THE JURY AWARDS
JURY: Best of the Festival Award ‘Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother’ – Stephen Irwin
Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill.
2019, 10min
JURY: Best British Film Award ‘Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother’ – Stephen Irwin
Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill.
2019, 10min
JURY: Best Sound & Music Award ‘Average Happiness’ – Sound Design: Peter Braker & Music: Joy Frempong
A trip into the sensual world of statistics. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, plots scattering, bar graphs are curving in a collective climax.
(Director: Maja Gehrig, Switzerland)
2019, 7min
JURY: Best Abstract Film Award ‘Serial Parallels’ – Max Hattler
A dizzying portrait of Hong Kong’s urban environment. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips.
2019, 9min
JURY: Best Children’s Film Award 0-7 year-olds ‘Patchwork Penguin’ – Angela Steffen
Patchwork Penguin has a problem: he wants to run fast, but he doesn’t know how! Will the Patchwork Pals find a way to help him?
2019, 4min
JURY: Best Children’s Film Award 8-14 year-olds ‘Archie’ – Ainslie Henderson
Archie is devastated to learn of the death of his aunt. He makes the long journey to the home she’s left him in the Outer Hebrides and a new day brings renewed hope for Archie and his dog.
2019, 4min
JURY: Best Music Video Award ‘Kai – A Little too Much’ – Martina Scarpelli
2020, 3’45
JURY: Best Late Night Bizarre Award ‘Ghosts’ – Jee-youn Park
A young woman and her partner laze around in their apartment. In their boredom they become ghosts. The crows are after them.
2020, 10min
THE AUDIENCE AWARDS
AUDIENCE: Best International Competition Programme 1: Abstract Showcase
The Wellspring and the Tower (Melinda Kadar, Hungary)
When the spring that sustains the ecosystem dries up, its cry for help triggers a process that uses all of the world’s resources to build a tower.
2020, 8min
AUDIENCE: Best International Competition Programme 2: From Absurd to Zany
Push This Button If You Begin To Panic (Gabriel Böhmer, UK/Switzerland)
A man goes to the doctor about the growing hole in his head which is becoming quite beautiful.
2020, 13min
AUDIENCE: Best International Competition Programme 3: Playing with Emotion
Ties (Dina Velikovskaya, Germany/Russia)
A daughter leaves the family home to lead a life of her own as an adult. Still, she remains connected to where she’s from, which has consequences for everyone.
2019, 8min
AUDIENCE: Best International Competition Programme 4: Being Human
Opera (Erick Oh, South Korea/USA)
An epic reflection on human life filled with beauty and absurdity driven by the spirits of Bosch, Michelangelo, Botticelli and other Renaissance artists.
2020, 9min
AUDIENCE: Best International Competition Programme 5: Into the Dark
100,000 Acres of Pine (Jennifer Alice Wright, Denmark/UK)
A Park Ranger attempts to uncover the mystery surrounding her brother’s death. But following his footsteps, she discovers a darkness that she may not be able to escape.
2020, 7min
AUDIENCE: Best International Competition Programme 6: Animated Documentaries
Flesh (Camila Kater, Brazil/Spain)
Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.
2019, 12min
AUDIENCE: Best International Competition Programme 7: Looking for Answers
Empty Places (Geoffroy de Crecy, France)
Completed before the global lockdown, an ode to the melancholy of machines.
2020, 8min
AUDIENCE: Best International Competition Programme 8: Long Shorts
Genius Loci (Adrien Merigeau, France)
One night Reine, a young and solitary person, sees in the urban chaos a lively and vibrant movement, a kind of guide. She doesn’t perceive her surroundings like the others. Chaos – whether in her head or in the city – attracts her, pulls her in.
2019, 16min
AUDIENCE: Best British Film
Mountain (Harrison Fleming, UK)
Four retired mountaineers reminisce about the crippling injuries they sustained attempting to conquer a mythical mountain in their youth.
2020, 5min
AUDIENCE: Best Children’s Film 8-14 year-olds
Latitude du printemps (Sylvain Cuvillier, Chloé Bourdic, Théophile Coursimault, Noémie Halberstam, Maŷlis Mosny & Zijing Ye, France)
An abandoned dog by the side of the road, a young astronaut wannabe and a professional cyclist and the connection between all three.
2020, 7min
