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Winners Grounds: A balanced and evocative fusion of refined compositions, clear narrative structure, original music, and seamless integration of HD and 16mm cinematography to create moving visual poetry. The director creates his own painterly textures through his observations of the people and the location he is shooting, while expressing the subject (ie. The painter''''s) artistic practice as well as his poignant interactions with the people he paints.
Best Short Film
I Wake Up in a Strange Bed｜I wake Up In A Strange Bed
Winners Grounds: With camera movements and performances that are mature and precise, the film leads its audience through life’s complexities and the themes of remembering, forgetting, reality and fiction.
Best Animation
The Present
Winners Grounds: A modern urban legend using dialect and genre, but also demonstrating creativity and ingenuity. It is a film also brimming with absurd comedy. The use of monochrome immediately caught the jury’s attention, while the subsequent twist of a single color cleverly used later on, left the jury amazed.
Grand Prize
Hometown Boy
Best Director
YAO Hung-I｜Hometown Boy
Winners Grounds: Together with its subject, the director paints both a modern and poetic picture. The film utilizes different materials, creating multiple layers that calmly and objectively reflect the process of change from old to new. The excellent command of photography, music and editing opens up a new horizon for filmmaking.
Best Screenplay
YANG Yi-Chien｜Cha-Cha for Twins
Winners Grounds: The screenplay offers an innovative treatment of its subject, bringing out the subtle differences between its characters. Its description of the relations between sisters works well and avoids cliche, while its expression of young love delighted the jury.
Best Actor
Joseph, CHANG Hsiao-Chuan｜Gf*Bf
Winners Grounds: His portrayal of a conflicted gay character is measured and controlled. Bringing considerable experience to the role, Chang Hsiao-Chuan quietly and effectively matches restraint with a powerful energy.
Best Actress
Sandrine PINNA｜Touch of the Light
Winners Grounds: An actress with many works under her belt, Sandrine Pinna returns to the basics and gives a wonderfully naturalistic performance. Her emotions are thoroughly convincing and deeply moving.
Best Supporting Actor
Bryan, CHANG Shu-Hao｜Gf*Bf
Winners Grounds: Comedy is one of the most difficult performances to carry out, but Chang Shu-Hao demonstrates perfect timing and pitch without over-acting and presents a refreshing body language.
Best Supporting Actress
Amber KUO｜LOVE
Winners Grounds: Giving a fresh and unique performance not often seen in young performers, the screen lights up when she appears.
Best New Talent
Eric LIN Hui-Mi｜Starry Starry Night
Winners Grounds: With his sincere and understated acting, the imagination of a teenager is maturely portrayed. The jury see huge potential in him.
Best Cinematography
Patrick CHOW｜Young Dudes
Winners Grounds: The visual style is fantastic and innovative, demonstrating an abundant imagination that develops the film through ever-changing, expanding and contrasting layers.
Best Editing
Adong CHEN｜Cha-Cha for Twins
Winners Grounds: Using a carefully controlled ping-pong approach to bring out the exhilaration of the story, the editing cleverly balances the doubling of characters to create a dance-like rhythm. It emphasizes the subtle differences being portrayed by the actress and creates a bright and energetic feeling towards Taiwanese youth.
Best Music
Soler｜Young Dudes
Winners Grounds: Soler use the style of retro-rock to create a hypnotic ambience that elevates the theme of anarchic vitality in the film. The combination of music and the film’s utopian idea is never forced while the music, itself, is complete and distinctive.
Press Award
Gf*Bf
Winners Grounds: Varying from the unsophisticated pattern of past Taiwanese films, Gf*Bf daringly explores the complex emotional dimensions of a story spanning three decades and truly relates to Taiwan’s audience.
Audience Choice Award
Touch of the Light
Outstanding Contribution Award
Dennis TSAO, Fun Screen｜
Best Narrative Feature
Cha-Cha for Twins
Winners Grounds: Though a small-scale work, the film demonstrates a deep understanding of its subject and a subtle compassion for its characters. Using humour, it deftly describes its entangled relationships. The lead actress also does a splendid job playing both twins.
Visual Effects Supervisor
XIAO Yang, CHANG Song, A Law, Li Ming-Hsung,LI Jin-Hui｜Starry Starry Night
Winners Grounds: The special effects successfully portray the imagination of the film’s original illustrated book. Most notably, its origami animals and collapsing jigsaws stand out, both impressing and fitting perfectly into the film.
Winners Grounds: Shot in an uncompromisingly realistic fashion, the film is full of power, simplicity, and intensity. The outstanding performance of the male lead and the exceptional directing carry the whole film.
Grand Prize
Ruslan Pak｜Hanaan
Winners Grounds: Shot in an uncompromisingly realistic fashion, the film is full of power, simplicity, and intensity. The outstanding performance of the male lead and the exceptional directing carry the whole film.
Special Jury Prize
Emin Alper｜Beyond the Hill
Winners Grounds: The film creates a convincing depiction of life in natural surroundings, and portrays sophisticated and well-rounded characters, impeccably representing the inner fears of combating imaginary enemies in an absurdist setting.
Special Mention
Anne Emond｜Night #1
Winners Grounds: The film’s distinct personal style, along with its precise script and refined performances reflect the solitude of modern people, delivering a poignant portrayal of contemporary life.
Special Mention
Kamila Andini｜The Mirror Never Lies
Winners Grounds: The film’s description of the ocean and its unique take on the state of primal being and innocence capture an atypical life experience that distinguishes it from other films of the same genre.