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MADFA - OFFICIAL SELECTION 2023

NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
(Cortometraje de Ficción)

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“MERMAID KILLER” (Nominee)

by JOEL CODINA & ISRAEL GONZALEZ (Spain)

“Du bout des doigts” (Nominee)

by Léo Poignard (France)

“LEER” (Nominee)

by Marios Glöckner (Austria)

“Shadows” (Nominee)

by Jamilia Azizova (Estonia)

“The Traveler”

by D.L. Guerra (USA)

“Believer”

by Miao Zhang (China)

“By the water”

by Elías Rosario (Mexico)

“Matches”

by Blake Vaz (USA)

“Margin”

by Michele Bucci (Italy)

“In September I dreamt of winter”

by Emil Sallinen (Finland)

“Look Around”

by Ulisses Malta Junior & Gustavo Santos (Brazil)

“Cassette”

by Wiktor Jungowski (Poland)

“The Lost Love”

by Congrong Huang (China)

“A storm is coming”

by Maicy Chen (China)

“Eco”

by Diego Sepulveda (Mexico)

“Lifetime Trial”

by Miya Wang (China)

“Notte Fonda”

by Guido Milana (Italy)

“Lili” (Puerto Rico)

by Brian Ríos

“Make Love”

by Alex Osmolovsky (Israel)

“Gone Sutra”

by fei fan (China)

“Black Wool”

by Elisabet Terri (Spain)

“More Than Brave”

by Marc Vilalta Prats (Spain)

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SHORT FILM DOCUMENTARY

(Cortometraje Documental)

“The Woman In White” (Nominee)

by Roshanak Jaberi (Canada)

“3 Women and the Sea” (Nominee)

by Janna and Tomas Guichet (Portugal)

“Caminantes: Human Stories that Cross Borders” (Nominee)

by Ricardo Rodriguez & Ana Maria Ariza (Colombia)

“The Real Group Makeover”

by Carl Eneroth (Sweden)

“Train track switching point”

by Alvaro Sangregorio (Spain)

“Happy Independence Day”

by Ville Ilmari Seppänen (Finland)

“Returning to Oneself”

by Katia Repina (USA)

“So close, yet so far”

by Pau Ortiz Rosell (Spain)

“Yesterday”

by Yankai Chen (China)

“Mana over Meth”

by Holly Beckham (New Zealand)

“Procession”

by Dario Alfredo Caamaño (Argentina)

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SHORT FILM ANIMATION
(Cortometraje de Animación)

“Christmas Present”

by Konstantinos P. Kakarountas (Greece) - Nominee

“The Thief”

by Arturo Brena (USA) - Nominee

“Stages of Lost Freedom”

by Kamran S Rosen (USA) - Nominee

“In Your Dreams”
by Mike Krohn (USA)

“The Wayfarer's Bond”

by Anthony Leigh (UK)

“Echo”

by Sergio Kotsovoulos (Greece)

“Hibernation”

by Joel Benjamin (USA)

“The Curse Breaker”

by James Chambless (USA)

“Lock the Gate”

by Sarah Lynn Galasso (USA)

“RETURN TO THEIR ORIGIN”

by HSIN-ROU SHIAU (Taiwan)

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SHORT FILM EXPERIMENTAL
(Cortometraje Experimental)

“Tulipán” (Nominee)

by Anna Iunes (Canada)

“The Privilege of the Last Wave”

by Stefano Aufiero (Italy)

“Mijo”

by Mazdey (Mexico)

“ECHO”

by Yoka van Zuijlen & Nanko Goeting (Netherlands)

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HONORABLE MENTION

(Mención de Honor)

Edgar Vivar

Lifetime Achievement Award

(Reconocimiento Especial a la Trayectoria)

“The Thief”

by Arturo Brena (USA)

Honorable Mention of Best Animation

Mención de Honor por Mejor Animación

“MERMAID KILLER”

by JOEL CODINA & ISRAEL GONZALEZ (Spain)

Honorable Mention of Best Visual Effects

Mención de Honor por Mejor Efectos Visuales

FEATURE FILM DOCUMENTARY
(Largometraje Documental)
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“To stage the music - Heiner Goebbels” (Nominee)

by Giulio Boato (Italy)

"CARRIED AWAY AND RETURNED" (Nominee)

by Ofelia Medina (Mexico)

“A 90-minute Documentary Eyes of Wisdom in Tibet”

by ZHE TIAN (China)

“Cuba My Soul”

by Craig Miller & Pedro Pulido (Australia)

“The Secret Song”

by Samantha Campbell (USA)

“Nelson's Last Stand”

by avi maor marzuk (Israel)

“Like a real couple”

by Christian Angeli (Italy)

“The Private Lives of Jordi Molla' & Domingo Zapata”

by Giuseppe Ferlito (UK)

“Facing the Silence”

by Emilio Ruiz Barrachina (Spain)

“Rooting”

by Hongfang Chai (China)

“Benedikt”

by Katrin Memmer (Germany)

“Healey Willan: Doctor of Notes”

by Kevin Reeves (Canada)

“Bering, Family Reunion”

by LOURDES GROBET (Mexico)

“Classics in Brazilian Choro - The Movie”

by Adilson Ruiz (Brazil)

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FEATURE FILM FICTION

(Largometraje de Ficción)

“Mercy Land”

by Simon Rickards (UK)

“TITUS”

by Rui Neto (Portugal)

“TSU”

by Ü Inose (Japan)

“CON LOS AÑOS QUE ME QUEDAN”

by FRANK ARIZA TIRADO (Spain)

“A Cross In The Desert”

by Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic (Serbia)

“Inside a funeral hall”

by Ho-hyun Lee (Republic of Korea)

"The Recurrent Patients"

by Mario Lucero Beauregard (Mexico)

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MUSIC VIDEOS
(Video Clips)

“We’re Gonna Come Back” music video” (Nominee)

by Janine Molinari (USA)

“VLMV - There Are Mountains Underneath Us” (Nominee)

by Gabriel Stanger Martins (UK)

“Guide Us”

by Jiyuan Ler (Singapore)

“Funkcut - Mountains”

by Luis Saavedra & Javier García (Spain)

“Higher Place | Malevolence”

by Gabriel Fernández-Gil (UK)

“Tinder”

by Daniel Prypchan (Australia)

“Kuwonererwa”

by Ronald Kabicek (Norway)

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WEB SERIES
(Series Web)

“Sunrise RUBY - The Pilot Episode”
by Amberlee Colson, Steven Anderson & Thomas Simon (USA)

“MATRIZ”

by PAULA FONCEA (Spain)

“The Sticker Stories”

by Emanuel Dan Avram (Germany) - Nominee

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1-MINUTE SHORT FILM
(Cortometraje de 1 Minuto)

“The Gnome”

by Rory Hern (UK)

“In the tank”

by Arian Nowbahari (Norway)

“Heart / sister story”

by Anaïs Peleyrol (France)

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BEST HALF-LENGTH FILMS
(Mediometraje)

“The Heart Sutra”

by yi shi (China)

“Breathing”

by VIKTOR PETRENKO & MARIA PANKOVA (Ukraine)

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LGTBIQ SHORT FILM
(Cortometraje LGTBIQ)

“No one in particular”

by Saana Penttilä (Finland)

“It's Not Fado, It's Faggot Fado”

by Erin Macpherson (Portugal)

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STUDENT SHORT FILM
(Cortometraje Estudiante)

“LARMES”

by Mathilde POUJADE (France)

“The Gig”

by Xander Turian (Sweden)

“《Fluoxetine》”

by huawen liu (China)

“Egg Man”

by Hsiao Hsia Huang (USA)

“FLOW”

by Pablo Soto (Spain)

“ROOFTOP”

by Nevena Nikolova & Petar Gerzilov (Bulgaria)

“Lenka Dusilova — Biale konie”

by Miloslav Fric (Czech Republic)

“There is still dust under the Congo”

by R. Ruvens (Spain)

ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES

(Categorias Adicionales)
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Best Director (Nominee)

“In Your Dreams” for Mike Krohn (USA)