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In Competition

Film Awards

               


Narrative Feature Competition

Apples | Directed by Christos Nikou
The House of Us | Directed by Yoon Ga-eun
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time | Directed by Lili Horvát
A Son | Directed by Mehdi Barsaoui
Spring Blossom | Directed by Suzanne Lindon
Survival Skills | Directed by Quinn Armstrong
Two of Us | Directed by Filippo Meneghetti
White Lie | Directed by Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis

Documentary Feature Competition

Acasa, My Home | Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc
Bulletproof | Directed by Todd Chandler
Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself | Directed by Frank Oz
Enemies of the State | Directed by Sonia Kennebeck
Mayor | Directed by David Osit
MLK/FBI | Directed by Sam Pollard
No Ordinary Man | Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
Some Kind of Heaven | Directed by Lance Oppenheim

Pinkenson Local Feature Competition

40 Years a Prisoner | Directed by Tommy Oliver
Beethoven in Beijing | Directed by Jennifer R. Lin & Sharon Mullally
Goodbye Honey | Directed by Max Strand
Marionette Land | Directed by Alexander Monelli
Michael Smerconish: Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking | Directed by Chris Strand
The Witmans | Directed by David Peterson

First Feature Competition

The Boy Behind the Door | Directed by Justin Powell & David Charbonier
Definition Please | Directed by Sujata Day
Detention | Directed by John Hsu
Digger | Directed by Georgis Grigorakis
Farewell Amor | Directed by Ekwa Msangi
Freeland | Directed by Kate Mclean & Mario Furloni
Get the Hell Out | Directed by Wang I-Fan
Jumbo | Directed by Zoé Wittock
La Leyenda Negra | Directed by Patricia Delgado
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson | Directed by Ali LeRoi
Pink Skies Ahead | Directed by Kelly Oxford
A Son | Directed by Mehdi Barsaoui
Spring Blossom | Directed by Suzanne Lindon
Striding Into the Wind | Directed by Wei Shujun
Survival Skills | Directed by Quinn Armstrong
Two of Us | Directed by Filippo Meneghetti

Short Film Competition

Bittu | Directed by Karishma Dev Dube
Black Sheep Boy | Directed by James Molle
Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible | Directed by Kristen Lappas & Tom Rinaldi
Brontosaurus | Directed by Jack Dunphy
The Deepest Hole | Directed by Matt McCormick
Dummy | Directed by Laurynas Bauresia
Gabby! | Directed by Adam Murray
Hudson Geese | Directed by Bernardo Britto
Huntsville Station | Directed by Chris Filippone & Jamie Meltzer
Inès | Directed by Élodie Dermange
Islander | Directed by Derek Pastuszek
The Midsummer’s Voice | Directed by Yudi Zhang
Mizuko | Directed by Kira Dane & Katelyn Rebelo
My Father the Mover | Directed by Julia Jansch
No Crying at the Dinner Table | Directed byCarol Nguyen
Old Young | Directed by Emma Baiada
On the Fenceline: A Fight for Clean Air | Directed by Tara Eng, Kristen Harrison, Alex Klein & Alisha Tamarchenko
Pilar | Directed by Yngwie Boley, J.J. Epping & Diana van Houten
Sixteen Thousand Dollars | Directed by Symone Baptiste
Sogni al campo | Directed by Mara Cerri & Magda Guidi
Tie | Directed by Alexandra Ramires
Trashy Booty | Directed by Iris Devins
Un diable dans le poche | Directed by Antoin Bonnet & Mathilde Loubes
Waffle | Directed by Carlyn Hudson
The Well | Directed by Neal Dhand
White Eye | Directed by Tomer Shushan
Wood Child and the Hidden Forest Mother | Directed by Stephen Irwin
Zoe and Hanh | Directed by Kim Tran

 

PFF29 Jury


Documentary Feature Jury
Viktor Jakovleski
Eric Hynes
Emma Ho

Narrative Feature Jury
Rachel Walker
Jessica Kiang
Justin Chang

Local Feature Jury
Jamal Hill
Juliet Goodfriend
Tom Quinn

First Feature Jury
Doug Jones
Lili Rodriguez
Mike Dougherty

Shorts Jury
Alice Waddington
Jane Schoenbrun
Luisa Alvarez Restrepo


28th Philadelphia Film Festival
Film Award Winners


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