Récompenses

10th Place

"The director of our winning film lives up to the promise he showed in 2019 when his short 'The Christmas Gift' won ShortFests' Best of the Festival Award. We appreciated the way that he incorporates a myriad of storylines, bringing them to a triumphant conclusion set to Ravel's Bolero. We especially admired his use of dark comedy to explore the impact on individual citizens of the Ceausescu dictatorship and its fall."

Jury statement: "The winner of this years "Grand Prix" is a film that uses the medium in a beautiful and entertaining way to tell an important story. The film takes you on a journey back in time, and presents a situation so scary and unbelievable that you find yourself laughing. History is at the center of the story, but the plot is coming from the films relatable characters. It really hooks you into the situation, and keeps surprising you. The filmmakers show a lot of courage by intricately satirizing their own country's history. And through that they tell the story of oppression in a universally relatable way. It's a political film. It's a personal film".

Jury statement: "The film that we've decided to award the prize "Best script" is a film about a family that is thrust into a new situation. The innocence of a child's imagination, suddenly shows the dangers of the society the family is living in. Actual events are used as the backbone to tell a fictional story, and through that it tell us something new, but in a very relatable way. It lets you look back in history, and learn from it. The audience is constantly surprised by the turns the story takes, but understands the characters choices. It's a film where you feel like it makes the most of the story it has chosen to tell".