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Search 2016, films - award winners (25)
Grand Chameleon Award, Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor Male
DELINQUENT
Dir: Kieran Valla, United States, 96 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
Delinquent is the story of Joey, a 17-year-old in rural Connecticut who finds the idea of following in his father's footsteps as a small-time crook romanti ... more »
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Best Documentary
FARMER/VETERAN
Dir: Alix Blair & Jeremy Lange, United States, 82 min, 2016, Documentary Feature
After three combat tours in Iraq, Alex Sutton attempts a fresh start hatching chickens and raising goats on 43 acres in rural North Carolina. Alex embraces ... more »
Best Short Documentary
MORIOM
Dir: Mark Olexa & Francesca Scalisi, Switzerland, 12 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Summer 2014. Rural Bangladesh. "I came from Heaven. I came to destroy all bad things in the world. I'm a police officer. I'm a flower angel. I got a job at ... more »
Best Narrative Short
DREAMLANDS
Dir: Sara Dunlop, England, 13 min, 2016, Narrative Short
17 year old Pixie is a tough-talking, wild and beautiful hedonist. In a dead end seaside town on the British coast, she and her friends have spent their su ... more »
Best Animation
AMÉLIA & DUARTE
Dir: Alice Guimarães & Mónica Santos, Portugal, 8 min, 2015, Animation
In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amélia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that c ... more »
Best Experimental
TOMORROW AFTER YESTERDAY
Dir: Behzad Moloud, Iran, 12 min, 2014, Experimental
A thief steals a car , but while escaping , he had an accident with a woman. He escapes the accident place and tries to go to a safe place but he's uncon ... more »
Best New Director
EMBERS
Dir: Claire Carre, United States, 85 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories explore how we ... more »
Brooklyn Pride Award
LIFE OF SIGNIFICANT SOIL
Dir: Michael Irish, United States, 71 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
As Conor and Addison trudge through their failing relationship they realize suddenly that they are trapped. Working together in an attempt to escape what s ... more »
Best Producer
FORBIDDEN CUBA
Dir: Art Jones, United States, 80 min, 2016, Narrative Feature
"Forbidden Cuba" is a dramatic comedy. It follows Gil Bigelow, an American businessman sent on a covert mission to Cuba to find an executive gone rogue and ... more »
Best Screenplay, Best Actor Female
REMITTANCE
Dir: Patrick Daly & Joel Fendelman, United States, 90 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
When Marie takes a job as a maid in Singapore to support her family in the Philippines, she trades one set of hardships for another. Betrayed by her husban ... more »
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Best Cinematography
HELMSMAN
Dir: Majid Esmaeili Parsa, Iran, 86 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
Hassan is a boy who that is trying to revive his family ship for his father's birthday. His father has left the house and did not return after the drying o ... more »
Best Editing
CROOKED & NARROW
Dir: Neal Dhand, United States, 89 min, 2015, Narrative Feature
Amy Walsh returns to Philadelphia after 10 years to visit her ex-cop, current-con father and to join a stick-up crew. After a job gone wrong, Warren Mercer ... more »
Best Original Score
REVOLTOSO
Dir: Arturo & Roy Ambriz Rendón, Mexico, 30 min, 2016, Animation
Revoltoso is a stop-motion short film that tells the story of a little one-eyed boar who lives in Don Gonzalo's hacienda during the Mexican Revolution in 1 ... more »
Spirit Award
DEPROGRAMMED
Dir: Mia Donovan, Canada, 86 min, 2015, Documentary Feature
Deprogrammed is a feature-documentary about the rise of Ted 'Black Lightning' Patrick's deprogramming technique and anti-cult crusade. Deprogramming, as a ... more »
FATA MORGANA
Dir: Amelie Wen, China, 20 min, 2016, Narrative Short
Inspired by true events, Fata Morgana tells the story of a Chinese couple who must examine their relationship's fractures -- and future -- after they arriv ... more »
IN DEEP WATERS
Dir: Sarah Van den Boom, Canada, 12 min, 2015, Animation
From the moment they are conceived, twin babies forge a close bond in their mother's womb. But when one twin dies during the pregnancy, the surviving twin ... more »
LAPACHHAPI (Hide N Seek)
Dir: Vishal Furia, India, 110 min, 2016, Narrative Feature
Lapachhapi is a haunting story of a young couple based in the heartland of India. The wife Neha (Pooja Sawant) is eight months pregnant when the couple see ... more »
OUSTAZ
Dir: Bentley Brown, Chad, 22 min, 2016, Documentary Short
In 1999, I move with my family from Texas to Chad, where I am introduced to the town Arabic headmaster to begin learning Arabic. At the same time that this ... more »
PUDDLE, THE
Dir: Serdar Yilmaz, Turkey, 9 min, 2015, Experimental
A young man (Mihran Tomasyan) walks in a desolated flea market in a completely head in the clouds mood. He encounters an incarnating object while checking ... more »
Audience Award
BORROWED TIME
Dir: Lou Hamou-Lhadj & Andrew Coats, United States, 7 min, 2015, Animation
A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back ... more »
CREEDMORIA
Dir: Alicia Slimmer, United States, 90 min, 2016, Narrative Feature
Candy injects the "fun" in her dysfunctional life. When your brother is found by a neighbor naked and drunk, you're stuck with a caveman of a boyfriend, yo ... more »
FREEDOM-TO GO!
Dir: Ingrid Nachstern, Ireland, 9 min, 2015, Experimental
Freedom-to go! is a commentary on present day USA, in verse form. It comments on child beauty pageants, war, sex and celebrity culture ... more »
LAST SHIP
Dir: Daniele Ragusa, Italy, 10 min, 2015, Documentary Short
In the same places where "La Terra Trema" by Luchino Visconti (1948) was filmed, the Rodolico family has been building ships for four generations. If yeste ... more »
OFF TRACK BETTY
Dir: Clayton Dean Smith, United States, 19 min, 2015, Narrative Short
In a disappearing corner of New York City, a longtime resident realizes she no longer recognizes the neighborhood that she calls home. Unsure about her fut ... more »
REBOUND, THE
Dir: Shaina Allen, United States, 65 min, 2015, Documentary Feature
Miami is a city known for its sports and diversity. For the Miami Heat Wheels it is a city of opportunity, second chances, and a call to win - against all ... more »