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Best Animated Short Winner
Prikosymphono
Placed in Lefkada, an island in the Ionian Sea, a little girl finds a paper from 1955, that contains a list of objects that belonged to her great aunt and proceeds to ask her grandfather about it. He explains to her that this is the list of her dowry, an old Greek tradition, in which the bride's possessions were concede to the groom as a formal marriage agreement. Moved by this finding, he starts recalling memories of his childhood, witnessing his older sister Armenia, having an arranged marriage and leaving behind her family and the island for a better future.
Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Alejandra Diaz, Leonardo Dal Fabbro
Best Experimental Short Winner
No Horses on Mars
We experience a trailer ride on the highway and wake up from anesthesia in a veterinary clinic. ‘No horses on Mars’ is practically a road film, whose POV’s from the horse is the most effective element of the film. The horse appears as the galloping mind that resides in all domesticated horses. The human being is introduced as a screen viewer who follows the horse, wants to measure, records and knows her as an object. Ultimately, from the human perspective in the film, there seems to be a glimmer of recognition for the individuality of the horse.
Bea de Visser
Best Feature Documentary Winner
Play Dead!
Mattheww Lancit grew up in Canada, where teenagers of his generation were marked by the “body horror” film genre. Taking cue from that, Play Dead! is culled from his diary of his family’s quotidian, filmed over five years. He stages the ‘diabetes’ as a hidden, alien presence that haunts his apartment and the very depths of his body. Using performative and burlesque codes, form and content feed off each other as the filmmaker’s body transforms gradually into a haunted shell. Laced with comedy, irony and tenderness, Play Dead! mediates the complexity of living with the disease, living with someone afflicted with it, and how relationships oscillate between caring, listening, and impatience, anger, or fear. (Rasha Salti)
Matthew Lancit
Best Greek Production Winner
The Tooth And The Rock
Margarita and her father, returning to Pylos, they will be confronted with the rapid tourist transformation of the place. Margarita will become the cause for those old friends of his to mingle again and claim a spot, in the shade of the plane tree, taken over by tourists.
Kostis Alevizos
Best International Feature Film Winner
Xibalba Monster
Rogelio is 8 and has an odd family. His parents are never around, and he gets his best birthday gifts from his dentist. This summer he is sent away to his nanny’s hometown, nestled in the Yucatan jungle. Rogelio spends the excruciatingly hot days obsessing over “The Book of Spirits” which awakens in him visions and dreams of ghosts, but above all, of an old man who leaves a trace of death when passing by. Rogelio recounts this to his new Mayan friends, Lucio and Juanito, who say this man is not a dream, he is real and lives in the outskirts of town, he is known as the “Xibalba Monster”. Why these dreams? Rogelio starts to spy on the monster and lives an adventure that will change forever his view on life and death.
Manuela Irene
Best International Short Film Winner
Findlater
In an apartment in Dublin City, two women meet in front of a microphone to discuss a shared past.
Allyn Quigley
Best Music Video Winner
Lila – Shake Stew
In a surreal dance video, a dancer is melting into a landscape of palm trees, rocks and ocean waves.
Rupert Höller
Best Short Documentary Winner
Valerija
This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men, where women choose the image that will represent them after they die. Through a participatory process, the author silently questions: How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? What do our ancestress whisper from their silent portraits? The rhythm of a tending ritual takes us further into the underworld to bring together the living and the dead, connecting the present and the past.
Sara Jurincic
Best Student Short Winner
Greek Apricots
Mak, a young man working his night shift at a gas station, encounters Nada, a female truck driver. They bond over their shared Macedonian roots and find comfort in each other, as they attempt to escape their individual loneliness.
Jan Krevatin