Couch Film Festival Spring 2022
Best of the Festival
BEST FILM of the FESTIVAL: Write to Me by Mistake - Dir. by Giuseppe de Candia (Italy)
1ST RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: The Secret of Mr. Nostoc - Dir. by Patrice Seiler and Maxime Marion (France)
2ND RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: Succession - Dir. by Carlos Cobos Aroca and Martí Brussosa Ventura (Spain)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS for BEST FILM:
Sea Light - Dir. by John Doe (Spain)
Pulse - Dir. by Shomari Love and Francis Mancho (USA)
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD:
The Secret of Mr. Nostoc - Dir. by Patrice Seiler and Maxime Marion (France)
Category Awards - Winners in RED, Nominees in BLACK
15-Second Story
(Nominees for Best 15-Second Story)
Dragon - Dir. by John Maslowski (USA)
72 - Dir. by Telio Felipe Espinoza (Mexico)
Toast - Dir. by Kevin Lucero Less (USA)
Holiday Tradition - Dir. by Ian Paul Johnston (Canada)
Miss You Too Daddy - Dir. by Namo Safideen (Sweden)
1:00-5:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation
Monomyth - Dir. by Thomas Scott Holland (Canada)
Out Of Touch - Dir. by Yuhan (Henry) He (Canada)
A Beautiful Morning - Dir. by Lauren Hammersley (UK)
I Gave My Love Chocolates - Dir. Brandon Hicks (Canada)
Nominees for Best Art Film
Tainted Memories - Dir. by Emily Larkin (UK)
No Leaders Please - Dir. by Joan C. Gratz (USA)
To The Paradaise - Dir. by Susana Barbará (Argentina)
Gods - Dir. by Kipp Howard (USA)
Dilution - Dir. by Luis Dion-Dussault (Canada)
Diffractions - Dir. by Roberto Stephenson (Haiti)
Nominees for Best Comedy
Babe, Listen! - Dir. by Silvia Chen (USA)
Great Moments in Movie Comedy (Chapter 47/48) - Dir. by Ian Johnston (Canada)
Unsolicited - Dir. by Kris Langford (Canada)
Bonding - Dir. by Rebecca Lamure (Canada)
Cat of Letters - Dir. by Kim Best (USA)
R34LIFE - Dir. by Puranjay Saini (UK)
Nominees for Best Documentary
Public Notice - Dir. by Rouzbeh Noori (Canada)
Prince Accused - According to Nostradamus - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Great Moments in Movie Comedy (Chapter 47/48) - Dir. by Ian Johnston (Canada)
Kite Fest - Dir. by Laura La France (Canada)
Anand's Next Big Prophecy Decoded - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Nominees for Best Drama
Reality - Dir. by Darya Shcherbakova (Russia)
99 Dates - Dir. by Abraham David (Canada)
Good Evening Mr. Nightshade - Dir. by Tristan Wilkinson (Canada)
I Kept a Piece of You - Dir. by Mattias Königsson (Sweden)
Nominees for Best Experimental
Conflict - Dir. by Paul McGannon Dower (USA)
The Other Side - Dir. by Tina Mamali (Greece)
The Conversation - Dir. by Paul Kelly (USA)
Images of a Reality - Dir. by Ana Baer and Cecilia Appleton (Mexico)
home(sick)bound - Dir. by Gee Stewart (Canada)
No Leaders Please - Dir. by Joan C. Gratz (USA)
Nominees for Best Horror
Grandpa’s Workshop - Dir. by Ermir M.B. (Kosovo)
The Annexation- Dir. by Matteo Di Giovanni (Canada)
Seduction of Distance - Dir. by Mike Messier (USA)
Nominees for Best Music Video
Among the Clouds - Dir. by Alexi Scheiber (USA)
Waves&Windows - Somewhere Somehow - Dir. by Dean Attari (Canada)
Levitate - Dir. by Roy Rosental, Joe Gnoffo (USA)
Silent Love - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best One-Minute Film
Three Days - Dir. by Luis Alberto Martín Bravo (Spain)
Death on Halloween Night - Dir. by Amir Kiani (Canada)
Unsolicited - Dir. by Kris Langford (Canada)
Grandpa's Workshop - Dir. by Ermir M. B. (Kosovo)
Breaking News - Dir. by Janne Tavares (Sweden)
Nominees for Best Thriller
Thief - Dir. by Gordon Henry Engelmeyer (USA)
Dark Dreams - Dir. by Nicola De Prato (USA)
A Woman With The Cursed Veil - Dir. by Adhikara Nugroho Poesoro (Indonesia)
Etesian - Dir. by Sean Breathnach (Ireland)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker
Rémi Tournier - Respirations (France)
Karina Wolfe - Lou (USA)
Helia Behrooz - Afloat (USA)
Jiatong Tu - Luck (China)
Nominees for Best Student Film
Jjigae - Dir. by Ashley Groves (USA)
Happy Birthday, My Friend - Dir. by Davide Bertolini (Czech Republic)
Luck - Dir. by Jiatong Tu (China)
Out Of Touch - Dir. by Yuhan (Henry) He (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actor
Mike Messier - Seduction of Distance (USA)
Jeremia Lofsved - Happy Birthday, My Friend (Czech Republic)
Rouzbeh Noori - We the Fishes (Sweden)
Gordon Henry Engelmeyer - Thief (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress
Zhara Astra - Bangs (USA)
Snezhana Samohina - Reality (Russia)
Jennifer Groves - Jjigae (USA)
Beth Metcalf - The Bat Signal Was Lit (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
The Forgotten Flame - Dir. by Derek Lamoureux (Canada)
Etesian - Dir. by Sean Breathnach (Ireland)
Unsolicited - Dir. by Kris Langford (Canada)
Good Evening Mr. Nightshade - Dir. by Tristan Wilkinson (Canada)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Sean Breathnach - Etesian (Ireland)
Rémi Tournier - Respirations (France)
Rouzbeh Noori - Public Notice (Canada)
Nik Pilecki - The Forgotten Flame (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer
Daniel St-Jacques - Seven (Canada)
Abraham David - 99 Dates (Canada)
Evgeny Arhipov and Vladislav Emelin - Field Dwellers
Shihyun Wang - Chinese New Year in Taiwan (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best Director
Sean Breathnach - Etesian (Ireland)
Rouzbeh Noori - We the Fishes (Sweden)
John Maslowski - The Bat Signal Was Lit (USA)
Steven Hervieu - Digital Champions Leading the Fight Against FGM in Tanzania (Tanzania)
5:01-20:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation
The Pillar Of Strength - Dir. by Ayie Ibrahim (Malaysia)
Rainbow - Dir. by Hui Tan (USA)
Know You Well - Dir. by Micheala Wadzinski (USA)
Nominees for Best Comedy
Schoolin' Around - Dir. by John Taylor (Canada)
Cookie Crash - Dir. by Louie Corrons (USA)
The Lottery Ticket - Dir. by Tamara Bick and Drew Antzis (Canada)
Banned Betsy - Dir. by Leah Revivo (UK)
FUR Better or FUR Worse - Dir. by Kim Best (USA)
After Life Crisis - Dir. by Matthew Eli Judd (USA)
Trucked! - Dir. by Philip Snyder and Robert M. Snyder (USA)
After a Date with Anxiety - Dir. by Adam Smith (USA)
Nominees for Best Documentary
7 Years Art from Berlin "BrückenKunst" 2019 - Dir. by Gilbert Brüning (Germany)
Under Covid Shadow - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
The 1K Video - Dir. by Cara Urban (USA)
Please Rescue Me - Dir. by Kimberly Best (USA)
Life on the Fast Track - Dir. by Yeonsu Shin (Canada)
José's Sunday Paella - Dir. by André M. Zucker (USA)
Resonance - Dir. by Sam Wood (Canada)
The Crop Circle from Inside - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Bethel Saloon March 12 Afternoon - Dir. by William Anthony Stancik (USA)
Fulfilled Prophecy on Quake, Covid, Variant and War 2022 - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Mom's War Time Stories - Dir. by James Chen (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best Drama International
The Doormat - Dir. by Tomás Guichet (Argentina)
Careful - Dir. by Sebastião Salgado (Portugal)
Let's Play - Dir. by Katia Sauthier and Jérôme Piguet (Switzerland)
Memories - Dir. by Sebastian Pink (Germany)
Nominees for Best Drama Canada
The Day I Killed Him - Dir. by J. Christian Hamilton (Canada)
Lost Dog - Dir. by David Li (Canada)
Please Don't Save Me - Dir. by David Botros (Canada)
The Bostonians - Dir. by Amir Kiani (Canada)
For a Coffin Full of Gold - Dir. by Dinitha Vithanage (Canada)
That's Life - Dir. by Dan Nicholls (Canada)
Nominees for Best Drama USA
What's Next? - DIr. by Sean Greene (USA)
Annex - Dir. by Amelia Wyeth Ponirakis (USA)
As Apple Pie - Dir. by Pierre Marais (USA)
Surprise!? - Dir. by Kena Sosa (USA)
Dolores, A Triptych - Dir. by Gina Ann Margillo (USA)
Nam - Dir. by Niccolò Corti (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental International
Divine Equation - Dir. by Ricardo Machado (Portugal)
Magic Roots -Dir. by A.Rajeev (India)
Cry - Dir. by Luciana Malavasi (Brazil)
Perfection - Dir. by Ilenia Sbarufatti (Italy)
The Wanderer of the Montagnette - Dir. by Jacques Micke (France)
Nominees for Best Experimental North America
Spring's Waltz - Dir. by Max-Émile Sawyer, Charles Émond (Canada)
Searching for Godot - Dir. byNick Maizlin (Canada)
Piss Tea - Dir. by Jordan H. Hughes (Canada)
Plastic Flowers - Dir. by Rodolfo Alexandre (Canada)
IXCHEL - Dir. by Ana Baer and Rocio Luna (Mexico)
Dolores, A Triptych - Dir. by Gina Ann Margillo (USA)
Nominees for Best Horror International
Bloody Bridal Shower 2 - Dir. by Hermanos Baba (Spain)
The Silence - Dir. by Pedro Caldeira and Paulo Graça (Portugal)
665 - Dir. by Juan de Dios Garduño (Spain)
DeMented - Dir. by Guillermo Cabot (Spain)
Nominees for Best Horror North America
The Prodigious Bifurcaria - Dir. by Emiliano Fajardo Garcia (Mexico)
Only Kids See Ghosts - Dir. by Anthony Alyassi (USA)
Locked - Dir. by Vahid Salehizadeh (Canada)
Sonar - Dir. by Alfredo Uzeta (Mexico)
The Estate - Dir. by Josh Thurm (USA)
Ostinato - Dir. by Julie Fergus (USA)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural
The Saga Chronicles After The Invasion - Dir. by Donovan A. Santiago (USA)
Chicken People - Dir. by Lex Garcia (USA)
Charlie the Lonely - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Absolute Ears - Dir. by Rémi Damecour and Pascal Phaneuf (Canada)
Slaughterhouse - Dir. by Marco Antonio Gosalvez Devesa (Spain)
Slingshot Gangville Is This A Hunt? - Dir. by Da'Rell Miller (USA)
TransHuman - Dir. by Alex Lancaster (Canada)
Nominees for Best Thriller
Beep Beep - Dir. by MJ Dixon (UK)
Blue Devil - Dir. by Nadeem Omar (Canada)
Crumble Part 2 - Dir. by Jasmine Deanne Andrews (USA)
Hunt - Dir. by Trevor O'Neal (USA)
Dawn - Dir. by Misty Hayes (USA)
Beginner's Luck - Dir. by Thomas Peck (USA)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker
Naomi Baker - The Islanders (Canada)
Cyrus Lo - The Ogre of the Woods (Canada)
Omar Cook - Skandalouz (USA)
Mehmet Zakir Ekni - Artificial Election (Turkey)
Kaili Rose - Love: Music, A Festival Short Film (USA)
Paul Greene - Love Her Madly (USA)
Nominees for Best Student Film
The Unforeseen Stranger - Dir. by Michael Jacoby and Joseph Jacoby (USA)
Road to Gold - Dir. by Silvia Chen (USA)
Soundtrack Me Back in Time - Dir. by Sara Dawood (Canada)
Captain - Dir. by Jared Weber (USA)
The Red Phone - Dir. by Elijah Roberts (USA)
Reflection - Dir. by Johann Yui Heng Wong (Canada)
A Morsel Of Love - Dir. by Helia Behrooz and Sana Norouzbak (Iran)
Nominees for Best Actor
Charles-Aubey Houde - Brigitte (Canada)
Jakub Reizer - Amory (Poland)
Pablo Barrantes - CandyFight (Spain)
Arnaud Vincent Raschella - Ancestral Land (Canada)
Soleil Stimson - Grief (Canada)
Sam Rothstein - Hunt (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress
Alex McDevitt - Blue Eyes (UK)
Stephanie Coco Palermo - F**k (Canada)
Shannon Davidson - Òran na h-Eala (UK)
Sara Dawood - Soundtrack Me Back in Time (Canada)
Sarah Williams - Redrum (USA)
Josephine Armar - Ring Ring (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
Conex - Dir. by Franck Lenglet (France)
Absolute Ears - Dir. by Rémi Damecour and Pascal Phaneuf (Canada)
Like You - Dir. by Marco Gosalvez (Spain)
Talis - Dir. by Ramon L. Mayol (Spain)
Trucked! - Dir. by Philip Snyder and Robert M. Snyder (USA)
Carl - Dir. by Lili Pang (Canada)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
João Monge - Careful (Portugal)
Evangelos Desborough - Brigitte (Canada)
Kajetan Milewsk - Amory (Poland)
Enrico Vezzù - Perfection (Italy)
Marie-Pier Diamond - Ancestral Land (Canada)
Radek Drozdowicz - That's Life (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer
Nicolas Pelletier - Elvisology 101 (Canada)
Lillian Bornstein and Lili Fox-Lim - Keep in Touch Episode 1 - if (low resolution) (USA)
Steve Exeter - Òran na h-Eala (UK)
Sean Greene - Tight Five (USA)
Redouane Elghazi and Chad Dann - The Clay Wife (USA)
Kenge BaNikongo - Ring Ring (USA)
Nominees for Best Director
Sarah-Beth Brown - A Sorry Story (UK)
Konrad Miklaszewski - A Summer I Remember (Poland)
Dinitha Vithanage - For a Coffin Full of Gold (Canada)
Nicki Flores - Foreign Affairs (USA)
Simone Kitchen - Grief (Canada)
Leah Revivo - Banned Betsy (UK)
20:01-45:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Comedy
Frat Splat - Dir. by Tyler Parrish (USA)
The 20-Year-Old Virgin - Dir. by Jalen Coleman (USA)
Still Running - Dir. by Taylor Lamothe, Max Rosenstein (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary
Diary of An Undertaker - Dir. by Michael Mayne (USA)
The Covid Lessons - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Signs of Life - Dir. by Marko Nikolić (Serbia)
Layers - Dir. by Lee Page, Micquel Wright (UK)
Still Running - Dir. by Taylor Lamothe, Max Rosenstein (Canada)
Sulukule: Gentrification Eliminated Community - Dir. by Melis Isil Simsek (USA)
Nominees for Best Drama
Mouth of Hell - Dir. by Luís Porto (Portugal)
My Venus - Dir. by Aleksander Pakulski (Poland)
Something More - Dir. by Andrew Michael Kovalchek (USA)
Thank F - Dir. by Nick Sesh (Australia)
It Rings a Bell - Dir. by Josi Grinboju (Israel)
Nominees for Best Horror
They're Never Coming Back - Dir. by Augustine Dalton (USA)
Frat Splat - Dir. by Tyler Parrish (USA)
The Red Knows - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada)
Asrasya - Dir. by Allwyn Rodriguez AL (India)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Vazio (Emptiness) - Dir. by Gonçalo Alegre (Portugal)
The Red Knows - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada)
Thank F - Dir. by Nick Sesh (Australia)
Charon - Dir. by Nadeem Omar (Canada)
ZombieWood - Dir. by Timur Landrev, Timofey Landrev (Ukraine)
Nominees for Best Thriller
The Light: Urban Chronicles - Family - Dir. by J Bunting Johnson (UK)
Untitled - Dir. by Joseph Thomas (USA)
Hidden Away - Dir. by Rebecca Lamure (Canada)
Mouth of Hell - Dir. by Luís Porto (Portugal)
Nominees for Best Actor
António Júlio Duarte - The Living (Portugal)
Izayah Carr - Of Artists & Men (USA)
Liam Sullivan - The Red Knows (Canada)
Vincent Mignault - Almost (France)
Nominees for Best Actress
Catherine Seguin - Hidden Away (Canada)
Danya Johaness - Asrasya (India)
Noemie Fourdan - Almost (France)
Andrea Peterson - The Trial and the Tribulations of Sally (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
Charon - Dir. by Nadeem Omar (Canada)
The Red Knows - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada)
Between Here and Gone. Cast: Iván Gisbert, Viki Lafuente, Alfonso Desentre, Fernando Corral, Jesús de Miguel, Rafael Kyokai, Merrick Wells, Ben Ansell, Pau Cansado, José Tito Porta and Pablo Cansado - Dir. by Sadie Duarte (Spain)
ZombieWood - Dir. by Timur Landrev, Timofey Landrev (Ukraine)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Bryan Wilkat - Still Running (Canada)
Lee Page - Layers (UK)
Obrad Kokotović - Signs of Life (Serbia)
Isil Melis Simsek, Ozan Cem Simsek, Tunca Ozan Yalcin - Sulukule: Gentrification Eliminated Community (USA)
Nominees for Best Writer
Eldridge Shannon - Of Artists & Men (USA)
Alessandra Valente - The Case (Italy)
Shihyun Wang - Chaos According to Nostradamus - Is Putin in Book of Prophecy? (USA)
Sadie Duarte, Iván Gisbert - Between Here and Gone (Spain)
Nominees for Best Director
Maurizio Forestieri - The Case (Italy)
Shihyun Wang - Doomsday War and Anti-Christ According to Nostradamus (Taiwan)
Paul-Andre Robin - Almost (France)
Luís Porto - Mouth of Hell (Portugal)
45:01-120 Minutes
Nominees for Best Comedy
Texas AF - Dir. by David N. Reyes (USA)
Russian Roulette - Dir. by Ryan J. Gilmer and Craig S. Stalmer (USA)
Violeta de Cobalto - Dir. by Ricardo Serna (Mexico)
Nominees for Best Documentary
The Divine Between Plagues - Dir. by Ana Correia (Brazil)
Creating the Main Character - Dir. by Jake Alda Coffey (USA)
The Secret Cup - Dir. by Jeremy Norrie (USA)
Yesterday's Illusions, Today's Illusions - Dir. by Payam Avarwand (Germany)
Interracial Love Stories - Dir. by Sam Sharpe and Joan Hehir (USA)
Future in Prophecies - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Something Ain't Right - Dir. by Susan Ruth Downs, MD, Alex Voss (USA)
Nominees for Best Drama
Pages of Love- Dir. by Sam Sharpe (USA)
Locked Room 2020 - Dir. by Paint VK (USA)
Escape from Reality - Dir. by George Michael Liviakis (USA)
Love Rules - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Capo di Famiglia II - Dir. by Annemarie Libbers (Netherlands)
RAAKH - A Silent Movie - Dir. by Rajesh Dattatraya Chavan (India)
Nominees for Best Actor
Dirk Gunther Mohr - Capo di Famiglia II (Netherlands)
Donato De Luca - Texas AF (USA)
Sandeep Pathak - RAAKH - A Silent Movie (India)
Nominees for Best Actress
Ceia Zhou - Love Rules (Taiwan)
Claudia Garza - Violeta de Cobalto (Mexico)
Reina Maria - Bird of Omen (Pullu) (India)
Nominees for Best Cast
The Blue Llama Secret Message - Dir. by Daniel Alberto Osorio (Ecuador)
Pussie Control: The Story of Davion Pussie - Dir. by Bryan Bostic (USA)
The Vale Untold - Dir. by Zach Walleser (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Almudena Sánchez - Pessoas (Spain)
Donny Ter Horst - Capo di Famiglia II (Netherlands)
Valentine McKee - Texas AF (USA)
Nominees for Best Writer
Daniel Alberto Osorio - The Blue Llama Secret Message (Ecuador)
Arturo Dueñas Herrero - Pessoas (Spain)
Shihyun Wang - Nostradamus, Pandemic and Our Future (USA)
Nominees for Best Director
Annemarie Libbers - Capo di Famiglia II (Netherlands)
Bryan Bostic - Pussie Control: The Story of Davion Pussie (USA)
Sedat Benek - Harran School: El Battani (Turkey
Best of the Festival
BEST FILM of the FESTIVAL: Write to Me by Mistake - Dir. by Giuseppe de Candia (Italy)
1ST RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: The Secret of Mr. Nostoc - Dir. by Patrice Seiler and Maxime Marion (France)
2ND RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: Succession - Dir. by Carlos Cobos Aroca and Martí Brussosa Ventura (Spain)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS for BEST FILM:
Sea Light - Dir. by John Doe (Spain)
Pulse - Dir. by Shomari Love and Francis Mancho (USA)
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD:
The Secret of Mr. Nostoc - Dir. by Patrice Seiler and Maxime Marion (France)
Category Awards - Winners in RED, Nominees in BLACK
15-Second Story
(Nominees for Best 15-Second Story)
Dragon - Dir. by John Maslowski (USA)
72 - Dir. by Telio Felipe Espinoza (Mexico)
Toast - Dir. by Kevin Lucero Less (USA)
Holiday Tradition - Dir. by Ian Paul Johnston (Canada)
Miss You Too Daddy - Dir. by Namo Safideen (Sweden)
1:00-5:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation
Monomyth - Dir. by Thomas Scott Holland (Canada)
Out Of Touch - Dir. by Yuhan (Henry) He (Canada)
A Beautiful Morning - Dir. by Lauren Hammersley (UK)
I Gave My Love Chocolates - Dir. Brandon Hicks (Canada)
Nominees for Best Art Film
Tainted Memories - Dir. by Emily Larkin (UK)
No Leaders Please - Dir. by Joan C. Gratz (USA)
To The Paradaise - Dir. by Susana Barbará (Argentina)
Gods - Dir. by Kipp Howard (USA)
Dilution - Dir. by Luis Dion-Dussault (Canada)
Diffractions - Dir. by Roberto Stephenson (Haiti)
Nominees for Best Comedy
Babe, Listen! - Dir. by Silvia Chen (USA)
Great Moments in Movie Comedy (Chapter 47/48) - Dir. by Ian Johnston (Canada)
Unsolicited - Dir. by Kris Langford (Canada)
Bonding - Dir. by Rebecca Lamure (Canada)
Cat of Letters - Dir. by Kim Best (USA)
R34LIFE - Dir. by Puranjay Saini (UK)
Nominees for Best Documentary
Public Notice - Dir. by Rouzbeh Noori (Canada)
Prince Accused - According to Nostradamus - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Great Moments in Movie Comedy (Chapter 47/48) - Dir. by Ian Johnston (Canada)
Kite Fest - Dir. by Laura La France (Canada)
Anand's Next Big Prophecy Decoded - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Nominees for Best Drama
Reality - Dir. by Darya Shcherbakova (Russia)
99 Dates - Dir. by Abraham David (Canada)
Good Evening Mr. Nightshade - Dir. by Tristan Wilkinson (Canada)
I Kept a Piece of You - Dir. by Mattias Königsson (Sweden)
Nominees for Best Experimental
Conflict - Dir. by Paul McGannon Dower (USA)
The Other Side - Dir. by Tina Mamali (Greece)
The Conversation - Dir. by Paul Kelly (USA)
Images of a Reality - Dir. by Ana Baer and Cecilia Appleton (Mexico)
home(sick)bound - Dir. by Gee Stewart (Canada)
No Leaders Please - Dir. by Joan C. Gratz (USA)
Nominees for Best Horror
Grandpa’s Workshop - Dir. by Ermir M.B. (Kosovo)
The Annexation- Dir. by Matteo Di Giovanni (Canada)
Seduction of Distance - Dir. by Mike Messier (USA)
Nominees for Best Music Video
Among the Clouds - Dir. by Alexi Scheiber (USA)
Waves&Windows - Somewhere Somehow - Dir. by Dean Attari (Canada)
Levitate - Dir. by Roy Rosental, Joe Gnoffo (USA)
Silent Love - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best One-Minute Film
Three Days - Dir. by Luis Alberto Martín Bravo (Spain)
Death on Halloween Night - Dir. by Amir Kiani (Canada)
Unsolicited - Dir. by Kris Langford (Canada)
Grandpa's Workshop - Dir. by Ermir M. B. (Kosovo)
Breaking News - Dir. by Janne Tavares (Sweden)
Nominees for Best Thriller
Thief - Dir. by Gordon Henry Engelmeyer (USA)
Dark Dreams - Dir. by Nicola De Prato (USA)
A Woman With The Cursed Veil - Dir. by Adhikara Nugroho Poesoro (Indonesia)
Etesian - Dir. by Sean Breathnach (Ireland)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker
Rémi Tournier - Respirations (France)
Karina Wolfe - Lou (USA)
Helia Behrooz - Afloat (USA)
Jiatong Tu - Luck (China)
Nominees for Best Student Film
Jjigae - Dir. by Ashley Groves (USA)
Happy Birthday, My Friend - Dir. by Davide Bertolini (Czech Republic)
Luck - Dir. by Jiatong Tu (China)
Out Of Touch - Dir. by Yuhan (Henry) He (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actor
Mike Messier - Seduction of Distance (USA)
Jeremia Lofsved - Happy Birthday, My Friend (Czech Republic)
Rouzbeh Noori - We the Fishes (Sweden)
Gordon Henry Engelmeyer - Thief (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress
Zhara Astra - Bangs (USA)
Snezhana Samohina - Reality (Russia)
Jennifer Groves - Jjigae (USA)
Beth Metcalf - The Bat Signal Was Lit (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
The Forgotten Flame - Dir. by Derek Lamoureux (Canada)
Etesian - Dir. by Sean Breathnach (Ireland)
Unsolicited - Dir. by Kris Langford (Canada)
Good Evening Mr. Nightshade - Dir. by Tristan Wilkinson (Canada)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Sean Breathnach - Etesian (Ireland)
Rémi Tournier - Respirations (France)
Rouzbeh Noori - Public Notice (Canada)
Nik Pilecki - The Forgotten Flame (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer
Daniel St-Jacques - Seven (Canada)
Abraham David - 99 Dates (Canada)
Evgeny Arhipov and Vladislav Emelin - Field Dwellers
Shihyun Wang - Chinese New Year in Taiwan (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best Director
Sean Breathnach - Etesian (Ireland)
Rouzbeh Noori - We the Fishes (Sweden)
John Maslowski - The Bat Signal Was Lit (USA)
Steven Hervieu - Digital Champions Leading the Fight Against FGM in Tanzania (Tanzania)
5:01-20:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation
The Pillar Of Strength - Dir. by Ayie Ibrahim (Malaysia)
Rainbow - Dir. by Hui Tan (USA)
Know You Well - Dir. by Micheala Wadzinski (USA)
Nominees for Best Comedy
Schoolin' Around - Dir. by John Taylor (Canada)
Cookie Crash - Dir. by Louie Corrons (USA)
The Lottery Ticket - Dir. by Tamara Bick and Drew Antzis (Canada)
Banned Betsy - Dir. by Leah Revivo (UK)
FUR Better or FUR Worse - Dir. by Kim Best (USA)
After Life Crisis - Dir. by Matthew Eli Judd (USA)
Trucked! - Dir. by Philip Snyder and Robert M. Snyder (USA)
After a Date with Anxiety - Dir. by Adam Smith (USA)
Nominees for Best Documentary
7 Years Art from Berlin "BrückenKunst" 2019 - Dir. by Gilbert Brüning (Germany)
Under Covid Shadow - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
The 1K Video - Dir. by Cara Urban (USA)
Please Rescue Me - Dir. by Kimberly Best (USA)
Life on the Fast Track - Dir. by Yeonsu Shin (Canada)
José's Sunday Paella - Dir. by André M. Zucker (USA)
Resonance - Dir. by Sam Wood (Canada)
The Crop Circle from Inside - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Bethel Saloon March 12 Afternoon - Dir. by William Anthony Stancik (USA)
Fulfilled Prophecy on Quake, Covid, Variant and War 2022 - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Mom's War Time Stories - Dir. by James Chen (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best Drama International
The Doormat - Dir. by Tomás Guichet (Argentina)
Careful - Dir. by Sebastião Salgado (Portugal)
Let's Play - Dir. by Katia Sauthier and Jérôme Piguet (Switzerland)
Memories - Dir. by Sebastian Pink (Germany)
Nominees for Best Drama Canada
The Day I Killed Him - Dir. by J. Christian Hamilton (Canada)
Lost Dog - Dir. by David Li (Canada)
Please Don't Save Me - Dir. by David Botros (Canada)
The Bostonians - Dir. by Amir Kiani (Canada)
For a Coffin Full of Gold - Dir. by Dinitha Vithanage (Canada)
That's Life - Dir. by Dan Nicholls (Canada)
Nominees for Best Drama USA
What's Next? - DIr. by Sean Greene (USA)
Annex - Dir. by Amelia Wyeth Ponirakis (USA)
As Apple Pie - Dir. by Pierre Marais (USA)
Surprise!? - Dir. by Kena Sosa (USA)
Dolores, A Triptych - Dir. by Gina Ann Margillo (USA)
Nam - Dir. by Niccolò Corti (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental International
Divine Equation - Dir. by Ricardo Machado (Portugal)
Magic Roots -Dir. by A.Rajeev (India)
Cry - Dir. by Luciana Malavasi (Brazil)
Perfection - Dir. by Ilenia Sbarufatti (Italy)
The Wanderer of the Montagnette - Dir. by Jacques Micke (France)
Nominees for Best Experimental North America
Spring's Waltz - Dir. by Max-Émile Sawyer, Charles Émond (Canada)
Searching for Godot - Dir. byNick Maizlin (Canada)
Piss Tea - Dir. by Jordan H. Hughes (Canada)
Plastic Flowers - Dir. by Rodolfo Alexandre (Canada)
IXCHEL - Dir. by Ana Baer and Rocio Luna (Mexico)
Dolores, A Triptych - Dir. by Gina Ann Margillo (USA)
Nominees for Best Horror International
Bloody Bridal Shower 2 - Dir. by Hermanos Baba (Spain)
The Silence - Dir. by Pedro Caldeira and Paulo Graça (Portugal)
665 - Dir. by Juan de Dios Garduño (Spain)
DeMented - Dir. by Guillermo Cabot (Spain)
Nominees for Best Horror North America
The Prodigious Bifurcaria - Dir. by Emiliano Fajardo Garcia (Mexico)
Only Kids See Ghosts - Dir. by Anthony Alyassi (USA)
Locked - Dir. by Vahid Salehizadeh (Canada)
Sonar - Dir. by Alfredo Uzeta (Mexico)
The Estate - Dir. by Josh Thurm (USA)
Ostinato - Dir. by Julie Fergus (USA)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Supernatural
The Saga Chronicles After The Invasion - Dir. by Donovan A. Santiago (USA)
Chicken People - Dir. by Lex Garcia (USA)
Charlie the Lonely - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Absolute Ears - Dir. by Rémi Damecour and Pascal Phaneuf (Canada)
Slaughterhouse - Dir. by Marco Antonio Gosalvez Devesa (Spain)
Slingshot Gangville Is This A Hunt? - Dir. by Da'Rell Miller (USA)
TransHuman - Dir. by Alex Lancaster (Canada)
Nominees for Best Thriller
Beep Beep - Dir. by MJ Dixon (UK)
Blue Devil - Dir. by Nadeem Omar (Canada)
Crumble Part 2 - Dir. by Jasmine Deanne Andrews (USA)
Hunt - Dir. by Trevor O'Neal (USA)
Dawn - Dir. by Misty Hayes (USA)
Beginner's Luck - Dir. by Thomas Peck (USA)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker
Naomi Baker - The Islanders (Canada)
Cyrus Lo - The Ogre of the Woods (Canada)
Omar Cook - Skandalouz (USA)
Mehmet Zakir Ekni - Artificial Election (Turkey)
Kaili Rose - Love: Music, A Festival Short Film (USA)
Paul Greene - Love Her Madly (USA)
Nominees for Best Student Film
The Unforeseen Stranger - Dir. by Michael Jacoby and Joseph Jacoby (USA)
Road to Gold - Dir. by Silvia Chen (USA)
Soundtrack Me Back in Time - Dir. by Sara Dawood (Canada)
Captain - Dir. by Jared Weber (USA)
The Red Phone - Dir. by Elijah Roberts (USA)
Reflection - Dir. by Johann Yui Heng Wong (Canada)
A Morsel Of Love - Dir. by Helia Behrooz and Sana Norouzbak (Iran)
Nominees for Best Actor
Charles-Aubey Houde - Brigitte (Canada)
Jakub Reizer - Amory (Poland)
Pablo Barrantes - CandyFight (Spain)
Arnaud Vincent Raschella - Ancestral Land (Canada)
Soleil Stimson - Grief (Canada)
Sam Rothstein - Hunt (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress
Alex McDevitt - Blue Eyes (UK)
Stephanie Coco Palermo - F**k (Canada)
Shannon Davidson - Òran na h-Eala (UK)
Sara Dawood - Soundtrack Me Back in Time (Canada)
Sarah Williams - Redrum (USA)
Josephine Armar - Ring Ring (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
Conex - Dir. by Franck Lenglet (France)
Absolute Ears - Dir. by Rémi Damecour and Pascal Phaneuf (Canada)
Like You - Dir. by Marco Gosalvez (Spain)
Talis - Dir. by Ramon L. Mayol (Spain)
Trucked! - Dir. by Philip Snyder and Robert M. Snyder (USA)
Carl - Dir. by Lili Pang (Canada)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
João Monge - Careful (Portugal)
Evangelos Desborough - Brigitte (Canada)
Kajetan Milewsk - Amory (Poland)
Enrico Vezzù - Perfection (Italy)
Marie-Pier Diamond - Ancestral Land (Canada)
Radek Drozdowicz - That's Life (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer
Nicolas Pelletier - Elvisology 101 (Canada)
Lillian Bornstein and Lili Fox-Lim - Keep in Touch Episode 1 - if (low resolution) (USA)
Steve Exeter - Òran na h-Eala (UK)
Sean Greene - Tight Five (USA)
Redouane Elghazi and Chad Dann - The Clay Wife (USA)
Kenge BaNikongo - Ring Ring (USA)
Nominees for Best Director
Sarah-Beth Brown - A Sorry Story (UK)
Konrad Miklaszewski - A Summer I Remember (Poland)
Dinitha Vithanage - For a Coffin Full of Gold (Canada)
Nicki Flores - Foreign Affairs (USA)
Simone Kitchen - Grief (Canada)
Leah Revivo - Banned Betsy (UK)
20:01-45:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Comedy
Frat Splat - Dir. by Tyler Parrish (USA)
The 20-Year-Old Virgin - Dir. by Jalen Coleman (USA)
Still Running - Dir. by Taylor Lamothe, Max Rosenstein (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary
Diary of An Undertaker - Dir. by Michael Mayne (USA)
The Covid Lessons - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Signs of Life - Dir. by Marko Nikolić (Serbia)
Layers - Dir. by Lee Page, Micquel Wright (UK)
Still Running - Dir. by Taylor Lamothe, Max Rosenstein (Canada)
Sulukule: Gentrification Eliminated Community - Dir. by Melis Isil Simsek (USA)
Nominees for Best Drama
Mouth of Hell - Dir. by Luís Porto (Portugal)
My Venus - Dir. by Aleksander Pakulski (Poland)
Something More - Dir. by Andrew Michael Kovalchek (USA)
Thank F - Dir. by Nick Sesh (Australia)
It Rings a Bell - Dir. by Josi Grinboju (Israel)
Nominees for Best Horror
They're Never Coming Back - Dir. by Augustine Dalton (USA)
Frat Splat - Dir. by Tyler Parrish (USA)
The Red Knows - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada)
Asrasya - Dir. by Allwyn Rodriguez AL (India)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Vazio (Emptiness) - Dir. by Gonçalo Alegre (Portugal)
The Red Knows - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada)
Thank F - Dir. by Nick Sesh (Australia)
Charon - Dir. by Nadeem Omar (Canada)
ZombieWood - Dir. by Timur Landrev, Timofey Landrev (Ukraine)
Nominees for Best Thriller
The Light: Urban Chronicles - Family - Dir. by J Bunting Johnson (UK)
Untitled - Dir. by Joseph Thomas (USA)
Hidden Away - Dir. by Rebecca Lamure (Canada)
Mouth of Hell - Dir. by Luís Porto (Portugal)
Nominees for Best Actor
António Júlio Duarte - The Living (Portugal)
Izayah Carr - Of Artists & Men (USA)
Liam Sullivan - The Red Knows (Canada)
Vincent Mignault - Almost (France)
Nominees for Best Actress
Catherine Seguin - Hidden Away (Canada)
Danya Johaness - Asrasya (India)
Noemie Fourdan - Almost (France)
Andrea Peterson - The Trial and the Tribulations of Sally (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast
Charon - Dir. by Nadeem Omar (Canada)
The Red Knows - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada)
Between Here and Gone. Cast: Iván Gisbert, Viki Lafuente, Alfonso Desentre, Fernando Corral, Jesús de Miguel, Rafael Kyokai, Merrick Wells, Ben Ansell, Pau Cansado, José Tito Porta and Pablo Cansado - Dir. by Sadie Duarte (Spain)
ZombieWood - Dir. by Timur Landrev, Timofey Landrev (Ukraine)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Bryan Wilkat - Still Running (Canada)
Lee Page - Layers (UK)
Obrad Kokotović - Signs of Life (Serbia)
Isil Melis Simsek, Ozan Cem Simsek, Tunca Ozan Yalcin - Sulukule: Gentrification Eliminated Community (USA)
Nominees for Best Writer
Eldridge Shannon - Of Artists & Men (USA)
Alessandra Valente - The Case (Italy)
Shihyun Wang - Chaos According to Nostradamus - Is Putin in Book of Prophecy? (USA)
Sadie Duarte, Iván Gisbert - Between Here and Gone (Spain)
Nominees for Best Director
Maurizio Forestieri - The Case (Italy)
Shihyun Wang - Doomsday War and Anti-Christ According to Nostradamus (Taiwan)
Paul-Andre Robin - Almost (France)
Luís Porto - Mouth of Hell (Portugal)
45:01-120 Minutes
Nominees for Best Comedy
Texas AF - Dir. by David N. Reyes (USA)
Russian Roulette - Dir. by Ryan J. Gilmer and Craig S. Stalmer (USA)
Violeta de Cobalto - Dir. by Ricardo Serna (Mexico)
Nominees for Best Documentary
The Divine Between Plagues - Dir. by Ana Correia (Brazil)
Creating the Main Character - Dir. by Jake Alda Coffey (USA)
The Secret Cup - Dir. by Jeremy Norrie (USA)
Yesterday's Illusions, Today's Illusions - Dir. by Payam Avarwand (Germany)
Interracial Love Stories - Dir. by Sam Sharpe and Joan Hehir (USA)
Future in Prophecies - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Something Ain't Right - Dir. by Susan Ruth Downs, MD, Alex Voss (USA)
Nominees for Best Drama
Pages of Love- Dir. by Sam Sharpe (USA)
Locked Room 2020 - Dir. by Paint VK (USA)
Escape from Reality - Dir. by George Michael Liviakis (USA)
Love Rules - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Capo di Famiglia II - Dir. by Annemarie Libbers (Netherlands)
RAAKH - A Silent Movie - Dir. by Rajesh Dattatraya Chavan (India)
Nominees for Best Actor
Dirk Gunther Mohr - Capo di Famiglia II (Netherlands)
Donato De Luca - Texas AF (USA)
Sandeep Pathak - RAAKH - A Silent Movie (India)
Nominees for Best Actress
Ceia Zhou - Love Rules (Taiwan)
Claudia Garza - Violeta de Cobalto (Mexico)
Reina Maria - Bird of Omen (Pullu) (India)
Nominees for Best Cast
The Blue Llama Secret Message - Dir. by Daniel Alberto Osorio (Ecuador)
Pussie Control: The Story of Davion Pussie - Dir. by Bryan Bostic (USA)
The Vale Untold - Dir. by Zach Walleser (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography
Almudena Sánchez - Pessoas (Spain)
Donny Ter Horst - Capo di Famiglia II (Netherlands)
Valentine McKee - Texas AF (USA)
Nominees for Best Writer
Daniel Alberto Osorio - The Blue Llama Secret Message (Ecuador)
Arturo Dueñas Herrero - Pessoas (Spain)
Shihyun Wang - Nostradamus, Pandemic and Our Future (USA)
Nominees for Best Director
Annemarie Libbers - Capo di Famiglia II (Netherlands)
Bryan Bostic - Pussie Control: The Story of Davion Pussie (USA)
Sedat Benek - Harran School: El Battani (Turkey
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