“A masterful deftly toned juxtaposition of personal and societal exclusion by pervasive inept gatekeepers.” – F3 Film Magazine US Experimental Documentary 13830 Kewanna Trail A reaction to late-night searching on Zillow, where the filmmaker discovers that a house she lived in as child is now worth over $600K. It’s hard to convince a majority of…
Best Cinematography Honor “A gorgeous museum-worthy nuance of being through the vibration of elemental atomized energy.” – F3 Film Magazine Canada Experimental 2.57k From dust they arise, drawn together by a magic frequency … https://youtu.be/aGfJWk0DbOs?si=SPKP4Vb3gDrP8iyB Director Profile Eva Colmers Director Bio : Eva Colmers has written and directed 13 award-winning short and long-format films in…
“A dynamic animated ritual to comprehend societal trauma.” – F3 Film Magazine Japan Animation, Documentary, Experimental ABURIDASHI Assortment: Video Letters Written in Invisible Ink The traditional Japanese technique of “ABURIDASHI,” depicts how the filmmaker’s perspective changed from an individual to a nation over a period of 10 years. https://vimeo.com/video/873821319 Director Profile Nonoho Suzuki Director Bio…
“A profound navigation of awareness and dying.” – F3 Film Magazine USA, Argentina Experimental Documentary Los Colores del Intestino Son Tan Lindos (The Colors of the Intestine Are So Beautiful) An adult filmmaker cares for his grandmother, while exploring her past and the art of his mother. Director Profile Alejo Perez-Stable Husni Director Bio :…
“An artful insight of symbolic dreamscape.” – F3 Film Magazine USA Experimental snails A dream about my mother and snails that my daughter interprets for me. Director Profile Dorothea Braemer Director Bio : Dorothea Braemer is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor in media production at Buffalo State University.
“A dynamic composition that challenges expectations through elemental variation.” – F3 Film Magazine USA Animation, Experimental Specs 3 Our camera pans across rectangular zones of color. What happens if we increase our speed and indulge diagonal trajectories? Inspired by a painted wall in San Francisco, this abstract animated short plays with shifting chromatic shapes, and…
“An adroit paradox of presenting the incomprehensible.” – F3 Film Magazine UK Experimental Documentary These Were Not Simple Deaths Features Lilian Black OBE discussing her father, Eugene Black, the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. Lilian discusses their families subsequent visits to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps 40 years later. Director Profile…
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…
“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 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…
