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WINNERS EDITION 2023
February 24th/2023
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!
Stockholm - Sweden
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: We used to sing
Runtime: 30:00 min
Country: Israel
Director: Lidia Morozov
WINNER Best Student Short Film
Synopsis: A film about a family of four Russian women who immigrated from Moscow to a two bedroom apartment in Tel-Aviv.
An intimate and bittersweet portrait of three generations of women living together in a small apartment. Exposing unconditional motherly love. With a personal and honest approach, the filmmaker offers insight into the relations between the women. By witnessing everyday moments of the family’s life, the story unfolds itself.
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Title: EARTHBOUND: NZAMBI MATEE
Runtime: 39:57 min
Country: Japan
Director: Farhoud Meybodi
WINNER Best Documentary Short Film
Synopsis: Amidst a catastrophic plastic waste crisis in her hometown of Nairobi, Nzambi Matee risks everything to pioneer technology that transforms plastic waste into paving bricks.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Pink Puzzle
Runtime: 01:24:03 min
Country: Germany
Director: Mike Adler
WINNER Best Feature Film
Synopsis: "Pink Puzzle" sheds light on the glittering world of Berlin's fashion scene, in which selfishness and superficiality are the fuel of success. At the same time, however, it opens a door gap to the Berlin neighborhood milieu and the night scene.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Come Closer
Runtime: 4:22 min
Country: Norway
Director: Nikesh Mohan & Kristian Tjomlid
WINNER Best Music Video
Synopsis: A lone astronaut crash-lands on Earth in search of an individual in radio contact with him.
Official music video for Come closer by Sigrid Aase
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Title: The Captain's Heart
Runtime: 01:34:14 min
Country: Denmark
Director: Simon Bang
WINNER Best Documentary Feature Film
Synopsis: The director sets out to understand his maternal grandfather, the late Captain Goth (1893-1966). In the process, he had to recreate the ship that was the Captain’s life and great love.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Skádja
Runtime: 16:35 min
Country: Norway
Director: Eili Bråstad Johannessen
WINNER Best LGBTQ Short Film
Synopsis: A powerful meeting between two women brings their inner forces and desires to the surface. Can they overcome their traumas? Skádja is an exploration of nature, spirituality, passion and movement. An indigenous lesbian story from Sápmi about reclaiming one's inner witch.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Edward Osredkar's Entertainer Chat
Runtime: 01:00:39 min
Country: USA
Director: Edward John Osredkar
WINNER Best Outstanding Talk Series
Synopsis: Talk show where various performers in the entertainment industry are interviewed.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: SOUR LOVE
Runtime: 3:58 min
Country: Sweden
Director: Cindy Stenberg
WINNER Best Animation Short Film
Synopsis: A dark and quirky girl falls in love, and tries everything to get his attention, even crime.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Un amore
Runtime: 11:30 min
Country: Italy
Director: Mary Poltroni
WINNER Best Drama Short Film
Synopsis: In Calvi, a small town in Umbria, a photographer meets a young woman. The spark of love immediately caught fire between them. They kiss passionately. A moment later, the woman disappears. He looks for her everywhere in the town but he finds her where he least expect it.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: WIDENING RINGS OF BEING
Runtime: 30:00 min
Country: Norway
Director: Elin Osjord
WINNER Best Experimental Short Film
Synopsis: 15 first time female filmmakers of 9 different nationalities set out to write, direct, and edit their first short films in the conservative Islamic emirate of Qatar. Each wants hers to be selected as one of the top 3 in the Short Film Lab and win filmmaking equipment to make future films.
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Title: To Conseal A Crime
Runtime: 13:22 min
Country: Sweden
Director: Henric Hammarslätt
WINNER Best Outstanding Short Film
Synopsis: A man tries to make justice. The mission is complicated by feelings other than revenge.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Shorts by Shorties
Runtime: 21:52 min
Country: Qatar
Director: Mohana Rajakumar
WINNER SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Synopsis: 15 first time female filmmakers of 9 different nationalities set out to write, direct, and edit their first short films in the conservative Islamic emirate of Qatar. Each wants hers to be selected as one of the top 3 in the Short Film Lab and win filmmaking equipment to make future films.
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Title: Portraits
Runtime: 01:05:00 min
Country: USA
Director: Gianluca Cosentino
WINNER Best Cinematography Feature Film
Synopsis: When Ben, a depressed college student, starts dating a girl from his class, his mood lifting causes him to stop taking his medication, which compromises his treatment and his relationship..
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Eina
Runtime: 21:46 min
Country: Germany
Director: Michael Vella & Tommy Vella
WINNER Best European Short Film+ Best Actress (Sophie Roßfeld)
Synopsis: Her kayak, a cold river and the wilderness.
Will she live up to her high expectations and overcome her doubts? A young woman on a turbulent journey.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Sunday Roast
Runtime: 14:13 min
Country: Sweden
Director: Olof Berghe
WINNER Best Swedish Short Film
Synopsis: Holger lives alone in his apartment. When 60 years younger Anna moves into the same stairwell, he invites her to a Sunday dinner. What first appears to be a nice dinner is gradually changing into something else. Sunday Roast is about mental disorders and revolves around the conflict between curiosity, obligation and danger.
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Title: THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME
Runtime: 13:56 min
Country: France
Director: Marc SAEZ
WINNER Best International Short Film + Best Actor (Olivier HÉMON)
Synopsis: A man, a woman, a payback.
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Title: Aiken Trilogy
Runtime: 11:25 min
Country: Italy
Director: Luca Coassin
WINNER Best SCI - FI Short Film + Best Cinematography
Synopsis: Trilogy of musical short films. The protagonist is Aiken, a cold and ruthless killer from a secret agency. After his daughter’s death, destroyed by grief, when he has to kill the target, who in turn has a daughter, hesitates and gives up killing. Now deprived of a reason to live, he is no longer focused and during a second mission is captured, tortured, and buried alive by another killer.
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Title: Yule Cat
Runtime: 4:30 min
Country: Sweden
Writer: Albin Glasell
WINNER Best Horror Short Film
Synopsis: The night before Christmas, an Icelandic family is struck by an evil that lurks in the dark.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Magnetism
Country: USA
Writer: Miriam Freund
WINNER Best Script Feature Film
Synopsis: After being tricked into having an affair, a demented, serial killer college professor struggles to win his wife and daughter back while exacting revenge on every woman that crosses his path.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: As Scared As You
Country: USA
Writer: Jesse Dorian
WINNER OUTSTANDING Script Feature Film
Synopsis: A twenty-something male “drifter” antihero, and a young blind woman become caged prisoners at a bed and breakfast in small-town northern California, where the drifter’s violent, malignant actions prior, push a group of malicious locals-- along with their two animalistic, basement-held zombified residents, dressed as a dog and a clown-- to seek vengeance.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Hotel
Country: USA
Writer: Genevieve Sipperley
WINNER OUTSTANDING Script Short Film
Synopsis: A recently divorced woman and a widower have a chance meeting at a hotel where they defy cliche and form a unique bond.
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Title: Ese Día (That Day)
Country: USA
Writer: Alycya Magana
WINNER Best Script Short Film
Synopsis: Six months after her father's deportation and disappearance, a young girl befriends an alien who crash lands in her small Texas town.
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Stockholm - Sweden
Title: Anxiety Overcome
Runtime: 17:30 min
Country: Luxembourg
Director: Philippe Hamelle
Nominated: Best Director (Philippe Hamelle)
Synopsis: After winning a hard battle against depression, Oliver now suffers from insurmountable and inexplicable fear. After much reluctance, he finally consults with a psychotherapist hoping to find the diagnosis and answers he needs. It's the beginning of an unexpected and extraordinary journey for him.
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