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Search 2018, films - award winners (26)
Grand Chameleon Award, Best Experimental
BREACH
Dir: Lorenzo Monti, Monaco, 6 min, 2018, Experimental
After going through a breakup, experimental musician Isra struggles to compose. Her inner emotional chaos seems to be taking over her creativity. In order ... more »
Best Narrative Feature
NOSOTROS
Dir: Felipe Vara de Rey, Spain, 93 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
A generational portrait of Spain's youth in a time of crisis, "Nosotros" follows a group of five friends during the weekend of the Spanish presidential ele ... more »
Best Documentary
AFGHAN CYCLES
Dir: Sarah Menzies, United States, 90 min, 2018, Documentary Feature
A new generation of young women in Afghanistan are breaking deep-seated gender taboos by learning to ride bicycles, normalizing the visibility of women in ... more »
Best Short Documentary
GIVE
Dir: David De Rozas, United States, 16 min, 2018, Documentary Short
After decades of building an alternative visual narrative for the black community, a senior Reverend seeks to preserve its monumental legacy before his imp ... more »
Best Narrative Short
COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO
Dir: Reema Sengupta, India, 15 min, 2017, Narrative Short
In a country where marital rape is not a legal crime, it took a lot for Smita to escape an abusive marriage. She lives in a one room apartment in Mumbai, e ... more »
Best Animation
LA MORT, PÈRE & FILS
Dir: Paronnaud Vincent, Waltgenwitz Denis, France, 13 min, 2017, Animation
The Death' son doesn't want to take back the family business. He has the secret dream to become a guardian angel, this will trigger a succession of collaps ... more »
Best New Director
BROTHERS
Dir: Bram Schouw, Netherlands, 106 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
Lukas and Alexander, brothers, are opposites, but they have a very strong bond. Lukas is quite shy and looks up to his high-spirited older brother, and fol ... more »
Best Producer
TOMMY BATTLES THE SILVER SEA DRAGON
Dir: Luke Shirock, United States, 110 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
When a man finds himself on trial in a courtroom haunted by his own demons, he must reckon with the guilt of his mother's death before it destroys him and ... more »
Best Screenplay
BIOPHILIA
Dir: Marina Michelson, United States, 11 min, 2017, Narrative Short
When an animal dies under her watch, an isolated new farmer is pushed to prove her worth. ... more »
Best Cinematography
FAITH
Dir: Tatiana Fedorovskaya, Russia, 15 min, 2017, Narrative Short
An old widower, a former radio operator, perceives the flashing bulb as his late wife's messages. The love of his life will never die, even when the lights ... more »
Best Editing, Best Actor Male
PRISON LOGIC
Dir: Romany Malco, United States, 91 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
Prison Logic is a comedic tale of a stubborn ex-convict with dreams of becoming a world renowned motivational speaker. Two things stand in his way: his no ... more »
Best Style
BIRDS WITHOUT FEATHERS
Dir: Wendy McColm, United States, 92 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
Desperate for human interaction, six emotionally damaged individuals risk self respect, shedding their disillusionment in a last grasp for happiness. A cru ... more »
Best Original Score, Audience Award
ARE YOU GLAD I'M HERE
Dir: Noor Fay Gharzeddine, Lebanon, 85 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
A Lebanese woman and an American girl become friends and accidental partners-in-crime in a story that explores the nature of happiness and self-actualizati ... more »
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Best Actor Female
CAN HITLER HAPPEN HERE?
Dir: Saskia Rifkin, United States, 74 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
In a cinematic landscape in which there are few leading roles for women over 50, let alone 60, Saskia Rifkin's directorial debut "Can Hitler Happen Here?" ... more »
Spirit Award
BONOBO
Dir: Zoel Aeschbacher, Switzerland, 16 min, 2018, Narrative Short
When the elevator of their public housing breaks down, the fates of Felix, a disabled pensioner, Ana, a single mother struggling with her move and Seydou, ... more »
CRISANTO STREET
Dir: Paloma Martinez, United States, 12 min, 2017, Documentary Short
In the shadow of Silicon Valley, a hidden community thrives despite difficult circumstances. For one resident, eight-year-old Geovany Cesario, impending ch ... more »
GENESIS
Dir: Abtin Mozafari, Iran, 10 min, 2017, Experimental
A fantasy short film with a critical point of view about the horrible situation in Syria. "this is the first episode of my episodic film and I'm going to m ... more »
ICE CREAM
Dir: Saba Riazi, Iran, 63 min, 2017, Narrative Feature
Maryam, a 30 year old woman in Tehran, having lost her job and apartment, is forced to move in with her grandmother. She is trying hard to make things work ... more »
LES ANIMAUX DOMESTIQUES
Dir: Jean Lecointre, France, 22 min, 1970, Animation
Mr and Ms Archibald adopt by turns a dog, a cat, a fly, a toad and a moth... But they do not know anything about animals... ... more »
STREET FIGHTING MEN
Dir: Andrew James, United States, 110 min, 2017, Documentary Feature
In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight to buil ... more »
Audience Award
CASUALTIES
Dir: Holly Voges, United States, 11 min, 2018, Narrative Short
CASUALTIES is the story of James, a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD. Haunted by the trauma of the past, he struggles to know what is real in the presen ... more »
DAVID'S VOICE
Dir: Graham Hill, United States, 14 min, 2018, Documentary Short
David Worobec is a classically trained vocalist who performs musical theater on miniature stages. Not content to play merely one character, he sings and pe ... more »
DUPPY
Dir: Justin Morris, United States, 10 min, 2018, Experimental
Left to his own devices, a teenager confronts the formidable adversary plaguing his reality. ... more »
HI-FIVE THE CACTUS
Dir: Christopher Thomas, United States, 9 min, 2018, Animation
A small desert town suffers a devastatingly-disastrous-drought.There only hope is an old-cactus, for whom this story is about.His selfless-sacrifice could ... more »
MY NAME IS PEDRO
Dir: Lillian LaSalle, United States, 96 min, 2017, Documentary Feature
This film explores what public education meant to South Bronx Latino maverick educator, Pedro Santana, and what he, in turn, meant to public education. In ... more »
Best Brooklyn Project
ONE BEDROOM
Dir: Darien Sills-evans, United States, 83 min, 2018, Narrative Feature
Breaking up is easy. Moving out is hard. After five years of ups and downs, an African American 30-something couple in a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood ... more »