WINNER

Directed by Antoni Nykowski



Runtime: 27 minutes 30 seconds

Release Date: January 30, 2017

Country: Poland, United States

Category: Short Film, Drama



Synopsis: Stolen pay. Sexual harassment.Months without a paycheck. Outrageous fees and expenses that eat away at earnings. And no one to turn to for help. Zoe is a story about 18 years model, being exposed to white rape and sexual abuse situation since she was 15.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Brady Hood



Runtime: 23 minutes 41 seconds

Release Date: January 23, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Student Film, Short, Drama



Synopsis: 15-year-old Maddie Stone rules her school yard under the protection of her family name. But after discovering her notorious father has been arrested, she has to make his bail money or lose the yard. The more Maddie fights, the more her world spirals out of control.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Victoria Romero



Runtime: 9 minutes 29 seconds

Release Date: April 26, 2017

Country: Argentina

Category: Student Film, Short, Drama



Synopsis: A girl remembers the tragic story of the woman that was her nanny.

WINNER

Directed by Kyla Simone Bruce



Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes

Release Date: July 1, 2016

Country: United Kingdom, Iran

Category: Feature Film, Drama



Synopsis: UNDOCUMENT is an episodic feature, following 4 stories of longing & love, immigration & identity. The vision of an Iranian and a European director, dealing with the complex theme of illegal immigration or ‘undocumented migrants.’ Each story is set at a different stage of the migrants’ journey, in three different countries.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Marie Ullrich



Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes

Release Date: August 6, 2014

Country: United States

Category: Feature Film, Drama



Synopsis: A road movie on a bike that takes place over one night, Jasper leaves an underground bike messenger race and goes on a physical and spiritual journey, through Chicago’s nighttime streets, to an emotion-filled destination.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Antony Hickling



Runtime: 1 hour 6 minutes

Release Date: July 28, 2016

Country: France

Category: Feature Film, Experimental



Synopsis: Daniel is an artist who has lost his desire to paint. An unexpected meetng with three «working girls » one evening marks the beginning of a surreal adventure. Later that night, the wildest dreams and the worst nightmares of his three new muses unravel in his imagination.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Otwin Karl Biernat



Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes 56 seconds

Release Date: April 6, 2017

Country: Germany

Category: Feature Film, Experimental



Synopsis: Karl Krämer is a middle class retired person who has been living with his wife Maria in the countryside of northern Germany for many years. Maria formally was a well-known singer, who, in the peak of her career, fell seriously ill and then unluckily lost her voice.

WINNER

Directed by Stefana Brancastle



Runtime: 40 minutes

Release Date: May 28, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Featurette Film, Experimental



Synopsis: An original, French period romantic comedy set in Paris, the film tells the tale of the fateful meeting between two destined lovers: Pierre & Camille. Born to two famous rival Master Clockmakers, their love is forbidden by a painful past.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Caroline Jules



Runtime: 53 minutes 47 seconds

Release Date: May 29, 2017

Country: France, Guadeloupe

Category: Featurette Film, Drama



Synopsis: A film from Guadeloupe based on hidden love and untold feelings between two sisters in their thirties and their father.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Nele Jeromin



Runtime: 60 minutes

Release Date: May 8, 2017

Country: Germany

Category: Featurette Film, Documentary



Synopsis: -

WINNER

Directed by Mike Hoolboom



Runtime: 58 minutes

Release Date: January 11 2016

Country: Canada

Category: Documentary, Experimental



Synopsis: This Marxist love story asks: could the couple also be a form of resistance? Essay notes on marriage, microcinema, and the art of projection. With guest appearances by Occupy, Pussy Riot protesters, a runaway goat, two poodles, an army of street marchers, Mos Def, Frankenstein and cinema’s first kiss.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Muriel Paraboni



Runtime: 20 minutes

Release Date: July 1 2016

Country: Brazil

Category: Fiction, Experimental



Synopsis: A man and a woman relive moments of their lives transfigured on the landscape of a beach. Past, present and future merge in the cadence of the waters, which come and go revolving memories and old silences.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Daniel Mattiasson



Runtime: 19 minutes

Release Date: March 29 2016

Country: Sweden, United Kingdom

Category: Fiction, Experimental, Sci-Fi



Synopsis: The film takes part in two separate worlds: One where Eric is sheltered with his father from a storm and the other where he gets closer and closer to a woman. Almost as a detective, Eric moves between the worlds to find out the truth. As the story progresses Eric starts to question the reality.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Freya Billington



Runtime: 11 minutes

Release Date: March 2 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Fiction, Experimental



Synopsis: Struggling psychiatric nurse, Joe impulsively absconds to the seaside with Archie, his deeply haunted, elderly patient.



Intending to re-engage him with real life, the memories he stirs up for Archie, however, are not happy ones as the truth of the past resurfaces.

WINNER

Directed by Shalini Adnani



Runtime: 10 minutes

Release Date: November 15, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Student Film, Drama



Synopsis: In an unusual working morning, people sit and wait, contemplating life, and the dead man hanging in front of them in a Mexican factory.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Linda Gasser



Runtime: 16 minutes 20 seconds

Release Date: February 1, 2017

Country: Germany

Category: Student Film, Sci-FI, Drama



Synopsis: It’s the year 2184 and big data is omnipresent. A sophisticated system has been developed to analyze people. Perfect partner recommendations have become the norm. But Achille wants to find a partner by himself.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Gabriel McArtney



Runtime: 9 minutes 55 seconds

Release Date: October 21, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Student Film, Comedy



Synopsis: A kooky mother helps her son with a plot to exact revenge on his school bullies.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Victoria Romero



Runtime: 9 minutes 29 seconds

Release Date: April 26, 2017

Country: Argentina

Category: Student Film, Drama



Synopsis: A girl remembers the tragic story of the woman that was her nanny.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Sylvia Le Fanu



Runtime: 25 minutes 15 seconds

Release Date: February 28, 2017

Country: Denmark

Category: Student Film, Drama



Synopsis: Sayid, a refugee doctor from Syria, has just received a Danish residence permit, and is about to embark on establishing a new life in rural Denmark together with his son Adnan.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Brady Hood



Runtime: 23 minutes 41 seconds

Release Date: January 23, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Student Film, Drama



Synopsis: 15-year-old Maddie Stone rules her school yard under the protection of her family name. But after discovering her notorious father has been arrested, she has to make his bail money or lose the yard.

WINNER

Directed by Nele Jeromin



Runtime: 60 minutes

Release Date: May 8, 2017

Country: Germany

Category: Featurette Film, Documentary



Synopsis: -

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Marek Ranis



Runtime: 16 minutes

Release Date: April 30, 2016

Country: United States

Category: Short Film, Documentary



Synopsis: The disappearing barrier islands and increasingly ephemeral coastal lines are not anymore just one the first signals of changing environment . We are already in post climate change, it is not any more the search for recognition of the inevitable.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Jo Kidby



Runtime: 3 minutes 13 seconds

Release Date: August 1, 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Web-Short, Documentary



Synopsis: A short film with England Rugby and Team GB's Amy Wilson Hardy.

WINNER

Directed by Luca Vecchi



Runtime: 9 minutes 17 seconds

Release Date: November 17, 2016

Country: Italy

Category: Web-Short, Experimental



Synopsis: In a closed system that totally lacks information, external circumstances can influence our judgement. A sloppy dressed girls shivers and drools convulsively on the edge of a highway.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Hadi Moussally



Runtime: 12 minutes

Release Date: February 10, 2016

Country: France

Category: Web-Short, Experimental



Synopsis: 12 Months, 12 Films, 12 Editorials, 12 Fashion Designers, 12 Models & 12 Themes
A story BORN of the rejection of the NARCISSUS nature of modern film. Within our chapters LIVE questions.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Sean Wirz



Runtime: 4 minutes 59 seconds

Release Date: November 30, 2016

Country: Switzerland

Category: Web-Short, Comedy, Horror



Synopsis: A hung over morning in an all-male household. Johnny wakes up to a filthy mess. Nothing out of the ordinary, except his roommate Freddy left all the lights on – again! Enough is enough. Johnny decides to bring some order into chaos but quickly realizes he should have cut his finger-wagging short.

WINNER

Directed by Fenglin Chen



Runtime: 4 minutes 40 seconds

Release Date: May 4, 2017

Country: Macao, USA

Category: Animation, Experimental, Student Film



Synopsis: A romantic relationship blossoms between a man and a woman when they first meet in a delicatessen. Their desires get projected onto the food, turning them alive, into uncanny mutated composite of limbs and organs.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Karis Seungyoun Oh



Runtime: 2 minutes 29 seconds

Release Date: May 1, 2016

Country: United States

Category: Animation, Student Film



Synopsis: The Moment is a story about an artist who learns about the importance of the things unseen as she gets to draw a stranger’s portrait.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Jonathan Djob Nkondo



Runtime: 7 minutes

Release Date: December 29, 2016

Country: France

Category: Short Film, Animation



Synopsis: Some villagers encounter a giant mysterious creature.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Nick LeDonne



Runtime: 5 minutes 40 seconds

Release Date: May 2, 2016

Country: United States

Category: Short Film, Animation



Synopsis: An abstracted animated documentary based off of Nick LeDonne's personal struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts after a near attempted hanging in November 2014. His feelings of depression are personified through a dark luring fog and a loving mother desperately trying to keep her son alive.

WINNER

Awarded to Kyla Simone Bruce & Amin Bakhshian



Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes

Release Date: July 1, 2016

Country: United Kingdom, Iran

Category: Feature Film, Drama



Description: UNDOCUMENT is an episodic feature, following 4 stories of longing & love, immigration & identity. The vision of an Iranian and a European director, dealing with the complex theme of illegal immigration or ‘undocumented migrants.’

BEST DIRECTOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Stefana Brancastle



Runtime: 40 minutes

Release Date: May 28, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Featurette Film, Experimental



Description: An original, French period romantic comedy set in Paris, the film tells the tale of the fateful meeting between two destined lovers: Pierre & Camille. Born to two famous rival Master Clockmakers, their love is forbidden by a painful past.

BEST DIRECTOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Otwin Karl Biernat



Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes

Release Date: April 6, 2017

Country: Germany

Category: Feature Film, Experimental, Comedy



Description: Karl Krämer is a middle class retired person who has been living with his wife Maria in the countryside of northern Germany for many years. Maria formally was a well-known singer, who, in the peak of her career, fell seriously ill and then unluckily lost her voice.

BEST DIRECTOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Dimitris Georgiev



Runtime: 25 minutes

Release Date: April 6, 2017

Country: Bulgaria

Category: Short Film, Thriller



Description: The story follows the last two days of a wealthy, Bulgarian family.

BEST DIRECTOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Marie Ullrich



Runtime: 1 hour 10 minutes

Release Date: August 6, 2014

Country: United States

Category: Feature Film, Drama



Description: A road movie on a bike that takes place over one night, Jasper leaves an underground bike messenger race and goes on a physical and spiritual journey, through Chicago’s nighttime streets, to an emotion-filled destination.

BEST DIRECTOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Antoni Nykowski



Runtime: 27 minutes 30 seconds

Release Date: January 30, 2017

Country: Poland, United States

Category: Short Film, Drama



Description: Stolen pay. Sexual harassment.Months without a paycheck. Outrageous fees and expenses that eat away at earnings. And no one to turn to for help. Zoe is a story about 18 years model, being exposed to white rape and sexual abuse situation since she was 15.

BEST DIRECTOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Antony Hickling



Runtime: 1 hour 6 minutes

Release Date: July 28, 2016

Country: France

Category: Feature Film, Experimental



Description: Daniel is an artist who has lost his desire to paint. An unexpected meeting with three «working girls » one evening marks the beginning of a surreal adventure.

WINNER

Directed by Joscha Bongard



Runtime: 6 minutes 59 seconds

Release Date: February 7, 2017

Country: Germany

Category: Music Video



Synopsis: „Love“ and pulsing intimacy at an older age is more or less a no-go subject - while sexualization of society is omnipresent.
In „Nostalgic Love“ we follow a young but old deep love through it’s modern, almost teeny problems.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Lana MacIver



Runtime: 2 minutes 48 seconds

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Music Video



Description: 'Yeah, Anything' is a music video written and directed by singer/songwriter Lana MacIver. The video is shot entirely on super8 film and was filmed on location in the heart of Brick Lane. The video explores the rules of attraction through the means of dance and movement. Choreographed by Enya Belak and starring Kiraly Saint Claire.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Eva Münnich



Runtime: 3 minutes 33 seconds

Release Date: May 27, 2016

Country: Germany

Category: Music Video



Description: Music video science-fiction adventure set in victorian times. Alien slime transforms people into monsters and there´s a space whale.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Natalie Erika James & Benjamin Morgan



Runtime: 3 minutes 29 seconds

Release Date: March 2, 2017

Country: Australia

Category: Music Video



Description: Consumed by a virtual reality set in a reimagined 1950s, a player’s longing for motherhood transcends the rules of the game.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Filip Zaluska



Runtime: 3 minutes 47 seconds

Release Date: August 24, 2017

Country: Poland

Category: Music Video



Description: -

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Greg Davenport



Runtime: 3 minutes 21 seconds

Release Date: March 2, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Music Video



Description: A visceral and sensual film set against the imposing backdrop of Kyiv's brutalist architecture, juxtaposing the rebellious spirit of young love against the monoliths of a bygone age.

WINNER

Directed by Lola-Jia Liu



Runtime: 2 minutes 58 seconds

Release Date: October 30, 2016

Country: Germany

Category: Trailer, Documentary



Description: Every year many thousands of people visit the mighty Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. Every year dozens of them have no intention of leaving the bridge alive. But there is one person determined not to see them plummet to their deaths: Chen Si.

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Otwin Biernat



Runtime: 1 minutes 28 seconds

Release Date: June 8, 2017

Country: Germany

Category: Trailer, Experimental



Description: -

RUNNER-UP

Directed by Ninaad Kulkarni



Runtime: 2 minutes 50 seconds

Release Date: May 1, 2017

Country: India, United States

Category: Trailer, Animation



Description: KCLOC is a 3D animated documentary on people’s perceptions of time. A selection of brief interviews provide the voices for ten meticulously designed CGI clock characters, in a variety of real-world settings, as they respond to a single question: “What does time mean to you?”

WINNER

Awarded to Otwin Karl Biernat



Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes

Release Date: April 6, 2017

Country: Germany

Category: Feature Film, Experimental



Description: Karl Krämer is a middle class retired person who has been living with his wife Maria in the countryside of northern Germany for many years. Maria formally was a well-known singer, who, in the peak of her career, fell seriously ill and then unluckily lost her voice.

BEST EDITOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Stefana Brancastle



Runtime: 40 minutes

Release Date: May 28, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Featurette Film, Experimental



Description: An original, French period romantic comedy set in Paris, the film tells the tale of the fateful meeting between two destined lovers: Pierre & Camille. Born to two famous rival Master Clockmakers, their love is forbidden by a painful past.

BEST EDITOR - RUNNER-UP

Directed by Victoria Romero



Runtime: 9 minutes 29 seconds

Release Date: April 26, 2017

Country: Argentina

Category: Short Film, Drama



Description: A girl remembers the tragic story of the woman that was her nanny.

BEST EDITOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Logan George



Runtime: 9 minutes 31 seconds

Release Date: October 1, 2016

Country: Japan, Nepal, Oman, United States

Category: Short Film, Drama



Description: Four young people unknowingly walk toward a moment in their lives when a fever overtakes them, bringing out their most basic instincts.

BEST EDITOR - RUNNER-UP

Awarded to Meredith Mantik



Runtime: 23 minutes 41 seconds

Release Date: January 23, 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Category: Short Film, Student Film, Drama



Description: 15-year-old Maddie Stone rules her school yard under the protection of her family name. But after discovering her notorious father has been arrested, she has to make his bail money or lose the yard.