BEST FILM of the FESTIVAL: 38 - Dir. by Lukas Wolfgang Martin (Germany) 1st RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: 5 Stars Service - Dir. by Carlos Vázquez (Mexico) 2nd RUNNER UP for BEST FILM: Bottom Of The Night - Dir. by Joe Mitchell (USA)
AUDIENCE CHOICE: 38 - Dir. by Lukas Wolfgang Martin (Germany)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Korean Genocide - Dir. by Seung-il Chon (Korea) Tóxico - Dir. by Rubia Lima, Rafael Henrique Lima (Brazil)
Category Award Nominees
15-Second Category
Nominees for Best 15-Second Film The Hand of Count Magnus - Dir. by Kyle Dunbar (Canada) Deadlift - Dir. by Kyle Dunbar (Canada) Alive_ - Dir. by Lidia Napoli Teacher's Pet - Dir. by Kevin Lucero Less (USA) Arithmetric - Dir. by Alexandre Dacosta (Brazil) Jackass - Dir. by Alexandre Dacosta (Brazil) Follow - Dir. by Yoh Komaya (Japan) Eureka! - Dir. by David Creighton (Canada)
1:00-5:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation Canada I Had a Dream of a House at Night - Dir. by Charlie Galea McClure (Canada) Early Birds - Dir. by Cole Stevenson (Canada) The Star Mill - Dir. by Daniel Blake (Canada) The Night Walker - Dir. by Jonathan Valentine (Canada) Benny & Ramona's Big Break - By Lovebun Productions (Canada) Radio Cassette - Dir. by Charlotte Delgrange (Canada)
Nominees for Best Animation International Jam It - Dir. by John Dawson (USA) Sticking Seafarer - Dir. by Jeremy Ross (USA) From Within - Dir. by Malena Romano (Israel) Cart Wrangler - Dir. by Rose Marcello, Max Smith, Gabriel Sgandurra (USA) Café Drawing - Dir. by Junrong Zhang (USA) Black Sun - Dir. by TJ Walker (USA) Little Talks - Dir. by Talla Malyukova (UK) Echoes of Birdsongs - Dir. by Luís Melo (Portugal)
Nominees for Best Comedy We're Good - Dir. by Larry Rosen (USA) Macaroons - Dir. by Nathan Tecson (USA) Bathroomates - Dir. by Edie Bruins (Canada) Cart Wrangler - Dir. by Rose Marcello, Max Smith, Gabriel Sgandurra (USA) Brazzy Jazzy - Season 2 - Dir. by Steve Becker (USA) 2 Minute Show - A Bag of Hammers - Dir. by Dik Lee (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary Maya Angelou and James Baldwin "Trust Life" - Dir. by Jason Fleurant (USA) H. Majuscula - Dir. by EmMa Matern (Canada) Bésame Mucho & the East Side Gallery Berlin - Dir. by Gilbert Brüning (Germany)
Nominees for Best Drama You're Right - Dir. by Telio Espinoza (Mexico) Over & Over - Dir. by Walter Temple (USA) Double Proposition - Dir. by Nino Oz (UK) The Life of Sophie - Dir. by Rafael Star (Australia) Chicken Sandwich - Dir. by Paul K.V, Dylan Posgate (Canada) Alter Demo - Dir. by Thibault Castan Boissy (France) Everything I Could - Dir. by Christopher Armienti (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental Mr. Box & Boogy's Bob Ross The Joy of Painting Review - Dir. by Al Diaz, Javi Diaz (USA) Speech - Dir. by Yordanis Dominguez Baez (Cuba) Mushroom Trip - Dir. by Armando Ortegon (Canada) Anonymous Letter Found In A Portland Bus Station - Dir. by Justin Kip McCollor (USA) Aime Toi Fille Noire - Dir. by Timothy Richardson (USA) Wherever You Are, Wherever I Am - Dir. by Kay Chan (Canada) Mneme_Reminiscence - Dir. by Lavinia Tommasoli (Italy) For The Blue - Dir. by Fern A. Mad (Canada)
Nominees for Best One-Minute Film Sheep - Dir. by Dmitry Dias (Latvia) Bernie Bros Pizza Inc. - Dir. by Jeff Vande Zande (USA) Killer Audition - Dir. by Michael Boston (USA)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Star Mill - Dir. by Daniel Blake (Canada) The Night Walker - Dir. by Jonathan Valentine (Canada) Particle Man - Dir. by Stuart Leask (UK) Astral Traveller - Dir. by Patrick Gamble (Australia)
Nominees for Best Thriller Intertwined - Dir. by Serhat Dogantekin (Canada) Surveillance - Dir. by Liam Marshall Jones-Tran (Canada) Last Call, Midnight - Dir. by Larry Rosen (USA) A Broken Man - Dir. by Leonidas Gioldasis (Australia)
Nominees for Best Student Film Fight Night - Dir. by Ethan Marx (USA) Aspects - Dir. by Connor Kujawinski (Canada) Finding You Again - Dir. by Daren Valdez (Canada) Day After Day - Dir. by Jacob Landry (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actor Austin Buchanan - Over & Over (USA) Samuel Roger - Alter Demo (France) Michael Boston - Killer Audition (USA) Garrett Grimes - Fight Night (USA) Ben Cable - Everything I Could (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress Grace Gonzales - Finding You Again (Canada) Alexandra Landau - Send Me A Color (USA) Terezina Vital - You're Right (Mexico) Patricia Hegedus - Intertwined (Canada) Camila Gómez - Cliche (Spain)
Nominees for Best Cast Suzhalum Bhoomi Inimaiyaga - Dir. by Lenin Srikanth (India) Joyride - Dir. by Laurie Empey (Canada) Double Proposition - Dir. by Nino Oz (UK) Doom No More - Music Trailer - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan) Don't Be Afraid - Dir. Matthew Winters (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography Walter Temple - Over & Over (USA) Nathan Tecson - Macaroons (USA) Mareks Kondratjevs - Sheep (Latvia) Márcio D'Astrain - Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew (Portugal) Xinyu Li - Aspects (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer Larry Rosen - We're Good (USA) Geneviève Dunn, Étienne Destroismaisons - The Incredible Paul (Canada) Márcio D'Astrain - Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew (Portugal) Molly Tomecek - Send Me A Color (USA) Leonidas Gioldasis - A Broken Man (Australia)
Nominees for Best Director Giuppi Rattá Gutiérrez - Cliche (Spain) Paul K.V, Dylan Posgate - Chicken Sandwich (Canada) Bartosz Andrejuk - Nothing Has Changed (Poland) Steve Becker - Brazzy Jazzy - Season 2 (USA) Jeff Vande Zande - Bernie Bros Pizza Inc. (USA)
5:01-20:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Animation A Fable for Four Voices - Dir. by Deb Ethier (Canada) Danse Macabre - Dir. by Lucas Zbinden (Switzerland) Mileage - Dir. by Jennifer Wu, Kym Santiana, Ruyee Lu, Christopher Hsueh, Nicole Taylor-Topacio, Joy Zhou, Ruby Saysanasy, Miranda Li, Saul Benavides (Canada)
Nominees for Best Comedy Mr. Box & Boogy's Lone Ranger Review - Dir. by Al Diaz, Javi Diaz (USA) Coarse Victim - Dir. by Logan Charron (Canada) Abductees Anonymous - Dir. by Jennifer Pointer (USA) Lower East Asides - Dir. by Steve Becker (USA) Operation 16 - Dir. by Leslie Hopps DeSchutter, Brent Clark (Canada) Weightlisted - Dir. by Jeremy Todd Shinder (USA)
Nominees for Best Documentary North America The Celebrated, Gifted, World Famous Doctor Tumblety - Dir. by Ian Paul Johnston (Canada) How U MAGA??? (A Reflection) - Dir. by Steve Shannon (USA) Shoreline Socialites - Dir. by Inder Nirwan (Canada) MusArt - Dir. by Kevin Hanzlik (USA) Everything is Art - Dir. by Luc Beauchemin, Michel Boissonneault (Canada)
Nominees for Best Documentary International Tierra del Fuego - Dir. by Oleksandr Lozytskyi (Ukraine) Home Is...- Dir. by Gavin Jones (UK) Melissanthe - DIr. by Georgios Dimitropoulos (UK) Romeo Yusupov - Dir. by Romeo Yusupov (New Zealand) Minus 18 Degrees - Dir. by Moritz Krause (Germany)
Nominees for Best Drama North America Take Care - Dir. by Darren Keilan (USA) Echo - Dir. by Quentin Ferrant (Canada) Free Pass - Dir. by Joseph Lao (USA) The Break Up - Dir. by Zay Rodriguez (USA) Willa (Pilot Episode) - Dir. by Jodi Lynn Thomas, Daniel Ruczko (USA) I Was Expecting - Dir. by Suzanne Miller, Sundance Nagrial (Canada)
Nominees for Best Drama International Russo - Dir. by Kirtan Singh (Australia) Day 4 - Dir. by Simona Calo (UK) The Elevators - Dir. by Haitao Hu, Jin Yang (China) Blue Red - Dir. by Ehsan Nasri (Iran) The Host - Dir. by Guillaume Hernandez, Sébastien Bonfanti (France) Love Lost and Found - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan)
Nominees for Best Experimental Miracle Whip - Dir. Jerod Willis (USA) Stay Inside - Dir. by Lachlan Anderson-Schmidt (Australia) Noise Machine - Dir. by J. F. Tannen (USA) Sessions in Grief - Nika (Canada) And So I Begin. - Dir. by Margarethe Baillou (USA)
Nominees for Best Horror The Fifth Chair - Dir. by Chris Vaughn (USA) Cannibal Dad - Dir. by Liam Cooper (Canada) 5 Days - Dir. by Erifili Davis (Australia) Drained- Dir. by Kimberly B. Flores (USA) Clean Freak - Dir. by Jordan H. Hughes (Canada)
Nominees for Best Romance Film Lockdown Love Life - Dir. by Ashna Sharan (USA) Oh My Dear Ms. Gauge - Dir. by Frankie G Holmes (USA) Stay Inside - Dir. by Lachlan Anderson-Schmidt (Australia) Ijo: A Love Story - Dir. by Fatimah Binta Gimsay (Nigeria) Forever - Dir. by Stephen Thomas Ford (Ireland)
Nominees for Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy ARCA - Dir. by Germain Aguesse, Robin Aguesse (France) Surface - Dir. by Shane Nelson, Beatrix Wilson (Canada) PeaPod Man - Dir. by John Wrigley (USA) Chronicles of a Broken Path: Caravan - Dir. by Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II (USA) Doomer - I Don't Want to Be Alone - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (Taiwan) Mind Over Matter - Dir. by Anysia Deák (USA)
Nominees for Best Thriller He Ain't Dead - Dir. by David Lewis (USA) Dirty Laundry - Dir. by Matison LeBlanc (USA) Fifty7 Minutes - Dir. by Dave Inglis, Thomas Inglis (UK) Your Loss - Dir. by Miranda Kramer (USA) Cicada - Dir. by Freddie Jarrett (USA)
Nominees for Best Student Film North America Fragments - Dir. by Alyza Reyes (Canada) Just Sign Here - Dir. by Abraham David (Canada) All Hail the King - Dir. by Ben Frondorf (USA) Resistance - Dir. by Denzel Noylander (Canada) The Way Things Were - Dir. by Lauren Plattman (USA) The Teen Killer - Dir. by Olivia Medrano (USA)
Nominees for Best Student Film International Emir - Dir. by Mete Övünç (Turkey) When I Look Ahead - Dir. by Zach Diotte (Australia) The Last High - Dir. by Vignesh Hariharan Nair (UAE) Whale Heart - Dir. by Phillip Edge (UK) Withdrawn by submitter and is no longer in competition: Passenger Seat - Dir. by Louis Conte-Bourges (France)
Nominees for Best First-Time Filmmaker Arya Ashoori - RELAPSE | A short film about FOMO (Canada) Yassin Nour - Overdue (Canada) Macedonia Alexis, Johnathon Krautkramer - Role With It (USA) Adrian Campbell - Descension (Canada) Jo Güstin - Don't Text Your Ex (Canada) Alireza Kharkan - Reload (Iran)
Nominees for Best Actor Mohammad Sadegh Malek - Deep Sleep (Iran) Rick McArthur - Hell's Jacket (Canada) Oswaldo Salas - Sonata For A Calendar (Peru) Charles Etubiebi - Ijo: A Love Story (Nigeria) Christiaan Ackermann - Lone Fields (South Africa)
Nominees for Best Actress Alex McDevitt - Divine Intervention (UK) Emilia Nigrello - Hell's Jacket (Canada) Christine Cortes - Just Sign Here (Canada) Amy Catherine Welch - Dear Sister (USA) Jodi Lynn Thomas - Willa (Pilot Episode) (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast Sono Figo (I'm Good Looking) - Dir. by Beppe Gallo (Italy) He Ain't Dead - Dir. by David Lewis (USA) Chronicles of a Broken Path: Caravan - Dir. by Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II (USA) Legacy - Dir. by Mario Gustavo Lopez (USA) The Fifth Chair - Dir. by Chris Vaughn (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography Jeremy Partyka - Dear Sister (USA) West McInerney - Russo (Australia) Oleksandr Lozytskyi - Tierra del Fuego (Ukraine) Roy Zheng - Don't Text Your Ex (Canada) Tre Bullen - Descension (Canada)
Nominees for Best Writer Adrian Campbell - A Walk to Solace (Canada) Siddhanth Gaddam - Sugar (India) Dave Inglis - Fifty7 Minutes (UK) Mehmet Tığlı - Eli Nazik (Turkey) Veronika Doynikova - Reflecting (Canada)
Nominees for Best Director Chris Fudge - Blue & White (Canada) Olivier Simon - Everything is Explained (The Little Brooklyn)(France) Germain Aguesse, Robin Aguesse - ARCA (France) Simona Calo - Day 4 (UK) Lord Benjamin Nathaniel Redic II - Chronicles of a Broken Path :Caravan (USA)
20:01-45:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Comedy SirCooly's Groundhog Hunt - Dir. by Christina Barton, Nolan Schmidt (USA) Lactown - Dir. by Samuel Carl Cohen (USA) Culinary Tension - Dir. by Brandon Richard Hobson (UK) Casanoir - Dir. by John "JT" Schindler (USA) Playbill - Dir. by Nicholas Bromund (USA) Space Mechanic II: Quest of the Wizard - Dir. by Matt Bond (USA)
Nominees for Best Documentary The Stampede To Calgary - Dir. by Logan Hale (Canada) Covid Uncoupled - Dir. by Liliane Andree Chretien (Canada) 10 Rounds - Dir. by Jean-Christophe Gonon (France)
Nominees for Best Drama Clipping Branches - Dir. by Andros Georgiou (Canada) Sinners and Saint - Dir. by Jerod Willis (USA) The Time You Left - Dir. by Yvette Sin, Nikita Zhang (Canada) The Man With The Cough - Dir. by Alex George (USA) After Doomsday - Dir. by Shihyun Wang (USA)
Nominees for Best Experimental The Pit and the Pendulum - A Musicabre - Dir. by Danny Ashkenasi (USA) The Red String: Capulet's Orchard - Dir. by Julio Urdaneta (Venezuela) Clipping Branches - Dir. by Andros Georgiou (Canada)
Nominees for Best Thriller Tulpa Tales: The Island - Dir. by Aiky Braig (Brazil) Blood Road - Dir. by William Anthony Stancik (USA) Sinners and Saint - Dir. by Jerod Willis (USA) Eyes of God - Dir. by Leah Lin (USA) Martyn - Dir. by Richard La (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actor Kris Salvi - Lactown (USA) Jacob Motz - Space Mechanic II: Quest of the Wizard (USA) Sebastian Kowollik - Martyn (Canada)
Nominees for Best Actress Katharina Schmidt - Casanoir (USA) Teresa Picciano - Seamless Journey (Canada) Carolyn Holland - Eyes of God (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast The Stampede To Calgary - Dir. by Logan Hale (Canada) Playbill - Dir. by Nicholas Bromund (USA) Culinary Tension - Dir. by Brandon Richard Hobson (UK)
Nominees for Best Cinematography Zac Max - The Man With The Cough (USA) Ioannis Koutroubis - Seamless Journey (Canada) Caleb Joye - Sinners and Saint (USA)
Nominees for Best Writer Jonathan Geffner - Casanoir (USA) Liliane Andree Chretien - Covid Uncoupled (Canada) Hasaan Bhatti, Richard La - Martyn (Canada)
Nominees for Best Director Nicholas Bromund - Playbill (USA) Yvette Sin, Nikita Zhang - The Time You Left (Canada) Logan Hale - The Stampede To Calgary (Canada)
45:01-120:00 Minutes
Nominees for Best Feature Film Access Control - Dir. by Andrew J. Bullard IV (USA) What Else Is On? - Dir. by Tyler Council (USA) Paper Dream (Royaye Kaghazi) - Dir. by Ali Atshani (USA) Descension Part II - Dir. by Adrian Campbell (Canada) Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil - Dir. by Joey Mosca, Sami Saad, Jayleen Perez, Jenna Kildosher, Sam Platizky, Isaac Platizky (USA) Musher - Dir. by Anuradha Rana, Laurie Little (USA)
Nominees for Best Actor Andon Campbell - Descension Part II (Canada) Prashant Lokare - The Unintentional Suicide (India) Dan Gregory - Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil (USA)
Nominees for Best Actress Heather Fairbanks - Descend (USA) Rachel Myskiv - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia) Megan Hoche - Tales From the Narrow Bridge The Wyrmwood Devil (USA)
Nominees for Best Cast Access Control - Dir. by Andrew J. Bullard IV (USA) Shadows & Forms - Dir. by Steven R. Barron (USA) What Else Is On? - Dir. by Tyler Council (USA)
Nominees for Best Cinematography Mark A. France - Descend (USA) Deepak Shrivastav - The Unintentional Suicide (India) Shane Kavanagh - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia)
Nominees for Best Writer Andrew J. Bullard IV - Access Control (USA) Steven R. Barron - Shadows & Forms (USA) Mark A. France - Descend (USA)
Nominees for Best Director Anuradha Rana, Laurie Little - Musher (USA) Kevin Khachan - Red Rabbit Lodge (Australia) Ali Atshani - Paper Dream (Royaye Kaghazi) (USA)