We are glad to announce the shortlisted nominees with love!
ARFF & WSXA Amsterdam 2024 is curated as an In-person Award Event and
Online Screenings this year. All the nominees may have 2 Types of Earlybird tickets
>>🎫Tickects Are Here🎫 <<
*****
Online Screenings are free for all the nominees, Spotlight Tickets are
optional promotion to collect extra votes by social media before the screenings
It’s possible to check the Winner Spotlights here & Highlights
>> @aroundfilms <<
Fest Regards
| BEST DIRECTOR | BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY |
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| Stork of Hope | Alexander Franskevich-Leie | Off Book | Nyeem | |
| Money Game | Julian Lowenthal | Bakkie | Bjorn Christians | |
| One Furnace Three Stones | Irham Acho Bahtiar | Alone In The Room | Ziv Sheffer | |
| #Lovemyselfie | Lika Berning | Little Deaths | Mack Flynn | |
| Pick Up | Jesus Guillermo Rodriguez Meneses | Golden Wings: Fifty Year Flight Path | Caleb Mills Stewart | |
| I-21 | Peyton Savington | Heroes | Keno Vanhoutte |
| BEST DOCUMENTARY | BEST SHORT FILM |
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| One City, One Architect, One Antoni Gaudi | John Kiernan | After Dinner Speech | Mark Bellinger | |
| Where You Look 2023 | Vera, Jingyi Xia, Pei Zhang | Meet The Local Hero – Glenn Johnstone | Dragos Teglas | |
| One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction | Tim Searfoss | Eternal Memories | Ortal Zipora Arias | |
| How Finland Solved Homelessness: It’s More Than Housing First | Mark Horvath | Compliments | Ronaldo Soares, Gustavo Pastorino | |
| Vaklush | Nikolay Vasilev | A Premature Farewell | Ruyue Zhang | |
| A Dog´s Life | Philipp Hampl | Torn | Tamala Baldwin | |
| The Hidden Heritage of Yerevan | Vugar Khalilov | Last Stand: Saving the Elwha River’s Legacy Forests | Dan Herz | |
| Playtime: The Movie | Sara Geidlinger | Happenstance | Scott Rydelski, Sean James Smith | |
| Harvest of Light | ESİN ÖZALP ÖZTÜRK | BC BUDS | Rudy Frederick Lenz | |
| Glyadyelov. Focus On Infinity | Ksenia Kravtsova | Devil Wears Prada | Rohit B Srivastava |
| BEST FEATURE FILM | ENVISION AWARDS |
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| Stork of Hope | Alexander Franskevich-Leie | AWAKE | Harrison Vincent | |
| Money Game | Julian Lowenthal | Shooting Your Own Shadow | Joseph J Parisi, Michael Amman | |
| One Furnace Three Stones | Irham Acho Bahtiar | Bespoke ART | Jingjing Chen | |
| #Lovemyselfie | Lika Berning | Dante, el prisionero de la torre | Frank Reyes | |
| Pick Up | Jesus Guillermo Rodriguez Meneses | The Safe | Uwe Schwarzwalder | |
| I-21 | Peyton Savington | Uski Hmm Ki Aankh | Ginita Sunaina |
| BEST DOCUMENTARY | BEST STUDENT FILM |
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| Love Unscripted | Olya Schechter | 《 War and Peace of the 29Team 》 | Ma Wen ting | |
| Yopougon – Way Back Home | Alexis Amitirigala | Lupita | Angela Alvarado | |
| Inspired by Brink | Ze Helios | Help me help you | Stéphanie Sassen | |
| – 24 Hours | Jackson Long, Nada Taha | The Unstealable Bike | Rozh Surchi | |
| Ronnie O’Sullivan: The Edge Of Everything | Sam Blair | My Rockstar | Stephanie Williams, Graham Northrup | |
| LA GRANDE SIGNORA | Valentina Faenza, Manuel Rossi | I Dream of Women | Bence Simon | |
| Bake It Till You Make It | Jason Taglieri | The 3rd | sheldon armstrong | |
| All Quiet On The Westlake | Wei Zishuo | Saahil | Syed Ryhem Ahmed | |
| Kill Altamirano | carlos altamirano | Dave’s First day | Judisak Meng | |
| On Melting Snow | Mojtaba Bahadori | 01 | Daniil Denisov |
| BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM | BEST ANIMATION & VFX |
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| stated Tone | Xin Huang | Double Trouble | Muhan Yao | |
| The Evolution of Human Motivations: An AI-Illustrated Odyssey | John Voorhees Wylie | LUKi and the Lights | Toby Cochran | |
| Word | Moein Hasheminasab | Fiego and the Magic Fish | Joe David Murray | |
| Heaven+Diary | Masha Shalagina | Judy’s Garden | Evie Metz | |
| Scraggliness | Johanne Chagnon | Dear Child I | Devin Peters | |
| Petticoat Fire | Mox Mäkelä | Mirage | Hanson Ma, Jeffrey Su, Michael Wang | |
| Fishbowl | Haesun Choe | Vita Nova | Dmytro Zavora | |
| Hercules Recycled 2.0 | Don Moriarty, Greg Alt | Bottoms UP! | Brandon Schwindt |
| BEST STUDENT FILM | AUDIENCE AWARDS |
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| OFF BOOK | Nyeem | People & Wolves | Rachel Tilseth | |
| Bakkie | Bjorn Christians | August | Zhang zhe han | |
| Alone In The Room | Ziv Sheffer | Your time has come | David Durán | |
| little deaths | Mack Flynn | Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld | Cosmo Swevens | |
| Golden Wings: Fifty Year Flight Path | Caleb Mills Stewart | First Date | Mehmet Zakir Ekni | |
| Heroes | Keno Vanhoutte | Salome: A Love Story | Nicolas Walker |
| BEST DOCUMENTARY | GLOBE AWARD |
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| BODY&SOUND – image meets music | Alberto Nacci | ‘A Stitch in Time’ Immerse yourself in Maison M’Elise’s world of sustainable haute couture. | Maaike Elise | |
| Okinawa Americana | Ko Hama | Returning on the golden fields | Fei Chen | |
| The Otherside | Didige Anusha | Codes of Life Science Humanity | Jennifer Treur | |
| reEarth …Rights of Nature | Dhama Pundarika | Rigged: Wealthism In Higher Education | Matt Zodrow | |
| Saving Lives: Sisonke | Ashleigh Hamilton | Metamorphosis | Antonio Luis Moreira | |
| Spray & Tell: a Swiss perspective | Sebastian Andrei | ARMED with A BRUSH | Nèma van Raalte | |
| Return to the Falls | Eppo Eerkes | Carla the Rescuer | Clement Lye | |
| Let Wisdom of Ancient Civilizations Shine Through the Future | Kerong Zhang | The Sertar Diary | SHAO MIN SHEN | |
| JUMPMAN | Tom Dey | The Victims of Sundarbans | Dilip Ghosh | |
| Freeman | John William Sutherlin | The last island | Davide Lomma |
| BEST ACTRESS & ACTORS AWARD | STAFF PICKS |
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| Shadow on the Terrace | Ling, Bo-Wei | We never answer the question | Bangyang Xiong | |
| Group | William R.A. Rush | A Quick Connect | Leslie Harter-Berg | |
| Diana from Hong Kong | Naoki Fujimoto | The Asifa Bano Story | Mina Isabella JafriMalik | |
| Cachot | Samueldavid John Baromeo | COUBERTIN | Adrien Walter | |
| Amentalio | Mokotsi Rukundo | Showerhead | Craig Jocelyn Tanner | |
| Shinpei | Tatsuro Yamashiro | STIGMA | Dali Mansour | |
| Agemo | Moshood Abiola Obatula | CHAIN | LING HAN | |
| PRITHIBI | Joy Peter Halder | ONLY WAY | Furkan Cetin, Tony Özkan |
| Best Music Video | Best Film Score & Sound Design | |||
| Film | Director | Film | Director | |
| Delingha | Lu Li | The Needle & the Damage done | Kevin Molony | |
| Brooke Josephson – Good Kinda Tired – Official Music Video | Michelle Bossy | Queen: checkmate for the King | Luca De Giorgi, Sergio Vespertino | |
| Save Our Souls – phear | Michael Cao | Late for Work | Allison M Zevallos | |
| Bibi Tureygua | Ubuntu ~ The Baobab Tree Story | Kudzai Tinago | ||
| Thee Conductor with Bonnie Prince Billy – BIG MAN | Cody Ground, Patrick Higgins | Hombre De La Casa | Marco Sandoval | |
| Love Not War | Yantra de Vilder | The Scalpel | Richard H Lyford | |
| I Praise the Dance | Raehann Bryce-Davis | |||
| No Regrets |
We are glad to announce the shortlisted filmmakers with love!
ARFF & WSXA Amsterdam 2024 is curated as an In-person Award Event and
Online Screenings this year. All the nominees may have 2 Types of Earlybird tickets >> Here <<
*****
Online Screenings are free for all the nominees, Spotlight Tickets are
optional promotion to collect extra votes by social media before the screenings
It’s possible to check the Winner Spotlights here & Highlights
>> @aroundfilms <<
Fest Regards
*****