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Berlin Indie Film Festival

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Festival Award

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Best Actor

  • Simon Haines
    Winner
    • Simon Haines
    • Dance with Me

Best Commercial & Advertising

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    Winner

    8102 ARIM

    Brice Blanloeil
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    Ebern - A new life begins

    Christian Schu
    White Eyebrow Group OÜ

Best First Time Director Feature Film

  • Alex Kruz
    Winner
    • Alex Kruz
    • Fallen: The Search of A Broken Angel
    Wolf Circle Productions

Best Historical

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    Winner

    J'Accuse!

    8.1 (161)
    Michael Kretzmer(director)

Best Screenplay

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    Rupert

    9.4 (14)
    Beatrix Guedes
    Moonlander Studios

Best Documentary

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    Cape to Cape

    Pasi Sauna-aho
    Pål Laukli
    Cycled Media

Best First Time Director, Documentary

    • Brad Jones
    • Maggie Jones
    • Cancer/evolution

Best Short Documentary

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    Live and let live - Focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Aldina Topcagic
    Dieter-Michael Grohmann
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    Shopping Cart People

    Duffy Hecht
    The Hecht Company

Best Short Film

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    Caida Libre

    Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
    Ignacio Verdugo(writer/producer)
    Italo Spotorno(actor)
    Romina Leiva(director of photography)
    Martina Sivori(actress)
    Go Films

Best Student Film

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    The Sister's Seance

    Christopher Desiderio
    Isabella Hawthorn
    Angela Marie Zaniboni

April Award

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Best Actor Short

  • Winner
    • Italo Spotorno(actor)
    • Light on
    Go Films

Best Director, Feature Film

  • Winner
    • Nikolay Bogomilov
    • La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Best Documentary

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    Winner

    Terrible Children

    9.0 (5)
    Shanti Thakur(director)
    Lucida Films

Best Editing

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    Winner

    Light on

    Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
    Go Films

Best Original Score (Short)

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    Winner

    Julia

    Víctor Muñoz

Best Thriller

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    Winner

    Light on

    Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
    Ignacio Verdugo(producer/writer)
    Italo Spotorno(actor)
    Go Films

Best Short Film

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    Dead Man Travel

    Moora Vander Veken(director)

October Award

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Best Animation

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    Daddy!

    Yikai Gao
    Haochun Yang
    Amanita Design

Best First Time Director

  • Alessandro Onorato
    Winner
    • Alessandro Onorato
    • Stoker

Best Screenplay

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    Winner

    Analema

    Rodolfo Graziano(director)

Best film

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    Winner

    Analema

February Award

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Best Cinematography

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    Winner

    Break In

    Hanqing Sky Ma(Cinematographer)

November Award

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Best Actress - Feature Film

  • Winner
    • Camilla Armanini(actress)
    • Lulu in Turin

Best Comedy Short

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    Winner

    Brasslit

    Lucy Hilton-Jones

Best Director - Short Film

  • William Fischer
    Winner
    • William Fischer
    • The Gun is Full of Wine

Best Mobile Feature Film

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    Winner

    Lulu in Turin

    8.5 (6)
    Ian Charles Lister(director)

Best Thriller

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    Winner

    Mushroom

    Samik Roy Choudhury(director)

December Award

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Best Animation

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    Larry's Big Idea

    Burton Rocks
    Lawrence Rocks
    John LaRoche
    Lawrence Rocks Associates

Best Feature Film

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    Young Ali: those were the days

    Amir Motlagh
    Charles Borg
    Animals

Best Indie Film

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    Winner

    Young Ali: those were the days

    Amir Motlagh
    Charles Borg
    Animals

Best Mobile Short Film

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    Rotor

    Malena Perrot(director)
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    The Bath

    Cathy Cahlin Ryan(writer/director/producer)

Best Music Video

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    Dawn at Gougane Barra

    Kurt Rosenberg(Composer/Executive Producer)
    Jake Morgan(Orchestrator)
    Luke Morgan
    Zach Stevens(Producer)
    Brent Rogers(Co-Executive Producer)
    Morgan Brothers

Best Short Documentary

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    Dr. Rocks: One Man's Legacy in Science & Sport

    Burton Rocks
    Bob Holtzman
    Lawrence Rocks Associates

September Award

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Best Actress - Short Film

  • Nadia Larina
    Winner
    • Nadia Larina
    • Promise

Best Director - Short Film

  • Winner
    • Rafael Maria Friebe
    • I Love You
    Sema-Zenema Film

Best Historical Film

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    Winner

    The Michoacan File

    6.2 (12)
    Bernardo Arsuaga(producer)
    Placido Arango(producer)
    Estudios Splendor Omnia

June Award

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Best Actress

  • Nadine Klein
    Winner
    • Nadine Klein(actress)
    • In Liebe L. - with love l.

Best Cinematography

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    Winner

    Fantasy A Gets a Mattress

    8.7 (33)
    Noah Zoltan Sofian(cinematographer)
    Ryan Cutuli(cinematographer)
    Dr. Clean Productions

Best Feature Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Czas na pogode

    5.2 (18)
    Jacek Raginis-Królikiewicz(director/producer)
    Bogna Janiec(producer)
    Studio Filmowe N

Best First Time Director, Documentary

  • JC Gorritti in 2020
    Winner
    • Jose Carlos Gorritti
    • The Son of... the Holy TV

March Award

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Best Original Score

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    Winner

    Shopping Cart People

    Bobby Johnston

Health and Covid 19 short

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    Winner

    The INsiders

    Marion Battaglia(Director)
    Nena Ostrogovic(Producer)

May Award

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Best First Time Director, Short Film

  • Winner
    • McKinnon Maddox
    • Revolution of Joy
    Maddox Films

Best Original Score

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    Winner

    Happen to Happen

    9.6 (9)
    Julie Joohee Jeon
    Wonder Maker

July Award

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Best Cinematography

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    Homebuoy

    Graham Hebron
    76mm Productions

Best Health and Covid 19 Film

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    Unbearable

    Benjamin Van den Berghe(Director)

Best Short

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    Dröhnende Stille

    Sander Mudde

August Award

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Best First-Time Director, Short Film

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    • Roberto Strazzarino(director)
    • Pentaclub

Best Mobile Short Film

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    Winner

    Goldilocks and the Three Rent Bears

    Ian Armer(Director)
    Lean Waters Productions

Best Student Film

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    Online

    9.7 (12)
    Bianka Bereczky(director)
    Jenõ Hódi(executive producer)
    Viktória Jánoki-Kis(writer, producer)
    Budapest Film Academy
    CinePartners Enterntainment

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