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Around International – Amsterdam
January 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: A Moderate Folly – Wilson Mbiavanga (US)

BEST SHORT FILM: The Flowers I’ve Ruined – Yohan Riba Martinez (US)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Get Lost in Colombia –
Melanie de Klerk & Sophie Lui Ron Coldham (CA – CO)

BEST DIRECTOR : Hannya – Eva Muñoz (FR)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: After All These Years (How Could I Possibly Go Back Out There) – dp: Matt Barkley & dir: Sara Jade Alfaro (CA)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD: Chronicles of Her –
Taghrid Abouelhassan & Maysoon Khaled & Rim Mejdi & Emna Najjar & Farah Shaer (JO)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD: FriDgid – Devina Vassileva (BG)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Walk With Me – Yantra de Vilder (AU)

WSXA INTERNATONAL MENTION : I .. Overcame Hothi Mines –
Nisreen Alsbeihi Noman (YE)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: A Long Protracted Scene of an Accident –
Lars Henrik Henrik Andersson (SE)

BEST STUDENT FILM : Mama’s Ashes – Caspar Commijs (NL)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Sin – Dimphy van Vilsteren (CA)

ARFF BEST TRAILER: Incompleteness – David Ash (US)

Around International – Barcelona
January 2021 Selection 

BEST DIRECTOR: Unblinded – Paul Jerndal (SE)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Heart of the Bear – Daniel Marracino (US)

BEST SHORT FILM: On a Saturday Afternoon – Tae Hun An (KR)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pave the Road – Kelly Mason (CA – CR)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: African Democracy/Hopes and Challenges – Irvin D. Reid (US) //
The Human Side – Carlos Caraglia (ES)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Stoned – Chico Gomes (ES) //
Anthropocene – Michelle Kossler (IT)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Lyric Suite – Inaki Abalos & Samuel Gonzalez (FR – ES) //
8 Weeks to Happy – Kallie Swider (US)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: Arrogance Bikini – Sacha Vucinic (FR)

WSXA INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Heart Orb Bone Triptych (LSF-1) –
William Bottini (US) // The DS King – Doret van der Sloot (NL)

BEST ANIMATION: Fowl Crossing – Nancy Snipper (CA – MX)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: The End of Innocence – Daniel Best Arias (CH) //
LA LA EVERY YOU – Chu Yen-Lan (TW)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Watch, and Being Watched – Siye Tao (CN) //
UNDER THREAT – Ewa Stankiewicz (PL)

STAFF PICKS : Still Life – Antony Barkworth-Knight (UK) //
The Skys – Communication – Jonas Čiurlionis & Indrė Juškutė (LT – US – JP – IL)

BEST TRAILER: Deep Inside – Bharath Bhushan Nethi (IN)

Around International – Berlin
January 2021 Selection 

BEST FEATURE FILM: Fires In The Dark – Lienhard Dominique (FR)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: When Titans Clash: Pride and Shame (SG)

BEST SHORT FILM: Shoseph – Andy Nagashima & Peter Grasse (JP)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Live to Sea –
Maceo Frost & Henning Sandström & Freddie Meadows (SE)

BEST DIRECTOR: Dating Game – Hai Le (JP)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : Verdinger – dp & dir: Saschko Steven Schmid (CH)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Mr. Temple and the Tigerbelles – Tom Neff (US) //
Offpsring – Nava Hemyari (AT)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Shojon – Theorem – Craig Heathcote (UK) //
Jolin Tsai《Sweet Guilty Pleasure》 – Kedy Yu (TW)

WSXA INTERNATIONAL MENTION: Swipe Left: The Age of Disposable Relationships – Amber Ostergaard (US)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Proof – Gözde Özcan (TR-DE) //
Emerald Eyes – Jenny Haapimaa (FI)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Breaking Up and Entering – Blake Gordon (US) //
100 Meters – Matthias Pachner (DE)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: The Tragedy Of Domna Visvizi –
Katerina Giannakopoulou & Mixalis Iliaskos (GR)

ARFF TRAILER: The Beast Rose Up! – Moyche Lichtenstein (US)

Around International – Paris
January 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Doll – Irene Grineva (RU)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Eye of the Storm – Brooke Harris Wolff (US)

BEST SHORT FILM: Landing – Carrie Lazar (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bi-2 — God of the Jilted – Vladimir Besedin (RU)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD: STATE OF REST – Claudio Maurici (IT – DZ – EH)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Something in the Air – Andrew Rothschild (US) //
Champion – Sylvain Begert (FR)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Devorer Paname – Simon Paraire (FR)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: Seeds – Grace McCarthy (US)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Omaha Beach – Valentine Cadic (FR) //
The necklace – Shirelle Edery (IL)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: Fractals – Jean Kinsella (US) //
Dear Name – Hillfinger (Hyung-kun) Hwang (KR)

WSXA INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Shams – Schizophrenia – Dan Haddad (LB)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : Doing My Best – Anders Valbro Højte (DK)

BEST TRAILER: Good Fengshui – Yurong Xu (CN)

Around International – Amsterdam
February 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: RED PILL – TONYA PINKINS (US)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: African Democracy/
Hopes and Challenges –
IRVIN D REID (BW – GH – LR – NA – TZ)

BEST SHORT FILM: After Party – Dominique Ruffalo (US)

BEST DIRECTOR: Aquatic Bird – Nan Zhang (CN)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: FIRES IN THE DARK –
dir: Lienhard Dominique & dp: Pascale Marin (FR)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD: STATE OF REST – Claudio Maurici (IT – DZ – EH)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: George Floyd: Say Their Names- Christopher R. Owens & Alyssa Dann (US) // Faith – DB Morgan (UK)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: In Search of the Artistic Moment – Yantra de Vilder (AU) // MARELD – Ove Valeskog (SE)

ARFF STAFF PICKS : Port de Bras – Roman Villevoye (NL) //
how to dismantle a bomb – Marco Frauchiger (LA – CH)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: RELENTLESS – Jack Ure (AU) // Rat Race – Isadora Cavalcanti (BR)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Father of Storm – Christian B Frederiksen (DK) //
No Way Back – Cole Christie (IT – UK)

ARFF BEST TRAILER: RABBITSNAKE – Jonny Stranger (US)

Around International – Berlin
February 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Anchor Baby – Ran Jing (US – CN)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES: King Rocker – Michael Cumming (UK) //
An Infinite Scream – Steffen Holzkamp (DE – NA)

BEST SHORT FILM: Making Peace – Judah Ray (US)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: The Ascendants – Ladan Osman (US)

BEST DIRECTOR: Harley Quinn – Blazing Shadows – Thomas Bernecker (DE)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: From The Past – Timo Zacharias (DE)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Searching for Kung Fu – Laurence Brahm (CN) //
The day we can never go back to – Jin Hyun – Bang (KR)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Hunger – Manu Herrera // The Sacrificed Ones –
Jordan Pavlik (FR)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Tales of the Accidental City – Maimouna Jallow (KE) // Murder For Dummies – Meredith Red (US)

STAFF PICKS: The Red Pearl Queen – Miguel Ángel Romero Yepes (ES) //
Venezia e Musica – Claudio Piovesana (IT)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Last Summer on Bainbridge Street – Jessica Q Moore (US) // TRACE – Yuxi Jiang (CN)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: THE ALBUM – Kevin Hosmann (US) –
Ishwari…the music of silence – Aashish Kailash Jain (IN)

ARFF BEST TRAILER : Am Rande der Zeiten – Jörg Reichlin (CH)

Around International – Paris
February 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR : Defect – Frederik Bösing (DE)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Palace – Jo Prichard (UK)

BEST SHORT FILM: Falafel – Nikita Hattangady (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: FINAL ROUND. –
Gustavo Cortés Bueno & Mohamed Fekrane (BE – MA – ES)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : VIRGINIA – Sascha Köllnreitner (AT) //
Minör – Matteo Bontempi, Giacomo Mantovani, Andrea Panni, Pietro Repisti (IT)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Imaginary, you – Neill Barry (US) //
Where We Grew Old – Cam Roden (CA)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Out of breath (Sans Oxygène) – Liliane Mutti (FR) //
Caring for your carcass – Johanne Chagnon (CA)

BEST MUSIC VIDEOS: When She Rises – Arterium Angledal (US – NZ) //
All of us is one – Xavier Zahra (FR)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Midnight – Jeremie Lascar (FR) //
Family Dinner – Quan Quan (FR – CN)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: Into The Groove – Alberto Pedruzzi (IT) //
To Box With God – Amit Hai Cohen (IL)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Carry Us, Luminous Traveler – Stephen Cowdrey (US) //
Alone – BONZIE (US – JP )

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: Last shot – Jihyun Yu (KR) //
I Will Be Fine – Zein El Cheikh (LB)

BEST TRAILER: Titi Woo – The Last Night of July – Anastasia Miasnikova (IL – CZ)

Around International – Amsterdam
March 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : SOLDIERS: Six Stories, Six Wars –
Tony Villani (US – IT – CZ)

BEST SHORT FILM: Hold me – Katya Tsarik (Korol) (UA)

BEST DIRECTOR: The Secret Walls –
Anne Charrin & Lise Charrin & Aude Charrin & Jean-Marie Gatin (FR)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Beach – dp: Dylan River/dir: Warwick Thorton (AU)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: KEEP OUT!-Women Over 60 Only – Seungju Lee (KR)
// An Infinite Scream – Steffen Holzkamp (NA – DE) //

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Tattoo Tells – Jiayu He (CN)
// I Really Love This Piece – Graham Goldstein (US) //

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Oasis – Adrien Servadio (US) // Aurora – James Barany (NL)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: Wake Up Sleeping Beauty – Shila Ommi (US) //
Telepathy – Ann Isaac (EG)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Spaceman – Paula Suidgeest Alvarez (NL) //
Promise Me – Alison Duke (CA)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Perfectly Flawed – Jak O’Hare (NL – UK)//
A Few Words on Uncertainty – Jana Burkiewiczová (CZ)

ARFF BEST TRAILER: White Supremacy – Siddhartha Mukherjee (IN)

Around International – Berlin
March 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Nightalk – Donald Shebib (CA)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : RADIO TAXI 1991 – Night Shift in Berlin –
Steffen Holzkamp (DE)

BEST SHORT FILM: Another Day – Daniel Topic (UK)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Linda Karshan: Covid-19 Conversation –
Ishmael Fiifi Annobil (UK)

BEST DIRECTOR : WARMUFFIN – Johan Liedgren (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Company Culture – dp: Quinton Wong & dir: Ran Zhang (HK)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD: Lullabies for Lost Children –
Anders Haahr Rasmussen & Ly Tran (VN – DK)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Requiem For Black Love – Eric Almond (US) //
Dark Hearts – Kevin Van Stevenson (US)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : possible: C. Thomas Lewis (US) // Brennpunkt Blankenäse – Ada Grüter (DE)

STAFF PICKS: Kaala Teeka – Jahnvi Mody (IN) //
Brown Sounds – Jeremy Adonis & Raehann Bryce-Davis (US – BE)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Room 3 – Sheng Feng (US) //
The Interrogation – Winston Catarroja (NL)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : OutSwing – Samar Minallah Khan (PK) //
Methanol Ablaze – Eta Dahlia (UK – RU)

ARFF BEST TRAILER : Cyber Dream – Yanush Ahy (PK – UK)

Around International – Paris
March 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: AViL – Sofia Drai (US)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: TOPOWA! – Never Give Up –
Philip Sansom & Inigo Gilmore (UK – UG)

BEST SHORT FILM : LOTUS – Angelika Fürstler & Austin Ahlborg (US – MX – FR)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Obvious offside – dp: Hatem Nechi & dir: Sami Tlili (TN)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : In Pursuit Of Light – Amit Rai (IN) //
L’autre Femme – Ducandas Stéphane (NC)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Trainride – Zen Pace (US) // I Lust You – Lapo Tirelli (FR – IT)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : New York Minute – Lynn Bianchi (US) //
MAJNÚN – Yolanda García (ES)

BEST MUSIC VIDEOS: Jayli Wolf – Child Of The Government – Jayli Wolf (CA)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Behind the Wall – Théo Collet (US – MX – HN)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: Connected Off the Grid – Rachel Bujalski (US) //
Sour Apple Bath Bombs – Meg Poveromo (US)

BEST ANIMATIONS : Lost Time – Melinda Szabó-Nyulász (HU) //
Searise – Joseba Elorza (ES)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: OBSERVANTIUM – Ben Davis (US) //
Cape to Cape – Pasi Sauna-aho & Pål Laukli (FI)

BEST TRAILER: GET HIM!! – Bill Buckley (US)

Around International – Amsterdam
April 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: Looking for Vaubeton – Michelle Gales (FR)

BEST SHORT FILM: Go Jump in the River – Carla Böhler (BR – PT)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : São Paulo, Closed City – André De Franco (BR)

BEST DIRECTOR : Smile or Die – Kristin Jakubek & Alena Kroker (DE)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Door – dp: Jalil Landell & dir: Pedro (Petra) Diaz (MX)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: The Art of Rebellion – Libby Spears (US) //
Hear Me Out – Marcus Van Altena (AU)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Lucid Dreams – Kostiantyn Mishchenko (US) //
0110 – Taehoon Park (US)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Dreaming Shit – Kubilay Mert Ural (TR – NL)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: On / Off – Nicolas P. Villarreal (AR) //
Semi-Automatic Pantoum – Matt Mullins (US)

BEST STUDENT FILM: The Knell – Joseph Osei-Bonsu (US – GH)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION : The System – Ramazan Demir (TR)

ARFF BEST TRAILER : Déjà Vu – Deathloop Theme Song by FJØRA –
Alexandra Petkovski (US)

Around International – Barcelona
April 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Open Heart Surgery – Valeria Cocco (PL)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Dom Salvador and Abolition – Lilka Hara & Artur Ratton (US)

BEST SHORT FILM: Oasis – Adrien Servadio (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Serious Cat Talk – Arifin Ajib (MY)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Dramayama – jeanette Groenendaal (NL – IN – GT)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Get it Out – Elia Sadeqi (IR – UK)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM : Luna in Caelo – Fear to Die – Daniel Dávila (CL)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: Barricades by Ruby and Kinoi – Jeon Seong (UK)

BEST ANIMATION: The Coincidental Killing of a Cat by an Unworldly Tune –
Maya Kurdoglu (TR – UK)

BEST STUDENT FILMS : The Last Mink – Jóhann Thór Haahr Hansen (DK)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : FLOATERS – Aurélie GARON (FR)

STAFF PICK : I’m sick of it – Alejandro Albiñana Mompó (ES)

BEST TRAILER: Sleeping Warrior – Janet Wells & Mwaura Timothy (CA – KE)

Around International – Berlin
April 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Between Forever – Scooter John Powell (US)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: Orson Rehearsed – Daron Hagen (US)

BEST SHORT FILM: WODEN – Let me explain to you the language of the sword –
Thomas Hacikoglu (DE)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Covid Mystery – What happened in Mexico? –
Shihyun Wang (US – TW)

BEST DIRECTOR: Shellfish – Hunter Hopewell (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Avil – dp: Eugene Baiste & dir: Sofia Drai (US)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD: KEEP OUT!-Women Over 60 Only – Seungju Lee (KR)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : MOLOTOV – Ariel Semmel (IL) //
Crocodile – Caroline Wloka (CH)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Princes Bridge & Swan Street Bridge – Melbourne Australia – Lawrence Gerver (AU)

STAFF PICKS: LAPSE – Noah Benjamin Miller (US ) // Infinite Love –
Eddie Lin & Roj Chang (CN)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Faulty Connections – Ian Odermatt (US) //
Wolves – Austin Fischer (UK)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: SHIFT – Larissa hope & Hannah Silva (UK)

ARFF BEST TRAILER : THE HUN – Andor Zahonyi (HU)

Around International – Paris
April 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: The Phoenix – Kim Vithana (UK)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Countdown to Year Zero – Jane Velez-Mitchell (US)

BEST SHORT FILM: Severance – Rachel Kotlarczik (FR – BG)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: CROWD – Recep Akar (TR)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: OPUSXTRAVELXART Xhibition, 4th Show – Maurice Porcher (US) // Gabare – Mahmut Ersin Altan (CY)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Ksipnise me by Yanna Vasileiou – Jimi Drosinos (UK – GR) // Against my will – Nils Lane (FR)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Sderot Kissufim – Noga Dekel (IL)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO : ANAVITÓRIA “Calendário” – THE FRIDMAN SISTERS (BR)

BEST STUDENT FILMS : AViL – Sofia Drai (US) // Dernière soirée – Romain Roellet (FR)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: DANGER ZONE – Benjamin JACQUIER (FR) //
Candidato 34 – Ryan Marley (CA)

BEST ANIMATION: The Breath of Life – Anna Gerasimova (US – RU)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: An Afternoon at Denny Moe’s – Louise Pedno (US) // Infinite 8 – Mostafa Keshvari (CA)

BEST TRAILER: Went to space, finally. – Fred Pirat (FR)

Around International – Amsterdam
May 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : ŌMECITTÀ- STOMAN Chantal (FR – JP)

BEST SHORT FILM: The Shape Of Mountain – Bocheng Liu (US)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Chinese Cancan – Lulu, a Chinese Woman –
Coralie Van Rietschoten (FR – CN)

BEST DIRECTOR : Hell in Paradise – Tiziana Caminada (IT – CH)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Visual ASMR – Onesal Studio (JP)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : The Will to Live – René Georg Johansen (DK)
// Tokyo Toilets – Andrea Pompili & Ryan Bruss (JP – IT)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: To Be You – Chad Eddy (US) //
This Case & My Life – Ana A P Braunstein (US)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: HEARTWORK – Benjamin Filinson (US) //
Presence of Absences – Dash (NL)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: Final Deathtination – Marika Tamura (US) //
Patrick is Outside – Carsten Woike (DE)

BEST STUDENT FILM : Split Leap – Vasco Viana (CZ)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: Cádiz Blue – Hongshuo Cai (CN – ES)

ARFF BEST TRAILER: Balthazar & Snirt – Jim McCullough & Anthony Ladesich (US)

Around International – Barcelona
May 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR : Spit it Out – Léa Luiz de Oliveira (UK)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: It Gets In Your Blood – Ed Hartman (US)

BEST SHORT FILM : Doodle – LinkWei (CN)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: NOMANKIND – Mehdi Hadi (FR)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Talk with Us – Fabio Costa Prado (BR) //
Postcard – Asmae Elmoudir (MA)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Faulty Connections – Ian Odermatt (US) //
Living on the edge – Anukriti Singh (IN)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Ghost Dance for America, 1890 – Karl Nussbaum (US) // Entangled Animal – Christian Holm-Glad (NO)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Twelve Traxx – 2022 – Tala Schlossberg (US) // Your Love – Tianyou Tian (CA)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Rawr Rawr Land – Antonio Montilla (US) //
Alephia 2053 – Jorj Abou Mhaya (LB)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: SHANI’S DAD – Kinar Dar (IL) //
My dear corpses – Sander Lebreht (EE)

STAFF PICKS : Headless Over Heels – Anna Choi & Cynthia Ma (US) //
Lemons – Siena Kuan (US)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: The Jewels of the Salton Sea – Steven Vitali (US) //
28 MAY – elvin (AZ)

BEST TRAILER: Destiny Deferred – Edwin L. Williams II (US)

Around International – Berlin
May 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: Tooi&Masato – Kisei Kobayashi (JP – LA – TH)

BEST SHORT FILM: FALL – Shihao Guo (CN)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: MICHELE – Laura Lardeux (FR)

BEST DIRECTOR: North of the night – Simon Olivier (FR)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: I Think I Died Last Night – Franz Galo (UK)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : A Community Under Fire – Harrison Thane & Matt Thane (AU) // Kato – Julius Wiege (DE)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Janet – Pihu Gupta (CA) //
Desolate – Murat Vargelci (US) // The Glass – Rodrigo Ferreira (PT)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : 4.5m² – Kim Je Hyun (KR) // Les Dieux Changeants –
Lucio Arese (IT)

STAFF PICKS ANIETIÉ, and the Sky will be there – Teymour Tehrani (DE) // Invisible –
Juan Lume (CL)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Dear Dimi – Ignatios Manolopoulos (DE) // Love thy Neighbour – Joshua Perlbach & Maja Winkelmann (DE)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Home Wreckers Invisible – Joe Ferrera (UK)

BEST TRAILER: The Ocean Cleanup System 001/B – Oliver Kentner (DE)

Around International – Paris
May 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: The insurer – Antoine vans (FR – BE)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Believe – Michel Garcia & Mathilde Saint-Arroman (US – FR)

BEST SHORT FILM: Rodeo – Adam Levett (CA)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Passage – dp: Keith Smith & dir: David M. Massey (US – VI)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: INTO THE BLUE: The Wonders of The Coral Triangle –
Robert Fonollosa (ES – ID)
// SOLDIERS: Six Stories, Six Wars – Tony Villani (US – CZ – IT)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Seemone ” dans mes rêves ” – Hervé Humbert //
VENI VIDI VICI – Maxime Flourac (FR)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Precious Balance Walk – Felicia Konrad & Johan Haugen // TAIAO – Daniel Belton (NZ)

BEST MUSIC VIDEOS : L’Impératrice – “Afraid of Girls” – Aube Perrie (FR) // Portraiture – Alexandra Sheren (RU)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: When In Drought – Mark Lowe (US) // Seeped –
Mauraya Sharma (IN)

ARFF STAFF PICKS : Timonia – Alexey Belkin & Vsevolod Aljokhin // Cherry – Naama Lahav (IL)

BEST ANIMATIONS : Mehdi Murphy – Dans tes bras – Satochi Norse (FR) //
Melancolia – Alina Popescu (RO) // Alephia 2053 – Jorj Abou Mhaya (LB) //

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: The women who came from the Lotus Field – Weerasak Saengdee (TH)

BEST TRAILERS: Knights of Early Los Angeles – Ron Cooper (US) //
The Breakdown – David Codeglia (US)

Around International – Amsterdam
June 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: Syria’s Schools Under Attack –
Darren Conway (DE – SY – TR – UK)

BEST SHORT FILM: Our Country’s Beauty – Leandra Marie Hoffmann (DE)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : FAITH: The Transcendence of Thought – Sofia Kalantzi (GR)

BEST DIRECTOR: Yadhrishika Sambhavangal – Aswin Radhakrishnan (IN)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Myrtle – dp: Edmund Curtis & dir: Patricia McCormack (UK)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Bodyslammed: Folk Hero vs. Billionaire – Guthrie Quist (US)
// Victuals: The CRE8AMEAL Story – Jude Orozco (US) //

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: The Burning Matches – Jenya Meether (US) //
Serial – Robert Engle & Noah Phillips (US)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: C-19 – Philippos Kappa (GR) //
Sweet Destiny – Arash Sobhani & Kajeh Mehrizi & Taravat Khalili (IR)

STAFF PICKS: Kill, Kill, Kill – Joe Read (UK – US) // Life’s a Show – Harvey Puttock (UK)

BEST STUDENT FILM : Doodle – LinkWei (CN)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Undo – Stanislav Hristov (BG) //
Where’s Lucy? – Salma Azzam (AE)

ARFF BEST TRAILER : Echo – Félix Baudouin (FR – HU)

Around International – Barcelona
June 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR : SHOREBREAK – Thibault Cadentem (FR)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Day of the Dead: a Celebration of Life – Denise Richards (US – MX)

BEST SHORT FILM: Moving Barcelona – Jevan Chowdhury & Laura Obiols (UK – ES)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: There’s No Hell Like Home –
dp: Giulio Raimondo & dir: Russell Southam (AU)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : First Week Out – Charles Fritschner (US) //
Yokosuka1953 – Tsuyoshi Kigawa (JP)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Dunk or Die – Nicolas de Virieu (FR) //
Cavalleria Musical – Lazaro Alierta Jose Luis & Didier Blandin (FR)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Miles & Kilometres – Sonali Gulati (US – IN) //
let’s hold hands the old way – Zoe Katsilerou (UK)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: Lake of Fire – Carlos Vidal Herrera (CL)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Legend of the Claw – Shailyn Farmer (US) //
Loves Me Not – Heidi Jo (US)

STAFF PICK: Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate (SG – IN)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Oonch Neech – Aryaman Prasad (US) //
When Night Lost – Asteris Tziolas (GR)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Coming Back – Yuxin Zhao (US) //
Stereotype – Nahyun & Dahyun BEAK (US – KR)

BEST TRAILER: 2020: A Comedy Special – Joe Kaiser (US)

Around International – Berlin
June 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: Trazzeri – Giovanni Caccamo (IT)

BEST SHORT FILM: The Right – Oz Arshad (UK)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: The Floating Villages – Roop Sagar (VN)

BEST DIRECTOR: Blót – Torn Between Worlds – Alexander Flatau (AT)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Babylon Gardens – Karim Moussa (EG)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : The United States of Fashion Designer Elie Tahari –
David Serero (US) // Iskold – Michael Bernshausen (DE – AT – DK )

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: The Gangbuster – Mark Adderley (UK) //
The One I Wanted To Be – Paula Higa (US)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: HEARTWORK – Benjamin Filinson (US) // L’AMANT DES MONTS – LiliEyes (FR)

STAFF PICKS: Heaven Stranded – Yao Songting (CN) // onNodeFocus – Jiazhen Cai (UK)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: My Uncle Gary Was Murdered – Julia Tinneny (US) //
Ferry ticket – Jiawei Shen (CN)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: The Breakfast – Varunagini (DE – IN) //

KAMALOCA – Christophe Karabache (FR)

BEST TRAILER: This Case & My Life – Ana A P Braunstein (US)

Around International – Amsterdam
July 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM : Conversations – Eduardo M. Clorio (MX)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: SISI – Yeon-hwa MOK (IN – KE – TZ – KR)

BEST SHORT FILM: My Pretty Paracosm – Antonia Ackermans (NL)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: NIB24 – Kaiser Jakob (AT)

BEST DIRECTOR: The Insurer – Antoine Vans (BE)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : The Reencounter. 500 years Moctezuma and Cortés –
dp: Ignaciop Miguel Ortiz & dir: Miguel Gleason

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: The Whisper of the Marimba – Greta-Marie Becker (DE) //
Inside Love – Qing Yu (CN)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: The Connection – Gabriel Hirsch (CA) // Violence – Augusto Pedraza (BE – MX)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : New York Minute – Lynn Bianchi (US) //
FLUX – Cléa van der Grijn (IE)

STAFF PICKS : Some Days – Jessie II Lopez (IE) //
Toilet – Itamar Beck & Pkidei Hakabala – Rona Soffer (IL)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: The Divine Oblivion – Oscar Simmons (UK) //
A Trout’s Journey – Felix Emmanuel (DK)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: The Final Solution – Zan Abdullah (UK) //
Now Appearing in Bucharest Robert Lawrence (RO)

ARFF BEST TRAILER: The Awakening – Andrew Abbiw (DE -UK)

Around International – Barcelona
July 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR : FINLANDIA – Horacio Alcala (ES)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Show Must Go On – Mincher Lee (CN)

BEST SHORT FILM: Springtime Forever – Seanie Sugrue (IE)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ferry Ticket – Jiawei Shen (CN) //

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : The Border of Death – Cătălin Apostol (RO)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : 5 Stars – Remi Itani (UK) // File 631 – Marius Th. Barna (RO)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Translation – Julian Wiltsher (UK) //
Skin/Out – Gloria Dorliguzzo & Enzo Coluccio (IT)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Forced To Bend – Astrid Schäfer (DE)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Kill, Kill, Kill – Joe Read (US – UK) // Checkmate – Lobna Yakob (EG)

STAFF PICK : Expedition: Thailand Part Three “The Chai Lai Orchid” – Daniel Mason (US -TH)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Between Us – Antonio Mendes (UK) //
It’s Not About Eitan – Ron Baranov (IL)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : Home – Janine Kanzler (US) //
June – Carina Wachsmann (DE – ES)

BEST TRAILER: Born Yesterday – Bob Yothers (NL)

Around International – Berlin
July 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Lonesome – Tony K Hall (US)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : Jikubali –
Ashraf Mswaki & Eva Lundgren Stenbom (SE – TZ)

BEST SHORT FILM: The Jellyfish’s Blood – Florence Toumieux (FR)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : Coffee For Life –
Lennart Neumann & Wilhelm Schulz (DE – GT)

BEST DIRECTOR: TONE – Dan Winters (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jesters Paradise – dp: Anselm Havu & dir: Sadi Eliyesil (US)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : This Mortal Plastik – Jess Irish (US) //
SOS – Sergey Shevchenko (DE)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Madeline: Take 2 : Richard Mortimer (US -CA) //
Extreme Cuisine – Sea ​​urchin – Alyona Shitikova (EE)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : SUNGKA: a Civil War, a Civil Marriage –
Jasmine Orpilla (US) // VANAh – Kasper Christiansen (DK)

STAFF PICKS: Tero Akvo – Paula Nikolussi &Mustafa Özkan & Erik Nordholm (AT) // Starlight – Pimdao Panichsamai (TH)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Anywhere But Here – Maitry Rao (UK) // Camille Verreault –
Inner Path (CA)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : GIRLHOOD – Vania Turner (GR) //
VAL – Ursula Monteiro & Bruno Sabongi (BR)

BEST TRAILER : ‘Ori Tahiti Dancers –
Nyko PK16 & Hugues Damesin (FR – US – UK – IT – JP – MX – ES – PF)

Around International – Paris
July 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR : SHOREBREAK – Thibault Cadentem (FR)

BEST SHORT FILM : Deus Ex Machina – Langlois Jessy (FR)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Babylon Gardens –
dp: Muhammed Ibrahim & dir: Karim Moussa (EG)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD: DICTATION – Moein Hasheminasab (IR)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Myrtle – Patricia McCormack (UK) //
Masked NYC – AJ Stetson (US)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Away Out – Sarah Hanssen (US)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Vajra “Maya” – Annamaria Pinna (US)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: JERKYFLOW – Adnane Rami (FR) //
Past Future Mountain – Mariia Lukianchuk (UA)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: The Breakfast – Varunagini (DE -IN)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Transit Line – Juliane Ebner (DE) //
Three Jumps to Happiness – Artur Hanaj (PL)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Every sunrise – Simone Massi (IT)

BEST TRAILERS: Rabbit And Bear – zhaocongbo (CN)

Around International – Barcelona
August 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: The Empty Chair – Jose Villalobos & Rob Margolies (US)

BEST DOCUMENTARY : The Reencounter. 500 years Moctezuma and Cortés –
Miguel Gleason (MX)

BEST SHORT FILM: Beyond Our Control – Alexander Garcia Mallarini (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: 500 Eskimo – dp: Anton Dorushenkov & dir: Daria Karpova (RU)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD: OF THE SENSE OF THE WHOLE –
The Network of Physicist Hans-Peter Dürr – Claus Biegert (DE)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD : Marbella – Igor Evard (RU – ES) //
Sun & Petals – Kehinde Bademosi (IT)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: The Dark Valley – T.J. Morehouse (US) //
Made With Love – Calum Macdiarmid (UK)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: Alexandra – Sarah Hanner (US) //
Wonderland – Deliris Films & The Kitsunes (ES)

BEST ANIMATIONS : (-) BOOM (+) – Aren Mkhoyan (UK – AM) //
The drift – Richard Negre (FR)

STAFF PICKS : ARENA – Myles Clohessy (US) // Infernal Nebula – Michael Sefton (UK)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Anywhere But Here – Maitry Rao (UK) // Noise – Victoria Uchitel (IL)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Yí – Karin Porley von Bergen (UY) //
WELLSPRING – Jeffrey Smith Quizon (PH)

BEST TRAILER: Pasola – battle on holy ground – Joo Peter (DE)

Around International – Berlin
August 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Sound of pain – Vijeesh Mani (IN)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: The Same As Yesterday – Pepi Romagnoli (IT)

BEST SHORT FILM: In the Corner of My Eye – Alicia Gong (CN)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Rossellini Roma ’21 – Francesco Piras (CH – IT)

BEST DIRECTOR: Paper Dream – Koichi Izuhara (JP)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Unforgettable – dp: Masaki Imanishi & dir: Junki Tachibana (JP)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Believer – Hong Shanjia (CN) // Black Sand – Dr. Sohan Roy (IN)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: A Life in Opera – Jade Patrick (US) //
Tequila Dream – Peter Lavery (UK)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : C A M A R A T A – Benjamin Henretig (US) //
The Trashboy – Salim El Turk

STAFF PICKS : Soft Rain – Sacha Geodegebure (SG) //
ARENA – Myles Clohessy (US)

BEST STUDENT FILMS : Perfect. – Anirudh Vadhri Kota (US) // Tap Dance – Christa Villavasso (US)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: The Decipio – Jason Gullifer (US) //
Share House 33 – Yumi Masuda (JP)

BEST TRAILER : Grandmas & Ladybugs – LeGrand Leseur (US)

Around International – Paris
August 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Paper Dream – Koichi Izuhara – (JP)

BEST SHORT FILM: Happily Never After – Tamara Hernandez (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: It’s not about Eitan – Ron Baranov (IL)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Alone beneath the Northern Lights –
Valentin Boitel-Denyset (FR – NO)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD : Nanakorobi – Glenna Burmer & Gaby Breiter (US)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: An Unacknowledged Artist – Jonas Oliver Cramer (DK)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Brotherhood – Evan McMinn (US)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: Once Again – Viktor David Samuel Jonsson (SE)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Selftherapy – Mohammad Hossein Zalbak & Ben Cyran (BE) // Zephyr – Théo Deprez (FR)

ARFF STAFF PICK : This Case & My Life – Ana A P Braunstein (US)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Ripe Motive – Paige Alexander (US)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Exist – Niaz Parvaresh (US)

BEST TRAILERS: Tella – Zachary Conlu (PH)

Around International – Barcelona
September 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Hello, Beijing – Xixi Cao (CN)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Song For Hope – Chris Haigh (US)

BEST SHORT FILM: DARK – Kevin Overton (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bi-2 — We don’t need a hero – Max Shishkin (RU)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Bringing Assad To Justice –
RONAN TYNAN (US – IR – FR – DE – PT – TR – UK) // Songbirds – Dagan Beckett (US)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: RARE ENOUGH – Ryan Lovell (US) //
Smoking – Luisa Gherdaoui (BE)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Merge – Silken Kelly (US) //
Lock – Stanton Cornish-Ward (AU)

BEST MUSIC VIDEOS: AITCH – Learning Curve – Kc Locke (UK) //
Space Chaser – Remnants of Technology – Lucas Fiederling (DE)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Tella – Zachary Conlu (PH) // The Drowned – Luc Perez (DK)

STAFF PICKS: Christopher Kenji – Summer Fog – Guillermo Arcaya (US) //
At the circuit – Olivier van Malderghem (BE)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Fever – Matias Carlier (CH)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: DIES IRAE – Day of wrath – Nacho Gutierrez (ES) //
The Same As Yesterday – Pepi Romagnoli (IT)

BEST TRAILER: Resolve – Marta Borowski (CA)

Around International – Barcelona
September 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Without Clemency – Jorge Mauro Javier Mauad (CO)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY : #KidsOnTech –
Paul Zehrer (US – CA – CN – FR – DE – IN – JP – CH)

BEST SHORT FILM : Mylk – Ben Prendergast & Ngaire Dawn Fair (US – AU)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: DRNISKI PRSUT – Tony Marin (HR – AU) //
Living Through It – Daniel E. Kennedy (US)

BEST DIRECTOR: Love Laboratory – Muchao Wang & Fangmin Wang (CN)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: S T I L L – Kiran West (DE – AT)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: True Believer – Hideki Kojitani (JP) //
Envoy: Shark Cull – Andre Borell (AU)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : Journey to Quantum –
Micky Suelzer (DE) // She Q – Tomoaki Yanai (JP)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Brood X – Yevgeniy K’banchik (US) //
YELLOW – Magali Gaudau & José Salazar (FR)

STAFF PICKS: Glaistig – Abbey Spacil (US) // The Gunslinger – Alexander Lindman (SE)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: How I’ve Met God – German Kuzyura (US) //
The Letter Not Sent – Mandi Huang (CN)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Posi-Traction – Caleb Johnson & Clint Calvert (US) // Hare Krishna – Hindol Chakraborty (IN)

BEST TRAILER : LIZARD – Miguel A Sarduy (US) // Reinventados – Josefina Cabezón (CL)

Around International – Paris
September 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Kieu@ – Do Thanh An (VN)

BEST SHORT FILM: Peter Pan – Ronald Lee Allman (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Into the fog – dp: Kaleb Laidman & dir: Anna Nadtotchii

BEST DOCUMENTARY: So, still digging? – Hugo Dayan (CN – FR – PF – MY)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Unflinching Grace – Bill Frakes (US) //
Living Through It – Daniel E. Kennedy (US)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Jenna The Great – Dan Tonkin (UK) //
Part Forever – Alan Chung-An, Ou (TW)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: The End of Lipstick – Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness (US) // Souvenirs – Yuya Ishihata (JP)

BEST MUSIC VIDEOS : PÉCHO – Luis Villanueva (US – PH) //
TSUNAMI – Marie-Claire NEVEU & Ghina DAOU (FR)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Lotus Flower – Victoria Washington (US) //
Which God Can Forgive Us – Linsheng Wu (CN)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: Saving The World – Dimitri D. Kwenda (UG) //
I knocked on my home’s door – Matthew Khoury (IL)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Helicopter Mom – Heewon Jeong (US) //
Tomorrow – Mohammad Shihab Uddin (BD)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Glass Door – Katherine King (US) //
Ramblings of a Street Salope – Frankie (AU)

BEST TRAILERS : Reinventados – Josefina Cabezón (CL) //
At the circuit – Olivier van Malderghem (BE)

Around International – Amsterdam
October 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Nightline – Robert Sedlacek (CZ)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: America Boxed In –
Casey G. Williams & Ian S. Williams (US – CN)

BEST SHORT FILM : Belief – Masud Akhond (SE – BD)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Planet Earth – a brief history Bruce Currie (AU)

BEST DIRECTOR: The little Match Girl – Selma Indine Strønen Damm (NO)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: MILKED – dp & dir: Amy Taylor (NZ)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Do you remember your mothers hands –
Barbra Coco Laurré (NO – DK) // Watchmen Of The Gibbon – Yile Zhang (CN)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Sojourn – Lena Nerinckx (BE) //
A Soldier’s Letter – Calvin Yearsley (BE)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Orion 1925 – Eva M. Ingolfsdottir (IS) //
Bloodslide – Evan Pearce & Joshua Tokarsky (CA)

STAFF PICKS: A Brief Inquiry – Efrat Kashai (US – UK) // KUNU – Onias Landveld (NL)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Old Donkey – Xiangang Meng (DE-CN) //
Selftherapy – Mohammad Hossein Zalbak & Ben Cyran (BE)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : HYENA – Jack Perez (US) //
Sounds of the South – Hubert Neufeld (DE – AQ)

ARFF BEST TRAILER: Droplets II – Konstantyn Napolov (NL) //
Mentawai – Souls of the Forest (DE – MY)

Around International – Barcelona
October 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR : Without Clemency – Jorge Mauro Javier Mauad (CO)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: It’s good to be me – Zlatko Zlatkovic (RS)

BEST SHORT FILM: Crop Season – Sebastian Nandryka (ES)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Brown Bag Special –
dp: Jon Schweigart & dir: Seth Wimmer (US)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: The Desire To Live – Mariam Avetisian (AM) //
Cleaning the planet Earth – Anna Girbau (ES)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Spring has arrived – Frank Reyes (ES) //
It’s Not Safe Outside – Stephan Bookas (UK)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS : Rube G. – Jody Oberfelder (US) //
Frozen Brothers – Alan Wang (CN)

BEST ANIMATION: The Breasts of Tiresias – Robert Barry Fleming (US)

STAFF PICKS: Sum of Your Luv – Deena M. Morgan (US) // True Believer – Hideki Kojitani (JP)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Lotus Flower – Victoria Washington (US)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS : She Q – Tomoaki Yanai (JP) //
One & One – Fabrizio Notarpietro (CH)

BEST TRAILER: BEHOLDER – Wesley Walker Thompson (US)

Around International – Berlin
October 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Inner Front – Guido Acampa (IT)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: Salaryman – Allegra Pacheco (CR – JP)

BEST SHORT FILMS : Tasteless – Amnon Carmi (US – IL) //
Color Me Jane – Mary Darling (CA)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY : La famiglia – Augey Marc (IT – FR)

BEST DIRECTOR: Nata Samrat – Rishikeshwar Yogi (IN)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : I am Poison – L’Effetto – Żee Marla Osh (DE – IT)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Till Death Do Us Part – Insia Dariwala (IN) //
The Art Of Mars – Ossi Piispanen (UK) // Lost Time – J.M.Baxter Chapman

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Finding Abraham – Malcolm Green (UK – IL) //
Occasional – Sascha Klar (DE) Prometheus. The poem of the Kazan Fire – Didar Orazov (RU)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Destiny’s Fuge- Breton Tyner-Bryan // Lonely Season – Hamid Reza Mahmoudi (US – IR)

STAFF PICKS: One Of A Kind – The McFallo Cobra –
Mathias Kögel & Michael Haunschmidt (US – AT) //
The Game The Doubt – Hamid Reza Mahmoudi (IR) //
Write your line – Augey Marc & Collet Andy (FR)

BEST STUDENT FILMS : Bendición – Krist Muñoz-Malavé (US) //
Walk Alone – Lamu Shangchoo (US – CN)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Ash and Bone – Harley Wallen (US) //
From Sent Ash to Dancing Ground – Maëva Spyropoulos (AU)

BEST TRAILER: Commissioner Gordon: Oh Snap – Sean Michael Danganan (US)

Around International – Paris
October 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Kieu@ – Do Thanh An (VN)

BEST SHORT FILM: Peter Pan – Ronald Lee Allman (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Into the fog – dp: Kaleb Laidman & dir: Anna Nadtotchii

BEST DOCUMENTARY: So, still digging? – Hugo Dayan (CN – FR – PF – MY)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Unflinching Grace – Bill Frakes (US) //
Living Through It – Daniel E. Kennedy (US)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Jenna The Great – Dan Tonkin (UK) //
Part Forever – Alan Chung-An, Ou (TW)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: The End of Lipstick – Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness (US) // Souvenirs – Yuya Ishihata (JP)

BEST MUSIC VIDEOS : PÉCHO – Luis Villanueva (US – PH) //
TSUNAMI – Marie-Claire NEVEU & Ghina DAOU (FR)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Lotus Flower – Victoria Washington (US) // Which God Can Forgive Us – Linsheng Wu (CN)

ARFF STAFF PICKS: Saving The World – Dimitri D. Kwenda (UG) //
I knocked on my home’s door – Matthew Khoury (IL)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Helicopter Mom – Heewon Jeong (US) //
Tomorrow – Mohammad Shihab Uddin (BD)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Glass Door – Katherine King (US) //
Ramblings of a Street Salope – Frankie (AU)

BEST TRAILERS : Reinventados – Josefina Cabezón (CL) //
At the circuit – Olivier van Malderghem (BE)

Around International – Amsterdam
November 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: Night, Mother – John Patrick Lowrie (US)

BEST SHORT FILM: Paradise path – Lauren Ransan (FR)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Seeing in the dark – Juliëtte Dominicus (NL)

BEST DIRECTOR : Le Pain – Pepijn Tebrunsvelt (NL – BE)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : FAGGOTS –
dp: Patrycja Planik & dir: Dominik Wojciech Krawiecki & Patrycja Planik (PL-CH)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: LANAPA – Hong Shun Hu (CN – MM) //
Korean GENOCIDE – Seung-il Chon (KR)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS : THEFT – Roman Sotnikov (RU) //
NATZRAT – Cristian Calabrese (IT)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Trending – dave shecter (US) //
Umbilical Cord – Kwok Hin Tang (HK)

STAFF PICKS: Ancient Lover By Banjii & Mayuri (US) //
Psychedelic Reiki Massage – Michelle Ragay (DE)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Play – Olga Kondyli Roussou (DE) //
Drunken Boat – Xueqi Wang (CN)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Josefina – Nadia Flamenco //
Yellowstone 88 – Song of Fire – Jerry van de Beek (US)

ARFF BEST TRAILER: Spring has arrived – Frank Reyes (ES)

Around International – Barcelona
November 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Guardians of Paradise – Ivan Maria Friedman (CH)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Do you remember your mothers hands – Barbra Coco Laurré (DK)

BEST SHORT FILM: Here Is Where the Monsters Live –
Chance Fuerstinger & April Matson (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: OLMA DJON – Victoria Yakubov (FR – KZ)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: 4 Suns & Piano – Boris Kovac (RS) //
Elves of Taiwan – Shin-I (Marina) Pai (TW)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Enough – Fabrizio Daniele (US) // The Exit – Sara Saghari (UK)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: RADIX – Cristiano Leone (IT)

BEST MUSIC VIDEOS : Blue Cranes w/ Edna Vazquez – “Tatehuari” – Sarah Whelden (US) // Droplets II – Konstantyn Napolov (NL)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Set It Off Tonight- Mindy Strouse & Lisa Dietrich //
Nightlink – Aidan O’Sullivan (IE)

STAFF PICKS : Skiathos Greece – Pascal Mantis & Elena Xidia (GR) //
Treasure – Kavika Sharma (IN)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Enclosed – Yi Yang (US) // Filled Vacuum – Yotam Giustizia (IL)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: Jenna The Great – Dan Tonkin (UK)

BEST TRAILER: Norma Doesn’t Know She’s Magic – Francisco Huergo (US)

Around International – Paris
November 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Nightline – Robert Sedlacek (CZ)

BEST SHORT FILM: Cinephile – Kate Brossard (FR)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tainan Fantage – dp: Zongyu Hsieh & dir: Jason M TSENG (TW)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Outside In – Mark O’Toole (US)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Growing Peace in the Middle East – Steven Hoffen (US) //
America Boxed In – Casey G. & Ian S. Williams

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: More Than I Can Say – Frances Feng (CN – KR) //
Laundry Day – Life on the Line – Ines Eisses (CA)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: Brave New World – Yantra de Vilder (AU) //
RADIX 2 – Cristiano Leone (IT)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: The Last Song – Matthew Cooke (US)

BEST STUDENT FILM: Without You – Jae-woo Park (KR)

ARFF STAFF PICK: Extinct Animals – Masaki Soejima (JP)

BEST ANIMATION: Anamnesis – Gaea Latitudes, vol. I: Ecocide – Ilkka Ilmari Levä (FI)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Here Is Where the Monsters Live //
Discovering of Fire – Yuyang Cheng (CN)

BEST TRAILER: Grow Green Wild Winds – Grace Dunn (UK)

Around International – Amsterdam
December 2021 Selection

BEST FEATURE FILM: 6:45 – Craig Singer (US)

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: I Am Simon: The Call of the Elephants –
Maria Jimenez Chavez & Juan Chavez (OM)

BEST SHORT FILM: The Swimmer – Sophie Salzer (DE)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY: Earth to Art: Basketmaker – David Zurick (US)

BEST DIRECTOR: 2 Psychos in a Pod – Kurt Collins (US)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY : JAKOB & MARIA –
dp: Manon Pichon & dir: Christian Schiesser (AT)

ARFF GLOBE AWARD: Bloody Petrol – Reza Azadi (NL – IR)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Invisibilia – Ruben de Goeij (NL) // Small World – Alex Child (UK)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: All short films about BrückenKunst,
a group of international free artists in Berlin, from 2014-2018

STAFF PICK: The loneliness of those who do not exist – Alfonso Burgos Risco (ES)

BEST STUDENT FILMS: Maw of Delusion – Benjamin J. Young (US)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: The Way Forward – Roman Jaquez (US)

ARFF BEST TRAILER: Omicron according to Nostradamus – Shihyun Wang (US)

Around International – Barcelona
December 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Bigger Than The World – Beto Marquez (BR)

BEST SHORT FILM : Para Nadar – Flore Elise Hartout (ES – FR)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: My heart –
dp: Angela Morant & directors: Tamara André & Tania Mariama & Angela Morant (ES)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS : Lonely Season – Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi (IR)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARD: The Knight’s Hart – Vivi Markatos (GR)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Blue Cooler – Laura Margulies (US)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO: Julian Brooks – Snakebite – Tim Cash & Irie Adina (US)

BEST ANIMATIONS: Saint Grady – Andrew R Pritzker (US)

STAFF PICK : Bizzarro e Fantastico – Kris Krainock (US – IT – FR)

BEST STUDENT FILM: Transcendance – Javier Antonio Castro (CR)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTION: I knocked on my home’s door – Matthew Khoury (IL)

Around International – Paris
December 2021 Selection

BEST DIRECTOR: Oasis – Mengqiao Chen (CN)

BEST SHORT FILM : Rosa – Pete Schilling (DE)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Paradise path – dp: Abel Vaccaro & dir: Lauren Ransan (RE)

BEST DOCUMENTARY : Liveaboard: an American Odyssey – Christopher J. Brownfield (US)

ARFF GLOBE AWARDS: Being Michelle – Atin Mehra (US) //
The boy with the book under his arm – Simone Menin (IT – DE)

ARFF AUDIENCE AWARDS: Dance For Emily – Adellain Tsiahina (FR) //
Severyanin – Fyodor Petrukhin (RU)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMS: As before, I didn’t do anything. – Jinyoung Park (KR)

BEST MUSIC VIDEO : Lo que ves no es lo que soy – Paco Álvarez (MX)

BEST STUDENT FILM: Fallen Angel – Taylor Marie James (US) //
Last Cigarette – Jiacun Li (UK)

ARFF STAFF PICK : CAILLOU – Anthony Chambeau (FR)

BEST ANIMATION : Not Too Late – Thiago Maia (UK)

ARFF INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS: Room of her Own – Jemima Burrill (UK) //
Heza – Derya Deniz (RU – IQ – SY)

BEST TRAILER: Harold Halibut – Onat Hekimoglu (DE)

Around International – Amsterdam
December 2021 Selection