2021 Festival Award Winners

Opening Night Celebration

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

Encore Screening – Best of 2020

An encore of the best films from the 2020 virtual festival.

An Uncomfortable Truth

• Denzel — (UK)
• Seasick — (USA)
• Sitting — (USA)
• The Bright Fire — (China)
• Undercut — (USA)
• Zarnitsa — (Russian Federation)

World Cinema One

• Birdie — (Turkey)
• Free Fall — (France)
• Hook Up — (Australia)
• Snake Trail — (USA)

It’s A Hard Doc’s Life

• Generation Impact: The Coder — (USA)
• It’s Rocket Science — (USA)
• Not the Science Type: Jessica — (USA)
• Shots in the Dark — (USA)
• Tule Elk – The Killing of a Native Species — (USA)
• Veterans Journey Home: Kalani’s Story — (USA)

The World Beyond

• Body of the Mined — (USA)
• Katu — (Sweden)
• Please Hold — (USA)
• She — (USA)
• The Pill — (USA)
• Transmission — (Ireland)

Make ‘Em Laugh

• An Opening — (USA)
• Archibald’s Syndrome — (France)
• A Guide to Dining Out in Nairobi — (Kenya)
• Liza Anonymous — (USA)
• Made in China — (Uruguay)
• Rock A Bye Baby — (USA)
• Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee — (UK)

I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This

• :60 Seconds — (USA)
• Boys — (USA)
• Bury Me In Armor — (USA)
• The Gloom / Spain
• Kalamiti — (USA)
• The Mark — (USA)
• Switchback — (USA)

More From It’s A Hard Doc’s Life

• Finding Dohi — (USA)
• Full Picture — (USA)
• Jihad Summer Camp — (Italy)
• The Queen of Basketball — (USA)
• Dear Future Me — (USA)

World Cinema Two

• Blue Bison — (USA)
• The Criminals — (Turkey)
• Strike — (Canada)
• They Remained Silent — (Spain)

The Ink and Paint Club

• Chocolate — (China)
• Freebird — (Canada)
• Iron Farmer — (Taiwan)
• Navozande, the Musician — (France)
• Shooom’s Odyssey — (France)
• There You Are — (USA)

Musically Inclined

• “enough” — (USA)
• Frank & Emmet — (USA)
• Girl With A Thermal Gun — (China)
• Good Night — (Australia)
• In The Event Of My Death — (USA)
• Raymond — (USA)

The Human Experience

• 3:35 to Boston — (USA)
• Feeling Through — (USA)
• The Forgotten Place — (USA)
• Grow Old With Me — (USA)
• Majestic 8 — (USA)
• The Plumber — (USA)
• Refrigerate After Opening — (USA)

It Was A Dark & Stormy Night

• Hunter’s Cabin — (Canada)
• Inheritance — (USA)
• Jumpin’ Jacob — (USA)
• Last Night — (USA)
• Lisa — (USA)
• The Wrangler — (USA)

Kids & Family

• Graceland — (USA)
• Ian, A Moving Story — (Argentina)
• “Are You Okay?” — (USA)
• First Born — (USA)
• Mishou — (Germany)
• Sea Dragon — (UK)

Our Family Ties

• Blue — (USA)
• The Book of Ruth — (USA)
• Lost in the Shuffle — (USA)
• Morasa Polo / Over My Dead Body — (USA)
• Tape 23 — (USA)
• Why Do People Lie — (Spain)

What the What?

• Babbit & the Dream Team — (USA)
• Don vs. Lightning — (UK)
• Moskova Forever — (Finland)
• Philanthropy — (USA)
• Smiles — (Spain)
• Squish — (Belgium)

Life Interrupted

• Blood on the Risers — (USA)
• It’s So Charming — (Denmark)
• Marlon Brando — (Netherlands)
• Sales Per Hour — (USA)
• A Work of Art — (USA)

World Cinema Three

• Georgia — (South Korea)
• Jilted — (UK)
• The Act — (UK)
• Majority — (UK)
• Snorrie (Mustachio) — (Netherlands)

Closing Night – Award Winners

A closing-night program of films awarded Best Of in their categories.