JURY VOTING: THE AWARDS
JURY: Best of the Fest Award Egg (Martina Scarpelli, France/Denmark)
A woman is locked in her home with an egg. She eats the egg. She repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. A brave account of overcoming anorexia.
JURY: Best British Film Award Roughhouse (Jonathan Hodgson, UK/France)
Three teenage friends embark on a new adventure in a northern town, but when a charismatic stranger joins their gang, their loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences.
JURY: Best Sound Design Award Finity Calling (Jasper Kuipers, Netherlands/Belgium)
Five people are seated at a table, their withered bodies adorned with lush fabrics and jewellery. Tense and unsettling, soon the fragile atmosphere within the group is broken.
JURY: Best Abstract Film Award Max Planck (Jonathan Gillie, UK)
Dilate your eyes and enjoy. A pulsating cornucopia of visual delights.
JURY: Best Children’s Film Award 0-7 Penguin (Julia Ocker, Germany)
A timid penguin waiter with a red bow tie goes out of his way to perform his job to perfection.
JURY: Best Children’s Film Award 8+ Vivat Musketeers (Anton Dyakov, Russia)
The world is on the verge of abyss and there is no hope until the musketeers arrive. Long live the musketeer
JURY: Best Music Video Award Tall Juan ‘Parking Attendant’ (Dante Zabella, Argentina/Germany)
JURY: HIGHLY COMMENDED
Augur (David Doutel & Vasco Sa, Portugal/France)
During a harsh winter, a river by the house of two cousins freezes over. In the cold wind, their relationship grows bitter, reaching its limits.
Music and Clowns (Alex Widdowson, UK)
A moving, humorous and sensitive depiction about caring for someone with Downs Syndrome.
Spermaceti (Jacky de Groen, Belgium)
Sailors kill time under a blistering sun, awaiting a sign of their prey. After bloodshed, a strong arm offers a moment of shelter. A boy gets his first tattoo.
JURY: HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Carlotta’s Face (Valentin Riedl & Frédéric Schuld, Germany)
When Carlotta looks in the mirror, she doesn’t recognise the image reflected back at her. A moving exploration of the confusion that face blindness causes for a young child trying to make sense of her world.
Two For Two (Jelena Oroz, Croatia)
This home is a fragile home. Milk and honey. Cocoa and hell. Everyone pets their own bunny. The feeling is lovely.
Do I See What You See? (Simon Ball, UK)
Dementia, disconnection and seeing the world differently.
Facing it (Sam Gainsborough, UK)
As Sean waits anxiously in the local pub, he is forced to explore his own unhappy memories and relationships in an evening that will leave him changed forever.
Dreamland (Mirai Mizue, France)
Retro-futuristic structures proliferate and pulsate to synthetic baroque music. Geometric grandeur with maximum opulence.
Via (Maria Ferreira, USA)
An increasingly astounding patchwork quilt unfolds as the earth from the air provides more and more creative inspiration.
Keita Sano – Mad Love (Ryoji Yamada, Japan)
COMPETITION PROGRAMME VOTING
Voting for Best British Showcase
JURY: Best British Showcase The Brave Heart (Luca Schenato & Sinem Vardarli, UK)
A brave heart takes a wild journey inside the body to try to sort out the problems of a hungover morning.
AUDIENCE: Best British Showcase Enough (Anna Mantzaris, UK)
The stressed inhabitants of a city have had enough and start acting on their dark impulses.
Voting for Best Abstract Showcase
JURY: Max Planck (Jonathan Gillie, UK)
Dilate your eyes and enjoy. A pulsating cornucopia of visual delights.
AUDIENCE: Until we Coleidescape (Reinhold Bidner, Austria)
Harmonic oscillations, created hand in hand with sound and diffraction glasses. A colourful kaleidoscope of abstract animation loops.
Voting for Best International Competition Programme 1: From Absurd to Zany
JURY: Fest (Nikita Diakur, Germany)
Puppets on strings rave, eat and fly.
AUDIENCE: Facing It (Sam Gainsborough, UK)
As Sean waits anxiously in the local pub, he is forced to explore his own unhappy memories and relationships in an evening that will leave him changed forever.
Voting for Best International Competition Programme 2: Animated Documentaries 1
JURY : Egg (Martina Scarpelli, France/Denmark)
A woman is locked in her home with an egg. She eats the egg. She repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. A brave account of overcoming anorexia.
AUDIENCE: Do I See What You See? (Simon Ball, UK)
Dementia, disconnection and seeing the world differently.
Voting for Best International Competition Programme 3: Being Human
JURY: The Call (Anca Damian, Romania)
A phone call, a bathroom and a woman are at the intersection of different worlds.
AUDIENCE: Sister (Siqi Song, China)
A man remembers his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?
Voting for Best International Competition Programme 4: Playing With Emotion
JURY & AUDIENCE: Double Portrait (Ian Bruce, UK)
A gorgeously hand-painted romantic picture of everlasting love, loss, separation and worldwide adventures.
Voting for Best International Competition Programme 5: Long Shorts
JURY: Mermaids & Rhinos (Viktoria Traub, Hungary)
A surreal navigation of family memories, mermaid grandmothers, and grotesque and bizarre characters hungry for love.
AUDIENCE: Solar Walk (Reka Buksi, Hungary)
Chaos is beautiful. Chaos is cosmic. A remarkable journey through time and space.
Voting for Best International Competition Programme 6: Animated Documentaries II
JURY & AUDIENCE: Obon (Anna Bergmann (Samo) & Andre Hormann, Germany)
Akiko Takakura, one of the last remaining survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, tells how amidst the terror, she found a moment of rare closeness with her father.
Voting for Best International Competition Programme 7: Into The Dark
JURY: Roughhouse (Jonathan Hodgson, UK/France)
Three teenage friends embark on a new adventure in a northern town, but when a charismatic stranger joins their gang, their loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences.
AUDIENCE: Augenblicke – A Blink of an Eye (Kiana Naghshineh, Germany)
Three perceptions of only one truth – hers, his and ours.
Voting for Best International Competition Programme 8: Looking For Answers
JURY: Good Intentions (Anna Mantzaris, UK)
After a young woman is responsible for a hit and run, strange and spooky things start to happen.
AUDIENCE: Agua Viva (Alexa Lim Haas, USA)
A Chinese manicurist in a Miami salon attempts to describe her feelings in the little English she knows.
