Around International – Barcelona
January 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Pe San Ié – the Poet of Macau – Rosa Coutinho Cabral (PT)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Level Up – Stephane Benini (US-FR-JP)
BEST SHORT FILM : Cheat – Yeo Joon Han & Boris Kalaidjiev (CN)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : KRIM – Manuel Hüttner (AT)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : SMOTHERED – Terri Hanauer (US)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : Inviolable – The Fight for Human Rights – Angela Andersen (DE)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Spiral – Sofiene Mamdi (FR)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Giant Rooks – King Thinking – Sander Houtkruijer (DE)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Running at midnight – Li Jingjie (CN)
BEST ANIMATION : Playing Planet – JIAYI WANG (CN)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Maffy’s Jazz – Deniz Yuksel Abalıoğlu (TR) // Life Is Beautiful –
Taka Octz (JP)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Abroad – Enrique Suarez (US) //
Obsolete – Marco Bortolussi (IT)
BEST TRAILER : SIMURG – Emre Uğantaş (TR)
Around International – Paris
January 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Compost – Zadeh Mélanie (FR)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : IREZUMI – Masaaki Kato (JP)
BEST SHORT FILM : Layla’s Rain – Kit Wilson (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : DOWN – Ludovic Matthey / dir: Rzn Torbey (CH)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : The Hidden Meadow – Loris Di Giovanni (IT)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : The House of Lekeitio – Jasone Urgoitia Urrutia (ES)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : un/fold – Kylie Park (US – KR)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : The Void – Kaiser Jakob (AT)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Evermore – Lada Imamovic (FR-HR)
BEST ANIMATION : Hesar – Farnaz Ohadi – Nomadic Alternative (CA)
ARFF STAFF PICK : Mammoth – Jiamin Huang (CN)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Metanoia – Saimanish Prabhakar (AE)
BEST TRAILER: Story Of Convicts – Benjamin Sebire (FR)
Around International – Amsterdam
January 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : The Patagonia Triple Crown – Nomade Media (CL)
BEST SHORT FILM : Unnur – Chris Burkard (IS – US)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Salman Bin Hamad – A VISION OF PROMISE –
Eva Daoud (BH)
BEST DIRECTOR : Innocent Boy – Brock Cravy (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : the letter – Jiyoung Jung (KR)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Farewell to Poverty – Guanghua LU (CN) //
Notfa – Salem Hadchity (LB)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : There – Uldis Cipsts (LV) // Cathedrals – Benjamin Caro (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Felix’ Summer Box – Martijn Rijnberg (NL)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Men Discussing Their Feelings in an Emotionally Healthy Way –
Cas Mulder & Simon Becks (NL)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Orange – Jan Daniel (CZ) // Making Men [10′] – Antoine Panier (BE)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: Windshield – Bofan Luo (CN)
Around International – Berlin
January 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : Dynamite Soul Bambi – Takuya Matsumoto (JP)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : The Birthland – Proshoon Rahmaan (BD)
BEST SHORT FILM : kapara – Steven Hudson (AU)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : The Phantasmagoria of Offense: the male version –
Jess Irish (US)
BEST DIRECTOR : Der Makler – Samuel Mottaki (DE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Transfuge – Edward Swift / dir: Laurence Murphy (UK)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : <3 In 1.3 Billion> – Mengchen Liu (CN) // Talamanca –
Davide Marino (UK – CR)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Gently Down The Stream – Lipei “Allison” Yu (CN)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : blue earth – Petra Eischeid (DE)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Neutudum – Katja Leitgeb (SI)
ARFF STAFF PICK : Open Art Surgery – Katie Mackenzie (UK)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : ATTENTIONSPAM: The Ballad of Muhammad Chang – Kilo Watts (US)
Around International – Paris
February 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Yes, Virginia – Harvey Puttock (UK)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Agniyogana – Lower the head, Invoke the fire – Emma Balnaves (AU)
BEST SHORT FILM : Mantis – Hugo Fernández (MX)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Unforgettable – Minh Tran / dir: Luke Mullen (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : The pink bandana – Dinah Effoudou (GP)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : Coming Back Sunny – Noriko Yuasa (JP)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Caravan – Tibor Vona (HU)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : MIUOSH x Powroty – Alan Willmann & Michał Chmielewski (PL)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Told – Tai Rocha (PT)
BEST ANIMATION : Inside – Mariano – Russo (AR)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Tobi and the Turbobus – Verena Fels (DE) //
Sah Mata – Thomas Gailhard (FR)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Salman Bin Hamad – A VISION OF PROMISE –
Eva Daoud (BH)
BEST TRAILER: The Equilibrist with the star – Davide Campagna (IT)
Around International – Amsterdam
February 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : The Time to Leave，The Time to Bye – Liu Zhaoran (CN)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Merely Marvelous: The Dancing Genius of Gwen Verdon – Chris Johnson & Ken Bloom (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : Disconnected – Elles van Velzen (NL)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : 11,565 Kilometres Project – Beichen Zhang (US – CN)
BEST DIRECTOR : Alice and the Land that Wonders – Giulia Grandinetti (IT)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Existe! – Patricia Lopes / dir: Luca Zuberbühler (BE)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : “HIV SAVED MY LIFE” – Paul Edward Foulkes & Aaron Yamashita
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Shameless & More – Fausto Montanari (IT) //
Till Death Do Us Part – Insia Dariwala (IN)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : HELLO WORLD – Zann Gill (US)
BEST STUDENT FILM : VINCENT – Gabriele Di Sazio (US)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : GAMBIT – Brandon Ross (US) // Lunar Rhapsody – Luna Fang (CN)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: A New Chapter – Anthony Venitis (FR- GR)
BEST TRAILER : Witchwoods The Movie – Johnnie Hector (US)
Around International – Berlin
February 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : BABI – Wee Meng Chee (MY)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : The Patagonia Triple Crown – Nomade Media (CL)
BEST SHORT FILM : Wrap Me Up – Brittney Canda & Vincent Rene-Lortie (CA)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Maffy’s Jazz – Deniz Yuksel Abalıoğlu (TR)
BEST DIRECTOR : Compost – Zadeh Mélanie (FR)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Trespassers – Jason Almendinger / dir: Yamine Asha (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Digital Connection – Tarek Shayne Tabet (DE)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : Thank You for Patiently Waiting –
Max Marklund & Anders Jacobsson (SE)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : WIENERLAND – Jan Woletz & Stefan Polasek (AT)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Haiku – Martin Gerigk (DE – JP)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Told – Tai Rocha (PT)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : PRACTICES WITHOUT RETURN –
Miguel Angel Castillo García (ES)
BEST TRAILER : Making Peace – Judah Ray (US)
Around International – Paris
March 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Songs of Solomon – Arman Nshanian (AM)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Class Action Park – Chris Charles Scott & Seth Porges (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : Mommy’s Calf – Victoria Runtsova (RU)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : A New Chapter – Anthony Venitis (GR)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : thirst for peace – Alexandre Moretzsohn (BR)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : GAAYE HAMARI MATA HAI – Indian Cow – Shuja Ali (IN)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Incredible Machine GlassBody – Katarina Poljak (US)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : HoydeA – Lin Yu Feng (TW)
BEST STUDENT FILM : OCTOBER 25 – Camila Ortega & Ignacio Tapia (CL)
BEST ANIMATION : The silence within – Kevin Herrmann (DE)
ARFF STAFF PICK : As The Smoke Rises – Sharon Heigl (CA)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : UnderSee – Margie Kelk & Lynne Slater (CA)
BEST TRAILER: The Butterfly Cage – Hélèna Serra & Maxime Sabisik (FR)
Around International – Amsterdam
March 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : The Fabulist – Frank Ruy (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : A Warm Orange Color – Cecilia Kim (US)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : The Other Side – Mountain climber –
Rajeev Thottippully (AE)
BEST DIRECTOR : Wives Of The Skies – Honey Lauren (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Digital Connection – Carola Rodriguez Sanchez /
dir: Tarek Shayne Tabet (DE)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Sockeye Salmon. Red fish –
Dmitriy Shpilenok & Vladislav Grishin (US)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : Soulm8 – Hasan Bener (TR)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Haiku – Martin Gerigk (DE – JP)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: The Incredibly Short Life of Peter Panties –
Daniel Abril (US)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Cerise – Raphaël Dirani (US)
ARFF BEST TRAILER: Falling in Love: A Coming of Age Selfie Film –
Barbara Becker Holstein (US)
Around International – Berlin
March 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : The Sunflower – Fyodor Petrukhin (RU)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : ‘Ravne 2’ – Most Unique Energy park in Europe –
Dr. Sam Osmanagich (BA)
BEST SHORT FILM : Color of a Nation – Raja Valluru (IN)
BEST DIRECTOR : Duality Dream – Tarek Sursock (CH)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Rarepublic – Marcin Magiera / dir :Tomasz Dobosz (PL)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Sockeye Salmon. Red fish –
Dmitriy Shpilenok & Vladislav Grishin (US)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Instant Doctor – Youth & Diogo Gameiro (US – BR) //
Juicy Girl – MJ KIM (KR)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Elderflower Syrup With Soda Water – Tibor Vona (HU) //
Dead Horse – Albert Rudnitsky (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : lucky day – Edward Bottger (US)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Air of Elba – Michael Monni & Matteo Sardi (IT)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : A CASTLE IN BROOKLYN, KING ARTHUR –
Tyler A. Chase (US)
BEST TRAILER : Witchwoods The Movie – Johnnie Hector (US)
Around International – Barcelona
April 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : One of the Missing – Gábor Szentiványi (HU)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Untie Me – Magi Avila (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : SAM – Ludovica Musumeci (UK)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Happy Sad Face – Heart Shield – dp:Steve Moreno /
dir: Rawn Erickson II (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Ivan’s Game – Tomislav Zaja (HR) //
I Brought You HURRAY!!! – Kirill Papakul (BY)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Dream – Maxi Witrak & Jose Muro (US) //
Lust Day – Wei Jian (CN)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : The Cellular Life of Stella Chondriac –
Liz Charky & Catherine Correa (US)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : ONUKA — ZENIT – Eugene Filatov (UA)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTIONS : Luna – Júlia Bagaria (ES) //
Anunnaki – Ernesto Rowe (AG)
BEST ANIMATION : Strange Days – Jaak De Digitale & Nick Timmermans (BE)
ARFF STAFF PICK : Sunflower Spaceship 1 – Vasil Goranov a.k.a. Peppe George (BG)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : What’s Going On – Teremoana Rapley (NZ)
BEST TRAILER : Family Secrets – Julien Dalle (UK – FR)
Around International – Paris
April 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : It Can’t (be) – Luca Vecchi (IT)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Succumbing – Alla Gopsha (AU – RU)
BEST SHORT FILM : Terminus – Jan Pool (NL)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : November/December – dp: Vittoria Campaner /
dir: Elenie Chung (TT)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Lyari – Survival of the Fringes – Luc Bellon (PK – FR) //
Why We Love War – Pankaja Brooke (UK – VN)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Lake Malawi – Lucy – Antonín Hrabal (CZ) //
Diary of a beginner – Liza Del Sierra (FR)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : If We Had Tomorrow – Anastasiya Yevchenko (UA)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Devotchka “Done With Those Days” –
Marcin Biegunajtys & Nick Urata (US)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Barney Lee: My Long Walk Around Britain – Matt Colin Evans (UK)
BEST ANIMATION : Lucky Mud – Erin Pollock (US)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Mixed Movie – Vasco Diogo (PT) //
“Hi-Wheel” – Joe Hoster & Edouard Lichtenauer (UK – CH)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : DIY CZARNOBYL – De Zaklika (FR – DE)
BEST TRAILER: Dogsville – Rosvita Dransfeld (CA – IT – NL)
Around International – Amsterdam
April 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : Sweet Deadly Dreams – Walter Stewart (US)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : No Bone: Scars of Survival – Marc Schiller (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : 1 You 2 Me – Lunkai Wu (CN)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Voiceless – Maite Hundt (DE – ZA)
BEST DIRECTOR : ALINA – 2020 – Rami Kodeih (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Mathilda – dp: Ai Chung / dir:Yaqi Tao (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : POETRY: The Transcendence of Words – Sofia Kalantzi (GR)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Moriah – Nathan Tape (US) //
Road to Hollywood Through Bollywood – Oleg Blinov (US – IN)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : You’s 100th Birthday – Ringo Ye (CN)
BEST STUDENT FILM : The silence within – Kevin Herrmann (DE)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Amazing Grace – Christopher Maggard (US) //
Gigi El Amoroso – Sam van den Heuvel (ES)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : After – Jasmijn Schrofer (NL)
ARFF BEST TRAILER : Tomorrow – Wisher Zhu (DE)
Around International – Berlin
April 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Boundless Life – Stefan Rainer (AT)
BEST SHORT FILM : Appetite – Xuemeng Li & Katrin Larissa Kasper (UK)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY – Día A Día – Jan Philip Baldus & Tobias Kraus (DE – BO)
BEST DIRECTOR : Just Be – Sarah Koteles (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : In It Together – dir & dp : Filip Tellander (ES – BR)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Mustang Saviors – David Glossberg (US)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : dream politik-19 – Christophe Karabache (FR)
WSCREEN INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : The One and Only Jewish Miss America –
David Arond (US) // Out Of Options – ChenJiang Dong (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Blue Unnatural – Marco Bolognesi (IT)
BEST STUDENT FILM : SONG – Sid Patwa (US)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Blind Spot – Axel Perenz (DE)
BEST TRAILER : Synthetic love – Vasyl Moskalenko (UA)
Around International – Barcelona
May 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Mambo Man – Mo Fini & Edesio Alejandro (CU)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : The Myth of Street Artists of Barcelona –
Cristhian Felipe Munoz Maldonado (PT – ES)
BEST SHORT FILM : The Favor – Bruno Henry (FR)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Bucket List – dp: David McKinnar & dir: Angeline Wu (AU)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Lyari – Survival of the Fringes – Luc Bellon (FR – PK)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : Black Heart, Red Hands – Russell Southam (AU)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Panem et Circenses – Sofi (TR)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Highland Home – Dan Schaefer (US)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTION : Just Be – Sarah Koteles (US)
BEST ANIMATION : The Train to Qinling – Shir Baron (US)
ARFF STAFF PICK : The Gene Explained For Those Without Microscopes –
Created by: Baker & Hill (US)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Voiceless – Maite Hundt (DE – ZA)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : lucky day – skjmmjngtonrjde. (US)
Around International – Amsterdam
May 2020 Selection
BEST SHORT FILM : Jacob’s Blessing – Tom Ruddock (UK)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Sun of the Soil – Joe Penney (US – ML)
BEST DIRECTOR : TMARAMRLT – Egor Barkanov (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Dear Thirty Year Old Me – dp: Aljosa Korencan & dir: Vid Valic
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : WADAYAZE – Grohmann, Dieter Michael (BE)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : malware – Cristina Beviá (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Al Ga’aila – Abdullah Alhunayan (KW)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTION : What’s Going On – Teremoana Rapley (NZ)
BEST STUDENT FILM : ZUL – Alex J. G. Tan (UK – MY)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : S4S – Alice Manieri (IT)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : EXTRA – Kioumras Ahmadi (IR)
ARFF BEST TRAILER : Alexander The Macedonian – Takis Vogopoulos (GR)
Around International – Berlin
May 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : “Rony Roller Circus, Life & Magic” –
Giacomo Aurelio Iacolenna (IT)
BEST SHORT FILM : SIGNS – Jason Satterlund (US)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : ROLLER GIRLS BEIRUT – Rene Odgaard (DK – LB)
BEST DIRECTOR : Every Day You Play – Mathieu Stevens (BE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Alone Across The Arctic –
dp: Jeremy Benning & Martin Wojtunik & dir: Francis Luta (CA)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : THE FIRST WORD – Artak Serovani-Oganian (RU – AM)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Saint Laurent – New Fragrance Libre – Chuqing Wang (US)
WSCREEN INTERNATIONAL MENTION : What a Sunny Day – Yuan Scarlett Wang (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : METAMORPH – Alexis Karl (US)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Ole, Benni und der Rest des Universums – Anna Ludwig (DE)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : I Bleed – Leah Manasseh (US – CA – AE – LB)
ARFF STAFF PICK : Wonderful Things – Liam Bewel (UK)
Around International – Barcelona
June 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : The Kinjiku – Jeff Johnson (US)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : From Kurils With Love – Taylor Reese (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : Severyanin – Fyodor Petrukhin (RU)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Chantage – Richard J. Arens (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : OMONIMIA – Mentor Selmani (AL) //
When Mom is Gone – Zeynep Gulru Kececiler (TR)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Little Stories – José Menéndez (MX) //
After Life Vacation – Alberto Belli (ES)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Align – R.E. Wolfe (UK)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Circle of Salt – Kirill Novikov (RU)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTIONS : All alone – Aleksandras Brokas (LT) //
The World’s Best Film – Joshua Belinfante (AU)
BEST ANIMATION : The Cafe – R.F. Georgy (US)
ARFF STAFF PICK : The Music Team – Herman Faustus Chatman Pt. 2 – Jonathan Croft (CA)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : White Lamb – Yutong Liu (US) // Rick’s Potential –
Armando D. Hernández (VE)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Ill-legitimate’s DOO-WOP – Filippo Petrucci (CA)
BEST TRAILER: Australian Dreams – Andrea Natale (AU – IT)
Around International – Amsterdam
June 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM: Mambo Man – Mo Fini & Edesio Alejandro (CU)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: The perfect motion – Xavier de Lauzanne (FR – KH)
BEST SHORT FILM : Sour Cream – Irina Vinogradova (RU)
BEST DIRECTOR : Music Box – Simon Richards (UK)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : City On the Hill – Adam Fleishman / dir: Xavier Underwood (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language – Amel Tresnjic (AU)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Prophets, Teachers and Kings – Devin A. Rice (US) //
End Game – Bruce H Gill (UK)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : False Teeth – Mun bong seob & lee goni (KR)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTION : Diagnosing Healthcare – Paul Roberts (US)
ARFF STAFF PICK : As the Wave Broke … (DE)
BEST STUDENT FILM : TRANSIT – Kartikay D Pawar (IN)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : RUN – Dora Szűcs (HU) //
Nunofyrbeeswax – Tormento – Maren Sosada (DE)
ARFF BEST TRAILER : Beyond The Inexpressible – Kirill Ustyuzhanin (UA)
Around International – Berlin
June 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : 5MEO – Boris Jansch – Charles Turley –
Frank McCaughey (UK)
BEST SHORT FILM : Kay – Hironori Kujiraoka (JP)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Coronavirus Pandemic – Rafael de Amorim (UK)
BEST DIRECTOR : Indian Pink – Seewoo Kim (KP)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Carnival – Jiahao Zhang / dir: Lia Wang (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Ball of Confusion – Cylk Cozart (US) //
BEAR-LIKE – Roman Droux (CH)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : TOWER OF GLASS – MANUEL NOGUEIRA (BR) //
Season of Aeon – Kassandra Lim (SG)
WSCREEN INTERNATIONAL MENTION : MFKZT – Matthew Farrell (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Life is a two-way dream – Gjert Rognli (NO)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Girl in a Van – Galina Popovic (UK)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Alma’s Pond – Roger Lay, Jr. (US)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : RISS – Peter Hamblin (UK) // 5×7 – Michele Citoni (IT)
BEST TRAILER : The Wanderlust of Apu – Subhrajit Mitra (IN)
Around International – Barcelona
July 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : La Belleza de los Cuerpos. – Rodrigo M. Malmsten (BE – IT)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Ball of Confusion – Cylk Cozart (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : Yield – Joel Stockman (SE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Gold – dp: Sam Motamedi & dir: Gi Gonzales (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Sandcastles – Sabine Bou Jaoude (LB) //
It happened one Thursday – Irene Tassembedo (BF)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : ATOME – Verdée (FR) // Hami – Annasofia Solano (IT)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : A Matter of Perspective – Gerda Leopold (AT)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Metamorphosis – Marta Romero (ES)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTION : Pandemia – Katerina Giannakopoulou (DE)
BEST ANIMATION : Je ne regrette rien – Fiona Bavinton (UK)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Southern Burbank – Boyang Li (US) //
AY ANTONIA – Antonia Ingrey (AR)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Dinner Blue – Yifu Li (CN)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Pendulum – Amir Ganjavie & Mostafa Azizi (CA)
Best Trailer : Vilmem – The Tribute / Ivan Tracz & Rafael Ribas (BR)
Around International – Paris
July 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : The Ice Cubes – Sara Dufossé (BE)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Shizico on Art: Freeny at Close House – Shizico Yi (UK)
BEST SHORT FILM : Why We Are Unhappy in Cities – Zhao Gang (CN)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : HOUSEHOLD DEMONS – dp: Zach Stoltzfus & dir:John Gray
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : The Art of the Sword – Cassidy Cash (US) //
Destiny – Alberto Bellavia (IT)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : If you love her, let her go – Ilan Zerrouki (FR) //
Brok – Julien Dewitte (BE)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Life is a two-way dream – Gjert Rognli (NO)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Parenthèses – Benoyt Loussert & Quentin Maillot (FR)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Tanuki And Tangerine – Yibo Xu (CN)
BEST ANIMATION : Stick To Manual – Christian Antonini & Tanice Arnold (US)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Helium – Bishop Lloyd (US) // The McHenry Trial – Ken Sagoes (US)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Nadirah: Coal woman –
Negar Elodie Behzadi & Kate Jessop (UK)
BEST TRAILER: Blossom – Lampo Leong (MO)
Around International – Amsterdam
July 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : Jungle Is My Garden – Enrico Alexander Giordano (UK – FR – ET)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story – Nadia Tass (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : Rag Doll – Andrew Yanni (US – NL)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : The Untold Story Of Otto Warmbier: What Happened In North Korea? – Klaus Scherer (DE- US – JP)
BEST DIRECTOR : The traffic separating device – Johan Palmgren (SE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : The Macro World – Kent Yeung (HK – ID)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Saint Clair Cemin, Psyche – Svetlana Cemin (US – CN – BR – CH) // Aunty Sudha Aunty Radha Tanuja Chandra (IN)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : The Dancing Kettle – Takeshi Kanabayashi (JP) //
Fourth River – RK DreamWest (IN)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : ATTENTIONSPAM –
Kilo Watts & The Drone & Ahhtension Planet Arts (US)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTIONS : Alaska Long Hunters – Mark Rose (US) //
The Eve – Luca Machnich (IT)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Mrs Dalloway / Pani Profesorowa – Jola Kudela (PL) //
Looking Glass – Joslyn Rose Lyons (US)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Spiderweb for shelter and hunt- Mariia Lukianchuk (UA)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Good Koreans – Quy Gia Pham (US) //
What remains of me – Nisreen Alsbeihi (YE – JO)
BEST TRAILER : TARAC WIPPP – Gallospole (US)
Around International – Berlin
July 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : Day After Day – Fabian Rigaux (BE)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Finding Courage – Kay Rubacek (US – CA -CN – FR – NZ)
BEST SHORT FILM : In Hope Of Nothing – Peter Hamblin (UK)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : The Cultivators – Yuzhong Ge (CN)
BEST DIRECTOR : The Volunteer – Joe Simon (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : The Boy Who Cried Mud – dp: Brad Frances & dir: Bradley Murnane (AU)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Change The World – Angelena Bonet (AU – CA) //
The Home of Snails – Patxi Uriz Domezáin (ES)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Tanuki And Tangerine – Yibo Xu (CN) // MOVE_ –
Marwen Ben Cheikh (TN)
WSCREEN INTERNATIONAL MENTION : 38 Minutes – Paul Lacovara (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Dark Forces – Anna Jordan Project (DE)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Lucid dreams – Iana Gorokhova (DE)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : PROBASHI – Sayef Zaman (US)
ARFF STAFF PICK : Piz Regolith – Yannick Mosimann (CH – AT – DE- IT)
Around International – Barcelona
August 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Angel Of Beggars – Zhu Qing (CN)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : The Foreign Everyday – Sharon On & Laura Söllner (DE)
BEST SHORT FILM : The Volunteer – Joe Simon (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : THE LAST MEAL –
dp: Marcis Abele & dir: Bingi Bongi a.k.a. Mārcis Lācis (LV)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : // Regression Beyond Death – Fermamdo Sayagp (US – VE) //
7OD – Everon Jackson Hooi (NL)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Smoking Gun – Pablo Bobadilla (US) //
A girl and a gun – P.E.Joubert (FR)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Life is a two-way dream – Gjert Rognli (NO)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Cue Introspection – Joanne Postlewaite (UK)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTIONS : Green Flake – Mauli Junior Bonner (US) //
Metanoia – Ashley De Grandy (US)
BEST ANIMATION : REDEMPTION – Seora Hong (US)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Almost Blue – Oscar Simmons (UK) // Twisted – Batuhan Ibrahim (MK)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Surrendering Nina – Jeremy Jung (US)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Manasanamaha -Deepak reddy (IN) //
Blue – Angel Quel (DE)
BEST TRAILER : MAYA the Sacrifice – Paulo Bertola & Maria Brenda (US)
Around International – Paris
August 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Green Flake – Mauli Junior Bonner (US)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Oneland Dharrmbungi Marrangigi – Susie Agoston (AU)
BEST SHORT FILM : Killing Small Animals – Marcus Svanberg (SE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : EGG – dp & dir: Laurence Hills (UK)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Slava’s Journey: Secrets of Snow –
Steve Haisman & Clive Howard (UK-BR-FR-RU)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : MADJIGUI – Maïmouna N’DIAYE (BF) //
Chilli Pepper – Frankie Li (TW)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Despotic Tendencies – Gavin Jarrett & Anton (AU)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Black Metal Romance – Joey Danger (US)
BEST STUDENT FILM : The Caretaker – Isabella Danzi (US)
BEST ANIMATIONS : A Big Crush – Youting Lin (US) // Girl and Robot – Joe Loftus (IE)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Chopsticks – J. Basil (US) // Permission – Sian Reeves (UK)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Raphael – Aretha Iskandar (DE)
BEST TRAILER: Time Stamped 64 – Jennifer Treur (AU)
Around International – Berlin
August 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : DARIA – Matěj Pichler (CZ)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Alaska Long Hunters – Mark Rose (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : Skin Deep – Justin Giddings & Ryan Welsh (US)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : What remains of me – Nisreen Alsbeihi (YE)
BEST DIRECTOR : VULTURES – Claudio Borrelli (BR)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : The Master – dp: Kuan Cao & dir: Jinyang Zhang (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : AL DI LA’ DEL FIUME – Angelo Petruccetti (IT)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : FIG – Rami Cohen (US) //
Homesick – Samantha Shay (US – DK – IS)
WSCREEN INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Gold – Gi Gonzales (US) //
Art in Crisis – Florian Gleich (KH)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : The Midnight Trip – Josh Brandao (US)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : Kosher – Gideon Imagor (IL) // Dear Father…- Maren Klakegg (NO)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Vizədənt – Alexis Karl (US) //
Bubble – Haonan Wang (CN)
BEST TRAILER : Til Life Do Us Part – Aaron Goldenberg (US)
Around International – Barcelona
September 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : CHAINS :: Barbara Ohana – Henrique Sauer (BR)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Running Through Life – Craig Bingham (UK)
BEST SHORT FILM : NATURALLY – Dimitrios Stasinopoulos (BE – GR)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Alice and the Land that Wonders – Giulia Grandinetti (IT)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Home a place of belonging – Yantra de Vilder (AU) //
Over-Flow : Elizabeth Ramjit (TT)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : Genesis – Sebastián Sigal (AR)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : YELLO WORLD – Zann Gill (US)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : COMPLICATION – Pere Sala Bastardes (ES)
WSCREEN INTERNATONAL MENTION : VULTURES – Claudio Borrelli (BR)
BEST ANIMATION : LEA’S SECRET – Rico Gutierrez (PH)
BEST STUDENT FILM : I Blue It. – David W Tang (US)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Katharina Nuttall : Lethe – Albin Biblom (SE)
BEST TRAILER : “Behind the Name SHAKESPEARE: Power, Lust, Scorn & Scandal” –
Robin Phillips (US)
Around International – Paris
September 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : VORTEX – L-Shan (IR – TR)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Life on Wheels – Transportation For a New Urban Century –
David Hodge & Hi-Jin hodge (US – CA – NL – ES – PT – SE)
BEST SHORT FILM : The Golden Pond : Valérian Denis
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Mountain Of Light – dp: Danile Lillie & dir: Aashish Gadhvi (UK)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Libya: The Infernal Trap –
Julie Dungelhoeff & Catherine Norris Trent & Abdallah Malkawi (FR – LY)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Murder Bury Win – Michael Lovan (US) //
Gloria – Felipe Vellasco (BR)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Alice and the Land that Wonders – Giulia Grandinetti (IT)
BEST MUSIC VIDEOS : #an solo – Laura Manson & Henry Gates (PE) //
Kintsugi – Henry Gates (PE)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : Coney Island, August – Thea Brooks (US) //
Naam Kya Hai? – Tejas Shukul (IN)
BEST ANIMATIONS : Life at Oranjehotel – Studio Motoko (NL) //
Mechamorphosis – Bowen Tan (CN)
WSCREEN INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Long Night – Marjorie Galluccio (FR) //
Hunger – Natascha Vavrina (CH)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Story – Victor Maslyaev (PT) //
Ritornello – Louis Hegarty Lovett (FR)
BEST TRAILER: INVISIBLE HAND – Joshua B. Pribanic & Melissa A. Troutman (US)
Around International – Berlin
September 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : COLD CALM – Tyna Ezenma (NG)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Kiss the Ground – Josh Tickell & Rebecca Tickell (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : BALLERINA – Kristian Gianfreda (IT)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Saving Earth: Turkey’s Wildlife Corridor – Abed Ahmed (TR)
BEST DIRECTOR : Paul Keller – Stille im Schrei – Axel Loh (DE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : The river will carry them – dp: Chris Song & dir: Keyi Zhang (CN)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Unguarded – Simonetta D’Italia Weiner (BR – PT) //
Weightless – Dominik Rüedi & Miguel Burger (CH)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : PRAIZE – Thomas Goggans (US) // A Home for Curiosities – Galla Borowski (DE)
WSCREEN INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Audition Room 2 – Jette Newell (US) //
What I Didn’t Say – Michele Bianchi (IT)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : zwtral – zwtral (US) //
Looking for a new place to begin – Henrique Sauer (BR)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : Lilith – Galla Borowski (DE) // Shine & Shade (IN)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Between Heaven and Earth – Zenon Kristen (DE) //
Pink Noise – Ben Spillane (IE)
BEST TRAILER : Starfish – Alicia Buckner (US)
Around International – Barcelona
October 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Vinny Mancuso’s Rules for Good Business – Spartan Daggenhurst (US)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : SanDance! A Journey to the Heart of San Culture –
Richard Wicksteed (ZA)
BEST SHORT FILM : CYCLONE – Austin Tsung-Fu Chang (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : The Way That I Am –
dp: Stefano Ceccarelli & dir: Kaleigh Fitzgerald (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Last Call for Tomorrow – Gary Null & Valerie Van Cleve (US) //
The Roost – Jesse Koester (JP)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : DEEP BLUE – Carolin Gödeke (DE) // First Date – Abi Muir (AU)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Strange Nostalgia – Alex Proyas (AU)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : TIME IS GOD – Pepo Alfaro & Elena Gutierrez & Pablo Garrido (ES)
WSXA INTERNATONAL MENTION : About The Fire On Rabbi Nissim Street –
Matan Galin (IL)
BEST ANIMATIONS : 《farewell》 – QinYang (CN) //
In My Particular Case – Chico Jofisan (UY)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Elong E’Nabe – Niels Devlieghere (BE)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Bacon – Christopher Farmer (US) //
SAPIENS – Francisco Palacios Reyes (CL)
BEST TRAILER : Euphorium: Genesis -Cory Rowe (US)
Around International – Paris
October 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : 10 Photographs – Brandon Jordan (FR – CA)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : THINGS THAT MOVE – Ben Kreibich (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : The two missing hours – Jean Claude Thibaut (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : The Birdcage –
dp: Stanislav Ambartsumov & dir: Alexander Ivanov (RU)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Deals and Visions – Christian Machacek (US – FR – DE – AT) // Narstalgia – Robert Chang Lun Chang Chien (TW)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Movie Match – Neil Toussaint (US) // LIMPIADORA – Israel Remess (MX)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : come and Go – Atefeh Kheirabadi & Mehrad Sepahnia (IR) // SEXUAL – Yumi Sonoda (CA – JP)
BEST MUSIC VIDEOS : House of Trumps – Marc Bachmann & Simon Steuri (CH)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : LE CHOIX – Sarah Kasmi (BE) // Le voyeuriste – Nicolas Dozol (FR)
BEST ANIMATIONS : Pas désolé – Julien Peronnet (FR) // Bench – Rich Webber (UK)
WSXA INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Used and Borrowed Time – Sophia Romma (US) // Monkey Beach – Loretta Todd (CA)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Audition Room 2 – Jette Newell (US) //
The Nameless Call – Inside Costa Rica – Wow Tapes (IT)
BEST TRAILER: Starfish – Alicia Buckner (US)
Around International – Amsterdam
October 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Psycho Corpsie – Steve McGuire (US)
BEST SHORT FILM : Lady Godiva – Dale Johnson (US)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Cheyenne – Rich Underwood (US)
BEST DIRECTOR : Bad Suns – Kevin Ryan (IE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Flesh is Heir To – dp: Nicola Raggi & dir: Dale Johnson (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Life on Wheels – Transportation for a new urban century – David Hodge & Hi-Jin hodge (SE – US – NL – CA – ES – PT)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Rán – Fjolnir Baldursson & Co director Baldur Smári Ólafsson (IS)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : The Committal – Tom Lock Griffiths (UK)
WSXA INTERNATONAL MENTIONS : Hacked – Uldouz Wallace (US) // Rom An – Oguzhan Yıldız (TR)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : This Thing – Tiana Dueck (CA) //
Dorothea and the Myotragus – Núria Abad & Marta Hierro (UK – ES)
BEST STUDENT FILM : 90 Minutes Without Meat – Dan Botterill (UK)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Like Fireworks, Like Yellow Roses – Chao Wang (CN)
BEST TRAILER : Was I Next ? The Sean Cribbin Story – Craig Huckerby (CA)
Around International – Berlin
October 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : The Saxaul – Zhang Jieyong (CN)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Tokyo Banana – Fumito Fushi (JP)
BEST SHORT FILM : A Blossom In the Night – Tayo Amos (US)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Tolerance – Nasser Aldhaheri (AE)
BEST DIRECTOR : Checkpoint Berlin – Dimitris Kravvaritis (GR – DE)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Him and Her – dp & dir: Daria Geller (IL)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : ONELAND DHARRMBUNGI MARRANGIGI – Susie Agoston (AU) // the Star of Light Cone – Mengxin He (CN)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Beer-tastic! The Series – Christian Machacek (AT) //
The Shepherd – Yiannis Stravolaimos (GR)
WSXA INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : UMOYA – Jason Sterling (US) //
Home a place of belonging – Yantra de Vilder (AU)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Seven Wishes – Karolina Bomba (FR)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : Yard Kings – Vasco Alexandre (UK) //
Shine & Shade – Partho Gupte (IN)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : POSSESSED – Michael Zara (US) //
New Zealand. Slides of Life – Andrii Andreiev (UA – NZ)
BEST TRAILER : In the Reds – Cory Dean Ford (US)
Around International – Barcelona
November 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Vagabonds – Philippe Dajoux (FR)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Khamid & Zulfiya – Ruslan Saliev (UZ)
BEST SHORT FILM : Nana’s Bridge – Chili Chang (TW)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : INSIDE PRORA – dp: Marc Nordbruch & dir: Nico Weber (DE)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti –
Cahal McLaughlin (UK – HT)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Under The Surface – Kai Z Feng (US) //
PLATFORM – Terence Mcglade& Hayden Currie (CA)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : A walk in the forest – Johanne Chagnon (CA) //
Taken House – Gili Shaanan (IL)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : La domenica Delle Salme – Lucian Alexandrov (RO)
WSXA INTERNATONAL MENTION : The Breakdown – David Codeglia (US) //
Dormo Poco e Sogno Molto…- Paolo Santamaria (IT)
BEST ANIMATION : Tricked – Mengyuan Guo & Naicheng Liu & Suhn Young Chung (US)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : Narstalgia – Robert Chang Lun Chang Chien (UK) //
The Leaving Room – Aly Rose (CN)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : I’m Still Dreaming – Jessyka Lapierre (CA) //
Lawson Hull – College Town – Angus Bell Young (AU)
BEST TRAILER : Yours Sincerely – Craig Bingham (UK)
Around International – Paris
November 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Tumba Catimba – Daniel Piñeros (US)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : Tonton Manu – Patrick Puzenat (FR)
BEST SHORT FILM : Remember the kindness – Ben Corrrea (FR)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : The 13th Member – dp: Benjamin Berton & dir: Lotfaï Bouri (FR)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Con el Tango – Judith Albrecht (DE – FR – AR – IL – DK)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Catcher in the Rye – Ryan Cassata (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : FILM ME – Ed Picard (FR) //
L’Heure Esquise Carlo Guttadauro (IT)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Anat & Shuzin – The Most Beautiful Little Girl In The World –
Guy Nahum Lëvy (IL)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : Going to see Marie – Alexandra Clercy (FR)
BEST ANIMATIONS : Armor Man – Alex Glawion (DE) // Lion Dance – Yu Zhong (CN)
WSXA INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : SYMBIOSIS – Nacci Alberto (IT)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : KNOCK – Marcel Zyskind (DK) //
In My Particular Case – Chico Jofisan (UY)
BEST TRAILER: In the Reds – Cory Dean Ford (US)
Around International – Amsterdam
November 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : The Skin Walker – Martyn le Roux (ZA)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Out of Chaos, an Artist’s Journey in Haiti –
Pascal Giacomini (US – HT)
BEST SHORT FILM : Amy From Outer Space – Eric Urbiztondo (US)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : SEEKING ALINE – Rokhaya Marieme Balde (SN -CH)
BEST DIRECTOR : The Colour of Spring – Paul Andrew Kimball (CA)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Rán – Fjolnir Baldursson & Baldur Smári Ólafsson (IS)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : LEA’S SECRET – Rico Gutierrez (PH)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : The Sleepless – Kami Sadraei (US) //
Wahtever You Want It To Be – Ijichi Takuro (CN)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Lore – Celine Simpson (CA) //
Unflinching – Celine Simpson (CA)
WSXA INTERNATONAL MENTIONS : Listen to See – Lingyan Huang (CN)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Paracide – Paul Heron (UK)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Green Luck – Emanuele Daga (US) // Free Falling – Jake Cameron (US)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : La Schema – Alex Bowling & Stephen Byrum (US)
BEST TRAILER : F.E.A.R: Face Everything And Rise – Manny Bains & Serge Velbovets (CA)
Around International – Barcelona
December 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : MARELD – Ove Valeskog (SE)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : A Beehive in My Heart – Kjersti Vetterstad (NO – ES)
BEST SHORT FILM : OBSESSION – Ariana Malik (US)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Pink Belt Mission – dp: Jon Lile – dir: John McCrite (US – IN)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Reborn – Sam Travis & Ana Garcia Rico (UK – UG)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Atbai’s fight – Adilkhan Yerzhanov (KZ) //
PANDA – Jacob Fangel Løgstrup (DK)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Fish also drown – Robert Yun & Anton Chikishev (IL)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Never Ever – Evgenii Bakirov (RU)
WSXA INTERNATONAL MENTIONS : Under Influence – Jared L Marsh (US) //
Unflinching – Celine Simpson (CA)
BEST ANIMATION : Rain Like Tears – Irina Drozdova-Schastlivtseva & Liza Skvo (US)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : Pretty Boy – Liu Qianhao (CN) //
when the light comes – SIQI CAI (UK)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : By the Grace of… – Dylan Reid (US) //
TRANS – Naeri Do (KP)
STAFF PICK : Major Moment – The Flood – Tyler Ayers & Andrey Borzykin (US)
BEST TRAILER : Maria the Korean Bride: Ghost Wedding – Maria Yoon (US – CN – TW)
Around International – Paris
December 2020 Selection
BEST DIRECTOR : Lady Godiva – Dale Johnson (US)
BEST DOCUMENTARY : The talking ear – Hassan Lakhdar (CH)
BEST SHORT FILM : Love Letter – George W. Orange III
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : INTACT – dp: Maxime Sabin & dir: Loris Hantzis (FR)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : SELFISH –
SANTINI Stéphane & ANDRE Géraldine & HOENIG Laurence & BERNARD Pierre-Yves (CH)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Soft light, Brilliant light – Pearl Gluck (US) //
Tamar Rising – Alexandra Tebano (US)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : The Prisoner – Eszter Parragi (DE)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Who Calls The Trains – David Gollob & Sarah Colombani (FR)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Feel-Good – Danielle Silkes (US)
BEST ANIMATIONS : Oldboy’s Apples – Brad Hock (US) //
My Babushka Smokes a Pipe – Ivan Pavlov (RU)
WSXA INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : morgxn – PUMP THE BREAK – Zack Bass (US) // Parallel – Jiwon Choi (US – KR)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Anna Rosenberg – Michele Moscatelli
BEST TRAILER: Baroque – Valentin Disant – Valentin Disant & Sasi Fauzi (FR)
Around International – Amsterdam
December 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : The Man in the Cafe – Benito Gutmacher (DE)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Tonton Manu – Patrick Puzenat & Thierry Dechilly (FR)
BEST SHORT FILM : ALI’S REALM – Mario Torres Jr (US)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : My Family Trees – Roshi Givechi (US)
BEST DIRECTOR : Training Day – Tolulope Ajayi (NG)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : La Flamme Rouge – The Maze Brothers (US)
ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Sin – Dimphy van Vilsteren (CA)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Into the Abyss – dir & dp: Waleed Sokkar (US) //
Driven – Keir Beck (AU)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Dots for Dark Days – Mimi Garrard (US)
WSXA INTERNATONAL MENTIONS : Caroline & Jim – Arjan Gebraad (NL)
ARFF STAFF PICKS : Narrow Dreams, Rock and Roll in District prison in Belgrade –
Igor Coko & Lea Vahrusev (RS)
BEST STUDENT FILM : Echthaar – Dominic Kubisch (AT)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Stonewalled – Raya Nyx (DE)
BEST TRAILER : Faith, Hoop, & Charity – Roman Jaquez (US – CA)
Around International – Berlin
December 2020 Selection
BEST FEATURE FILM : Roe v. Wade – Nick Loeb & Cathy Allyn (US)
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : SOLDIERS: Six Stories, Six Wars –
Tony Villani (CZ – US – IT)
BEST SHORT FILM : One Last Job – Sophia Vester (DE)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Bésame Mucho & the East Side Gallery Berlin – Gilbert Brüning (DE)
BEST DIRECTOR : The 13th Member – Lotfaï Bouri (FR)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Life is Now – dp: Jakub Giza – dir: Michael Coppola (UK)
ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Remember the kindness – Ben Correra (FR)
ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Ganush: The Pursuit of 5 Stars – Vseant Nath (US) //
Hell’s Tuesday – Liza Pnin (US)
WSXA INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Othello21 – Ben Love (UK) // ORION – Lukas Galle (AT)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : // FILMTRIPS – Bill Hayward (US)
BEST STUDENT FILMS : The End of Innocence – Daniel Best Arias (CH)
ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : After Hours – Joe Matthews (US)
ARFF TRAILER : MarriageFit – Rob DiNinni & Jeffrey Palmer (US)