ACFF 2018 - 2nd edition
Winners 2018
Best Picture: Million Loves in Me
Best Short Film: The Desolate One
Best Action Film: Krasny
Best Action Film (Short): Solace
Best Comedy: Skim for England
Best Comedy (Short): But Wait There's More
Best Drama: Torments of Love
Best Drama (Short): MARIA
Best Thriller (Short): The Man Hidden in the Room
Best Animated Film: To Be a Tree
Best Animated Short Film: Stellar
Best Documentary (Feature): Finding Hygge
Best Documentary (Short): CYCOLOGIC
Best Foreign Documentary: In Exile: A Family Film
Best Student Documentary: Albatross
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Best Experimental: Angels They Say
Best Music Score: Lacrimosa
Best Music Video: Fear of Heights
Best Photograph: China
Best Screenplay: Callie Earlane
Best Trailer: Champion: The Franz Stampfl Story
Best Danish Film: Sheperd of Souls
Best Commercial: What's Out There?
Best Director: Renard Rouge
Best Documentary Director: Alone
Best Student Director: La Manzana
Best Student Film: Buoyancy
Best Producer: Uncle Silas
Best Editor: It is safe now
Best Cinematographer: Franconia
Best Screenwriter: Uncle Silas
Humanitarian Award: I, Witness
Screening Selection 2018
For Nicholas, a respected family man, Christmas Eve suddenly becomes a reckoning. Who will be the hit man responsible for such an inauspicious task? Besides not having any kind of kinship, the killer seems to have fatherly behaviours towards the victim.
A three-minute lyrical meditation on mortality, featuring excerpts from Rainer Maria Rilke’s First Duino Elegy. Interweaving voices become a wistful accompaniment to a stop- motion animation composed of hand drawn (and cut) imagery.
During a swim test for the danish elite team, 15 year old Sara realizes that she is about to loose everything she has fought for since early childhood. Her future depends on her immediate action. But can she make up for her failure in one last important act?
A socially awkward Jehovah's Witness is forced to confront his shortcomings as a salesman when he knocks on the door of a washed-up infomercial spokesman.
Traveling the streets of Kampala one does not only face a chaotic and dangerous traffic environment but also struggles to go through endless queues, pollution, motorcyclists and cars attacking you from every angle which is a energy-consuming dilemma. Politicians seems to have given up but there are a few people who strives to show that there are alternative ways of movements. The urban planner Amanda Ngabirano's biggest dream is to have a cycling lane in her city.
A cinematic loveletter dedicated to Franconia and to life.
Visual doc of an Afghan aslyum seeker reached in Europe and isolated in an abandoned camp in a countryside.
Danilo, a ten years old introvert boy is on the verge of moving out of Cuba with his young mother. When he gets a green apple, a somewhat rare fruit type in the country, the boy grabs what might be his last chance to impress his classmates.
Marc's hopeless journey towards true love takes an unexpected turn when he meets his best friends new girlfriend Dianna.
Maria spends her daytime sewing and cleaning while at night she works as a prostitute in the streets of downtown Porto. José, her lover and most faithful client, is still around but he can no longer give this 60 year old woman what she has always desired the most. In a raw and intimate portrayal, MARIA reveals how love and growing old can hit like.
In the summer of 98', a young girl named Julie follows her brothers into the woods on the Swedish countryside. After losing them, she stumbles upon a stranger with a gun. Luckily the stranger is the vivid Elsa, roughly her age with a BB-gun. They spend the next 24 hours together and define the years of their youth, getting to know each other "well enough" to make decisions that will last forever.
During a large-scale search in East Belgium’s oldest nature park, the authorities clash with a local forester. The confrontation goes from bad to worse as the forester protects this area with heart and soul and takes measures against the intruders.
When a fetus is left on the street, the catholic man Tống Phước Phúc recieves a phone call. He drives into the night pick up a little box with the fetus. Tống Phước Phúc has created a cemetery for fetuses in Nha Trang in Vietnam, where thousands of fetuses have been buried – it is his mission to give them peace. Shepherd of Souls portrays a single man’s different ethical actions and view on life, focusing on his perception of souls.
A short-tempered running coach is granted temporary custody of his athletic younger brother from a juvenile correctional facility. The complicated relations between the brothers will have an huge influence on their collaboration towards the common aim.
After a young woman suffers a miscarriage, she tries to continue her day as if nothing had happened.
A father, mother, and child lead their life in a distant, as if suspended in time, landscape. The prairie breathes its natural rhythm just like the family does. The child, she wanders around the land's confined infinity. What seems like an innocent exploration becomes a confrontational awakening.
In a numb city, citizens – as square as their surroundings – are on another dull and trivial day, infiltrated by a colorful organism that takes us on an amazing, mind opening journey towards a luminous pulsating core.
A mythic and elusive figure is hunted by an enemy deep into the wilderness
As Hakim is waiting for the bus after class, he is caught in a vendetta between teenagers. He is not exactly keen to get into a fight, but how can he possibly avoid an awaited confrontation?
Michele is a sardinian kid, fatherless, exuberant and rebel. One morning he skips school and reaches a coastal town, apparently deserted. He wanders through the streets of the city, has an accident, gets scared and goes back home. He asks his mother for help, but she ignores him. He runs away, and roams lonely and abandoned, as a stray dog, through ruins and wild paths, pushing himself further and further away from the sea.
Think of something blue is based on a Dutch Poem by Martijn den Ouden. It portrays a man, dealing with loneliness and mourning, comforted by memories of his loved one.
Animated short film
In the middle of the winter in Northern-Norway and surrounded by a wild group of kids, a young boy’s impulses are affected by his attraction to his best friend.
After a wild night VALI decides the time is right to settle a score with her lover.
Award Nominations 2018
Best Picture
Million Loves in Me
Torments of Love
Pa'am hai'ta yalda
Life without Life
Pool Sweeper
Inner Court
Black Heart
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Best Short Film
Vali
Short distance
The Way Home
Wild Beasts
The Desolate One
Saint Hubert
La Manzana
The Geneva Convention
think of something blue
La Vita Rosa
Renard Rouge
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Best Action Film (Short)
Retribution
Solace
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Best Comedy
Skim for England
Rusty Boys
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Best Comedy (Short)
But Wait There's More
Shoot Me Nicely
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Best Drama
Torments of Love
Million Loves in Me
Consolation
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Best Drama (Short)
MARIA
Nerd Cave
Harevan
Uncle Silas
Small Steps
We Don't Bury Animals
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Best Thriller (Short)
The Man Hidden In The Room
Monstrosity
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Best Animated Film
To Be a Tree
Ecce Homo
Release From Heaven
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Best Animated Short FilmGhostcode
Spaghetti Junction
Stellar
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Best Documentary (Feature)
Finding Hygge
When I Stutter
Maynard
PEDALÓ
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Best Documentary (Short)
CYCOLOGIC
It is safe now
Inner Me
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Best Foreign Documentary
0,03 seconds
In Exile: A Family Film
Paris - Cannes - Orleans
Choosing at Twenty
Alone
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Humanitarian Award
Manila High
Dangerous Crossings
I, Witness
Hansel & Gretel - Don't let the fear eat you
Best Student Documentary
Girlhood
I, Witness
Albatross
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Best Experimental
The River
Angels, They Say
Franconia
The World of Which We Dream Doesn't Exist
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Best Music Score
Place. Poetry. Periphery.
Dangerous Crossings
The Sleeping Beauty
Lacrimosa
Antonin
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Best Music Video
Sola
Fear of Heights
Flowers will Rot
Revolution
Jylda - The Body
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Best Photograph
China
Child of Anatolia
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Best Screenplay
Callie Earlene
The Brothers Sinclair
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Best Trailer
Beyond the Yellow Line
Champion: The Franz Stampfl Story
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Best Danish Film
I, Witness
Nerd Cave
The Spy by the Sea
Buoyancy
Shepherd of Souls
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Best Commercial
Trailer for Uppsala International Short Film Festival
What's Out There?
Terry White
Palladium - Join the Journey
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Best Director
The Garden (1910)
MARIA
A Christmas Carol
Renard Rouge
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Best Documentary Director
Maynard
Alone
Fruition - The Life and Dreams of Nicholas Mueller
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Best Student Director
Blessed Days
Passiveness
La Manzana
The Swing
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Best Producer
Million Loves in Me
Uncle Silas
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Best Editor
Franconia
Torments of Love
Alone
It is safe now
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Best Cinematographer
Rendez-Vous
Franconia
Hansel & Gretel - Don't let the fear eat you
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Best Screenwriter
A Christmas Carol
Uncle Silas