

WINNER - Best Editor

Director: Valentina Casadei

Runtime: 13 minutes
Release date: October 17, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: France

Synopsis: Adèle, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.

The Good Dark

NOMINEE - Best Editor

Director: Lucas Chih-Peng Kao

Runtime: 12 minutes 39 seconds
Release date: March 27, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: A poet wonders through a desolated house and see lives of the previous tenants Jim and Flo reanimated. As they struggle to grasp the last breath of their relationship where everything is unspoken, the past, present and imagination co-exist as the poet recites his poem and brings the two world closer.

Lasting Beast

NOMINEE - Best Editor

Director: Nagi Gianni & Raphaëlle Mueller

Runtime: 17 minutes 45 seconds
Release date: June 30, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Experimental
Country: Switzerland

Synopsis: Lasting Beast explores the relation between two characters in a human size terrarium. Their relationship unfolds through parades and actions where human affects hybridize animal behaviors.

A Bright Day

NOMINEE - Best Editor

Director: Lorenzo d'Amico De Carvalho

Runtime: 22 minutes
Release date: October 2, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Italy

Synopsis: Ludovica and Alessandro are relatively young, quite pretty, and barely occupied.
Today is their day, the one they have been waiting for for weeks: today they will make a baby. But just has they are getting at it, the world around them suddenly decides to get in their way.

The Returning

NOMINEE - Best Editor

Director: Paul Russell

Runtime: 11 minutes 23 seconds
Release date: July 8, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Romance, Mystery
Country: Malaysia

Synopsis: A bittersweet love story unfolds when a widower's wife returns from the grave.

The Telephone

NOMINEE - Best Editor

Director: Stuart Wheeldon

Runtime: 26 minutes 23 seconds
Release date: June 23, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: When Richard arrives in a small town, following the receipt of a letter and glassfish sent to his newspaper office, he is unaware of what he is about to become embroiled in. Intrigued by the story of a mysterious disappearance of a young woman Jane. Richard takes a room in the pub, the last place Jane was known to be alive.

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Best Screenplay

A Bright Day

WINNER - Best Screenplay

Director: Lorenzo d'Amico De Carvalho

Runtime: 22 minutes
Release date: October 2, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Italy

Synopsis: Ludovica and Alessandro are relatively young, quite pretty, and barely occupied.
Today is their day, the one they have been waiting for for weeks: today they will make a baby. But just has they are getting at it, the world around them suddenly decides to get in their way.

Time Left

NOMINEE - Best Screenplay

Director: Roxana Bazgoneh

Runtime: 13 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: November 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: United States, France

Synopsis: In the near future, the new VEDA Watch can calculate each person’s life expectancy. We are able to observe and witness the life of a man once he has bought this device until his progressive fall into obsession as he desperately tries to control his life up.

Single Player

NOMINEE - Best Screenplay

Director: Robert Odegnal

Runtime: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Release date: August 31, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Hungary

Synopsis: According to a research from 2013, 9% of the young who play video games become addicts. The most popular games are the realistic ones, where the main features are creativity and aggression and where the young players get used to the sight of killing.

Penny

NOMINEE - Best Screenplay

Director: Louisa Harris

Runtime: 14 minutes 57 seconds
Release date: August 15, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Dark Comedy
Country: United Kingdom

Synopsis: Penny finds herself getting closer to office colleague Gregg, but her dark secret might get in the way of romance.

The Talk

NOMINEE - Best Screenplay

Director: Tyler Boyco

Runtime: 12 minutes 5 seconds
Release date: March 11, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Canada

Synopsis: Neil and Carol, a husband and wife, try to come up with the perfect way to have the most uncomfortable conversation known to mankind; the sex talk with their teenage daughter.

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Best Film

Swoosh

NOMINEE - Best Experimental Director: Leevi Ikonen & Heikki Ikonen Runtime: 5 minutes 58 seconds Release date: January 2, 2018 Genre: Experimental, Silent Film Country: Finland Synopsis: Swoosh is a modern silent film about ageing. It's an experimental mixture of modern editing styles, animation, progressive music and Kaurismäki-esque humor in the form of a 6 minute silent film. The film is written, produced and directed by a father and son duo, and it took 35 years to make in total.