BEST FILM

Our own land (2021)

Director: Simon Helloco

Country: France

Duration: 22:48

Synopsis: Summer is ending, it’s silaging time in the peaceful britanny countryside. As farmers are cultivating corn, two brothers (8 and 12 years old) are alone in their big house. Left on their own, they’re in charge of this vast kingdom and live in complete freedom. They only forbid themselves to enter the first floor of the house.

BEST DIRECTOR

Parents (2021)

Director: Coline Béal

Country: France

Duration: 16:26

Synopsis: Parents questions their past in order to try to understand the day that changed their lives and their daughter’s forever.    

BEST SCREENPLAY

Stains (2020) 

Director: Roger Villarroya

Country: Spain

Duration: 05:00

Synopsis: A man washes his hands.       

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Our own land (2021)

Cinematographer: Theo Reynal

Director: Simon Helloco

Country: France

Duration: 22:48

Synopsis: Summer is ending, it’s silaging time in the peaceful britanny countryside. As farmers are cultivating corn, two brothers (8 and 12 years old) are alone in their big house. Left on their own, they’re in charge of this vast kingdom and live in complete freedom. They only forbid themselves to enter the first floor of the house.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

The Swap (2021)

Director: Chloé Dumond, Ananda Henry-Biabaud

Country: France

Duration: 10:47

Synopsis: Sonia, 40 years old, single, decides to exchange sperme for a thesis correction in order to have a child.

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Out of Play (2021)

Director: Romi Menachem

Country: Israel

Duration: 19:59

Synopsis: Bar (12), a longtime member of the boys’ group and the class’s soccer team, dominates the field more than ever and scores the winning goal at her school’s semi-final soccer tournament. So when the team’s captain announces opening the fixed line-up for voting, she isn’t worried.  Following their first sex education class, Bar senses a change in the group and feels the need to ensure her getting enough votes until the end of the school day.   While going from one friend to another, having a hard time getting what she wishes for, she starts to realize that a deeper issue is at stake.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Captain Wakusch. The author Giwi Margwelaschwili. (2021)

Director: Kerstin Nickig

Country: Germany

Duration: 30:00

Synopsis: The short documentary film “Kapitän Wakusch” (Captain Wakusch) is a poetical portrait of the German-Georgian writer and philosopher Giwi Margwelashvili, born in 1927 in Berlin, a permanent stranger and migrant between Germany and Georgia, East and West, reality and literature. The themes most central in his work are “freedom” and “being foreign”. The film is based on interviews with the old author in the last years before his death in 2020 and extracts from his autobiographical novel “Captain Wakusch”. Memories and literature floating one into another. Margwelashvili’s alter ego and main hero of his novel Captain Wakusch as well as himself, is raised in Berlin in a family of political immigrants from Georgia – a broken family, he says. His efforts to be a real Berlin boy, end up without success when he is thrown out of the Hitler youth camp for playing his favourite jazz albums to his mates. Captain Wakush soon becomes part of the Berlin Swing Youth (Swingjugend) of the forties, dancing to the hot rhythms of his maestro Tullio Mobiglia in the Kakadu dance bar; feeling that this music, and jazz music on the whole, is a taste of the freedom found in the “dixielandish” world…  The film takes you into Captain Wakusch’s alias Giwi Margwelaschwili’s life’s journey which consists of many unexpected twists and turns. Captain Wakusch has to find his path between the two DEADLY TEXTS of the twentieth century – the Nazi ideology and the communist ideology. And finds islands of freedom and individuality between the lines – sometimes! Private and historical archive footage, new footage and a lot of good jazz music make you experience the life’s journey of the character (or is it the author – you never know). For Margwelaschwili, writing is his “refuge” as he calls it. His little known work creates a whole literary cosmos with its own playful rules and special relations between author, characters and reader.  A playful-literary portrait of a very free person.

BEST ANIMATION

The awakening of the insects (2021)

Director: Stephanie Lansaque, Francois Leroy

Country: France

Duration: 14:09

Synopsis: Hong Kong. Mr Lam is an old gentleman who loses his memory since the death of his wife. On March 5, the day of “the awakening of the hibernating insects”, he receives the unexpected visit of old Ms. Meng. This Taoist exorcist is determined to chase the demons lodging in the head of the old man.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL

A quiet man (2021)

Director: Nyima Cartier

Country: France

Duration: 14:30

Synopsis: Paris-La Défense, the business district.  From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out the window: down below, a colleague who was dismissed that morning has been sitting on a bench for hours, alone in the cold. Why won’t he go home?  From the heights of his office, Pierre wonders what to do.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

3+1 – Alive (Feat. TonyB.) (2021)

Director: Margarita Mironova

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 04:03

Synopsis: Music video for a track called “Alive” by music project 3+1.  It tells a story of the human being making a way from darkness to light.