Best Feature (Budget over $250,000)

Octav

When an elderly man returns to his family home after decades of absence, the apparition of his childhood sweetheart triggers a rewind to the life-changing events from his youth.

• Serge Ioan Celebidachi

  Director

  Le Jardin de Celibidache
• Serge Ioan Celebidachi, James Olivier

  Writer

  Edward &Lulu
• Adela Vrinceanu Celebidachi

  Producer

   
• Marcel Iures

  Key Cast

  “Octav”

  Pirates of the Caribbean
• Victor Rebengiuc

  Key Cast

  “Spiridon”

  Medal of Honor
• Lia Bugnar

  Key Cast

  “Mama”

  Graduation
• Blasco Giurato

  Director of Photography

  Cinema Paradiso
• Vladimir Cosma

  Composer

  Le Bal, Le Diner de Cons

 

 

 

Best Feature (Budget under $250,000)

The Incomplete

“The Incomplete” is a seven minutes animated short film tells the story of a hungry Otter, but a perfectionist & obsessive one who wants everything complete in a perfect world. A world that has countless favorable chances to have.

• Erfan Parsapour

  Writer

   
• Erfan Parsapour

  Director

   
• Ali Shahdad

  Producer

   
• Mazyar Younesi

  Composer

   
• Alireza Alavian

  Sound Designer

   
• Khalil Khalilian

  Technical Director (TD)

   
• Mashhood Valian

  Animation

   
• Hamed Hoseinzadeh

  Animation

   
• Ali Mahmoodi

  Light & Render

   
• Negar Ahmadi

  Modeling & Texture

   
• Morteza Ghofli

  Modeling & Texture

   
• Majid Nejati

  Modeling & Texture

 

 

 

Best Feature (No-Budget under $25,000)

ROBIN (K. Schmutzler, T. Schmutzler)

ACCORDION

In an asylum, located in an island the patients spend their everyday life according to their own plans. The asylum is next to a quay and the residents commute to other locations. The patients spend their time watching the people and the travelling of the residents has turned into a wish for them. But an unexpected event disrupts the everyday life in asylum and the livings of patients are changed.

• Alireza Amini

  Director

   
• Alireza Amini

  Writer

   
• Morteza Shayesteh

  Producer

   
• Mehran Ahmadi

  Key Cast

  Actor
• Majid Salehi

  Key Cast

  Actor
• Hadi kazemi

  Key Cast

  Actor
• Pejman Jamshidi

  Key Cast

  Actor

 

 

Best Student Film

The First Day of April

Guli wakes up in the middle of the night and finds her father, Uri, preparing a prank for April Fools’ Day (April 1st), which begins that next morning. When she awakens in the morning she is surprised to hear that her father died during his morning jog at the kibbutz where they live. While her family is busy with the funeral preparations, Guli finds clues that maybe her father is playing a practical joke on everyone.

• Shauly Melamed

  Director

  Out of Breath
• Shauly Melamed

  Writer

   
• Ben Levy

  Cinematographer

   
• Moris Ben Mayor

  Editor

  Leibowitz: Faith, Country and Man, The Kibbutz, Stalags
• Tehila Afota Brander

  Producer

   
• Shir Helena Rosen

  Producer

   
• Alona Shauloff

  Key Cast

  “Guli”

  One Week and a Day
• Lana Ettinger

  Key Cast

  “Amalia (mother)”

  The Syrian Bride, Surrogate
• Kobi Farag

  Key Cast

  “Dani”

  Photo Farag (Docu), Farewell

  Baghdad
• Erez Kahana

  Key Cast

  “Uri (father)”

  Yossi & Jagger

   

   

   

 

 

 

Best Documentary Film

Mysteries of the Lake

The archeological site of Takht-e-Soleyman in northwest of Iran, and its mysterious lake is bound with secrets, myths and legends partly left from real historical events and partly made by creative mind of the locals. The depth of water has kept the lake out of reach which made the secrets and mysteries even more enigmatic. The bottom of this mysterious lake is untouched Because of its poisonous water and Mountainous location. now for the first time in history has successfully opened its way to the 
dark depth of the lake . this film is going to introduce this historical place and tries the exploration of dark depths of the lake .

• Armin Isarian

  Director

  Dreams in the Depths, Dinner Time, Tehran-Today
• Armin Isarian

  Writer

  Kejal, Dreams in the Depths, Dinner Time
• Armin Isarian

  Producer

  Whale Hunter, Dreams in the Depths

   

   

 

 

 

 

Best Short Film (5 minutes to 30 minutes)

Boxed

A fictionalized short film based on the true story of the terrifying daring escape of Henry "Box" Brown, who used creativity to escape from slavery in 1849 by mailing himself to freedom.

• Wanjiru Njendu

  Director

  Look Again, Smile, The S.T.E.M Adventures of Kabi and Sasha
• Wanjiru Njendu

  Writer

  Look Again, Smile, The S.T.E.M Adventures of Kabi and Sasha
• Wanjiru Njendu

  Producer

  Look Again, Smile, The S.T.E.M Adventures of Kabi and Sasha
• Adetokumboh M'Cormack

  Key Cast

  “Henry "Box" Brown”

  Blood Diamond, Battle Los Angeles, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Peres Owino

  Key Cast

  “Woman”

  Bound: Africans versus African Americans, Seasons of love, Default
• Gregor Manns

  Key Cast

  “Bounty Hunter/ Port Police”

  The Night Shift, The Bar
• William Joseph Hill

  Key Cast

  “Wagon Driver/ Steamboat Crew”

  Agent Steele, That Darn Girlfriend
• Emerson Gregori

  Key Cast

  “Samuel/ Man 2”

  Smile, Funny by Association
• Mikey Kettinger

  Key Cast

  “Passmore Williamson”
• Bongani Mlambo

  Cinematographer

  All Creatures, Three Days In August, Woodshock
• Benjamin A. Onyango

  Associate Producers

  Tears of the sun, God's not dead, X Files
• Maggie Manyan

  Associate Producers

  Acute Failure
• Makenzi Jordan

  Production Designers

  Shortcomings, Choke
• Brittany Ingram

  Production Designers

  Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, 1985, Howlers
• Hanna Sturwold

  Editors

  Blood.E.mary, Faceless God

 

 

Best Animation/Cartoon 

The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands

A powerful king nearly lost his family due to the Snow Queen’s evil deeds. He finds a way to withdraw all the magic from the world – they who master the magic powers get trapped into the Mirrorlands. The only one who can stop him and keep the fairytale in our world is Gerda – as her own superpower is not sourcery but her faith in kindness and friendship. In Gerda’s new adventures, the Snow Queen herself will help her along with trolls and pirates.

• ROBERT LENCE

  Director

   
• ALEXEY TSITSILIN

  Director

   
• ROBERT LENCE

  Writer

   
• VLADIMIR NIKOLAEV

  Writer

   
• ANDREY KORENKOV

  Writer

   
• ALEXEY TSITSILIN

  Writer

   
• ALEXEY ZAMYSLOV

  Writer

   
• YURIY MOSKVIN

  Producer

   
• VLADIMIR NIKOLAEV

  Producer

   
• VADIM VERESHAGIN

  Producer

   
• PAVEL STEPANOV

  Producer

   
• BORIS MASHKOVTSEV

  Producer

   
• LISHA NIN

  Producer

   
• Laurie Hymes

  Key Cast

  “Gerda”

   
• Samia Mounts

  Key Cast

  “Snow Queen”

   
• Marc Thompson

  Key Cast

  “King Harald”

   
• Devin Bailey Griffin

  Key Cast

  “Alfida”

   
• Jason Griffith

  Key Cast

  “Kai”

 

 

 

Best Horror

AFTER THE LETHARGY

Sara (Andrea Guasch) travels to the hot spot where one of the most extraordinary contacts with extraterrestrials in history supposedly took place. A forest ranger (Joe Manjón) and a sinister villager (Ramon Canals), accompany the girl, helping her to overcome the dangers that nature entails. However, despite good intentions, they will soon be attacked by a creature that lives in the depths of the forest, being forced to take refuge in an old abandoned military barracks.

• Marc Carreté

  Director

  Asmodexia
• Marc Carreté

  Writer

  Asmodexia
• Charles Hamilton

  Producer

   
• Marc Carreté

  Producer

  Asmodexia, Framed
• Andrea Guasch

  Key Cast

  “Sara Hamilton”

  Submergence, My kamp Rock
• Joe Manjón

  Key Cast

  “Joe, the Ranger”

  Framed, Risen
• Ramon Canals

  Key Cast

  “Ed”

  Asmodexia
• Mark Schardan

  Key Cast

  “TV presenter”

  Proyecto Lazaro, Palmeras en la nieve
• Sue Flack

  Key Cast

  “Mrs. Marshall”

  El año de la plaga, El segundo nombre
• Xavi Garriga

  CINEMATOGRAPHY

  Asmodexia
• Jordi Dalmau

  OST

  Asmodexia, Framed

 

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction

Team Teenettes

Balancing regular battles against a giant robot and a mad scientist with high school life leaves supercharged teen hero Kaylee questioning the predictability of her team’s missions.

 

 

 

 

Best Music Video 

Otsochodzi - Euforia

Music video for a young rapper Otsochodzi. In his personal way of the cross he struggles to convey a message to a generation of youngsters, who are obsessed with the idea of living life to its fullest, and are willing to do absolutely anything for attention and acceptance.

 

 

 

Best Script

Appointment in Jerusalem

She left prestige...to find purpose. This is a true story of a well-respected Danish schoolteacher Lydia Christensen, who in the late 1920's, left her career, family, and a male suitor while moving to Jerusalem. She soon comes into contact with a sick baby Jewish girl, whom she nurtures back to health. She then adopts other abandoned and ill children and finds true love and happiness in her new life.

• Derrick Ferguson

  Writer

   
• Brent Whiteside

  Writer

   
• Jonathan Cook

  Writer

 

 

 

Best Human Rights

Yasmina

Yasmina is a 15-years-old teenager who is passionate about soccer and practices with the team FC SAINT ETIENNE. Originally from Morocco, she is in an irregular situation in France, with her father and his French partner. One evening when she returns from a training, she sees her father being arrested before her own eyes.

 

 

 

Best Australian Movie

Bet the Demon Wins

A teenager struggles to fight off the demons that have come to haunt her following rejection by her gambling addicted father and betrayal by her sister.

• Denise Hurley

  Director

  #Me4TV - next gen talk show
• Karlisha Hurley

  Writer
• Denise Hurley

  Writer

  #Me4TV - next gen talk show
• Denise Hurley

  Producer

  #Me4TV - next gen talk show; So This Is It Then, Red Wire
• Karlisha Hurley

  Key Cast

  “Meg”

  Nightmare Tenant, Wrapped, Sister Mercy, Red Wire, Karlisha and Morgan, Hello Tom Sullivan
•  

   

  Kylie Riddle

  Key Cast

  “Jess”

  Nameless: Blood and Chains, 1 , Battalion, The Battlefield