Season 2021

A Great Depression | P. Edward Claypoole | United States

All blood runs red | Paul Mignot | France

All Riders | Victor Dias Rodrigues | United States

AXEL | Levan Uchaneishvili | Georgia

Bi-2 — God of the Jilted | Vladimir Besedin | Russian Federation

Blue Cocoon | Matilda Butler | United Kingdom

Boy Scientist | Susan Lim & Samudra Kajal | Saikia United States

BRIEF STORY | Rick Rocha

C_R_A_M a LO-FI study playlist | Nicolas Szopko | Canada

Companions to the Cosmos | Lottie Brown | United Kingdom

Courage | Nourah Al Hasawi | United States

Coyote | Patrick FitzSymons | United Kingdom

Crossing | Ruslan Bosenko | Russian Federation

Doublespeak | Hazel McKibbin | United States

Father of Storm | Christian B Frederiksen | Denmark

Friends Online | Samantha White | United Kingdom

GET HIM!! | Bill Buckley | United States

Griffica | C.J. Arellano | United States

Hear Me Out | Mathilde Brok Brandi | Denmark

I Am | Jerry Hoffmaann | Germany

In Between Trains | Joshuah Melnick | United States

James | Jeffrey Larson | United States

Kintsugi: Nagasaki | Candice Kumai & Carlos Garcia DeDios | United States

Melody of War | Nadia Kal | Israel

Noize MC — League of Legend | Vitaliy Kapitonov | Russian Federation

Not Here, Nor There | Fletcher Turale | Australia

O_CE_AN | Priscila Guedes | Brazil

PARE | Lauren Sick | United States

Penury | Quentin Sur | France

Pete’s Valve | Katy-May Hudson | United States

Polly | Faramarz Gosheh  Sweden

Raw Talent | Roxane Pardo & Alix Pardo | France

Rosa | Jean-Michel Gervais & Gabriel J. Lemay | Canada

Seasick | Lindsey Ryan | United States

Showdown | Holly Schroeder | United States

Snowball | Jorge Cañada Escorihuela | Spain

Sounding the Alarm ~ America’s Climate Crisis | Peter Goetz | United States

Star Thief | Julia Stella | Australia

Stick O | Doxford D. Perlas | Philippines

Strawberry Fields Forever | Richard Andrews & Tom Andrews | United Kingdom

TANG’O | Bastien Soleil | France

The Confession | Stephen Drury Phillips | United States

The Coppice | Thorsten Gritschke | United Kingdom

The Crow and The Pitcher | Charles Pearce | United States

The Death Of My Father | Lex Kimbrough | United States

The Disturbance Call | Gregory Fisco & Lucas Lopez | United States

The Hidden Harraga | Cara Legg & Javier Castro

The Hostess | Dylan Gee | United States

The Little Death | Christoph Rohner | Austria

The Monkey King | Yingqi Ren | United States

The Root | Sean Alan Stone | United States

The Secret Walls | Anne Charrin, Lise Charrin, Aude Charrin, Jean-Marie Gatin | France

The Way That I Am With You | Marc Cleary | United States

This Land Echoes | Quito Leal | Portugal

This Modern Man Is Beat | Alex Merkin | United States

Vaka | Kelly Moneymaker | New Zealand

26 Seconds | Kelly Galindo | United States 

A Poem by Alba | Yoo Lee | United States

A Pregnant Woman | Ana Carrizales | Canada 

A Stitch in Time | Ben Battersby | Argentina

A Viral Spiral | Steve Cutts | Netherlands 

Afloat | Ève-Chems de Brouwer | France 

Allodium | Severin Eskeland | Norway 

Anacronte | Raúl Koler, Emiliano Sette | Argentina 

Anima | Pany Konstantinidou | United Kingdom 

Another Day | Daniel Topic | United Kingdom 

Any Day | Jose Perdomo III | Dominican Republic 

Aria | Brace Beltempo, Barbara Sirotti | Italy 

Atlântida | Diego Locatelli | Brazil 

Barbie | Jess Gabor | United States 

Barking Orders | Alex Tullo | United States 

Belle-Ile in Acadie | Phil Comeau | Canada 

Beyond – Living inside a mask | Níco Matteis | Brazil 

Birth of a Warrior | Arantxa Hurtado | Sweden 

Blue Country | Jordan Johnson | United States 

Blue Light | Rachael Greenfield | United States

Brother Troll | Gudmund Helmsdal | Faroe Islands 

Bubble | Morgan Powell | United Kingdom 

Bug Bytes | Jill Blue, Justin Thibault | United States 

Candid | Mauricio Herrera Manzur | United States 

Champagne | Christopher Gribbin | United Kingdom 

Chez vous | Martina Riu | France 

Chimera | Christian Wood | United States 

Connection | Gerrison Machado | United States 

Cuddle Buddies | Jordan A. Roman | United States 

Dear Rosa | Gaele Sobott | Australia 

Defiance in the Kingdom of Fake News | Mathias Magnason | United States 

Dogs of Home | Daniela Repas | United States 

Doppelganger | Andrea Banfi | Italy 

Duino | Austin T Vincent | United States 

Essence | Baptiste Chabot | France 

Exile | Gandongying | China 

Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate | Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan | Singapore 

Firefalls | Ariel Neo | France 

Forget Me Not | Courtney LeBlanc, Saige Guevara | United States 

Friday | Hudson Flynn | United States 

Full-Timers | Andrew Bourne | United States 

Glove Story | Arantxa Hurtado | Sweden 

Good Night Mr. Ted | Nicolas Gastón Sole Allgnani | Spain 

Havens | Elena Griggio | Italy 

I am the New Adjani | Khady N’Diaye | France 

I Can See You | Lyanka Gryu | United States 

If Only | John Behring | United States 

Last Dance | United States 

Legend Has It | Lainey Davidson | United States 

Life Cycle | Dmitriy Hanuka | United States 

Lovely | Yared Gebrekidan | Canada 

Mask of the Evil Apparition | Alex Proyas | Australia 

Mayflies | Johannes Veine Wiig | Norway 

Missing Babies | Serbian parents suspect their baby has been stolen and given away for illegal adoption | Mouhssine Ennaimi | Turkey 

My dear corpses | Sander Lebreht | Estonia 

Night After Night | Danfeng Cai | China 

Nomankind | Mehdi Hadi | France 

Nostalgia | McFloyd Nguyen | United States 

Not Today | Mitchell McArdle | Australia 

Obscura | J.H Deakins | United States 

Old Fox | Briana Rayner | Canada 

Olive | Jean- Baptiste Delannoy | France 

People Person | Rymalena | United States 

Pub Kid | Liam Young | United Kingdom 

Recomposed | Jordan Ingram | United States 

Red | Rachel Kong | United States 

Restless | Asger Krøjer Kallesøe | Denmark 

Roots | Pablo Fuentes Fernández | Spain 

Ruby & Roach | Erentia Bedeker | South Africa 

Run | J. Zachary Thurman | United States 

Save Ralph | Spencer Susser | United States 

SÈ “Un viaggio nel subconscio” | Jonathan Redavid | Italy 

Shift | Katie Cleese | United States 

Shift | Cam Swartz | United States 

Short Calf Muscle | Victoria Warmerdam | Netherlands 

Silent Death on a Syrian Journey | Desperate times call for desperate decisions | Mouhssine Ennaimi | Turkey 

Single Handed | Jake Hatt | United Kingdom 

Snorrie (Mustachio) | Victoria Warmerdam | Netherlands 

Solace | Amanda Prifti | United States 

Some Mothers’ Sons | Mbulelo Grootboom, Luntu Masiza, Alexandre Ortscheit | South Africa 

Speaker | Henrik Johansson | Sweden 

St.Marks Place | Richard Allen | United States 

Strange Fruit | Halo | United States 

Syria’s Slaughterhouses | A rare insight into Saydnaya, the most infamous Syria’s prison Mouhssine ENNAIMI | Turkey 

Tag | Ziyi Wang | United States

The Ditch | Kim Saarinen, P.J. Piippo | Finland 

The Elephant Gown | Raheim Robinson | United States 

The Elf Queen: The fateful pact | Arantxa Hurtado | Sweden 

The Flowerpot Monster and the Pinwheel | David Seul | Germany 

The Japanese Illusion | Johan Jan Jonason | Sweden 

The Last Summer | ShiYun Wang | China 

The Last Supper | Michael Risley | United States 

The Last Typewriter Shop in Melbourne | Yauming Chiam | Australia 

The Pie Shop | Tyler Pierreson  |United Kingdom 

The Sound of the Sea | Chiara Schreder | Austria 

The Sun Rises Down Below | Dylan Joseph Schitrit | Israel 

The Time Left | Kevin Boylan | United States 

The Zenosyne Hotel | Darron Savage | Not Specified 

There goes that life | Arantxa Hurtado | Sweden 

To Have A Heart | Simone Quinn | Australia 

Tone | Dan Winters | United States 

Trend | Sean Wever | Canada 

Twohey | Liam Penn | United States 

Ukine-Shima: Island Afloat Asleep | Kaori Yasunaga | Japan 

Unmasking China’s Gestapo | Mathias Magnason | United States 

Viventu | Erik Westerström | Sweden 

Will You Bury Me | Noor Eldine Aboud | Lebanon 

You Must Namasté | Kasra Seyed Alikhani | Sweden

Best Short

The Monkey King | Yingqi Ren | United States

Strawberry Fields Forever | Richard Andrews, Tom Andrews | United Kingdom

Tone | Dan Winters | United States

 

Best Foreign Short

Rosa | Jean-Michel Gervais, Gabriel J. Lemay | Canada

Afloat | Ève-Chems de Brouwer | France

 

Best Documentary Short

All blood runs red | Paul Mignot | France

Missing Babies | Mouhssine Ennaimi | Turkey

Dogs of Home | Daniela Repas | United States

 

Best Animation Short

C_R_A_M a LO-FI study playlist | Nicolas Szopko | Canada

Barking Orders | Alex Tullo | United States

Save Ralph | Spencer Susser | United States

 

Best Experimental Short

The Secret Walls | Anne Charrin, Lise Charrin, Aude Charrin, Jean-Marie Gatin | France

Recomposed | Jordan Ingram | United States

 

Best Student Short

Stick O | Doxford D. Perlas | Philippines

Friday | Hudson Flynn | United States

 

Best Music Video

Bi-2 — God of the Jilted | Vladimir Besedin | Russian Federation

Lovely | Yared Gebrekidan | Canada

 

Best Horror Short

PARE | Lauren Sick | United States

Chimera | Christian Wood | United States

 

Best First Time Filmmaker Short

Crossing | Ruslan Bosenko | Russian Federation

The Last Supper | Michael Risley | United States

 

ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES

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Best Producer

Single Handed | Zander Sharp | United Kingdom

Bigger Than Life | Guja Quaranta | United States

 

Best Female Director

26 Seconds | Kelly Galindo | United States

Short Calf Muscle | Victoria Warmerdam | Netherlands

500 Calories | Cristina Spina | Italy

Corpuscle | Léa Soler | Mexico

 

Best Male Director

Anacronte | Raúl Koler, Emiliano Sette | Argentina

The Secret Dimension | Jia Cheng Wu | China

 

Best Female Student Director

Night After Night | Danfeng Cai | China

La Petite Mort | Nicole Zhou | China

 

Best Male Student Director

Friday | Hudson Flynn | United States

Balthazar and Madalena | Gabriel Colban | Switzerland

Essence | Baptiste Chabot | France

 

Best Actress

Restless | Sarah Boberg | Denmark

Stairs | Joyce Porter | United States

One Of Us | Alexandra Ekelöf | Sweden

 

Best Actor

The Japanese Illusion | Johan Jan Jonason | Sweden

Incognito | Cyron Melville | Denmark

 

Best New Actress/Actor

The Time Left | Charlotte Garin | United States

Peaches | Martha Shaw | United States

 

Best Acting Ensemble

Friday | Jack Clark, Ella Stiller, Oscar Salem, Alexander Coyoc | United States

Five Pounds of Pressure / Ella Grace & Kevin Jollimore & Thomas Durfees / Canada

 

Best Cinematography

Nostalgia | Jacky Shun Man Cheung | United States

We Do This Once | Tim Sessler | United States

 

Best Editing

The Ditch | Kim Saarinen | Finland

The World Is My Stage | Andrew Arrakis | Russian Federation

Spaceship | Mengyao Mia Zhang | United States

 

Best Production Design

The Elf Queen: The fateful pact | Arantxa Hurtado | Sweden

Yellow Jack | Hannah Brady | Australia

 

Best Sound Design

A Pregnant Woman | Dave Chick | Canada

We Do This Once | Michael Marantz | United States

 

Best Original Score

Ruby & Roach | Mart-Marie Snyman & Siobhan Lloyd-Jones | South Africa

Sometimes Dancing | Jose Benjamin Escobar | United States

 

Best Screenwriting

Snorrie (Mustachio) | Victoria Warmerdam | Netherlands

Study Night | Olive McGowen | United States