KIFF 2024
Nominees
The Diversity Spotlight Award is presented to outstanding projects that highlight and promote diversity in media. This recognition celebrates the efforts of creators who strive to include and amplify underrepresented voices, fostering a more inclusive and equitable landscape in the industry.
Best Feature Film
Hamlet Within (UK)
Directed by Ken McMullen
Starring:
A modern-day version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', which explores a young man's psyche as he contemplates avenging his father's death.
Hanky Panky (USA)
Directed by Lindsey Haun, Nick Roth
Starring:
A man and his best friend who is a talking napkin must save the world from an evil tophat, and also learn to love.
There is a place in the world (ITALY)
Directed by Francesco Falaschi
Starring:
"There is a place in the world" intertwines three different stories of ordinary people living in small Italian towns, each grappling with the choices they must make. These characters face the pressing dilemma of our times: city or countryside, to leave or stay, in a world where small towns are increasingly overlooked and lifeless.
Best Short Film
Dreams About The Past (Russia)
Directed by Dmitri Frolov
A film about peace. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in Russia, the film takes place at the end of the summer of 1917. In a strange way, the atmosphere of the film echoes our current reality and what is happening in Russia today. The film belongs to experimental mockumentary cinema. To give greater authenticity to what is happening on the screen, the shooting was carried out on black-and-white negatives of 16 and 35 mm, hand-operated cameras were used and the material was developed in manual spiral tanks.
Flower of The Partisan (SOUTH AFRICA)
Directed by Charles Badenhorst
Flower of the Partisan is about the assassin of Hendrik Verwoerd, Dimitri Tsafendas. It's an imagined biography of the life of Tsafendas' mind during solitary confinement. Our film is a meditation on the futility of violence. Whether it is used to liberate or oppress, violence traps its users into labyrinths of violence from which we struggle to escape. At the heart of that labyrinth are human souls desperate to be free, joyous and creative.
Mourning (Ireland)
Directed by Jackie Walsh
A young woman's search for her missing dog leads to a shocking discovery; A story about violence against women.
Goodmorning Mom (Turkey)
Directed by Oben Yılmaz
At a very huge farm in the middle of nowhere, two sisters engage in a secret struggle with each other in order to win their mother's love. The family is irreparably shaken on the day the sister gets stuck in the swamp due to an unfortunate accident.
Best Actress
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
Best Actress in a Short Film
Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film
Best Actor
Best Actor
Best Actor in a short film
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actor in a short film
Best Short Script
Virgin Mojito (Hungary)
Written by Kata Varga
Two childhood friends who find female obsession quite scary make a ridiculous oath to stay virgins until their 'Ones' will come. It goes on hilariously well until one of them falls in love. 50 is the new 30. A pug named Mr.Perkins is also involved.
Blue Shades (Mexico)
Written by Alejandro Vilpa
A futuristic world where A.I. has taken the entertainment industry and kicked out human artists, who now have to steal and sell industrial secrets from the top entertainment companies to survive. A secret that may flip everything upside down has been delivered...
Best Feature Script
Richard Spong (USA)
Written by Terry Luke Podnar
An ambitious businessman, who is haunted by an abusive foster home, struggles with his past while desperately climbing the corporate ladder by using his co-workers as stepping stones - pushing him into a spiraling mental breakdown
Winter Bird (USA)
Written by Stephen Delos Treacy
Winter Bird hinges on a subconscious connection between two Alaskans. One a former physician, now Rare Book Room Librarian, who helped his beloved wife commit suicide a few years ago. The other, a subarctic entity, who was brutally murdered while pregnant 100 years before.
Long Way Home (USA)
Written by Terry Podnar
A surreal cab ride and an omniscient driver force a woman to struggle internally over a tragic decision she made in her youth.