Winners 2022

SQUISH - BEST SHORT MOVIE

Country: Belgium
Director: Xavier Seron
Screenwriter: Xavier Seron

FLO has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s TOM who takes care of SAM, their 5-year-old son.

Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during his absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course.

From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam.

The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPROTCH. Tom just crushed something...

 

 

 

 

THE MAN WHO WANTED TO SLEEP - BEST DIRECTOR

Country: France
Director: Thibault Lang-Willar
Screenwriter: Thibault Lang-Willar

Alfred, a resident of a nursing home, can no longer find sleep, disturbed by two residents who often have sex.

Frustrated, he decides to leave in the middle of the night to sleep outside.

But between the anti-homeless furniture and the surveillance robots, sleeping has become a luxury but Alfred doesn't know it yet…

 

 

 

 

FOR PETE'S SAKE - BEST SCREENPLAY

Country: Spain
Director: Gerald B. Fillmore
Screenwriter: Gerald B. Fillmore

Jim is going insane, he has been in the hospital forever.

When the doctor finally arrives with his tests, the results are unexpected.

A matter of laugh or death.

 

 

 

 

 

HOW MY GIRLFRIEND IGNITED ON OUR THIRD DATE - AUDIENCE AWARD

Country: Romania
Director: Márton Nagy
Screenwriter: Márton Nagy

Twenty-two-year-old Mark meets and instantly falls in love with Amanda, but turns out she isn't what she seems.

After a tragic and weird series of events, it's up to Mark and his roommate Levi to make sense of this bizarre situation.