BEST FILM

Three blades (2019)

Director: Matthieu MAUNIER-ROSSI

Country: France

Duration: 29:21

Synopsis: Haiti, nowadays. One day in the life of a family of three : three men, alone with their dreams and frustrations. Three generations under the burning sun. A day like every other day… And between them, everywhere, in every hand, there are blades : machetes. So when the night eventually comes…

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

Bead Brothers (2022)

Director: Aykut Temel

Country: Turkey

Duration: 24:01

Synopsis: Bekir (11) and his brother Ahmet (7), who were born in a world where violence is normalized and poverty and injustice begin, are two brothers who do not get along very well with each other.  Ahmet lives with the dream of his father’s promise of a bicycle to him. However, he soon comes face to face with the fact that this promise will never be kept. Because in addition to the insufficient economic situation of the family, the Father; He is a gambling addict, unemployed, powerless and aggressive man. The father even takes away the money that your mother makes by cleaning the stairs.  Bekir encounters a job opportunity one day when his brother Ahmet is about to give up on his bicycle dream. Bekir thinks that thanks to this new job opportunity, he can realize his brother’s dream of cycling by secretly saving money from his father.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

Eloise Lou (2021)

Director: Marc Baradat

Country: France

Duration: 23:10

Synopsis: Christophe often parks by the house of his 16 years old daughter, who doesn’t know him. That day, Eloise storms out of the house. She sees Christophe, walks towards him, and asks him to give her a ride. In the car, she later tells him that she’s heading to her real father’s, whose existence she just learnt about…

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

Muncher (2020)

Director: Navid Solati

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Duration: 18:39

Synopsis: He’ll increase the number of hunters tonight. They guess it’s a boar. What can a boar be doing in the heart of Tehran?

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

Fluoxetine (2022)

Director: Mohammad Masoud Nakhostin, Ali Narimani

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Duration: 12:45

Synopsis: Roya, a young girl, is preparing for a two-person dinner party. It reminds her of another party in teenage years which affected her life. An incident in the first, causes unexpected happening in the second one. 

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

Usted dirá (I’m listening) (2021)

Director: Ignacio Rodó

Country: Spain

Duration: 01:00

Synopsis: Some therapies take years. Some take a minute.

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Outside the Door (2022)

Director: Zhuojing Ma

Country: China

Duration: 16:50

Synopsis: Wenwen returns to her hometown because of her grandmother’s death, but is refused to attend the funeral on account of her pregnancy. Her parents are not very content with her marriage. Meanwhile, the new family built with her husband is overwhelming her. A new family replacing an old family, Wenwen feels like an outsider just standing out of the doors of these two families.

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

Give it back! (2019)

Director: Ruchama Ehrenhalt

Country: Israel

Duration: 14:14

Synopsis: Olivia just moved to Israel from New York. Throughout her first day of school in the 6th grade she tries to survive, navigating through the new country she just landed in, her new school and new peers, unsure where she will end up at the end of the day.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Days of Ignorance (2021)

Director: Abolfazl Tajik

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Duration: 19:00

Synopsis: Ali-Mohammad, an 84-year old man, was the last survivor of the rural felt-crafters in Neyshabur region. The film depicts his life and work.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Triptych (2022)

Director: Yana Osman

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 07:50

Synopsis: Big Clay #4, a 12-meter sculpture by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, was installed in Moscow  in August 2021 and caused a mixed reaction. Gradually, the Russian context supplemented the work with two new parts – thus, from a single work, Big Clay turned into a triptych. And into a  metaphor of the country.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

donna (2022)

Director: Jonathan Gringauz

Country: United States

Duration: 10:37

Synopsis: Told through stunning Super8 footage, “donna” is an intimate portrait of life as a working mother, a 50-year marriage, motherhood, and growing older. In conversation with her 20-year-old grandson, her life unfolds before us, with Donna reminiscing and offering her wisdom to all.

BEST ANIMATION

Reflexion (2020)

Director: Alan Bidard

Country: Martinique

Duration: 05:00

Synopsis: When social distancing goes wrong…

BEST EXPERIMENTAL

How Should One Wait For GODOT (2021)

Director: Arshia Zeinali

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Duration: 28:04

Synopsis: “How Should One Wait for Godot” is an adaptation of Samuel Becket’s two plays, Waiting for Godot and EndGame. Does waiting for Godot help us reach the destination? Perhaps we did not know how to wait the proper way!

BEST EXPERIMENTAL

Contagion (2020)

Director: MEYSAM MORADI

Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of

Duration: 13:14

Synopsis: I have fallen into the trap of a predetermined and purposeful life. In a time and place not far away or near. Maybe right now.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

COPIKORRUPT – SEEMS LIKE HUMAN CORRUPTED (2022)

Director: Igor Eyt, Alexandr Krasnovitskii

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 02:51

Synopsis: The video Seems Like Human Corrupted is a story of the emotional state of a person, who has highly developed psychological traumas, a person who is forced — by family and society — to look at life through the lens of his fears.