OFFICIAL COMPETITION: Best Israeli Short - Sponsored by PRIDE TV
Winner:
Ripples
Director: Yael Nudelman
By giving a platform for her friends to testify on her own experience of sexual assault, filmmaker Yael Nudelman introduces a powerful cinematic voice. Her minimalist approach creates an impactful film about rape culture, and its nuanced long-term effects. By inviting a variety of experiences, memories and opinions to be heard, she facilitates conversations which, more often than not, are avoided due to fear of legitimacy. With no explicit intention on her behalf she advocates communication and healing by means of her cinematic choices only.
Winner gets also 2 days off-line in Red Pill
Honorable Mention:
The 50th Psalm
Directors: Hamad Sharoof, Fadi Qupti
Hand in hand, the creators are taking us to an intriguing journey into the protagonist’s soul. Between love, passion, jealousy and fear – like the sweater in the beginning of the film – bringing complexity, layers, love for cinema and love for human beings.
But the sweater cannot warm the heartbreak when love is absent, and we discover heavenly threads between life and death, light and shadow, what’s hidden and what’s discovered. “The 50th Psalm” is a touching cinematic document, a fairytale with a hero with sparkling eyes, looking for love and freedom in a conservative community.
Winner gets also 1 day off-line in Red Pill
OFFICIAL COMPETITION: NARRATIVE
Winner:
Deserto Particular // Private Desert
Director: Aly Muritiba
The Best Narrative Film award goes to “Private Desert” for a ravishing cinematic experience, filled with compassion regarding delicate topics. This is a daring film, with script and direction that challenge the audience and raise important questions on masculinity and solitude, yet still able to provide a hopeful and uplifting point of view.
Honorable Mention:
Language Lessons
Director: Natalie Morales
An Honorable Mention award is given to “Language Lessons”, a film that manages in its own light way to touch the subject of human pain in the deepest form and enchant the viewer with excellent and authentic acting performances. The relationship the movie describes manages to avoid all the clichés, and proves that platonic relationships can be just as cinematic as romantic ones.
OFFICIAL COMPETITION: DOCUMENTARY
Winner:
Sedimentos // Sediments
Director: Adrian Silvestre
The Best Documentary Film award is given to the film “Sedimentos”, for representing a variety of trans life experiences with deep human dignity, and for a brave cinematic language, taking the time to listen and observe people and their relations with extraordinary intimacy.
Honorable Mention:
Raw! Uncut! Video!
Directors: Alex Clausen, Ryan A. White
A Special Mention is given to the film “Raw! Uncut! Video!” for extraordinary documentation of radical historical hot porn, and the brave inspiring people behind it.
Honorable Mention:
Colors of Tobi
Director: Alexa Bakony
A Special Mention is given to the film “Colors of Tobi”, a moving drama about gender fluidity and a brave and inspiring family, with interesting cinematic language and a resonating optimistic story.
OFFICIAL COMPETITION: INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS
Winner:
All Those Sensations in My Belly
Director: Marko Dješka
Marko Dješka’s short movie “All Those Sensations in My Belly” tells the story of a trans woman – from the confusing moments of her childhood, through the gender reaffirming process she goes through as an adult, and up to her quest for love. With rich, original and delicate animation the movie sweeps the viewer in a heartfelt and honest journey.
DOCUMENTARY FILM PROJECT IN MEMORY OF CHEN LANGER
Winner Project:
Not Everything is Pink by Moran Nakar
The film tells the story of a special place named “the pink roof” that provides emergency shelter for the lagbtq community between the age of 18 to 25, asking for a temporary shelter. Hen Langer, who used to volunteer at the “Bar-Noar” believed in the importance of a place like the pink roof, as it appears to be a safe space for him and many other like him within his community. We chose to support the creation of this film as it gives the audience a glimpse to a phase of struggle in life – in which teenagers share their moments of escaping home, the crossroads of their journeys, reconstruction and deconstruction of their souls and evolution of being.
NARRATIVE FILM PITCH IN ASSOCIASION WITH GESHER FILM FUND
Winner Project:
Shelter by Moran Nakar
A poetic and touching film. By using marginalized and persecuted characters, the creators were able to take a topic that at first seems to be political and transform it into a film on humanity, solidarity and trust in human beings.
YOUNG FILMMAKERS COMPETITION
Winner:
Nothing to hide
Director: Sivan Baba
For building a clever, complex, dramatic and surprising familial story, accompanied by authentic and touching characters, cinematic aesthetics and natural acting talent of the two young female leading actresses – we have chosen to give the Best Film award at the Youth Competition to “Nothing to Hide”.