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Encounters International Film Festival

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    Animated Encounters Grand Prix

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    Best Animated Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Farce

      7.2 (26)
      Robin Jensen
    • [object Object]

      Homebird

      7.8 (21)
      Ewa Smyk
    • [object Object]

      Have a Nice Dog!

      7.2 (19)
      Jalal Maghout
    • [object Object]

      Push This Button If You Begin to Panic

      7.0 (33)
      Gabriel Böhmer
    • [object Object]

      Darwin's Notebook

      6.1 (22)
      Georges Schwizgebel
    • [object Object]

      Hide

      7.2 (34)
      Daniel Gray
    • [object Object]

      Coffin

      7.2 (72)
      Yuanqing Cai
      Nathan Crabot
      Houzhi Huang
      Mikolaj Janiw
      Mandimby Lebon
      Théo Tran Ngoc
    • [object Object]

      The Visit

      Morrie Tan
    • [object Object]

      The One Who Crossed the Sea

      7.7 (19)
      Jonas Riemer
    • [object Object]

      On the Surface

      5.7 (27)
      Fan Sissoko

    Brief Encounters Grand Prix

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    International Competition

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Zonder Meer

      5.5 (38)
      Meltse Van Coillie
    • [object Object]

      Dustin

      6.4 (502)
      Naïla Guiguet
    • [object Object]

      I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face

      6.9 (380)
      Sameh Alaa
    • [object Object]

      Like the Ones I Used to Know

      7.0 (178)
      Annie St-Pierre
    • [object Object]

      Marlon Brando

      6.8 (76)
      Vincent Tilanus
    • [object Object]

      Spotted yellow

      6.4 (35)
      Baran Sarmad
    • [object Object]

      Store Policy

      6.8 (14)
      Sarah Arnold
    • [object Object]

      Staying (Aros Mae)

      Zillah Bowes
    • [object Object]

      Pastorin vaimo

      5.7 (40)
      Arttu Kapulainen
      Hoka Films
    • [object Object]

      Three Songs for Benazir

      6.3 (3K)
      Elizabeth Mirzaei
      Gulistan Mirzaei
    • [object Object]

      Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall

      7.0 (43)
      Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
    • [object Object]

      A Period Piece

      6.4 (79)
      Shuchi Talati
    • [object Object]

      L'homme silencieux

      6.7 (10)
      Nyima Cartier
    • [object Object]

      Breaking Ground

      Inès Girihirwe
    • [object Object]

      Into Light

      7.0 (9)
      Sheona McDonald
    • [object Object]

      Anita

      7.3 (23)
      Sushma Khadepaun
    • [object Object]

      Four Cups of Coffee or Three

      4.8 (9)
      Sebastian Lach
    • [object Object]

      Al-Sit

      7.0 (152)
      Suzannah Mirghani
    • [object Object]

      Lemongrass Girl

      6.1 (37)
      Pom Bunsermvicha
    • [object Object]

      Rehearsal

      6.2 (22)
      Michael Omonua
    • [object Object]

      Maalbeek

      6.3 (88)
      Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
    • [object Object]

      Bend

      6.5 (16)
      Georgia Goggin
    • [object Object]

      Umbilical

      Elpida Stathatou

    Brief Encounters Best of British Award

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    Best of British Award

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Hanging On

      7.0 (16)
      Alfie Barker
      Cosmosquare Films
      BFI Doc Society Fund

    Audience Award

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    International Audience Award

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Store Policy

      6.8 (14)
      Sarah Arnold

    UK Audience Award

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Hanging On

      7.0 (16)
      Alfie Barker
      Cosmosquare Films
      BFI Doc Society Fund

    Audience Award

    • [object Object]

      Have a Nice Dog!

      7.2 (19)
      Jalal Maghout

    DepicT! Award

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    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Acorde

      7.2 (13)
      Tiago Teixeira
      Obliquebleak Films

    UK Student Film Award

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    Special Mention

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Dragon Head Tree

      Jiaqi Wang
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Culling

      6.5 (45)
      Matty Crawford(director)

    Short Film

    • [object Object]

      Where Do We Go?

      Barbara Lervig
    • [object Object]

      Nan fang de mou xie cheng xian fang shi

      Zhiyi Wang

    Special Mention

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    Brief Encounters Best of British Award

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Staying (Aros Mae)

      Zillah Bowes

    Brief Encounters Grand Prix Special Mention

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    Best International short fiction

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Squish

      7.6 (79)
      Xavier Seron

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    Event location

    Bristol, England, UK

    Event links

    • http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/

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