Winners
(Unified)
To ensure that each film and screenplay is evaluated and graded on its own merits, we established a mechanism that ensures that entries are not judged against one another. They are competing against themselves: we evaluate each item on its own merits and provide a score based on an innate value system. We want to ensure that when it's your moment to be judged, the judges' attention is focused on you and not on all the other films in the queue; this ensures that they won't be thinking about comparisons when they should think about YOU.
Best of Festival
Do Over
Writer/Director Sharvi
Production: Real Image Films
India
An alcohol use disorder who reaches his last stage of alcoholism by which he loses his loved family, job and his friends. A struggle inside him to get over is DO OVER. A Motivational movie.
I Am Not Down
Director Jyoti Madnani Singh
Tight Shorts
India
Saloni, a class topper, is period shamed in school after she gets her first period. At home, her uneducated but caring mother Asha tears the only vest of her husband to provide a clean cloth for Saloni's protection and comfort as she has to take annual exams the next day. When Saloni's father, Anil, comes to know that his only vest has been torn and used to absorb menstrual blood, he gets furious.
Best of Show
A World of 3 Zeros
Directors Aine Clarke, Michel Van der Veken
Documentary
Belgium
Outstanding Excellence
Rikhuli
Director Jagat Kishor Gairola
Social Issues
India
SCREENPLAY of an Indian Love Story
Director KL Prasad
Experimental
India
U=Me
Director Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Loose Shorts
India
Excellence
Aspiration and Ambition in India's Tiger Economy
Submitter Pankaja Brooke
Documentary
AUDIOQUATROSCOPY Warmer Summers since Vivaldi
Director Hans Thierstein
Environmental
Switzerland
CasteGate: The Untold Story
Director Vikram Mishra
Documentary
United States
Queen: Checkmate for the King
Directors Luca De Giorgi, Sergio Vespertino
Experimental
Italy
Money Matters
Director Muzaffer Ahmed Butt
Experimental
India
My Loving Eyes
Director Piyali Roy
Music Video
India
Neil
Director Michelle Montinaro
Student
Italy
Pigasus: The Lost Paradise - Battle for Evermore
Director Sean Patrick O'Reilly
Animated
United States
Exceptional Merit
Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes
Director Pat Mitchell
Zero Budget
United States
Mission Peace 2
Director Gregory T Simmons
Documentary
United States
BayouTech
Director Kathleen Renee Krenitsky
Sci-Fi
United States
Days on PCT
Director Andrew Michael Martin
Human Spirit
United States
Hidden Pockets
Director Patrick Rutnam
Travel/Culture/Arts
United States
In a Dream...
Directors Narine Gevorgyan, Grisha Sevyan
Travel/Culture/Arts
Armenia
My Fishy Friends
Director Algis Kemezys
Experimental
Canada
O' Paradiso - The Heaven
Director Davide Comelli
Music Video, Actor: Lead (subcat)
Italy
Exceptional Merit - Both
She-Wolf in Hollywood: The Story of Maria Ouspenskaya
Director Jordan Mohr
Biography, Research (subcat)
Exceptional Merit - Both
Staunch Moderates Experience Live, Virtual Concert
Director Gregory T Simmons
Music Video, Original Score (subcat)
United States
Exceptional Merit - Both
Staunch Moderates Experience: Short Film
Director Gregory T Simmons
Music Video - Documentary - Social Issues
United States
Exceptional Merit - All
Sugar Crush
Director Aida Tebianian
Drama
Iran
Surviving to Thriving
Director Karin Isabelle Ochsner
Documentary
Australia
The Scalpel
Director Richard H Lyford
Horror, Original Score (subcat)
United States
Tibet U.S. Resettlement Project
Director Kenneth Young
Documentary
United States
Merit
GR3Y
Directors Nishanth Manisekar, Praveen Chezhian
Experimental
India
The Mark
Directors Ifra Khan, Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Documentary
India
The Ultimate Secret
Director Ryan Robison
Comedy
United States
Kudos Endeavor
Deadly - C
Director Ashish Bisht
Tight Shorts
India
Sub-Categories
Delight
Director Barbara Becker Holstein
Dance Choreography (subcat)
United States
Merit
FLOW
Director Shoko Tamai
Dance Choreography (subcat)
United States
Excellence
Now-Or-Never
Director Ashish Bisht
Content/Message Delivery (subcat)
India
Merit
Peythozhinja Mazhayil (After the Rain)
Director Indu Menon
Direction (subcat)
United States
Exceptional Merit
Shayad Kabhi
Director Dibakar Bose
Direction (subcat)
India
Merit
Team Ladu
Directors Imran Qamar Zaman, Wajahat Zaidi, Khawaja Saleem
Viewer Impact: Entertainment Value (subcat)
United States
Excellence