The Films
Below you will find our official list of winning film projects from our past seasons. Although most films are still in festival-only or limited distribution mode, several are available for public screening, please scan the links below for more information.
Season 2 (Spring 2025)
136 Submissions
76 Selections
60 Awards *(45 Annual / 15 Early Bird)
​4 Honorable Mentions
Sahara: End of Trip (Spain)
Fin de viaje Sahara
WINNER:
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Best Feature Film
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Best Cinematography (Feature)
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Best Actress (Feature)
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Winter Early Bird Winner (Best Feature)
Directed by Antonio Rodriguez Cabal
Cinematographer - Javier Salmones
Maru Valdivielso as “Florence”
Some Kind of Justice (USA)
WINNER:
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Best Director (Feature)
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Best Supporting Actor (Feature)
Historias del Canal (Panama)
WINNER:
Audience Choice Award (Favorite Film)
Directed by Carolina Borrero, Pinky Mon, Luis Franco Brantley, Abner Benaim, Pituka Ort
The Power of One (Colombia / USA)
WINNER:
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Best Documentary Feature Film
Nothing (USA)
WINNER:
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Best Short Film
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Best Experimental Short Film
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Best Visionary Director (Short Film)
Directed by Tom Miller & Alex Davidowski
Vocas de la Selva Maya: Una batalla por la vida (Mexico)
WINNER:
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Best Documentary Short Film
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​Best Cultural Film
Directed by Benjamin Soto and Carlos Samayo, presented by Greenpeace
Another Round - James Downham, Amanda Kind (Canada)
WINNER:
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Best Music Video
Directed by AJ Astle, Jake Sauvee
In-Half (Spain)
WINNER:
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Best Animation Film
The Michoacan File (Mexico)
WINNER:
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Best Director (Documentary Feature)
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Best Editing (Documentary Feature)
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Summer Early Bird Winner (Best Documentary)
The Brattt (Russia)
WINNER:
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Best Editing (Feature)
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Steve Phillips Award for Best Sound Design (Feature)
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​Best Experimental Film (Feature)
The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry (Ireland)
WINNER:
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Best Original Score (Documentary)
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Winter Early Bird Winner (Best Documentary)
Somewhere Confidential (USA)
WINNER:
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Best Original Score (Feature)
Return of the Black Madonna (Mexico, USA)
WINNER:
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Best Director (Documentary Short)
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Best First Film (Documentary Short)
Directed by Kerra Bolton
Mahsoo (Iran)
WINNER:
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Best Actress (Short Film)
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Best Sound Design (Short Film)
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Best First Film (Student)
Directed by Fatemeh Mehdipoor
Sarina Rajabi as “Mahsoo”
Sound Design by Hamed Arib
Shrouded Destiny: A Star Wars Long Tale Part 1 of 3 (Denmark)
WINNER:
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Best Cinematography (Short Film)
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Best First Film (Short)
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Fall Early Bird Winner (Best Short Film)
Directed by Shahbaz Sarwar & Erik Alejandro Gonzalez
Cinematography by Dan Stilling
The Fries Rebellion (USA)
WINNER:
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Best Director (Short Film)
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Summer Early Bird Winner (Best Short Film)
JÓLAKÖTTURINN (Iceland, USA)
WINNER:
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Best Cinematography (Music Video)
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Best Original Score (Music Video)
Directed by Dan Hertzog
FEAR (India)
WINNER:
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Best Visionary Director (Feature Film)
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Summer Early Bird Winner (Best Feature Film)
Love Hides In The Open (UK)
WINNER:
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Best First Film (Feature)
Directed by Brian Finucane​
Braiding Knowledge Through Breath, Movement, Language (Canada)
WINNER:
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Best Innovative Cultural Storytelling
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Best Sound Design (Documentary Film)
Children of Icarus (USA)
WINNER:
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Best Editing (Short Film)
Directed by Gary Fieldman
Edited by Chloe Deakon
Conscious Co-Working (Mexico)
WINNER:
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Best Visionary First Film
It Sparks – Robert John Hope (Germany)
WINNER:
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Best Director (Music Video)
Directed by Shane Serrano
Gin Lane Revisited – Robert John Hope (Germany)
WINNER:
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Best Editing (Music Video)
Directed by Merle Sibbel
KRYLA (Ukraine)
WINNER:
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Best Visionary Music Video
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Best Visionary Director (Music Video)
Directed by Anastasiia Lapko​
Monarch (Mexico/USA)
WINNER:
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Best Screenplay
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Fall Early Bird Winner (Best Screenplay)
Written by Mauricio Herrera Manzur
The Premiere (USA)
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Honorable Mention (Feature Film)
The Uvalde Love Project (USA)
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Honorable Mention (Documentary Film)
By The Sea (USA/Switzewrland)
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Honorable Mention (Short Film)
Secrets of the Babylonian Lottery (USA)
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Honorable Mention (Screenplay)
Written by Kostiantyn Mishchenko
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Summer Early Bird Winner (Best Animation)
Mortem Obire (Mexico)
The Abyss (Argentina)
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Summer Early Bird Winner (Best Experimental)
Directed by Andres Aloi​​
The Ninth Order (Australia)
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Fall Early Bird Winner (Best Feature)
Escape Room (Russia)
Fall Early Bird Winner (Best Animation)
Capacity In Reserve (USA)
Winter Early Bird Winner (Best Documentary)
The End Was Just The Beginning / O Fim era Apenas o Início (Portugal)
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Winter Early Bird Winner (Best Short)
Illuminatus! (USA)
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Winter Early Bird Winner (Best Animation)
Directed by Chris Kalis​
Indefinitely (USA)
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Winter Early Bird Winner (Best Student Film)
Directed by Aloha Lee​
Katabasis (Italy)
Directed by Samantha Casella
• Official Selection
Poyyamozhi (India)
Directed by Sudhi Anna
• Official Selection
Beam You Up Scotty (New Zealand)
Directed by Hannah Samantha Simicic
• Official Selection
Chanting of the Dunes (USA)
Directed by Mokhless Al-Hariri
• Official Selection
Okhaldhunga (Germany, Switzerland, Nepal)
Directed by Marcel Weiß
• Official Selection
Out Of The Picture (USA)
Directed by Mary Louise Schumacher
• Official Selection
The Food That Fuels (USA)
Directed by Ed Porter
• Official Selection
Unspoken (Poland)
Directed by Maciej Adamek
• Official Selection
At Night Time (Iran)
Directed by Mahmood Arib
• Official Selection
Circle (Turkey)
Directed by Ferhat Ertan
• Official Selection
Doppel (Mexico)
Directed by Daniela Alejandra Hernandez Álvarez
• Official Selection
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Fruitless (Portugal)
Directed by Orlando Solano
• Official Selection
MEOW! (UK)
Directed by Michal Vojtech, Ariel de la Garza Davidoff
• Official Selection
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Nowhere (Iran)
Directed by Erfan Parsapour
• Official Selection
Ojichaag - Spirit Within (Canada)
Directed by Rachel Beaulieu
• Official Selection
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Quarantine (Iran)
Directed by Uranus Independent Company
• Official Selection
Reflection (Iran)
Directed by Maedeh Abdi
• Official Selection
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Small Things (USA)
Directed by Angela Andronache
• Official Selection
Snakes & Ladders (Iran)
Directed by Mostafa Rostampour
• Official Selection
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Surete de Matar (The Act of Death) (USA)
Directed by Diego Rocha
• Official Selection
The Silver Lining (UK)
Directed by Mikey Altoft
• Official Selection
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The Story of a Colorful Day (Iran)
Directed by Mahmood Arib
• Official Selection
Robofauna (Panama)
Directed by Gerardo Escudero Samara
• Official Selection
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The Girl From The Wood (Russia)
Directed by Alexander Mulumbator Ovsyankin
• Official Selection
The Last Gunfight… yet! (France)
Directed by Pablo Tréhin-Marçot
• Official Selection
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The Nightmare of the Running Ones (Bulgaria)
Directed by Ivan Kashlakov
• Official Selection
The Elephants of Avalon Beach (Australia)
Directed by Jae Morrison
• Official Selection​​
For more official selections from Season 2, please visit our Archives page here.
Season 1 (Spring 2024)
89 Submissions
62 Selections
50 Awards
Roswell Delirium (USA)
WINNER:
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Best Feature Film
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Best Supporting Actor - Feature: Anthony Michael Hall as “Jerry”
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Best Supporting Actress - Feature: Dee Wallace as “Betty”
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Best Cinematography - Feature: Carter Ross
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Best Original Score - Feature: Troy Van Leeuwen
Directed by Richard Bakewell
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Daughters of Maguey / Las hijas del Maguey (Mexico)
WINNER:
Lissa's Trip (USA)
WINNER:
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Best Director - Feature Film: Jeffery Lando
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Best Editing - Feature Film
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Best Actress - Feature Film: Sofia Vassilieva as “Lissa”
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Best Sound Design - Feature Film
The Train & The Peninsula /
El Tren y La Peninsula (Mexico)
WINNER:
• Best Editing Documentary Feature Film
Directed by Sky Richards and Andreas Kruger Foncerrada
Mentawai: Souls of the Forest / Almas del Bosque (Indonesia/Germany)
WINNER:
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Best Cinematography - Documentary Feature Film
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Best Original Score - Documentary
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Best First Documentary Feature Film
Directed by Joachim Peter
MORE AWARDS FROM SEASON 1:
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PLEASE VISIT OUR ARCHIVES PAGE FOR MORE SELECTIONS & DETAILS​​
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BEST VISIONARY DIRECTOR - FEATURE
THE ANNOYED - Directed by Mehdi Fard Ghaderi, IRAN
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BEST DIRECTOR - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
TAKE YOUR SPACE - Directed by Karolína Alvarez​​​
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AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD - FAVORITE … (TIE)
THE POWER OF ONE (work-in-progress) - Directed by Alex Valdez, USA
SAVING WALDEN'S WORLD - Directed by Jim Merkel, USA
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SPECIAL JURY PRIZE -BEST INNOVATIVE CULTURAL STORYTELLING
A LATINO HOLLYWOOD NIGHTMARE - Jeff Valdez, USA/Mexico
BEST SHORT FILM
BETWEEN THE WORDS - Directed by Farid Ismail, Luxembourg
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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
MONEY MAKER - Johannes Thuermer, Martina Schuster, Germany
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BEST DIRECTOR - SHORT FILM
DEATH ANNIVERSARY - Directed by Armin Keshvari, IRAN
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BEST VISIONARY DIRECTOR - SHORT FILM
EXPENSES - Directed by Gary Fieldman, USA
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BEST DIRECTOR - DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
MONEY MAKER - Directed by Johannes Thuermer and Martina Schuster, Germany
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BEST EDITING - SHORT FILM
Dan Hertzog - DOMINO SPRINGS - Directed by Dan Hertzog, USA
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BEST EDITING - DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Nèma van Raalte - ARMED WITH A BRUSH - Directed by Nèma van Raalte, Chile, Netherlands
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - SHORT FILM
Dan Hertzog - DATING AUDREY - Directed by Dan Hertzog, USA
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BEST VISIONARY CINEMATOGRAPHY - SHORT FILM
Milad Hosseini - DEATH ANNIVERSARY - Directed by Armin Keshvari, Iran
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BEST ACTOR - FEATURE
Farrokh Nematia as Sepanta Shaygan in THE ANNOYED, Directed by Mehdi Fard Ghaderi, IRAN​
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BEST ACTOR - SHORT
Edmund C. Short as “Pete” in DATING AUDREY, Directed by Dan Hertzog, USA
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BEST ACTRESS - SHORT
Dostana Nikolić as “Saska” in 5/3/0, Directed by Danilo Stanimirović, SERBIA
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
CAR COLORS - OLD DEATH - Directed by Kyle Garrett, USA
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BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
DEBS STUDIO - Directed by Miguel Octave, FRANCE
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BEST DIRECTOR - MUSIC VIDEO
CAR COLORS - OLD DEATH - Directed by Kyle Garrett, USA
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BEST VISIONARY DIRECTOR - MUSIC VIDEO
THE GIRL WHO FADED AWAY - Directed by Brent Heise, USA
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BEST EDITING - MUSIC VIDEO
CAR COLORS - OLD DEATH - Directed and Edited by Kyle Garrett, USA
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - MUSIC VIDEO
UNWIND - JAMES DOWNHAM - Directed by Jake Sauve, CANADA​​
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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MUSIC VIDEO
SHOT! - KROSSOVER, MEXICO​
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BEST SOUND DESIGN - DOCUMENTARY
DEBS STUDIO - Directed by Miguel Octave, FRANCE
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BEST SOUND DESIGN - MUSIC VIDEO
WHAT’S THE DEAL -Directed by Constanza E. Godoy, Brett W. Vance, USA
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BEST VISIONARY MUSIC VIDEO
4 Of You - LOAD -Directed by Cam Bennett, Dave Zellis, & Carrie Forsythe, CANADA
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BEST CULTURAL MUSIC VIDEO
THE ESCENCE OF THE GUAGUANCO, SKALA B, MUSIC FROM CUBA - directed by Jairo Valeria Mosqueira of Belgium
BEST SCREENPLAY
THE ARCHITECT OF THE FUTURE - Written by Michael D. Eerdmans, USA
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BEST TRAILER
THE POWER OF ONE - Directed by Alex Valdez, USA
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BEST EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE FILM
Gulag Eros of the Russian Mind: Sex in the Soviet Union, Directed by Chad Gracia, Ukraine
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BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
“52 Thursdays” Directed by R.D. Cane, CANADA
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BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM
BUMPER - Directed by Selvakumar M, INDIA​
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BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
ARMED WITH A BRUSH, directed by Nèma van Raalte, Netherlands
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BEST VISIONARY FIRST FILM
LA PIPERA - Directed by Miguel Perez, Mexico
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BEST FIRST SHORT FILM
CASH ON DELIVERY -directed by Udara Buddika Wijesinghe, Sri Lanka
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BEST FIRST STUDENT FILM
BERLIN - directed by Ashley Bogley, USA
