SHORT TO THE POINT – AUGUST 2018 AWARDS
BEST FILM
Tea with Lemon
Director: Robert Harrison
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 11:32
Synopsis: A clueless poet and café regular attempts to charm a waitress by constructing an enigmatic persona and learning her mother tongue. But she is too preoccupied by her failing marriage to notice his futile efforts.
BEST DIRECTOR
The Casting of an innocent woman
Director: Jacob Thomas Pilgaard
Country: Denmark
Duration: 20:00
Synopsis: The young actress Sara is at an audition for her first potential lead role in a feature film. However the casting quickly goes sideways and Sara needs to face a dark chapter in her past.
BEST SCREENPLAY
By Halves
Director: Anastasia Eleftheriou
Writer: Moritz Pfeifer
Country: Greece
Duration: 16:13
Synopsis: A woman finishes a wooden boat in her workshop and then takes it to a beach. But she’s afraid to take the boat out on the sea. Watching the tide go away without her, she leaves the beach and abandons the boat, letting it deteriorate in a boat cemetery among other shipwrecks that she or other people have built. Back in her cabin, she starts with the construction of another boat.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Quintessence
Director: Cem Göksoy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 06:00
Synopsis: “Quintessence” is a short film about the correlation between human and the law of energy.
BEST EDITING
Poacher
Director: Tom Whitworth
Country: Kenya
Duration: 27:44
Synopsis: A desperate farmer runs into trouble after he steals blood ivory from a gang of international terrorists.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Vonnis
Director: Walt Bladt
Country: Belgium
Duration: 08:35
Synopsis: Life is just a phase and we’re all going through it together. Let’s make it a wonderful adventure!
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
The Modern Mom
Director: Alisa Pien
Country: Thailand
Duration: 28:10
Synopsis: An exclusive documentary around the life of ‘Madam Winnie’ Thailand’s most successful mother and famous writer of the parenting book ‘The Modern Mom’ along side with her beloved daughter and best friend, Leila, in the perspective no one has ever seen before.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Vonnis
Director: Walt Bladt
Country: Belgium
Duration: 08:35
Synopsis: Life is just a phase and we’re all going through it together. Let’s make it a wonderful adventure!
BEST CHILDREN SHORT FILM
Boy Racer
Director: Barry Fahy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 04:25
Synopsis: Evan Murphy sneaks away into his grandfathers shed and discovers a world of trinkets to play with including his grandfathers rally car.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Marfa
Director: Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 08:33
Synopsis: A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, freaks and food trucks. And then there’s the giant lemon.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Malgorzata Bialokoz-Smith – The Arist’s Life
Director: Maj Jukic, Magdalena Jakubowska
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 25:46
Synopsis: A short story about the life of Malgorzata Bialokoz-Smith.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
Quintessence
Director: Cem Göksoy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 06:00
Synopsis: “Quintessence” is a short film about the correlation between human and the law of energy.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
God I need a girlfriend
Director: Stefan Janoski
Country: United States
Duration: 04:32
Synopsis: From the mind of Stefan Janoski, God I need a girlfriend, a musical short story, that gives the background to the sculpture of the same name.
BEST MINI SHORT
Framed
Director: Jonathan Burteaux
Country: France
Duration: 02:15
Synopsis: Her name is Lola. She’s an actress. Today is her 153rd commercial casting. Inspired by (several) true stories.
BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM
How to kill time
Director: Augusto Efraín López Estrada
Country: Guatemala
Duration: 08:17
Synopsis: After his marriage was over, a man has to understand that somethings are never what we expected, but that doesn’t mean we can’t move on on them. It just take more time than what he would like to.