WINNER - Best Film


Director: Guillaume Caramelle


Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: February 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Synopsis: Peter, an ordinary boy, is in love with Nikki, a girl as beautiful as inaccessible. At a celebration between high school students, he sees her getting along with a thirty year's old man. Peter is jealous. Especially as this mysterious man seems to seduce her with disconcerting ease...

RUNNER-UP - Best Film


Director: Karas Charlotte & Le Mer Thierry


Runtime: 19 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: March 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: France

Synopsis: In an orphanage, about 20 children. We can hear their wonderings, see them fight to be chosen, guess their fears and their dream to be part of a family.
Why not put them online, in order to boost their adoption ?

RUNNER-UP - Best Film


Director: Rafael Haider


Runtime: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Release date: May 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: Austria

Synopsis: There was a fire in Alyosha's apartment. Everything is ruined. Later in the evening he goes to a party at his house. He needs a little distraction. Maybe he's even going to dance.

NOMINEE - Best Film


Director: Sacha Ferbus & Jeremy Puffet


Runtime: 12 minutes
Release date: September 15, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student, Drama, Social
Country: Belgium

Synopsis: First in first out (FIFO) is a shelving technique used in supermarkets. Stephan must place the freshest products behind the oldest ones. Products nearing their sell-by date must be destroyed.

NOMINEE - Best Film


Director: Julia Ritschel


Runtime: 15 minutes 8 seconds
Release date: January 19, 2016
Genre: Fiction
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Right before graduation, 18-year old student Lena is interested in only one thing: French. However, she doesnʼt actually care for the language itself, her enthusiasm really lies in her teacher Katharina. The two disparate women bond through a secret love, which is brought to an end when Katharina chooses to go back to her old ways.

WINNER - Best Documentary


Director: Kristiāna Stepanoviča


Runtime: 15 minutes 27 seconds
Release date: September 1, 2017
Genre: Documentary, Student
Country: Latvia, United Kingdom

Synopsis: A short documentary film about causes and effects of migration in Latvia. Four characters, who are connected to a tiny Baltic country Latvia, share their feelings, experience and opinion about the meaning and belonging to their motherland.

NOMINEE - Best Documentary


Director: Diana Nicolae


Runtime: 25 minutes 45 seconds
Release date: June 7, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States

Synopsis: In the early morning hours of September 18, 1998, fire broke out on the campus of Murray State University in Kentucky. Nineteen-year-old music and journalism student Michael Minger, who suffered from spatial disorientation and was mildly autistic, died in the fire.

NOMINEE - Best Documentary


Director: Aurélien Heilbronn


Runtime: 9 minutes 9 seconds
Release date: August 1, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States, Dominican Republic

Synopsis: Street Racers is an intimate short film documenting the illegal motorbiking culture in the Dominican Republic.
The film follows a gang of teens who risk their lives to entertain themselves, blocking off motorways and hitting high speeds on small custom bikes.

WINNER - Best Student Film


Director: Rafael Haider


Runtime: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Release date: May 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: Austria

Synopsis: There was a fire in Alyosha's apartment. Everything is ruined. Later in the evening he goes to a party at his house. He needs a little distraction. Maybe he's even going to dance.

NOMINEE - Best Student Film


Director: Sacha Ferbus & Jeremy Puffet


Runtime: 12 minutes
Release date: September 15, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student, Drama, Social
Country: Belgium

Synopsis: First in first out (FIFO) is a shelving technique used in supermarkets. Stephan must place the freshest products behind the oldest ones. Products nearing their sell-by date must be destroyed.

NOMINEE - Best Student Film


Director: Kristiāna Stepanoviča


Runtime: 15 minutes 27 seconds
Release date: September 1, 2017
Genre: Documentary, Student
Country: Latvia, United Kingdom

Synopsis: A short documentary film about causes and effects of migration in Latvia. Four characters, who are connected to a tiny Baltic country Latvia, share their feelings, experience and opinion about the meaning and belonging to their motherland.

NOMINEE - Best Student Film


Director: Gina Wenzel


Runtime: 23 minutes 36 seconds
Release date: January 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Laura is a self-confident young woman, a member of the new “Me Me Me Generation“, also known as “Generation Y”. Spoilt for choice by life’s abundance of options, Laura has lost track of her own aims and ideals. She’s always looking for something, she just doesn't know what. One night she meets Safi, who has fled her homeland.

WINNER - Best Music Video


Director: Katiana Zachariou


Runtime: 3 minutes 30 seconds
Release date: July 21, 2017
Genre: Music Video
Country: Germany

Synopsis: A dark narrative that explores the shirting dynamics of love, jealousy and guilt between three friends.

NOMINEE - Best Music Video


Director: Charine P Gonzales


Runtime: 3 minutes 8 seconds
Release date: September 6, 2017
Genre: Music Video
Country: United States

Synopsis: A Native American / Indigenous made experimental kaleidoscopic music video featuring breakdance and mixed painting artwork.

NOMINEE - Best Music Video


Director: Matthew Hsu & Ashleigh Djokic


Runtime: 4 minutes 20 seconds
Release date: September 12, 2017
Genre: Music Video, Animation, Experimental
Country: Australia

Synopsis: ‘Birdnest Hair’ is a playful and sonically exuberant celebration of womanhood and scrappy optimists, inspired by the incredible women in Matt’s life and a newly minted god-daughter, Wednesday.

WINNER - Best Director


Director: Karas Charlotte & Le Mer Thierry


Runtime: 19 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: March 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: France

Synopsis: In an orphanage, about 20 children. We can hear their wonderings, see them fight to be chosen, guess their fears and their dream to be part of a family.
Why not put them online, in order to boost their adoption?

NOMINEE - Best Director


Director: Guillaume Caramelle


Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: February 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Synopsis: Peter, an ordinary boy, is in love with Nikki, a girl as beautiful as inaccessible. At a celebration between high school students, he sees her getting along with a thirty year's old man. Peter is jealous. Especially as this mysterious man seems to seduce her with disconcerting ease...

NOMINEE - Best Director


Director: Rafael Haider


Runtime: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Release date: May 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: Austria

Synopsis: There was a fire in Alyosha's apartment. Everything is ruined. Later in the evening he goes to a party at his house. He needs a little distraction. Maybe he's even going to dance.

NOMINEE - Best Director


Director: Kristiāna Stepanoviča


Runtime: 15 minutes 27 seconds
Release date: September 1, 2017
Genre: Documentary, Student
Country: Latvia, United Kingdom

Synopsis: A short documentary film about causes and effects of migration in Latvia. Four characters, who are connected to a tiny Baltic country Latvia, share their feelings, experience and opinion about the meaning and belonging to their motherland.

WINNER - Best Actor


Director: Pietro Birindelli


Runtime: 20 minutes
Release date: August 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Italy

Synopsis: ‘Anna e Marco’, based on "Danny and the deep blue sea" by John Patrick Shanley, is a neorealistic story of a chance encounter between two people on the edge of breakdown.
Set in the outskirts of Rome and more precisely in the areas of Pigneto, Mandrione and Appia where Pasolini shot many of his movies including ‘Accattone’.

NOMINEE - Best Actor


Director: Guillaume Caramelle


Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: February 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Synopsis: Peter, an ordinary boy, is in love with Nikki, a girl as beautiful as inaccessible. At a celebration between high school students, he sees her getting along with a thirty year's old man. Peter is jealous. Especially as this mysterious man seems to seduce her with disconcerting ease...

NOMINEE - Best Actor


Director: Rafael Haider


Runtime: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Release date: May 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: Austria

Synopsis: There was a fire in Alyosha's apartment. Everything is ruined. Later in the evening he goes to a party at his house. He needs a little distraction. Maybe he's even going to dance.

NOMINEE - Best Actor


Director: Sacha Ferbus & Jeremy Puffet


Runtime: 12 minutes
Release date: September 15, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student, Drama, Social
Country: Belgium

Synopsis: First in first out (FIFO) is a shelving technique used in supermarkets. Stephan must place the freshest products behind the oldest ones. Products nearing their sell-by date must be destroyed.

WINNER - Best Actress


Director: Pietro Birindelli


Runtime: 20 minutes
Release date: August 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: Italy

Synopsis: ‘Anna e Marco’, based on "Danny and the deep blue sea" by John Patrick Shanley, is a neorealistic story of a chance encounter between two people on the edge of breakdown.
Set in the outskirts of Rome and more precisely in the areas of Pigneto, Mandrione and Appia where Pasolini shot many of his movies including ‘Accattone’.

NOMINEE - Best Actress


Director: Julia Ritschel


Runtime: 15 minutes 8 seconds
Release date: January 19, 2016
Genre: Fiction
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Right before graduation, 18-year old student Lena is interested in only one thing: French. However, she doesnʼt actually care for the language itself, her enthusiasm really lies in her teacher Katharina. The two disparate women bond through a secret love, which is brought to an end when Katharina chooses to go back to her old ways.

NOMINEE - Best Actress


Director: Guillaume Caramelle


Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: February 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Synopsis: Peter, an ordinary boy, is in love with Nikki, a girl as beautiful as inaccessible. At a celebration between high school students, he sees her getting along with a thirty year's old man. Peter is jealous. Especially as this mysterious man seems to seduce her with disconcerting ease...

NOMINEE - Best Actress


Director: Gina Wenzel


Runtime: 23 minutes 36 seconds
Release date: January 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Laura is a self-confident young woman, a member of the new “Me Me Me Generation“, also known as “Generation Y”. Spoilt for choice by life’s abundance of options, Laura has lost track of her own aims and ideals. She’s always looking for something, she just doesn't know what. One night she meets Safi, who has fled her homeland.

WINNER - Best Cinematography


Director: Guillaume Caramelle


Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: February 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Synopsis: Peter, an ordinary boy, is in love with Nikki, a girl as beautiful as inaccessible. At a celebration between high school students, he sees her getting along with a thirty year's old man. Peter is jealous. Especially as this mysterious man seems to seduce her with disconcerting ease...

NOMINEE - Best Cinematography


Director: Carlo Giordano


Runtime: 3 minutes 27 seconds
Release date: June 15, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Sci-fi, Fashion
Country: France

Synopsis: In 2027, aspiring fashion models are cast by a machine, through a process of unnatural selection...

NOMINEE - Best Cinematography


Director: Karas Charlotte & Le Mer Thierry


Runtime: 19 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: March 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: France

Synopsis: In an orphanage, about 20 children. We can hear their wonderings, see them fight to be chosen, guess their fears and their dream to be part of a family.
Why not put them online, in order to boost their adoption?

NOMINEE - Best Cinematography


Director: Rafael Haider


Runtime: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Release date: May 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: Austria

Synopsis: There was a fire in Alyosha's apartment. Everything is ruined. Later in the evening he goes to a party at his house. He needs a little distraction. Maybe he's even going to dance.

NOMINEE - Best Cinematography


Director: Julia Ritschel


Runtime: 15 minutes 8 seconds
Release date: January 19, 2016
Genre: Fiction
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Right before graduation, 18-year old student Lena is interested in only one thing: French. However, she doesnʼt actually care for the language itself, her enthusiasm really lies in her teacher Katharina. The two disparate women bond through a secret love, which is brought to an end when Katharina chooses to go back to her old ways.

WINNER - Best Editor


Director: Guillaume Caramelle


Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: February 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Synopsis: Peter, an ordinary boy, is in love with Nikki, a girl as beautiful as inaccessible. At a celebration between high school students, he sees her getting along with a thirty year's old man. Peter is jealous. Especially as this mysterious man seems to seduce her with disconcerting ease...

NOMINEE - Best Editor


Director: Carlo Giordano


Runtime: 3 minutes 27 seconds
Release date: June 15, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Sci-fi, Fashion
Country: France

Synopsis: In 2027, aspiring fashion models are cast by a machine, through a process of unnatural selection...

NOMINEE - Best Editor


Director: Richie Moore


Runtime: 12 minutes
Release date: August 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Sci-fi, Drama
Country: Thailand

Synopsis: On one of their first dates, Lilly and Craig gaze up at the night sky. Craig affectionately tells Lilly about star light, how the mere act of looking into the cosmos is a kind of transcendence. Craig a brilliant young scientist will soon be embarking on a another kind of transcendence. He has discovered how to travel to parallel dimensions.

WINNER - Best Screenplay


Director: Karas Charlotte & Le Mer Thierry


Runtime: 19 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: March 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: France

Synopsis: In an orphanage, about 20 children. We can hear their wonderings, see them fight to be chosen, guess their fears and their dream to be part of a family.
Why not put them online, in order to boost their adoption?

NOMINEE - Best Screenplay


Director: Guillaume Caramelle


Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: February 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Synopsis: Peter, an ordinary boy, is in love with Nikki, a girl as beautiful as inaccessible. At a celebration between high school students, he sees her getting along with a thirty year's old man. Peter is jealous. Especially as this mysterious man seems to seduce her with disconcerting ease...

NOMINEE - Best Screenplay


Director: Julia Ritschel


Runtime: 15 minutes 8 seconds
Release date: January 19, 2016
Genre: Fiction
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Right before graduation, 18-year old student Lena is interested in only one thing: French. However, she doesnʼt actually care for the language itself, her enthusiasm really lies in her teacher Katharina. The two disparate women bond through a secret love, which is brought to an end when Katharina chooses to go back to her old ways.

NOMINEE - Best Screenplay


Director: Gina Wenzel


Runtime: 23 minutes 36 seconds
Release date: January 1, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Student
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Laura is a self-confident young woman, a member of the new “Me Me Me Generation“, also known as “Generation Y”. Spoilt for choice by life’s abundance of options, Laura has lost track of her own aims and ideals. She’s always looking for something, she just doesn't know what. One night she meets Safi, who has fled her homeland.

WINNER - Best Original Score


Director: Guillaume Caramelle


Runtime: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Release date: February 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Country: France

Synopsis: Peter, an ordinary boy, is in love with Nikki, a girl as beautiful as inaccessible. At a celebration between high school students, he sees her getting along with a thirty year's old man. Peter is jealous. Especially as this mysterious man seems to seduce her with disconcerting ease...

NOMINEE - Best Original Score


Director: Panos Katsimperis


Runtime: 17 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: November 5, 2016
Genre: Fiction, Sci-fi, Drama, Social
Country: Greece

Synopsis: Eleni, an 11 year-old girl, faces the changes in her family and social environment, after she's infected by a rare illness that periodically turns any human organism into a robotic one.

NOMINEE - Best Original Score


Director: Julia Ritschel


Runtime: 15 minutes 8 seconds
Release date: January 19, 2016
Genre: Fiction
Country: Germany

Synopsis: Right before graduation, 18-year old student Lena is interested in only one thing: French. However, she doesnʼt actually care for the language itself, her enthusiasm really lies in her teacher Katharina. The two disparate women bond through a secret love, which is brought to an end when Katharina chooses to go back to her old ways.

NOMINEE - Best Original Score


Director: Karas Charlotte & Le Mer Thierry


Runtime: 19 minutes 18 seconds
Release date: March 16, 2017
Genre: Fiction
Country: France

Synopsis: In an orphanage, about 20 children. We can hear their wonderings, see them fight to be chosen, guess their fears and their dream to be part of a family.
Why not put them online, in order to boost their adoption?