/award winners fall 2017

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Best Narrative Feature Film: Falling (Ukraine) by Marina Stepanska. A story about the post-revolutionary generation of young Ukrainian people looking for their place in a modern Ukraine. The story is set exactly one year after the Maidan Square revolt and expresses feelings of a generation who have no idea who they are anymore or what their identity is, so the only way is to be right here, right now.

 

Best Documentary Feature Film: Masoumeh (Iran) by Sona Moghaddam. Masoumeh Atae is attacked brutally by acid by her ex-husband's father 1.5 years after divorce. Despite losing her sight and severe burning, she tries to obtain the custody of her son. As the representative of some victims, she goes to other victims and writes letters. To change the penal laws and to better the victims' social conditions . With her resolute efforts during the making of the film . She creates a form of painting by using Braille, and eagerly plays music and does pottery at the same time. She tries to make beautiful life with her son. She has become strong and hopeful to a better future after her tragic accident.

 

Best Narrative Short Film: Mum, I'm back (Greece) by Dimitris Katsimiris. A woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother. She keeps an old photograph in her hands: a mother with her two sons. Arriving at the cemetery, she encounters the faces of all those she left behind.

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Best Documentary Short Film: Outside (Switzerland) by Luca Leoni. "This documentary tell the story of my life. A young man who is struggling with depression since years. But my story could be anybody's story. We are all different and we all suffer in different ways. If an audience could find something helpful in this movie I would be more than glad. Mental illnesses are a huge problem. So,there is no sense in trying to hide them by not speaking anywhere about that theme. I hope that my experience may be useful for other people (Luca Leoni)".

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Best Experimental Film: Savage the man (Israel) by Yoav Tal, Asa Eitan. A man climbs a tree and is peeping through the window of his own apartment at his wife playing sex games that he solicited her to play with other men. These are Habshushand Dalia and this is how they spice their sex life.Dalia picks up men, they fondle, she cuts out and the man is clearing. One day Habshush climbs the tree and discovers to his surprise that Dahlia brought home a young black refugee, and this time she does not stop but rather make love with Nicholas. Erotic passion becomes a pathological obsession. Amanda and Hamduel, the former girlfriend of Nicholas and the dubious contractor that fell in love with her desperately, are sucked into the vortex.

 

Best Animated Short Film: Little Thing (Israel) by Or Kantor. A tiny creature searches for companionship in an empty city.

 

Best Australian Cinema Now: Banana Blue (Australia) by Pia Lauritz. A short dance film exploring ideas of symmetry and duality (music by Miro Lauritz).