Filmmakers' Section Grand Prix
Dustin Feneley
Australia
Born in Sydney in 1982, Feneley is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts Film School. His short films have screened at over one hundred film festivals, including official selections at Cannes, London, Melbourne, Sydney and Bucharest international film festivals. He is currently developing his debut feature Stray.
One Title Section Grand Prix
Broken Night
Kyoung-pyo earns a living as an insurance fraudster.One night, he has an accident with a young girl.
Hyojoo Yang | 23:00 | Fiction | 2011 | Korea
Best Director
Broken Night
Kyoung-pyo earns a living as an insurance fraudster.One night, he has an accident with a young girl.
Hyojoo Yang | 23:00 | Fiction | 2011 | Korea
Best Students Director
KISS BILL
With the passionate kind of crush that only 14-year-olds can muster, Angela and Arina dream themselves out of their Stockholm suburb to Berlin. A film about friendship, infatuation and the heartbreak of growing up.
Ina Holmqvist ,Emelie Wallgren | 29:00 | Documentary | 2010 | Sweden
Best Screen play
Script
Four people are invited to join in a 10 minute psychological experiment for a thousand dollars each. But things are not so simple.
Albert Ventura | 29:00 | Experimental | 2010 | Japan
Best Editing
Yuri Lennon's landing on Alpha 46
After his landing on Jupiter moon Alpha64, the cosmonaut Yuri Lennon is confronted with an extraordinary paradox...
Anthony Vouardoux | 14:30 | Fiction | 2010 | Germany
Best Cinematography
LIN
A woman arrives in an unknown country at day break. She appears to be running away from her past.
Piers Thompson | 25:00 | Fiction | 2010 | United kingdom
Best Children Short
Aleksandr
Aleksandr the knitter has long forgotten why he lives suspended above the clouds.
Remy Dereux, Maxime Hibon, Juliette Klauser, Raphaëlle Ranson, Louise Seynhaeve |05:20 | Animation | 2010 | France
Best Mini Short (Under 5mints)
Rubika
Welcome to Rubika, a planet with a fancy gravity.
Script & design by Guillaume Plantevin(Claire Baudean, Ludovic Habas, Mickaël Krebs,Julien Legay, Chao Ma, Florent Rousseau, Caroline Roux, Margaux Vaxelaire) |03:58 | Animation | 2010 | France
Best Original Score
N/A
Best Non Dialogue
Paths of Hate
“Paths of Hate” is a short tale about the demons that slumber deep in the human soul and have the power to push people into the abyss of blind hate, fury and rage.
Damian Nenow | 10:00 | Animation | 2010 | Poland
Best Animation
La détente
IIn a trench during the first world war, a French soldier becomes paralyzed with fear. His mind disconnects from reality and escapes to a toy world.
Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey | 08:30 | Animation | 2011 | France
Best National Short
forgive
Sone is being bullied by her classmate Katase. Utsunomiya who is also Sone’s classmate and her only friend tries to help Sone, but Sone rejects her. There is a secret between Sone and Katase that Utsunomiya is not aware of.
Kiyoto Kawamura | 28:30 | Fiction | 2010 | Japan
Best Hokkaido Short
Snowman and Chocolate
The story of a boy, his snowman, and a very special red scarf.
Shoh Kataoka | 12:00 | Fiction | 2011 | Japan(Sapporo, Tokyo)
Best Contemporary / Experimental Short
The External World
A boy learns to play the piano.
David O'Reilly | 15:00 | Animation | 2010 | Germany
Best Documentary
Guanape Sur
A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guanape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive for the harvest of the birds' excrement.
Janos Richter | 23:01 | Documentary | 2010 | Italy
Best Animation Special Mention
An affectionate summer
On a summer’s afternoon a girl recalls her past. As she does so, the clothes she has just taken off take the form of an insect and begin to eat her.
Asuka Shirata | 07:06 | Animation | 2011 | Japan
Best Original Score Special Mention
Atsushi Wada
Born in 1980. Graduated from Osaka kyoiku University, Image Forum Institute of Moving image and Tokyo University of the Arts. In a Pig's Eye (2010) won the Best Film in Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, and Silver Jabberwocky at Etiuda and Anima. The Mechanism of Spring (2010) premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
SAPPORO Short Fest Special Awards
Sapporo Peace Award
Miyuki's Wind Bell
Against her will, Miyuki must leave Tokyo and take her two young half-brothers to the country home of their quirky grandmother, but when they arrive she will discover that she had to leave her home in order to find it.
Ken Ochiai | 20:00 | Fiction | 2010 | Japan
Children's Choice Award Gold
Red and Green
Red and Green is a film about the relationships which take place between the walk and stop people at street crossing lights.
Geoffrey Abeshouse | 04:10 | Animation | 2010 | Australia
Children's Choice Award Silver
Aleksandr
Aleksandr the knitter has long forgotten why he lives suspended above the clouds.
Remy Dereux, Maxime Hibon, Juliette Klauser, Raphaëlle Ranson, Louise Seynhaeve |05:20 | Animation | 2010 | France
Children's Choice Award Bronze
Invertebrates
A Freshwater Hydra tries to eat a Water Flea, but a very good friend of the flea, the Planarian, will try to save it at all costs…
Harold Díaz-Guzmán Casañas | 12:50 | Animation | 2010 | Cuba
CRYPTON Best Sound Award
The External World
A boy learns to play the piano.
David O'Reilly | 15:00 | Animation | 2010 | Germany
Amino Up Hokkaido New Director Award
Crystallized
Since the accident Satomi obsessively talks to snow-crystals and keeps drawing "letters", praying for her boyfriend’s recovery, who is in coma.
Eiji Shimada | 29:59 | Fiction | 2011 | Japan(Sapporo)
Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Award
Crystallized
Since the accident Satomi obsessively talks to snow-crystals and keeps drawing "letters", praying for her boyfriend’s recovery, who is in coma.
Eiji Shimada | 29:59 | Fiction | 2011 | Japan(Sapporo)
JAPAN Media Up Alternative Awarad
rain town
In this town, since who knows when, rain has never stopped falling. One day, a girl wanders into the deserted town...
Ishida Hiroyasu | 09:55 | Animation | 2011 | Japan