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Berlin Indie Film Festival

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Festival Award

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BIFF Annual Best Director Short Film

  • Juan Lume
    Winner
    • Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
    • Invisible
    Go Films

Best Actor

  • Martin Copping
    Winner
    • Martin Copping
    • The Dunes
  • Mike Gassaway
    Winner
    • Mike Gassaway
    • The Pro Bono Watchman
  • Cary Mark in a scene from “The Company We Keep”
    Winner
    • Cary Mark
    • Our Neighbors Shadow
    MarkEd Films
  • Nurbo Bozan
    Winner
    • Nurbo Bozan(actor)
    • With You - Backar du så backar jag
    Nurbo Bozan Winner Best Actor
  • Winner
    • Akhill Menon(actor)
    • Essentials: Feature Film
    Essentials

Best Actress Feature Film

  • Winner
    • Anne Roemeth
    • Die Grenze
    Reyonimages

Best Actress Short Film

  • Lauren A. Kennedy
    Winner
    • Lauren A. Kennedy
    • Night Out
    Ten Ten Productions
  • Winners
    • Mona Arkin
    • Jinyang Zhang
    • The Master: Last Show
    Loyola Marymount University
  • Any Ferreiras
    Winner
    • Any Ferreiras
    • Visa Issues
  • Winner
    • Isabel Dickson
    • Rapid
    Rapid
    Winner Isabel Dickson for Rapid
  • Winner
    • Vendela Brännborn(actress)
    • Andetaget
    Vendela Brännborn Production
  • Ana Bergman
    • Ana Bergman
    • Loyal, Not Faithful

Best Animation

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    Winner

    To elafi & o ippotis

    Vivi Markatos

Best Artist Short

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    Winner

    Le Cri du Mérou

    Patricia Delso Lucas

Best Comedy Short

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    Winner

    Pretty Metal

    8.2 (7)
    Mikhail Tot
    Dan A Edwards
    Sean Manos
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    Winner

    No fitness - no love

    Yuri Maslak
    Olga Tugaeva
    I.E. Yuri Maslak
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Total Eclipse of the Heart

    Elliot Taylor
    Liam Francis

  • Der Einbruch

    7.6 (7)

Best Commercial & Advertising

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    Winner

    Pianos Reversé: Pianocide

    8.8 (8)
    Brice Blanloeil

Best Director Feature Film

  • Winner
    • Kamran Qureshi
    • Only Love Matters

Best Director Short Film

  • Abhay Thakur
    Winner
    • Abhay Thakur(director)
    • Enigma - The Fallen Angel
    Dream Catcher Company
  • Juan Lume
    Winner
    • Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
    • Invisible
    Go Films
  • Meeshelle Neal
    Winner
    • Meeshelle Neal(director)
    • Where Everyone Lives
    Which Way Is Left Productions

Best Experimental Film

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    Winner

    Composition: Snakes for Her

    Antonia Economou
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Paint on Paint # 6

    Vasco Diogo

Best First Time Director

  • Winner
    • Praveen Whitefield
    • Essentials: Feature Film
    Script writer and director
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    Balthazar and I

Best First Time Director Feature Film

  • Winner
    • Shamus Hays(director)
    • The Place We're Going

Best Historical

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    Winner

    Orders from Above

    5.8 (68)
    Vir Srinivas

Best Mobile Feature Film

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    Winner

    Frozen Brothers

    Alan Wang(director)
    Jessie Kerry(Co-Producer)
    Genfilms Productions

Best Mobile Short

  • Winner

    Best Comedy Shorts

    Adam Seth Nelson

Best Screenplay

  • Winner

    Der Einbruch

    7.6 (7)
    Elias Grünthal
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    Winner

    Andetaget

    Vendela Brännborn(writer)
    Vendela Brännborn Production

Best Short Documentary

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    Winner

    Avenues

    Sushant Chaudhary
    Johannes Grenzfurthner
    Günther Friesinger
    Marie-Christin Rissinger
    Monochrom Propulsion Systems
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    Winner

    Numdi Oodi, La verdadera historia

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    SFUMATO

    Amirali Mirderikvand

Best Short Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Bubble

    Mahmood Arib
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Perfect Song

    Andreas Kranzler
    David Andrew
    Ian Locke
    Belle Quinlan
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Who Is Linda?

    Federico Rabinovich(director)
  • [object Object]

    Hazegrauw

  • [object Object]

    Night Out

    James Huang(executive producer)
    Elisabeth Ng(producer)
    Chin Yu(producer)
    Ten Ten Productions
  • [object Object]

    A Soft Love

    Alessandro Marino
  • [object Object]

    The Judge

    Natasha Kinaru
    Chad Phillips
    Rosina Aichner
  • [object Object]

    Quiet on Set

    Mykel Salazar

Best Sound Design

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Paint on Paint # 5

    Robin Wiemann

Best Student Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Master: Last Show

    Jinyang Zhang
    Loyola Marymount University
  • [object Object]

    CrazyGuys

Best Actor Short Film

  • Gustavo J Ramirez
    • Gustavo J Ramirez
    • Loyal, Not Faithful

Best Music Video

  • [object Object]

    Jakko M Jakszyk: The Trouble with Angels

    Sam Chegini
    Sam Pictures Productions

Honorable Mention

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Best Actress Short Film

  • Anna Sozzani
    Winner
    • Anna Sozzani
    • Single

Best Director, Short Film

  • Kevin A Courtney
    Winner
    • Kevin A Courtney(director)
    • Against Reason
  • Winner
    • Indira Dhar Mukkherjee(director)

Best Feature Film

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    Winner

    Good Old Friends

    4.5 (127)
    Peter Kondra(director)
    Mikael Schallock(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Alice and the Land That Wonders

    5.5 (14)
    Giulia Grandinetti
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    His Stretch of Texas Ground

    3.5 (146)
    Jeff Caperton(Producer)
    Ralph Cinque(Director)
    Lost Maples Productions
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Pro Bono Watchman

    5.1 (46)
    Ralph Cinque
    Lost Maples Productions
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    American Cherry

    4.8 (183)
    Hanna Griffiths(producer)
    Taryn Sims(producer)

Best Short Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    100 Meter

    Matthias Pachner
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Hazegrauw

    Remco Texer
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Externo

    4.0 (21)
    Leandro Taub(producer)
    Jonathan Taub(producer)
    Tikun Olam Media

April Award

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Best Editing

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Cage

    5.9 (30)
    Hengrui Zhang

Best Short Film

  • Winner

    Bobby Smith

    Yana Shevarkova(writer-director-producer)

October Award

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Best Actress

  • Winner
    • Paula Edda Klein
    • The Indestructibles
    Eddatainment

February Award

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Best Covid Film

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    Winner

    Always Keep Positive

    Till Vill(writer/director/producer)

November Award

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Best First Time Director, Feature Film

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    • Marco Sandeman
    • Borderline

December Award

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Best Experimental Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Lucid dreams

    Kostiantyn Mishchenko

Honourable Mention

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    Winner

    The Woodman

    5.7 (11)
    Koutaiba Al-Janabi

January Award

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Best Director - Feature Film

  • Winner
    • Sri Kishore(director/producer)
    • My Indian Boyfriend

Documantary

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    SFUMATO

    Amirali Mirderikvand

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