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These are the award-winning films of the Santorini Film Festival 2024.
Best Animated Short Winner
Ethel
Ethel discovers boxes with glittering clothes of her late mother, who was a figure skater. In the snowy forest she searches for the idyllic pond where her mother once taught her to skate. She wants to relive those memories, attempts to understand her mother’s passion. On the frozen pond Ethel, however, encounters the Bone Ice Princess, who challenges her to a dangerous dance on thin ice. Will Ethel survive this contest in one piece? A tale of letting go and growing up.
Beatrice Jäggi
Best Experimental Short Winner
Quasi Perfetto
In 1969, Switzerland's image of perfection was undermined by a clumsy television operator who mistakenly deleted the official commentary of the Apollo 11 Mission. Journalists Marco Blaser and Eugenio Bigatto will return to the studio of forty years earlier to correct the mistake. But it won't be that simple.
Federico Frefel
Best Feature Documentary Winner
That Breath
At the age of eighty-eight, my grandfather Fernando suggests we make a film together. His idea comes when I tell him I am moving out of his house. That is how we start filming; he carries his camera, I carry mine. Although we have lived together for more than 20 years, it is through the camera that we see each other in a way we have never done before. “That Breath” is an intimate recording of our bond, love, and loss, in an attempt to understand the meaning of being alive.
Valentina Baracco Pena
Best Feature Documentary Special Mention Winner
Captain Carnival
Since 150 years, the giant allegoric carnival floats of Viareggio, Tuscany, parade along the promenade, higher than the highest art nouveau buildings of the city. In the Covid-19 age, the carristi appear just like captains of a ship – the float – that must be brought at all costs, and maybe for the last time, to destination. And no one remembers why.
Alessandro Soetje
Best Greek Production Winner
Short Draft
A man hijacks a taxi when the taxi driver refuses to take him where he wants. Two men will share a ride where everything will go wrong and a girl will change their way, where the end will be a mystery even for the heroes of Short Draft
Spyridon Papaspyrou
Best International Feature Film Winner
Sideways for Attention
In September of 2001, Chloe, a college senior at a school in lower Manhattan, tests positive for HIV. Over the weeks that follow, she struggles to deal with her diagnosis, past trauma, and an uncertain future. As her estranged stepfather Doug attempts to reconnect and classmate Trevor shyly tries to gain her affection, Chloe pulls further away until making a terrifying discovery about one of her classmates.
Brady Bryson
Best International Short Film Winner
Fairplay
A teenager in search of recognition, a worker ready to do anything to hit the jackpot, a senior executive at the end of his career who wants to prove to himself that he is still alive. Three characters who are losing speed on the competition highway…
Zoel Aeschbacher
Best International Short Film Special Mention Winner
Auxiliaire
During a night of doubt, Marc, a carer dreaming of becoming a chef, has to admit to Quentin, his friend with a motor disability whom he has been taking care of on a daily basis for years, that he will surely not return to work on the following day.
Lucas Bacle
Best Music Video Winner
Fake Baseball – Big Guy
A couple struggling to make ends meet scrounge up a bottle of wine. Music video for the song “Big Guy” by the band Fake Baseball.
Nick Rohr
Best Short Documentary Winner
The Father's Place
Antonio, after many years of separation, lives with his father, Rosario, a well-known boss of the Neapolitan underworld who has recently been freed after 30 years in jail. The two try to get to know each other. Father and son confront each other between the shadows of the past and the hopes for a future together.
Francesco D'Ascenzo
Best Student Short Winner
Grey at Night
As an outsider, a wolf observes the people in the forests of Barcelona during their tender moments. But after a blood moon, the gates to humanity are open to him.
Carlos Llaó