2022
Award Winners
Baptism
Directed by Yu Zhang
Filmed in: China
Completed: January 5, 2021
Run Time: 20 minutes
Language: Chinese (English subtitle)subtit
In an isolated island, the retired policeman Guodong finally finds Bingyuan, the murderer of his daughter. What he doesn't expect is that Bingyuan is now the priest of a church and the father of an orphan girl, Hong. Facing the priest's redemption, the police falls into struggle.
Moon Drops
Directed by Yoram Ever-Hadani
Filmed in: Serbia
Completed: July 1, 2018
Run Time: 16 minutes
A factory worker assembles an enigmatic machine that produces liquid drops from the moonlight.
Gulliver Moore
Directed by Gulliver Moore
FiF
Filmed in: United Kingdom
Completed: January 31, 2022
Run Time: 3 minutes
Language: English
"Sliced Bread is a Comedy short film in which we imagine what a world would look like if sliced bread had never been invented - and what would happen in 21st Century society if suddenly it was."
One Last Spin
Directed by Ross Donald
Filmed in: United Kingdom
Completed: February 28, 2022
Run Time: 30 minutes
Language: English
An unflinching look at gambling addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts. One Last Spin explores the environments that condition people to gamble and the devastating effects it has on their lives and communities.
White Horses, Silver Mine
Directed by Ziyi Jin
Filmed in: Mexico
Completed: September 9, 2020
Run Time: 20 minutes
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)subtitles)
In a small Mexican village, an unexpected car is going to take a little boy’s beloved uncle away, who has been his father’s secret lover for years.
Route 4
Directed by Martina Chamrad
Filmed in: France, Germany, Italy, Libya, Malta, Niger, Tunisia
Completed: December 7, 2020
Run Time: 53 minutes
Language: English
Documentary with and about the NGO Sea-Eye which was filmed over the course of 2 years, 5 Missions and 8 Countries. Refugees tell their Story and paint the picture of a horrible journey.
Senses
Directed by Erik Rojas
Filmed in: United States
Completed: July 28, 2021
Run Time: 4 minutes
Language: English
This song is about the 5 senses we experience as humans and how they can get triggered when we experience emotional loss. How it feels to hear someone’s name, smell someone’s cologne, pass by their favorite coffee shop, as you’re mourning their loss.
The Bear
Directed by Yongtao Hu
Filmed in: United States
Completed: May 10, 2021
Run Time: 4 minutes
Language: English
The Bear is a three-minute stop-motion animation that visualizes the love of a mother for her daughter. Although the old lady's Alzheimer's disease is getting worse and worse, she tries her best to remake a toy teddy bear for her daughter. The mother has forgotten everything but not her daughter.
Bloodlines: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993
Written by Eddie Clay Thompkins III
A US Marine recalls his mission to track a Somali Warlord, wherein he is confronted with love, loss and peril, in the most dangerous city in the world.
Wearing Thin
Directed by Hermeilio Miguel Aquino
Filmed in: United Kingdom
Completed: March 9, 2021
Run Time: 12 minutes
Language: English
Chris and Sinead's relationship is constantly tested as they struggle to deal with the affects of living with an eating disorder.
'Ori Tahiti Dancers
Directed by Nyko PK16, Hugues Damesin
Filmed in: French Polynesia
Completed: March 3, 2021
Run Time: 3 minutes
Language: English
'Ori Tahiti Dancers is the 1st documentary series on Polynesian dancers from around the world