OFFICIAL SELECTION
2018
![]() Death of Albine‘Death of Albine’ is a collaborative film project between award-winning film director Mike Sharpe and British Installation Artist Rebecca Louise Law, inspired by elements of the French novel ‘The Sinful Priest’, by Emile Zola. | ||||||||||
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![]() The SoilThe Soil - A family has left everything to return to the mountains, to find peace. The father explains to his children how their life was. But have they actually lived it? | ![]() Celebrate Eileen!Celebrate Eileen! - Trapped in the wrong body, Eileen wants to finally start living her life as a girl tomorrow. But today her best friend Ella throws a good-bye party for Eileen's old self Leon. The party turns into desaster when no one shows up. The two friends decide to confront the guests who didn't show and dive into an absurd odyssey thru town that changes everything. | ![]() Give Me Your HandGive Me Your Hand - A young girl who has to deal with the upcoming loss of her mother, goes through her mother's sinking body. | ![]() The TicketThe Ticket - We follow the course of a ticket for Public Transportation as it passes from hand to hand. Each person that holds the ticket carries his own story and a social problem as well. A social recording of the Greek crisis. | ![]() Notes From DunblaneNotes From Dublane - Following the Sandy Hook Massacre, a priest from Dunblane, Scotland reaches out to Father Bob offering support 16 years after a school shooting in his own town. The men bond over personal trauma and responsibilities ... In the aftermath the UK reformed its gun laws; the US responded with inaction. | ![]() Shalim GoodbyeShalim Goodbye - In order not to win it to his son who considers him a solitary scurvy, an old man from the Romagna country assumes a Moroccan Shalim as worker. | ![]() City of My HeartCityu of My Heart - A personal glimpse into Madrid, an experimental urban cityscape, an ode to life through a dance. | ![]() Level4Level 4 - Two first-time criminals find themselves out of luck when their getaway vehicle is clamped up in a multi-storey car park. | ![]() Clayton's Last BreathClayton's Last Breath - Clayton is keeping himself alive with a machine, so that his baby, can grow up and take care of itself. One day, Clayton is forced to leave his vital machine. | ![]() hashtagwill#will - 15 year old William doesn’t feel much support from his friends when he tries to fight against harassments and bullying around him. Like many video bloggers, he suffers from hatred, but he also has the battle against his own demons to deal with. One weekend he gets permission to use the school auditorium alone to record a video but strange events start to occur. Someone is also threatening him... | ![]() Kids of ChaosKids of Chaos - Girl athletes from the Down Syndrome Association of Greece, recreate through movement a sort of a Big Bang, dispersing into space they eventually come together to form a planetary system. Their perpetual motion/dance gives birth to IOTAPHI, the band. |
NOMINATIONS
2018
Best Short Film
Celebrate Eileen!
Shalim Goodbye
Ginger
🏆The Ticket
The Oak Tree
Best Short Documentary
🏆Notes From Dunblane - Lessons from a school shooting
Abandoned Land
John Hemmer and the Showgirls
The Soil
The Road to Nickelsville
Best Short Drama
The Son, The Father ...
🏆 hashtagwill
Monomanias: Philicide
Best Short Comedy
🏆 Level 4
Holiday Hostage
Wishful Thinking
Best Short Experimental
The Wire
🏆 APEX
Best Foreign Short
🏆Shalim Goodbye
Celebrate Eileen!
Best Animated Short
🏆 Clayton's Last Breath
The Sky Underwater
Give Me Your Hand
Best Music Video
🏆 Kids of Chaos
Sheila's Boy
Best Directing
Monomanias: Philicide
Level 4
🏆 Celebrate Eileen!
Best Cinematography
🏆 REMISSION
hashtagwill
Best Music Score
🏆 Death of Albine
Wishful Thinking
Celebrate Eileen!
Best Editing
🏆 City of my heart
Level 4
Best Writing
CASUAL
🏆Dry Land