Official Selection LIFF 2019

Selected movies for Best Short Script LIFF 2019

• Salamoon – Ashkan Chavoshi
• Finding Shelter – Mehrtash Mohit
• Cavendish, Pepys, and the Zombie Kiss of 1666 – James Fitzmaurice
• Felfol – Georgio Nassif
• Paris, Texas 1930 – Scott Simpson
• Ajwa – Omair Nazir
• Mother – Sevra Baklaci
• The Resurrection – Iman Davari
• Judas and the Dead Dog-Baltimore – David Thorndill
• End of the Rope – Jake Teeny
• Between Darkness and Light – Jake Teeny
• Sunny and the Seal – Jake Teeny
• Boundaries – Jake Teeny
• Why? – Terrie Anderson
• Egyptian Pound – Rami Mahdy
• Job Life – Roberto I. Ercolado
• The Master’s Son – Guy Quigley
• The Donor – Wis Petter
• Olere – Dania Torjemane

Selected movies for Best Short Foreign Documentary LIFF 2019 : 

• Shinrin – Yoku (forest bathing)  – Mark Knight
• The Man Who Looked Beyond the Horizon  – Martijn Blekendaal
• Revive the Lira’s Glory – Alessandra el Chanti
• Saved, Escaped from Kim’s regime – Thea Elisabeth Haavet
• Blue Butterfly – Okan Erunsal
• Weltschmerz – Jesper Dalgaard
• Portraits of my Mother – Tavo Ruiz
• For a Smile – Pirmin Styrnol and  Till Mayer
• Three Days in Berlin – Kamil Bembnista
• A Song Can’t Burn – Roscoe Neil
• Kani Spi (The White Spring) – Khesrew Heme Kerim
• The Prophetess – Sylvie Weber
• Coming out as a Queen  – Marisa Jo Zakes
• Eli, A Portrait – Lumen Nguyen
• Beyond Pain -Emanuele Lami Grifeo
• Three Stolen Cameras – RåFILM
• Vanilla – Mukarram Ramadan
• Insecure – Yehia Sakr
• Landminds – Dina Dada
• My name was January – Elina Gress and Lenee Son
• Kopacabana – Marcos Bonisson and Khalil Charif
• In The Middle -Mariam Al Dhubhani
• KYRA – Waleed M. Abuzaid

Selected movies for Foreign Short Fiction LIFF 2019 :

• An Old Friend : A Harry Potter Short Film  – Andre Yatsounski
• Afaf – Layan Adham Ismail
• The Tattooed Heart – Sheldon Wong Schwartz
• Portrait of a Woman at Dawn – Cullen Douglas
• EMMA – Sophie Gueydon
• Under Mom’s Skirt – Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix
• O.I. – N’cee van Heerden
• PAPA – Christophe Switzer
• Malammor’ – Michele Melchionda
• Scenes From a Migranthood – Roozbeh Behtaji
• Paris Pantin – Sylvie Audcoeur
• Maryam – Mohammed Ahmed al Hammadi
• Spizella – Mehmet Tigli
• Kiko’s Saints – Manuel Marmier
• Lost Thekra – Almuhannad Alkadam
• The Sound of Unexpected Death – Alexander Sagmo
• Tomorrow Island – Gwenn Joyaux
• Faelder – Andreas Pfohl and Fariba Buchheim”
• Floating Bodies – Rafael Farina Issas
• Free Wheel – Sebastien Ventura
• I am Sorry – Olejnik Kamil
• The Back of The House – Stuart Douglas
• Concern for Welfare – Fadia Abboud
• Everything calms down – Virginia Scaro
• Thursday – John Anthony Flavin
• Take Care – Itamar Giladi
• Salvation – Thora Hilmarsdottir
• One Day at The Sea – Jonathan Borgel
• Je n’ai pas tué Jesse James – Sophie Beaulieu
• Routine – Osama Daood
• Into Reverse – Noha Adel
• Barzakh – Hessen Hossam
• Wherever You Are – Oleg Trofim
• New Woman – Benjamin Noah
• Crossfire – Mert Berdilek
• Motives – Joseph al Ahmad
• Mimicry.7.III-IV  – Kun Xia
• Orenda – Camila Saldarriaga

Selected movies for Mediterranean Special Award LIFF 2019 : 

The People Behind the Scenes by Elsa Gomis
The Letter Writer by Layla Kaylif
NightShift طعمي السمكات by Marc Salameh
Paper Kite طيارة ورق by Sahar ElKabash

Selected movies for Diversity Special Award LIFF 2019 : 

The red moon by Azza Baaziz
My Name Was January by Alex Sangha
Josiane, the passion of the other by Anne Lakhdar
Tarab by Maria Michaels
Scenes From a Migranthood by Roozbeh Behtaji

Selected movies for Best Local Short Fiction : 

Rahil by Rita Saade
The Fault by Georges Abou Ghazale
Caim by Joy Tanjar
Crystal by Camilio Azoury
Noisy Caterwaul by Cynthia Abou Jaoude
The Donkey by Tariq Keblaoui
Night Shift by Marc Salameh
Staroye Delo by Alexandra Karam
What’s left of home by Tony Maksoudian
Moo by Andy Khaouli
Athyo by Jean-pierre Abdayem
Ramona by Joseph Rouhana
Voeu by Dayanne Zmyter
A photo, a hotel and her by Estephan Khattar
I want to be understood and ignored by Shadi Rabahi
Rüya by Carlos Haidamous
The Boy Who Wore the Sun by Eli Salameh
What’s your name by Nour Al-Moujabber
DV Cam by Mohammad Dayekh
OuterEye by Hanaa Ojeil
Chmout by Rami Aidamouni
Sandcastles by Sabine Bou-Jaoudé
Raining Dogs by Anthony Yazbeck
Wa Nueid by Ghady Abou Haydar
Happy ending by Ramzi Khoury
Wahl by Emile Bou Diwan
Kingdom of I by Maya Zaleoum
Ruins by Valentina Khawand
The Trophy by Luana chaptini
Here, somewhere by Charbel Chouchani
Cinéma à papa by Sara Jamal
La Folie à deux by Charelle Abdallah
The Purple Tree by Roy bou chaaya
3ala Kollen by Marc Rahy
1982 by Maria Khayssi
Fana’a by Lara Ghanimeh
Pick me up by Layal Akiki
Elpide by Gaelle Azzam

Selected movies for Best Feature Documentary LIFF 2019 : 

• Life Without Basketball – Tim O’Donnel
• Foxy – Trista Suke
• Chasing the Jet Stream – Claudio von Planta
• Soldiers without Guns – Will Watson
• Juice: How Electricity explains the world – Tyson Culver
• Day of the Western Sunrise – Keith Reimink
• Cursed Days – Artem Iurchenko
• The Ghost of Peter Sellers – Peter Medak
• The Quiet Rebel – Carole Cassier
•  Let us be Heroes – Rebecca Cappelli
• Factory of Lies – Jakob Gottschau
• Badiou – Rohan Kaylan
• The Illegal Film – Martin  Baer
• My Russian Spring – Xenia Sigalova

Selected movies for Foreign Feature Fiction LIFF 2019 

• Drown Among the Dead – Ruben Gutierrez
• Last Call – Gavin Michael Booth
• Search Engines – Russel Brown
• Tarab – Jennifer Hanley
• The Letter Writer – Layla Kaylif
• I love Everything I Hate about you – Nadine Keil
• Falter – Harriet Maria Meining and Peter Meining
• Lupe – Charles Vuolo and André Phillips
• Rebento – Andreé Morais
• The Rite of Summer – Briac Ragot
• Strangers – Lorenz Suter
• Luke & Jo – Joshua Overbay
• Lost Transmissions – Katharine O’Brien
• Scent of My Daughter – Olgun Özdemir
• Foreign – Edson Lemos Akatoy

Selected movies for Best Short Animation LIFF 2019 : 

• Who Won – Aisha Selime
• A Scribbled Memory – Bhulla Beghal
• Temptation of Saint Fancis – Johnnie Semerad
• Up and Down – the Wheel goes round – Christopher Aaron
• Embraces & the touch of skin by Sara Koppel
• A Bird’s Waltz – Mabelle Sawan
• Mimicry.7.III-IV – Kun Xia
• Synchronicity – Michelle Brand
• Gelato – seven summers of ice cream love – Daniela Opp
• After Silence – Henning Himmeleich
• The Masque of Blackness – Epoh Beech
• Etude – Sarah Amburgey
• The Spirit Seam – Ashley Gerst
• Tapping Tango – Nancy Snipper
• The Day I Got Into My Head – Floriane Montcriol
• The Market of Lost Things – Zaide Kutay
• L’Homme et Le Poisson – Lewis Leon
• Cats Days – Jon Frickey
• All The World is A Stage – Hannes Rall
• The Bear Hunter – Sayaka Hara
• UkeLayla – UCF Film
• Cuban Queens – Warren Bass

Selected movies for Best Local Short Documentary LIFF 2019 : 

Ziad The Second by Sacha Mourad
Victoria by Serge Alhelayel

Selected movies for Best Local Feauture Documentary LIFF 2019 : 

Of San And Gold by Raghed Charabaty
About A War by Daniele Rugo
The Sacred Family by Charles Costantine