These are the winners of July – August 2024
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Best Film – Note – Jean Carlos Gonzalez Flores – Italy
Best International Film – Laura, 29 Old Compton Street – Weiqi Cai – Usa
Best European Film – I’m not a robot – Victoria Warmerdam – Netherlands
Best Asian Film – Father’s Mountains – XiaoJun Tan – China
Best American Film – Maybe I Am the Villain – Max Presement – Canada
Best Italian Film – Le ultime voci – Alessandro Spadavecchia – Italy
Best Lombard film – Evocazione Etrusca – Anna Olkhovaya, Stefano Totaro – Italy
Best Micro Short (under 5 min) – She’s My Best Friend (and I Hate Her) – Candy Guard – United Kingdom
Best Super Short (5-10 minutes) – Ethel – Beatrice Jäggi – Switzerland
Best Medium Lenght (10-30 min) – La Bruja – Manuel Villarreal – Usa
Best Low Budget Film – Pointless – Kai Fung – Hong Kong
Best Original Idea – Humans Don’t Come With Instructions – Arnoldas Alubauskas – United Kingdom
Best LGBTQ+ – Pink – Yassa Khan – United Kingdom
GENRE FILM AWARDS
Best Drama – Limbo – Giuseppe Fazio – Italy
Best Comedy/Parody – Sketchy Characters – Jacob French – Usa
Best Horror/Mystery – Beneath the surface – Thomas Van Eps – Usa
Best Crime/Action/Thriller – Mea Culpa – Simone Carpi – Italy
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy – HDA (Historias De Amor) – Javier Artigas – Spain
Best Documentary – Fracking the Contract – Sophie Rousmaniere
Best Experimental – Alive Buildings – Salome Vepkhvadze – Georgia
Best Animation – Tearin’ it Down – Maximilian Osterholz – Germany
Best War/Western – Just Another Soldier – Daniel Sawyer – United Kingdom
Best Web/TV Pilot/Tv Series – Laundry Heroes – Vincenzo Malara – Italy
Best Music/Musical – Riding out the storm – Bruce Alan Johnson – Usa
Best Romance – A Life Well Lived – Asger Folmann – Usa
Best Sport/Inspirational – Crossing the North – Andrea Devicenzi – Italy
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Director – Abaddon – Geoffroy C. Dedenis – France
Best Young Director – Strings – Ava Pearson, Eleanor Smith, Nina Zandvliet – United Kingdom
Best Soundtrack – Alienated – Benjamin Adnams – United Kingdom
Best Editing – The Monopol – Gal Genossar – Israel
Best Screenplay – Apart – Luca Pirero – Sweden
Best Cinematography – Heaven To Know You – Philip H J Gay – France
Best Vfx – Absolution – Talia Jaeger, Charter Stark, Igor Pending – Usa
Best Actor/Actress – In My Life – Mark Schrier – Ireland
Best Producer – Bad Lunch – Sneha Lourdes Mendes – India
Best Makeup, Hairstyling or Costumes – Vision – Johan Gass – Canada
Best Title – Geof – Adam Ingram Perry – Usa
Best Movie Poster – Breaking Out – David Glass – Usa
HONORABLE MENTION
Autotheist – Ryder Hartman – Canada
Boreana – Emanuel Toffolo, Jordan Carraro – Italy
Fueled by love – Der Streetartist Dome – Oliver Langewitz – Germany
Don’t Fuck With Dolphins – Nick Hearne – United Kingdom
Miss Dress – Panos Boras – Greece
Tichilesti – “The Place of Lepers” – Daniel Balteanu – Ireland
Sobre su cabeza – Fernando Mol – Mexico
Spellbound – Nicola Hepp – Netherlands
Fea – Andrea Colussi – Italy
L’Uomo Dietro – Davide Di Nardo – Italy
Messy Valentin – Adrian Lungu – Hungary
The Last Take – Brian Foyster – Usa
Le Bateau de M. Benoìt – Cloè Chabert, Luca Galliano, Domenico Matteo Orlando, Claudio Santagostini – Italy
Sanctimonious – João Pedro Frazão – Portugal
The Dark Side of Venice# Veneranda Porta – Federica Palmarin – Italy
Love Intense – Davide Chiazzese – Canada
Verrà un’altra estate – Marco Ottavio Graziano – Italy
Mai più sole – Martina Mannucci Styler – Italy
Friendship – Irina Stepanova – Cyprus
Rosa – Marco Falorni – Italy
The Silver Team and the ’38 World Cup Final – István Borsody – Hungary
A Kulcs – Adrian Lungu – Hungary
I love you – Rafael Maria Friebe – Germany
Armed – Bojana Momirovic – France
One Man – Christian Holder – United Kingdom
Liberi Respiri (and the silence in between) – Lory Muratti Lory Muratti – Italy
Back to the drawing board – Clarissa Sanchez Catahan – Singapore
The Queen of Egypt – Erwan Le Gal – France
My Shadow – Astra Silver Burke – Usa
Egy sima Szerda – Adrian Lungu – Hungary
Var är du? – Emma Hvengaard – Sweden
Joe – Matt Haro – Usa
Adomania – Vitória de Almeida Klotz – Germany
Montenero – Alessandro Luongo – Italy
Empty – Andrea Ferrarello – Italy
Sweet Dreams – Boris Loning – Netherlands
Dance what you are – Aliki Švandere – Norway
Dopamining – Jyot Bhalla – Australia
L’amour est temps de reflets – Yann Richebourg – France
Carlo – Christian Kalnbach – Germany
Bail Out – Dennis O’Neill – Usa
You are also Us – Cathy Waller – United Kingdom
Gideon The Dinosaur – Neil Zemouli – United Kingdom
Omáda – John McEwan-Whyte – United Kingdom
Keeper of the Night Sky – Karina Loerchner – Canada
Bloom – Zsolt Venczel – Hungary
The bliss of observing – Alek Bélanger – Canada
Bully – Natalie Richards – Australia
NoisyVision – Glauco Tortoreto – Italy
Abbandonati – Fabrizio Speranza – Italy
Christmas Cop – Joseph Payne – Usa
Figlia dell’Oscuro – Fabio Garelli – Italy
Nostalmagia – Simon Sciacovelli – Usa
Utero – Elio Mariano Scollo – Argentina
Vienna is calling – Alexander Bruckner – Austria
Shaping Kulture – Joseph Vialpando – Usa
Flâneurs – Ivano Lollo – Italy
