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Nominated for Best Short Film Directed by Jasmin Tenucci 16' • Brazil • 2021 As the Amazon burns for the seventeenth day, a nurse in Sao Paulo finds herself drawn to a neo-Pentecostal church.
Nominated for Best Short Comedy Directed by Sam Rudykoff 6' • Canada • 2021 We’ve all received scam phone calls, but what about the person making the calls? Cruise is a dark workplace satire about a hapless telemarketer trying mightily to give away a free cruise. And if he fails, there will be dire consequences.
Nominated for Best Short Documentary Directed by Arturo Dueñas Herrero 15' • Spain • 2020 Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.
Nominated for Best Greek Production Directed by Anastasia Papadopoulou 4' • Greece • 2021 Four people and the time they spend in an elevator. Inspired by everyday life and by the difference in people's behavior when they are alone, in contrast to the socially acceptable behavior that individuals adopt when in public space and especially in the confined and always awkward setting of an elevator.
Nominated for Best Greek Production Directed by Vania Turner & Maria Sidiropoulou 30' • Greece • 2021 Three teenage girls find refuge in their friendship as they struggle with gender expectations, eating disorders and an addiction to social media amid a long, emotionally stifling quarantine in Greece. "Girlhood" follows Vera, Christina and Nefeli, three seventeen-year-old girls in Athens who come of age during the pandemic.
Nominated for Best Short Film Directed by Lewis Rose 20' • United Kingdom • 2021 How would you react if your father's last wish was to send his ashes to a - very - eccentric place? For siblings Roz and Elli, there is no consensus on the answer.
Nominated for Best Short Comedy Directed by Santtu Salminen 19' • Finland • 2021 A middle-aged man on the verge of a burnout seeks new energy through a very special form of self help therapy.
Nominated for Best Short Film Directed by Nash Edgerton 14' • Australia • 2021 Completing the trilogy of wickedly dark comedy shorts that began with Spider and Bear, Nash Edgerton finds a perfect match in Rose Byrne as Sofie, a woman who loves pranks just as much as Jack, Edgerton’s onscreen alter ego. Alas, the couple’s quest to outdo each other may lead to the most outrageous calamity of all.
Nominated for Best Directing Directed by Victoria Warmerdam 12' • Netherlands • 2021 Absurd tragicomedy about thirty-something Freek, who is reuniting with his imaginary friend from the past, who is looking for closure.
Nominated for Best Music Video Directed by Lingxi Zhang & Tom Chegaray 3' • France • 2021 It’s a normal day of a normal family in this normal, repetitive, boring pandemic time, while objects take revenge as a consequence of their overconsumption...We're gonna stop it right now!
Nominated for Best Greek Production Directed by Christos Adrianopoulos 18' • Greece • 2020 This film is an experimental documentary exploring the directors memories and Astoria before and during the corona virus. The main character is a 73 year old man named Iason. Iason has experienced a painful past, and he is trying to connect his life with the one that Jason from Greek mythology had. Just like Iason, Astoria acts in the same way.
Nominated for Best Animated Short Directed by David Rocco Facchini 8' • United States • 2020 With bathing suit season just around the corner, Steve needs to put his sweet-tooth for cookies in check! But when an ambitious Cookie Scout darkens his doorway, dead-set on the sale, it becomes the ultimate battle of the bulge!
Nominated for Best Editing Directed by Arti Savchenko 22' • Israel • 2020 Vlada is a pizza delivery girl who lives in Haifa and dreams of becoming a famous DJ. Within a five-hour shift, we get a glimpse into her world full of pressure where she's willing to do whatever it takes to find the money for a flight to perform at a festival in London.