SCREENING SCHEDULE
11:30 AM – 1 PM
COSMOS OBSCURA Best Experimental – Duration 00:04:00
THE FIFTH SUN Best Documentary Feature – Duration 01:30:00
1 PM – 1:30 PM
Q&A
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
INTO MY LIFE Best Short Documentary – Duration 00:15:11
JUDITH HOTEL Best Short Narrative – Duration 00:16:52
2:30 PM – 3 PM
Q&A
3 PM – 5 PM
AND THE MOON STANDS STILL Best Animation – Duration 00:10:43
OUT OF CRIMES Best Narrative Feature and Best 2019 Film – Duration 01:36:14
TATOO Best Producer – Duration 00:15:00
5 PM – 5:30 PM
Q&A
BEST IN CATEGORY AWARDS
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
Producers: CHOW Keung, LI Xin
Writer: Peter ZUO
Cast: WANG Haitao, REN Quing’an, DING Jianjun, LONG Shuilin, LI Jue
OUT OF CRIMES
directed by Peter ZUO
Miner Junpo’s daughter is seriously ill and in urgent need of treatment. As a result, Junpo searches for the mine owner Liangui, demanding for the compensation of his work injury. Liangui had already prepared money for Junpo, but eventually uses the money to help out Director Qin. In desperate, Junpo kidnaps Liangui’s daughter.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Producers: Cristiana Pecci, Matteo Maggi
Writers: Cristiana Pecci, Matteo Maggi
Cast: Brando Giannoni, Cristiana Pecci, Panu Heikkurinen
THE FIFTH SUN
directed by Cristiana Pecci and Matteo Maggi
Is travelling a form of vagrancy? Or is it more of an inner journey completing you at the end of the road? This is one of the questions pondered on this documentary about the Wanderlust: the irresistible desire to wander the world.
The directors decide to follow Panu, a Finnish traveler, in a road trip from Finland to Australia to witness a full sun eclipse. Unexpectedly, something goes wrong.
“The Fifth Sun” is a glimpse into a lifestyle where your whole life fits into a backpack, shaping your ideas about freedom.
BEST SHORT NARRATIVE
Producers: Gael Cabouat, Boris Mendoza
Writers: Charlotte Le Bon, Timothée Hochet
Cast: Jean-Baptiste Sagory, Suzanne Rault-Balet, Sarah Calcine
JUDITH HOTEL
directed by Charlotte Le Bon
Have you ever dreamed of going to sleep and never wake up? Rémi has. Eight years of insomnia have made his life a living hell. By booking a room at the Judith Hotel, a very popular establishment, he is giving himself the opportunity for a new start.
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Producer: Grace Remington
Cast: Cassandra Bromfield, M. Elaine Bromfield
INTO MY LIFE
directed by Sarah Keeling, G. Remington, I. Hucikova
Growing up in 60’s and 70’s Brooklyn, Cassandra Bromfield’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. A schoolteacher with many creative talents, Cassandra’s mom documented the exuberance of her neighborhood’s public spaces: the lively pool, the packed playground, and the graffitied handball court. Children and teenagers gleefully performed in front of her Bolex. Cassandra still lives in the same place, working as a creative fashion designer during the day, and as a filmmaker at night.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Producers: Katherine Balsley and Irina Escalante Chernova
COSMOS OBSCURA
directed by Kate Balsley and Irina Escalante Chernova
In Cosmos Obscura, the universe is at once known and unknowable. New patterns, rhythms and metaphors are born from old ones. Familiar celestial bodies are refracted into strange and unusual forms. The visuals were created from photographs taken from the Voyager II spacecraft. Photographs of the planets and their moons were abstracted and animated in order to create various patterns, rhythms and images.
BEST ANIMATION
Producer: Yulia Ruditskaya
Writers: Yulia Ruditskaya, David Lindner Leporda
Cast: Andreas Goldbrunner
AND THE MOON STANDS STILL
directed by Yulia Ruditskaya
The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance.
GRAND BRIDGE AWARD
BEST OF THE YEAR
Producers: CHOW Keung, LI Xin
Writer: Peter ZUO
Cast: WANG Haitao, REN Quing’an, DING Jianjun, LONG Shuilin, LI Jue
OUT OF CRIMES
directed by Peter ZUO
Miner Junpo’s daughter is seriously ill and in urgent need of treatment. As a result, Junpo searches for the mine owner Liangui, demanding for the compensation of his work injury. Liangui had already prepared money for Junpo, but eventually uses the money to help out Director Qin. In desperate, Junpo kidnaps Liangui’s daughter.
HONORABLE MENTION
BEST PRODUCER
Producer: Dena Rassam
Writers: Farhad Delaram, Dena Rassam
Cast: Behdokht Vallian, Mojtabba Fallahi, Anahita Eghbalnezhad
DENA RASSAM for TATTOO
directed by Farhad Delaram
The young Iranian woman had not been expecting this kind of examination. She only wanted to renew her driver’s license. However, when the officials noticed a scar on her wrist and her tattoo, they began looking at her with suspicion. Suddenly she is trapped, forced to answer personal questions and exposed to insinuations. The camera captures the growing uneasiness with clinical precision.