Awards
2023
Best Animation
Christopher at Sea
by Tom CJ Brown 15' France
After embarking as a passenger onboard a cargo ship returning to Europe he begins to question his sanity and the very understanding of his perception of time in this romantic psychological thriller at sea. After a brief encounter with one of the shipmates, James, Christopher settles into life on board the ship. His life quickly falls into a routine that shapes his day-to-day existence, mirroring the monotony of the ship’s passage through open waters.
Best Documentary
Shirampari: Legacies of the River
by Lucia Florez 15' Spain
In one of the most remote places of the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using just a hook to start his journey to becoming an adult.
Best film Architecture & Environment
Women in Architecture
by Boris Noir 20’ Documentary I Switzerland
A film to inspire and encourage the position of women in our society.
A better built environment is also an inclusive one. That’s why diversity is key to our profession, as it expands our views of the world and connects us with the real needs of society. So we opened a window into the professional and personal lives of three women in architecture who bring something unique to the world, to inspire others.
We reached out to Toshiko Mori, Gabriela Carrillo and Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge, three architects in three different countries, in different contexts, at different stages of their life and career, but with a lot in common: recognized practitioners, with a passion for education, working with communities, and a sensibility towards the needs of society and the built environment.
visions of a more natural world.
Special Mention Irini
Yarokamena
by Andres Jurado 21' Colombia
Yarokamena, a Uitoto indigenous person organized resistance to rubber exploitation in the Amazonas; he invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container creating a spiral of betrayal and death
Best Cinematography
Maidenhood
by Xochitl Enriquez Mendoza 15' Mexico
Catalina submits to the tradition of her people, “La Baláhna”, to demonstrate her purity and worth as a woman to her beloved, but her body betrays her and she fails to demonstrate her chastity. What future awaits Catalina in the face of a syncretic love that rejects her?.
Best Cinematography Greek Short Film
Amygdala
by Maria Hatzakou Fiction I Greece
Two sisters, Anna and Melina spend the last days of the summer in their vacation house outside of Athens. Anna is having a party to celebrate her birthday and her passage to adulthood. Soon she will be off to college leaving her little sister behind. She has invited Maria, her crush, to spend the day with her by the pool and organise the party. Melina obsessively loves and admires her older sister and wants badly to be part of her world. She is not invited to the party. But she sets her mind to it, making this night for her sister a bloody night to remember.
