BEST FILM

Deus Ex Machina (2021)

Director: Langlois Jessy

Country: France

Duration: 20:15

Synopsis: A young adult goes looking for his biological father. He’ll understand, when he finds out, that his daddy never ran away as he was told. His father suffers from a very little-known disease: Prosopagnosia, an inability to recognize faces. Even if he would regularly meet his son in the street, he would be unable to know who he is. In spite of everything, father and son will end up and help each other.

BEST DIRECTOR

Still fighting (2021)

Director: Arthur Lecouturier

Country: Belgium

Duration: 19:59

Synopsis: Whatever the risks, Polina has travelled across Europe to get her daughter back. Arriving in Belgium, gun in hand, she discovers a peaceful family scene, a loving father and a well-behaved child. Destabilised, can Polina still trust her intuition?

BEST SCREENPLAY

Still fighting (2021)

Writers: Arthur Lecouturier, Raphaël Baudet, Regina Bikkinina

Director: Arthur Lecouturier

Country: Belgium

Duration: 19:59

Synopsis: Whatever the risks, Polina has travelled across Europe to get her daughter back. Arriving in Belgium, gun in hand, she discovers a peaceful family scene, a loving father and a well-behaved child. Destabilised, can Polina still trust her intuition?

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Deus Ex Machina (2021)

Cinematographer: Emerson Lefrancois

Director: Langlois Jessy

Country: France

Duration: 20:15

Synopsis: A young adult goes looking for his biological father. He’ll understand, when he finds out, that his daddy never ran away as he was told. His father suffers from a very little-known disease: Prosopagnosia, an inability to recognize faces. Even if he would regularly meet his son in the street, he would be unable to know who he is. In spite of everything, father and son will end up and help each other.

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM

And then, the silence (2020)

Director: Lucas Trochet

Country: France

Duration: 17:52

Synopsis: Breton coast. The storm season has started. Matthias, in his twenties, kills himself on the job in the small family farm, waiting for the recognition of his father. As we prepare to celebrate the annual procession of the Virgin in the village, Hugo, his brother, comes back home.

BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM

BUNNY (2021)

Director: Tatiana Ra

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 23:30

Synopsis: Vanya is 7 years old, he is a wizard and friend of the defective Bunny, but his parents are seriously concerned about the boy’s strange behavior, worried about his unwillingness to communicate with his peers, and about his ailment: severe stuttering. His mother, having tried all the possibilities to help her child, decides to take him to the well-known neighborhood healer.   To speak properly does not mean to be understood. Sometimes one hug can heal both a broken knee and a broken heart. 

BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM

Veter (2021)

Director: Andrew Katsuba

Country: Russian Federation

Duration: 06:00

Synopsis: He lives in a giant field on top of a repurposed windmill, A kite-maker. And yet, It is as if wind itself avoids the place every time it is about to arrive. The man is forced then, to either wait and submit, or find a solution, for what is, his purpose when there is no wind?

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

THE FIRST WORD (2020)

Director: Artak Serovani-Oganyan

Country: Armenia

Duration: 30:00

Synopsis: A mother and son live in seclusion and make coal for sale. They don’t need words in their work and in their everyday lives; they understand each other with none. What would cause this silence to be broken? 

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

LUNATIC (2021)

Director: Sohyun An

Country: Korea, Republic of

Duration: 11:33

Synopsis: The film begins in a soundless space. One woman dances, one woman breathes. A woman gasping for air. They both look identical and coexistent. Are these two the same person? Is it someone else? I mean.. where is this?   LUNATIC.  The movie ‘Lunatic’ is a silent monologue that dances the countless events which take place inside the human being, where it is unknown where the dream comes from and where the reality lies. Lunatic refers to a maniac, etymologically arriving from the belief that the Moon can give rise to intermittent periods of insanity, revealing people’s hidden madness. The scenario inspired from this point of view represents the innermost desire to go crazy under the bottom of human beings.  Daily life is a persona trapped in acting, and beyond this daily life, what does our mind desire? Maybe we are just not going crazy in order to fulfill our implicit and intangible responsibilities.