Winners
18th edition/Announced on December, 2023
Best Narrative Feature
PASSACAGLIA
Director: Ryosuke Handa
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Best Documentary Feature
Balkancisco
Director: Tugrul Sarikaya
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Best Narrative Short
for sale
Director: Yongseop Lee
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Best Documentary Short
Migrating Textile
Director: Khatia Maglakelidze
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Best Indie Feature Film
ALONE TIME
Director: Gene Blalock
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Best Indie Short Film
Psyche Abandoned
Director: Jane Thorburn
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Best Director
Stephen Sorrentino
AMENDS OF THE FATHER
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Best Producer
Judy Mary Jackson
Where Can We Live In Peace?
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Best Cinematographer
Marius Van Graan
I am Kanaka
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Best Composer
Ernst Reijseger
Yam Yabasha
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Best Actress
Lidia Vitale
Judgement
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Best Actor
Luke Rex
Bonding
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Best Student Film
Summer Wind
Director: Xueyi Yang
Best Comedy
The Bench
Director: Sarah Smith
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Best Sci-Fi
The sounds of light
Director: Adam Jones
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Best Web-Series-Pilot
Silent Partners
Director: Jorge “Jokes” Yanes
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Best Animation
Hinter-Land
Director: Christopher Angus
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Best Experimental
LIND FAITH: Moments of Missed Understanding
Director: Robert Scott MacLeay
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Best Music Video
"Honey" Music Video
Director Brian Brodeur
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Best Thriller
Judgement
Director: Ippolito Toto Simion
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Best First Time Filmmaker
MEANS TO AN END
Director TANYA M. WHEELER
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Best Female Filmmaker
LAILA NADENE
Director: Caroline Baggaley
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Honorable Mention Female Director
LAMENTO
Director: Binha Haase
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Best Feature Screenplay
"Ban the Bullet"
Salvatore Riggio
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Best Short Screenplay
Magnificence & Stone
Michael angel Johnson