Please note that among the winning films of the monthly competitions (not all), those selected to participate in the Grand Finale in Tangier will be chosen, with public screenings from November 22nd to 24th, 2024, culminating in the Gala Finale. Films that win in a particular category in the monthly competitions will continue to compete in other categories they have entered if selected for the Grand Finale in Tangier.

Best Short Film

"The Most Beautiful Among Mothers" by mahmoud abu jazi


The main character of the film is the mother, since she is forced to sit everyday by the window to wait for her only son, because of the current situation in the 48 Palestinian community and the raise of violence rate. Despite that the mother is doing nothing but waiting for her son, still, she is worried and fear is taking over her, she is scared that in any moment someone will come to her with bad news about her son.

Everything can happen here and now, the mother is again sitting next to the window, and patiently waits for her son, without interfering in anything that is taking place in the ally, and only at dawn when the son is back the mother calms down.

Palestine, 12 minutes 19 seconds

Best Feature Film Documentary

"Waiting for Casimir" by Christian Fournier


Freely inspired by artist Edward Hopper’s realist approach, Waiting for Casimir is a film essay where the flow of time itself is called into question.

A village called Saint-Casimir. Bucking societal expectations, a couple who owns a small house there invite in five people who are each dealing in their own way with the possible closure of their senior’s residence.

Behind these closed doors where time stands still, an alternative world has come into being.

Canada, 1 hour 8 minutes

"The alchemist's dance" by Arantxa Vela


How does María Pagés’ thinking work? Where do her movements come from? What inspires her dancing? Starting with the staging of one of her latest shows, ‘De Scheherezade’, at the Roman Theatre of Mérida, we delve into her creative process, a process that she has shared for more than ten years with the poet, writer and dramaturg El Arbi El Harti. Both helps us to deconstruct scenes and draw a line that links with their previous works. By means of a fine sense of humour, the couple reveals to us the happiness and difficulties of living and working together. María Pagés shows herself to us as a woman whose life has its center on stage, in her way of understanding flamenco. Her dance seems to be something close to meditation and her creative process, a kind of trance.


Spain, 1 hour 23 minutes 31 seconds

Best Documentary Feature Film Director

"The Seasons Within Me" by Sevda Doğan


Sevda is a bipolar woman with a traumatic past. Her greatest desire is to make a feature-length film, but when she starts writing the psychological injuries of the past, become her biggest obstacle. Sevda, the main character and director of the film, embarks on a journey of self-healing and in this difficult journey the doors of an alchemical transformation are opens to her.

Turkey, 1 hour 3 minutes 41 seconds

Best Horror Short Film

"Perfect Wall" by Sea-hoon Jeon


Symmetrical stiffness Perfectionism artist Oh Ju-bom's perfect daily life begins to distort.

Korea, Republic of, 13 minutes 6 seconds

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