They Are Among Us


Best Music Video

Category
Music Video
Director
Andrei Zaitcev
Year
2021
Country
Brazil
Runtime
00:06:00
Budget
1,600 USD

A video poem about a woman’s life path, created to the music of a Brazilian composer Marcus Marques.

Dreamer


Best Animated Short

Category
Animation, Short
Director
Vladimir Todorov
Year
2022
Country
Bulgaria
Runtime
00:10:00
Budget
50,000 USD

Dreamer is a dystopian fairytale about the hope of rebuilding a world that has suffered seemingly irreversible disasters. The hope of fixing something that has gone horribly wrong. The hope of a second chance.
Alex is the lone survivor, the last living soul in a world devastated by a major catastrophe. Against all odds, he has survived the disaster, only to discover that he is the only one left in a ghostly shell of what the world used to be. Frustration and despair have strengthened his resolve to find a way out. In a desperate attempt to send a signal to the stars, where he believes his parents, together with the rest of humanity have migrated, he has built a crude emergency lamp, mounted on an old pickup truck. Trouble starts when his SOS machine runs out of fuel, forcing Alex to set out on yet another exhausting hunt for gasoline. He scavenges the tanks of the burned-out mangled vehicles piled up on the streets. But he’s out of luck. Not a single drop of gas! Resigned and disheartened, he is on the verge of giving up hope, when he comes across Angie. The girl’s lifeless body lies in the rubble, and Alex rushes to help revive her. When Angie awakes, she is in Alex’s room surrounded by all his toys and memorabilia of a past life. But what Angie finds most interesting is Alex’s collection of dead plants. A miracle occurs as she touches one of the dried-up twigs. A small green leaf sprouts out of the spot. Then another, and another. Soon the whole city is covered in a canopy of green as the two children look over its landscape in awe. And then an alarm goes off and Alex wakes up in his bed. Across the street lives Angie, the girl in his dream. The world outside is as normal as normal can be. Or is it?

Dark Room


Best Experimental Short

Category
Experimental, Short
Director
Juha Antero Lilja
Year
2022
Country
Finland
Runtime
00:04:00
Budget
800 USD

A family is inside a freestanding room-sized camera obscura by a small lake. They observe the image projected through the pinhole, when suddenly something scares them.

HOTEL Stories


BEST SHORT

Category
horror, dark comedy, drama
Director
Tomas Marichal Urban
Year
2022
Country
Uruguay
Runtime
00:18:00
Budget
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Hotels are enigmatic places, each room tells a story.
In this film we will follow the footsteps of a receptionist on his first night of work.
As the hours go by, will gradually discover his mysterious guests.
In a hotel where nothing is what is seems

The Sound of Memories


BEST FEATURE

Category
Experimental, Feature
Director
Gonghee Lee
Year
2017
Country
Korea
Runtime
01:44:00
Budget
21,881,838 USD

After her sister Yoon-ju’s mysterious death, Yoon-hee tries to remember the time in their youth. Yoon-hee strolls lakeside and struggles to be take her sister’s part as an actor. With highly-elated anxiety, she passes by forest and finds herself at a waterfall. Is she going to be released from a sense of guilt?

Half Year


BEST DOCUMENTARY

Category
Documentary, Short
Director
Pandeli Ceco
Year
2022
Country
Albania
Runtime
00:30:00
Budget
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Kol Caka is a 76-year-old man, who with his flock of sheep travels between the Alpine mountains in North of Albania to enjoy the bounty of nature for half a year, from spring to autumn.
He was born in the meadows of the high Alps, grew up there, became a man, worked every day, led the flock of sheep to the good pastures, planted trees that named after him, collects medicinal drugs, helps the family’s economy and lives in harmony with nature.
The road to go to the valley where his ancestors’ house is located is very difficult in the spring. The snow has not yet melted in the mountains and the weather is unpredictable, but the hidden paradise calls him for half the year, while the other half is the frozen winter.