Winners - 2019
International Films - 07
Best Feature Documentary
Winners - 2018
International Films - 06
International Films - 03
Best Animation Film
I Just Want You To Know | Kevin Feng | 00:06:10 | OCAD University | Canada
I Just Want You to Know is a semi-autobiographical animation based on filmmaker experience dealing with different stages of grief from losing his mother. Dedicated to his mother, this film encourages the audience to express their emotions to their loved ones. Before you know it, they are gone.
I Just Want You to Know is a semi-autobiographical animation based on filmmaker experience dealing with different stages of grief from losing his mother. Dedicated to his mother, this film encourages the audience to express their emotions to their loved ones. Before you know it, they are gone.
Best Feature Documentary
The Ancestors' Memories | Arata Shigeno | 00:47:53 | Kyoto University | Japan
Synopsis: In 1941, Japan invaded Myanmar. Looking back on this history, a Japanese student and two Myanmar student started their journey to review their unforgettable history. They together research, do interviews, and discuss. Finally, they conclude their view of the history.
Best Feature Fiction
The Divine: A Tale of Love, Murder, & Meatloaf | Alexander M McCully | 00:40:00 | Sussex County Technical School | USA
A high school production of Romeo & Juliet… what could possibly go wrong?
Best Micro Film
Densha | Jack E.K. Collier | 00:02:44 | Central Washington University | USA
An avant-garde silent documentary about Tony as he works tirelessly in the night to complete his hobby.
Best Music Video
Breeze | Victoria Koberstein | 00:06:18 | School of Art and Design Kassel | Germany
A young woman finds herself in the suite of an abandoned hotel that seems to have fallen out of time. A little box opens up a world between dream and reality, space and time, external control and free will. Her subconscious seems to have company - and it remains unclear whether a dream is really over once we open our eyes.
Best Short Documentary
DisAbilities | Alin Duruian | 00:08:50 | University of Theatre and Film ”I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest | Romania
A portrait of Andrei (MiculGiganT), a boy who suffers from spastic tetraparesis. He has an online community he spends most of his time with. We get to see him fighting every day for progress.
Best Short Fiction
M Like Mobius | Faranak Moradi | 00:07:57 | New York Film Academy | Iran
Lili is a waitress and obsessed with sound. She can’t stand her loneliness more than before.
Best Short Documentary
Teesri Khwaish | Purandhya Sharma, Rustam Mazumdar, Shuchi Prasad | 00:09:44 | Sri Aurobindo Centre of Arts & Communication | New Delhi
Whether the fog settles on the tracks tonight or not, a cloud of enigma consumes New Delhi Railway Station. Whether the train arrives at platform number 5 or not, we are promised a journey. What happens to the passengers who fall victim to the menacing station, who rely partly on the bookseller and entirely upon fate to reach home safely? Will a third wish be granted?
Best Short Fiction
Mirchi Café | Mehkansh Kathuria | 00:15:00 | Whistling Woods International | New Delhi
A cafe harbours three stories; an ex serial killer is set on a blind date but he suffers from withdrawal symptoms controlling urges to kill his date; To escape a break up situation, a guy cons his girlfriend into believing that he is a contract killer; A death artist, an actor who is practising or doing method acting by dying in different places.
Synopsis: In 1941, Japan invaded Myanmar. Looking back on this history, a Japanese student and two Myanmar student started their journey to review their unforgettable history. They together research, do interviews, and discuss. Finally, they conclude their view of the history.
Best Feature Fiction
A high school production of Romeo & Juliet… what could possibly go wrong?
Best Micro Film
An avant-garde silent documentary about Tony as he works tirelessly in the night to complete his hobby.
Best Music Video
A young woman finds herself in the suite of an abandoned hotel that seems to have fallen out of time. A little box opens up a world between dream and reality, space and time, external control and free will. Her subconscious seems to have company - and it remains unclear whether a dream is really over once we open our eyes.
Best Short Documentary
A portrait of Andrei (MiculGiganT), a boy who suffers from spastic tetraparesis. He has an online community he spends most of his time with. We get to see him fighting every day for progress.
Best Short Fiction
Lili is a waitress and obsessed with sound. She can’t stand her loneliness more than before.
Indian Films - 02
Best Short Documentary
Whether the fog settles on the tracks tonight or not, a cloud of enigma consumes New Delhi Railway Station. Whether the train arrives at platform number 5 or not, we are promised a journey. What happens to the passengers who fall victim to the menacing station, who rely partly on the bookseller and entirely upon fate to reach home safely? Will a third wish be granted?
Best Short Fiction
A cafe harbours three stories; an ex serial killer is set on a blind date but he suffers from withdrawal symptoms controlling urges to kill his date; To escape a break up situation, a guy cons his girlfriend into believing that he is a contract killer; A death artist, an actor who is practising or doing method acting by dying in different places.
Winners - 2018
International Films - 06
Best Animation
Blows With The Wind | Hazhir As’adi | 00:06:30 | Iranian Youth Cinema Society |
Iran
After occurring some events for the scarecrow, scarecrow becomes human.
Best Documentary (Joint Winners)
Snowflakes | Elif Nur Kayalar | 00:36:26 | Istanbul Sehir University
| Turkish | Turkey
“Snowflakes”
is a documentary about people with albinism living in Turkey. Albinism is a
rare genetic condition that causes a reduction in the amount of melanin pigment
generated in the skin, hair, and eyes.
City of Walls | Eneos Çarka | 00:22:11 | University of Arts of Albania
| Albanian | Albania
This documentary gives an insight on the street art & graffiti
culture in Tirana, Albania. During the shooting process, City Hall interferes
in the art scene with their own project and creates a conflict with a political
street art collective.
Best Short Film
Luck Ma | Li Xiang | 00:22:28 | Chinese | China
The film is a story of an ordinary Hui family in the northwest of China.
It is based on the real story and belongs to the realistic black humor theme.
The film reproduces the life of the modern Hui and neighborhood relationships
with the local hans.
Special Jury Award (Joint Winners)
All About Emily | Valentina Casadei | 00:08:00 | EICAR, The International
Film and Television School of Paris | French | Italy
A modest housekeeper keeps being bullied by a hysterical bourgeois for
no apparent reason. Forced to endure these abuses in order to avoid being sent
back to Cuba, she makes a discovery that will change everything.
Forest of Echoes | Luz Olivares Capelle | 00:30:00 | University of Music
and Performing Arts German | Austria
On summer
holiday, deep in the woods, three kids, cousins, are playing around a lake when
they find a drowned young woman drifting in the water. Games, lies and rituals
unfolding into a circular time in which death loses its ultimacy. What is real
and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?
Indian Films - 05
Best Documentary (Joint Winners)
Kathputli | Pranay Aggarwal | 00:14:15 | Hindi
Two parallel stories of a king and a slum colony in Delhi, India and
their fight for their land culture and heritage.
Point & Shoot | Harsimran Kaur Anand | 00:25:00 | Srishti Institute of
Art, Design and Technology | Hindi, English, Yimchunguru
The film attempts to understand the relationship of a traditional
hunting community, the Yimchungrü tribe of Nagaland; with the animals and
birds found in the forests around their village, Fakim. It shows the
significance of hunting in a tribal society and the dilemma it faces in a
rapidly changing cultural and ecological landscape.
Best One Minute Film/PSA
Nazariya | Alok D. Rajput | 00:01:13 | National
Institute of Design
This film deals with general perception of people towards trans-genders
and how trans- genders are trying to break that perception nowadays. The film
is an encounter of a man with a transgender travelling in a bus.
Best Short Film (Joint Winners)
Do Ghante Ki Baat | Ashwarya Agarwal | 00:17:00 | National Institute of
Design | Hindi
The story revolves around a 17 year old schoolgirl, Deepali. The film
explores the nature of her fleeting aspirations and jealousies, and hints at
the significance that tiny instances hold in shaping her larger acceptance of
truth.
Matter | Sandeep Kumar | 00:25:25 | National Institute of Design
| Hindi
A series of incidences happens with a bunch of close-knit teenage
friends who are preparing for an upcoming “matter” which ends up in an
unexpected compromise.
Winners - 2016
International Films - 03
BEST SHORT FILM
Native Immigration
Eric Romero | 00:15:17
Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
A documentary about a new phenomenon named by the experts as 'Native Immigration'. We will put a face to people like Manuel, Olamilekan and Chen Lee, whose life took a 180 degree turn when they discovered that... they are immigrants.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Heart Sisters
Kajsa Olsson | 00:19:00
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
The film maps the patriarchal oppression, as well as gives the international feminist movement an opportunity to learn about different thoughts and experiences.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Mehrunisa has fallen in Love
Qasim Naeem | 00:04:38
National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
From the album ‘Ismail ka Urdu Sheher,’ this has been inspired from the novel of the same name, and written by Zohaib Kazi. This song is an adaptation of chapter ‘Mehr-un-Nisa has fallen in love.’
Indian Films - 05
BEST PSA
Co-Exist
Deepti Murali, Kritika Agarwal, Nevin Thomas, Robin Zutshi, Shuaib Shafi | 00:03:00 School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai, Maharashtra
It deals with the everyday exclusions faced by the queer community in the city and with the attitude of the public and the law and order personnel towards the non heteronormative members of the society in public spaces.
A Beast Called Beauty
Aakanksha Chitkara | 00:12:00
Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Maharashtra
BEST DOCUMENTARY
A Beast Called Beauty
Aakanksha Chitkara | 00:12:00
Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Maharashtra
The journey of a girl (Director of documentary) fighting her body image issues while making a documentary on the same. This Documentary deals with the sensitive and fast growing body image disorders in India.
Re-Imaging Dharavi
Ananyaa Gaur, Eleanor Almeida, Kshitij Katiyar, Priyanka Pal, Vaseem Chaudhary | 00:28:31
School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai, Maharashtra
BEST SHORT FILM
Re-Imaging Dharavi
Ananyaa Gaur, Eleanor Almeida, Kshitij Katiyar, Priyanka Pal, Vaseem Chaudhary | 00:28:31
School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai, Maharashtra
The film explores the various aspects and dimensions of ‘slum tourism’ through interactions with the founding members of two tour companies that conduct ‘slum tours’ in Dharavi.
One Day to Next
Sparsh Agrawal, Shreyash Bankar | 00:05:25
Reliance Aims, Pune, Maharashtra
BEST ANIMATION FILM
One Day to Next
Sparsh Agrawal, Shreyash Bankar | 00:05:25
Reliance Aims, Pune, Maharashtra
With our constantly evolving needs and developing society, we are indirectly affecting the ecosystem around us. “One Day to Next" is a fictional story which picturizes through time on how the act of humans affected the life of an entire colony. We witness the story through the life of a bird and his family.
VIEWERS' CHOICE AWARD
A Bohemian Musician
Rochak Sahu | 00:13:17
Rochak Sahu | 00:13:17
Documentary | Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Maharashtra
Keshav Lal has worked with legendary composers such as Laxmikant Pyarelal and makers like V. Shantaram. Fate bought him to streets of Pune where he lived with his wife and together they play music to sustain their livelihood.
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