These are the winners of awards of APRIL – MAY 2024:
STANDARD CATEGORIES
Best Film: The Fisherman – Alberto Vannacci – Italy
Best International Film
WINNER: The Old Man In The Rocking Chair – Niko El Santo Zavero – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: The Swap – Natasha Kaminsky – Australia
Best European Film
WINNER: Blaster II: The Second Blast – Robert Vrba – Czech Republic
HONORABLE MENTION: Et Pour Monsieur..? – Léo Lebesgue – France
Best Asian Film
WINNER: War and Peace – Iman Hassanzadeh – Iran
HONORABLE MENTION: Stray dog – Lai Cheuk Nam – Hong Kong
Best American Film
WINNER: Put your cart away – Kevin Cate – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Dead bird – Matthew Lei – Usa
Best Italian Film
WINNER: In mezz’ora – Claudio Lopalco – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: È cambiato il mondo – Lorenzo Lombardi – Italy
Best Lombard film
WINNER: Something Outta Nothing – Michelangelo Carliez – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION:
Peak – Daniele Martinoni – Italy
Parking Review – Davide Curto – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 min)
WINNER: Mirage – Hanson Ma, Jeffrey Su, Michael Wang – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Nothing we say can change what we’ve been through – Francesca de Bassa – United Kingdom
Best Super Short (under 15 minutes)
WINNER: Haunted – Rohan Laser King – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Southern Requiem – Rafael A. López – Switzerland
Best Medium Lenght (under 60 min)
WINNER: Unstern – Daniel Bauer – Germany
HONORABLE MENTION: Il mistero dell’Acqua Perduta – Lorenzo Pompei – Italy
Best Low Budget Film
WINNER: Le martien – Frederic Kuhn – Saint Pierre and Miquelon
HONORABLE MENTION: Anticipation – Julia Marta Artuna – Norway
Best Original Idea
WINNER: Hm! – Ian Aannevik – Norway
HONORABLE MENTION: Every Last Breath – Leonardo Gomez – Usa
Best AI Film
WINNER: The Ordinary in the Hidden – Swen Werner – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Sins of birth – Neer Human – United Kingdom
ABSURD AWARDS
Best Wannabe Absurd (we know reality can be absurd)
WINNER: Whippy – James Rooke – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: The Everyday Adventures of Brig and Joe – Jeffrey Hunter Curry – Usa
Best You’re lucky
WINNER: Little Issues – Jerah Milligan – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: My melody – Val Nabilskiy – Usa
Best You have a good pusher
WINNER: Dave Gentic & Headgun – Samuel Van Geesbergen – Belgium
HONORABLE MENTION: I Didn’t Ask For This – Julia S Doogan – Usa
Best It deserved an award so we created one
WINNER: Sage and the Walkman – Robert Kelley – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: X-Mas Anonymous – Sammy Smedley – Usa
Best Font
WINNER: Temporal Travelers – Frederic Kuhn – France
HONORABLE MENTION: Haunt That Like Button – David Mair – Usa
Best Plot twist
WINNER: Egged – Samantha Jimenez Garcia – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: A Better Life – Yael Green – Australia
Best Villain
WINNER: If I Knew – Piro Gjylameti – Greece
HONORABLE MENTION: Eat This – Matteo Bocchi – Italy
Best Lie
WINNER: Heritage – Julian Wolf, Julian Heinke – Austria
HONORABLE MENTION: Eye of the Beholder – Jared Patterson – New Zealand
Best Don’t watch it when you’re eating
WINNER: Ritratto di un muto – Gabriella Sacco – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Lice – Olivia Dance – Czech Republic
Best It should be porn
WINNER: Crab Claw – Steve Sanders – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: The Department Of Porn Justice – Matt Jolly, Ruby Walker – Australia
FILM STYLE AWARDS
Best Wes Anderson
WINNER: I Never Was a Hippie, I Just Looked Like One – Adriana Marchione, KIrk Goldberg – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: The Roman de Remort, or the Inhumane and Villainous Fabliaux of the Final Carnaval – Marion Lessard – Canada
Best Stanley Kubrick
WINNER: M² – Buzz Matthews – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Tuning Up – Richard Philpott
Best Quentin Tarantino
WINNER: Codename Fury – Giuliano Emanuele – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Nekaj v grabu mora – Marino Habulan – Croatia
Best Federico Fellini
WINNER: Nothing Left To Burn – Martina Lesley McLean – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Madrelingua – Jocelyn Woods – Usa
Best Hayao Miyazaki
WINNER: Perhaps a Toaster – Bashir Mohamed Bashir – United Arab Emirates
HONORABLE MENTION: Underwater Story – Lorenzo Pompei – Italy
Best Sam Raimi
WINNER: Collection Only – Alun Rhys Morgan – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Pegasus Highway – Ethan Grahek – Australia
Best Christopher Nolan
WINNER: Vital Sign – Csaba Székely – Hungary
HONORABLE MENTION: Arto – Hafid Abdelmoula – Usa
GENRE AWARDS
Best Absurd
WINNER: The birds sing at 6:05 – Grégory Ghersy – France
HONORABLE MENTION:
Ultima – Thorsten Frenzel – Germany
Mic – Diamond Keener – Usa
Crossed Destinies – Andrea Vulcano – Italy
Best Drama
WINNER: Vasomotor Rhinitis – Mikheil Gabaidze – Georgia
HONORABLE MENTION: The Soul in My Head – Jung Jen Pao – Taiwan
Best Experimental
WINNER: Kali – Alberto Martín-Aragón – Spain
HONORABLE MENTION: Ash + Elm – Seb Gillmore – United Kingdom
Best Comedy/Parody
WINNER: Dafanifi – Jonathan Figoli – France
HONORABLE MENTION:
Nora 2.0 – Ryan Gordon Taylor – Canada
The life and times of Norman Ondoby – Andrew Hindle – United Kingdom
Best Horror/Mystery
WINNER: Mind Shadows – Henrique Guimarães – Brazil
HONORABLE MENTION:
Dream no more – Argiris Logothetis – Greece
Have you locked the door? – Josué Gabriel Fiallo – Sweden
Best Action/Thriller
WINNER: Anywhere – Florian Ghimpu – Romania
HONORABLE MENTION:
Retribution – FrancJose lopez – Usa
Lament – Romi Banerjee – Canada
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy
WINNER: The Observers – Evgeny Sychev – Russia
HONORABLE MENTION: Reich of Future Past – Grzegorz Borowski, Maciej Bączek – Poland
Best Documentary
WINNER: Kumeyaay Land – Dylan Verrechia, Fausto Diaz – Mexico
HONORABLE MENTION: The After Thoughts of Adoption – Alexandra Maxwell – Usa
Best Animation
WINNER: Visceral Echoes – Claudia Gigliotti – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Jimmy and baby – Paul Robertson – Australia
Best War/Western/History
WINNER: Tunnel Rat – Patrick Riglesberger – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Eternal Presence: Journey into the Mind – Behdad Esfahbod – Canada
Best Web/TV Pilot/Tv Series
WINNER: Trumpet Player – Felino Dolloso – Australia
HONORABLE MENTION: Stuck Footage – Florin Brinza – United Kingdom
Best Music/Musical
WINNER: Llego La Hora – David Martos Korvo, Jonatan Martos Korvo – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Gravitation – Nolan Stolz – Usa
Best Crime/Violence
WINNER: Bodywrecker – Hal Young – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: A mexican horror movie: dubbed – Travis Nicholas Zariwny – Mexico
Best Silent Film
WINNER: Tales From The Bridge: The Artist and The Muse – Boa Campbell – Japan
HONORABLE MENTION: Ridicule – Kai Langford-Do – United Kingdom
Best LGBTQ+
WINNER: RAM (Like the Verb) – Chance Calloway – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: WeAreEverywhere – Mr Venus – United Kingdom
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Director
WINNER: Mouse and the Machine – Anita DeKok – Canada
HONORABLE MENTION: Death Penalty – Adrian B. Morina – Sweden
Best Young Director
WINNER: Ossessione – Max Galante – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: The end – Lily Andrews – Usa
Best Soundtrack
WINNER: #Trucker – Jesse Pringle – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: A-Okay – J Fitzpatrick – Canada
Best Editing
WINNER: L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica – Bianca Infurna – Italy
HONORABLE MENTION: Dreamers – Lorenzo Visentin – Italy
Best Screenplay
WINNER: Dog – Andrew Shire – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Alderheid – Nick Del Bianco
Best Cinematography
WINNER: Murder at Midnight – Cassidy Rickels – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Six-string boy – Dede Preti – Italy
Best Vfx
WINNER: Little Martians: Dear Human, My Muse – Vanessa Rosa – Brazil
HONORABLE MENTION: KØLEEN – Vesely Marek – Austria
Best Actor/Actress
WINNER: Rosi’s Phone – Christine Garbe – Germany
HONORABLE MENTION: Trumpet Player – Felino Dolloso
Best Producer
WINNER: Abduction – Omar Hashem – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Bad Lunch – Sneha Lourdes Mendes – India
Best Makeup, Hairstyling or Costumes
WINNER: The Puppet Asylum – Otto Baxter – United Kingdom
HONORABLE MENTION: Lungs – Adrianna Ewa Polcyn – United Kingdom
Best Title
WINNER: Munchies – Michael Calderon – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION: Nowhere To Go – Annabelle Kumaar – Usa
Best Movie Poster
WINNER: Teodoro – Esteban Roel – Spain
HONORABLE MENTION: Petricone – Lilith Primavera – Italy
