DMFA 2024 Nominees and Winners
Notes:
- The nominees and winners will be announced online.
- We will invite the finalists before the physical screening event (usually December each year).
- See Here to submit your film.
January 2024
Best Feature:
Winner: The Kids’ Table – Director Stephen Folker
Runner-up: Morto-Vivo – Director Sivanesan Ramdass
Best Short Film:
Award Winner – Grateful Grapefruit – By Sam Edward Handley
Selected – Statistical Probabilities – By Ryan O’Leary
Selected – Human Nature – By JJ Lippman
Selected – Cognition – By Ravi Ajit Chopra
Selected – CONNECTED – By Simona Calo
Selected – A Rose in the Mud – By Kailey McComas
Selected – Do Not Answer – By Kenzie J. Illnest
Selected – Ghost Leave – By Miguel Lopez de Leon
Selected – Rise Above – By Aaron Jason Christiansen
Selected – Rohingya: Atrocities Against Women – By Massum Khan, Jania Kabir
Selected – Simulacrum – By Dhanush Paramesh
Selected – The Crazyz – By Jana Mosquera, Jonathan Samukange
Selected – The Memory Album – By Cameron Ryan Soedi
Selected – The Will & Clark Show – By Chase Gutzmore
Selected – Wait – By Miguel Lopez de Leon
February 2024
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Noctambule – By Adrien Caulier
Selected – Face Deep – By Vuyani Bila
Selected – Following Albert – By Stephan Balay
Selected – UNCLE EDOUARD – By David MALTESE, Patrick JORGE
Best Short Film:
Award Winner – The Rest Of Us, The Rest Of Them – By Đức Minh Đoàn
Finalist – Stop before the system fails – By Pavel Greenkevich
Selected – Death Wishes – By Richard Poche
Selected – Hidden Darkness – By Breana Burggraff
Selected – Raging Lion – By Toom Chanda
Selected – The Cabin – By Joey Monahan
Selected – The Road Agent – By Brian Liepe
Selected – the root of girl – By 昀泰 李
Selected – The Stalker- Virtual play- film noir – By Emily Kathleen
Selected – Trick? Or Treat? – By Mikey McManus
March 2024
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Forugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time – By Hassan Fayyad
Best Short Film:
Award Winner – Mobius – By Zexi Liu
Selected – ARENZ: The Final Quarter – By Jacob Phillips
Selected – Sandals of Gold – By Raj Kapadia
Selected – The Seal of Death 2 – By Harris Josey
April 2024
Best Feature:
Award Winner – KIELIA – By Vic Quinton, Cynthia Garcia
Selected – Don’t Lose Your Love – By Ned Bellamy
Selected – Let’s Talk About Jesse – By Alisa Clamen
Best Short Film:
Award Winner – Goodbye Industrialist. Hello Circulist. – By Jim Lounsbury
Selected – Litter: The Unexpected Joy of Picking Up Trash – By Justin Robbins
Selected – Moroccan for Dinner – By Nigel Rodgers
Selected – The Projectionist: A Collector’s Journey – By John Cornelissen
Selected – The Skin She’s In – By Cole McCracken
Selected – What Happened to Dark Without Light? The Mystery Behind A Lost FIlm – By David Maher
May 2024:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Simon Says – By Michael J Prieto
Best Short Film:
Award Winner – LES COMEDIENS – By DAVID LANCELIN GUERRERO
Selected – Mindgames: Ignition – By Shri Krishna
Selected – Checkpoint – By Deanna Kennedy
Selected – Homestead – By Maya Gary
Selected – Safer Stuff: Green Chemistry Gets Down to Business – By William Hemminger
Selected – Bridge of Curiosity – By Frank J Fazzio
Selected – I Have A Boyfriend – By Derek Yang
Selected – Rock – By Shania Zhou, Julia Edwards
June 2024:
Best Short Film:
Award Winner – Dressage – By Tara Salas
Finalist – Hands – By Filipe Piteira
Finalist – The Farewell Night – By JUN LI
Selected – CPA – By Gabriela Revilla Lugo
Selected – Foreign Words – By Sonia Lim
Selected – In the Bowl – By Keke Xiao
Selected – Sprout – By Carolina Bermúdez
July 2024:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Mauri – By Zaya Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo
Selected – Wild Orchid Man On The Rocks – By Darryl R Saffer
Best Short:
Award Winner – Father’s Mountains – By XiaoJun Tan
Finalist – The Outdoor Retreat – By Kelly Stephanie Bergsma
Selected – ADVENTURESS – By Joel Stephen Fleming
Selected – Private Property – By Vankshita Mishra
Selected – Something In the Woods – By MacKinnon Wessel
August 2024:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – The Bad Son – By Ghatfan Ghanoom
Selected – ROMAGNA TROPICALE – By pascal BERNHARDT
Best Short:
Award Winner – AfterSchool – By Lexie Mosby
Selected – Beyond the Pulse – By Cameron Kit
Selected – I am a Secret – By Andrew Cantella
Selected – The Great Wyoming Singer-Songwriter Competition: Short – By Emmet Casey
Selected – WAGON WHEEL – By Colin M. Smith
September 2024:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Blood Dried Hands – By Jason Vandygriff
Best Short:
Award Winner – 《Blue river》 – By zitong
Finalist – CHAMPAIN – By Wilhelm af Ugglas Linder
Finalist – The Gift – By Mattias Olsson
Selected – Lemonade Stand – By Emma Thompson
Selected – Loose Change: A Memoir of Childhood – By Andrew Bateman
Selected – Once Upon a Forest – By Mattias Olsson
Selected – Tap Talk Ep. 4 – Meet the Crew: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Part II. – By Ryan Bijan
October 2024:
Best Feature:
Award Winner – Blood of Her Blood – By Rubén Morales
Selected – The Call of the Road – By Josh Law
Selected – LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution – By Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo
Selected – The Wild Dreamers – By Roberto Lopez
Best Short:
Award Winner – Then & Now – By Anton Svantesson-Helkiö
Finalist – Deus Ex Machina – By Kate Brossard
Finalist – 金鱼 – By Zhenyi He
Selected – Birthday Dream – By louwei
Selected – Delete Forever – By yingning
Selected – Echoes of the Water – By Rongyu Zhou
Selected – Funeral – By Tianyi Chen
Selected – Her Beauty Life – By shenran
Selected – Hereafter – By Cole Tyler
Selected – Infernalis – By Naomi Wildermuth
Selected – Into the Reds Tale – By Alisdair Zhang
Selected – Kevin at Work – By Louis Hickford
Selected – Mommy’s secret – By Tianyi Chen
Selected – Moonlight – By
Selected – Release – By Zoltan Gergely Szabo
Selected – We Gon’be alright – By
November 2024:
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Best Short:
December 2024:
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