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/award winners spring 2016
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM: Lamia (France) by Christophe Karabache. Lamia, a naive woman aged about 20, lives with her husband, an odd coach, and his mute mother, sank under the distress. All the three live together a bizarre everyday life in a Lebanon shocked by the terror...
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM: My Talk with Florence (Austria) by Paul Poet. Shoah meets Salo, debating about the freedom of 1968. A minimalist interview-film, dealing with one of the most disturbing life-stories of the 20th Century. Florence fled from the sexual and psychological abuse by her post-war bourgeois home into a vagabond life of crime and freedom. She ended up in the Austrian counterculture community Friedrichshof, led by the infamous Vienna Actionism-Artist Otto Muhl, where her own children were subsequently taken away and the cycle of violence and mistreatment continued. This is the narrative of a woman who needed 50 years to learn to say No. An oral history about abuse, resistance and survival. Compared to Karmakar, Lantzmann, Lars Von Trier and Pasolini.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM: Rainbow Party (United Kingdom) by Eva Sigurdardottir. In a tale of twisted innocence, 14-year-old outcast Sofia is offered the chance to join the popular group at school, but doing so requires making serious sacrifices. Whoever said that teenage girls were pure and innocent?
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM: Fantastic Reality (Israel) by Koren Avital. Leon a 15 years old is part of the Cosplay community- teenagers who dress up as characters from comics and Japanese Anime, meet and role-play. Leon, with his masculine facial features was born as Shiri, a girl, but at the age of 12 he began to wonder whether living his life as a girl was really what he wanted. As the movie progresses, and leon becomes a well known and appreciated cosplayer in his community, he begins to unfold and take off his real signi?cant costume- he is a boy trapped in the body of a girl.
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: Samt (silence) (Lebanon) by Aoun Chadi. Silence is the only sound in the city of Ghabra. Any form of expression is met by death. SAMT is the introduction to a dysfunctional society that is about to implode.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Symmetry (Netherlands) by Ruben van Leer. Symmetry is a dance-opera film (29 min) shot inside CERN, the largest experimental particle physics facility in the world. With the cathedral-like majesty of the Large Hadron Collider as his theatre, a modern physicist searches for the smallest primordial particle and discovers a love without end...
BEST AUSTRALIAN CINEMA NOW: Milkmaid by Agnes Baginska. A tale of a Milkmaid who becomes a medium for the forces of nature, forging a connection with the forest, she seeks out revenge for a crime committed against it.
/official selection spring 2016
Ridden By Nature (United States) by Kathi Von Koerber
Alegria - A Humanitarian Expedition (Switzerland) by Christoph Von Toggenburg
Outside Your Window (Australia) by Paul Cavallo, Darren K. Hawkins
Elephant King (China) by Fu Yan, Fu Yongchao
The Sea (Not Specified)
The Stepmother (China Liang Shuang
Broke (Australia Heath Davis
#ANIMALSINTERN (United States) by Kiki Mckee, Jackie Bleicher
The Vibrations (France) by Benoit Maestre, Mathius Shadow-Sky
Xsense Alice (Netherlands) by Janetta Abbenbroek
Cigno (SWAN) (Italy) by Giovanni Rossi
Sleeping Death (Spain) by David Casademunt
The Crush Space (Australia) by Erin Latimer
Borrowed Time (Norway) by Ragnhild Nøst Bergem
Skin And Bone (Australia) by Augustin Lobet
Hold Back (Belgium) by Steffen Geypens
A Place To Lay Your Head (United Kingdom) by Steve Look
Mer Depré (United States) by Margaret Orr
Loopi Gugo (Portugal) by João Sousa
Fruitcake (United Kingdom) by Harriet Francis Croucher
What We Do When We Are Alone (Germany) by Moritz Adlon, Felix Pflieger
Under Ice (Romania) by Barna László
Perpetual (Denmark) by Peter Ahlén Lavrsen
Out Of Nothing (United States) by Chad Derosa
A Solitary Mann (United States) by Loic Zimmermann
Sty (Hungary) by Árpád Hermán
A Better Place (United States) by Dennis Ho
The Surrender (Italy) by Luca Alcini
What We Don't Say (Philippines) by Anya Nepomuceno Zulueta
Analysis (Australia) by Daniel Prychpan
Buffalo (United States) by Michael Mccallum
Diane - Jacques - Raymonde (Not Specified) by Hubert Fiasse, Yannick Nolin
Boudewijn De Groot-Come Closer (Netherlands) by Suzanne Raes
The Notion Of Mistake (Canada) by Nicolas Krief, Jean-François Chagnon
3+1 (France) by Alexandre Cluchet, Marie De Lapparent, Soline Fauconnier
Esruc (Taiwan) by Syu,Pei-Hua
Milkmaid (Australia) by Agnes Baginska (Best Australian Cinema Now)
Rainbow Party (United Kingdom) by Eva Sigurdardottir (Best Narrative Short Film)
K-Shop (United Kingdom) by Dan Pringle
Soror (United Kingdom) by James Webber
Something To Crow About (Australia) by Sebastian Broadbent
Symmetry (Netherlands) by Ruben Van Leer (Best Experimental Film)
A Queer Country (United Kingdom) by Lisa Morgenthau
Fantastic Reality (Israel) by Koren Avital (Best Documentary Short Film)
Testimony (Ireland) by Kamila Dydyna
Pigeons Shit Everywhere (Belgium) by Fred De Loof
Cardinal X (United States) by Angie Wang
Flushed (Australia) by Richard Eames
After The Last River (Canada) by Victoria Lean
Intoxication (Denmark) by Kristian Thorup
Capsule (United Kingdom) by Andrew Martin
Into Memory (United States) by Derek Franzese
Silhouette Secrets (United Kingdom) by Andi Reiss
Going To Heaven (United Arab Emirates) by Saeed Salmeen
Lamia (France) by Christophe Karabache (Best Narrative Feature Film)
The Hanji Box (United States) by Nora Jacobson
My Talk With Florence (Austria) by Paul Poet (Best Documentary Feature Film)
The Prison Village - Veenhuizen In The Twentieth Century (Netherlands) by Jaap De Ruig
I Was Born Yesterday (United States) by Soudabeh Moradian
Oracle (United States) by Christopher Lange
Reza Abdoh, Theatre Visionary (United States) by Adam Soch
["Fi Intithar Al Khareef" (Waiting For The Fall) (Syrian Arab Republic) by Jude Said
Samt (Silence) (Lebanon) by Aoun Chadi (Best Animated Short Film)
Blame (United States) by Kellee Terrell
Another Life (Russian Federation) by Stepan Burnashev
The Calling (United Kingdom) by Chris Boyd
[cthorsion Scrypt Fantomsens] (United Kingdom) by Chris Boyd
Crossroads Of Journalism Dreams (China) by Xiaoran Liu
Net (China) by Ao Chen
“Illusory” Birds (China) by Ao Chen
Colin Furze - Inventor (United Kingdom) by Colin Furze
Japan In Technicolor 1,2,3 (Australia) by Paul James Bird
The Sons Of Mapes (Aruba) by Aaron Hosé
Electric Faces (United Kingdom) by Johnny Herbin
A Real Buzz (Australia) by Lachlan Marks
Playing Lecuona (Spain) by Pavel Giroud And Juanma Villar Betancort
Sea With No Name (Finland) by Emilia Linnakoski
Shakespeare Republic (Billie Episode: Sonnet 18) (Australia) by Sally Mclean
