BEST SHORT FILM
HOLY FAMILY
Margarida Lucas
Portugal – 2019
“For having been able to tell a distressing story with delicacy and lightness, also thanks to the expressive versatility of the performers, skillfully mixing the pseudo-dramas of everyday life with the most merciless tragedy.” – The jury
GRAND JURY PRIZE
SAKHISONA
Prantik Narayan Basu
India – 2017
“For having made a film, an anthropology treatise and a prayer at the same time, intervening on the viewer’s perception with a sort of black and white shamanic elegy. There is flesh, spirit, death, dance: that’s all you need.” – The jury
HONORABLE MENTION
COMMUNITY GARDENS
Vytautas Katkus
Lithuania – 2019
“For having been able to tell through the off-screen and the unspoken, the incommunicability of the father-son relationship within the empty and superficial routine of a community that no longer knows how to live in the present of its emotions.” – The jury
YOUNG JURY PRIZE
SHE RUNS
Qiu Yang
China – 2019
“For having been able to create a direct empathic relationship with the young audience that manages to identify with the protagonist and with her extreme desire for freedom and escape.” – The young jury
BEST CALABRIAN SHORTFILM
LA GRANDE ONDA
Francesco Tortorella
Italy – 2019
“For having painted a disastrous land with disturbing atmospheres, animating the oppressors and oppressed who live there with great precision.” – The jury
BEST DIRECTOR
Qiu Yang
She Runs
China – 2019
BEST SCREENPLAY
Margarida Lucas
Holy Family
Portugal – 2019
BEST ACTOR
Beat Wittwer
Still Working
Switzerland – 2019
BEST ACTRESS
Cláudia Jardim
Holy Family
PORTUGAL – 2019
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mehul Bhanti
Sakhisona
India – 2017
BEST EDITING
Frederik Vandewalle
Da Yie
Ghana – 2019
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Nursalim Yadi Anugerah
REWILD
Indonesia – 2019
Despite the short film was out of competition, the jury all in agreement with the artistic directors have decided to award the prize to Nursalim Yadi Anugerah for the high artistic value of his music.