FICIMAD 2023 Awards
FICIMAD Honorary Award 2023
Micro Movies
NARRATIVE
-Best Picture Dolat (Flames) Marja Viitahuhta
-Best Director Javi Sánchez-Blanco asimétrica (
-Best Actress Pippa Asome The Throw (Beyond Borders)
-Best Actor Rikard Westman The Dress Code
-Best Screenplay Oscar Guzmán THEM
-Best Cinematography Gio Lucero, Cameron Lin I Dare You To Finish This
-Best Film Editing Taravat Khalili Shield
-Best Sound Jean-Guillaume Bastien Les deux Bérénice de Réjean Ducharme
-Best Visual Effects Petri Erkkilä Walls Beneath Our Feet
-Best Art Direction Pasquaeleonora Moramarco Casa
-Best Action Film Pandora’s Box Teo Marinakis
-Best Animated Film کمک (help) mehdi hosseinzadeh
-Best Experimental Film Beach Glass Zachary Finkelstein
-Best Film Noir The Sunset Kiss Jason Davison
-Best Director Efi Amanatidou The world where we live in is not the real world
-Best Cinematography Sakriya Shrestha Survival- living through covid
-Best Film Editing Erin Fussell Safe Passage (for Sheila)
Student Movies
-Best Director Dante Jiayu Liu 圣盖博谷 (San Gabriel Valley)
-Best Actress Mónica Liliana Sarmiento Rojo Carmesí
-Best Actor Lazar Đukić Presuda (The Verdict)
-Best Supporting Actor Monty Miranda Butterfly Cinema
-Best Supporting Actress Mina Hamedani پاس (Pass)
-Best Film Editing Axel Chemin Deus Ex Capital
-Best Sound Hamed Hoseinzadeh, Abdolreza Rahbar (قرمز خونی)
-Outstanding Achievement Shiksha (The Discipline) Prahas N
-Best Director Erynn Pather Perros (Dawgz)
-Best Film Editing Kateryna Pavlyuk The Curtain
Short Movies
-Best Picture Pregnant Golnaz Jamsheed
-Best Director Sandino Burbano Verano a la deriva (Summer Adrift)
-Best Actress Shihya Peng TELOS
-Best Actor Paolo Palermo ROTOR
-Best Supporting Actor David Jofre the fix
-Best Supporting Actress Setia Asadi The Story of a Colorful Day
-Best Cinematography Fateh Shafe’i My Partner Giraffe
-Best Film Editing Nathan Sellers The Watcher
-Best Art Direction William Parent Senez Héliopolis
-Best Screenplay Romain Daudet-Jahan Colonie
-Best Sound Babak Ardalan The Dark Midnight
-Best Costume Design Parya Sadafi Mehr Survivor
-Best Makeup Nazli Nahidi Survivor
-Best Animated Film THE SPRAYER Farnoosh Abedi
-Best Experimental Film More than Once, Upon a Time Jessica Snow, Paul Morrill
-Best Comedy Il Migliore Alessandro Turchioe
-Best Indie Film Squirrel Jim Clemens
-Best Fantasy Film Life REBORN Marcel Barragán
-Best Sci-fi Film Greetings From Wormhole 61 Rogier Mulder
-FICIMAD Grand Audience Award Matilde Jorge Santos
-Golden Helmet of Mambrino for Best Director Marta Arjona Blasco, Maite Blasco Pérez Caperucita Azul
-Best Director Marie Bottois Le Passage du Col (The Cervix Pass)
-Best Cinematography PaulA Neves, Boris Tsessarsky, Daniela Cruz The Cedars
-Best Film Editing Saeed Mayahy Finish Line
Featurette Movies
NARRATIVE
-Best Director Farrokh Sadeghi Koli (1401)
-Best Actress Chloe Wigmore Don’t Choke
-Best Actor John Barrett Super Gairdín
-Best Supporting Actor Yerkebulan Myrzabek Made in Turkistan
-Best Supporting Actress Aletta Bezuidenhout Aan/Af (On/Off)
-Best Cinematography Francisco Miguez Ana quer ser uma grande atriz
-Best Film Editing Dietmar Kraus لمس (Touch)
-Best Screenplay Serkan Aktaş Kütüphaneci (The Librarian)
-Best Sound Aloísio Corrêa Noite Veloz
-Best Art Direction Florent Chicouard Fatih le conquérant
-Best Original Score Rayshaun Thompson Solipsism
-Best Musical Film Forgotten Song Monika Grzybowska
-Best Experimental Film El Clave Mal Temperado Mathieu Hendrickx
-Best Horror Film Watch John Woods Dan Lee Allen
-Best Western Héritières Lauranne Simpere
-Best Crime Film Shepard Tone Ali Omidinejad
-Don Quixote Award Boomerang Rajeev Bhatia
DOCUMENTARY
Feature Movies
-Best Picture Bed of Nails Michael Malott
-Best Director Christopher L Fox RUB
-Best Actress Dayana Bermúdez Cortes El Exilio del Mar
-Best Actor Cenk İzgören Kafes : İki Savaş Arasında
Cenk İzgören presents this award to the “Turkish people who were not destroyed despite all earthquakes”.
-Best Supporting Actor Tomás Tipán Quijotes negros
-Best Supporting Actress Maria Pinto Do Over
-Best Cinematography Alessandro Brugnettini Ritratto di donna in un paesaggio
-Best Film Editing Yumi Sawai つ。(TSU)
-Best Screenplay Paola Bonesi, Paolo Magris Out of here
-Best Sound Daniel Reinoso, Cain Sanchez, Jose Romero Bye Bye Chicago
-Best Experimental Film Gijs Besseling Perceived Reality
-Best Animated Film I byte di cui sono fatti i sogni Alessandro Amaducci
-Best First Time Filmmaker Katharina Woll ALLE WOLLEN GELIEBT WERDEN
DOCUMENTARY
-Best Director Kristina Atovska Siren Lullabies
-Best Cinematography Nahuel Lopez Dear Memories
-Best Film Editing Lars Ostmann 動く都会 (Ugoku Tokai – Moving City)
-Best Sound Joo Peter, Paul Hien Mentawai – Souls of the Forest
-Best LGTBTQIA+ Film Wem gehört der Himmel (Who Owns The Sky) Sabian Baumann
Best Trailer
-Lost and Found Dianna Renée
Best TV/WEB Episodes
-Matriz Paula Foncea
Best Music Videos
-Gloria Tanguy Pochoy
FICIMAD 2022 Awards
FICIMAD Honorary Award 2022
Mu Pan
Micro Movies
Narrative
Best Picture Cliché (Giuppi Rattá Gutiérrez)
Best Director Aquiles Cervantes (Cerdo)
Best Actor Beharam Nozari (Traffic Control Tower)
Best Actress Cecilia Candia (Dance Party)
Best Cinematography Mijrin Al Hajri (Forever)
Best Film Editing Nathan Rogers (Knights When We Dream)
Best Sound David Fuentes (Arsenio & Altagracia)
Best Screenplay Prakhar Gautam (A hopeless handbook on how to make an existential film)
Best Comedy Me mola tu padre (Isabel Bernal)
Best Experimental Film Dead Memory (Jose Pablo Moreno Gomez)
Best Indie Film Deadly-C (Ashish Bisht)
Best Animated Film People and the Moon (Younes Kaffashian)
Best Inspirational Film Ukungu (Multispecter) Johannes Horak
Documentary
Best Picture Thaipusam – trance for the son of Shiva (Joo Peter)
Best Director Sam Blake Talbot (Ainsworth)
Best Cinematography Andrei Smoler (Minha Mãe Fazia)
Best Film Editing Kevin Zamora (Rama: portrait of a delivery man)
Student Movies
Narrative
Best Picture Mireyita (Orangel Lugo)
Best Director Nika Otrin (Kar pustim, ostane)
Best Actor Ahmet Melih Yilmaz (Hemnefes)
Best Actress Katrien Pairoux (Burning Masks)
Best Cinematography Matthew Penney (Dishonesty)
Best Film Editing Ahmad Kanou (Blinded by Desire)
Best Screenplay shuojia chen (My Mon Wants to Kill Me)
Best Sound David Peleijà (Ventanas)
Best Animated Film Genethic (Laia Batlle Bos, Cristian Casas Castillo, Laia Cuffi Falgueras, Marina Salas Ferré, Irene Fernández Ayguadé, Sergi Ferrà Montero, Gerard Grifell Botargues, Silvia Ros Fité, Sergi Solanes Vilanova, Felix Tejedor Regás, Joan Valdivielso Llaudet)
Documentary
Best Picture The Last Photo (Mehmet Akif Guler)
Best Director Danilo Stanimirović (Prokop)
Best Cinematography Felipe Quintelas (Neon Phantom)
Best Film Editing Gianfranco Bastianelli (Raíces)
Best Screenplay Josefina Horquin (En este momento las cataratas están sonando)
Short Movies
NARRATIVE
Best Picture Orlagh Heverin (Deoch Dance)
Best Director Carlox Cadena (Fin de primavera)
Best Actor Ersin Muhaxheri (Dur Gur Mur)
Best Actress Marta Marlo (Work)
Best Supporting Actor Mohamed Han Gamgoum (Opposite Direction)
Best Supporting Actress Maite Blasco (Una vida mejor)
Best Cinematography Mario Leclere (La Reina de las Marismas)
Best Film Editing Nicolas Monfort (Round Round Round)
Best Screenplay Milena Castro Etcheberry (Julieta y la Luna)
Best Sound Mohammad hassan yassaee (Dog)
Best Animated Film Where the Winds Die (Pejman Alipour)
Best Experimental Film The Dark Forest (Martin Del Carpio)
Best Musical Film Buskers (Toygar Kabaş)
Best Essay Film White Hole (Eavan Aiken)
Best Thriller Film Kaaliraathri (Bishwas Balan)
Best Film Noir Wish (JFL Bosch)
Best Indie Film Subsidiary House (Milad Taleghani, Vahid Aalam)
Best Horror Film Nowhere To Escape (ZiYuan Wang)
Best LGTBTQIA+ Film Camisado (Thomas Gidlow)
Don Quixote Award Le Dérèglement Des Prés (Antoine Pouilly)
FICIMAD Grand Audience Award The Sea (Sahra Ramezanian)
Grand Jury Prize Kash (Junaid Imam)
DOCUMENTARY
Best Picture May We Know Our Own Strength (Jih-E Peng)
Best Director Rafael de Almeida (Arrorró)
Best Cinematography Raissa Contreras (The Bel Loc Diner)
Best Film Editing Jack Lunt (A Map In Search of a Territory)
Featurette Movies
NARRATIVE
Best Picture Empty (Jafar Pooyandeh)
Best Director Morad Mostafa (Khadiga)
Best Actor Nicolas Couchet (Serge)
Best Actress Mireille Roussel (Dora)
Best Cinematography Vahid Bioute (Set-Up)
Best Film Editing Ravi (Seeds)
Best Screenplay Armin Rahiminezhad (Dawn)
Best Western Mátalos y no vuelvas sola (Enrique Novials)
Best Sci-Fi Film 離魂暗逐 Anima Possession (Wai Mo Chan)
Best Sound Martin Hug (reverberating interferences – explorations into thingness)
Best Experimental Film Our Horizons (Charlotte Cayeux)
Golden Helmet of Mambrino for Best Director For I Am Dead (Patricia Delso Lucas)
DOCUMENTARY
Best Picture A Tradicional Família Brasileira KATU (Rodrigo Sena Sena)
Best Director Rubén Hornillo (Un Revolucionario de Charol)
Best Cinematography Wawrzyniec Skoczylas (RUST)
Best Film Editing Emily Felder (װער װעט בלײַבן? Who Will Remain?)
Best Screenplay Fernando Fraguela Fosado (El Matadero)
Best Sound Michele Conti (PescAmare)
Feature Movies
NARRATIVE
Best Picture Mother of Apostles (Zaza Buadze)
Best Director Brett Gregory (Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist)
Best Actor Eduardo Cocciardo (The Offline)
Best Actress Eva Habermann (The Ugly Truth)
Best Supporting Actor Álex Ramos (12 Palabras)
Best Supporting Actress Chioma Juanita (Life In The Blood)
Best Cinematography Evan Barry (Holy Island)
Best Film Editing Fabian Feiner, Sebastian Schwarz (Two Is a Magic Number)
Best Screenplay Ana Lazarevic (The Game)
Best Indie Film Elektra, My love (Hisham Bizri)
Best Experimental Film The Body Won’t Close (Mattijs van de Port)
DOCUMENTARY
Best Picture Todos quieren ser el próximo Weismann (Alberto Triano)
Best Director Gilbert Brüning (All short films about the work & the exhibitions of “BrückenKunst” from 2014 to 2019, a group of unrecognized artists in Berlin)
Best Cinematography Dongnan Chen (旷野歌声 Singing in the Wilderness)
Best Film Editing John Alexander (Little Satchmo)
Best Screenplay Matías Quetglas, Jesús Gáchez (Mientras vivas, brilla)
Best Sound Andrea Álvarez Sánchez (El pasado está presente)
Best First Time Filmmaker Medhin Tewolde Serrano (Negra)
Trailer
Two Drunk Dudes & a Female-Identifying Chatbot Write a Story! (Paul Goodwyn Bernhard)
Best TV/WEB Episodes
Bad Agent (Brandon Junk)
Best Music Videos
ADHD – SÄYE SKYE (Sina Dolati)
Outstanding Achievement EVERYTHING IS EXPLAINED, The Little Brooklyn (Olivier Simon)
FICIMAD 2021 Awards
FICIMAD Honorary Award 2021
Wagner Moura
Micro Movies
Best Picture Hair (Milena Viitman)
Best Director Debt (Sergey Mikushin)
Best Actor Jack Hyde (Bye Dummy)
Best Actress Isabel Bernal (How to be)
Best Cinematography Aleksandar Tomovski (The Paradox)
Best Documentary Maderando (Jérémi Stadler)
Best Film Editing Lasse Buchhop (Return / revive)
Best Original Music Melissa Glasscock (Music of Love)
Best Sound Charles S. Kuzmanovic and Johann Calderón (Silver)
Best Screenplay Anton Rubio (Personaje)
Best Animated Film Red. The Color Whitin (William Javier La Portilla)
Best Experimental Film The Semiotics of Adornment – 5 Thematic Variations (Elin Johnston)
Best Pandemic Film Chemical Industries vs COVID-19 (Vittorio Caratozzolo & 3 A)
Grand Jury Prize Dream (Majid Sabri)
Student Movies
Best Picture Alone Together (Aglaja Filipović)
Best Director Mark Shaba (Rosie)
Best Actor Eryk Trzciński (The taste of stinging nettle)
Best Actress Jasmine Ribes (Christmas Eve)
Best Cinematography Žiga Planinšek (Otava)
Best Documentary I Know Nothing about Seagulls (Ana Tejedor)
Best Film Editing Mohsen Mohammadi (Viewpoint)
Best Screenplay Pedro Chilibroste (Esas cosas se saben, Horacio)
Best Sound Hossein Ghourchian (12 o’clock)
Best Animated Film 愛.LOVE (Rhea Yi Zhang)
Best Experimental Film Bird (Wu-Ching Chang)
Best Film-Noir Across Her Mind (Nuno Figueiredo)
Short Movies
NARRATIVE
Best Picture Steven Esteb (A Cry For Help)
Best Director Memory of the Forgotten Marta Arjona, Maite Blasco, Raquel Rodríguez
Best Actor Massimiliano Rossi (Fame)
Best Actress Francie Silva (Colorful Peace)
Best Supporting Actor Hiroaki Kawai (Goodbye My Son)
Best Supporting Actress Faye Tamsin (Guardian Angel)
Best Art direction Camila Mejía Duque (Mine)
Best Cinematography Ludmylla Reis (Away)
Best Film Editing Un Giorno a Roma (A day in Rome) David Collier Giulia Siciliano
Best Screenplay Silma García Márquez (I see)
Best Sound Dhruv K Singhal (Logorrhoea)
Best Original Music Rick Cerda (My impedimenta)
Best Animated Film Monkey Business (Jan Beyen)
Best Experimental Film Winter Into Spring/ Reflections on 2020 (Mike Gainor)
Best Indie Film Slaughter (Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi)
Best Sci-fi Film Air Time (Jack Dyson)
Best First Time Filmmaker In Solitude (Cody Wyatt Baldwin)
Grand Audience Award Hit List // The Love Project
Don Quixote Award PHARMAKOSIS Sze Lin Pang
DOCUMENTARY
Best Picture Agnès Varda (Mohammad Mohammadian)
Best Director Matthaios Frantzeskakis (Marika.. why be afraid)
Best Cinematography David Roger Juan (April Days)
Best Film Editing Alessandro Turchioe (Who Wants to Live and Die Forever?)
Featurette Movies
NARRATIVE
Best Picture Transfigured Night (Leonard Lücke)
Best Director Vita Grama (Nicola Belleri)
Best Actor Máximo Aguiló Meraz (MAX.Exe)
Best Actress Russier Coralie (Le Varou)
Best Supporting Actor Mikel Arostegui (5 hours, 39 minutes, 25 seconds)
Best Supporting Actress Helîm Bulut (The Weapon)
Best Original Music Georg Friedrich Hass (Hyena)
Best Cinematography Anatoliy Gankevich (Aquatoria)
Best Film Editing Edris Naseri (Wait a moment)
Best Screenplay Caroline Brami, Frédéric Bas (The Inspection )
Best Sound Sandro di Stefano (The Eve)
Best Experimental Film Wind Well (James A. Cook)
DOCUMENTARY
Best Picture Niblets (Douglas Vuncannon)
Best Director Matt D’Henin (The Island Dweller)
Best Film Editing Paula G. de la Fuente (Selected Milk (Added from Reconstituted Milk Powder Whole Pasteurized Homogenized)
Feature Movies
NARRATIVE
Best Picture Crime Scene (Pedro Tavares)
Best Director Half Lives (Sylvia Toy St. Louis)
Best Actor Maanav (Irumbu)
Best Actress Greta Fernández (Pessoas)
Best Supporting Actor Javier Martínez (Last Train to Rock ‘n Roll)
Best Supporting Actress Athira Madhav (Devika)
Best Cinematography Mariano Castaño (The Things Where They no Longer Were)
Best Film Editing Oliver Simon (North of the night)
Best Screenplay Arvind Appadourai (Melody of Ceylon)
Best Sound Leonardo Fuica and Demian Fuica (Camping Trip)
Best Animated Film My Uncle José (Ducca Rios)
Best Experimental Film Before the Close of Day (Peter Lucas)
Best Horror Film Sister (Colin Denhart)
Best Thriller Utopia, the movie (Gino Tassara, Jorge Vilela)
Best Art Direction Pacha
Golden Helmet of Mambrino for Best Director Shadows of Mud (Halil Can Akbulut)
DOCUMENTARY
Best Picture Nuilt Lands (Arturo Dueñas Herrero)
Best Director Magone (Atsushi Tanabe)
Best Cinematography Kym Oeser (Our Nowhere Lands)
Best Film Editing Federico Schiavi (A Declaration Of Love)
Best Screenplay Adrian Randall A Human Year is Seven Earth Years
Best Sound Danton Zafra and Edison Chavarro (Memory of Struggle)
Trailer
Best Trailer Pasola (Joo Peter)
Oustanding achievement Ebony Hustle (Jamezz Hampton)
Best TV/WEB Episodes
L’Homme Triste Xavier Pijuan Sala
Best Music Videos
Bicho Blanco – Miel del Aguacate Daniel Piojos Miranda