Bad Love Tigers

Best Screenwriter + Best Script

It is New Year's Eve, 1974, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the fun-loving and adventurous teens of the Bad Love Gang are ambushed by a Russian KGB agent. This propels them to use the White Hole Project Time Machine to time travel back to World War II. The gang meets with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who guides them on their mission to protect a mysterious alien spaceship and America's top-secret Area 51.

On their perilous mission, the gang must deal with Russian, Chinese, and Indian espionage forces who stand in their path. Along the way, the gang encounters danger, intrigue, betrayal, and a little romance. Ultimately, the intrepid Bad Love Gang triumphs over their adversaries to protect the alien spaceship and maintain the security of Area 51. It's Stand by Me Meets Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The Bytes Dreams are Made of

Experimental Feature

The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. A streaming of digital consciousness.

Invisible Border

Student Short

A deportation in Vienna in the middle of the night. Police officer Nancy and her colleague Albert have the task of evicting a family. Together with a police unit, they ambush an Albanian family without a valid residence permit. The situation escalates and the events of the night leave everyone involved traumatized.

Robot Asteroid

Best Original Screenplay

A secret space mission to a bizarre asteroid brings a plague to an Earth suffering from war, hyper inflation and a looming ice age.

Broken Circle

Best Director

A PHILOSOPHICAL FANTASY HISTORY DRAMA

Cinematic Rendition of a Fictional Ancient Greek Tragedy
In Ancient Greece, in the time of Agamemnon, Odysseus, Menelaus and Achilles, shortly before the Trojan War, events are reversed and the order of things changes. Young Electra while is in an existential quest for truth, she's being trapped in the crack of time.

METAMORPHOSIS

Animated Feature

Inspired by "The Conference of Birds" by Farid al-Din 'Attar, the film tells the story of a flock of birds that travels in the wake of Hoopoe, cross the 7 Valleys, towards the Mountain of Kafh, home of King Simourgh, who is able to answer to every their questions. The secret will be revealed to only 6 birds: Hoopoe; 4 birds who lived the Love experience of 4 human characters, plus a sixth, the most improbable of all.

METAMORPHOSIS

Animated Feature

Inspired by "The Conference of Birds" by Farid al-Din 'Attar, the film tells the story of a flock of birds that travels in the wake of Hoopoe, cross the 7 Valleys, towards the Mountain of Kafh, home of King Simourgh, who is able to answer to every their questions. The secret will be revealed to only 6 birds: Hoopoe; 4 birds who lived the Love experience of 4 human characters, plus a sixth, the most improbable of all.

An Ode to Procrastination

 Best Micro Short

In An Ode to Procrastination we follow the thought process of a young artist, Sarah. Sarah is trying to create what she thinks is the project of her lifetime, but procrastinates while struggling to start. The film explores relatable fears plenty of artists endure. Sarah copes with her's by completely ignoring them - in her head, she finds a good, yet sometimes absurd, reason for everything she does or doesn't do and sprinkles her struggles with motivational quotes all while slightly dying inside.

Reprise

 Experimental Short

Reprise is a playful narrative experiment of a critical nature - a riddle in a seamless loop. (Please read the director's statement).

Gravity

 Best Music Video

Gravity is the official music video for three time HMMA nominee Irish singer/songwriter Yelpy's new hit single. Directed by award winning director Jonathan Martin, featuring set/costume design by renowned designer Clark Schaffer (Iron Man, Batman, Star Trek) & Troy Larson (V/H/S/99, Deadstream) and with sound design by the legendary Patrick Hogan (Daredevil, The Punisher, Reservation Dogs, Cobra Kai, The Umbrella Academy) Gravity was shot in Salt Lake City, Utah with special effects work provided by Manchester, UK based Tempered Pixel Studios. Gravity, the single, was written by Yelpy, Jonathan Smith a.k.a. TheRealJonSmith (Universal Pictures, Hayley Kiyoko, Kevin Max [dcTalk], Luna Halo) and Elyssa James. It was produced, mixed and mastered by TheRealJonSmith at Native South Studios and preformed by Yelpy with additional vocals by special guest artist Allie McDonald.

Red Zombies

 First Time Filmmaker

In the late 90s, a well-organized gang called the Red Zombies gathered in the Baron's Village. Their arrogance and extravagance shocked the Lithuanian officials who saw it all. A high-ranking detective Kestutis Klemas who has been tainted in the past, has been appointed to control the gang. After a grueling shootout with gang members, Kestutis Klemas is in resuscitation and has been in coma for three years. Meanwhile, the gang is expanding rapidly and becoming completely out of control.

A life at See 

 Student Feature

There are not many of them left - the original seamen. Heiko, Gill and Stephan are some of the few remaining crab fishermen who fight on their cutter "Damkerort" for their livelihood, their family on land and above all for absolute freedom at sea. However, more and more often their nets remain empty and the business becomes unprofitable. The work requires hard life decisions. The film portrays an intimate insight into the often blocked emotional world of three Büsumer crab fishermen. 

The Shepherd 

 Narrative Feature Award

This is the true story of a kind shepherd who had dinner with Jesus himself... 

UMBRA 

Best Narrative Short

UMBRA/ECLIPSE OF THE MOON/THE INNER WORLD OF TRAUMA.

AN ALLEGORICAL PICTURE ABOUT DISCOVERING ONESELF ON A CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS LEVEL, ABOUT REACHING OUT INTO THE DEEPEST, HIDDEN SECRETS. THROUGH SYMBOLS, MUSIC AND DANCE IT TELLS A STORY OF A GIRL GONE MISSING AND LATER A WOMAN SEDUCED BY THE "EVIL TOUCH" WHO CANNOT BREAK FREE FROM IT AND FIGHTS HER EMOTIONS TOWARDS HER TORMENTOR.

Bright Future

Best Animation 

An old man battles against the demons from the past for the sake of a good relationship with his daughter but the painful truth comes to the surface when she pays him a visit.

From within

Best Documentary Film

FROM WITHIN

Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005), is one of the most recognisable Polish painters of the 20th century. To this day, his surrealist, visionary painting arouses wide interest among audiences and remains an inspiration for successive generations of artists. For a decade – between 1987 and 1997 – Beksiński documented his family life and artistic process on video. FROM WITHIN consists in its entirety of footage shot by the artist himself and his immediate family. This unique, intimate journal, is at once a chronicle of social changes in Poland, the fall of communism and the first years of democracy.

The makers have tried to remain objective chroniclers of the approximately 300 hours of video material that Beksiński left behind him. FROM WITHIN can be seen as the artist's last work, a last attempt to stand up to the relentless passage of time