Synopsis : The Abuser is
inspired by a true story.
It depicts one man’s struggle
to stick to his convictions,
or to defend his sanity.
The Abuser highlights a different ,
rarely reported, aspect to domestic abuse...
AWARDS
Best Film Short :
Nominated
Best Actor :
Winner - Dominic McDonald
Best Actress :
Winner - Katrina Tatnell
Best Actress Supporting
Role : Winner - Cristina Rose
Stranded Pearl
Directed By :
Prashanth Gunasekaran, Ken Khan
Country : Cook
Islands
Under Category :
Film Feature International
Synopsis : During a
business trip to the Cook Islands, wealthy entrepreneur
Julia finds herself stranded on an uncharted island with a
mysterious local who may be a fugitive, forcing them to
survive together as hidden secrets gradually come to light.
AWARDS
Best Film Feature :
Nominated
Best Actor :
Winner - Aunanda Naaido
Best Supporting Actor :
Nominated - Robert Reitano
Best Actress :
Winner - Kristy Wright
Best Actress Supporting
Role : Winner - Aleisha Rose
Rage Pill
Directed By :
Marco Matheus Campagnone
Country : Brazil
Under Category :
Film Feature International
Synopsis : On a
reconciliation trip, Antony (Ton Prado) and Yasmin (Ale Luzon)
depart from Colchani, Bolivia, heading toward San Pedro de
Atacama, Chile. Aboard a 4x4 driven by the inexperienced guide
Alex (Alphio Solar) and joined by three other travelers, the
couple crosses the majestic Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt
flat in the world, when unexpectedly, the gas runs out.
AWARDS
Best Film Feature :
Nominated
Best Actor :
Nominated - Felipe Osorio
Best Actress :
Winner - Ale Luzon
Best Director :
Winner - Marco Matheus
Marionette
Directed By :
Nathan Levine-Heaney
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Music Video International Pop / RnB
Synopsis : This song
portrays the painful allure of a toxic relationship where love
feels both divine and suffocating. The narrator feels trapped in
the other person’s grasp, torn between devotion and loss of
control. The imagery of being a marionette symbolizes surrender
— their emotions and actions are manipulated by the one they
love.
AWARDS
Best Singer :
Winner - Ava Della Peitra
Best Director :
Winner - Nathan Levine-Heaney
Moon Over Capri
Directed By :
Nathan Levine-Heaney
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Music Video International Pop / RnB
Synopsis : This song
feels like a heartfelt message of friendship and
encouragement — a reminder to live fully and chase the
dreams that keep getting postponed. The narrator reaches out
with genuine care, offering support to a neighbor who seems
weighed down by life’s struggles.
AWARDS
Best Music Composer :
Winner - Ava Della Pietra, Nash Overstreet, Shane
Stephens
Best Lyricist :
Winner - Ava Della Pietra, Nash Overstreet, Shane
Stephens
2 Can Play
Directed By :
Azzie Scott
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Music Video International Pop / RnB
Synopsis : This song tells
the story of betrayal, heartbreak, and revenge after a toxic
relationship. The narrator confronts an ex who cheated and
manipulated them, expressing both anger and empowerment. Their
friends had warned that the relationship was doomed, and now the
narrator sees the truth.
AWARDS
Special Festival Mention
:
Winner - 2 Can Play
Best Lyricist :
Nominated - Ava Della Pietra
Single For Life
Directed By :
Luke Orlando
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Music Video International Pop / RnB
Synopsis : This song
captures the bittersweet feeling of watching a close friend fall
in love while secretly harboring your own feelings of jealousy
and loss. The narrator tries to be supportive and happy but
struggles with envy and nostalgia for the friendship they once
had.
AWARDS
Best International Music
Video Pop / RnB :
Winner
Best Actress :
Winner - Ava Della Pietra
The Family Photo
Directed By :
John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Animation Short International
Synopsis : What happened
after an Earth astronaut left a family photo on the moon
fifty-plus years ago? This animated short explores the butterfly
effect of such an action. How will it affect us all?
AWARDS
Best Animation Short
International :
Winner
Nanak Chinta Mat Karo
Directed By :
Monaksh N. Kanirkarr
Country : India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis : A man loses his
job after his corrupt boss takes a bribe to replace him.
Struggling with rejections, he stumbles upon a distant job
posting, rushes to the interview, and lands the role. He never
loses hope and always believes in the words of Guru Nanak Dev
Ji: (Nanak, do not worry; the One is taking care of everything).
AWARDS
Best Film Short :
Nominated
Special Festival Mention :
Winner - Singer Tajinder Singh
Best Child Artist :
Nominated - Meet Mitulkumar Bhakta
Best Actor :
Winner - Charanpal Singh
Finger Ring
Directed By :
Advait Dhavale
Country : India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis : Suresh, a 31
year old sewage cleaner, gets hold of a diamond
solitaire formerly owned by a sorrowful woman victimized by
infidelity. The cleaner gets on the 9th cloud after realizing
that the ring may be a great way to escape poverty and find a
new job. He reaches home and does his evening chores. In the
midnight, with no sight of sleep he wakes his pregnant wife.
Shows the solitaire to Shilpa.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Actor :
Winner - Rahul Phaltankar
Best Actress :
Winner - Monica Panhale
Best Supporting Actor
Role :
Winner - Shrikant Yadav
Best Director :
Winner - Advait Dhavale
The Tide Turns
Directed By :
Igor Virabov
Country : India,
Russian Federation
Under Category :
Documentary Feature International
Synopsis :
"I want to build a house like no one in the village has ever
seen. Entirely made of glass!"
Ranjit dreams out loud. His friend Shyam, the only one in the
area who finished high school and even graduated college, lowers
his eyes. His dream is more modest — to get a decent job.
But both of them are stuck in the salt desert of the Rann of
Kutch, the vast white plain between India and Pakistan.
AWARDS
Best Documentary Feature
:
2nd Winner
Jules
Directed By :
Tiffany M Abney
Country : United States
Under Category :
Film Short International
Synopsis : Jules is in a
relationship with Clutch, an ex-motocross racer whose career
ended prematurely due to an injury during a pivotal race. As a
result of Clutch’s injury, he has forbidden Jules to continue
riding motocross. In an effort to keep her sanity and freedom,
Jules continues to go to the motocross track and ride behind
Clutch’s back.
AWARDS
Best Short Film :
Nominated
Special Festival Mention
: Winner - Eric Lynch
Best Actress :
Winner - Renelle Nicole
Best Actor Supporting
Role : Winner - Mike Merrill
Happy Birthday Zeenu
Directed By :
Deepti Sharma
Country : India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis :
Hoping to win over Zeenat, the new girl in office, Arif breaks
into her apartment to set up a surprise birthday party for her,
with begrudging help from his best friend Bhushan. The surprise
turns into a shock when Zeenat arrives with a stranger who is
not pleased to see the two young men.
AWARDS
Best Director:
Nominated - Deepti Sharma
Special Festival Mention
: Winner - Ashok Lokhande
Best Actress:
Nominated - Anushree
Better Not Write
Directed By : SS
Tatyana Batalova
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Student Short International
Synopsis : Acclaimed crime
author Christine Hartley has made a name for herself writing
chilling novels about an elusive serial killer, Oswald Carrow.
But when a mysterious man claiming to be Oswald appears in her
home, Christine’s fiction becomes terrifyingly real. Held
captive alongside her abrasive agent, she must confront the dark
truths of her creativity and the consequences of crafting a
killer.
AWARDS
Best Student Short :
Nominated
Best Actor :
: Nominated - Christopher Yates
Best Actress:
Winner - Ella Stichler
Best Director :
Winner - Tatyana Batalova
Underneath
Directed By :
Matthew James Bissett-Johnson
Country :
Australia
Under Category :
Animation Short International
Synopsis : A geometric
shape chases a blob around an underground complex.
AWARDS
Special Festival Mention
:Winner - Underneath
I'm Not Work Anymore
Directed By :
Gernas İslam Abışka
Country : Turkey
Under Category :
Film Short International
Synopsis : A short film
about a life-changing moment...
One day, while Seyfo (35) is herding his sheep, one of them
strays from the flock. As he follows it, he sees the sheep
disappear behind a rock. When Seyfo climbs up to get a better
view, what he witnesses leaves him stunned.
This short film tells the story of how that moment changes
Seyfo’s life forever.
AWARDS
Best Film Short
International :
Nominated
Best Actor :
: Winner - Seyfettin Kapcak
Best Actress:
Winner - Sukran Algul
Liz Lira : La Reina De Bolivia
Directed By :
Dilip Khatri
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Documentary Feature International
Synopsis : We all dream of
the ballet dancer, the football player, the acrobat, and many of
us strive to become one, but only a few succeed. This
documentary film is the story of a young girl in Bolivia that
dreamed the impossible dream, to become the Queen of Latin
Dance: La Reina de Bolivia
AWARDS
Best Documentary Feature
International :
1st Winner
Making Megaforce
Directed By : Bob
Lindenmayer
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Documentary Feature International
Synopsis : It's widely
regarded as one of the worst movies of the Eighties...
...and we’re making a documentary about how awesome it is.
Starring Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror Picture Show), 1982's
Megaforce is packed with futuristic vehicles, spandex jumpsuits,
insane stunts, and corny dialogue. It’s an adolescent adventure
that time has forgotten.
But one man remembers: director Bob Lindenmayer, and he’s on a
quest to convince the rest of the world just how amazing this
under-appreciated stunt-filled spectacle is. The world’s biggest
Megaforce fan, Bob owns a fleet of fully operational dune
buggies and motorcycles from the film.
AWARDS
Best Documentary Feature
International : 3rd Winner
Tell Her In The Sunshine
Directed By : Dan
O’Neill
Country : Ireland
Under Category :
Film Short International
Synopsis : After finding
himself in Heaven’s Waiting Room, Bernard is given an ultimatum,
leaving him questioning what is the right thing to do.
This film brings us on a journey from life to the afterlife,
through themes of loss, pressure and love.
AWARDS
Best Director :
Nominated - Dan O’Neill
Best Actress :
Winner - Joanne Bracken
Best Actor :
Winner - Des Murphy
Theeradha Kadhal
Directed By :
Gurumoorthy Kovai
Country : India
Under Category :
Student Short
Synopsis : A man lives in quiet harmony with his beloved wife, sharing everyday moments filled with love and routine. Their bond seems untouched by time, revealing a tender story of devotion, memory, and emotional depth. Inspired by a true story.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Actor :
Nominated -
Gurumoorthy Kovai
Best Actor Supporting
Role
: Winner - Durai
A Small Favour
Directed By :
Bijoyeta
Sahoriya Das
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Student Short International
Synopsis : --
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Lord's Signal
Directed By :
DHRUV
PANDAV, CHARANPAL SINGH
Country : India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis : Life is moving
so
fast these days that we have even forgotten that God exists,
miracles also happen, and there are also signals from God.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Winner
Best Child Artist :
Winner - Shivansh Patel
Best Actor :
Winner - Megh Pandit
Best Actor Supporting
Role
: Nominated - Charanpal Singh
Mary Chris Max
Directed By :
Tatiana
Sokolova
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Film Feature International
Synopsis : On Christmas
Eve in
the middle of nowhere two men meet an abandoned girl named Mary.
Chris, Max must decide if she is a miracle or their curse. Shot
entirely in Florida. Featuring an Emmy Award winning actor.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Actress :
Winner-
Tatiana Sokolova
Best Actor :
Nominated - Michael Dean
Best Director :
Nominated - Tatiana Sokolova
Once Upon A Time
Directed By :
Hussain
Alahmed
Country : United
Arab
Emirates
Under Category :
Student Short International
Synopsis :
In moments of truce with her exhausting reality and in a state
of
nostalgia, the lady tries to continue reading her favorite
novel,
but her lover and the little girl have a different opinion!
AWARDS
Best Actress :
Winner - Dina Badr
(IN) VISIBLE
Directed By : Sam
Joseph
Country : United
Kingdom
Under Category :
Film Short International
Synopsis : (IN)VISIBLE is
a
psychological short debut film written, directed and produced by
Sam
Joseph that explores the psychological effects of domestic abuse
and
society’s complicity in trial and judgement. A young wife,
abused by
her older husband, is misread as cold and detached while he
charms
his friends.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Actor :
Nominated -
Simon Roberts
Best Actress :
Winner - Autumn Joseph
Best Director :
Winner - Sam Joseph
Staycation
Directed By : Russ
Emanuel
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Film Feature International
Synopsis : How is the
world
affected by a catastrophic event? Everyday people live through a
government mandated quarantine during a global pandemic while
desperate scientists race to find a cure before it’s too late.
Lead virologist Edward Bellows races to find a cure to the Nix
virus
as the world collapses under the weight of this worldwide
horror.
Meanwhile, roommates Britt and Marnie, are forced to live
together,
while a couple, Matt and Cathy, separated between continents,
must
all deal with their newfound realities.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Director :
Winner -
Russ Emanuel
Best Actor :
Winner - Gilles Stricher
Best Actress :
Winner - Catherine Lafalle
Devila
Directed By :
Prabha k
a
Country : India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis : Devi, a
gynaecologist had baby through a siddha's herbal medicine after
15
years, but if she couldn't take care of her child as because she
wanted to learn siddha's most powerful astama siddhi to revenge
those who were humiliated, then how will be her journey.
AWARDS
Best Actress :
Winner - Sarkar Meena
Best Actor :
Nominated -
Mayooran
Best Child Artist :
Winner - Laya
Khoj
Directed By :
Rakshak
Diwan
Country : India
Under Category :
Film Short Regional
Synopsis : Jeet, a
middle-aged
man from rural Punjab, has spent a year searching for signs of
extraterrestrial life, convinced that his missing wife, Rani,
was
abducted by aliens. Armed with a radio, an old antenna, and
walls
covered in conspiracy notes, he isolates himself from his
community
and loses grip on reality.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Actor : Winner
-
Vivek Roy Khanna
Best Actress :
Nominated - Akruti Thakur
Best Director :
Nominated - Rakshak Diwan
Cowboys & Hindus
Directed By :
Tejal
Desai
Country : United
States
Under Category :
Film Short International
Synopsis :
A depressed, affluent, middle aged Hindu woman ventures to a
rugged
Texas cattle ranch. While there an unlikely friendship with a
tough
cowgirl gives her life new meaning while also teaching her about
cowboy culture and true grit.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Actress :
Winner -
Priya Dave
Mirror Effect
Directed By :
Natassia
Linn Malthe
Country : Norway
Under Category :
Student Short International
Synopsis : A raw
psychological
drama exploring the brutal emotional entrapment between a woman
and
her controlling partner, told through intense therapy sessions
and
traumatic memories.
Starring Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror Picture Show), 1982's
Megaforce is packed with futuristic vehicles, spandex jumpsuits,
insane stunts, and corny dialogue. It’s an adolescent adventure
that
time has forgotten.
But one man remembers: director Bob Lindenmayer, and he’s on a
quest
to convince the rest of the world just how amazing this
under-appreciated stunt-filled spectacle is. The world’s biggest
Megaforce fan, Bob owns a fleet of fully operational dune
buggies
and motorcycles from the film.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Actor :
Winner - Simon Wroldsen
Best Director :
Nominated - Natassia Linn Malthe
Under Category :
Documentary Feature International
Synopsis : COMMON
GROUND is
the hopeful and uplifting story of the pioneers of the
“Regenerative Movement” who produce tremendous
quantities of nutritionally dense food and are working to
balance the climate - all while bringing our entire
ecosystem
back to life.
AWARDS
Best Documentary
Feature
: 1st Winner - Common Ground
Baahubali : The Crown of Blood
Directed By :
Jeevan J. Kang, Navin John
Country :
India
Under Category :
Animation Short
Synopsis :
Raktadeva's
armies face Baahubali and Bhallaladeva on the
battlefield as
Mahishmati's warriors face the mightiest army in their
history. Dark Secrets.
AWARDS
Best Animation Film
:
Winner - Bahubali : The Crown of Blood
The Legend of Hanuman
Directed By :
Jeevan J. Kang, Navin John
Country :
India
Under Category :
Animation Short
Synopsis : A gripping
saga
and stunning animation build the anticipation for the epic
battle between Ram and Ravan
AWARDS
Best VFX :
Winner
- The Legend of Hanuman
You, Me & The Night
Directed By :
Coco
Bigles
Country :
United
States
Under Category :
Music Video International
Synopsis : Music video
about an intergalactic fling
AWARDS
Best Singer :
Winner - Cat Serrano
Special Festival
Mention
: Winner - You, Me & The Night
Jaya
Directed By :
DHEERU YADAV
Country :
India
Under Category :
Film Feature
Synopsis : Despite
facing rejection from society due to her father's low
social
status, Jaya remained determined to complete her
education
and excel academically.
Her father's love and support helped her overcome the
obstacles, and she caught the attention of Tripathi's
son
Shashank during a college event.
AWARDS
Best Actress :
Winner - Mahi Shrivastava
Best Actor :
Winner - Daya Shankar Pandey
Best Actor
Supporting
Role : Nominated - Manu Krishna
Hunar
Directed By :
Sujoy Joy Mukherjee
Country :
India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis : HUNAR is all
about how parents impose their unfulfilled dreams over the
little shoulders of their child and underestimate the real
talent within them.
What HUNAR is all about? It’s about a deep thought that, our
dreams drive our lives. Dreams provide a sense of stability
in
the unstable, unpredictable times.
AWARDS
Best Director :
Winner - Sujoy Mukerjee
Best Actor :
Winner - Rohit Roy
Best Actress :
Winner - Madhurima Tuli
Best Child Artist :
Winner - Vidhaan Sharma
Best Supporting
Actor :
Nominated - Javed Hyder
Corporate
Directed By :
Bertrand Deve
Country :
France
Under Category :
Web - Series International
Synopsis : "Corporate"
is a
sarcastically gritty 7-episode, 10-minute comedy series that
follows the adventures of a zany team of corporate
filmmakers:
Walter,
an introverted production manager who can't say no to
clients;
Denis, a frustrated director who dreams of being an artist;
and
Maxine, an ex-communications director turned film producer
who
thinks
she knows everything.
AWARDS
Best Director :
Winner - Bertrand Deve
Best Actor :
Winner - Romain Lancry
Best Actress :
Winner - Mélodie Fontaine
Best Actor
Supporting
Role : Nominated - Claudy Corvo
Best Actress
Supporting
Role : WINNER - Diane Segard
Baaz
Directed By :
Dhruv Pandav & Charanpal Singh
Country :
India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis : This film
is
based on an arrogant man who does not respect others.
AWARDS
Best Film Short :
Nominated
Special Festival
Mention
: Winner - Charanpal Singh
Best Actor :
Winner - Megh Pandit
The Assassin's Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the
Canary Islands
Directed By :
Russ
Emanuel
Country :
United
States
Under Category :
Film Short International
Synopsis : New edit
completed February 2024 after our actor Gary Graham’s death.
Kaylee, an apprentice assassin for TAA Corp., is taking a
long-deserved vacation in the Canary Islands, when her
Freerunner drone arrives to project a holographic image of
Rick,
her handler.
Rick explains to Kaylee that her vacation has been cut
short,
and that she is being urgently summoned by Roy, the head of
TAA
Corp.’s Canary Island Bureau headquarters, for a new
mission.
AWARDS
Best Director :
Winner - Russ Emanuel
Best Actress :
Winner
- Tarah Paige
Best Actress Supporting
Role
: Winner - Katherine Munroe
Best Actor Supporting
Role :
Nominated - Gary Graham
Jahankilla
Directed By :
Vickey Kadam
Country :
India
Under Category :
Film Feature
Synopsis : Shubh
Karman,
Howzatt Productions Ltd, in association with SVP Films, is a
platform that provides equal opportunities to aspiring youth
in
the field
of content development, enabling them to add value to
society.
We are excited to share the story behind the name
"Jahankilla"
for our film, a title that encapsulates its very essence.
"Jahan"
signifies life, embodying the unwavering dedication, valour
and
sacrifice of our commandos who bravely risk their lives to
protect us.
AWARDS
Best Actor :
Winner - Jobanpreet Singh
Best Actress :
Winner - Gurbani Gill
Bay For Blood
Directed By :
Harry Waldman
Country :
United
States
Under Category :
Film Short International
Synopsis : James and
Rob
are hiding out in isolation to fix their mutual issues. As
time
progresses, the two reveal facts regarding their disturbing
past
relationship. An acquaintance of James', Jessica, finds
herself
in an uncomfortable position as she contemplates the best
way to
handle the situation.
AWARDS
Best Actor :
Winner - Dave Neylon
Best Actress :
Winner - Isaly Viana
Best Actor
Supporting
Role : Winner - Jasper Hammer
Rinti
Directed By :
Rrammy
Country :
India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis : The film is
about the life and journey of Prof. Rinti Banerjee, she was
a
scholar and a highly gifted human being. She was highly
focused,
and wanted to do a lot for mankind in the field of
healthcare to
the extent that post getting an MBBS degree, she gave up the
idea of practicing as a doctor despite being outstanding at
diagnosis and took up research at IIT Bombay and went on to
become one of the best professor’s IIT Bombay has had.
AWARDS
Best Actress :
Winner - Spruha Varad Joshi
Best Actor
Supporting
Role : Winner - Prithvi Zutshi
Harischandra
Directed By :
Ramana CV
Country :
India
Under Category :
Film Short
Synopsis : A married
couple-Adi and Janu take a lie detector test using a
polygraph
app for fun. They have no idea what they are getting into.
AWARDS
Best Actress :
Winner - Sue Anieson
Special Festival
Mention
: Winner - Saurav Verma
Best Background
Score :
Nominated - Saketh Karlapalem, CV Ramana
Rotten Society
Directed By :
SS
Jishnu Dev
Country :
India
Under Category :
Film Feature
Synopsis : Rotten
Society
is a social satire movie. This movie revolves around the
missing
of a news reporter and his digital camera in which he
records
a political conspiracy and murder. A mad man finds this
camera
and he records some more interesting events happening in the
society.
AWARDS
Best Actor :
Winner - T Sunil Punnakkad
A Tale of Stolen Peach
Directed By :
Jiaguo WANG
Country :
China
Under Category :
Animation Short International
Synopsis : Mr. Fox
rides on
performing the trick of stolen peaches from heaven, breaks
phantom spells with illusions, and soothe the ghosts trapped
in
an
illusionary world in a deserted village.
AWARDS
Special Festival
Mention
:Winner - A Tale Of Stolen Peach
Unity - The Man of Social Justice
Directed By :
Vijay Kumar Badugu
Country :
India
Under Category :
Documentary Feature
Synopsis : A Historical
Biopic of British India Freedom Fighter, Advocate, Battles
against Nizam & Razaakar, Telangana Agitator and Sacrifices,
4x
Member
Legislative Assembly, 2x Minister, Deputy Speaker, Supported
Handlooms Weavers, A.K.A Father of Telangana - Acharya Konda
Laxman Bapuji (27 September 1915 – 21 September 2012).
AWARDS
Best Documentary
Feature
: 3rd Winner - UNITY - The Man of Social
Justice
Word
Directed By :
Moein Hasheminsab
Country :
Iran,
Islamic Republic
Under Category :
Film Feature International
Synopsis : This movie
narrates the tale of a girl who loses her mother during
childhood, and her father vanishes as well. Struggling with
intense mental stress,
she explores her journey through the musical melodies her
father
once played for her as a child.
AWARDS
Best Actress :
Winner - Samira Hosseini
Best Actress
Supporting
Role : Winner - Farnoush Tadayyon
Best Actor
Supporting
Role : Winner - Mohammadali Salahi
Game Show
Directed By :
Fei
Chen
Country :
China
Under Category :
Animation Short International
Synopsis : In the
world of
black and white, a red box suddenly appears, and those who
are
close to the box will enter a world of colour, while three
mysterious people also appear in the black and white world
desperately searching for the whereabouts of the box.
Synopsis :
Anathbandhu (A.B) is a resident of
London, he
works and lives with his girlfriend Suzanne.
Even
though he gives his mother all the details of
his
life,
he somehow doesn't share it with her. Because he
knows that his conservative mother would oppose
the
idea of her only child's marriage to a
foreigner.
AWARDS
Best
Actress
: Winner - Alexander Taylor
Best
Actress
Supporting Role : Winner -
Manashi
Sinha
Best
Actor :
Nominated - Ankush Hazra
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Nominated -
Shantilal Mukherjee
Pyramid
Directed
By :
Shravan Diliprao Dandawate
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Pyramid is a story about a social
Issue.
It revolves around a boy called ‘Indra’ who
is a
very enthusiastic, happy-go-lucky kid from a
small village
in India. He and his family suffered just
because of basic needs and a small mentality
that is still with us.
AWARDS
Best
Child
Artist : Winner - Soham
Bhalchandra
Pratap
Best
Actor :
Winner - KT Pawar
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Winner - Raju
Athawale
Best
Actress
Supporting Role : Nominated -
Anuja
Chaudhary
Best
Actress
Supporting Role : Nominated -
Madhavi
Chhailkar
If I Were A Pony
Directed
By :
Leonard Eckhaus
Country :
United States
Under
Category : Animation Short
International
Synopsis :
If I
Were a Pony by Leonard Eckhaus is the story of a
boy
and his pony told from the Pony's perspective.
The pony and the boy share many adventures. They
ride across streams; they ride with friends and
sometimes they just enjoy each other’s company.
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention : Winner - If I
Were
A Pony
Purga
Directed
By :
Gintarė Valevičiūtė Brazauskienė
&
Antanas Skučas
Country :
Lithuania
Under
Category : Animation Short
Internationa
Synopsis :
Winter, 1942. Beyond the Arctic Circle,
on
the uninhabited island of Trofimovsk in the
Laptev
Sea, deported peoples struggle to survive.
This is the place chosen by Soviet authorities
to
deport vast numbers of inhabitants from the
occupied
Baltic countries, Finland, Ukraine and
elsewhere.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Winner - Gintarė
Valevičiūtė Brazauskienė, Antanas Skučas
Woman In The Maze
Directed
By :
Mitesh Patel
Country :
United States
Under
Category : Film Feature
International
Synopsis :
A young woman rents a house in
America's
largest ghost town, Jerome, Arizona for a
business trip, but soon discovers that the
house
is cursed and traps any woman who enters it.
AWARDS
Best
Actress
: Winner - Meredith Vancuyk
Best
Director : Winner - Mitesh Patel
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Nominated -
Joey
Heyworth
Best
Music
Composer : Nominated - George
Kallis
The 7th Night: MaoMao Revisits
Directed
By :
ahLoong
Country :
Malaysia
Under
Category : Animation Short
International
Synopsis :
According to Chinese custom, every soul
will
pay a last visit to their beloved family on the
7th
night after they passed away.
This is a story about a little boy waiting for
the
return of his lost beloved cat MaoMao.
AWARDS
Best
International Animation Film :
Winner
- The 7th Night : MaoMao Revisits
Best
Director : Winner - ahLoong
humAnold
Directed
By :
Nelson Hill
Country :
United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
A
young kid is woken up to reality and begins
exploring what life has to offer... until we
realize
things may not be what they seem.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Winner - Nelson Hill
Out of State - A Gothic Romance
Directed
By :
Victoria Bugbee
Country :
United States
Under
Category : Film Feature
International
Synopsis :
Elsa, 18, is sent to live with her strange
step-relatives Aunt Marcia and her two twenty
something sons, Tab and Emery.
Tab is a pianist and Marcia's favorite while
Emery
is the Cinderella of the family and they never
leave
their house.
AWARDS
Best
Actress
: Winner - Sarah Moliski
Best
Actress
Supporting Role : Winner -
Caroline
Winterson
Best
Actor :
Winner - Avery Ryder Turner
Best
Actress
: Nominated - Sneha Singh
Best
Background Score :Winner - Joe
Deihl
No Water Land
Directed
By :
Saumitra Singh
Country :
India
Under
Category : Documentary
Feature
Synopsis :
The
premise revolves around the life of young girls
from
the remote villages of Maharashtra’s Nashik
district, who are facing chronic
scarcity of drinking water. They have to travel
more
than 15 KMs daily to fetch the water required
for
their daily needs, that too balancing 20-30 KGs
over
their heads.
AWARDS
Best
Documentary
Film : 1st Winner - No Water Land
Bali Frodo
Directed
By :
Felix Benjamin Schaefer
Country :
Russian Federation
Under
Category : Amature Short
International
Synopsis :
After his epic journey to destroy the
ring,
Frodo Baggins spends the next 20 years of his
life
in Bali, Indonesia.
Despite his attempts to have a regular life, his
strong obsession with the ring makes it
impossible
for him to move on.
AWARDS
Best
Amature
Short International : Winner -
Bali
Frodo
The Doorbell Paradox
Directed
By :
Vishal Wakchaure
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
The
Doorbell Paradox is a mind-bending thriller
about a
man's struggle to escape and to ignore his
doorbell
and to break free from the cycle of endless
night.
AWARDS
Best
Film
Short : Nominated - The Doorbell
Paradox
Titu Ambani
Directed
By :
Rohit Raj Goyal
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Feature
Synopsis :
Titu.. his aspirations and dreams are so
distant from his abilities/actions/mehnat... he
dreams with wide-open eyes, and in a bid to
achieve his dreams searches for the
shortest/quickest way available. Despite this
debt-ridden life, if you ask him, he is no less
rich/talented/a dreamer than Ambani!
AWARDS
Best
Actor :
Winner - Tushar Pandey
Best
Actress
: Winner - Deepika Singh
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Winner -
Raghubir
Yadav
Best
Actor
Supporting Role :Nominated -
Virendra
Saxena
Best
Actress
Supporting Role :Nominated -
Sapna
Sand
Special
Festival Mention :Winner -
Brijendra
Kala
The Sketchbook
Directed
By :
Irfan Shekh
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
This
is the story of a sketch artist who also works
as a
graphic designer. He has a peculiar habit of
looking
at his sketches in the
mirror, and he believes they talk back to him,
giving him instructions and commands.
AWARDS
Best
Film
:Nominated - The Sketchbook
Best
Actor :
Nominated - Preet Gadrana
Graduation
Directed
By :
YIWEN CAO
Country :
Hong Kong
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
During the epidemic of COVID-19, many
people
are facing the crisis of unemployment. Due to
strict
prevention measures, Chinese Internet
enterprises suffer heavy losses and decide to
fire
more than millions of programmers. And these
companies use the word "Graduation" instead of
"Layoff"...
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention: Winner -
Graduation
Enter The Room
Directed
By :
Harry Waldman
Country :
United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
A
young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother,
Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles
into
his new city.
The two polar opposite personalities begin to
clash
as Jeremy's presence poses a threat to Brian's
way
of life.
AWARDS
Best
Actor
:Winner - Peter Mastne
Special
Festival Mention: Winner - Rich
Holton
Dignidad
Directed
By :
Rachel Lascar
Country :
Spain
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
An
8-year-old girl spends her days playing alone in
an
empty house. Her imagination allows her to
escape
from the reality that surrounds
her: a depressed mother who can barely get out
of
bed and an unstable and absent father who only
shows
signs of life when he has no one else to turn
to.
AWARDS
Best
Child
Artist : Winner - Gaia Kemp Navas
Special
Festival Mention: Winner - Carlos
Martinho
Best
Supporting Actress: Winner -
Rachel
Lascar
Alma
Directed
By :
SebastiÁn Salazar Claro
Country :
Chile
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
Alma
(14) is in charge of her brother's, León (8),
care
in her loneliness. An unfortunate accident will
leave her true reality exposed.
AWARDS
Best
Actress
: Winner - Constanza Andreatti
Special
Festival Mention : Winner -
Pablo
Gamboa
Mrityorma
Directed
By :
Sudheer Attavar
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Feature
Synopsis :
Film concept is the culmination of classical
social
issues and modern-day nuances, countryside
perspectives and urban prejudices,
factual romantic inclusions, and fantasy
realizations built around the backdrop of
workings,
happenings, issues within the liquor Mafia.
AWARDS
Best
Film :
Winner - Mrityorma
Best
Singer
: Winner - Sadhna Sargam
Best
Director: Winner - Sudheer
Attavar
Best
Actress
:Winner - Nivedita
Best
Actor:
Nominated - Rakesh Adiga
Good Girl
Directed
By :
Rajesh Balwani
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
As a society women are held accountable for
being morally right. In life, a man can get
away
with a murder of a woman,
but a woman can't get away by abusing a man.
We
may say that as a Society as a Country we
have
progressed and liberated, but we now use
different chains to bind women
AWARDS
Best
Director: Winner - Rajesh
Balwani
Lost & Found
Directed
By :
Piyush Batra
Country :
India
Under
Category : Documentary
Feature
Synopsis :
Experience truth, lie and everything in
between.
Synopsis :
“,” is the third and final short film
of
a short film trilogy called; ‘to be, to come
and
to become’.What is “,” about? Stomachache?
Anxiety? Stress? Medicine? Is it about
corona?
Being in Quarintine? Isolation? Or simply
the
phase of growing up called; to become?
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner - Martin Jesus
Kozlowski
Flush Out
Directed
By : Shamnas PP
Country
:
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Flush Out is a realistic journey
of a
slum boy,
who dreamed to own a water closet and
struggles made for the same.
AWARDS
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated
- Shamnas PP
Best
Child Artist : Winner -
Shayaan
Shamnas
Arrivederci Paris
Directed
By : Louis Salvatore
Bellanti
Country
:
France
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
One evening, in a luxurious building
in
the centre of Paris, an armed woman bursts
into
the apartment of Adriano Rizzo, an actor who
exploits his status to abuse young
actresses.
Later, the mysterious woman reveals her
identity: Hélène de Saint-Amand, owner of
the
apartment. She intends to kill him to put an
end
to his sexual assaults.
AWARDS
Best
Director :Winner - Louis
Salvatore Bellanti
Best
Actor : Winner - Cesare
Capitani
Best
Actress :Winner - Carla
Bianchi
A Night With A Ghost
Directed
By : Azad Jain
Country
:
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor :Nominated - Paritosh
Sand
Embracing Sadness: A Tale of
Redemption
Directed
By : KA Chinery
Country
:
United States
Under
Category : Amature Short
Synopsis :
These past couple of years have been
the
saddest years of my life.
I lost my precious mother to cancer (her
suffering was beyond anything I ever thought
possible). My family fell apart. Covid hit
and
then the whole world seemed to crumble.
And so I sat with my thoughts day after day
and
asked myself, “Why?”...What I found was
profound.
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention: Winner -
Embracing Sadness: A Tale of Redemption
Kya Hai Uss Paar
Directed
By : Piyush batra
Country
:
India
Under
Category : Documentary
Feature
Synopsis :
Travel film shot at Uttarakhand
AWARDS
Best
Documentary Feature : 1st
Winner
Battle Of Swaraj
Directed
By :
Suujoy Mukherjee
Country :
India
Under
Category : Documentary
Feature
Synopsis :
AWARDS
Best
Documentary Feature : 2nd Winner
Black Justice
Directed
By :
Bhavin Wadia
Country :
India
Under
Category : Web-Series
Synopsis :
AWARDS
Best
Actor :
Nominated - Alok Nath Pathak
Best
Director : Nominated - Bhavin
Wadia
Best
Writer
: Winner - Dr. Kapil Kakar
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Nominated -
Akbar
Khan
Best Web
-
Series : Winner
Best
Actor :
Winner - Vedish Zaveri
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Winner - Vijay
Desai
Delhi, My Life
Directed
By :
Pratyoosh Bhardwaj
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
A
cynical man, after being rejected by the love of
his
life, gets a job that requires him to be on the
streets of Delhi, the capital of India, at
night.
Lonely, without any friends, he befriends the
night
life of the city.
AWARDS
Best Film :
Nominated
Best Actor :
Nominated - Raman Singh
Dobya
Directed
By :
Ashutosh Jare
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Regional
Synopsis :
Dobya is being old, aged and elderly.
This
story belongs to an elderly Sitaram, his old
bull,
raja, and to a village that is marching towards
aging. This village is like any other village
you
will ever encounter, preserving their rural
charm
for ages, holding on to humanity and carefully
protecting the legacy of aging from generation
to
generation almost like the fallen leaves from a
lifeless tree.
AWARDS
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Nominated -
Siddhesh Zhadbuke
Best
Director : Nominated - Ashutosh
Jare
Best
Actor :
Winner - Shashank Shende
Best
Film
Short Regional : Winner
Joey's Chopin
Directed
By :
Karen Klami
Country :
United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
What
Joey wants, Joey never gets. He tries. He really
does. But life seems to find sardonic pleasure
throwing him curve balls. He’s an excellent
musician, and a good, loving person. But nothing
in
his life reflects back his own excellence,
goodness
or love.
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention : Winner -
Joey’s
Chopin
Judicial Custody
Directed
By :
Tapesh Kotia
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Feature
Synopsis :
Judicial Custody is a film in drama
genre.
Jayant Mehta, a talented cricketer and a
successful
businessman fails in his marriage and family
when
his wife loses their child. Torn between his
mother
and wife's ever-growing rift, he seeks love
elsewhere but only to be destroyed
AWARDS
Best
Film
:Nominated
Best
Actor :
Nominated - Saurabh Saraswat
Kasam Se
Directed
By :
Sanjay Datar
Country :
India
Under
Category : Music Video
Synopsis :
Romantic Love Story
AWARDS
Best
Music
Video : Nominated
Abhinav Ka Abhinandan
Directed
By :
Sanjay Datar
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Feature
Synopsis :
Abhinav Ka Abhinandan is a story about a
special needs young man. Abhinav’s father Arvind
has
a belief that his son is none of the other
normal
child. Arvind had made sure that his son was at
par
with the world. He treated him like his other
child
Archana and kept him in the mainstream of the
Society. He set up a school for special
children.Abhinav has a special fondness for art
–
painting . Even though he was a special needs
child
, his paintings were exemplary.
AWARDS
Best
Actor :
Nominated - Umakant Patil
Best
Singer
: Winner - Shaan
Special
Festival Mention Winner -
Abhinav
Datar
Best
Actress
: Winner - Renata Puppin
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Winner -
Parvin
Dabas
Best
Actress
Supporting Role : Winner -
Pavitra
Lokesh
Liberacion
Directed
By :
PABLO ÁLVAREZ FUEYO
Country :
Spain
Under
Category : Film Feature
International
Synopsis :
Diego moves to Madrid trying to get over
the
loss of Sara, his girlfriend. Soon he finds out
that
she could still be alive, and her disappearance
is
part of something much bigger.
AWARDS
Best
international Feature Film
:Winner
Best
Actor :
Winner - Alex Martinez
Best
Actress
:Winner - Maria Godoy
Best
Actress
: Winner - Silvia Orduna
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Nominated -
Otto
Garcia
Best
Actress
: Winner - Celia Diaz
Manic Lover
Directed
By :
Luuk Audenaerde
Country :
Netherlands
Under
Category : Student Short
International
Synopsis :
Maasja, a young woman in desperate need
of
affection and connection, searches for "true
love"
in a lonely cycle of hook-ups.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Winner - Luuk
Audenaerde
Best
Actress
:Winner - Cheyenne Lohnen
Best
Actor :
Nominated - Max Pleysier
Best
Actor :
Nominated - Karel Konings
Newton's Pendulum
Directed
By :
Kushal Jadhav
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
AWARDS
Best
Film
:Nominated
Best
Director : Nominated - Kushal
Jadhav
Best
Actor :
Winner - Shishir Sharma
Best
Actress
:Nominated - Aadhya
Best
Actor
Supporting Role :Nominated -
Kiran
Patil
Ramdeen
Directed
By :
Azad Jain
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
The
story of this dream film revolves around
Ramdeen, an
honest and hardworking tailor from a small
Indian
village in the year 1965 who is hired by
Laalaji,
the wealthiest man in the village, to stitch
Diwali
clothes for his family. The film then alternates
between Ramdeen's life then versus Ramesh's life
now. While a timid and frustrated Ramesh is
overworked but underpaid and unappreciated,
Ramdeen
is a polite, gullible man.
AWARDS
Best
Actor :
Winner - Ishteyaq Khan
Best
Actor
Supporting Role : Winner - Azad
Jain
Best
Actress
Supporting Role : Winner - Anshu
Varshney
It Could Be You
Directed
By :
Abdul T. Sesay, Darren C. Murray
Country :
United States
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Two brothers encounter a homeless
man,
the youngest of the two shows his disdain
for
the man until a story is shared that changes
his
life forever.
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention : Winner -
Jonathan Balagizi
Best
Actor : Winner - James E
Ingram
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner -
Phil Michael Ramos
Scarpedicemente
Directed
By :
John Vamvas
Country :
Canada
Under
Category : Film Feature
International
Synopsis :
Delusional gangster Luigi Scarpedicemente
and
his wife, Holly, sneak off to a desert Vegas
motel
to avoid bodyguards Ricco & Rocco and celebrate
their one year wedding anniversary. What's the
worst
that can happen? A dark comedy that pays homage
to
classic cinema!
AWARDS
Best
Film :
Nominated
Best
Actor :
Winner - John Vamvas
Best
Actress
: Winner - Olga Montes
The Substituition
Directed
By :
Karen Klami
Country :
United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
Lance is in trouble. Inside trouble. His
marriage to Jill is over because of it, and no
matter how hard he’s tried to reconcile his own
feelings with reality and make things right, in
the
end, failure still comes crashing down upon his
head. That’s why he comes so close to thinking
thoughts a man should never think and ending it
all.
AWARDS
Best
Actress
: Nominated - Wendy Zier
Best
Actor :
Nominated - Ken Holmes
Best
Actress
: Winner - Allie Radice
The Session
Directed
By :
Rishabh Kumar
Country :
India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Certain conversations can be
uncomfortable
but we all need someone to lend us an ear at
times.
Such is the story of Akash, who chooses to open
up
to someone finally about what goes on in his
head.
See what happens next when he does.
AWARDS
Best
Film :
Nominated
Best
Actor :
Winner - Shaan Groverr
Best
Actress
: Winner - Divya Seth Shah
Synopsis
:
Based on true stories from
frontline hospital workers.
COVID-19 GROUND ZERO captures a
slice of
life of New York City between
February
and May 2020, through the
courageous,
heart-wrenching account of a
dedicated
frontline hospital nurse, and her
boyfriend, a Broadway technician
recently laid off; set against the
chaotic political backdrop, the
pandemic
that engulfed NYC and the Black
Lives
Matter protests.
A compelling story of love,
compassion
and determination.
AWARDS
Best
Film Feature International :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
Cyril
Durel
Best
Actress : Winner -
Laura
Weissbecker
Matcha & Vanilla
Directed
By : Hamish
Downie
Country
: Japan
Under
Category : Film
Feature International
Synopsis
: A lesbian couple in
conservative Japan must fight to
stay together when one of them
is
diagnosed with terminal cancer.
AWARDS
Best
Film Feature International :
Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner -
Qyoko
Kudo
Best
Director : Nominated
-
Hamish Downie
Amar Ekla Belar Kotha
Directed
By : Soumya Sen
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
A narrative of a women's
struggle
and wins in life... her story of
perseverance, conviction and
resurrection! It’s not about getting
lost in the maze of life... it’s
about
rediscovering our ways...
AWARDS
Best
Short Film :
Nominated
Drift
Directed
By : Andrii
Ahapii
Country
: Canada
Under
Category :
Student
Short
Synopsis
:
This video shows all beauty
of
drifting in a very cinematic way!
Speed
and danger give you goosebumps. But
racing and drifting that's what you
love
to do the most!
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
Best
Student Short Film :
Nominated
VR The World
Directed
By : Pravin J
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Animation
Short
Synopsis
:
“VR the world” is an animated
short film focused on conservation
of
Forest and Wildlife. The story is an
imaginary situation which may happen
in
the near future where we all at the
verge of extinction because of the
act
of deforestation and urbanisation.
AWARDS
Best
Animation Film :
Winner
Deep Inside
Directed
By : Bharath
Bhushan
Nethi
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Just like every other
youngster
Vishal Bhatia loves to live his life
to
the fullest, having fun with friends
and
cares a damn for rest of the world.
After his father’s demise he takes
over
the entire business, only to get
busy
looking for more fun, until that
night
of his Birthday.
Seen partying with his friends that
night, wakes up to find himself
trapped
inside a box, his life takes him for
a
Rollercoaster ride since then.
AWARDS
Best
Film Feature :Winner
Best
Writer : Nominated -
Bharath Bhushan Nethi
Best
Actor : Nominated - Pawan
Aryaveer Rajput
I Love You, Maria
Directed
By : Maria Sofia
Palmieri, Karen Klami, Ken
Holmes
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
Sofia and Daniel are the perfect
couple. Both are budding professional
photographers, living their dream in
blissful success, loving it, and loving
each
other even more. They see life through
that
very special artist's lens, where
reality
melts with fantasy, and anything is
possible.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Nominated - Ken
Holmes
Best
Actress :Winner - Maria
Sofia
Palmieri
Love Birds
Directed
By : Kushal
Srivastava
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Nomninated
Best
Director : Winner :
Kushal
Srivastava
Best
Actor : Winner : Adhyayan
Suman
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Sneha
Singh
Best
Actor Supporting Role
:Winner
- Harshit RJ
Everlasting Tape
Directed
By : Haley Keegan
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Amature
Short
Synopsis :
Everlasting Tape is an
exploration of
the art of coupling music and visuals.
In
this series of vignettes filmmaker Haley
Keegan pairs original musical
compositions
with stock footage from various eras of
film, showcasing the tangible connection
between these two mediums.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Song Of The Same Night
Directed
By : SKary H Sarrey,
Jason J Sarrey, Jay Rho, Ryan
Foregger, Yong Duk Jhun, Lai Tsz
Yeung Alson
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
How do five strangers scattered
across the world find solace in each
other
during a global pandemic? An new social
media platform and the international
language of song.
AWARDS
Best
International Short Film :
Winner
Best
Actress : Winner - Lexi
Lawson
Take The Vax
Directed
By : Edsta
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
After the COVID-19 pandemic
subsided,
and people are getting back to their
lives,
Mark, a vaccine skeptic, soon realizes
that
he has no other choice but to take the
vax.
AWARDS
Best
International Short Film :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner - Fesal
Jaber
Whisper Naked Shadow -
Season 2
Directed
By : Nora K
Country
: Czech Republic
Under
Category : Web-Series
International
Synopsis :
Five friends, one mystery. Sofie,
Robin and Viki are pretty regular
college
students and roommates. Dealing with all
the
pretty regular college students’
problems.
How to meet tough deadlines, pass exams,
make some cash and if possible also have
some life on the side. So it is
completely
inconvenient to them and their friends
Lea
and Harvey, when Sofie starts walking
around
the flat naked all of a sudden, Robin
must
resort to whispering and Viki? Viki is
haunted by her own shadow it seems. Are
they
dealing with super powers or super
troubles?
AWARDS
Best
International Web- Series :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner - Daniel
Mavrov
Best
Actress : Winner - Anna
Lucie
Schollerova
Best
Actress : Winner - Andrea
Hodikova
Best
Actress : Nominated - Lea
Kolouchova
Best
Director : Nominated -
Nora K
Dil Ki Dor
Directed
By : Nitin Patil
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
Vinay is a loving father who
wants to
organize the best wedding for his
daughter.
He has a heart condition and is unable
to
cope up with the exertion. Despite
everyone's request, he continues pushing
himself to make the wedding dream come
true.
Unfortunately, Vinay suffers a heart
attack
just two days before the wedding. Kamal,
his
son, and his family are trying their
best to
save him. As Vinay is in ICU, they all
have
one question on their mind - was it
worth
it?
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Nominated
Special
Festival Mention : Nitin
Patil
Pleine Lune
Directed
By : Giorgio Rizzo
Country
: Italy
Under
Category : Music
Video
International
Synopsis :
video art of a piece written by
Davide Campione
AWARDS
Best
Music Video International :
Nominated
Spécial
Festival Mention : Pleine
Lune
Humhari Khushboo
Directed
By : Azad Jain
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Khushboo, a 24 year old single
parent
child and lives with her father. She is
Beautiful, cute, intelligent,
Enthusiastic
and passionate about her work.She also
has a
secret crush on Mr. Rohit, his senior in
office.She has a medical condition which
is
associated with a social taboo and her
confidence is shattered when she ruins a
Project Presentation in front of a
prestigious and renowned client to her
office.How she regains her lost
confidence
and fights against a social taboo, is
the
sort of HUMARI KHUSHBOO!
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner - Suhani
Popli
Best
Director : Nominated -
Dr. E
(r) Azad Jain
Best
Actor : Nominated - Rohit
Mehta
Taashe (a music instrument)
Directed
By : Prakhar
Shrivastava
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Shiv Kothari ,a village boy of 8
years is not at all interested to learn
taashe (a music instrument ) , his
family
and ancestral business. What changes him
so
suddenly that he becomes keen to learn
taashe. Who changes him so much that he
decides to play tashe professionally…..
watch a unique love and marriage story
of
two kids…
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Winner : Dr. E
(R)
Azad Jain
Special
Festival Mention : Pari
Chourasia, Swastik Sharma
Broken
Directed
By : Haleh Saberi
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
A nurse struggling to keep her
sanity
while fighting alongside her patients,
as
she battles one of the worst pandemic
the
world has seen. Making matters worse the
pandemic hit while she was working in an
undercover fashion gathering information
to
expose missing patients coverups,
individual, and systemic criminal
behavior
in the senior care and vulnerable
population.
AWARDS
Best
International Short Film :
Nominated
Special
Festival Mention : Haleh
Saberi
This Case & My Life
Directed
By : Ana A P
Braunstein
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
The protagonist is Chris Roberts
played by Mark Karten. Chris is married
to
Mrs.Stacey Roberts played by Monica
Phillips. He is a successful lawyer in a
New
York City law firm with complicated
cases,
and his relationships are starting to
catch
up with him. His long-time law partner
Mark
Harrison played by Alexander Carney, who
he
made a personal deal with, is closing in
on
him for resolution. And his long-time
executive assistant Kathy Welch played
by
Ana P. Braunstein is caught in the
middle
trying to manage his professional and
personal life. She is secretly
considering
quitting her job at the firm. Chris's
life
is about to change when a detective
enters
the picture. And the day brings him
other
shocking news.
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention - This
Case
& My Life
Lunch Stories
Directed
By : Akash Golia
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis
:
Two females in pursuit of
freedom
AWARDS
Best
Short Film :
Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner -
Devoleena Bhattacharjee
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Nominated - Paribhasha
Mishra
Ruins
Directed
By : Jay Mohan
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film
Feature
International
Synopsis :
RUINS is the first pandemic
related
film that is told in the rebellious
"TELL
BUT DON'T SHOW" format. It is a
futuristic
story of six hospital employees told as
found footage. Nine years after an
infection
that destroyed most of humanity, the
survivors search among the debris to
find
clues of what really transpired. The
excavation team finds a secure video
package
that tells the story of some of the
staff in
a hospital fighting the pandemic. The
film
portrays the trials and tribulations
they
face during complete chaos around
them.y.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Winner
Best
Director : Winner - Jay
Mohan
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Gracie Piper
On / Off
Directed
By : Nicolas P.
Villarreal
Country
: Argentina
Under
Category : Animation
Short International
Synopsis :
Endless distractions threaten to
destroy creativity.
AWARDS
Best
Animation Short International:
Winner
Aarsa ( THE STATUS )
Directed
By : GANESH KRISHNA
MODAK
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
In today's runaway world, man has
forgotten his original life. Running
behind
happiness, health has begun to ignore.
Currently Cancer is the deadliest
disease in
the world. This is the story of a girl.
She
lost her mother due to cancer. After she
lost her mother, the girl decided to
donate
her own hair for making wigs for the
cancer
patients.However, after donating her
hair
her look changed and so the perception
of
the people around her and everyone
thought
that she too is suffering from Cancer
including her own fiancée and left her.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated - Sanket Kashyap
Best
Actress : Winner - Shweta
Pagar
Best
Actress Supporting Role:
Nominated - Vaishnavi
Velapure
Best
Writer : Nominated -
Ashish
Ningurkar
Nil difficile Volenti
Directed
By : Fabio d'Avino
Country
: Italy
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
A young actor becomes his idol's
prompter for a theatrical
performance.During
the rehalsals they start to make
confidence,
but The Maestro is very sick...
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Winner - Fabio
D’Avino
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Franco Nero
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Maria Paola Tedesco
Best
Background Score :
Nominated
- Eduardo Maria d'Avino and
Guglielmo
Maria d'Avino
The Favor
Directed
By : HENRY Bruno
Country
: France
Under
Category : Film Short
International
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Winner - Henry
BRUNO
Best
Actress : Winner - Trebel
Anne Sophie
Antarvasna
Directed
By : Abhinav Singh
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
A middle class housewife in her
late
30's struggles to find time to
masturbate.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner -
Shivani
Tanksale
Best
Actor :Nominated -
Sanjaay
Khapare
Best
Child Artist ( Female ) :
Nominated - Sreenika
Patwardhan
Sita
Directed
By : Abhinav Singh
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Sita is a story of a young 11
year
old dalit boy who finds a dead newborn
baby
girl in the streets. All he wishes to do
now
is give her a respectful cremation.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner - Shriya
Pilgaonkar
Best
Director : Winner -
Abhinav
Singh
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Lilliput
Best
Child Artist : Winner -
Om
Kanojia
Dad, David & Danny
Directed
By : Suveer Bhambhani
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Dad, David & Danny is the story
of
Tony D’souza, his son- David and their
pet-
Danny. The film, in chapters, revolves
around the fractured relationship Tony
shared with his son and how Danny, made
all
the difference. Tony, just before his
demise, leaves behind a letter for David
and
it is the voice of Tony reading the
letter
that tells us a dramatic tale of this
father-son relationship.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director : Nominated -
Suveer
Bhambhani
Best
Actor : Nominated - Anuj
Singh Duhan
Essential
Directed
By : Sasilekha
Jyothik
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Amature
Short
International
Synopsis :
More than 600 Nurses died due to
COVID-19 worldwide.A Short film to
depict
the impact of COVID-19 on a healthcare
worker's family in New York. An
Emotional
expedition through the mind of a
teenager-based on real events.We created
this movie at our home during the
lockdown.
AWARDS
Best
Film Short International :
Winner
Best
Child Artist ( Female )
:Winner - Minakshi
Jyothik
Best
Director :Nominated -
Sasilekha Jyothik
Suta(The Daughter)
Directed
By : Dr(Er) Azad Jain
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis :
Suta (The Daughter) is the story of a
bold
and smart daughter who fights for the
sacrifices her mother’s dreams which are
sacrificed and went unnoticed in the
family.
She emerges victorious and sees that her
mother gains back her confidence.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner -
Malhaar
Rathod
Best
Background Score :
Nominated
- TOTAL AUDIO WORKS, MUMBAI
Binocular
Directed
By : Krishnan Unni
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
Kanaran is a timber mill
worker.He is
called Kunjettan by children and old men
alike .He is loved and respected by one
and
all. He worked hard and struggled a lot
to
provide good education to his son so
that
his son would one day become a very high
official. That was his late wife’s wish
before she died.But the son never cared
much
about his father.Kunjettan wished so
much to
live as a family with his son and to
caress
his grandchildren.Unfortunately the son
becomes a drug addict, And slowly loses
his
sanity and roams around the street
without
food and ultimately starves to death.
.The
degradation of an educated youth to a
drug
addict and a mad man culminating in his
death is depicted in this movie.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Justus
Directed
By : Suveer Bhambhani
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
An isolated old building. Which
is
currently been used by some anti-social
people as a hidden space for using
drugs. A
gang member Martin is seen shouting
against
a gang member for doing some mischief.
Suddenly a guy shouts the presence of
police.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner - Muhammad
Ashar
Caricia
Directed
By : Sitoh Ortega
Country
: Spain
Under
Category : Film Short
International
Synopsis :
She, ready to start a journey of
no
return. He, one more passenger. A simple
gesture, a chance meeting and a wait
that
will change them forever.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner - Pedro
Lendinez
Best
Actress : Winner - Amada
Santos
Baboon
Directed
By : Vinmathi Ganesan
Country
: India
Under
Category : Student
Short
Synopsis :
What is at the end of a wait? Do
we
know when we are waiting? Can it be
called
hope, trust or longing? Maybe it can be
called 'stagnant'
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner - Hari
Shankar
Best
Director : Nominated - Vinnu
Mathi Ganesan
But You
Directed
By : Lela Lomtadze
Country
: Georgia
Under
Category : Muisc
Video
International
AWARDS
Best
Singer : Winner - Lela
Lomtadze
Inteha
Directed
By : Nikki Sharma
Country
: India
Under
Category : Music
Video
Ghazal
AWARDS
Best
Music Video Ghazal Of The Year :
Winner
Best
Singer : Winner - Jazim
Sharma
Ik Sufna
Directed
By : Mukesh Chhabra
Country
: India
Under
Category : Music
Video
Regional
AWARDS
Best
Singer : Nominated -
Jasbir
Jassi
Best
Actress : Winner -
Navneet
Kaur Dhillon
Best
Music Video Director :
Winner
- Mukesh Chhabra
Heer
Directed
By : Rahul Bala
Country
: India
Under
Category : Music
Video
Regional
AWARDS
Best
Singer : Winner - Jasbir
Jassi
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Deviqa
Arya
Best
Music Video Director :
Nominated - Rahul Bala
Akwaaba the Awakening
Directed
By : Sybil D. Jatta
Country
: United States
Under
Category :
Documentary
Feature Internattional
AWARDS
Best
Documentary Feature
International :
Winner - 1st Award
Minnesota The Modern Day
Selma
Directed
By : Michael Douglas
Carlin
Country
: United States
Under
Category :
Documentary
Feature Internattional
AWARDS
Best
Documentary Feature
International :
Winner - 2nd Award
Synopsis
:
The film is a story about a
girl
who becomes a victim of Bride
trafficking that has been taking
place
in certain parts in India
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Winner
Best
Director : Winner -
Karan
Singh Rathore
Best
Actor : Winner -
Jackie
Shroff
Best
Actress : Winner -
Sara
Arjun
Best
Supporting Actor :
Nominated - Abhilash
Thapliyal
Painful Pride
Directed
By : Saumitra
Singh
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
: What happens when a
woman reaches a certain where
she
goes through an inevitable phase
of
Menopause? It affects her, not
just
physically, but psychologically
as
well. Next day, Vidya realizes
that
she hasn’t used her sanitary
pads in
a long time. She decides to
consult
a doctor, where she learns that
she
is actually going through a
Menopause. The doctor makes her
aware that it’s physical and
psychological, both. But it’s
just a
phase and it shall pass.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
Rituraj.
K. Singh
Best
Actress : Winner -
Pallavi Joshi
Best
Supporting Actor :
Nominated - Akashdeep
Arora
Kaidi
Directed
By : Pranjal
Kriplani
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
What happens when a star
spends a
night in the jail with another
convict?
How they both learn and unlearn
about
life itself from each other and help
the
viewers realize who is the real
'Kaidi'
in this world.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
Shaan
Groverr
Best
Supporting Actor :
Nominated - Rituraj. K.
Singh
Zindagi Anmol Hai
Directed
By : Sujoy J
Mukerji
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Zindagi Anmol Hai The Film
Highlights On the Need to Realise
The
Importance of Being Given A Human
Life.
Paving the Way to Understand That We
All
Have a Particular Purpose Here On
Earth
And Despite Life Not Always Being a
Bed
Of Roses One Has to Face the Ups and
Downs With a Smile. When a Young
Teenage
Girl Faces Things Going Wrong In Her
Life And is About to Commit the
Ultimate
Sin Of Committing Suicide She is
Reminded That This Life Is Hers To
Live,
Not to Take Away - Zindagi Anmol
Hai.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner -
Shrishti Munka
Best
Director : Winner -
Sujoy. J. Mukerji
The EVE
Directed
By : Luca
Machnich
Country
: Italy
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Simon is an eight-year-old
boy
who seems to have everything from
life.
He’s a handsome child, he’s rich yet
unhappy. He senses that there’s
something wrong with his life and
this
leads him to wander off thanks to
his
fervid imagination. His greatest
wish is
to leave the materialistic world
behind
since he isn’t fond of it.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
MAURIZIO
RAPOTEK
Best
Actress : Winner -
MARY
WALL
Best
Child Artist : Winner
-
VALERIO SANTOSUOSSO
Flip Side
Directed
By : Saju Kumar
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
A 10 year old girl with
rational
perspective , who always loved to
look
at the flip side of anything. A
documentary about her favorite
monument
turns her life upside down. Though
she
gets over it with the help of her
father, little did she know it was
just
the beginning.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film International :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Priyaroopan
Best
Child Artist : Winner
-
Nandha
Khushbu
Directed
By : Martin Jesus
Kozlowski
Country
: Denmark
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
‘Khushbu’ is the second part
of a
short film trilogy called 'To be, to
come and to become'. It speaks about
things like sex before marriage, a
father breaking contact to his son,
and
other important things. Just as
‘310804’
is based on the director's
Asperger's
background.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Winner -
Martin Jesus Kozlowski
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Hjalte Ilsoe
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Shruti Julie Johansson Bache
Cactus
Directed
By : Katie
Trubetsky
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
After a night of partying
with a
certain someone, Ella wakes up in a
random luxury home which turns out
to
belong to the infamous Italian mafia
boss, Tony Patranelli. Things take a
twisted turn when she finds herself
in a
morbid situation, leading her to
meet
some of the “goodfellas” along the
way.
Is she in danger? Is this all part
of
“the plan”? Or is this just a …
prickly
situation? “Cactus” is a dark comedy
that tests your judgments about who
somebody is and how actions can
sometimes show maybe not your
stereotypical view of ones
character.
Things can turn out funny when you
assume the worst.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Juan
Carlos Merino
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated - Nick Teti
Best
Director : Winner -
Katie
Trubetsky
Best
Actress : Winner -
Katie
Trubetsky
Manto
Directed
By : Timsal Qamar
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
“Manto” is a brief
biographical
short film, based on life, works and
thoughts of Saadat Hasan Manto, one
of
the finest Urdu short-story writers
of
20th century. He was known to write
about open truths of the society. A
critical sketch written by Qamar
Adeeb
and Directed by Timsal Qamar.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Special
Festival Mention :
Naushad Ali Rahat
Sirf Ek Baar
Directed
By : Sunil
Golwalkar
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
It is a short film on child
labour . A rich lady loves and cares
her
16 years old son and at the same
time
misbehaves with her same aged
servant.
The end of the movie reveals
shocking
news???
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Child Artist :
Nominated
- Shubham Bagwe, Nikhil Lulani
The Light Thief
Directed
By : Eva Daoud
Country
: Spain
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
When the essence of Love is
snatched from someone and locked
away in
a vessel with no name , what happens
to
those persons and how do they
change?
How can the broken hearted souls
break
that curse and recover from their
pain?
Can they regain their spark by
overcoming dark supernatural forces?
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Winner
Best
Director : Winner -
Eva
Daoud
Best
Actor : Winner -
Angel De
Miguel
Best
Actress : Winner -
Maria
Pedroviego
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Julia Fournier
I Resign
Directed
By : Jay Mohan
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
“I Resign” is the first
public
short film about Institutional
Racism
that received over 100,000 views on
Youtube within 7 days! It is
alarming to
note that anti-national,
anti-constitutional ideas of racism
and
race superiority are spreading fast
in
the land of freedom, especially in
enterprises, threatening the very
own
foundation this great country was
built
upon. This short film is a look into
the
question - Is racism spreading in
the
United States now?
AWARDS
Best
Short Film :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
Manoj
Pillai
Drugged Escape
Directed
By : Saawan Kumar
Singh
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
He is an IT Professional
whose
job demands more than 10 hours in a
day.
Eventually his job results in the
biggest stress of his life, pushing
him
into drugs. It's called the weekend
drug. Before going to a few moments
of
ecstasy, this IT professional puts
aside
everything that connects him to his
job,
and inhales the best drug to have
some
moments of relaxation.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
Saawan
Singh
Si, Quiero
Directed
By : María Isabel
Lahuerta Bellido
Country
: Spain
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
This story takes place in the
60s, in which women had to keep up
appearances and suffer in silence
the
abuses of power and the macho
society of
those years. Valentina since her
adolescence has been abused by the
owner
of the house where her mother works
as a
maid, assuming and consenting for a
long
time a situation of submission and
injustice.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Pablo
Juan Gimeno Saez
Best
Actress : Winner -
Isabel
Lahuerta Bellido
Reminiscence
Directed
By : Roman Soni
Country
: France
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
Paul wakes up. In bed, his
wife,
Nathalie, is by his side. He has to
take
his daughter to school, and get to
work.
An ordinary day. Yet Paul is not at
ease. Every minute that brings him
closer to his meeting with a certain
Mr.
Fletcher worries him more.
AWARDS
Best
Short Film International :
Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
Sebastian Wust
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Michel BLANC
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Elodie Berdegay
Apple
Directed
By : Vishnu
Udayan
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
A married elderly man picks
up a
young freebird for a weekend of fun.
An
unpredicted discourse among the two,
spanning cinema and generation
differences, steers into the
territory
of morality. This straight-talking
feature doesn't take sides but
simply
lets you into the shifting mindscape
of
Kerala today.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Aami Pattali
Best
Director : Nominated
-
Vishnu Udayan
Kiss The Ground
Directed
By : Josh
Tickell,
Rebecca Tickell
Country
: United States
Under
Category :
Documentary Feature
International
Synopsis
:
Kiss the Ground reveals that,
by
regenerating the world’s soils, we
can
completely and rapidly stabilize
Earth’s
climate, restore lost ecosystems and
create abundant food supplies. Using
compelling graphics and visuals,
along
with striking NASA and NOAA footage,
the
film artfully illustrates how, by
drawing down atmospheric carbon,
soil is
the missing piece of the climate
puzzle.
AWARDS
Best
Documentary Feature
International : 1st
Winner
Special
Festival Mention :
Woody
Harrelson
The One & Only Jewish
Miss
America
Directed
By : David Arond
Country
: United States
Under
Category :
Documentary Feature
International
Synopsis
:
“The One and Only Jewish Miss
America” is the surprising story of
Bess
Myerson, the talented beauty queen
from
the Bronx, and how she won the
world’s
most famous beauty pageant 75 years
ago,
at the tail end of World War II. The
film follows Bess, the middle
daughter
of poor Russian immigrants, from her
childhood in a one-bedroom Jewish
housing project apartment through
the
suspense-filled pageant. Impressed
by
the college-educated musician, the
judges chose her in spite of
anonymous
threatening phone calls and sponsor
disapproval of a Jewish pageant
winner.
AWARDS
Best
Documentary Feature
International : 2nd
Winner
Romans
Directed
By : Chris
Micallef
Country
: Europe
Under
Category :
Documentary Feature
International
Synopsis
:
Rome, from a humble beginning
grew into one of the greatest
empires
ever known, lasting almost a
thousand
years. In order to figure out of who
were the Romans, it is imperative to
understand from where all this
started.
AWARDS
Best
Documentary Feature
International : 3rd
Winner
Old Hearts Cafe
Directed
By : Cameron
Gallagher and Ken Holmes
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Web -
Series
Synopsis
:
Markus, the dishwasher in Old
Hearts Cafe, makes a short film
about
the evils of technology.
AWARDS
Best
Actor : Winner - Ken
Holmes
Welcome On Board
Directed
By : Mohsin Abrar
Country
: Singapore
Under
Category : Film
Feature International
Synopsis
:
Welcome on Board deals with
the
untold story of 4 girls who work as
cabin crew in an airline. The
personal,
professional struggles they go
through,
and how they deal with it, without
compromising on the inflight service
which they always provide with a
smile.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner -
Mohsin Abrar
Best
Actress : Winner -
Galathee Salze - Lozac’h ( Jerry
)
Best
Actress : Winner -
Nitti
Thapa ( Reema )
Best
Actress : Winner -
Neha
Zest ( Lolo )
Special
Festival Mention :
Bandana Basnett
Chitthiyaan
Directed
By : Swati Chugh
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Student
Short
Synopsis
:
This short film is based in
1971
in a small village in India. It is a
story about a woman who doesn't know
how
to read or write but wants to
communicate with her husband who is
in
army and posted at the border. This
was
a time where there were no
telephones in
villages. She then finds a unique
way to
communicate with her husband. This
story
is about challenges, love, hope,
adversity and separation.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Child Artist :
Nominated
- Vedika Sethi
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Priyanka Singh Rajput
Miss You, Dad
Directed
By : Neera Zaveri
Country
: United States
Under
Category :
Student
Short International
Synopsis
:
This short film follows the
life
of Ava, who carries with her the
memories of a picture perfect
suburban
childhood as part of a loving
family.
Her father in particular always
loved
her deeply, taking her to school,
joking
around, complimenting her, caring
for
her. They were close.
AWARDS
Student
Short International :
Winner
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Sandra Leclercq ( Mother )
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Byron
Clohessy ( Father )
Best
Director : Winner -
Neera
Zaveri
Best
Child Artist : Winner
-
Annee Agnello
Mind of Its Own
Directed
By : Jason
Kabolati
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film
Feature
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner-
Jamie
Tisdale ( Stacy )
Best
Actor : Winner -
Chase
Ryan Jeffery ( Johnny )
Best
Child Artist :
Nominated
- Mallory Eckert ( Lily )
Manasanamaha
Directed
By : Deepak Reddy
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Regional
Synopsis
:
A young man muses on the
nature
of love, recounting three
relationships
from his past. The girls in his life
resemble three different seasons,
namely
Chaitra (Spring), Varsha (Monsoon) &
Seeta (Winter).
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner -
Deepak Reddy
Best
Actress : Winner-
Drishika Chander
Best
Actor : Winner -
Ashwin
Viraj
Mein Barfaani Raat
Directed
By : Vishal
Wakchaure
Country
: India
Under
Category : Music
Video
Synopsis
:
Melodious heartbreak song of
an
artist struggling to make his art as
he
has lost his love (symbolically) and
now
his muse also has left him.
AWARDS
Best
Singer : Winner -
Vishal
Wakchaure
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Shekhar Singh
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Deepali Patil
Wolf Man
Directed
By : Lela
Lomtadze
Country
: Georgia
Under
Category : Music
Video International
AWARDS
Best
Music Video of The Year :
Winner
Special
Festival Mention :
Lela
Lomtadze
Tsunami
Directed
By : Somaratne
Dissanayake
Country
: Sri Lanka
Under
Category :
Feature
Film International
AWARDS
Best
Film Feature International :
Nominated
Best
Director : Winner -
Somaratne Dissanayake
Synopsis
:
Just a day before Father's
Day
Kush (8 years) gives the father’s
day
card to his bother luv (10
years),but
Luv tells him to give the father’s
day
card to their new father who is
going to
adopt them today.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Sagar
Dinesh Ramaiya ( Sharad )
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Manvi Chugh( Prajikta )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated - Praful Joshi
(
Eknath )
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- Avtar Vaishani ( LUV ), Keyan
Gadia( Kush )
WANDERLUST
Directed
By : Marco
Matheus
Country
: Brazil
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
: Marcos, is a
typical 30
year old millenial from the big
city. After being fired, he
resumes
life in Dublin, Ireland, with
his
best friend, Jaime. There the
two
young people share a house with
three other immigrants: Tony,
Junior
and Zero. Together, the five
young
people live an intense and
dazzling
life,watered, ballads, romances,
drugs and excesses that ends
when
one of the immigrants tragically
dies.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Nominated
-
Marco Matheus
Best
Actor : Winner -
Danniel
Navarro ( Marcos )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated - Marcio Wille
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Nominated - Sophia
Caddgan, &
Leticia Scopetta
Kasaai (The Devil)
Directed
By : Gajendra
Shrotriya
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Set in Rajasthan, India in
the
backdrop of village council
elections,
Kasaai is a political drama that
meanders around the struggle of a
mother
Gulabi to get justice...
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Mayur
More( Suraj )
Best
Actress : Winner -
Richa
Meena ( Misri )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Ravi Jhankal (
Lakhan )
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Mita Vasisht (
Gulabi )
BOZKIR LOOK AT THE BIRDS
Directed
By : Mehmet
Tanrisever
Country
: Turkey
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Abdullah and Cripple Ziya are
gun
dealers in the Bozkir district of
Konya.
They put honesty, honor, and dignity
before anything else. Even though
Abdullah and Cripple Ziya have
opposite
personalities, their friendship and
partnership go back many years.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Soydan Soydas ( Abdullah )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Suleyman Kabaali
(
Ziya )
FREE SLAVE
Directed
By : Mehmet
Tanrisever
Country
: Turkey
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Mehmet, being an idealistic
man
of principle, has decided to leave
his
job as an Imam to become a movie
director. But now, he finds himself
unable to raise the money he needs
to
fund his new film project. Mehmet is
a
divorced man. His wife left him
because
of his financial difficulties.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Winner -
Soydan
Soydas ( Mehmet )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated - Engin Yuksel
(
Hulusi )
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Secil Buket
Akinci (
Esma )
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- Buglem Yilmaz ( Ayse )
Chubby Café
Directed
By : Li Qia
Country
: China
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Chubby is the boss of Chubby
Café. She has four lovely employees:
Lazy, Petty, Anger and Simple. Each
of
them has a distinct personality. One
day
they saved a mysterious woman named
Illusion from a suitcase.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- Li Qia
Vindaloo Empire aka
Curry
Munchers
Directed
By : Cristobal
Lobos
Country
: New Zealand
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Curry Munchers follows the
life
of Sid (Anand Naidu), a mid-twenties
boy
who migrates to Auckland from Delhi,
with his parents.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Nominated
-
Cristobal Lobos
Best
Actor : Winner -
Anand
Naidu ( Siddharth )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Ajay Vasisht (
Dinesh ), Rajeev Varma ( Sheikh
)
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Alison
Titululaer (
Mary )
SPIES, Incorporated:
Night
of the Harem Tent
Directed
By : Gene
Robinson
Country
: USA
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Agent Robinson must rally the
'SPIES, Incorporated' team in
desperate
pursuit of an incredibly dangerous
artifact.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Winner -
Gene
Robinson
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Zlatislava Leiva
(
Zlata ), Darya Tarrasova (
Arabeela
)
Rocambola
Directed
By : Juanra
Fernández
Country
: Spain
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
John comes home from a long
day
at work not wanting to battles his
son's
game addiction. While decomposing on
the
phone with his wife, his son
discovers
the father's hidden gun. In a matter
of
seconds their life will change..
AWARDS
Best
Actor : Winner - Jan
Cornet ( Dante )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Juan Diego Botto
(
Saeta )
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner - Sheila Ponce (
Ingrid )
Ek Hota Pani
Directed
By : Rohaan
Satghare
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Food, clothing and shelter
are
the basic human needs. However the
foremost of all is the liquid which
has
been an integral part of our life
from
dawn to dusk: water! That's why
water is
life. But the importance of water is
so
cliched that it reminds us of the
king
and queen heard in any story line.
There
was a king, there was a queen...
Don't
say tomorrow, there was water! This
story is about water. It is about a
village which receives water through
tanker.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Hansraj Jagtap ( Ranga )
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Shreya Mastekar ( Ashwini )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Anant Jog (
Tatya
Patil )
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- Ganesh Mayekar ( Baban )
Woh Pal ( Those Lovely
Moments )
Directed
By : Nilesh Naik
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Aman, a 7 years old kid,
plans a
series of surprises for his father
along
with his Grandparents for some
reason.
Does his father find out the real
reason
behind this? What is his reaction?
Find
Out in this nice, emotional Short
Film.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Winner -
Nilesh Naik
Best
Child Artist : Winner
-
Bhavya Gurnani ( Aman )
Best
Writer : Nominated -
Nilesh Naik, Shreekant
Agneeswaran
BAITULLAH
Directed
By : Jitendra Rai
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Millions of children are
engaged
in child labour in India, in an
increasingly growing number every
year.
And with that, millions of childhood
dreams are never realised as a
result of
a lack of education.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Nominated
-
Jitendra Rai
Best
Child Artist : Winner
-
Om Kanojiya ( Baitullah )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Vipin Sharma
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- Ishteyak Khan
Miara
Directed
By : Saawan Singh
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Miara goes up to join the
world's
biggest terrorist organisation IFI.
The
film takes a sudden turn when Miara
is
asked to kill her father so as to
qualify the last entry test of the
IFI.
AWARDS
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Rajat
Sukhija
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Pooja Gautam ( Miara )
Dhut
Directed
By : Manish
Bhushan
Tiwari
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Ravi, a self-centered man in
early 30’s, hailing from Bhopal is
now
well settled in Delhi. He goes back
to
Bhopal after 7 long years and meets
his
college friends over drinks in a
dhaaba.
Ravi is a show-off man who does not
flinch an inch in grabbing
opportunity
to count on his achievements &
progress
in life.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner -
Manish Bhushan Tiwari
Best
Actor : Winner -
Iqbal
Khan ( Ravi )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated - Shakti Anand
(
Manu )
Living Idle
Directed
By : Ramana
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Living Idle is a symbolic
short
film that reflects actions have
consequences. This is the story of
an
artist - a creative sculptor of
idols,
that puts life and colour into
clusters
of mud and clay. Ironically, he
fails to
add colour to his own creation- his
world, his family, his child.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner -
Ramana
Best
Actor : Winner - Anil
Charanjeett
Best
Actress : Winner -
Geetanjali Mishra
Best
Background Score :
Nominated - J. V.
Varaprasad
GUTARGU
Directed
By : Raju Desai ,
Vishal Desai
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Gutargu is a romantic Hindi
short
story about a guy a girl who admire
each
other and are falling for each other
secretly. Their unusual love story
takes
place on a rooftop. Will their love
story have a happy ending?
AWARDS
Best
Director : Nominated
-
Raju Desai, Vishal Desai
Best
Actor : Winner -
Mohit
Chaudhary
Best
Actress : Winner -
Nazia
Devison
A Brief Case
Directed
By : Kushal
Jadhav
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Senior Inspector Deshmukh is
in a
search of a very important briefcase
which can be unlocked only with the
help
of Inspector Sadhu.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner -
Kushal Jadhav
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Kiran
Patil, ( Sr.Inspector Deshmukh )
Anand Jaiswal, ( Inspector Sadhu
)
Love Ishtory
Directed
By : Veenit
Katariia
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Love Ishtory is dramatical
take
on the casteism issue fructifying in
our
country. It’s a story of a young
couple
facing opposition on their affair.
Chavi
is from a brahmin family while
Aakash
belongs to a backward caste.
Chhavi’s
father, Bhaskar Shukla, is an
influential personality. His
daughter’s
desire to marry a lower caste boy
has
shaken him up.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Winner -
Veenit Katariia
Best
Actor : Winner -
Bharat
Chawla ( Son )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Rituraj K Singh
(
Dad ), Rajesh Balwani ( Dubeyji
)
I AM FINE
Directed
By : Sanjay Guru
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
Akash, has been a recluse for
many years. Initially not able to
accept
that he suffers from..
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Ab Mujhe Udnaa Hai
Directed
By : Suujoy J
Mukerji
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
The film presents the story
in a
flashback and cut back to present
day
scenarios. We see there is the usual
cheerful Devika, her passion for
dance
and bonding with her close knit
family
comprising her parents, an elder
brother
and her grandmother. An easy going
and
foresighted man, Devika’s father,
Prof.
Ashok Kohli, is a 48 year old
professor
at a reputed institution who firmly
believes in keeping pace with the
changing times.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner -
Suujoy J Mukerji
Best
Actor : Winner -
Kanwaljit Singh ( Ashok Kohli )
Best
Actress : Winner -
Jasmine Grover ( Devika )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Mahaakshay
Chakarborty ( Sunny )
Best
Background Score :
Nominated - Ashif
Chandwani,
D. J. Bharali
A Perfect Day
Directed
By : Archana Dua
Country
: Thailand
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
Mansi is a housewife who
lives
with her husband, kids, and
father-in-law happily.
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- Archana Dua
CHAINED
Directed
By : Ganesh Bhat
Country
: US
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
A mystery man holds Thomas in
captivity and takes him to their
haunting past which brings emotional
distress in their minds. Thomas
tries to
escape which goes awry in an
unexpected
dimension that leaves him with no
choice
left in his life.
AWARDS
Best
Actor : Winner -
Vigil
Bose ( Thomas )
Best
Writer : Nominated -
Ganesh Bhat
The Avant-Gardener
Directed
By : Lindsay Katt
Country
: US
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
Distinguishing itself through
innovative format, and raw emotion,
this"FilmTrack" to Lindsay Katt's
new
Musical Record.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actress : Winner -
Lindsay Katt
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated - Eric Giovon
Best
Editor : Winner -
Daniel
Madoff
Best
VFX
: Winner - Maya
Edelman
GAB
Directed
By : Gazanfer
Biricik
Country
: France
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
Ani is a journalist who was
charged by her diary to write an
article
about Ezra died during an attack.
For
doing this, she organized an
appointment
with Lily, the sister of the
deceased,
in a pub.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
Laurent
Deve ( Gabriel )
LIFE!
Directed
By : Ramesh Jai
Gulabrai
Country
: Ghana
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
Once the only hope of his
loved
ones back in the village, today
Kweku
struggles to make ends meet in the
city.
Heʼs fallen and heʼs given up. He
contemplates suicide…
AWARDS
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Frimpong Kwame Daniel
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- LIFE!
The Caterer's Reckoning
Directed
By : Jonah Jones
Country
: UK
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
When you have what you think
is a
singing hangover, you can be slow on
the
uptake. Just as Richard and Janice
discover a dead body behind the
sofa,
the caterer arrives to collect the
hired
tables after the previous night’s..
AWARDS
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- Jonah Jones
GUNS
Directed
By : Diego Silva
Country
: US
Under
Category : Film
Short
International
Synopsis
:
John comes home from a long
day
at work not wanting to battles his
son's
game addiction. While decomposing on
the
phone with his wife, his son
discovers
the father's hidden gun. In a matter
of
seconds their life will change ..
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Teenage Love
Directed
By : Nishi Doshi
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Student
Short
Synopsis
:
This short film revolves
around a
teenager and her journey of falling
in
and out of love. While it deals with
a
very common topic, it also
highlights
the fragility of the emotions.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Nominated
-
Nishi Doshi
Bar and Girl
Directed
By : Ragini Nath
Country
: US
Under
Category :
Student
Short
Synopsis
:
There used to be some, mostly
underground, Then there were many,
too
much fun. Now there are very few,
disappearing too fast.”
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
WAVE
Directed
By : Dishant Soni
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Student
Short
Synopsis
:
21-year-old girl, Naina
stranded
amidst heavy traffic and rain,
enters a
taxi. Tackling all the chaos caused
by
the ongoing protest. Raghu, a senior
friend of Naina finds her in a taxi.
As
it was raining heaving, Raghu
decides to
sit inside the taxi without Naina’s
permission.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Writer : Nominated -
Dishant Soni
Best
Director : Winner -
Dishant Soni
Mirchi Cafe
Directed
By : Mehkansh
Karthuria
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Student
Short
Synopsis
:
A death artist, an actor who
is
practising or doing method acting by
dying in different places.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner- Mark
Mecwan ( SID )
Best
Actress : Winner -
Kashish Goswami ( Anvita )
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner
- Kenny Desai
M LIKE MOBIUS
Directed
By : Faranak
Moradi
Country
: Iran
Under
Category :
Student
Short
Synopsis
:
lili is a waitress and
obsessed
with sound. she can’t stand her
loneliness more than before.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Nominated
-
Faranak Moradi
Best
Actress : Winner -
Faranak Moradi ( Lili )
Naina
Directed
By : Piyush Batra
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Student
Short
Synopsis
:
Naina, an eighteen year old
girl,
realises her mother's importance in
her
life when she's no more. She's
reading
out a letter her mother has left her
before she passed away.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Writer : Winner -
Piyush
Batra
Best
Actress : Winner -
Pooja
Vyas ( Naina )
BLACKBETTY
Directed
By : Marco North
Country
: US
Under
Category : Web
Series
Synopsis
:
BLACKBETTY is a nuanced
conspiracy thriller, a cautionary
exploration of a city under
quarantine
with a set of stories marked by
their
redemptive beauty and frank, gritty
reality
AWARDS
Best
Web
Series : Winner
Best
Actress : Winner -
Ludmila Khalilullina ( Margarita
) ,
Natalia dvoretskaya ( Lyubov )
Best
Writer : Nominated -
Marco
Village Of A Lesser God
Directed
By : Ananth
Narayan
Mahadevan
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Documentary Feature
Synopsis
:
TALASARI is a village just
63
miles from maximum city Mumbai
seeped in
troubles like lack of medical
facilities, illiteracy, electricity
theft, joblessness, addictions, land
grabbing, religious conversion,
blind
faith etc.
In the summer of 2012, a
Homoeopathic
doctor, Jatin Nandlal Valia took it
on
himself to rehabilitate the village
and
thus began a process of reformation.
AWARDS
Best
Documentary 1st :
Winner
Like Butter on Toast
Directed
By : Dominik
Junker ,
Norman Kruger, Christian
Hyla
Country
: Germany
Under
Category :
Documentary Feature
Synopsis
:
"Like butter on toast" is a
journey with Circus artists from all
over the world.
AWARDS
Best
Documentary 2nd :
Winner
Aspire to the Sky: The
Wilshire Grand Story
Directed
By : Dilip Khatri
Country
: US
Under
Category :
Documentary Feature
Synopsis
:
The Wilshire Grand Story is
a
documentary about the tallest
building
on the west coast at 1100 ft with a
180
ft spire. Soaring buildings in Los
Angeles are difficult to find
because of
the risk factors associated with a
highly seismically active zone, fire
potential, and liquefaction soils
covering much of the city.
AWARDS
Best
Documentary 3rd :
Winner
Vadoba
Directed
By : Vishal
Sawant
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Regional
Synopsis
:
Vadoba is a story about a
school
going kid (Kshitiya). Kshitiya in a
precarious situation reaches a land
which has not been visited by any of
the
villagers...
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner -
Vishal Sawant
Painted
Directed
By : Anvita
Kamath
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
“What is the deepest fear a
father has? Not being accepted by
his
children for his job. A job that has
given him everything when he had
nothing. Will this clown reveal his
secret profession to his children or
will he take it to his grave?”
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner -
Ashish
Vidyarthi ( Raju )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated - Aanjjan
Srivastav
( Maalik )
Best
Debut Director :
Winner -
Anvita Kamath
K
Directed
By : Pranav
Krishna
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Short
Synopsis
:
The movie K is a fantasy
film
that follows a protective mother,
she is
courageous and lay a marvelous
protection for her kid from external
forces. She is deeply affectionate
and
true soldier for her loved ones. The
run
time of this movie 00:08:57 minutes.
This movie is about 'Women's
Empowerment' and tribute to our
Great
'Indian Army'.
Synopsis
:
A stop-motion film about a
man’s
endless hunt for elusive energy
sources
in a decaying world.
AWARDS
Best
Animation Film : Winner
Best
Background Score :
Nominated-
Abhijit Roy, Colin Andrew Grant
Best
Graphics : Winner-Bismark
Fernandes
Dear Fay
Directed
By : Isha Chitre
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis
:
Dear Fay, is the story of
Fay, a
women in her 60's who is struggling
to
walk as she ages. She is resigned
and
accepting about her health issues,
until
she imagines a conversation with hr
younger self. She learns that even
though she is physically aging, she
can
still hold on to a part of her
youth."
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner-Isha
Chitre
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated-Dorian Cohen
Habaneros
Directed
By : Sri Mirajkar
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis
:
How important a role does
tolerance, acceptance and patience
play
for a young woman looking for
romance in
today's political and social
climate?
...Habaneros will give you some
answers,
or maybe leave you with a few
questions
of your own! "
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Nominated- Sri
Mirajkar
Coming Home: Colombia
Directed
By : Eric Narciandi
Country
: United States
Under
Category :
Documentary
Feature
Synopsis
:
DJ EFN and crew explore
countries through the scope of hip
hop
culture. In this film the crew
travels
to Colombia."
AWARDS
Best
Documentary - 1st Award :
Nominated
The Assassin's Apprentice
Directed
By : Russ Emanuel
Country
: United States
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis
:
A coming of age story about
Kaylee (Tarah Paige), an apprentice
assassin, and her relationship with
Pete
(Robert Picardo), her trainer, and
Miranda (Marina Sirtis), their
handler.
Kaylee, like a rebellious teenager,
simultaneously wants approval and
independence from Pete and Miranda.
When
assigned her first solo hit, Kaylee
immediately disobeys orders and goes
off
course, chasing a Freerunner drone,
often with hilarious results.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director : Nominated-
Russ
Emanuel
Best
Actress : Winner- Tarah
Paige
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated-
Ray Karwel
Best
Editor : Nominated-Emile
Haris
REBIRTH (PUNARJANAM)
Directed
By : Amar Jyoti Jha
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis
:
This film reflects human
insensibility, false ideals and
hypocrisy. The character of the
story of
this film is a hunger person,who has
to
undergo many struggles and pains to
get
his food.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner- Amar
Jyoti
Jha
Best
Actor : Winner-Amar Jyoti
Jha
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated-
Ranjit Singh
Best
Writer : Nominated - Amar
Jyoti Jha
Raincoat For Everyone
Directed
By : Shamrao Yadav
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
This short Film is set in a
midtown, during Local election
period.Story of unfulfilled
commitments
made to public, where few some take
it
to their heart and become a vehicle
of a
bigger change in society regardless
of
their personal capacity. Rain is
playing
different shades of its nature
Raincoat
is like a safety, security & shelter
for
a common man A Political satire not
just
as a remark but as a solution.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner-Milind
Shinde
( Bhau )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated-Bachan Pachehara (
Rahim Chacha )
Dum Dum Dumroo
Directed
By : Akash Goila
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
A scary peon tries to scare
new
recruited doctor at a hospital, will
she
dance to his tunes.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director : Winner- Akash
Goila
Best
Actor : Winner- Anil
Charanjeett ( Dumroo )
Best
Actress : Winner- Sanaya
Irani ( Dr. Sneha )
Best
Background Score :
Nominated
- Sachin Kishan, Sudesh Sawant,
Paperboyz Studioz
Banoffee Pie
Directed
By : Inderjit Bansel
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
Change is a phenomenon that
is
easily accepted by some while
strongly
resisted by others. The upholders of
Indian culture are constantly having
a
face-off with those that are
influenced
by the West. The story Banoffee Pie
revolves around two individuals who
meet
at a café, like any other day, but
end
up interacting with such radical
forces
in the society. The couple's
conversation is candid and
thought-provoking; raising several
questions in the way things are
perceived by some people. As the
events
unfold, the story focuses on the
possibility of how such perceptions
could be dramatically wrong.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner-
Inderjit
Bansel
Best
Actor : Nominated - Sarat
Prakesh ( Gaurav )
Best
Actress : Winner- Tithi
Raaj
( Ananya )
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated -
Inderjit Bansel
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Winner - Narendra Gupta,
Abhay
Shankar
Best
Background Score :
Nominated-
Upmanyu Bhanot
The Broken Tide
Directed
By : Sulile Kumar
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
What does silence sound
like?
How much does emptiness weigh?
Sometimes
problems in relationships don't seem
to
have an answer like these questions.
The
Broken Tide discusses these same
frailties that relationships put
forth.
The title, in itself, presents an
oxymoron, for a tide can never be
broken.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner- Sulile
Kumar
( Pritham )
Best
Actress : Winner -
Samyukta
Hornad ( Swetha )
Best
Background Score :
Nominated
- L. V. Ganesan
VADAPAV
Directed
By : Uttam Patel
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
Arun and Soniya a newly
married
couple shifts in Mumbai. They live
their
happily married life. Once he
introduces
Mumbai's special dish VADA PAV in
teasing way. He tells that this is
much
superior than anyother dishes to
which
we use to eat in five star
restaurants
because majority of people (
rich,poor
etc) eat it daily. But Soniya
(housewife) likes to eat in
restaurants,
to do outings , see movies etc (
specially at weekends) rather than
eating vada pav.
AWARDS
Best
Actor : Nominated- Uttam
Patel ( Arun )
Best
Actress : Nominated-
Mayuri
(Soniya)
ANANDHA YAZ ( THE HARP'S
RESONANCE)
Directed
By : B Sivakumar
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
The story revolves around a
child in the autism spectrum, whose
parents find ways to keep their kid
comfortable and enable him to life
his
life to the fullest!
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner- (Mass
Players
& Proscenium Production )
Best
Actress : Nominated - MS.
Gayathri Raja ( Maya )
Best
Background Score :
Nominated-
Mr. Shankar Rangarajan
Best
Child Artist : Winner -
Mast
Saikamal E. (Arjun)
Best
Writer : Nominated- Mr.
B.
Sivakumar
Best
Debut Director : Winner
Mr.
B. Sivakumar
Muthalidam Nokki ( Towards
No. 1
)
Directed
By : Arudra
Saravanakumar
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
The film answers to the
question
why little girl Janani wakes up from
sleep petrified by a dream, an
after-effect of watching the video
screened at school. The dream of a
kind
with prudence that brings bigger
changes
and awareness in the city she lives
in,
in terms of environment
conservation,
curbing usage of plastics,
segregating
Biodegradable and Non Biodegradable
wastes in households to aid the City
Corporation to achieve Clean City
goals.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Nominated -
Arudra
Best
Cinematographer :
Winner-R.
Sridhar
Best
Background Score :
Nominated
- Rashaanth Arwin
Best
Child Artist : Nominated
-
Sri Janani
Waft
Directed
By : Vishnu Udayan
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
Baffled at the sudden exit
of
Aradhya from his life, lost -in-love
Ashvath has curled into his world of
silence, finding refuge in books. A
breaking news story fills the
missing
link and decodes the past but it is
probably too late.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Nominated -
Ashish
Shashidhar (Ashvath)
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated -
Mohammed Aftab
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Nominated - Revathy Sampath
(Dr.
Annie)
Room 462
Directed
By : Abhishek
Bhattacharyya
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
Ateesh is home alone while
his
parents where celebrating their 25th
Anniversary in Mumbai. Events take a
terrible turn when he finds out from
an
sms that his parents are trapped in
one
of the rooms of the hotel they are
staying in and are in grave danger.
Will
he succeed in saving them?
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Nominated-
Abhishek Bhattacharyya
Hosa Climax(New Climax)
Directed
By : Dr.Shally
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
This Film is based on true
incidents of media and fashion
world. A
Forty year aged lady Dr.Shally Who
an
International business women.
Staying
alone in her big bungalow, she is
busy
in her social activities too,
parallely
a boy and a girl who are in living
relationship who are trying to
achieve
their goals in the field of film and
fashion media. Luckily the heroine
reaching heights because of her
beauty
and modesty."
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director :
Nominated-Dr.Shally
Best
Actor : Nominated-Naresh
Gandhi (Naresh)
Best
Actress :
Nominated-Anitha
Bhat (Priyanka)
Veshbhusha an identity
Directed
By : Sanjay Kamble
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
-
Produced In Mumbai
Synopsis
:
It’s a story of a 20 years
old
young man who comes to Mumbai to
pursue
his dreams to act in a film. After
been
disappointed by his struggle & he
lose
the hope to act in a film.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner- Prahsant
Singh Rajpur (Prashant)
Best
Writer : Nominated-
Sanjay
Namdeo Kamble
Crossroads
Directed
By : Kushal Jadhav
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
Abhay, a father, must go to
any
extent to save his daughter!
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner- Kiran
Patil
(Mr. Abhay as father)
Leap
Directed
By : Piyush Batra
Country
: India
Under
Category : Student
Short
Synopsis
:
Samar finishes his last exam
and
comes back and sleeps tight. At
least
that what he thinks. Only to find
out
that the date instead of turning to
1
Mar 2017 turns to 29th Feb 2017 and
he
still has another exam to give."
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Nominated-Mayank
Minda (Samar)
Mohammad And Urvashi
Directed
By : Vivek Agnihotri
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
-
Produced In Mumbai
Synopsis
:
When the path of God
fails...The
Devil takes over. The film depicts
the
inner conflict of a God fearing man
who
has surrendered himself to his
religion
and his human side that leads him
astray, who he believes is the
Devil. "
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director : Winner-Vivek
Agnihotri
Best
Actor : Winner-Mayukh Ray
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated-Joy Supratim
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Winner-Khushboo Upadhyay
Best
Background Score :
Nominated-
Girish Ramteke
Best
Writer : Nominated-Vivek
Agnihotri
Sadgati- Liberation
Directed
By : Vasishta Bhat
Country
: India
Under
Category : Student
Short
Synopsis
:
Sadgati means liberation in
Kannada Language. This is a story on
sexual desires and dreams of an
Indian
Woman whose husband is paralysed.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Winner-Suvin
Annie
Valson
Khayal
Directed
By : Piyush Batra
Country
: India
Under
Category : Student
Short
Synopsis
:
Celebrate love, friendship,
and
everything in between with Khayal."
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director : Nominated-
Piyush
Batra
Best
Writer : Nominated-
Piyush
Batra
DEW DROPS
Directed
By : Pooja Singh
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
Dew Drops is a coming of age
story (a bildungsroman) about a
young
woman who rises above the weariness
of
an ordinary/dull life and sets
herself
free in search of happiness
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner- Pooja
Singh
Best
Actress : Winner- Ratika
(Devika)
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated-
Rahul Kumar Singh
Spellbound
Directed
By : Piyush Batra
Country
: India
Under
Category : Student
Short
Synopsis
:
Boy meets girl, they fall in
love.. After that ? Sounds cliché,
doesn't it ? Maybe it is not.
Spellbound
is something different. Something
you'll
love. Something you'll watch again.
Something that'll make you smile. We
hope, this love story of a magician
leaves you spellbound."
AWARDS
Best
Actress :
Nominated-Fatima
Sana
The Last Page - An Intruder
in
my mind
Directed
By : Vishal
Wakchaure
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis
:
Tarun, a working
professional,
one fine day he wakes up to a
strange
letter, when he is getting ready for
office. This letter terrifies him.
Initially he thinks, that his wife
'Neha' is playing tricks on him, but
very soon things start getting
intense.
"
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director : Winner-Vishal
Wakchaure
Best
Actor : Nominated - Nitin
Shakuntala Dhanraj Wagh( Tarun )
Best
Cinematographer :
Winner-Vishal Wakchaure
Best
Background Score :
Nominated-Vishal Wakchaure
Best
VFX : Winner-Vishal
Wakchaure, Piyush Deshmukh
93 NOT OUT
Directed
By : Arudra
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
This is the story about an
(G)old man aged 93. He is a believer
and
he loves to read books. He has
undergone
a pacemaker implantation so his
doctor
restricted him not to ride bicycle.
But
he tries to ride bicycle and fails.
He
got scolding from his son. His son
asked
neighbour to watch him.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Winner- Mr.
C.KaliyaPerumal
Best
Writer : Nominated -
Arudra
UNTIL
Directed
By : Anshul Tyagi
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
A silent film on the real
human
impact that unforeseen events have
for
families. Life could suddenly seem
so
complicated. But, is the way back so
simple?
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner- Anshul
Tyagi
Best
Actor : Nominated-
Sadananda
Mukhopadhyay (Keshav Rai)
Best
Background Score :
Nominated- Nixon Joseph
Statue of Blood
Directed
By : Jun Wu
Country
: China
Under
Category : Animation
Short
Synopsis
:
Statue of Blood is a sand
animated film that shows the process
of
the production of ivory Buddhist
statues
and beads.Hopefully,it will serve as
a
warning and discourage the viewers
to
buy these prouducts to stop the
ivory
trade.
AWARDS
Best
Animation Film :
Nominated
Best
Background Score :
Winner-
Chien Wen Cheng
TELL HIM
Directed
By : Virginia Bach
Country
: France
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
Why can't Maxime visit his
mother at the hospital? Why can't
his
father tell him?"
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Winner- Gregory
Questel
Best
Child Artist : Winner-
Gaspard Pasquet
The Heartthrob
Directed
By : Gazanfer
Biricik
Country
: France
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis
:
A young married woman and
mother
of two kids is forced to make a
business
trip. Behind this room is hiding in
fact
a big secret . It's during this day
that
the curtain will fall and the truth
will
take place. The Heartthrob counts 8
selections and 3 prices"
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner-
Gazanfer
BIRICIK
Best
Actress : Winner- Barbara
Boronat
Best
Background Score :
Winner-
Salvador Casais
Letters Home
Directed
By : Jonah Jones
Country
: UK
Under
Category : Amature
Short
Synopsis
:
While waiting to go over the
top
on the first day of the Somme, three
young men write what could be their
final letters home.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director :
Nominated-Jonah
Jones
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated-Matt Nomme
Best
Writer : Nominated-Jaye L
Swift
FEEL THE RHYTHM
Directed
By : Rahel T
Yohannes
Country
: UK
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
An exploration of the term
Deva
meaning god, heavenly supernatural
being
as seen through the relationship
between
a mixed race british black and
indian
couple Dev and Sarah displaying the
rhythmic flow of reality and dream
states. The idea of Sarah being with
her
divine life partner seen through
reality
and dreamlike states as shown
through a
surreal pre wedding dance rehearsal.
AWARDS
Best
Actress : Nominated-
Rahel. T
Yohannes
310804
Directed
By : Martin
Kozlowski
Country
: Denmark
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
310804' is a psychological
drama, which is partly based on a
true
story of the director's Asperger's
background. The short film is the
first
part of a trilogy called 'To be, to
come
and to become'.
AWARDS
Best
Director : Nominated-
Martin
Jesus Kozlowski
Best
Actor : Nominated- Hjalte
Llsoe Gustavussen(Madin)
Best
Actress : Nominated-
Kavita
Harwani(mom)
Best
Actress Supporting Role :
Nominated- Neesha Dewa
(Naina)
SOROCHE
Directed
By : Marco Matheus
Country
: Brazil
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
In 2012, Benzin Crew,
located in
São Paulo – started production of
feature SOROCHE. The group had been
working with vídeo clips production
in
Brazil using basically Canon DLSR
câmeras, like 7D and 5D. By that
time,
some Hollywood productions were
already
using these cameras.
“If even American industry is using
such
cameras how come we don’t use them
as
well". Starting from this point that
producers started the project of
doing a
feature film with own resources. And
after one month after the feature
idealization the group went to
Bolivia
and Chile where for 15 days 10 hours
were shot in locations like the
Salar de
Uyuni, Atacama desert and La Paz. ."
AWARDS
Best
Director : Winner-Marco
Matheus
Best
Actor : Nominated- Diogo
Jordão, Thaide, Roberto Marchese
Best
Actress : Winner- Ferdi
Gi
Uri In The Sky
Directed
By : Amir Har-Gil
Country
: Israel
Under
Category :
Documentary
Feature
Synopsis
:
Uri Gil is an amazing
figurative
painter; he paints nude pictures
with
exactitude in classic art style. In
addition he is the oldest combat
pilot
in the world (Guinness record), Uri
Gil
is one of the battle-hardened combat
aces of the Israeli Air Force.( the
same
Air Force that has recently become
the
most controversial in the world) .
AWARDS
Best
Documentary - 2nd Award :
Nominated
Follow Me Down Again
Directed
By : Monique Van
Kerkhof
Country
: Netherlands
Under
Category : Film Short
Synopsis
:
Art /Dance Film by Monique
van
Kerkhof, Follow Me Down Again,
produced
by MONDESIGN Based on the story of
Icarus and 'Hell is the place where
nothing connects'.T.S. Eliot "
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director : Winner-Monique
Van
Kerkhof
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated-Zowi Oudendijk,
Michiel
Wamelink, Luc Senden, Jan Joost
Stiphout
Van
Best
Background Score :
Nominated-Bo Oudendijk
Carro
Directed
By : Gustavo Rosa
Country
: Brazil
Under
Category : Student
Short
Synopsis
:
An undocumented Brazilian
immigrant living in the Boston area
decides to buy a car in an effort to
better his life before returning
home.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Nomnated-
Gustavo
Rosa
Best
Actor : Nominated-Victor
Lucena
Velvet Dreamland
Directed
By : Joanna Cristina
Nelson
Country
: Venezuela,
Under
Category : Amature
Short
Synopsis
:
Sevine is a hedonist; she
can
love one, she can love many.
Avoiding a
grey reality, she becomes addicted
to
emotional danger zones and she locks
herself up in the “Velvet Dreamland”
to
play. Suddenly, disruptive images of
her
different love affairs storm her
mind,
and her subconscious starts to
slowly
pull her away from the dreamland.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director :
Nominated-Joanna
Cristina Nelson
Best
Actor : Nominated-
Sebastian
Matthias Weissbach
Best
Actress : Winner-Tia
Sinclair
Bagheera
Directed
By : Christopher
Watson
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
Set on the unruly outskirts
of
Mumbai, Bagheera is the determined
young
leader of an Indian Girl Scout
troop.
She teaches her pack everything from
Snake Handling to Short Wave Radio
communication, at the same time
equipping them with courage and
determination.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Actor : Nominated- Rajesh
Balwani
Best
Actress : Winner- Preeti
Choudhury
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated
-Anu Moothedath
Nanna Diary
Directed
By : L B Sriram
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
This short film is a tribute
to
the authentic, unconditional and
abundant affection and love existing
in
the relationship between a father
and
his son. Mellifluous and soul
soothing
background music is an added flavor
to
the heart touching film. The film
visually very effectively depicts
the
nuances and subtle shades which are
a
part of the lives of a father who is
paralyz ed and his son who is so
grateful to his down to earth and
dedicated father, that he abandons
his
education half way through without
any
qualms and takes up a job to support
the
family.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Nominated-
Ramalinga
Sastry
Best
Actress : Nominated-
Sreeja
The Road to Vagator (the
honeymoon film)
Directed
By : Jess Milne
Country
: Australia
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
A man is enjoying the
football
on the tv when a text arrives it
forces
him to switch off the tv. and the
next
day he is off to London to complete
his
mission once completed, he responds
by
text only to receive a new order -
to go
to Dubai that evening.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner- Jess
Milne
Best
Cinematographer : Winner-
Jess Milne
Best
Editor : Nominated- James
Vass
Best
Background Score :
Nominated-
James Vass
Elysium
Directed
By : Layal Jomaa
Country
: Lebanon ( Middle
East
)
Under
Category : Student
Short
Synopsis
:
Two girls find themselves
needy
for change.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Nominated-
Layal
Jomaa
Best
Actress : Nominated-Layal
Jomaa, Joy Hallak
Special
Festival Mention :
Winner-Layal Jomaa
THE INTELLIGENCE! -The
counterattack of robots
Directed
By : Suisei Hoshii
Country
: Japan
Under
Category : Animation
Short
Synopsis
:
This story takes place in
the
near future. Environmental pollution
caused by nuclear waste has led to
many
cities on Earth becoming extinct.
People
cannot live without wearing
protective
clothing, so they have started to
look
for another star on which to live
peacefully. The giant spaceship is
just
like a moving town. The humans leave
all
the laborious tasks to robots, and
live
a life of refinement, with no sense
of
crisis.
AWARDS
Best
Animation Film :
Nominated
GODDESS IN THE MOSQUE
Directed
By : Priyashanker
Ghosh
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Documentary
Feature
Synopsis
:
This is the story of a
Muslim
boy Abdul whose passion is doing a
female character in Dashavatar, a
traditional Hindu religious folk
play
performed across remote villages
across
the Konkan coast in Maharashtra and
Goa,
India. Being a Muslim putting
vermillion
on the forehead and performing
rituals
before Hindu Gods is a stigma.
AWARDS
Best
Documentary - 3rd Award :
Nominated
Orukkam
Directed
By : Sankar G
Country
: India
Under
Category : Student
Short
Synopsis
:
The movie revolves around a
fully paralyzed old man and his home
nurse. The home nurse is the old
man's
extended body and mind. We spend a
day
in the old man's room to understand
the
relationship between them and that
day
turns out to be an important day of
their lives.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Director : Winner-Sankar
G
Best
Actor : Nominated- Ahmed
Muslim, Kannan Nayar
Best
Actress : Nominated-
Saritha
Madhavan
ALEXANDAR
Directed
By : Davala Sathyam
Country
: India
Under
Category : Film
Feature
Synopsis
:
Alexandar is a retired
military
major,His wife Elizabeth died two
years
back.Alexandar didn't wanted to stay
with his son Peter because of their
conditions not to drink and smoke,
so he
stays far from the city. He Started
ALEXANDER HELPLINE to s erve people
and
save them from problems.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actor : Winner-ALEXANDAR
Glitter Model
Directed
By : Angelo Nunes
Country
: Brazil
Under
Category : Animation
Short
Synopsis
:
Glitter Model is the first
animated series to use the
glamourous
universe of fashion as a backdrop
for
telling about the adventures of
Clara
and her best friends Valentina and
Giovanna. The Glitter Model stories
of
are structured in a way that
stimulates
children to recognize their own
inner
shine.
AWARDS
Best
Animation Film :
Nominated
Best
Background Score :
Nominated
- Renato Lemos
CHANDAN VAN
Directed
By : Santhose Shetty
Kateel
Country
: India
Under
Category : Feature
Film
Synopsis
:
‘Sanjana’ the city girl from
a
wealthy family, during her mid-term
holidays visits her Grandfather’s
house
at the Western Ghats in Karnataka.
Born
nature lover, gets adjusted to the
village set up, spends time in going
around the forest, making friends
with
village children, one fine day going
around the forests finds the tree
crying
and requesting to save the last
plant of
sandalwood tree, to which Sanjana
promises of keeping and preserving
it
for future. “Edavattu Enkappa” the
leader and the smuggler, who thinks
of
modernization takes place only
through
cutting down the trees.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Winner
Best
Director : Winner -
Santhosh
Shetty Kateel
Best
Original Screenplay :
Nominated - Santhosh Shetty
Kateel
Best
Actor : Winner - Dada Ji
-
Ramesh Bhat( Sathyendra Hegde )
Best
Actress : Winner - Jyothi
Rai
( Shalini )
Best
Cinematographer :
Nominated -
Sachin. S. Shetty. Kaup
Best
Editor : Nominate -
Raviraj
Ganiga
Best
Background Score :
Nominated
- Prasad.K.Shetty
Best
VFX : Nominated -
Imagination Movies Mangalore
Best
Writer : Nominated -
Santhosh
Shetty Kateel
Special
Festival Mention : Winner
-
Nidhi Sanjeeva Shetty ( Sanjana ),
Mast
Vignesh ( Jagga ), Mast Shreesha
Shetty
( Dasa ), Mast Shreyas Shetty (
Wilbert
), Ashlyn Dsouza( Neethu ), Pranathi
(
Bindu ), Keisha
Underline
Directed
By : Suraj Vilas
Dalvi
Country
: India
Under
Category :
Professional
Short
Synopsis
:
A story of a teen ager girl,
who
did misbehavior with family, between
this she creates problem by
self.finally
she got what is wrong or right.
AWARDS
Best
Film : Nominated
Best
Actress : Nominated -
Komal
Gade ( Pooja )
Best
Actor Supporting Role :
Nominated - Datta Pawar ( As
Father )