At Love & Hope International Film Festival (L'HIFF), we believe that every movie holds something remarkable to share with the world. Our esteemed jury is working tirelessly to ensure fairness in the nomination process. With over 300 films, both shorts and feature-length, to review, the task of selecting nominees is an extraordinary undertaking.

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​Get ready for an unforgettable night at the LOVE & HOPE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - BARCELONA (L'HIFF)! The winners of the 2024 edition will be revealed exclusively during the awards night at Sala Aquarella. Don’t miss it!

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Best Feature Film 

 

• Do Over - Dir.  SHARVI - 01:23:38 min - India

• Ultimate Chabite - Dir. Julien Ivanowich - 01:36:06 min - France

• Navras Katha Collage (Nine Emotions) - Dir. PRAVEEN HINGONIA - 02:29:49 min  - India

• A Trip Elsewhere  - Dir. J.R. Sawyers - 1:35:00 h - USA

• ROLLING - Dir. Robert Deboucher. & Ethan Spotts - 01:40:00 min - USA

• Tricked and Treated - Dir. Victoria Monai Richards  - 01:42:00 min - USA

• Gimp and the Hitman - Dir. Dimitri Raft - 01:28:00 min. - United Kingdom

• Roswell Delirium - Dir. Richard Bakewell - 01:50:00 min  - USA

• The Safe - Dir. Uwe Schwarzwalder - 01:42:45 min - Switzerland

• Damn Ghosts - Dir. Ricard Gomez Rodriguez - 01:43:59 min - Spain

Best Documentary Feature

 

• THE BALL - Dir. Malgorzata Saniewska - 01:33:34 min  - Poland

• Finding Happy  - Dir. Maria Bertrand - 01:14:00 min - USA

• The Architects of Hope: The First Steps in Rebuilding Ukraine - Dir. Paul Thomas - 01:15:00 min - United Kingdom

• Women and roads. The way to yourself. Mallorca.  - Dir Kristina Kretova, Anna Kameneva -  57:44 min - Spain

• One Person/Hundred Bridges: EP 1 + 2 - Dir. Han Zheng - 47:00 min - China

• LA GRANDE SIGNORA - Dir. Valentina  Faenza, Manuel Rossi - 01:03:00 min - Italy

• One Person, One Vote?  - Dir. Maximina Juson  - 01:18:00 min - USA

• Everything's Kosher - Dir. Adam Fried  - 01:18:00 min - USA

• Saving Walden's World - Dir. James S Merkel, Deborah Shaffer - 01:28:00 min - USA

• The Art Whisperer - Dir. Flemming Fynsk - 44:27 min - USA

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Best Horror Feature Film

 

• The Deserving -  Dir. S.S ARORA - 01:14:59 min - USA

• LESBIAN PSYCHO? - Dir. Nicola Vitale Materi - 01:30:08 - Poland

• The Night The World Ends - Dir. Michael Szymczyk - 01:33:22 min - USA

 

Best LGBTQ Feature Film

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• Dead in Love - Dir. Nicole de Meneses - 01:45:00 min - USA

• THE JOURNEY FOR COMING OUT - Dir. Katsuhide Yamago - 53:00 min - Japan

• Upon Walking - Dir. Max Rissman - 01:47:00 min - USA

• Out of My Comfort Zone - Dir. Ivy Vale - 01:45:00 min - USA

• ROLLING - Dir. Robert Deboucher. & Ethan Spotts - 01:40:00 min - USA

• Accepte-toi comme je suis - Dir. Emmanuelle Roberge - 57:00 min - Canada

Best Director Feature Film 

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• Dir.  SHARVI - Do Over -  01:23:38 min - India

• Dir. Katsuhide Yamago - THE JOURNEY FOR COMING OUT -  53:00 min - Japan

• Dir. Dimitri Raft - Gimp and the Hitman - 01:28:00 min. - United Kingdom

• Dir. Flemming Fynsk - The Art Whisperer -  44:27 min - USA

• Dir. S.S ARORA - The Deserving -  01:14:59 min - USA

• Dir. Ivy Vale - Out of My Comfort Zone -  01:45:00 min - USA

• Dir. Victoria Monai Richards  - Tricked and Treated - 01:42:00 min - USA

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Best Cinematography Feature Film 

 

• Roswell Delirium - 01:50:00 min  - USA

• Do Over - 01:23:38 min - India

• ROLLING - 01:40:00 min - USA

• Navras Katha Collage (Nine Emotions) - 02:29:49 min  - India

• The Deserving - 01:14:59 min - USA

• A Trip Elsewhere  - 1:35:00 h - USA

• Ultimate Chabite - 01:36:06 min - France

• Out of My Comfort Zone - 01:45:00 min - USA

 

Best Actress Feature Film 

 

• Ashton Solecki - Roswell Delirium - 01:50:00 min  - Usa

• MARIA PINTO  - Do Over -  01:23:38 min - India

• Cora Cleary - ROLLING - 01:40:00 min - USA

• Victoria Richards - Tricked and Treated - 01:42:00 min - USA

• SHEEBA CHADDHA - NAVRAS KATHA COLLAGE - 02:29:45 min - India

• Andrea Geones - A Trip Elsewhere  - 1:35:00 h - USA

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Best Actor Feature Film 

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• Maanav - Do Over - 01:23:38 min - India

• Isaiah Mims - Birds & Worms - 01:08:12 min - USA

• Uwe Schwarzwalder - The Safe - 01:42:45 min - Switzerland

• PRAVEEN HINGONIA - NAVRAS KATHA COLLAGE - 02:29:45 min - India

• VENKAT SAI GUNDA - The Deserving - 01:14:59 min - USA

• ​Will Ehren - Out of My Comfort Zone - 01:45:00 min - USA

• Christophe Marcillac - Ultimate Chabite - 01:36:06 min - France

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Best Original Score Feature Film 

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• Dead in Love - 01:45:00 min - USA

• Do Over - Dir.  SHARVI - 01:23:38 min - India

• Roswell Delirium - 01:50:00 min  - USA

• Navras Katha Collage (Nine Emotions) - 02:29:49 min  - India

• Out of My Comfort Zone - 01:45:00 min - USA

• Ultimate Chabite - 01:36:06 min - France

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Best International Short Film

 

• In My Day - Dir. William Grave - 16:06 min - United Kingdom

• Hold On - Dir. Ryan Daniel Kavanagh - 3:42 min  - USA

• Unbearable -Dir. Benjamin Van den Berghe  - 14:01 min - Belgium

• Melodrama - Dir. Giuseppe De Vuono  - 33:01 min - Italy

• Alala High - Dir. Yael Arad Zafrir -  20:58 min - Israel

• Ebony - Dir.  Filippo Parisi - 25:45 min - Germany

• The Actors  - Dir. Thodoris Vournas - 24:49 min - Greece

• Bernice - Dir. Madeleine Wighton, Tony Gardiner - 12:00 min - Australia

• Legendary - Dir. Janusz Madej - 19:34 min - The Netherlands 

• The Curtain - Dir. Leslie-Ann Coles - 15:11 min - Canada

• HEAVEN TO KNOW YOU - Dir. PHILIP H J GAY - 38:33 min - France

• ​ALL I NEED  - Dir. Katia Spivakova Saakiants -  11:00 min - Armenia

• Purgatory - Dir. Lukas Vizner - 3:00 min - Czech Republic

• Kiss - Future of a generation (2022) - Dir. Tony Morgan, Roberta Arnone, Jacopo Dotti, Fabio Finazzi - 15:00 min - Italy

• KATHAKAAR - Dir. Anshuman Chaturvedii - 29:54 min - India

• Safe - Dir. Sanelle Sibanda - 20:00 min - USA

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Best Spanish Short Film

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• Zheimer - Dir. Álvaro Gabarrón - 12:32 min

• ÀSAKA - Dir.D ( Edduardo Viera ) - 29:38 min

• Drawing book - Dir. Helen Eller - 6:06 min

• El ratoncito Pérez y la magia del capitalismo - Di. R. Ruvens - 5:00 min

• NARÚ - Dir.Olivia Gajetzki, Peter Benedict Salole - 6:58min 

• Cuando yo me muera - Dir. Pepe Siscar - 19:00 min

• The perfect woman - Dir. Alisa Selishchava - 5:14 min - Spain

 

Best Documentary Short Film

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• Cambalache - Dir. Jacobo Pecharromán - 9:52 min  - Spain

• Syntropia - Dir. Andrea Pellerani - 27:00 min - Switzerland 

• Somewhere in between - Dir. Liza De Maeyer - 14:03 min - Belgium

• Where The Tracks Lead - Dir. Kate Bromley  - 14:55 min - Canada

• Scenes from Salé - Dir. Imrane Rahani  - 14:00 min - Morocco 

• A Letter From The Fathers - Dir. Tristan Jason Barrocks - 29:36 min - Canada

• Ibiza's Regenerative Revolution - Dir. Rob Beemer & Laura Obiols - USA

• Spirit Traveler: Looking into the Past for a Better Future - Dir. Sonja Grace - 13:41 min - USA

• ​Meet The Local Hero - Glenn Johnstone - Dir. Dragos Teglas - 20:00 min - United Kingdom

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Best European Short Film

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• Completely Well Adjusted - Dir. Ella Muscroft -  29:42 min - United Kingdom 

• Too Much Sand - Dir. Rosso Pérez Bueno - 14:14 min Sweden

• Sandalen Mit Socken - Dir. Veronica Isola, Pol Diggler  - 4:30 min - Germany

• Penélope_(B&W) - Dir. Ricardo G. Santos - 16:08 min - Portugal

• Edouard - Dir. F Manga - 17:00 min - France

• L + T - Dir. Nevena Nikolova - 17:58 min - Bulgaria

• LifeLine - Dir. Emma-Rose Thompson, Maxim van den Broeke - 15:00 min - The Netherlands

• Where We Go Next - Dir. Camila Barandearan  - 16:34 min - Spain

• Remote Strutting - Dir. Lorna Fitzsimons - 12:00 min - Ireland

• Leben - Dir. Ania Plonka - 29:07 min - Poland

• Twin Leaps - Dir. Wayne Kelly - 12:43 min - United Kingdom

• Toys - Dir. Peleyrol Anaïs - 4:00 min - France

• ​Caged - Dir. Orestis Rouskas - 19:58 min - Greece

• Roundhouse - Dir. Brandon Bregman - 11:02 min - Netherlands

 

Best Drama Short Film

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• The Letter - Dir. Ellie Spooner - 8:18 min - United Kingdom

• An Intermission - Dir. William Georges-Garcia - 13:00 min - France

• All For You - Dir. Dawn Reavis - 14:27 min - USA

• Morning Star - Dir. Zara Balfour - 25:00 min - Malta 

• The Silent Treatment - Dir. Steven Lancefield - 9:14 min - United Kingdom

• Manic Pixie Dreamer - Dir. Duncan Star-Boszko  - 24:45 min - USA

• Distalgia - Dir. Alexandru George Fiț  - 10:40 min - Romania

• tandem - Dir. Ignacio Strozzi - 12:59 min - Mexico

• The Maimed - Dir. Stephan Brenninkmeijer - 11:46 min - The Netherlands

• Tis The Season - A Grief Story  - Dir. Tamia Dow - 10:00 min - USA

• PENUMBRÆ - Dir.  Gioia Perpetua - 11:52 - Italy

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Best LGBTQ Short Film

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• Doggy Bunny - Dir. Maurine Nijssen-Horrion, Agathe de Lovinfosse, Gregory Rotsaert - 25:00 min - Belgium

• Macho Man - Dir. Agusti Estadella - 24:00 min - Spain

• Life's A Ball - Dir. Lolia Etomi, Justin V. Ricci - 9:07 min - USA

• Catboy - Dir. Cristian Sitjas Martinez - 13:00 min - Spain

• Romana Gioventù! - !Juventud Romana! - Dir. Federico Cianferoni -10:08 min - Italy

• Quarantine Love - Dir. Philip Johnson, J'Lamar Nichols - 5:20 min - USA

• Thanks Mom - Dir. Manik Talwar - 23:21 min - India

 

Best Sci - Fiction Short Film

 

• RECALL - Dir. Jelle Bleyenbergh - 9:56 min - Belgium

• Hole Punched Ear - Dir. Alan Yammin, Ben Tull - 8:31 min  - USA

• Hamelin 77 - Dir. Javier Ideami - 16:46 min - Spain

• Kiseru - Dir. Igor Neljak - 17:08 min - Croatia

• Berdyans'k - Dir. Tom Hopkins, Kateryna Paida - 15:33 min - Ukraine 

• The Second Prince -  Dir. Alessandro Magnabosco - 19:15 min - United Kingdom

• DARK CELL - Dir. Jean-Michel Tari - 25:00 min - France

• Your time has come - Dir. David Durán - 19:58 min - Spain

 

 

Best Experimental Short Film

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• ugly people - Dir. Antonis Christ - 11:48 min - United Kingdom 

• Hotdogs - Dir. Tobías Reizes - 13:00 min - Argentina

• Riduani - Dir. Genaro Rivas - 7:15min - Venezuela

• Ánima que anima - Dir. Juan Burgaleta - 5:36 min - Spain

• It's Not About Me - Dir. Jay Sullivan  - 10:03 min - USA

• 13 Strokes...  - Dir. Ioulia Lymperopoulou - 7:28 min - Greece

• Faamoe - Dir. Marika Renhuvud -25:00 min  - Sweden

• ben-gi - Dir. Selen Terzi Öztekin - 19:59 min - Turkey

• CREATURE - DIR. Nevena Nikolova & Petar Gerzilov - 7:25 min - Bulgaria

Best Horror Short Film

 

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• Bienvenida - Dir.  Aitor  Balda Jurado  - 30:00 min - Spain

• SPiN: No Matter What - Dir. Jim Vacca - 3:17 - USA

• ARIES - Dir. Adán García Venegas - 6:11 min - Spain

• They're Real  - Dir. Jack Kierski - 14:03 min - USA

• I will break your blood - Dir. DaVid Conill Riera - 8:00 min - Spain

• ​Cerraste la puerta - Dir. Josué Gabriel Fiallo - 7:00 min - Sweden

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Best American Short Film

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• Happy Anniversary - Dir. Stephanie Ruiz - 22:02 min - USA

• Life After - Dir.  Autumn Libengood - 14:58 min - USA

• How We Met - Dir. Roe Moore - 5:26 min - USA

• Ropa Vieja -Dir. Félix Grether - 9:21 min - Argentina

• A Conversation - Dir. Tre King - 12:44 min - USA

• Un Homme and a Lady - Dir.Mitch Yapko - 10:08  - USA

• Manic Pixie Dreamer - Dir. Duncan Star-Boszko  - 24:45 min - USA

• Salt and Pepper - Dir. Karen Johnson - 14:41 min - USA

• Calls - Dir. Brandon Keeton  - 16:00 min - USA

• Mute - Dir. Andrea Borbolla - 17:06 min - Mexico

• The Last Butterfly - Dir. Sizhuo Li - 15:00 min - USA

• Lívia's Journey - Dir. Gabriel Panazio - 3:33 min - Brazil

• MOE - Dir. Guillermo E. Barahona C., Rose Donahue - 13:28 min - USA

• Catelus Ascending - Dir. Gina Ann Margillo - 4:00 min - USA

• COEANTRA - Pablo Isaac Cardoza - 22:00 min - Nicaragua

• Five to One - Dir. Vincenzo Carrano, David Atrakchi - 13:45 min - USA

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Best Music/Dance Video 

 

• Getting Along - Dir. Scott Dobson, Michael Phillip Wojewoda - 5:16 min - Canada

• Love I Can Love - Dir. Adam Grindler - 4:45 min - USA

• Run Away - Dir. Chico Bennett - 3:53 min - USA

• CINNA - Thorns & Roses - Dir. - Nicola Dymale -  4:53 min - Germany

• Becoming  - Dir. Anabella Lenzu - 5:34 min  - USA

• Dunes - Dir. Virginie Kahn - 9:50 min - France

• Old Death -  Dir. Kyle Garrett - 7:17 min - USA

• We Are  - Dir. Diego Salazar Cely - - 5:34 min - USA

• ​SELF - Dir. César Abreu - 10:36 min - USA

• Musical Angels - Dir. Saul Pincus - 9:07 min - Canada

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Best Script Feature 

 

• AT THE MERCY OF FAITH - Terror Version - Wri. Samuel Lee Taylor - USA

• An Open Door - Wri. Nela Wagman - USA

• Overwhelming Darkness - Wri. Steven A Hart - United Kingdom

• The Match - Wri.  - Crystal Rivers - USA

• ​Lavender Nights - Wri. Bastian Schöttner - Germany

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Best Script Short 

 

• Melodrama - Wri. Giuseppe De Vuono - Italy

• The Plowman - Wri. Wayne Paul Mattingly - USA

• Eye For An Eye - Wri. Ashley Bowers - USA

• The island of the missing - Wri. Juan Jose Roca Rey - Peru

• The Killshot Kid - Wri. Charles William Lane - USA

• ​For talking's sake - Wri. Lucia Blasco del Alamo - Spain

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Best Animation Short Film

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• My Digital Truth - Dir. Swen Werner - 9:01 min  - United Kingdom

• Flamin Hot - Dir. Clàudia Romeo Cassadó, Paula Othmer Pérez, Alícia García Iniesta, Adrià Carballada Mallofré, Leanora Schnog Barriga, Bernardo Oliveira Mesquita, Marlon Anthony Hugi Zapata, Pol Corcoles, Sergi Mora Murciano, Pablo Matas Solera - 2:44min - SPain

• ETHEL - Dir.  Beatrice Jäggi - 8:00 min - Switzerland

• Beauty - Dir. Aitana Belda Camós, Aroa Celdrán López - 3:22 min - Spain

• Rik & Ade..Little Bastards!! - Dir. Patrick Cox - 2:36 min - Spain

• Supertramp - Dir. Fabrizio Gammardella - 6:39 min - United Kingdom

• Wind Goes On - Dir.  Eric Lee - 15:49 min - Hong Kong 

• Lingering Echoes of Time - Dir. Xinhui Chen - 2:10 min - USA

• Fish N Chips - Dir. Georgia Ellen Jane Little - 4:31 min - United Kingdom

• Daisy - Dir. Aditi Dixit, Joffrey Atienza Zamora, Shecid Domínguez Aguilera - 4:47 min - Spain

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Best Web - Series

 

• Fachamamma - Dir. Analia Fraser - 9:00 min - Argentina

• Wheel Gone Kid 2 -Dir. Wayne Kelly - 3:53 min - United Kingdom

• MyView - Dir. Lotem Leizer - 29:18 min - Israel

• Metamostri - compilation - Dir. Luca Iavarone - 18:15 min - Italy

 

 

Best Original Score Short FIlm

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• Ancora un passo - Just one more step  - 6:29 min -  Italy 

• Legendary  - 19:34 min - The Netherlands 

• Hold On -  3:42 min  - USA

• ALL I NEED - 11:00 min - Armenia

• The Letter - 8:18 min - United Kingdom

• Morning Star - 25:00 min - Malta 

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Best Student Short Film

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• Ah-Ma: A Tale of Two Generations - Dir. Ying Chu - 15:36 min - Australia

• Calls - Dir. Brandon Keeton - 16:00 min - USA

• Where We Go Next - Dir. Camila Barandearan  - 16:34 min - Spain

• The Last Butterfly - Dir. Sizhuo Li - 15:00 min - USA

• Wenn Es So Sein Soll - Dir. D Anthony - 17:43 min - USA

• Anyway - Dir. Nicolas Maurin - 9:59 min - France

• ​Unsorted - Dir. Daniel Gönczy - 4:00 min - Switzerland

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Best Director Short Film

 

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• Dir. Stephanie Ruiz - Happy Anniversary - 22:02 min - USA

• Dir. Yael Arad Zafrir -  Alala High - 20:58 min - Israel

• Dir. Benjamin Van den Berghe - Unbearable  - 14:01 min - Belgium

• Dir. Mandi Lynn -  Finding Venus -- 16:00 min - New Zeland

• Dir. Camila Barandearan- Where We Go Next  - 16:34 min - Spain

• Dir. Leslie-Ann Coles - The Curtain - 15:11 min - Canada

• Dir. Alisa Selishchava - The perfect woman - 5:14 min - Spain

• Dir.  Augusta Palmer -  ORDER MY STEPS - 18:12 min - USA

• Dir. Jean-Michel Tari - DARK CELL - 25:00 min - France

• Dir. Mitch Yapko - Un Homme and a Lady - 10:08  - USA

• Dir. Katia Spivakova Saakiants - ALL I NEED  - 11:00 min - Armenia

 

 

Best Cinematography Short Film

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• Morning Star - 25:00 min - Malta 

• Humormàtic - 19min - Spain

• Easy  - 9:13 min - Spain

• Marzo - 22:00 min - Spain

• WHATEVER IT TAKES - 30:00 min - USA

• Oro - 15 min - Spain

• Bin Day - 8:00 min - Australia

• Tango to go - 14:17 min - Germany 

• ÀSAKA - 29:38 min - Spain

• DARK CELL  25:00 min - France

• Purgatory - 3:00 min - Czech Republic

• ALL I NEED - 11:00 min - Armenia

• Un Homme and a Lady -10:08  - USA

• In My Day - 16:06 min - United Kingdom

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Best Actress Short Film

 

• Larissa Bonaci - Morning Star - 25:00 min - Malta 

• Priyanka Bajaj Sibal - KATHAKAAR - 29:54 min - India

• Rita Jagpal-Mohan  - The Silent Treatment - 9:14 min - United Kingdom

• Eva Jakubovska - COLOR - 8:00 min - Spain

• Brianna J Sacry - LOOSED - 11:00 min - USA 

• Emma-Rose Thompson - LifeLine  - 15:00 min  - The Netherlands

• Yana Koroliova - Berdyans'k - 15:33 min - Ukraine 

• Cecilia Eguiarte - Mute - 17:06 min - Mexico

• Alexandra Lashkova - L + T - 17:58 min - Bulgaria

• Tanya Shpadi - The Maimed - 11:46 min - The Netherlands

• Tatiana Spivakova Saakiants - ALL I NEED  - 11:00 min - Armenia

• Leslie-Ann Coles - The Curtain - 15:11 min - Canada

• Carmen Molinar  - The perfect woman - 5:14 min - Spain

• Lauren Clancey - In My Day  - 16:06 min - United Kingdom

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Best Actor  Short Film 

 

• Nacho Guerreros - Cuando yo me muera - 19:00 min - Spain

• Dimitar Sulev - L + T - 17:58 min - Bulgaria

• Dragoș Nicolae Mihalcea -  Distalgia  - 10:40 min - Romania

• Ben Lamb - Morning Star - 25:00 min - Malta 

• Joep Sertons  - The Maimed - 11:46 min - The Netherlands

• Cody Alexander Curtis - Salt and Pepper - 14:41 min - USA

• Meletis Ilias - The Actors  - 24:49 min - Greece
• PALASH DUTTA - Thanks Mom - 23:21 min - India

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