Festival Winners

2022

Best Feature Film
Verona (Brazil 2021), directed by Ane Siderman

Best Short Documentary
After Mario (United States 2020), directed by Shantre Pinkney

Best Short Film
She’s the Protagonist (Belgium 2021), directed by Sarah Carlot Jaber

Best Super Short Film
Ten Seconds More (Italy 2017), directed by Stefano Bolognini & Massimiliano Saltori

Best Short Animation
My Son Has A Dinosaur (Mexico 2021), directed by Alfredo Salomón

Audience Award
After Mario (United States 2020), directed by Shantre Pinkney

2021

Best Feature Film
Trauma – The Darkest Side (Iran 2020), directed by Hesam Dehghani

Best Short Documentary
Deserted (France 2020), directed by Ahmet Dere

Best short film
Close Your Eyes and Look at Me (Italy 2020), directed by Andrea Castoldi

Best super short film
Just A Day (Hungary 2018), directed by Lara Czernecki

Best Short Animation
Warnival (Belgium 2020), directed by Joke Desmaele

Audience Award
Liberty (Mexico 2021), directed by Bobby Morris & Ariadna Franco Martinez

2020

Best Feature Film
Juliana & The Medicine Fish (Canada 2019), directed by Jeremy Torrie

Best Short Documentary
Values of the Antiques (United Kingdom 2019), directed by Chengjun Yang

Best short film
Stood Up (Canada 2019), directed by Cjay Boisclair

Best super short film
re/cycle (Netherlands 2018), directed by Rene Smaal

Best Short Animation
Gravity (Netherlands 2019), directed by Yao Yao

Best Actor
Ákos Horváth in The Shepherd (Hungary 2019), directed by László Illés

Audience Award
Alex & Jack (United States 2019), directed by Morgan Modesto

Golden Piglet Award
Three Drops of Life (India 2019), directed by Srikanth Polisetti

2019

Best Feature Film
Eleanor (USA 2018), directed by Aidan Kane

Best Short Documentary
Das Ist Komisch (Canada 2018), directed by Louis St-Pierre

Best short film
Wait in Vain (USA 2018), directed by Indigo Bates

Best super short film
Attrait (Canada 2018), directed by Marie Soleil-Choquette

Best Short Animation
Super God (Music video) (USA 2018), directed by Carmen Traub

Best Short Screenplay
Skate Night, written by Kate Whitehead (Canada)

Best Song
Up in Smoke (USA 2018), composed and performed by Janani

Best Story
The Hospital Corridor (Bangladesh 2018), directed by Farhad Shahi

Best Photography
Panama (Panama 2018) by Mariana Guillen

Golden Piglet Award
Life Blows (Canada 2018), directed by Alec Jordan

2018

Best Feature Film
No Place Like on the Road (Hungary 2017), directed by Balint Mark Turi

Best Documentary
The Silent Glow – Recovering the Present (Germany 2017), directed by Anja Krug-Metzinger

Best short film
A Sign (France/Canada 2016), directed by Mahée Merica

Best super short film
Angel City (USA 2017), directed by Francisco Lorite

Best Longer Short Film
Vernon and Violet (USA 2017), directed by Nikoletta Kanakis

Best Short Screenplay
The Piano Love, written by Christine Hally (Ireland)

Best Song
Big Bad Handsome Man (Canada 2014), performed by Linda Carone

Best Screenplay
Confessions of a College Hustler, written by Phil Hollins (USA)

Best Photography
Salt and Light (USA 2017) by Hailey Patrick

Golden Piglet Award
Poetry & Melody (Brazil 2017), directed by Flavio Colombini

2017

Best longer short film
Unlikely Temptations (USA 2016), directed by Cory Reeder

Best actor
David Crivillé in Cowboys & Indians (Spain 2016), directed by Emilia Ruiz

Best short film
The Road (USA 2017), directed by Timur Bootzin

Best super short film
The Way (Uruguay, 2017), directed by Augusto Goicoechea

Best Cinematography
Gonzalo  Rielo in Bereavement (Spain 2016), directed by Yolanda Román

Audience Award
You are You (Spain 2016), directed by Carmen Gomez Peralta

Best Surprise us film
Mi e Ti (Italy 2015), directed by Samuele Gottardello

Best short screenplay
Baby Hope, written by Bruno Gomes (Portugal)

Outside the Box Award
Mama’s Precious Boy (Italy 2012), directed by Sara Spinelli

Golden Piglet Award
Cowboys & Indians (Spain 2016), directed by Emilia Ruiz

2016

Best longer short film
Relativity explained to children (France 2014), directed by Pierre Gaffié

Best actor
Eli Thorne in Sense (Netherlands 2014), directed by John Baak

Best short film
Switch Man (Taiwan 2015), directed by Hsun-Chun Chuang

Best super short film
The Question (UK, 2015), directed by Sabina Sattar

Best Cinematography
Evannah Jayne in Isabelle (Australia 2014), directed by Anja Celine Pedersen

Audience Award
Two words too many (Canada 2015), directed by Clint D’Souza

Best Surprise us film
The Genie (Puerto Rico 2015), directed by Johnny Whitehead

Best short screenplay
Ice Cream, written by Wynn Reichert (United States)

Golden Piglet Award
Rupert (France 2015), Lucas de Gastines France

2015

Audience Award
Run Out (Canada 2014), directed by André Gaumond

Best cinematography
Corto (France 2014), directed by Alexis de Vigan

Best actress
ViviAnn Yee in The Light and the Little Girl (United States 2014), directed by Guy Pooles

Best short film
ThunderCluck (United States 2014), directed by Paul Tillery

Best super short film
Drogba Vs. Malaria (France 2014), directed by Jeremy Guerrieri

Best longer short film
Kiko’s Paradise (Spain 2014), directed by Paco Gisbert

Best Surprise Us film
I’ve Just Had a Dream (Spain 2014), directed by Javier Navarro

Best screenplay
The Fix, written by Steven Canfield Crowley (United States)

Best short screenplay
Five Days in Calcutta, written by Fred Perry (United States)

Golden Piglet Award
Grown Ups (Spain 2014), directed by Javier Marco

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