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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:

Award Winner – The Right Track – By Keyan Jin
Selected – An Old Tree – By Emily Norovsambuu
Selected – BHRAMAAYAM – By Vishwas Madisetty
Selected – Coercive Charity – By Amir Vafaei
Selected – ENTROPY – By Tracie Sullivan
Selected – Hu Tu Noodles – By Fanshu shan
Selected – Orange – By Tom Koch, Jake Shipley
Selected – POLYPHEMUS: Through Their Eyes – By Anthony Frédérick EURY
Selected – something lighter. – By Katherine MJ Quinn

Best Feature:

  • Award Winner – Migrating Fears – By Solon Solomon

October

Best Short:

Award Winner – ANTONIETA: a modern catastrophe – By Fernanda Alberdi
Finalist – The sculpture – By WENKAI CHENG
Selected – A Shipwreck – By Sthiti Padhy
Selected – Animus – By Chad St. John
Selected – Becoming Parents – By Dana Wiker
Selected – Behind the Walls – By jiarui
Selected – Birthday Dream – By louwei
Selected – Career Day – By John M Kerner
Selected – collapse – By Luoyi
Selected – Crowboy – By William S Doan, Cynthia N. White
Selected – Heaven Spot – By George Gilby Green
Selected – Intervention – By Cassie Wezniak
Selected – Inversion – By XIAOQI PENG

Best Feature:

Award Winner – THE VILLAGE OF SIX – By GERARD Bertomeu
Selected – Line In The Sand – By James Edward O’Keefe III

November

Best Short:

Award Winner – Muted – By Jenny Yu
Selected – Ashes to Ashes – By Emily Qiu
Selected – Bridesmaid Brouhaha – By Emma White
Selected – Damage Deposit – By Virgo Velasquez
Selected – Developing A Secret – By Shiliang Gao
Selected – INSTINCT – By Gizem Polat
Selected – LOUNA – By Cedric Blun
Selected – Nogglers (Mavericks Of Time) – By Mercello Laruccia
Selected – Pesticide – By Will Cahill
Selected – Ropper – By curtis franklin
Selected – Sea Through – By Alaina Angela Lindsay
Selected – Sing Me To Sleep – By Mario Valdivieso
Selected – The last puff – By Lorick Jain
Selected – undertow – By Justin Taylor

Best Feature:

Award Winner – End of Trip – Sahara – By Antonio Rodríguez Cabal
Selected – Anger – By Nicola Tosini
Selected – honor rank – By Carlos Salcedo Salcedo
Selected – Pegasus – By Hermes Cavagnini
Selected – The Green Legacy – By de Mars jerry

December

Best Short:

Best Feature: