Audience Award:
Hole
Directed by Fuad KhaterSaudi Arabia
A young man returns to his family after a long absence to get his college degree. He is shocked when his mother does not recognise him because of Alzheimer's disease. He feels sad for this, but he decides to do something for her. He tries reaching his mother through their old memories. Only love heals Alzheimer's.
My Life I Don't Want
Directed by Nyan Kyal SayMyanmar
A short animated film about the life of a Myanmar girl, inspired by true stories.
Audience Award:
New Moon
Directed by Andréa PradoBrazil
Mother and daughter, complicit in a mutual love, share their routines on a deserted beach. The arrival of daughter's adolescence generates a confusion of feelings of loss and fear, face to break this new phase of life.
Audience Award:
Traveler
Directed by Hyungmin JungKorea, Republic of
A man is travelling in the Himalayas, and looking out the window of a Japanese restaurant finds himself looking at a photo of a Japanese traveller in a missing poster on the wall. The next day, he goes to the Japanese Embassy in a taxi, and his journey ends. Then we see him one year ago, when he is leaving for his father's hometown in Korea. His father had died when he was only one year old. In his journey in the Himalayas, the man is walking into deep sorrow, but in Korea, he is healing his pain little by little.
Best Director: Poverty, Inc.
Directed by Michael Matheson MillerUnited States
"I see multiple colonial governors," says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. "We are held captive by the donor community." The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry — the business of doing good has never been better. From TOMs Shoes to international adoptions, from solar panels to US agricultural subsidies, Poverty, Inc plays the gadfly in this eye-opening examination of Western interventions in the developing world.
Special Mention: Mood Swings
Directed by Sanjay KumarAustralia
Having a steady view on a subject, the audience is transformed into a third person, detached but engaged. An experimental system of video layering, Mood Swings is a summary of its creator's year in Melbourne as an International film student. This journey was a crash course in Films, cultures, ideas and people.
Audience Award: Mum
Directed by Akash MihaniIndia
Eight-year-old Mamta is struggling with her homework. She gains the attention of her always strict class teacher as she reads from the unwritten essay on Mother; leaving the class teacher distressed.
Best Music: World Peace
Directed by Holger KlussmannGermany
A journey through the major world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Although they differ significantly, they are all looking for answers to questions about the soul of man, the meaning of life, and the origin and future of our existence. And they give people hope and strength. Filmed in India, Israel, Palestine, Italy, Vatican, Germany, and USA.