- Documentary Film Festival Special Award -THE DONBASS CHILDREN

Synopsis: The Donbass Children is a movie about the Donbas war, first-person stories. The movie introduces people in Europe to a point of view that remains hidden to them – that of the war victims, of the people who did not want to take sides in the conflict but were forced into it.
Documentary, 60 min.
Bulgaria
Director: Lubomir Dankov
Film editor: Zina Nacheva
Operators: Tatyana Krylova and Lubomir Dankov
Sound: Nenko Milev
Director Biography – Lubomir Dankov

The director is a Bulgarian amateur photographer. He
has been developing an information project on the Donbass war since 2016. The
Donbass children is his first film.
- Best Documentary – SOME SOFIA BARDS AND OTHER LOCAL BIRDS

Synopsis: Sofia is a city of many faces; in it so many paths cross, and so many stories and fates. Old buildings, old trees and new architectural details match together into one big picture. We’ve met many people and quickly forgot most of them. We passed by so many never remembering their faces. Just as any other city that lives and breathes, this one too has its rhythm, its music born in the simultaneous movement of people, cars, dogs, cats, birds, and the leaves of the trees. Not all people can hear this music, but there are some, who can. This movie is about the people, who bring life to the city, the bards / singer-songwriters/. It’s about their footsteps and their songs, that we sing along not knowing where we’ve heard them, it’s about the melodies that get lost in the clamor and the sound of footfall and the roar of engines. – that make the leaves tremble, almost out of habit.
Directed by: Irina Kitova
Writing Credits: Irina Kitova
Produced by :Milena Ananieva -line producer
Snezhinka Andreeva-consultant
Ruslan Grudev-associate producer
Pravda Kirova-executive producer
Ludmila Zhiivkova-producer
Cinematography by : Simeon Kirov, Ivaylo Penchev
Film Editing by : Donka Ivanova
Production Design by :Rositsa Yachkova
Art Direction by: Rositsa Yachkova
Sound Department :Veselin Zografov
Camera and Electrical Department : Ivaylo Penchev –camera
Editorial Department: Ruslan Grudev-post-production coordinator
Maria Ivanova-assistant editor / post-production assistant, Angel Stefanov-assistant editor / editor
- Special Award Of The Festival Goddess On The Throne For Short Film – SYCAMORE

Synopsis: An old man spends the day wandering the streets of Istanbul. He communicates with the trees and seagulls rather than other people.

The director of Sycamore
Director: Mehmet Tigli
Writer: Mehmet Tigli
Stars: Baris Aksavas, Mahmut Gökgöz, Nur Cansu Solak
Produced by :Mina Ertem-co-producer
Erkan Simsir- producer
Music
by :
Sehabettin Genc
Cinematography by :Gökhan Deniz,Erkan
Simsir
Film Editing by :Mehmet Goksu
Casting By:Özgür Dereli
- Best Short Script – WINGS OF THE SPIRIT

Country: Austria
Length: 29 min
Language:German
Director Albert Meisl
Screenwriter: Albert Meisl
Producer:Lena Weiss
DoP:Alexander Dirninger
Editor: Sebastian Schreiner
Cast: Erwin Riedenschneider
Rafael Haider
Graham Parkes
Abe Gruber
Genre:Comedy

Albert Meisl
Albert Meisl, born in Munich. Studied German and film studies in Munich and Berlin. Studied acting at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Studied screenwriting and directing at the Vienna Film Academy with Peter Patzak, Wolfgang Murnberger and Götz Spielmann. International festival successes with the short films \ “The Burden of Remembrance \” and \ “The Victory of Mercy \”. He works as a cultural journalist, assistant director and script / continuity.
- Best Short Film – WHY WE ARE UNHAPPY IN CITIES

Synopsis
A youth’s life falls into chaos following the
breaking of his beloved lighter: his lover leaves him and he loses his job. The
youth desperately seeks for a way to fix his lighter as a way to mend his
ruined life, but in the process ends up losing the lighter itself.
Director: Zhao Gang
Writer: Zhao Gang
Stars: Naomi Ying Bushaw, Sanming Han, Cheng Hao |

Zhao Gang
/ Director
BORN January, 1965
RRESIDENCE Nanjing, China
Zhao Gang has worked as a laborer, reporter, and held various odd jobs. He left these lines of work and became a professional author in 1995, primarily writing and exploring Chinese New novels. Among China’s contemporary novelists, his writing is known for its independent directions, consciousness, and brimming vitality. His works have been adopted by various organizations for the screen. He collaborated briefly with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami on scriptwriting. “Why We Are Unhappy in Cities” is his first production as film director.
- Best Feature Film and Best Directing & Best Actor and Actress – GOLNESA

Synopsis: Golmammad and Golnesa, a young Afghan couple, are illegal immigrants who are working in a traditional brick making kiln in Iran. Following the events happening to them, their lives undergo changes
Director: Sattar Chamani Gol
Writer: Vida Salehi
Stars: Saeed Dakh, Masoud Mohammadi, Ali Mohammad Radmanesh
Produced by : Sattar Chamani Gol- producer
Yousef Karimi-producer
Music by :Kareng Karbasi

Sattar Chamani Go
Sattar Chamani Gol was born in 1979, Kurdistan – Iran. Director of 8 shorts fiction and 19 Documentary and 4 serials for TV. Golnesa is his first feature film. l
- Best Feature Script- LEFT OF CHOPIN

Synopsis: Rinko and Kentaro have been childhood friends since childhood, and are high school music teachers who are called Tatsuma-sensei because of their unique appearance. Keitarou’s piano skill is always the best among his students, and he is a genius who also composes. Rachmaninoff, played by Kitarou’s big hand, was wonderful and had the ability to be second to none in technique. Rinko, on the other hand, loves the piano but is clumsy and hard-working. She longed for Chopin. However, the “Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake” and “focal dystonia”, a big test that could close the path as a pianist, hit them. Despite struggling and suffering, the two pursue “sounds that resonate with the soul.”
Director: Yoshino Takemoto
Producer: Shuhei Kondo
- Special Award Of The Festival Goddess On The Throne For Feature Film – AN EXPAT’S TALE
Synopsis:
The film is the story of Roshi who made his dream come true but lost it. It is Roshi’s love story with the beautiful Spaniard. Above all, it is the story of great decision-making in the life of maintaining integrity. People make their own destinies. Ironic, emotional to grab on a journey of love, despair, intrigue, pain, humor, hope.

Pluton Vasi- Director
Director:
Writers:
Stars:
Margent Caushi, Alert Celoaliaj, Ardian Cerga
Produced by
Gunnar Dedio | … | co-producer |
Pluton Vasi | … | producer |
Ferdinand Sula | … | executive producer |
Ervin Kotorri | … | executive producer |
Vjollca Dedei | … | producer |
Driton Sahiti | … | co-producer |
Cinematography by
Ram Shani |
Film Editing by
Gjergji Pano |
Art Direction by
Adnan Kastrati |
Costume Design by
Oriana Kamberi |
Makeup Department
Nina Myftaraj | … | hair stylist / makeup artist |
Ermira Najdeni | … | hair stylist |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mateo Cingu | … | first assistant director |
Sound Department
Aldion Kola | … | sound mixer |
Bardhyl Xhani | … | boom operator |
Camera and Electrical Department
Sharon Avraham | … | gaffer |
Editorial Department
Magdalena Nizel | … | colorist |
Best Actor and Actress – GOLNESA