17th IN THE PALACE ISFF, 2020
Best Short Fiction
Awards:
“Sticker”
by Georgi M. Unkovski
Winner:
Sticker
Georgi M. Unkovski
North Macedonia,
Fiction,
18'45''
After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan (37) falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father.
Best Short Documentary
Awards:
“Danielle”
by Gareth Warland
Winner:
Danielle
Gareth Warland
Sweden,
Documentary,
15'18''
Danielle is a film that chooses not to focus on the disease itself but instead on the person who has the disease, their life and how they choose to live it, despite the obstacles.
Best Short Animation
Awards:
“My Galactic Twin Galaction”
by Sasha Svirsky
Winner:
My Galactic Twin Galaction
Sasha Svirsky
Russia,
Animation,
6'33''
Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative, and post narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.
Best National Film
Awards:
“The Night Shift”
by Yordan Petkov, Eddy Schwartz
Winner:
The Night Shift
Yordan Petkov, Eddy Schwartz
Bulgaria,
France,
Belgium,
Fiction,
29'32''
Single, unemployed and with nothing to lose, Anton begins work in an illegal coal-mine, where nights are long, friendships last short, and the price of getting out is high.
Best Short Experimental
Awards:
“Where is Lotte?”
by Petra Zopnek
Winner:
Where is Lotte?
Petra Zopnek
Austria,
Experimental,
9'04''
This experimental film is a memorial leap. Underwater models stand in for Lotte, or rather: They jump in for her. They jump into the Old Danube and go searching, in a state of floating, before they rise again, transformated, in the Red Sea.
Best Short Student Fiction
Awards:
“The Lost Scot”
by Julien Cornwall
Winner:
The Lost Scot
Julien Cornwall
United Kingdom,
Fiction,
14'30''
After a clay shoot goes wrong, a miserable cynic, an alcoholic and an accountant find themselves lost in the Scottish Moorlands with the body of a gamekeeper.