Best Animated Film “If a film could be a friend, we’d want this one.” – F3 Film Magazine US Animated Documentary How To Lose Weight and Look Great An autobiographical animated short about being diagnosed with a life threatening case of brain cancer, trying to make sense of a world where people don’t seem to…
Jury Award “To watch this film is to expose oneself to the primal conjurings of mythic parallel surrealities.” – F3 Film Magazine Mexico / Canada Experimental Narrative Concertina An interlocking magical realism that jumps between parallel realities as two sets of brothers discuss their dreams of one another. Director Profile Gabriel Gonzalez Acosta Director Bio…
Grand Jury Award “An extraordinary immersion into remoteness, between elegy and ode.” – F3 Film Magazine Australia Narrative Crusoe Of Tin City An old man and his dog spend their last days at the end of the world. Director Profile Yannick Jamey Director Bio : Born in Australia, raised in France and educated in Canada…
Jury Award “A masterful nuance balancing the limitations of procedure with the bare longing for intimacy.” – F3 Film Magazine Germany / Italy Narrative Frida With an encounter between a young nurse and her patient of the same age, Frida, is on the border of professional distance and the desire for closeness. Director Profile Aleksandra…
“Reveals a deeper understanding of our micro and macro cosms by artfully transforming the science documentary through the compared scopes of man, culture, and nature. ” – F3 Film Magazine Brazil / Belgium Experimental Documentary 0.2 Milligrams of Gold 8,500 kilometers lie between the Amazon and the Ardennes. In his home country of Brazil, Diego…
“A film as deceivingly simple as the quiet humanity shown when strangers become conjoined by chance in transit.” – F3 Film Magazine US Narrative Ang Motel A young woman shares her motel room with an elderly Filipina woman, when she is stranded in a sleepy beach town. Director Profile Jon Matthews Director Bio : Jon…
“An empowering release from rote antiseptic toil. ” – F3 Film Magazine Germany Music Video GATHERING SPEED A young woman is stamping packages in a factory. One day a package appears that is totaly different to all the others. She opens and finds bow and arrow in it. By shooting a hole in the factory…
“A hypnotic immersive surveillance, challenging human packaging.” – F3 Film Magazine USA / Austria Experimental Documentary Night/Line A transsexual woman makes a journey across Vienna while followed by aggressive, distorted voices bombarding her with transphobic rhetoric from public statements. Director Profile Saoirse Grace Director Bio : Saoirse Grace is an amateur filmmaker and PhD student…
Grand Jury Award “A masterwork of such epic sentiment and dedication, that it should be preserved in a museum and sent into space.” – F3 Film Magazine Japan Animatione Parallax A hand-drawn cell animation exploring the differences in parallel perceptions, with original music by the director. Director Profile Hayato Nove Director Bio : Born in…
“A clever and beautiful film that cautions the seduction of modernism.” – F3 Film Magazine Pakistan Narrative Sandstorm (Mulaqat) Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi (Pakistan), shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her. Caught between his manipulative behaviour and the desire to experience love on her own terms, Zara searches…
