Winners October 2023
BEST PICTURE
Drawback (Mexico)
Dir: Teresa Perez
BEST FEATURE FILM
THARINI (India)
Dir: Siddu Poornachandra
>BEST FOREIGN FEATURE
Drawback (Mexico)
Dir: Teresa Perez
BEST SHORT FILM
Silenced (France)
Dir: Mazigna Barros, Leslie Tompson
BEST FOREIGN SHORT
Thousand Paper Cranes (China)
Dir: Xiaoxuan Liu
BEST DRAMA SHORT
Visitant of Paris (France)
Dir: Jérémy Strohm
BEST COMEDY/DRAMENDY SHORT
Sidney (UK)
Dir: Iris Breward
BEST HORROR/THRILLER/SCI-FI SHORT
MY SUN (China)
Dir: Xiaobo Zhang
BEST ANIMATION FEATURE
The Concierge (Japan)
Dir: Yoshimi Itazu
BEST ANIMATION SHORT
Mary (Qatar)
Dir: Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al-Janahi
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
Painful Flavours (UK)
Dir: Julian Hand
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Manufacturing Madness (USA)
Dir: Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Raft Paddler (China)
Dir: Chongshan Bai
BEST STUDENT FILM
The Art of Remembrance (UK)
Dir: Elisa Khan
BEST DRAMA SHORT STUDENT
Fragile Reflections (UK)
Dir: Andrew Short
BEST COMEDY/DRAMEDY STUDENT
Cherry Kompot (USA)
Dir: Teddy Robert Schaffer
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FEATURE
Voidance
by Jack Perring
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Pavlo Peleshok
‘Life To The Limit’
BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR
S Columbus
‘Alone’
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Visitant of Paris (France)
Dir: Jérémy Strohm
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Hantu – Dyan Tai (Australia)
Dir: Shaun Parker