FINALISTS

FINALISTS - 2021

FILM / DIRECTOR / COUNTRY

Being A Dog / Felix Swahn / Sweden

Haunted for Life / Hunter Paul Nickless / United States

Guardians of Paradise / Ivan Maria Friedman / Switzerland

Disclaim / Roman Jiwani / United States

All That You Loved / Lucio Vasquez / United States

The Cemetery / Ali Reza Beigi / Iran

Where The Winds Die / Pejman Alipour / Iran

Caged Wings / Valentina Galdi / Italy

The Old Stripper - The Short / Jack Truman / United States

Witness / Golestan Mansouri / Iran

Eva / Christian Gruner / Germany

Young Love In a Dirty Place / Reinis Spaile / Latvia

Stayin' Alive / Allan Klein / France

Seife / Riccardo Di Gerlando / Italy

Reflection / Sevgen Izel / Cyprus

I Miss My Mother / Ulku Dursun / Turkey

The War Within / Javid Farahani / Iran

An Orange and The Eye / Chrishantha Surith Fernando / Australia

Let's talk about it! (International Politics is not a child's play) / Vittorio Caratozzolo / Italy

The 7 Lives of Sara Blanchard / Kevin Ruiz / United States

Lock Down Love / Katrin Butt / Austria

Rêverie / Loreto Marco Crisci / Italy

Danno's Escape / Mihaly Szabados / Canada

15 Roses / Joe Schufreider / United States

Before The Angels of God Know Youre Alive / Ian McQueen / Argentina

Go away! / Zaizar Habacuc / Mexico

Dear Juan Manuel / José Luis López Ortiz / Spain

A hopeless handbook on how to make an existential film / Prakhar Gautam / India

Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion / Arturo Dueñas / Spain

Selected Milk Added from Reconstituted Milk Powder Whole Pasteurized Homogenized / Jose Luis Ducid, Alfonso Camarero, Maria Meseguer / Spain

FILM / DIRECTOR / COUNTRY

FITTING IN / Sidney Quesnelle / Canada

FORBIDDEN BIRTH / Sohrab Kavir / Iran

EVERLASTING TAPE / Haley Keegan / United States

AIFAM / Zubair Akhtar / United Arab Emirates

GRANDMAS & LADYBUGS / LeGrand Leseur / United States

A PICTURE / Ammar Aghaie / Iran

PAGE TURNER / Christian Gruner / Germany

TRANSFORMATION / Steve Cooke / Australia

ON/OFF / Nicolas P. Villarreal / Argentina

FISHER BOY / Charlie Yamamoto / United States

COLONIA / Thibault Rigaud / France

FUTURE / Alexander Gerlach / France

2-0 / Cihan Emre Zengin / Turkey

MOTHER / Ian McQueen / Argentina

ANAGNORISIS / Arturo Duenas Herrero / Spain

VIEWPOINT / Mohsen Mohammadi / Iran

LETTER FROM BOBEYAN / Stephen Paul Cooke / Australia

REDSIN / Chris Ortiz / United States

DRIFT / Andrii Ahapii / Canada

THE OTHER / Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi / Iran

WOLF IN HIS BELLY / Oluwaseyi Thomas / United States

I'M MONICA BELLUCCI / Mohammad Mohammadian / Iran

LOVE BLOOD PAIN / Magnum Borini / Brazil

FILM - DIRECTOR - COUNTRY

Civil Defense Siren - Mohammad Ahmadinia - Iran

Absurd Man - Burak Kum - Turkey

Fire Extinguisher Rodrigo Sopena, Joana Solnado Spain

Campo Quantico – Loredana Di Martino – Italy

Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day – Anupam Ghosh, Priyanka Ghosh – India

The Call – Sandra Shevelkes – Russian Federation

Track7 – Andrea Tiatto – Italy

Adobe Tales – Alexis Ruiz Espinoza – Peru

What You Don’t Know is Bigger Than You – Laury Granville, Paul Remi Leti – Martinique

The Gift – Dumitru Grosei – Romania

Good Ol’ Bernie – Olivier Ducray, Wilfried Meance – France

A Midnight Robbery – Raghda Karam – Egypt

Bad Luck – Eric Jacquelin – France

Redemption – Miguel Llorens – Spain

Spyglass – Javi Prada – Spain

The Meditative Rose – Chun Yin Ho – Hong Kong

Soul River and Black Memories – Taize Inacia, Thaynara Rezende - Brazi

Cotton Clouds – Chloe Shelton – United States

The Last Flight – Guillermo Perez Galvez - Chile

Fireflies – Amelia Nanni – Belgium

The Blue Stellar Mystery – Debraj Sarkar – India

Four Walls and A Roof – Keelan Nieuwstadt – South Africa

The Hunt – Jean-Pierre Dupuy – France

Shikhandi – Sahil D. Gada – India

Color Of Childhood – Sahadat Russell – Bangladesh

Tanko’s Diary – Matthew Prince Micheal - Nigeria

The Gallic Pact – Sebastien Duhem - France

Quiet on Set – Jessica Teixeira – South Africa

A Story of Two Eggs – Suraj Vilas Dalvi - India

The Oasis – Anirban Chakraborty – India

Tails of Men – Ananthakrishnan Pillai, Monica Bustamante, Boton Pushok, Charllote Muller - Portugal

In Search of Water – Sandeep Rasal – India

The Eyes of The Land – Marcos Altuve Marquina – Venezuela

The Sea Around Us – Laura Villamisar Aguilar, Javier Robles Alvarez, Julian Munoz Monge – Spain

Beni – Maiko Sasaki – Japan

Gargano Fairy Tale – Adriano Losacco – Italy

I am Terry – Jack Hughes – United Kingdom

Antarctica – Jivko Konstantinov – Bulgaria

The Truth/2001 – Oleksandr Hoisan – Ukraine

The Craftsman, The Art of Henk ten Bos – Pau Han Kho – Netherlands

People of Opinion – Vanessa Broummana - Greece

Osmildo – Pedro Daldegan – Brazil

A Dance for Death – Zanyar Azizi - Iran

Libby – Caitlin McAvoy – United States

The Queen of Connemara – Ed Hannigan – United States

Life in Rural Elephant Jungle Farm of Thailand – Tah Jetiyamon – Thailand

The Last Spring of Aegean – Onur Erkin – Turkey

In Pursuit of Light – Amit Rai – India

The Romans – Maurice Micallef – Malta

A Dead River – Frico Guimaraes – Brazil

Silver Clown – Zhao Songqiao – Hong Kong

Ballad of Pipe and Necklace – Martin Babic – Croatia

Chatter – Max Kozik – United States

Sundae Afternoon – Lauren Hammersley – United Kingdom

Kaval – Sasha Stanishik – Macedonia

Creative Mind – Mahdi Barqzadegan – Iran

Mooozart – Piero Tonin – Italy

Regeneration – Cameron Carr – United Kingdom

Jack and Jill – Arindam K Dutta – India

The Ribbon – Jonathan Galland – United States

Her Voiceless Song – Nobuyoshi Suzuki - Japan

Companion – Jack Walton, Joe Helliwell – United Kingdom

The Almanac: 12 Months’ Allegories – Pasquale D’Amico - Italy

Battledream Chronicles: A New Beginning – Alain Bidard – France

Tiger’s Descent – Kuan Wang – United States

Stuck in Eden – Srecko Zitnik – Croatia