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AWARDED FILMS BY CATEGORIES:

Special Prize to the Best Short Film

I LUV HALLOWEEN
by VICTOR WONG, EDDIE WONG AND STEVEN CALCOTE
Five trick-or-treaters risk eternal damnation if they can't fill their candy bags by sunrise.
Special Prize to the Best Short Film

Short Film Festival Direction Award

VIVA SUNITA
by AMITABH SINHA & LOLITA SARKAR
A man steps off the kerb, looks up & shouts a name. This could happen anywhere...
Awarded Category: Best Direction

Short Film Festival Screenplay Award

O BRILHO DOS MEUS OLHOS
by ALLAN RIBEIRO
Everyone has a cherished dream, no matter what station they hold in life. For one construction worker, a special secret passion gives meaning to his daily routine.
Awarded Category: Best Screenplay

Short Film Festival Realization Award

NICO & TINA
by RODOLFO PASTOR
Nico and Tina, both hardened chain-smokers, dress up for their lover's meeting, but their dependence upon nicotine turns their encounter into a nightmare.
Awarded Category: Integral Realization

Short Film Festival Actress Award

FADING AWAY
by FABIAN GIESSLER
The life of the old married couple Herbert and Martha. The film shows Martha's gradual retreat into dementia, where reality and imagination seem to overlap and Herbert's desperation about his wife's condition and their future together.
Actress Performance: Liane Dusterhoft

Short Film Festival Actor Award

AATON
by STEFAN ALEXANDER VILNER
A very long time ago, when the struggle for survival determined the daily life of humans, by accident, and because of elementary needs, the stoneage man Aaton invents a first form of artistic skill.
Actor Performance: Emanuele Peters

Short Film Festival Art Award

THE SOLUTION
by JAN-EJE FERLING
Some houses in the city shall be rebuilt into luxury departments. The new, young owner has inherited the estate company from his insensitive and now dead father.
Awarded Category: Art Direction, Mirjam Vöhrmann

Short Film Festival Edition Award

VALZER IN FOUR TIMES
by SABRINA BONAITI
More than one Century is narrated by historical images. Four generations passed through the suggestion of cinema from Lumieres to now.
Awarded Category: Editing

Short Film Festival Photography Award

JOY RIDE
by MANISHA ISSRANI MISRA
The circle of life grabs them in... showing them a hope that some day their dreams will be fulfilled. Happy screams and moments of delight make them go round and round everyday. And give them the thrill to try their luck with life again.
Awarded Category: Photography

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

Special Mention

BOARD OF DEATH
by ALASTAIR FERRAN
When a scientist returns from the jungles with a new leap in pharmaceutical medicine, he is hunted by those who will stop at nothing to get their hands on it.

Special Mention

GROWING UP
by TOM DAVIES
This is the story of three teen-age boys who go on a camping trip for the first alone and how because of things that happen to them on the trip must grow up and become men overnight.

Special Mention

UNINVITED
by SHAUNE HARRISON
An uninvited guest pushes one man over the edge and another man to see his life more clearly.
 

OFFICIAL SELECTION
by alphabetical order:

1 HIT WONDER by GIL O'BRIEN
92-93 SEASON by ALEJANDRO MARZOA
A ROAD IN MY LIFE by MOHAMED ALI and ROB MITCHELL
AATON by STEFAN ALEXANDER VILNER
ABOVE BROADWAY by BRAD HEIKES
ACOUSTIC SPACE by ANTHONY MARINELLI
APRIL IN JULY by JOEL PRONT
BLACK LANDS by CLEMENT GHARINI
BOARD OF DEATH by ALASTAIR FERRAN
CAIDA by ROBERTO GERARDO NINO DE RIVERA GUERRERO
COFFEE TALK by JANELLE BROWN
CRYING IN THE DARK by B. PRASANNA
DIE UNMOGLICHE LIEBE by JAN DIRK PEEREBOOM VOLLER
EMBRACE by HILLMAN CURTIS
FADING AWAY by FABIAN GIESSLER
FROM THE HEART TO THE HEART by ILARIA GODANI
GROWING UP by TOM DAVIES
HITHERTO by STEFANOS SITARAS
I LUV HALLOWEEN by VICTOR WONG, EDDIE WONG and STEVEN CALCOTE
INVASION by FERNANDO VAZQUEZ
JOY RIDE by MANISHA ISSRANI MISRA
JUST LIKE YOU IMAGINED by BLADE IN HEAVEN
LEDA BEYOND HER ART by DANIELA GONTIJO
LESSON IN HUMILITY by THOMAS ZINSLI
LIFESAVER by MATTHEW BENTLEY
LUNAR by GLENN TRIGGS
NICO & TINA by RODOLFO PASTOR
NOT YOUR DAY by MATTHEW BASILE
O BRILHO DOS MEUS OLHOS by ALLAN RIBEIRO
OFTALMOS by PEDRO JAEN R.
PEACE IN OUR TIME by RICH DEVANEY
POR UNOS PESOS by ENRIQUE QUINTANILLA
POWER FOR ALL by SATYA VIVVEK
REPUGNANT by MARTIN and MICHAEL VREDE NIELSEN
S'EMBRASSER EN FRANCAIS by MARIO CEOLLO
SNARE by JOSHUA WEIGEL
SURYA by L.N.MASADE
TALKING DEAD, SILENT LIVING by MARIA JOSE RUIZ
THE ASSASSIN by KAMAL B. YADAV
THE MYSTIQUE by NANCY MITCHELL
THE NOTE by JON GREENHALGH
THE ORDER by JOHN PHALEN
THE ROAD by OWEN THOMAS
THE SOLUTION, JAN-EJE FERLING
THE STUDY by JON WEAN
THE TASTE OF AN APPLE by KARIM ABBANY
THREE PEOPLE by MOHAMMAD NAZARIZADEH
TRACING A SHADOW by MAHESH MANOHAR
TWO BROTHERS by TODD NUNES
TWO-FACE by VICKIE MALIAGROS
UNINVITED by SHAUNE HARRISON
VALZER IN FOUR TIMES, SABRINA BONAITI
VENICE BEACH IN THE SIXTIES-A CELEBRATION OF CREATIVITY by LELAND AUSLENDER
VERGUENZA by JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ LINARES
VIVA SUNITA by AMITABH SINHA and LOLITA SARKAR

The selection was made among more than two hundred registered movies.

 

 

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Results of the 2010 edition will be announced on April 30th, 2010
Some of the films submitted for selection:
 
JARDIN KENNEDY by Raphael Gianelli-Meriano
Ursula and Spore 2.3 by Carl W. Jones
Mode d'emploi by Angela Romboni
Incident on Drive Street Lane by KC Coker
Pride of the Tribe by Richard DiLallo
The Restaurant by Ricky Gioiello
Rearview by Justin Schrote
I put my Heart into this Film by Lawrence Mallinson
A MORAL MAN? AMONGST PARADOXICAL LEADERS by Stefan Lysenko
Quippe Dance by Alberto Nacci 
AN EXPRESSION by Subhash Kapoor
Dream by James Robert Brasic
Out Any Window by Charles Woods Gray
Merry Christmas by Marc Ryan
THE JAIL by abhijit das gupta

 

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