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2024 Winners and Nominees

Here are the nominees and award winners for each month. Please note that the ceremony is a limited screening of award-winning films and will be scheduled twice per year.

January:

Best Short:

Award Winner – U=Me – By Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Selected – 1 AM Heroics – By Henry Severe
Selected – Closing the Gap – By Maura Smith, Kate Smith
Selected – Cognition – By Ravi Ajit Chopra
Selected – Depending on the music… – By Hugo Brument Scuderi
Selected – Homebound – By Lefteris Koutinas
Selected – There’ll Be No Divorce – By Noelle Clarke

Best Feature:

Award Winner – THE FLY BACK: Restoring Territorial Rights in the Ucayali Basin – By Reynaldo Antonio Morales
Selected – We The People – By Edwin Maker Jr.
Selected – With You – By Evan Doll

February:

Best Short:

Award Winner – HER – By
Selected – ACROSS THE OCEAN – By Peter Webber
Selected – Love Stuck – By SANDRO DEMELAS
Selected – Put Them Down – By Lucas Krost
Selected – Sigur Rós – Andrá – By Katya Gimro, Alexey Krupnik
Selected – Sweeping Glass – By Maximilian Tenzin Sheni Czerski
Selected – UNDERCURRENT – By Mary Fix
Selected – We Need a Break – By Brenden Davis

Best Feature:

Award Winner – BREAKDOWN – By Raffaele Lamorte
Selected – Operation Star – By Vasileios Tsikaras

March:

Best Short:

Award Winner – shadowland – By bellopropello
Finalist – Mobius – By Zexi Liu
Selected – Goodnight Irene – By Matty Killen, Laura Mac
Selected – HUNGER – By Gopalarao Boddepalli
Selected – Itsy Bitsy Problems – By Kenneth Cassidy Tyner

April:

Best Short:

Award Winner – The Walking Forest – By Rose Casella, Floris Leeuwenberg
Finalist – All We Have – By HAO-HSIANG HU
Selected – Cascade – By Matt Surridge
Selected – Microalgae and the Green Future – By Jimin Youn
Selected – Spark Soul – By Juan Burgaleta

Best Feature:

Award Winner – Shimokita Blazer – By KOZO ANDO

May:

Best Short:

Award Winner – on the edge of hope – By Sukhvir Parmar
Selected – HADIA – By Utku Yasavul
Selected – Menism – By Neha Srivastava, Akshat Kishore
Selected – Mia, Just Eat The Fry! – By Hallie Eliza Friedman
Selected – One world at a time – By Bing Cui
Selected – But I Want to Leave the Party – Gilles Plouffe

Best Feature:

Award Winner – Chasing The Midnight Sun – By Dario Di Agostino
Selected – Where Olive Trees Weep – By Benazzo
Selected – April is Missing – By Eamonn Larsen

June

Best Short:

Award Winner – ÑUÑUYACHIY: BREASTFEEDING WITH AFFECTION AND CARE – By Jose Miguel Soriano, Ricardo Macian
Finalist – The Melting Age – By Alfons Rodríguez, José Bautista
Selected – “Sweet struggle” – By Adriana Kostetska
Selected – Dogleg – By Barret Schoenrock
Selected – GUPPY – By Joel Brown
Selected – The Battle Scene – By Ju Lee
Selected – The fisherman, the alien, the sea – By Elisabetta Zavoli
Selected – The Sugar Maker – By Ethan Isaac

Best Feature:

Award Winner – My Radio My Life – By Bidit Roy, Makarand Waikar
Selected- Permanently Temporary – By Michael Podgorac, Mikal Maldoror

July

Best Short:

Award Winner – Missing – By Peixuan Liu
Finalist – The Lipstick – By QIANHUI JI
Selected – ADVENTURESS – By Joel Stephen Fleming
Selected – Aspiration – By Stéphane Mandelkern
Selected – Father’s Mountains – By XiaoJun Tan
Selected – Malek Bel Taweela – By Obada Alhammami
Selected – Runaway: A Dremariand Tale – By Martin Dolan, Coger Bonet, Justin Marceus, Victoria Schaubeck
Selected – Strawberry Milk – By Sarah Klearman, Valerie Veteto

Best Feature:

Award winner – Mauri – By Zaya Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo

August

Best Short:

Award Winner – Untersberg – By Marta Shkop
Finalist – For the sake of a 50 – By JMS
Selected – Airplane mode – By MOHAMED Amine EL AHMAR
Selected – Belief – By Yitong Liu
Selected – CHAMPAIN – By Wilhelm af Ugglas Linder
Selected – GROWING PAINS – By Kai Fung
Selected – LA FIAMMA D’AMORE – By Enrico Adinolfi
Selected – Lake House – By Steve Avalon Gardner
Selected – Pizza Delivery – By Cole Russom
Selected – Tanked – By Jim Hancock
Selected – The Cycle of Fashion – By Xiruo Jiang
Selected – The Note – By Chris Beadnell

Best Feature:

Award Winner – ROMAGNA TROPICALE – By pascal BERNHARDT
Selected – Abrogation  – By Franklin Livingston
Selected – Secrets Of Eternity – By Jaden Gerard Miller

September

Best Short:

Best Feature: