Film of the Month

Dopamine Dreams 

Dir: Alex Diamond

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Best Feature

No Hay Barrio Para las Mujeres (There are no slums for women)

Dir: Donald Whittier

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Best Feature (Honourable Mention)

Die Grenze

Dir: Ronald Unterbergerr

 

Best Documentary

Between Giants 

Dir: Maxwell John Frost

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Best Documentary (Honourable Mention)

A Moment of Bliss

Dir: Bachar Khattar

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Best Experimental

Regret 

Dir: Waqar Peter Gill

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Best Experimental (Honourable Mention)

Do You See

Dir: Sarah R Klearman

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Best Narrative

Memories of Green

Dir: Samuel Luna

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Best Thriller

The Seal of Death

Dir: Harris Josey

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Best Dark Comedy

It's All In Your Head

Dir: Kelsey Darragh

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Best Comedy

Captain Powerman and the Intergalactic Quest into the Twenty-First Century 

Dir: Alexander Halford

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Best Horror

Lot_____

Dir: Jonathan kinch

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Best Inspirational

Fallen

Dir: Salvador Chahin

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Best Inspirational (Honourable Mention)

Kapadokya

Dir: Rodolfo Moro

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Best Web Series

Hidden Kingdom

Dir: Sunny Lee, Jacqueline Davis

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Best Web Series (Honourable Mention)

Laugh After Dark in Las Vegas

Dir: Kelsey Borlan

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Best Musical

Be Mine

Dir: Miriam Bavly

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Best Family Film

Birthday Adventure

Dir: Chunling Xu

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Best Student

Drowning

Dir: Joao Lopes

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Best Student (Honourable Mention)

Aubade

Dir: Joe Lowengrey

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Best Drama

Phishing

Dir: Seongrim Lee

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Best Youth Film

Five Sunbeams

Dir: Wang Jian

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Best Animation Feature

The Laws of the Universe-The Age of Elohim

Dir: Isamu Imakake

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Best Animation Short

Blog 22

Dir: Montasser Khalil

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Best Fan Film

A Blaster In The Right Hands

Dir: Richard de Carvalho

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Best Crime

The Big Apple Grind

Dir: Bruno Taniguchi

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Best Adventure film

Birthday Adventure

Dir: Chunling Xu

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Best Micro Budget

Hanna’s Bistro

Dir: Aron Torok

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Best Micro Budget (Honourable Mention)

The Papers

Dir: Jess Carson

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Best LGBTQ

Jumping

Dir: Mohsen Nabawi

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Best Romantic

#MyCorona

Dir: Phil Gorn

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Best Romantic (Honourable Mention)

Four after midnight 

Dir: Gal Zaidman 

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Best Mystery

Beyond the Blue

Dir: Tanya Randall

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Best Western

Redemption

Dir: Emiliano Ferrera

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Critics Award

86ED

Dir: J J Hendricks

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Best Director

Maxwell John Frost

'Between Giants'

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Best Director (Honourable Mention)

Alex Diamond

'Dopamine Dreams'

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Best First Time Director

Harris Josey

'The Seal of Death'

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Best Actor

Diogo Fernandes

'Drowning'

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Best Actress

Carly Chaikin

'It's All In Your Head'

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Best Cinematography

Kevin Key

'The Seal of Death'

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Best Cinematography (Honourable Mention)

Rodolfo Moro

'Kapadokya'

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Best Editing

Maxwell John Frost

'Between Giants'

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Best Original Score

Joseph Batiste

Chris Kidder

'The Seal of Death'

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Best VFX

Tara Merryman

'The Seal of Death'