2022 Festival Award Winners

Opening Night Celebration

An opening-night slate of films selected from across the festival.

Opening Night Celebration Encore Screening

Encore presentation of Opening Night Celebration.

A Hard Doc’s Life

• Freedom Swimmer — Olivia Martin-McGuire (UK)
• Generation Impact: The Scientist — Stephanie Wang-Breal. (USA)
• Merry Widow, The — Jason Jakaitis (USA)
• Rent-A-Friend — Carson Tappan (USA)
• Story of Roshan, The — Abdul Majeed Musa Al Harbi (Saudi Arabia)

An Uncomfortable Truth

• 5150 — Denzel Whitaker (USA)
• AAgnostic — Daniel James Dismuke (USA)
• After (A Love Story) — Clare Cooney (USA)
• Elevate — Dylan Boom (USA)
• Neshamah — Tony Doupe’ (USA)
• Thoughts and Prayers — Evan Miller (USA)

Life Interrupted

• Bombay Beach — Starsi Howell (USA)
• Burros — Jefferson Stein (USA)
• Hawawshi — Waleed Bedour (Egypt)
• Heart Land — Lauren Ciaravalli (USA)
• Off Side — Sophie Martin (France)
• The Phoenix — Regina Pigsley (USA)
• Wei-Lai — Robin Wang (USA)

Make ‘Em Laugh

• Arm On Head — Brett Maline (USA)
• How Did We Get Here? — J.N. Mackey (USA)
• Little Joy — Kandis Fay (USA)
• Le Pompon — David Hourrègue (France)
• Lucy — Emma Sofia Fazzuoli (USA)
• Lunch Tattoo — Nicholas Luciano
• Melons — Matt MacDonald (USA)
• One Who Never Watched Friends, The — Charlotte Gabris (France)

I Have A Bad Feeling About This

• Attest — Andi Behring (USA)
• Black Creek Trail — Soma Helmi (USA)
• First Circle, The — Maximilian Dobbyn, Anthony Le (UK)
• Poachers — Tiffany Lin (USA)
• Something Unseen — Sparkman Clark (USA)
• Triggered — Tara Westwood (USA)

Kids & Family

• Akesi and the Secrets of the Forest — Saïd Abitar, Curt Fortin (Germany)
• Amelia (The Twin) — Luke & Ethan Montgomery (USA)
• Air — Brian Wilcox (USA)
• Blanket — Marina Moshkova (Russia)
• Father, Son, and the Beach — Chieh-Huei Hsu (Taiwan)
• Fleeting Moment, A — Allyanna Demafeliz (USA)
• Social Chameleon, The — Alex Ross (USA)

Return of the Ink & Paint Club

• Air — Brian Wilcox (USA)
• Balcony, The — Anya Martin (USA)
• Blanket — Marina Moshkova (Russia)
• Fleeting Moment, A — Allyanna Demafeliz (USA)
• Lady Betty — Paul McGrath (Ireland)
• Peanut Factory — Seongmin Kim (Korea, Republic of)
• Sea of Hope, The — Walid Salhab (UK)
• Slasher Squad — Nathan Stone, Stuart Campbell (Australia)
• Sprite Fright — Matthew Luhn (Netherlands)
• Triskelion — Jessica Raes (Belgium)
• Trojan Horace — Scott Graham (USA)
• Barking Orders — Alex Tullo

The World Beyond

• Apotheosis — Max Pearce (USA)
• Can I Help? — Rupert Ratcliffe (UK)
• Censor of Dreams — Leo Berne, Raphaël Rodriguez (France)
• Following Year, The — Miguel Campaña (Spain)
• Rachels Don’t Run — Joanny Causse (France)

What the What?!?

• Coming Out With the Help of a Time Machine — Naman Gupta (USA)
• Clean Break, A — Victor Pigasse (USA)
• Cruise — Sam Rudykoff (Canada)
• Diamond, The — Vedran Rupic (Sweden)
• El Portafolio — Scottie Cameron (USA)
• Ice Cream. Sladoled — Steve Spremo (USA)
• White Now Please — Kyle Lau (USA)

World Cinema One

• Eating the Silence — Joël Jent, Ali Al-Fatlawi (Switzerland)
• Flyer Boys — Taras Lesiuk (Canada)
• Frontline — Dan Slater (Canada)
• Hold Me — Tommy Naess (Norway)
• Idealist, The — Martin Drouot (France)

A Taste of Cinema

• Bibimbap for One — Ella Greenwood (UK)
• Brunch — Tess Paras (USA)
• Mr. Mayonnaise — Patrick Rahill (USA)
• Dinner with Edie — Adrienne Picciotto (USA)
• Sinigang — Melissa Jane Rodriguez (USA)
• Touch — Julia Ngeow (USA)
• Talk to Me in Silence — Cat Dale (USA)

The Human Experience

• Anirudh — Raghav Puri (USA)
• Bourn Kind — Rachel S Myers (USA)
• Hot Shot, The — Robert Tornroos (Canada)
• Hug Lottery — Cass Buggé (USA)
• Stream of Consciousness — Jesse Shore (USA)
• Stupid Boy, The — Phil Dunn (UK)
• Father, Son, and the Beach — Chieh-Huei Hsu (Taiwan)

World Cinema Two

• Women of Virtue — Stéphanie Halfon (France)
• All That Glitters — Dan Bronzite (UK)
• Sissy — Eitan Pitigliani (Italy)
• Avant-Guarde — Maxime Azzopardi, Adrien Guedra-Degeorges (France)

Make ‘Em Laugh, After Dark

• Bye Bye Baby — Jessie Barnett (UK)
• Daddy’s Girl — Lena Hudson (USA)
• Dick Heist — Aiden Glikmann (USA)
• Guitar Thief, The — Miguel Lepe Jr (USA)
• Julia — Jack Donnelly (UK)
• Past Life — Rose O’Shea (USA)
• Sprite Fright — Franco Volpi (Netherlands)
• So What Did We Learn Today, Georgina? — Matthew Luhn (UK)

It Was a Dark & Stormy Night

• Cutter — Dan Repp, Lindsay Young (USA)
• Legs — Celine Cotran (UK)
• Neither Here nor There — Franco Machado-Pesce (USA)
• OST. — Abhichoke Chandrasen (Thailand)
• Rooted — Sean Addo (USA)
• Trunk, The — Travis Laidlaw (Canada)

More From A Hard DOC’s Life

• In Search of Boozers and Schmucks — Hrag Yedalian (USA)
• Lalito 10 — Jordan Matthew Horowitz (USA)
• Powers — Paige Morrow Kimball (USA)
• Roads Most Traveled: Photojournalist Don Bartletti, The — Bill Wisneski

The Road Not Taken

• Manager Position, The — Craig Trow (USA)
• Panorama — Scott Felix (USA)
• We Do This Once — Michael Marantz (USA)
• Where No One Lives — Li Anne Liew (USA)
• You Are, I am — Dan Counihan (USA)

World Cinema Three

• Off Side — Sophie Martin (France)
• Stupid Boy, The — Phil Dunn (UK)
• Day Without Prohibition, A — Elisa Kujala (Finland)
• Vulnerable — Noureddine Zerrad (Belgium)
• When She Was Good — Margarita Milne (UK)

Meet the Filmmaker

• 38 at the Garden — Frank Chi (USA)

Closing Night Screening

A closing-night program of festival award winners.

Best of World Cinema Shorts

A showcase of the festival’s top World Cinema shorts.

Audience Award Winners

Audience Choice winners, as voted by festival audiences.

Best of Comedy Shorts

A showcase of the festival’s top comedy shorts.