SHORT TO THE POINT – JUNE 2017 AWARDS
BEST FILM
The remains
Director: Elodie Bouédec
Country: France
Duration: 30:00
Synopsis: Fantine 10 goes with her father Pierre to the lab where he analyses the remains of Agnès Sorel, the mistress of Charles VII. The sight of her lonely skull on a shelf overwhelms the little girl. Troubled that there is nothing left between this skull and the woman Agnès Sorel, Fantine meets her ghost.
BEST DIRECTOR
Sons of
Director: Karas Charlotte, Le Mer Thierry
Country: France
Duration: 19:18
Synopsis: In an orphanage, about 20 children. We can hear their wonderings, see them fight to be chosen, guess their fears and their dream to be part of a family.
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BEST SCREENPLAY
Testament
Director: Eric Jean
Country: Canada
Duration: 14:30
Synopsis: A young woman bring us into her wild and fantastic world as she realized that her death is imminent. This film is adapted from the novel Testament, written in the urgency by the Canadian author Vickie Gendreau at the age of 23, after learning that she was suffering from an incurable cancer.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
PET
Director: Chris Moraitis
Country: Greece
Duration: 11:21
Synopsis: Dimitris (a 10 years old boy) is the only child of a rich family. The only person that took care of him, his grandma, is dead. Now his only companion is his pet guinea pig. When Dimitris parents decide a cruel future for him, Dimitris in order to survive he “cripples” the most pure side of himself.
BEST EDITING
Maxwell’s demon
Director: Marcos Vaz
Country: Brazil
Duration: 21:20
Synopsis: A Father tries to fix the relationship with his wheelchair bounded daughter after she has been expelled from the school for sexually assaulting another student.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Brazuca
Director: Faidon Gkretsikos
Country: Greece
Duration: 19:04
Synopsis: During the summer World Cup, 11-year old Boyko will do anything to obtain ‘Brazuca’, the Official World Cup ball, in order to prevent his friends from using him only as a goalkeeper.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
A Place For Everything
Director: Barnaby Boulton
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 20:00
Synopsis: Whilst searching for his lost stapler, an ordinary man discovers the lost and found of the universe, and must work with the mysterious caretaker to recover what he has lost.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
Freezer Burn
Director: Marina Bruno
Country: Canada
Duration: 08:17
Synopsis: An enthusiastic business man purchases a freezer.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
The Unemployed Man Who Feeds The Homeless
Director: Lukas Agelastos
Country: Greece
Duration: 04:41
Synopsis: After Konstantinos lost his job during the Greek crisis, he witnessed two kids rummaging through the garbage looking for food. Seeing them made him realise he wanted to do something to help. He now runs a soup kitchen with free food for all.
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
RIPrivacy
Director: Aycan Basar
Country: Turkey
Duration: 04:24
Synopsis: A slice from our -very much addicted- everyday life.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
Washingtonia
Director: Konstantina Kotzamani
Country: Greece
Duration: 23:53
Synopsis: Washingtonia starts when the giraffe’s heart can no longer be heard. Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because its heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.
BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM
When We Meet Again
Director: William Sehested Høeg
Country: Denmark
Duration: 19:32
Synopsis: Mads has been traveling across Europe for three months with his two childhood friends, Simon and Sara. To celebrate his safe return, Mads’ family has organised a welcome home lunch – but the meal is interrupted by a call from Sara’s father claiming Sara was raped on the last night of the trip. This throws Mads into the biggest dilemma of his life.
“When We Meet Again” tells a story about the fragile youth, and how a group of youngsters suddenly needs to deal with the matter of a rape. It naturally opens up a debate towards youngsters and their use of drugs and alcohol, while it also discusses where the line goes regarding sexual abuse.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
The big break
Director: Marcel Romeijn
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 04:08
Synopsis: A Dutch actor is in Liege, belgium for his big international breakthrough. A role in a french film. Followed by a Dutch film crew he takes this challenge head on..
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Bridge
Director: Niels Bourgonje
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 04:21
Synopsis: In ‘Bridge’ we see how Jos approaches a bridge after a relaxing drive, where on the other side of the bridge another driver approaches named Ad. Ad gives the right of way. But Jos insists that Ad goes first. Who will cross the bridge first?
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
PASSION
Director: Arthur Vernon
Country: France
Duration: 14:50
Synopsis: A team of scientists gets paralyzed by a virus. One of them drinks the only remaining antidote and drives full-speed to make other antidotes before his colleagues die. On his way, he bumps into a woman with whom he starts making love passionately.
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
The Headlight
Director: Ionut GAGA
Country: Romania
Duration: 15:07
Synopsis: God upholds there still are honest men in the world, but the Devil disagrees. A bet worth ten thousand souls is settled. Those souls will hang in the high moral principles balance of Radu Iovan. Rushing to meet his daughter who is leaving the country, he is pulled over because of a broken headlight.
