Official Selection 2021
Best Arab Fiction
Diversity Award
International Feature Documentary
International Feature fiction
International Short Documentary
International Short Fiction
International Feature Documentary
Local Short Documentary
Local Short Fiction
Photography contest
Best Animation
Best Script
Best Web Doc/Fiction
Animation
Them – Robin Lochmann
Mother and Milk – Ami Lindholm
The Dream of B. Soares – Thibault Chollet
Recipe In Exile – Chantal Kassarjian
Flap – Jessica Gallaher
Best Friends Forever – Mariam Khayat
Be Headed – Rita Abi Raad
The House – Saoud Bouebaid
I Want to Leave – Ralph Khoury
Mariam – Dana Durr
The Wedding Cake – Monica Mazzitelli
Arab Feature Fiction
Exit 5 – Khaled Nadershah
Sawah – Adolf El Assal
Arab Short Fiction
Silence – Lubna Albadawi
Me, My friend and Canada – Mouzi Abdelkoddous
Fifty Thousand Photographs – Abduljalil Al-Nasser
Once There Was a Boy – Antonious Bassily
The Laundry – Saoud Bouebaid
Tick Tock – Awad Abdelrahman
Family Routine – Ahmed Hamed
The House – Saoud Bouebaid
Haiku – Mounir Salah
Huda – May Al-Ghouti
Retention – Abdulla Faisal
The Way Home – Noor Hanania, Layan Nairoukh
Lockdown – Ahmed Khattab
Best Web Fiction – Best Web Documentary
Thumb Runner – Dylan Bruno & Kasper Vejlø Kristensen”
Location Scouts – Christiaan Van Vuuren
Trillo & Suede – Jonathan Geffner
Blackbetty season 1 – Marco North
Wetlands – Persia beheshti
Diversity
Good Kisser – Wendy Jo Carlton
Ghabe – Markus Castro
Eat the Rainbow – Brian Benson
Cracks in the patriarchy – Cagdas Celtikli & Kai Münch
The First Rainbow Coalition – Ray Santisteban
Zakaquito – Zakaria Kajiou
Mediterranean
Concerning Childfree Women – Nicoletta Nesler & Marilisa Piga
Cheyenne – Gerard Corporon
Foreign Feature Documentary
Like butter on toast – Dominik Junker
Sex, Drugs & Bicycles – Jonathan Blank
HIV Saved My Life – Paul Edward Foulkes & Aaron Yamashita
Return of the Lotus-Born Master – Laurence Brahm
“Ettù Parànu – Davide carbone
Enough! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour – Daizy Gedeon
A Conversation with America – Jim Kroft
The Girl Who Wore Freedom – Christian Taylor
Foreign Feature Fiction
Soumaya – Ubaydah Abu-Usayd & Waheed Khan
Man From Beirut – Christoph Gampl
Expiry – Tom Gatley
The return of Richard III on the 9:24am train – Eric Bu
Long Time No See – Pierre Filmon
A Picture with Yuki – Lachezar Avramov
Closet – Takehiro Shindo
Pause – Tonia Mishiali
True Calling – Erik Knudsen
Ghabe – Markus Castro
Exit 5 – Khaled Nadershah
Foreign Medium-Length Documentary
Invisible Child – Muhammed Ibrahim Şişman
A Vision of Promise – Eva Daoud
For Your Sake – Ronja Hemm
Desert Flight – John Azoni & Samia Staehle
I Will Be Fine – Zein El Cheikh
Salman Bin Hamad – A Vision of Promise – Eva Daoud
Lupita – Monica Wise Robles
Foreign Medium-Length Fiction
Untitled Number 4 – Eric Ransdell
The Visitor – Jesper Isaksen
A Mentor – Szonja Szabó
Heaven’s Meadow – Magdalena Chmielewska
Grace – Konstantin Egerndorfer
La Nuit – Stefano Odoardi
Medulla – Rudi Brekelmans
Agatha – Julián De La Chica
Allan ellen – Juan Ros
Foreign Short Documentary
Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny – David Wayne Ng & Jen Sungshine & Kendell Yan
Water is Life – Sam Vinal
The Times and Tales of Two Beiruts – Teymur Faris
Lupita – Monica Wise Robles
Waiting for the Sea – George Itzhak
Opotho (You White Person) – Marilyn Nassar
Zakaquito – Zakaria Kajiou
Foreign Short Fiction
Darkest – Martin T. B. Thomas
Mano a mano – Louise Courvoisier
A Glimpse – Tom Turner
Thieves – Julius Christian & Christian Telmer
Wanderboy – Thomas Bernos
Sycamore – Mehmet Tığlı
Baradar – Beppe Tufarulo
The Manchador – Kaveh Tehrani
Ashmina – Dekel Berenson
C’est La Vie – Taniel Kilajian
3 Coups – Mathieu Baillargeon
Alone With I – Joshua Whincup
Aube – Valentine Lapière
Birds With No Legs – Pavlos Stamatis
Cargo – Christina Tournatzés
In This Land We’re Briefly Ghosts – Chen-Wen Lo
Offseason – Ioachim Stroe
Fortissimo – Janine Piguet
Hot Chocolate – David Hay
I Am Mackenzie – Artemis Anastasiadou
Days Of May – Juri Ferri
Offbeat – Myrte Ouwerkerk
Séance – Johannes Franke
W – Stelios Koupetoris
A Dog’s Life – Nael AkivaGh
Amber – Faisal Hashmi
Room 217 – Srwsht Abarash
Goodnight and Goodbye – Elijah Noble El
I want to leave – Ralph Khoury
The House – Saoud Bouebaid
Brussels-Beirut – Thibaut Wohlfahrt, Samir Youssef
Blue Flower – Saadi Constantine
Rsvp – Leen Zayat
Onslaught – Anna-Maria Oueiny
Meeting With the Devil – Theo Kim
And The Party Goes On! – Michael Asmar
The Girmit Experience – James Edward Marks
Less – Tommy kiser
The Bomb – Dima Hamdan
Local Short Documentary
Barzakh – Haçan Haïdar
Oum Hassoun – Elie Sahyoun
The Seven Villages – Farah Abou Kharroub
Rhythm of Forgetting – Ginou Choueiri
Beirut 2020 – Maria Sieira
What Remains – Christian Harb
Second Wind – Nessim Stevenson
When Beirut Was Beirut – Alessandra El Chanti
In Search of Times Past – Aya Chouaib
Iman – Alexandre Slaiby
Aida – Hanane Khalil
Zeibekiko in Beirut – George Eid
“Film title” – Fatima Joumaa
Je suis Aniss – Karen Hawa
Un peu des deux – Gabriel Haddad
Somos – Lydie Nesvadba
From Durban to Tomorrow – Dylan Gray
Local Feature Documentary
Welcome to Ouzville – Jay B. Jammal
I Will Be Fine – Zein El Cheikh
Beirut Terminus – Elie Kamal
Local Short Fiction
30/2 – Hadi Ibrahim
T.E.R.D. – Hussein Chabakji
Garen – Hrag Meguerditchian
Where To? – Robine Nachar
Ila Haythou – To Nowhere – Pamela Nassour
Pipe Dream – Celine Dagher
Harmonica – Jad Dona
Staccato – Theresa Fattouch
Until The Rain Wanes – Marianne Bou Mosleh
Felfol – Georgio Nassif
Whelve – Nayara El Kouba
Lucid Green – Joseph Gebrael
Notfa – Salem Hadchity
Stillness – Fadel Marji, Moustafa Ghabris
The Red Mountain – Kamel Harb
Houwa – Joseph Gebrael
Onslaught – Anna-Maria Oueiny
Trigger – Rafi Tannous
Rahil – Rachelle Makhlouf
Echoes – Mariana Abou Elias
ÃH – Alex El Dahdah
A Moment – Noel Bassil
Listen to me Reda – Sara Safieddine
Did you see what’s happening in Beirut? – Loula Burnus
Once Upon a Revolution – Dima Alansari
Amygdala – Dana Abdessamad
Deep Yellow – Layal Chahine
Mirage – Robert Minassian
Pandemonium – Mahdi Mousawi
Luna – Samer Sayegh
Us. Lebanon – Elissa Hassan
The System – fayez Abou Khater
Valens – Mazin Akar
Elle – Wael Assaf
Till We Meet Again – Mardig Otjian
A Deafening Silence – Tracy El Helou
How My Grandmother Became A Chair – Fabian Driehorst
Jasminum – Lara Rassoul
Leila – Hady Bitar
Light Fingers – Carina Ashkar
Another Conversation – Nour Al-Moujabber
Presumed Missing – Mohammad Bazzoun
Red Threads – Ranim Abdel Khalek
Tamouzi – Ali Dekmak
Missing Piece – Nadim Khoury
Hors Champ – Rita Rizk
Iced – Fatima Fakihi
Quarantième – Edwin Kadri
A ball, wicker chairs and ice cream – Hrair Kalemkarian
To Kill A Memory – Ramy Farah
Chapter 1 – Nataly Chehade
The Hurl – Samir Kawas
Room 16 – Dany Saliba
Oumi – Darine Saab
TakeAway – Karen Hamad
Best Cinematography
Love – DP. Pierre Mouarkech
Hailing from Saudi Arabia – DP. Christian Ghammachi
Turn On – DP. Celine Layous
Taniel – DP. Ben Hodgson & Guri Goliadze
Enough! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour – DP. Justin Hanrahan
Once Upon A Revolution – DP. Hadi Raghda
Cadence of the Valley – DP. Ahmad Saif
The Girl Who Wore Freedom – DP. Corey Lillard
Ghabe – DP. Carl Rasmussen
Exit 5 – DP. Jorje Daou
Best Narrative
Exit 5 – Khaled Nadershah
Tick Tock – Awad Abdelrahman
Leaving to Live – David Rodrigues
ENOUGH! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour – Daizy Gedeon
Best Performance
The Visitor – Jesper Isaksen
Ghabe – Markus Castro
Best Director
Love – Henri Bassil
Theives – Julius Telmer
Return of the Lotus-Born Master – Laurence Brahm
Ettù Parànu – Davide Carbone
Enough! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour – Daizy Gedeon?
The House – Saoud Bouebaid?
Once Upon A Revolution – Soha Shukayr?
The Girl Who Wore Freedom – Christian Taylor
Short Script
Silent Cal and the Swain – Scott Simpson
Evening of the Evil Eye – Angel Connell
If she dies she dies – Manisha Chulani
A Second Husband – Tommy Britt
The Undisputed Champion of the World – John Morrison
The journey of life – hu li huai
Death Offers Life-Last moments of Vincent Van Gogh – Madhu R
Have Fun – Tom Canning
The Torch – Alexandra Metaireau
Desert Rose – Aina Swartz
Short Love Story – Stéphanie-Maria Oufan
Anti Social – Brad Porter
Soup – Royston Fernandes
The Music Box – Ahmed Mohammad Almaazmi
Barcode – Husseyin Urcuk?
Daughter – Seymur Zeynalli
Lenny’s Luck – Colin Pierce
I Killed My Friend – Astim Altokhais
Never Stop Running – Melissa Caudle
Face Painters – Giovanni Sanseviero
Review – Jonathan Zarantonello
Victor – Esther Farin
Surviving the Rona Pandemic – Jonathan Bowman
Secret Library – Laurel King
Best Sound design
ENOUGH! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour – Daizy Gedeon
Best Art Direction
The House – Saoud Bouebaid
Best Photography
Clay Souls – Abdullah Al Kandari
Clay – Luca Di Bartolo
Skin Changes Identity – Maria Dininni