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AWARD WINNERS & HONOURABLE
BEST ANIMATION 2023
BEST FILM
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE
directed by Signe Baumane
A bold and brilliant animated feminist feature. Hungry for love and acceptance, Zelma feels incomplete. Hounded by a Greek chorus, she sets out on a 23-year quest for perfect love and a lasting marriage, unaware that her own biology is the force to be reckoned with.
BEST FOREIGN SHORT ANIMATION
DANCING AMID THE FIRE, RISING ABOVE THE RUINS
directed by Essmat Sophie
​Life and death are intertwined for Tara, a little girl from Iran’s Kurdish ethnic group. Mothers visit the graves of loved ones, victims of Iran’s revolution in 1979, as Tara and her friends play hide and seek among the graves. Amidst the chaos of the intensifying conflict, Tara receives a fantastic gift of red shoes on New Year’s.
BEST NORTH AMERICAN ANIMATION
OUROBOROS
directed by Jennifer Linton
Ouroboros spins a loose narrative of joy, grief, death, and rebirth, all told through looping images printed on physical animation devices known as phonotropes. Like the ouroboros, a symbolic snake that devours its own tail, everything in life is a loop.