Official Selection 2024
Winning Films
BEST ANIMATION
27, Flóra Anna Buda
Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating, she still lives with her parents and dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?
BEST CHANGE
PUFFLING, Jessica Bishopp
On a remote Icelandic island, teenagers Birta and Selma rescue pufflings (young puffins), taking it upon themselves to counteract humanity's damaging impact on nature. A coming-of-age documentary about growing up and making choices that explores the delicate interplay between wildlife, the environment, and human life.
BEST COMEDY
THE FAMILY CIRCUS, Andrew Fitzgerald
A Vietnamese-American family's plan to cover up a drunk driving accident begins to unravel when their emotional baggage spills out in front of the police.
BEST DRAMA
CLOSING DYNASTY, Lloyd Lee Choi
On a school day, a seven year-old girl, Queenie, hustles and schemes ways to make money on the streets of New York City.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
DIRECCIONES, María Luisa Santos and Carlo Nasisse
In Costa Rica there are no street addresses. Instead, an address contains a series of directions in reference to various landmarks. One woman, feeling a pressing anxiety by this lack of order, sets out to understand its origins. In doing so she discovers a larger story about human memory and place.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
ZULU - HOOLIGAN BREAK, Gil Gharbi
A man reads a letter to camera. Fed up with being ignored, he promises to start a new life that fulfils his passions; music and horses.
BEST STUDENT FILM
SHOOTING WATERMELONS, Antonio Donato
Federico is on holiday with his father and brother in a summer residence in Sardinia. Their father, Aurelio, is a severe and overtly masculine man who makes Federico feel anxious and inadequate. When a wealthy foreign family invites them to dinner, Federico discovers he is not so different from his father.
Official Programme 2024
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