Best Dance Film
Liminality
Directed by
Jennifer Akalina Petuch, Annali Rose

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Best Religious/Spiritual Film
My Name Is Jesus
Directed by
Fabio Giovinazzo

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Virtual Reality
KOMEZ ALEF O
Directed by
Ioulia Isserlis

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Debut Film
My name is Shaun
Director 
Ann Topolsky

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Best Thriller
Heaven's Revenge, I Love You to Death
Directed by
LaNease Adams

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Best Horror
The Man in the Shadows
Director 
Tom Kircher

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Best Sci-Fi
Bad Love Tigers
Writer
Kevin L. Schewe

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Best Script
A Sort of Madness
Writer David Matthew Barnes

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Best Script Honorable Mention
THE MUSIC LESSON
Writer Victor Dean

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Best Script Honorable Mention
Again, Mama
Writer Geqi Li

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Best Micro Film
My Sweet DOLLy
Director Kurt Leitner

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Experimental Short
sYnc
Director Eva Ludwig

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Student Films
The Final Moments
Directed by
Max Keller

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Student Films Honorable Mention
Sould
Directed by
Thomas Kriechhammer

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Student Films Honorable Mention
the first 8 weeks after the last 8 years
Directed by
Marion Brogyanyi

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Female Empowerment
Two Alone
Director Hikari Hiyane

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Best Female Director
Man with Shadow
Director Ema Kugler

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Documentary Short
The Great Atchafalaya Basin
Director Mark Knight

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Documentary Short Honorable Mention
Knots
Director Aïcha Morin-Baldé

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Narrative Short
Optics
Director Oleksii Novikov

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Narrative Short Honorable Mention
tHE aGe oF aNXieTy
Directed by
Stephen Donovan, Mark Dendy

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Documentary Feature
This is What New Yorkers Say
Director Sara Alessandrini

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Best Director
Kasha Fauscett
For
Camp Koba

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Best Cinematography
A Feast That Never Comes
Directed by
Maria Juranic

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Best Editing
Teach me about dying
Directed by
Andreas Bender