We are glad to announce the shortlisted nominees with love!
ARFF Berlin 2024 is curated as an In-person Award Event in Berlin &
Online Screenings this year. All the nominees may have 3 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 & Highlights here
>> @aroundfilms <<
Fest Regards

| BEST DIRECTOR | BEST DOCUMENTARY |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| My Love Flows Like a Song | tian Xiao Fan | Balkancisco | Tugrul Sarikaya | |
| What A Catch | Thomas Pickering | WORLD WAR II: THE SHIPWRECKS OF TRUK LAGOON | Christian Wehrle | |
| Chasing The Midnight Sun | Dario Di Agostino | Sheikh Al Tanweer | Eva Daoud | |
| Last Kiss In Paris | Damian Chapa | Isa bin Salman – Memories of His Giving | Eva Daoud | |
| BEDEN | Ekin Onat | De-risking Decoded | Pearl Forss | |
| The Right Track | Keyan Jin | No City For Women | Rangan Chakravarty | |
| I am Kanaka | Genevieve Sulway | The Unsilenced Women’s Empowermet And The Battle For Survival | Tosit Ghatane | |
| Hybrid | Chris Romrell | Trail of Dreams | Steffi Rostoski, Dorit Jeßner |
| BEST FEATURE FILM | BEST SHORT FILM |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| The Washer | Nils A. Witt | The Most Beautiful Place On Earth | Enrico Saack | |
| Chang’an Chang’an | Zhong Zhang | Next Wednesday | Curtis Graham | |
| HARMONY | Zhiyuan Ji | Doll | Marcel Köppe | |
| Blestem – The curse | Axel Loh | Who Cries Oil | Søren Mølgaard Nielsen | |
| 115 | Dave Huynh Macon | Too fat to love | Amund Sigurdssønn Karlsen, Fanny Homlung | |
| From Embers | Kate Bohan | THE CAPTIVE | Alexander Ku |
| BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY | BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| Strangers | Joe Scott | A Rose in the Mud | Kailey McComas | |
| BLUE | yunpeng lee | Becoming | Amrita Li Newton | |
| 《舞狀元 Wu Zhuang Yuan》Chinese martial arts | Kedy Yu | HOME | Kazumi Shimizu | |
| Monatik – A sho? | Tanu Muino | Tropical Kansas | Ryan M Erickson |
| BEST SHORT FILM | BEST DOCUMENTARY |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| Phrak (Tear Apart) | Teerawat Mulvilai | The Luthier | Nick Wolff | |
| Límites | Angel Pan, Manuel Muñoz | Under the Hat: The Complicated History of the Pith Helmet | Olympia Stone | |
| The Hills Stop | Ming Chuan Fu | The Audacity to Dream | Sharon Angel | |
| THE GREAT VANISHING: PART IV | Ria T. DiLullo | Deep State Gangsters | Frank X Panico | |
| This Time | Sean Mallory | The Bad Son | Ghatfan Ghanoom | |
| Holger F. -Simple Love | Thomas Schwendemann | Hope in Hutongs | Xiaoxiao Liu, Tong Deng | |
| Last Stand: Saving the Elwha River’s Legacy Forests | Dan Herz | 118, TELEMLY | bilal beghoura | |
| V | Leopold Grégoire | Proposition Amanecer | Miguel Escoto | |
| Broono | Gerald Lepkowski | Where the Heart Belongs | Xiaoran Du | |
| The Demo Reel | Won Joon Yoon | Trapped in 102 feet of water | lasse spang olsen | |
| Envy | Luka Radulović | RADIO CATERINA – the radio of hope | David Orlandelli | |
| The alert | Pascal Gonçalves | In Search of Edgar Allan Poe | Andrew D. Kaplan | |
| Odd Dung Dung at midnight | Ho Sin I | One City, One Architect, One Antoni Gaudi | John Kiernan | |
| Flying Low | Xiong Wei | Salmon Run | Pieter J Kruit |
| BEST ANIMATION & VFX | Best Film Score & Sound Design |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| Fracti | Lavinia Petrache | Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams | Robin Greenberg | |
| New Idea | Marko Bosanac | The Player | Daniel Yanik | |
| IRaH | Sam Bhattacharjee | Masked | Esther Chung, Sarah Forrestal | |
| Master Carpenter·Legacy of Luban | Yong Jun Su | A Place I’m Meant To Know | Chantal Spittles, Giada Origlia, Josh Booth | |
| Journey to the West | Xinsong Liu | COLOR | Joel Campbell | |
| Yu the Great: Legends Rising | Yong Jun Su | Laura, 29 Old Compton Street | Weiqi Cai | |
| SHINE animation | Gediminas Pranckevicius | Only Way | Furkan Cetin, Tony Özkan | |
| Where the two seas meet | Motaz H Matar | Man & Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps | Michael Hines |
| BEST STUDENT FILM | BEST MUSIC VIDEO |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| Little Deaths | Mack Flynn | New Me | Chico Bennett | |
| The mime | Veronika Hermann | POSSESSION | Max Westwell | |
| Cry Already | Tamar Schwarz | The Girl Who Faded Away | Brent Heise | |
| Wet | Giovana Chiconelli | Blackbird | Robert Taira Wilson | |
| The Sirens | Stephen Cullina | Hot Air Balloon | McKenzie Alexandria Van Oss | |
| What Is Left Of Us | Victoria Wilcox | Twisted Mind | Nathan Benisty | |
| Journey On | Yu Shen | AMMO ‘Harm’ | Adrian Pruett, AMMO | |
| The 3rd | sheldon armstrong | Not in the mood | Sergii Bublyk | |
| The Sailor | Akash Manuel Ercolini-Bhatia | Feel No Burn | Aryna Tsyltsyna | |
| After The Rain | Xu Yan | This is the way | Jörg Tochtenhagen | |
| The Red Finger | Zhuofei Lin | A Celtic Woman | John Bermingham | |
| Windfall | Fan jin | Im Süden / Güneyde | Sezin Ertek | |
| Paralell and perpendicular lines | Fellegi Z. Balázs | Glitter Tsunami! (Eurovision Parody) | Matthew Blakemore | |
| Cinephile | Zhenyun Mu | Ancient Lands and Lives-Above the Grand Canyon Rims | Carol J. Amore |
| GLOBE AWARD | BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| Plum blossoms have fallen all over the South Mountain | Shu Su | Bonny Chip | Haley Muraleedharan | |
| God’s Plan | William Preising | Andy Warhol’s Empire 2: The Chrystler Building | thelittletoe | |
| Until The End Of The World | Fei Chen | Newt | Mind Wank | |
| Bamboo. Are you happy? | Mingyi Jing | I Stole A Book | Andie Z Chen | |
| Cistanche | Mengyue Xue | Pink City Film | Mirijam Verena Verena Jeremic | |
| Lost in the strait | Haoran Liu | The Amaurose Chasm | Collectif B.L.U.S.H. Collectif B.L.U.S.H. | |
| Miracle in the Heart of Bosnia | Dr Sam Osmanagich | At Home | Isabelle Evertse | |
| Ruben: This Is My Cancer Story | Ada M Aguilar | Heaven+Diary | Masha Shalagina |
| BEST ACTRESS & ACTORS AWARD | STAFF PICKS |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| Love of Magdalena | Iva Kevra | Rugby Town | James Mellor | |
| The Dog Days | Ryan Kurt Whiting | Wheels of a Giant | Catarina Accioly | |
| The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep | Mykel Salazar | CHAIN | LING HAN | |
| The Lethe | Marshall Sutherin | CR7 | ANESH CHANDRAN AZAD |
| BEST STUDENT FILM | ENVISION AWARDS |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| Dear Mother | Sabrina Hickl | Wedlock | Magdalena Ralcheva | |
| Jan | Nils Dressel | 1 | Daniil Denisov | |
| Left-Behind Children | Yuanyuan Zhao | HE | CHUNZI ZHANG | |
| Persistent Pain | QIAN LIN | 2053 – A best Case Scenario | Jan Baumann | |
| The Wonders of the Rhinoceros Hornbill | Alongkot Chukaew | O palhaço que há em nós | Eduardo Robalo | |
| Next Station: Lok Ma Chau | Yijian Jiang | Hunter Loading | Sasa Numic |
| BEST SHORT FILM | BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM |
| FILM | DIRECTOR | FILM | DIRECTOR | |
| ASHWATH | Tanima Das Roy, Shantanu Roy | They Used to Visit Us | Nora Hase | |
| YOU ARE SPECIAL | Ilya Noyabrev | Promised Land | Jürgen Baums | |
| Baron Munchausen (Karl) | Ilya Noyabrev | Return To Planet Underground (Part1) | Gideon Homes | |
| Heartificial | Paul Weiss | BLIND FAITH: Moments of Missed Understanding | Robert Scott MacLeay |
| AUDIENCE AWARDS |
| FILM | DIRECTOR |
| MANAGE THIS! web series | Michael Monks, Tara OReilly |
| TALKING TO MOON AND BAEK | Francheska Dyne Hong |
| Mourning | Jackie Walsh |
| The Mirror (Kepler 62 Experiment – Episode #9) | Michael Ross Catania |
| Garden of Eden | Mona Schmauß |
| OH MAYBE NOT TONIGHT | Kim Fino |
| Strange Games | J. Hal Cordova |
We are glad to announce the shortlisted filmmakers with love!
ARFF Berlin 2024 is curated as an In-person Award Event in Berlin &
Online Screenings this year. All the nominees may have 3 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 & Highlights here
>> @aroundfilms <<
Fest Regards
*****


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