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Search 2012, films - award winners (22)
Grand Chameleon Award, Best Documentary
DEAR MANDELA
Dir: Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, South Africa, 90 min, 2012, Documentary Feature
When the South African government promises to 'eradicate the slums' and begins to evict shack dwellers far outside the city, three friends who live in Durb ... more »
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Best Narrative Feature
OLD DOG
Dir: Pema Tseden, China, 88 min, 2011, Narrative Feature
A Tibetan sheep herder sells his father's prized Tibetan mastiff to a dealer without his father's approval. When his father finds out, he must travel into ... more »
Best Narrative Short
CHEAP EXTERMINATION
Dir: Minka Farthing-kohl, United States, 9 min, 2011, Narrative Short
For Ernst, the perfect disguise was to play himself. ... more »
Best Animation
MAKING OF LONGBIRD, THE
Dir: Will Anderson, Scotland, 15 min, 2011, Animation
An animator/filmmaker attempts to make its mysteriously long character relevant in the modern world. An extreme close-up 'behind-the-scenes' look as this ... more »
Best Experimental
MOVE
Dir: John Graham, Canada, 7 min, 2011, Experimental
MOVE depicts the surreal dream life of a young comatose man, and how it attempts to guide him to consciousness. Although he seems to be disconnected from l ... more »
Best New Director
BROOKLYN CASTLE
Dir: Katie Dellamaggiore, United States, 101 min, 2012, Documentary Feature
Intermediate School 318 is an inner-city school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where more than 65 percent of the students are from homes with incomes below the ... more »
Best Producer, Best Actor Female
PERCIVAL'S BIG NIGHT
Dir: William Sullivan, United States, 85 min, 2011, Narrative Feature
PERCIVAL'S BIG NIGHT is 87 minutes of real time in the life of Percival and Salvatore's Brooklyn bedlam universe. The film unfolds in one single shot as th ... more »
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Best Screenplay
I AM NASRINE
Dir: Tina Gharavi, England, 86 min, 2012, Narrative Feature
Nasrine and Ali are sister and brother in a comfortable middle class Iranian home, but when Nasrine has a run-in with the authorities, the punishment is ... more »
Best Cinematography
ROSE
Dir: Wojtek Smarzowski, Poland, 94 min, 2011, Narrative Feature
Summer, 1945. Right after the end of World War II. Tadeusz, a Polish soldier whom the war has deprived of everything, arrives in Masuria, a German territor ... more »
Best Editing
CAT SCRATCH FEVER
Dir: Lisa Duva, United States, 73 min, 2011, Narrative Feature
CAT SCRATCH FEVER is a madcap caper following two young women's adventures in alternate realities. Lisa and Ashley, roommates and best friends forever, di ... more »
Best Original Score
LAST KIND WORDS
Dir: Kevin Barker, United States, 87 min, 2012, Narrative Feature
A modern day Southern Gothic ghost story set in the farmland of Kentucky, "Last Kind Words" tells the story of 17-year old Eli, who moves with his family t ... more »
Best Actor Male
FRAY
Dir: Geoff Ryan, United States, 95 min, 2012, Narrative Feature
Just back from combat, a young U.S. Marine veteran - burdened by the physical and emotional scars of war - faces a new battle to find purpose in the mundan ... more »
Spirit Award
[S]COMPARSE
Dir: Antonio Tibaldi, Italy, 62 min, 2011, Documentary Feature
On a small, isolated island between Sicily and Africa, a film crew lands to shoot a large-scale feature film. The filmmaker and his entourage settle on the ... more »
GEORGE THE HEDGEHOG
Dir: Wojtek Wawszczyk, Jakub Tarkowski, Tomasz Lesniak, Poland, 80 min, 2011, Narrative Feature
George is a hedgehog who knows what he likes: drinking beer, skateboarding, and having sex with married women. Unfortunately, his freewheeling lifestyle is ... more »
PIGEON KICKER
Dir: Daniel Long, United States, 18 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Two teens battle emotional issues and physical abuse as their lifelong friendship is tested when one of the boys begins seeing a therapist. ... more »
PLACES OTHER PEOPLE HAVE LIVED
Dir: Laura Yilmaz, United States, 6 min, 2011, Experimental
a mixed media exploration of the relationship between memory and place, as examined through the sale of a childhood home. Using old photographs, recorded i ... more »
WE, THE MASSES
Dir: Eoghan Kidney, Ireland, 14 min, 2011, Animation
In a barren snowy landscape a man falls to the ground. Searching tocontinue his fall, he discovers other men. He joins them, hoping they willlead him to hi ... more »
Audience Award
GUT RENOVATION
Dir: Su Friedrich, United States, 81 min, 2012, Documentary Feature
"Gut Renovation" is Su Friedrich's epic personal essay film charting the destruction of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After living in the neighborhood for 20 yea ... more »
MY BROOKLYN
Dir: Kelly Anderson, United States, 80 min, 2012, Documentary Feature
"My Brooklyn" documents the dramatic transformation of Downtown Brooklyn and the Fulton Street Mall, where government policies and corporate development jo ... more »
NANI
Dir: Justin Tipping, United States, 20 min, 2011, Narrative Short
Oscar got caught spraying graffiti. Now doing community service at a nursing home, he meets Isabel who is suffering from dementia. At 84 years, Isabel may ... more »
OLD MAN
Dir: Leah Shore, United States, 6 min, 2012, Animation
For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations b ... more »
SEA PAVILION
Dir: Marysia Makowska & Todd Somodevilla, South Africa, 10 min, 2012, Experimental
An innocent picnic turns surreal when curiosity leads to the uncovering of secrets hidden in the decrepit yet beautiful ruins of a seaside pavilion. Filmed ... more »