FFTG Awards Film Fest®

SELECT 074 CHITRAKUT Ram and Sita found an ideal love in Chitrakut. Five people in a western Indian monsoon find something messier. Himanshu Malik, India. Nine wins at FFTG Awards 2020, including Jury Choice, Debut Feature Film. fftgawards.com/film/chitraku…

SELECT 073 DARK HEARTS Months after their daughter vanished, the ladybugs started coming. Kevin Van Stevenson's drama with Eileen Grubba and Brian Gleason, United States. Special Mention, Film, FFTG Awards 2021. fftgawards.com/film/dark-hea…

SELECT 072 BIRD One panic attack, never forgotten. Wu-Ching Chang turned it into four and a half minutes of handmade animation in cotton, beads, acrylic and celluloid. Winner, NewWave Filmmaker Female, FFTG Awards 2021. @acochangart fftgawards.com/film/bird/

SELECT 071 BUILT LANDS (TIERRAS CONSTRUIDAS) A group of artists moved to a Castilian village in the late sixties. Today the count is one. Arturo Dueñas Herrero, Spain. Jury Choice, Documentary Feature Film (Biography), FFTG Awards 2020. fftgawards.com/film/built-la…

Frida, Da Vinci, Beethoven, Tesla, each handed a phone. On / Off by Nicolás P. Villarreal won Animation Film at FFTG Awards 2021. Guinness now lists it with 2,199 awards, the most ever won by a short film. fftgawards.com/film/on-off/

A new job, one rule: never go downstairs. Andrea's Fault, D'arcy Leland's first feature, shot in the Bay Area two weeks before the 2020 shutdown, took seven wins at FFTG Awards 2020, including Jury Choice, Debut Feature. fftgawards.com/film/andreas-…

SELECT 068 RYAN & AMBER ASSOON WEDDING Jeromy Desjarlais was hired to take the photographs. The film happened in between. 600 dollars, one camera, 48 hours. Award Winner, Wedding Film, FFTG Awards Film Fest 2024. fftgawards.com/film/ryan-amb…

Prue Stevenson's art grew out of her identity as an autistic woman, her "Prue version of Autism." Perspective Shift, Episode 2, directed by Josh Searle, won Documentary Short at FFTG Awards 2021. fftgawards.com/film/perspect…

SELECT 066 A COLORFUL LIFE. A retired judge, proud and prejudiced, and the caregiver who will not let him give up. A Colorful Life. by Ana Luisa Abreu took the top screenplay honor of FFTG Awards 2021. Now it is a novel. fftgawards.com/film/a-colorf…

SELECT 065 SORAYA A woman sits outside a clinic in Iran, taking a flower apart petal by petal. Soraya, by Maryam Rahimi, prices every step of her way out. Award Winner, Female Filmmaker Short40, FFTG Awards 2024. fftgawards.com/film/soraya

The producer behind a Latin Grammy winning album makes his first film: a music video about the man who takes credit for other people's work. That Thing That Makes You Win, by Jeeve. Award Winner, Music Video, FFTG Awards 2025.

In June, we named them. The jury is now in session. The 2026 Grand Jury, every one a past Grand Jury Choice winner. Submissions close Oct 18. Selected films premiere worldwide Nov 29 – Dec 13. The audience picks People's Choice. youtube.com/shorts/-cRsp_KQW… #FFTGAwards

SELECT 063 CUORE A TREMILA A wedding film that opens on power lines and keeps pulling the day back onto a coast road. Cuore a tremila, by Giuseppe Cimino, shot alone in Reggio Calabria. Grand Jury Choice Winner, Wedding Film, FFTG Awards Film Fest 2024.

SELECT 062 THE RED MARKET A man drowning in debt sells himself piece by piece, and the market that buys him runs like a wellness brand. The Red Market, Christopher Matthew Spencer’s first film, directed at 55. Award Winner, Short15, FFTG Awards Film Fest 2024.

SELECT 062 THE RED MARKET A man drowning in debt sells himself piece by piece, and the market that buys him runs like a wellness brand. The Red Market, Christopher Matthew Spencer’s first film, directed at 55. Award Winner, Short15, FFTG Awards Film Fest 2024.

SELECT 061 Synthesis. Antonio Özçevik. A kimono cut in the East, printed with Mona Lisa and Zeus, worn under a blue-lit apse in Izmir. Music by Mercan Dede. Three minutes, no dialogue. Grand Jury Choice, Fashion Film, FFTG 2024.