2015 Winter

Best Narrative Feature Film

Figurine by Hans Olson

Karin leads a quiet life working at a truck wash and ushering part-time at the hockey arena. Her solitary routine is broken when she meets James, a truck driver seeking work closer to his children. As autumn approaches winter, Karin opens herself to the possibility of romance.

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Best Documentary Feature Film

Drachinzeit, a rite of passage by Sil Egger

Drachinzeit, a rite of passage, is a documentary film, which shows the coming-of-age of 8 girls on the verge of womanhood and take the awkwardness of puberty and transform it into beauty. During six months, the German film maker Sil Egger accompanied teenage girls on their journey involving several encounters in which they are consciously working towards becoming young women, guided by a female community. Step by step they grow in confidence, learn to set their personal boundaries and discover their own femininity. In a final ceremony, they say goodbye to their childhood. It is a journey full of mixed emotions and surprises.

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Best Narrative Short Film

Wolf's Skin by Louise De Groef

After a long abscence it is hard for Soo - Min, a young concert cellist, to compete with her daughter of six for the love of the attractive man and father, Wolf.

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Best Documentary Short Film

Sea With No Name by Emilia Linnakoski

Desert. Sand blowing in eyes, back bent down, limps heavy of waiting. Wallpapers reflecting the light beams from cars outside on the streets. Hands reaching warmth under the blanket or resting on thermostat. When rejection and abandoning has beaten you repeatedly they sculpt themselves in human memory, all the way through your body. Landscape in Tuula`s eyes is silent, days resemble one another, then suddenly a song blossoms in this desert, like a flower waking up at night. In that song she reveals herself to us. What kind of a prison has she built with only one feel - fear of abandoning?

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Best Animated Short Film

Knocked Down by Pepe Gomez

A young boxer ponders about the world of boxing while fighting for the championship belt.

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Best Underground Film

Aimee by Oscar Pichardo Isaak

'Aimee' is a psychological film about love and psychosis. It portrays an invisible man that hears an invisible voice and the love he feels for it. Stalking women walking down streets, he becomes obsessed with Ariadna and starts taking photos of her, leading him to be the witness of a crime. The next morning he receives a call from Clarisa, a suicidal woman.

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Best Experimental Film

The End Of Everything As You Knew It. A Guide. by Christian Neuman

Jade's guide is a poetic tale in eight chapters that questions predefined roles imposed by society. Young, beautiful and promising Jade flees from her posh London heritage background to explore her darkest fantasies and instincts in search for the newly proclaimed ultra-violence.

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Best Portuguese Cinema Now

Ana Chronicle by Luis Queiroga Ferraz

Ana doesn't have memories. Manuel doesn't hold a grudge, only the affection from a marriage that lasted decades and not even their land, now desertified, could cease.