
AWARD NOMINATIONS 2022
BEST SHORT FDOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Highly Perched
Dir. Oliver Gather
14' • Germany • 2020
In the forest, hunters erect two raised hides directly opposite each other, watching over each other. Around this hunter-like absurd installation, a kind of ethnographic observation of hunting and its fragile traditions unfolds.

Passage
Dir. Megan Spatz
20' • United States • 2021
Karl Krüger confronts generational trauma and a 1900 mile expedition through the Northwest Passage on a Stand Up Paddle Board.

Nuisance Bear
Dir. Jack Weisman & Gabriela Osio Vanden
14' • Canada • 2021
Churchill, Manitoba, is famous as an international destination for photographing polar bears. We’ve seen the majestic images and classic wildlife series captured here - but what do these bears see of us? 'Nuisance Bear' shifts our perspective to reveal an obstacle course of tourist paparazzi and wildlife officers whom bears must navigate during their annual migration.