Monthly Selection – January 2018
FILMS OF THE MONTH – JANUARY 2018
CATEGORY: NARRATIVE FEATURE
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Octave by Serge Ioan Celebidachi(Romania)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Age Of Imitation by Mark Day (Australia)
FINALIST
The Portrait by Christophe Leclaire (France)
CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY FILMS
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
The Disappearance of Sombath Somphone by Ran Quinn (Laos)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Devadasi_NOW by Indrani Nayar-Gall (USA)
FINALISTS
Black ANZAC by Tim Anastasi (Australia)
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Follow the White Rabbit by Mohammad Hossain Soltani (Iran)
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Life is What You Make It by Jhett Tolentino (USA)
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Roadways to change - A road for Kargyak VA by Jean-Michel Corillion and Isabelle Coulon (France)
CATEGORY: SHORT FILMS
BEST SHORT FILM
Tell Him by Virginia Bach (France)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Henningsson! by Lina Engborg(Sweden)
FINALISTS
Sinam (Anger) by Anandmurthy (India)
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The Ribbon on the Kite by Gianlorenzo Albertini (USA)
SEMI-FINALISTS
Aayudham (Weapon) by Sreedhar Rao (India)
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Cookie Heart by Xiuzhi Dong (USA)
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Kafka & I by Vivek Kumar (India)
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Karma by Arshia Zeinali (Iran)
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Mist by Abhishek Dhandharia (India)
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Onze by K.M. Gaskin (Australia)
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Slowplay by Thomas Gailhard (France)
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Starchild by Terence-Hari Fernandes (India)
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The Last Question by Soumadeep Sen (India)
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There Lies Another World by Nina Najjar (USA)
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Time Speech by Fabio Medeiros and Rebeca Casagrande (Brazil)
CATEGORY: BEST DIRECTOR
Gianlorenzo Albertini for The Ribbon on the Kite (USA)
CATEGORY: BEST ACTOR
Christian Bulich for To Feel Human II (USA)
CATEGORY: BEST ACTRESS
SaiDhanshika for Sinam (Anger) (India)
CATEGORY: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Malcolm Conrath for Slowplay (France)
CATEGORY: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Bidita Baag for Sinam (Anger) (India)
CATEGORY: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Saravanan Natarajan for Sinam (Anger) (India)
CATEGORY: BEST EDITING
Anandmurthy for Sinam (Anger) (India)
CATEGORY: BEST SOUND DESIGNING
Sampath Alwar MPSE for Sinam (Anger) (India)
CATEGORY: DEBUT FILMMAKER
BEST DEBUT FILMMAKER
(A)neethi by Sriram KanchanaThangaraj (India)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Things We've Seen by Tre Manchester (USA)
FINALISTS
Baby Frankenstein by Jon YonKondy (USA)
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Devadasi_NOW by Indrani Nayar-Gall (USA)
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Fucking My Way Back Home by Shawn Whitney and Kathryn Palmateer (Canada)
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Masks of Desire by Jesse Vinton (USA)
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Mortimer's search for Mr. Fluffy Furr by Ian Martin (USA)
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Peter's Odyssey by Anna Kolchina and Alexey Kuzmin-Tarasov (Russia)
CATEGORY: STUDENT FILMS
BEST STUDENT FILM
(A)neethi by Sriram KanchanaThangaraj (India)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Wrestling Dreams by Eveliina Pasanen (Finland)
FINALISTS
Chinna by Vishnu Vardhan Babu Ponna (India)
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Cyborg Odyssey by Morgan Jones (USA)
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Mortimer's search for Mr. Fluffy Furr by Ian Martin (USA)
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Refraction by Daniil Demidov (Russia)
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Y by Gina Wenzel (Germany)
SEMI-FINALISTS
Sarah by Sylaz Ud'ee and Sammy Moet (USA)
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Viral Blood by Corey Householder (USA)
CATEGORY: YOUNG FILMMAKER (UNDER 18)
BEST YOUNG FILMMAKER
House Detention by Dominik Saal (Germany)
CATEGORY: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Three Sights and a Sea by Mahdiye Sandiyani (Iran)
FINALISTS
Cyborg Odyssey by Morgan Jones (USA)
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Sinam (Anger) by Anandmurthy (India)
CATEGORY: SILENT FILMS
BEST SILENT FILM
N by Iacopo Di Girolamo (UK)
CATEGORY: ONE MINUTE FILMS
BEST ONE MINUTE FILM
The Holiday Shopper by Karunakaran TK (Canada)
FINALIST
Shadows by Rafael de Carvalho (Brazil)
CATEGORY: FILMS ON WOMEN
BEST FILM ON WOMEN
Sinam (Anger) by Anandmurthy (India)
CATEGORY: LGBT FILMS
BEST LGBT FILM
The Carmilla Movie by Spencer Maybee (Canada)
CATEGORY: FILMS ON RELIGION
BEST FILM ON RELIGION
Perspective by Adinath Kothare (India)
FINALISTS
The Ghost of Tacande by Antonio Manuel Fernandez Lorenzo (Spain)
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Our Lady of Altagracia by Abinadab Alberto (Dominican Republic)
CATEGORY: ANIMATED FILMS
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Knight Kris by Antonius Li (Indonesia)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Unknown Sweet Potato Seller by Roshdy Ahmed (Egypt)
FINALISTS
Not On The Menu by Fiona Percival (Australia)
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Pensioners Chips Episode 5 US Presidential Campaign by Joachim Weber (Germany)
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Freak The Fxxk Out 2.0 by Kanso Ogbolu (Nigeria)
CATEGORY: FAMILY / CHILDREN FILMS
BEST FAMILY / CHILDREN FILM
Mortimer's search for Mr. Fluffy Furr by Ian Martin (USA)
CATEGORY: FILMS ON NATURE / ENVIRONMENT / WILDLIFE
BEST FILM ON NATURE / ENVIRONMENT / WILDLIFE
Araucaria Araucana by Rémi Rappe and Santiago Serrano (France)
CATEGORY: TRAVEL FILMS
BEST TRAVEL FILM
Overland: Islam Roads by Filippo Tenti and Giuseppe Tenti (Italy)
CATEGORY: MUSIC VIDEOS
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
We're All Mad Here - Marquis Of Vaudeville by Toby Lawhon, Geneva Arena and David Antunes (USA)
CATEGORY: FILM SCORE / SOUNDTRACK
BEST FILM SCORE / SOUNDTRACK
The Mirror by Petros Niamonitakis (Greece)
CATEGORY: TRAILER / TEASER
BEST TRAILER / TEASER
Love in Kilnerry (Trailer #2) by Daniel Keith (USA)
FINALIST
The Uncanny Theory by Luiz Fernando Rohenkohl (Brazil)
CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHY
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Black Iced Nature by Josephine Kilger (Germany)
CATEGORY: FEATURE SCRIPTS
BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
Moonracer by Jess Thind (Canada)
CATEGORY: TREATMENT / SYNOPSIS
BEST TREATMENT / SYNOPSIS
Real Love by Robert L Butler Jr (USA)
