Congratulations to all participant filmmakers.

Wishing you a healthy & creative year.

– Fest Regards –

Full List of the Finalist, Honorable Mention, Semi-Finalist and Winner creations are available on our Instagram Pages. The Screenings have been programmed only with the filmmakers who were able to deliver their screeners regarding the deadline.

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ARFF Berlin 2021 Nominees

BEST FEATURE FILM

Model – dir. Ran Jing

Nighttalk- dir. Donald Shebib

Paper Dream- dir. Koichi Izuhara

MMMMM- dir. Vijeesh Mani

Inner Front- dir. Guido Acampa

Lonesome- dir. Tony K Hall

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

When Titans Clash: Pride and Shame- dir. Pearl Forss

Searching for Kung Fu- dir. Laurence Brahm

King Rocker- dir. Michael Cumming

RADIO TAXI 1991 – Night Shift in Berlin (West)- dir. Steffen Holzkamp

Jikubali- dir. Ashraf Mswaki

Envoy: Shark Cull- dir. Andre Borell

#KidsOnTech- dir. Paul Zehrer

THE ALBUM- dir. Kevin Hosmann

BEST DIRECTOR

Harley Quinn-Blazing Shadows- dir. Thomas Bernecker

Crocodile- dir. Caroline Wloka

North of the night- dir. Olivier SIMON

Kamaloca- dir. Christophe Karabache

The Breakfast – dir. Varunagini

TONE – dir. Dan Winters

BEST SHORT FILM

One Last Job – dir. Sophia Vester

Hell´s Tuesday – dir. Liza Pnin

Dating Game – dir. Hai Le

Shoseph – dir. Andy Nagashima & Peter Grasse

Kaala Teeka – dir. Jahnvi Mody

Methanol Ablaze – dir. Eta Dahlia

Blót – Torn Between Worlds – dir. Alexander Flatau

The Jellyfish’s Blood – dir. Florence Toumieux

THE DECIPIO – dir. Jason Gullifer

ARENA – dir. Myles Clohessy

Unforgattable – dir. Junki Tachibana

Hare Krishna – dir. Hindol Chakraborty

Glaistig- dir. Abbey Spacil

Mylk- dir. Ben Prendergast & Ngaire Dawn Fair

write your line- dir. Augey Marc

Color Me Jane- dir. Mary Darling

From Sent Ash to Dancing Ground- dir. Maëva Spyropoulos

Tasteless- dir. Amnon Carmi

The Right – dir. Oz Arshad

 Making Peace – dir. Judah Ray

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Verdinger- dir&dp: Saschko Steven Schmid

S T I L L- dir&dp: Kiran West

 I am Poison – L’Effetto- dir&dp: Żee Marla Osh

 Walk Alone – dir. Lamu Shangchoo & dp: Evan Feng

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

 Live to Sea – dir. Maceo Frost & Henning Sandström & Freddie Meadows

 The Ascendants – dir. Ladan Osman

 Company Culture – dir. Ran Zhang

 Linda Karshan: Covid-19 Conversation – dir. Ishmael Fiifi Annobil

 Iskold- dir. Michael Bernshausen

 Girlhood- dir.  Vania Turner & Maria Sidiropoulou

 Rossellini Roma ’21- dir.  Francesco Piras

 DRNISKI PRSUT- dir.  Tony Marin

 La famiglia- dir. Augey Marc

 One Of A Kind – The McFallo Cobra- dir. Mathias Kögel & Michael Haunschmidt

 The Art Of Mars- dir. Ossi Piispanen

 Lost Time – dir. Jack Montgomery Baxter Chapman

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

 Marriage Fit – dir. Rob Dininni & Jeffrey Palmer

 Life is Now – dir. Michael Coppola

 Tales of the Accidental City – dir. Maimouna Jallow

 possible: – dir. C. Thomas Lewis

 ANIETIÉ, and the Sky will be there – dir. Teymour Tehrani

 4.5m² – dir. Kim Je Hyun

 Les Dieux Changeants – dir. Lucio Arese

 L’AMANT DES MONTS – dir. LiliEyes

 VANAh {The Firm} – dir. Kasper Christiansen

 C A M A R A T A – dir. Hannah Camarata

 YELLOW – dir. Magali GAUDOU & José SALAZAR

 DESTINY’S FUGE – dir. Breton Tyner-Bryan

AUDIENCE AWARD

 Shojon – Theorem – dir. Craig Heathcote

 The Sacrificed Ones – dir. Jordan Pavlik

 Journey to Quantum – dir. Micky Suelzer

 Finding Abraham – dir. Malcolm Green

 Lonely Season – dir. Hamid Reza Mahmoudi

 Remember the kindness – dir. Ben Correa

 Roe v. Wade – dir. Nick Loeb & Cathy Allyn

 Janet – dir. Pihu Gupta

 Particules – dir. David Brunet

 DIYSex – dir. Maria Lorente & Juno Álvarez & Yaiza De Lamo & Mariona Vázquez

GLOBE AWARD

 KEEP OUT!-Women Over 60 Only – dir. Seungju Lee

 The United States of Fashion Designer Elie Tahari – dir. David Serero

 OutSwing – dir. Samar Minallah Khan

 Infinite Love – dir. Eddie Lin & Roj Chang

A Community Under Fire – dir. Harrison Thane & Matt Thane

COFFEE FOR LIFE – dir. Lennart Neumann & Wilhelm Schulz

BEST STUDENT FILM

Orion – dir. Lukas Galle

The End of Innocence – dir. Daniel Best Arias

100 Meters – dir. Matthias Pachner

From The Past – dir. Timo Zacharias

The Red Pearl Queen – dir. Miguel Ángel Romero Yepes

Brennpunkt Blankenäse – dir. Ada Grüter

AViL – dir. Sofia Drai

Shellfish – dir. Hunter Hopewell

Wolves – dir. Austn Fischer

Love thy Neighbour – dir. Joshua Perlbach & Maja Winkelmann

Dear Dimi – dir. Ignatios Manolopoulos

FALL – dir. Shihao Guo

The Glass – dir. Rodrigo Ferreira

onNodeFocus – dir. Jiazhen Cai

Ferry ticket – dir. Jiawei Shen

My Uncle Gary Was Murdered – dir. Julia Tinneny

Inner Path – dir. Camille Verreault

Anywhere But Here – dir. Maitry Rao

Tero Akvo – dir. Paula Nikolussi & Erik Nordholm, Mustafa Özkan 

Tequila Dream – dir. Peter Lavery

Perfect. – dir. Anirudh Vadhri Kota

Tap Dance – dir. Christa Villavasso

In the Corner of My Eye – dir. Alicia Gong

How I’ve Met God – dir. German Kuzyura

The Letter Not Sent – dir. Mandi Huang

Bendición (Blessing)- dir. Krist Muñoz-Malavé

STAFF PICK

MOLOTOV- dir. Ariel Semmel

The One I Wanted To Be- dir. Paula Higa

Jesters Paradise – dir. Sadi Eliyesil

Soft Rain – dir. Sacha Goedegebure

The 13th Member – dir. Lotfaï Bouri

WARMUFFIN – dir. Johan Liedgren

LOVE LABORATORY – dir. Muchao Wang & Fangmin Wang

Re-Animal – dir. Rubén Garcerá Soto

Run to run away from me – dir. Pablo Pinedo

 IMAGINARY’S EYES – dir. Stéphane Parientitho

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