FILMS OF THE MONTH – October 2022

TIFF

Movie of the month

(November 2022)

CATEGORY: Amateur Film
WINNER
The harvest is over.
Directed by JACK MICKE
France

CATEGORY: Animated Films
WINNER
Fragments The Animation
Directed by Jabriel E Woodall
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A Boy of May
Directed by Seung-il Chon
Korea, Republic of

Rhythmic Build
Directed by Lauren Carr
United States

CATEGORY: Best Actor
WINNER
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Acted by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Down and Out in Vampire Hills
Acted by Craig Railsback
United States

DUI(Two)
Acted by Shyamal Bose
India

Final cut
Acted by sejiane BELMONT
France

Fell in Love
Acted by Chandra Shekhar Chauhan
India

No War
Directed by Enzo Zelocchi
Italy

CRITIC’S CHOICE AWARDS
I’m Your Woman
Acted by Swapnil S. Rajpurkar
United Arab Emirates

Da Block
Acted by velton j lishke
United Kingdom

CATEGORY: Best Actress
WINNER
Get Over You Again
Acted by Brennan Paige
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Acted by Mandy Baker
United States

Clara
Acted by Méline Rocher
France

CRITIC’S CHOICE AWARDS
Blaming and Shaming
Acted by Joya Joseph
united states

CATEGORY: Best Cinematographer
WINNER
The Muse
Cinematographed by Max Karpylev
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A VOYAGE AGAINST TIME
Cinematographed by Steve Mackay, Jonathan Ali Khan
Kuwait

The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Cinematographed by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

CATEGORY: Best Director
WINNER
Blaming and Shaming
Directed by Joya Joseph
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Kasturba Gandhi:  Accidental Activist
Directed by Cynthia Lukas
United States

BUCKY #3: THE WORLD GAME
Directed by Noel B. Murphy
United States

Ojah – The rhythm of life
Directed by PRANAB SARMAH
India

Fell in Love
Directed by Chandra Shekhar Chauhan
India

Bicycle
Directed by Tianpeng Yao
China

No War
Directed by Enzo Zelocchi
Italy

Floor 14 “Avarice”
Directed by Chuck Price
United States

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD
Voler – love, loss and moving on
Directed by Mrunal Mestri
United States

The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Directed by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

CATEGORY: Best Editing
WINNER
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Edited by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Freedom Parade – Dance for your Life
Edited by Michael Bründel
Germany

CATEGORY:  Best Film Score – Soundtrack
WINNER
Down and Out in Vampire Hills
Film Scored by Craig Railsback
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Missing Moments
Film Scored by Iasonas Psarakis
Greece

Julia
Film Scored by Víctor Muñoz
Spain

The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Film Scored by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

CATEGORY:  Best Producer
WINNER
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Produced by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
No War
Produced by Enzo Zelocchi
Italy

The Crush
Produced by Haoxuan han
China

CATEGORY: Best Sound Designing
WINNER
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Sound Designed  by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

CATEGORY: Best Supporting Actor
WINNER
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Acted by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

CATEGORY: Best Supporting Actress
WINNER
Blaming and Shaming
Acted by Joya Joseph
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Acted by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

CATEGORY: Best VFX Artist
WINNER
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
VFX by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

CATEGORY: DEBUT FILMMAKER
WINNER
Da Block
Directed by velton j lishke
United Kingdom

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Blaming and Shaming
Directed by Joya Joseph
United States

PRABHAAV
Directed by Thasvi V
India

Game
Directed by Neha Srivastava, Mukta Wadhwa
India

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD
Freedom Parade – Dance for your Life
Directed by Michael Bründel
Germany

CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY FILM
WINNER

Silent Movie Stars
Directed by Bob Jones
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Kasturba Gandhi:  Accidental Activist
Directed by Cynthia Lukas
United States
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Once upon a time in America – Guns in the US: without a license and fear
Directed by Mikhail Romanovskiy

A Boy of May
Directed by Seung-il Chon
Korea, Republic of

BUCKY #3: THE WORLD GAME
Directed by Noel B. Murphy
United States

Finding the Line – An Exploration of Structural Integration
Directed by Aleš Urbanczik, Grzegorz Oleksa
Switzerland

LOVE*SING*EMBRACE Among the Mystic Baul Minstrels of India
Directed by Vijali Hamilton
United States

The Reencounter. 500 years Moctezuma and Cortés
Directed by Miguel Gleason
Mexico

APY BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
Directed by Mehdi Saleki, Firas Razak
Sweden

Killed in Qatar
Directed by Yvonne Bauer
United Kingdom

Unknown Soldier
Directed by Bob Jones
United States

Unsolved mysteries of the world
Directed by Shihyun Wang
Taiwan

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD
MUKHA- The Mask
Directed by PRANAB SARMAH
India

Shodh Documentary  – THE BLEEDING GODDESS
Directed by Harshada Pathare
India

Freedom Parade – Dance for your Life
Directed by Michael Bründel
Germany

CATEGORY: Experimental Film
WINNER
Floor 14 “Avarice”
Directed by Chuck Price
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Menti Minda- Mothertongue
Directed by Karin Balog
Netherlands

Maria’s Silence
Directed by cesare bedogne
Italy

CATEGORY: Family/Children Film
WINNER
Bicycle
Directed by Tianpeng Yao
China

CATEGORY: FEATURE SCRIPT
WINNER
Kasturba Gandhi:  Accidental Activist
Written by Cynthia Lukas
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Less Traveled
Written by Christan van Slyke
United States

The Four Of Us Are Dying
Written by Jesse Dorian
United States

Morituriosis
Written by Jesse Dorian
United States

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD
A Summer Surprise
Written by JK Jones
United States

CATEGORY: Films on Disability Issue
WINNER
What is it Like?
Directed by Steve Downey
United Kingdom

CATEGORY: Film on Nature / Environment / Wildlife
WINNER
BLACK MOON
Directed by TONATIUH GARCÍA
Mexico

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A VOYAGE AGAINST TIME
Written by Steve Mackay, Jonathan Ali Khan
Kuwait

CATEGORY: Films on Women
WINNER
The Silent Scream
Directed by Nilesh Chandrakant Nevgi
India

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Kasturba Gandhi:  Accidental Activist
Directed by Cynthia Lukas
United States

La sposa nel vento – The bride in the wind (ita-sub eng)
Directed by Giovanni Coda
Italy

CATEGORY: Film/Video Poster
WINNER
Blaming and Shaming
Directed by Joya Joseph
United States

CATEGORY: Films on Disability Issue
WINNER
What is it Like?
Directed by Steve Downey
United Kingdom

CATEGORY: Free Speech
WINNER
Freedom Parade – Dance for your Life
Directed by Michael Bründel
Germany

CATEGORY: LGBT Film
WINNER
FAG
Directed by Olivier Lallart
France

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Lactasia
Directed by Val Phoenix
United Kingdom

CATEGORY: Mobile Film
WINNER
BLANK FUGITIVE
Directed by Michael Boston
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
PhoBhaiyya
Directed by Ritwik Mukherjee
India

Struggle to Freedom
Directed by Shivangii Biswas
India

CATEGORY: Music Video
WINNER
Get Over You Again
Directed by Chuck Price
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Omnipotent Resolution
Directed by Uniqueness

Sesher kobita – End means a new beginning  (Music Video)
Directed by Mayukh Bhattacharyya
India

In a Tamasic World
Directed by Camilla Martini
Italy

CRITIC’S CHOICE AWARD
Tu Bada Royega
Directed by Anees Caspian
United Arab Emirates

CATEGORY: Narrative Feature
WINNER
KAGOZ- THE PAPER
Directed by Ali Zulfikar Zahedi
Bangladesh

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Fallen… are connected
Directed by B S Pradeep Varma
India

AN ANTHOLOGY OF MEN
Directed by Aranyak Chakrabarty
India

Stella & Max An Urban Luv Story
Directed by Katharine Cox, Brandon Lee Johnson
United States

MOON FACE SHATTERED HEARTS
Directed by MEHMET TANRISEVER
Turkey

Fell in Love
Directed by Chandra Shekhar Chauhan
India

Praying the Hours
Directed by Lauralee Farrer
United States

The Haunted Jizo of Shimo-Mizuno, Sayama City
Directed  by Mitsuo Kurihara

Trapped in Makyo
Directed by Tomojiro Amano
Japan

Pratibimbo
Directed by Nirmalya Biswas, Sudip Nag, Malay Roy, Aditya Das
India

Franklin’s Comedy Book
Directed by Franklin Marshall III
United States

Homeless
Directed by Geng Lai Rui
China

The Muse
Directed  by Max Karpylev
United States

The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Directed by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

BLACK MOON
Directed by TONATIUH GARCÍA
Mexico

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD
The Case of the Time Traveling Serial Killer
Directed by Jay Carney, Penny Towers, Frank Farbehind
United States

DUI(Two)
Directed by Shyamal Bose
India

Roop Nagar Ke Cheetey
Directed by Vihan Suryavanshi
India

CATEGORY: One Minute Film
WINNER
Ornament
Directed by Eric Williams
Norway

CATEGORY: Perfoming Arts
WINNER
The Alliance 2 The Hunt for Breeze
Directed by Robert L Butler Jr
United States

CATEGORY: Romantic Short
WINNER
Alucinar
Directed by Margie Kelk, Lynne Slater
Canada

CATEGORY: Short Film
WINNER
Bepar
Directed by Mukesh Kumar
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Cow
Directed by Justin John Carroll
Ireland

In September I dreamt of winter
Directed by Emil Sallinen
Finland

KAYAMAI (in English – “TURPITUDE”)
Directed by Radhakrishnan Gopal
India

DELIVERANCE
Directed by Michaël Rué
Switzerland

Into The Sky
Directed by Nekib Ahmed
India

Hero of the Desert
Directed by Lorena Sopi
Kosovo

Blaming and Shaming
Directed by Joya Joseph
United States

A fight I did not pick on
Directed by Shihyun Wang
United States

Tornado’s tomorrow
Directed by Shihyun Wang
Spain

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD
Irish Catholic
Directed by Bob Jones
United States

Qurbat – A dark desire
Directed by Subhadip Mazumdar
India

CATEGORY: Short Script
WINNER
Perfect Teeth
Written by Scott Bastedo
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Deadline To Death
Written by Elliot Stanton
United Kingdom

Down and Out in Vampire Hills
Written by Craig Railsback
United States

CATEGORY: Silent Film
WINNER
Julia
Directed by Víctor Muñoz
Spain

CATEGORY: Student Film
WINNER
.mp4
Directed by Peter Berle
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Go north
Directed by 克伟 刘
China

Lost mother
Directed by zelong liu
Chile

CATEGORY: Television / Pilot Program or Series
WINNER
Amazons of the XXI Century – Dissident from the USSR
Directed by Mikhail Romanovskiy
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Wolf + Lamb
Directed by Giuseppe Schettino
Italy

CATEGORY: Trailer/Teaser
WINNER
Trailer #1: The Case of the Time Traveling Serial Killer
Directed by Jay Carney, Frank Farbehind, Penny Towers
United States

CATEGORY: Web and New Media
WINNER
The Black Man’s Guide To World Travel – Medellin Colombia
Directed by Marques Wilson
United States

CATEGORY: Women’s Films
WINNER
Kasturba Gandhi:  Accidental Activist
Directed by Cynthia Lukas
United States

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
INTERLACEMENTS
Directed by MARIA BARBARA MASSIMILLA
Italy

Blaming and Shaming
Directed by Joya Joseph
United States

CATEGORY: Young Filmmaker
WINNER
Life Gamer
Written by Qi Zhang
China