Best Director

MY BEAUTIFUL DOLL, Director HESAM DEHGHANI

For a film that reminds us of One Thousand and One Nights, in which the viewer sees a series of stories created by the bride, their goal being to cancel an arranged marriage.

 

Best Picture

The best picture

 Parade/PARADES

Director ALAN LAKE

 Director of Photography FRANCOIS GAMACHE

The Best Picture Award goes to PARADES  for the extraordinary way in which the image: sets, costumes, scenography and dance, manage to convey emotions in a film without words.

Best Editing

 Apele/THE WATERS, Director S.C. TELES

Montage JULIA R. DE HARO

Best Editing award goes to THE WATERS for a tribute film, in which the editing, done very well, combines images from the past memories with images from the present, the binder of the two being the sea water.

 

Best Soundtrack

THE DELAY,

Director MATTIA NAPOLI,

Sound designer ALESSANDRO FUSAROLI

THE BEST SOUNDTRACK AWARD goes to a film without dialogue, for the mastery of sound overlays.

This film proves to us the cinematic language is universal and a story can be told without any words.

 

Best Script

Evil/ELS MAL, Director DAVID MATARÓ

Script NATALIA VICENTE

A film that looks like an interview, in which a story spanning several hundred years is told with maximum accuracy, and the viewer’s empathy is achieved despite filming in a single space.

 

The Jury Award

Strategy/THE RUSE, Director JOHANNE PRÉGENT

For a film that proposes alliances and  friendship as a solution in a crisis situation, for the way it makes us understand the multitude of causes of bullying in school.

 

Persona Association Award

THE LAST RHINO, Director GUILLAUME HARVEY

For an exclamation point film about our way of life and how humanity can influence life on earth.

 

Best Student Film

OTHERS REMAINED SILENT, Director MATIC ŠTAMCAR

For a student film that follows with a lot of maturity a topic that seems to belong to the adult world – domestic violence.

 

Best Animation

OVO, Director STIV SPASOJEVIC

Because it proves to us that life, care and love are attributes of the entire universe.

 

Best Documentary

WITH MY THOUGHTS ON THE SEA, Director FABIANA FRAGALE

For a documentary that makes us understand the evolution (or involution?) of the way we carry out our daily activities over time.

 

ClujShorts Trophy

HUMORMÀTIC, Director PAU ESCRIBANO

For a comedy that has as its central point a hot topic of the moment, the artificial intelligence and exposes multiple points of view regarding the use of AI.

 

The Audience Award

GRAND VITARA, Director DANI SĂRĂCUȚ

The Press Award

THE MIDDLE OF THE GARAGE, Director LISA BOLDUC