WINNERS 8 & Halfilm Awards – SPECIAL EDITION IN CANNES 2024

2024 May 11

WINNERS 8 & Halfilm Awards – SPECIAL EDITION IN CANNES 2024

An impossible secret

by Sofia Sotiria Mavrou

BEST ORIGINAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR, BEST ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

Melodramma

by Giuseppe De Vuono

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Monument to Love

by Jacob Comforty

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Dojo

by Armin Alic

BEST ACTION MOVIE, BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST ACTOR (Jon Paul) & BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY

Heart to Heart

by Bruno Marro

BEST EUROPEAN SONG & BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO

Paradise Takeaway

by Paul Cooke

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR & BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT (Low Budget)

Chosta 3

by Jean Detheux

BEST INTERNATIONAL ART FILM

Lost Cause

by David J Schroeder

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER

I Survived The Holocaust

by Sanela Prašović Gadžo

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Two Fridges

by Rob Banish

BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA

The world of Martoon , episode 15

by Manouchehr Kholghi

BEST SUPER SHORT FILM & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

Escape of the Dragons

by Nicolas Bullentini

BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST CAST, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INDIE FILMMAKER

Two Million Steps

by Tommy Anderson

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK

Tangled Tails

by Oleg Condrea

BEST FIRST TIME SCREENWRITER

To Outwit the Fate

by Katarzyna Ewa Adamus

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER & BEST ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

by Ken Kimmelman

BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY & BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM

Tirare la cinghia

by Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN SUPER SHORT FILM

Orphic Laments

by Mimi Garrard

BEST INTERNATIONAL DANCE FILM & BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Beate sits in the bathroom in silence

by Valerie Knill

BEST ORIGINAL DRAMA SHORT

The Quisling

by Lynn Elliott

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY

Apples, Oranges, Lemons & Limes

by Pat Mitchell

BEST INTERNATIONAL THRILLER, BEST SUSPENSE, BEST INDIE AMERICAN DIRECTOR & BEST ROMANCE

The Sicilians

by Frank Mancuso

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

The way women are

by Adam Tuliński

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE EUROPEAN SHORT FILM

The Wrong Lighthouse

by Laura Fitton

BEST SYMBOLIC FILM

Guardian Angel

by Laura Fitton

BEST SMARTPHONE MOVIE

Paradox

by Robin Hunt

BEST INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI, BEST AMERICAN DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE PRODUCER & BEST CAST

Birthday Cake

by Eugenia Teller Ríos

BEST ORIGINAL STUDENT FILM

Chosen Family

by Dina Faye Gilmore

BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT & BEST LGBTQ+ SCRIPT

Magma

by Nicolas Maffre

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO & FANTASY SUPER SHORT FILM

Picture Me This

by Dean Morgan

BEST NO-DIALOGUE FILM

BayouTech

by Kathleen Renee Krenitsky

BEST EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATED SHORT & BEST STOP MOTION PROJECT

Your Choice

by Barbara Spevack

BEST ACTRESS & BEST INDIE SHORT FILM (Low Budget)

The Girl Made of Earth and Water

by Pamela PerryGoulardt

BEST INTERNATIONAL TRAILER

Broken Redemption

by David M Lewis

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE FEATURE & BEST AMERICAN INDIE PRODUCER

Artist’s Voices

by Alberto Nacci

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine the Narrative Documentary / Film. Epeisodion Two

by Hudley Flipside

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Hearing Voices

by Debra Knox

BEST HORROR SHORT & BEST AMERICAN INDIE DIRECTOR

Fellini Mastorna…a film of no return

by Jennifer Glee Foley

BEST EXPERIMENTAL CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST FANTASY SHORT & BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER

Love Is My Gun

by Valerie Verseau

BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN

Little Miss Sunshine

by Charli Brown

BEST AMERICAN DRAMA

Seasoning of the Soul

by Charli Brown

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

Road 721

by Lucinda Luvaas

BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK & BEST ARTHOUSE INDIE DIRECTOR

Light me up / Five Lilies of the Vally / boy guitar

by Hiroaki Hirakata

BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VIDEO & BEST INSPIRATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Just an old fashion future / boy guitar

by Hiroaki Hirakata

BEST ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO

Precious The Baby Dragon

by Dawn Menge

BEST BOOK/MANUSCRIPT

Paula’s Dad and the right button in his head

by Thomas Heinemann

BEST CHILDHOOD FILM

Vanishing Ventures: The Mystery Of The Missing Business Journal!

by Cicely Mitchell

BEST INDIE ANIMATED PROJECT

MARYAM OF TSYON – Cap III Assumpta est in Caelum

by Fabio Corsaro

BEST HISTORICAL NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST RELIGIOUS FILM & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY

Heat and Love

by Michał Kucharski

BEST ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Where’s the money?

by Adam Scarborough

BEST ORIGINAL COMEDY

Spring In Chigwell

by Adam Scarborough

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST EXPERIMENTAL EDITING

And There’s Someone

by Stefano Giannotti

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO & BEST INDIE SONG

Inviolable

by Devin Dugan

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE WRITER

No One Will Know Me

by Devin Dugan

BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY SCRIPT

The Pathos of Hamlet

by Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST POETRY FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

The Stones of Rome

by Sean Gregory Tansey

BEST INDIE NARRATIVE SHORT

Take 7

by Vishal Rajput & Scott Parisien

BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SCRIPT

Vale Road

by Glenda Cimino

BEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR SHORT FILM

Bog Meditation

by Glenda Cimino

BEST VIDEOPETRY & BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY SHORT

The Brawl

by Mireille Fiévet

BEST INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SHORT & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER

The Dead Ringer

by Suzanne Lutas

BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT

Emergency Musical Response: Part 1 – Journey to Netherworld

by Cosmo Swevens

BEST AMERICAN SOUNDTRACK & BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FILM

Nuce

by John Johnson

BEST WESTERN SHORT FILM

Dogma

by John Johnson

BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL EDITING, BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST AMERICAN INDIE PRODUCER

The G-Files

by John Johnson

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY & BEST UNIVERSAL INDIE FILMMAKER

Ye Ole Glorya

by Jeffrey R. Kazanjian

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY

Cycle of Pain

by Mikos Zavros

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT

Urban Eats MTL

by Ioannis Koutroubis

BEST INTERNATIONAL WEB/TV SERIES

Planetary Rebellion

by Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST ARTHOUSE SONG & BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO

1955 march 5 A song for Carla

by Fabrizio Fuochi

BEST ORIGINAL SUPER SHORT FILM

The Tías mockumentary

by Grace Fraga

BEST INDIE COMEDY

Say My Name

by Rhoyce Nova

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR, BEST POETIC DRAMA, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER & BEST ARTHOUSE INDIE SHORT FILM

Fate’s Shadow: The Whole Story

by Michelle Arthur

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE PICTURE, BEST AMERICAN ACTRESS (Michelle Arthur – Eva) & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

A Pilgrimage Into Tibet

by Mark Gould

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY & BEST DIRECTOR (Category Documentary)

Colombano & La 21esima Fetta

by Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILM & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE FILMMAKER

The game just got real

by Bellopropello

BEST ANIMATED SUPER SHORT FILM

Are you going to wait for the next one?!

by Emilio Guizzetti

BEST SOCIAL NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST ARTHOUSE SUPER SHORT FILM

Antiquarius

by Jacek Krawczyk

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER, BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT & BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Original Short Film)

Red Faust

by Zsolt Pozsgai

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM & BEST EUROPEAN SCREENPLAY

Lies of war

by Gerald Zinnegger

BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO

Errata in blue

by Karin Balog

BEST INTERNATIONAL ART FILM

La tête dans les étoiles

by Timo Paris

BEST ORIGINAL DANCE FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR

Omnipotent Resolution

by Uniqueness

BEST INTERNATIONAL SONG, BEST POETRY MUSIC VIDEO, BEST ORIGINAL SOUND DESIGN & BEST INDIE SINGER

The Adventures Of C.J.

by Gaby Day

BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT TV & BEST DRAMEDY SCRIPT

Cybernetic Genesis – La guerra tra i due mondi

by Anna Morelli

BEST EUROPEAN ACTION MOVIE & BEST FANTASY SCREENPLAY

Wave Man

by Anna Morelli

BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER

I Am God

by Brooklynn Winters & Virginia Torres

BEST AMERICAN DRAMA & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT

Soul

by I-Jien Jane Kou

BEST FANTASY SHORT FILM, BEST INSPIRATIONAL DIRECTOR & BEST ORIGINAL EDITING

Halloween (Rabbit Well Episode 6)

by I-Jien Jane Kou

BEST ANIMATED NARRATIVE SHORT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL COMEDY

Entangled

by Damiano Rossi

BEST POETRY SHORT FILM & BEST EUROPEAN INDIE FILMMAKER

Synesthesya

by Gianni Salamone & Marzio Benelli

BEST INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUNG MUSIC VIDEO

I Swear *

by Nathan Hey

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Music Video) & BEST PRODUCER

Searching for Camelot: The Quest

by Roger Paradiso

BEST DIRECTOR (Category: Narrative Feature)

Soul of the Ocean (Her Heartbeat)

by TerryLee WHETSTONe

BEST ARTHOUSE DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Examining Eloise – a case study in mental illness and demonic influence

by Delores Flynn Flynn & Jeffrey Checker

BEST ORIGINAL HORROR SHORT & BEST INDIE CINEMATOGRAPHER

Michelangelo and Me

by Colleen Fuglaar

BEST INTERNATIONAL ROMANTIC COMEDY & BEST AMERICAN PILOT TV

In a Whole New Way

by Jonathan Fisher

BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY SHORT & BEST AMERICAN FIRST TIME DIRECTOR

Sign – “I’m waiting for you”

by Riccardo Santoro

BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO

Atlas Of Uncertainty (7’15”)

by Massimo Vito Avantaggiato

BEST VIRTUAL REALITY, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST INTERNATIONAL SOUND DESIGN

Free Birds

by Olaf Lenz

BEST POETRY FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO

The Beloved Universe of Filmmaker

by Goran Ajtič

BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM

The Conspiracy

by Goran Ajtič

BEST THRILLER SHORT

Shenanigans Pilot

by Breanne Nicole Wilson

BEST ORIGINAL AMERICAN WRITER & BEST TELEVISION SCRIPT

Office Chatter

by Breanne Nicole Wilson

BEST INTERNATIONAL COMEDY, BEST AMERICAN FIRST TIME DIRECTOR & BEST CAST

The Dancing Spies @Goddess – Novel Manuscript

by Francis Billingsley

BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK

Ragzi & The Danseuse

by Kevin Michael Irvine

BEST ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL WRITER

Drag Queens Of Emeralis

by Kevin Michael Irvine

BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER

Late Sleeper

by Peter Morris Hardy

BEST INTERNATIONAL FIRST TIME FILMMAKER & BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHER

Nocturnal

by Peter Morris Hardy

BEST AMERICAN SCREENPLAY


Veil

by Peter Morris Hardy

BEST ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT

Noi Crusaders – 30 years of american football in Sardinia

by Stefano Sernagiotto

BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE DUCUMENTARY

Luzinete

by Carla Di Bonito

BEST DIRECTOR (Category Indie Narrative Short), BEST ORIGINAL SCREENWRITER, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Dreaming Vincent

by Christian Candido

BEST ART FILM, BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE PRODUCER, BEST EUROPEAN FILMMAKER & BEST EUROPEAN CAST

Universe Beyond Time

by Joel Barkley

BEST ANIMATED EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Virtuality

by Marta Torres

BEST EXPERIMENTAL INDIE SHORT FILM

Divide and plunder

by Marta Torres

BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY SHORT

Giulietta e Romeo?

by Vanessa Cremaschi

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST EUROPEAN FIRST TIME DIRECTOR & BEST INDIE PRODUCTION COMPANY

Windows of a Lonesome Chaos

by Jeff Riley Kazanjian

BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA SCRIPT

The Hollywood’ll Eat

by Jeffrey Riley Kazanjian

BEST AMERICAN SHORT SCRIPT

Man in a Can

by Henk Pringels

BEST POETRY ANIMATED PROJECT

Ritual For a Little Dead Bird

by Margreet Kramer

BEST ORIGINAL FILMMAKER & BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Hard Times In The Deep South

by Rick Revel & Kevin Kehl

BEST INDIE AMERICAN MUSIC VIDEO & BEST ARTHOUSE SONG

Master Speesa!

by Rosie Malek-Yonan & Monica Malek-Yonan

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL WRITER

Cats and Husbands

by Grace Samson & Barry Samson

BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT & BEST INDIE PRODUCER

Cozy Eurekas

by Marco Felipe Rossi

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG FILMMAKER

Tangled Tails

by Oleg Condrea

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER, BEST DRAMA SCRIPT & BEST INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL IDEA

EarthLove

by Felicia Konrad & Johan Haugen

BEST POETIC DANCE FILM & BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO

Rhymes With Crump

by John Johnson

BEST INTERNATIONAL SUPER SHORT FILM, BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE FILMMAKER

Essence On Time Frames

by Luis Dias

BEST INTERNATIONAL THRILLER SHORT & BEST SUSPENSE

All You Can Carry

by Max Orkis

BEST AMERICAN SCEENPLAY SHORT

Normal Thoughts From A Strange Mind: Volume I

by L. S. Strange

BEST SCI-FI SCRIPT, BEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR SCRIPT & BEST THRILLER SCRIPT

Appointment with The Plague Doctor, Lester Haywood

by L. S. Strange

BEST ORIGINAL FIRST TIME DIRECTOR, BEST HORROR SHORT, BEST TRAILER & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER (Category: Narrative Short)

Forever Love

by Mariano Tamburrini

BEST ITALIAN NARRATIVE SHORT

Ciccillo

by Mariano Tamburrini

BEST EUROPEAN INDIE PRODUCER & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT

The Running Man 2020

by Jonas Grimas

BEST ORIGINAL COMEDY

Championship Season

by James Anthony McElligott

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER

Krazy Dead

by Horatio Tihanyi & Dawn Nargi

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Double Identity

by Chris Nightshaid

BEST INTERNATIONAL LGBTQ+ FILM

The Village V: The Orphanage

by Isaac Lawrence

BEST INDIE DIRECTOR

Roses are Blind

by Gui Agustini

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, BEST AMERICAN ACTOR & BEST ORIGINAL THRILLER SHORT

Reawakened

by Denise Georgina Dowdell-Stent

BEST ORIGINAL BOOK

Eternal

by Denise Georgina Dowdell-Stent

BEST INTERNATIONAL WRITER

The Blanket

by Susanna Donau

BEST EUROPEAN SUPER SHORT & BEST EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION

Aspettando La Rivoluzione – I primi due episodi

by Francesco Niglio

BEST INTERNATIONAL YOUNG DIRECTOR, BEST INDIE CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST ORIGINAL PROJECT