SotW Awards

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    Drama Carmine Pierre-Dufour & Émilie Mannering

    Mahalia Melts in the Rain

    Mahalia, a timid 9-year-old black girl, feels different from the other girls in her ballet class. Hoping to boost her confidence, her mother brings her to a hair salon to get her hair straightened for the very first time.

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    Sci‑Fi Geoffroy de Crécy

    Empty Places

    Completed before the global lockdown, Empty Places is an ode to the melancholy of machines.

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    Documentary Tiago Minamisawa, Bruno H Castro, Guto BR (co-director)

    Sangro (I Bleed)

    Inspired by the real-lfe story of Caioh Deroci, animated short 'Sangro (I Bleed)' is the intimate confession of a person living with HIV.

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    Sci‑Fi Faye Gilbert

    The Line

    A teenage girl and young boy run for their lives to cross ‘The Line’, but are they running away from danger or towards it?

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    Horror James Feeney
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    Killer Kart

    The shopping cart. Four wheels, one basket, and tonight, for the closing crew of a small-town grocery store, a blood-splattered aluminum nightmare.

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    Experimental Sophie Littman

    Sudden Light

    Mia takes her sister Squeeze to walk their dog in the fields near their home. The landscape begins to morph around them, tricking them and introducing Mia to a strange man lurking at the edge of a dark wood.

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    Experimental Jerry Carlsson

    Skuggdjur (Shadow Animals)

    Marall follows her parents to a party and they want her to behave. As the evening progresses she finds the adults’ behaviour increasingly strange.

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    Drama Sarah Pellerin
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    Mon Boy (My Boy)

    As he takes part in his brother’s bachelor party, 17 year old Louis is confronted by this ritual that both celebrates and denigrates commitment and masculinity.

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    Dark Comedy Britt Raes

    Catherine

    The bittersweet life story of a young girl who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.

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