SHORT TO THE POINT – OCTOBER 2017 AWARDS
BEST FILM
THE WAIT
Director: Eric DU BELLAY
Country: France
Duration: 24:20
Synopsis: Eloise, 21 years old, lives in a decrepit family-owned vineyard. On a winter’s sunday, she’s alone on duty for the winemaking cooperative. Her parents are running errands. They left a note saying her cousin, Matis, will spend the night at the domain. The wait starts.
BEST DIRECTOR
THE WAIT
Director: Eric DU BELLAY
Country: France
Duration: 24:20
Synopsis: Eloise, 21 years old, lives in a decrepit family-owned vineyard. On a winter’s sunday, she’s alone on duty for the winemaking cooperative. Her parents are running errands. They left a note saying her cousin, Matis, will spend the night at the domain. The wait starts.
BEST SCREENPLAY
the bra
Director: laurent Firode
Country: France
Duration: 15:00
Synopsis: November 2015, the government asks citizens to flaunt their balconies with a French flag to pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks. This can sometimes have unexpected consequences.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Butterfly
Director: Paillès twin brothers
Country: France
Duration: 25:38
Synopsis: Following the death of her Father whom she has not seen since she was a teenager, Vanessa, coming from a humble social background, goes to Marseilles.
Master Leclerc, the solicitor in charge of the succession, offers her an unexpected choice which is going to plunge Vanessa back into her past.
BEST EDITING
María Fernanda in time
Director: Xavier Pijuan
Country: Spain
Duration: 09:20
Synopsis: An overprotective mother produces an accident with terrible consequences in the space-time continuum in the scientific laboratory where his son works.
BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
Boris In The Forest
Director: Robert Hackett
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 12:00
Synopsis: A black comedy about a Californian geek in search of his horror hero Boris Karloff. “Wonderfully weird.” Chris Blaine, writer/director ‘Nina Forever’.
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
Blessed Days
Director: Valentina Casadei
Country: France
Duration: 13:00
Synopsis: Adèle, an 85 years old lady, confronts very hardly the loss of her husband, after 63 years of shared life. An unexpected dream, will bring Adele to relive the last moments of their life together, at the museum. She will be able to overcome the pain.
BEST YOUNG DIRECTOR
A Change of Heart
Director: Leon de Levita
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 10:16
Synopsis: Dean wakes up on top of a canal building. In his journey to get out his life changes.
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Incredible India
Director: Keyur Shah
Country: India
Duration: 02:37
Synopsis: In the latest campaign for Incredible India conceptualized by Skylark Productions and CNN, the communication strategy moves beyond foreign tourists to international professionals.
The ad speaks about how there is a lot to discover in India for everyone from an apparel designer, or a travel writer, to even a golfer
BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Hundred Miles Red
Director: Wu ZHENG, Jiawen SHEN, Liying HUANG
Country: China
Duration: 07:25
Synopsis: The soft wind rises, the dark night lasts. With lights in their hands and red silk on their body, a crowd of women stand quietly under the gate.
Their gazes are afar into the mist, as they await returning of their lovers. All men left for war to protect the country, and today is the day to return.
As dawn breaks, the city wakes to the thump of hooves…
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
The Stool Man
Director: Cicero Fraga, Daniel Lacourt
Country: Brazil
Duration: 11:00
Synopsis: He does not want to be a human anymore. He wants to become a stool man. In his existential crisis, we’ll follow the transformation of a man and the exaltation of things, while his friends are trying to keep him around.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Dot. – Everybody dances to techno
Director: Prateek Sethi
Country: India
Duration: 02:35
Synopsis: The song is about the artist loving salsa and not finding a dancing partner whom she doesn’t fall in love with at the end of every dance.
BEST AMATEUR SHORT FILM
The Bill
Director: Angela Semenas
Country: Germany
Duration: 03:21
Synopsis: It’s all about women power, love, sex, marriage and the capacity to start your life anew.
In the modern society the household duties, which does every woman at home for herself and her man, are not valuied by men anymore. Men live with women, do not marry and change one woman for another. This film is about the “payment” for everything that woman does for her man.
Everyone has to pay his bills.