In 2014, the festival started accepting applications via the world-renowned platform FilmFreeway and in the official program were screened films from 26 countries.
Early Bird Grand Award
Moonless Summer
Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
31’00
written and directed by Stefan Ivancić
cinematography: Igor Djordjević
editing: Jelena Maksimović
Before moving abroad, sixteen-year-old Isidora spends a few days in the countryside house with her older sister. Lost in the summer’s stillness, she wonders will she ever stay the same.
Best Bulgarian Film
Heart Of Lead
London Film School, United Kingdom
21’00
written and directed by Slava Doicheva
cinematography: Geo Ivanov
editing: Shirley Bruno
An ancient Turkish ritual, a battered Bulgarian night train and a vast beach at the Atlantic ocean are all united by one young woman and her fight with a crippling fear.
Best Foreign Film
Arena
National Film School in Lodz, Poland
23’00
written and directed by Martin Rath
cinematography: Bartosz Swiniarski
editing: Patrik Eriksson
A hitchhiker is taken in by a remote Polish mountain community. Tested by the hardened locals and the unforgiving harshness of his new environment he constitutes his presence in the mountains. But to whom do we have to prove of what we're made?
President of the Jury Award
Firecrackers
La Fémis, Paris, France
26’00
written and directed by Pauline Laplace
cinematography: Augustin Barbaroux
editing: Pierre Deschamps
Julie is wandering in the neighbour Chemin de l’Île at Nanterre. She’s looking for someone she knew and meet unknown people. During her dance between the sounds of children playing and the songs of the open air dance hall, stories are told…
Best Documentary
Set Up
İstanbul Kültür University, Turkey
34’44
director: Şirin Erensoy
cinematography: Barkın Çoruh
editing: Özge Sağsöz
Bilge Haymatlos… Stateless… His father describes him as a “world citizen”. His music career took him places most of us never would imagine. However he mixed a little bit of “hell” into this dream. Today he is after a different dream: to start life anew from a whole new point. This is not an “if only” story, or an ode to foolishness. This is the story of the honest struggle of someone amongst us who is trying to come once again into existence.
Best Animation
Sisters
Royal Academy of Arts, Gent, Belgium
07’48
written, directed and shot by Lea Vidakovic
An animation triptych which evokes the atmosphere of old Dutch paintings, where sisters are trapped in melancholy, facing the loss and emptiness over the missing one.
Best Directing
I'm Not Your Friend
Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
18’00
director: Jelena Gavrilovic
cinematography: Ivan Markovic
editing: Natasa Pantic
While Milena (16) is stalking the boy she loves, her younger cousin Vida (10) and her friend Maja (10) are making her company. Two of them are trying to figure out all the mysteries of teenage world of love, freedom and responsibility.
Best Screenplay
One Night Only
Met Film School, London, United Kingdom
16’00
written and directed by Che Grant
cinematography: Jaryl Lim
A single night in and around the streets of London. A first date catastrophe? Or the beginning of true romance? Yet all may not be what it seems.
Best Cinematography
Sisters
Royal Academy of Arts, Gent, Belgium
07’48
written, directed and shot by Lea Vidakovic
An animation triptych which evokes the atmosphere of old Dutch paintings, where sisters are trapped in melancholy, facing the loss and emptiness over the missing one.
Best Editing
In Between
Film Academy Vienna, Austria
24’30
director: Jannis Lenz
cinematography: Jakob Fuhr
editing: Alexander Rauscher
Max has been studying in Frankfurt for some time when a family event brings him back home to Vienna’s outskirts. A short meeting with old friends turns into an all-nighter, just like in the old days: drinking beer in the skate park, secretly breaking into the outdoor pool with young women, hanging out at the bus stop – a night between youthful memories and „hardcore grown-up stuff“.