Winners

 The Song of the Beasts- BEST EDITING

Editor&Directed by: Titouan Ropert

‏The Jury’s Comment: You managed to create a complex and unsettling story that starkly contrasts the raw power of reality with the protective veil of fiction, all while employing groundbreaking cinematic language that blends different formats and time periods.

Paul and Paul – BEST FILM

Director& Screenwriters: Hugo Drechsler 

The Jury’s Comment: A humanistic film that navigates from a family tragic to a bitter sweet and absurd moments in a turbulent family story , and all of this, through a
‏virtuosic use of clever story telling.

Electra- MOST PROMISING DIRECTOR

Director & Screenwriter: Daria Kashcheeva

The Jury’s Comment: ‏The film demonstrates the intelligence and confidence of an artist whose willful worldmaking lets’ the audience see on old myth as if for the
‏first time.

ANCELLA D’AMORE – BEST SCREENPLAY

Director & Screenwriter: Emanuela Muzzupappa

The Jury’s Comment: For crafting a surprising, strange, mystical and heartwarming story that captures a young girl’s moment of growth while also asking essential questions about the power of belief and the shadow of deceit, all with dynamic screenwriting and sharp character development

Runaway – BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Director & Screenwriter: Salome Kintsurashvili

Cinematographer: Anton Gromov

The Jury’s Comment: For its great talent in framing with a strong sense of details and the sutil and yet expressive cinematographyc decisions to show the multiple situations that can be given in one same house, giving the public the possibility of understanding the diverse feelings that go across one family during an unexpected problem.

A State of Absence – HONORABLE MENTION FOR FIRST FILM

Director & Screenwriter: Mlk Al Halabi

The Jury’s Comment: ‏The award is given for your ability to take a tragic and relevant story and, through your unique cinematic language, transform it into something with mythological, poetic, and unforgettable qualities.

Single Light- HONORABLE MENTION

Director & Screenwriter: Shaylee Atary Wiener

The Jury’s Comment: ‏for her astonishing capacity to find a unique visuality for the unspeakable horror of sexual assault as well as for showcasing the beauty of a true friend who understands you without words.

The Need of a Witness- HONORABLE MENTION

Directors: Mariana Sanguinetti, Renzo Cozza

Screenwriters: Mariana Sanguinetti

The Jury’s Comment: For daring to craft a peculiar gem of a film and an hommage to quirky humans.

Amphibolos Lithos- BEST PROJECT

Director, Producer & Screenwriter: Valery Grysha

The Jury’s Comment: A violent bloom of fire, tectonic plates, ballistics pathways, futuristic techno-poetics which is abstract and concrete at the same time. In a cohesive cinematic language, the film sews together powerful images, technologies of vision and visions of war, into a compelling image. An ongoing state of existential apocalypse.

Little Boney and his Winter Extinguisher (at last!)- HONORABLE MENTION

Director, Screenwriter & Producer: Jonathan Omer Mizrahi

The Jury’s Comment: The film focuses our attention on an ancillary military product—a heating bag activated by the blending of its components. Mixing notions of warmth, coldness, violence, and solace, the heating bag transforms into a charged metaphor. The work touches the exposed nerves and edges of contemporary reality.