Best of Fest
Audience Favorite
Best Animation
2023 Feature Film Selections
- Everybody Wants to Be Loved (Germany)
- Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid (United States)
- Just. One. Mile. (United States)
- Knock Out Blonde (United States)
- Loud Enough (United States)
- Made By Immigrants (United States)
- Magdalena (Poland)
- PATOU: In Black & White (Australia)
- Raised Up West Side (United States)
- The Wife and Her House Husband (United Kingdom)
- You Have No Idea (United States)
2023 Short Film Selections
- Aaron With 2 A’s (United States)
- Addie and the Lightning Bugs (United States)
- Andrew After Angola (United States)
- Awake Ngorongoro (United Republic of Tanzania)
- Big Guy (United States)
- The Family We Chose (United States)
- Folaine (Ireland)
- Hangman (United States)
- How Do I Tell You This (United States)
- Kassandra (France)
- Kiss ‘n’ Ride (United States)
- La Nueva (Spain)
- Past Prologue (United States)
- Play the Game of Thrones (United States)
- The Rebellion (United States)
- Rest (United States)
- Roadkill (United States)
- The Search (United States)
- Some Days (United States)
- TORI – Symphony of Vengeance (United States)
- The Voice in Isabel Fleiss’s Office (United States)
- Wheel (United States)
- Yellowstone 88 – Song of Fire (United States)
2023 Screening Schedule
Everybody Wants to Be Loved + Short Selections July 15, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Just. One. Mile. + Short Selections July 16, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Loud Enough + Short Selections July 19, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid + Short Selections July 20, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Magdalena + Short Selections July 21, 2023 • 7:00 pm
You Have No Idea + Short Selections July 22, 2023 • 7:00 pm
The Wife and Her House Husband + Short Selections September 26, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Patou: In Black & White
2023 Award Winners
Best Original Score
Riccardo Berdini, TORI – Symphony of Vengeance
Best Production Design
Paul Petersen & Richard Wharton, You Have No Idea
Best Cinematography
Joel Froome, Addie and the Lightning Bugs
Best Sound
Jared Hamilton, Just. One. Mile.
Best Editing
Kimberly O’Neill, Just. One. Mile.
Best Supporting Actor
Peter Barrett as Sean in The Wife and Her House Husband
Best Supporting Actress
Natalia Sikora as Julia in Magdalena
Best Achievement by a Young Actor
Cailey Fleming as Addie in Addie and the Lightning Bugs
Best Actor
Laurence Spellman as Mathew in The Wife and Her House Husband
Best Actress
Magdalena Żak as Magdalena in Magdalena
Best Screenplay
Ivar Wigan, Kassandra
Best Director
Katharina Woll, Everybody Wants To Be Loved
Best Animation
Yellowstone 88: Song of Fire
Best Experimental
The Voice in Isabel Fleiss’s Office
Best Music Video
Awake Ngorongoro
Best Documentary Short
Andrew After Angola
Best Narrative Short (Comedy)
Wheel
Best Narrative Short (Drama)
Kassandra
Best Documentary Feature
Just. One. Mile
Best Narrative Feature
Everybody Wants to be Loved
Dynamics Jury Prize
Andrew After Angola
Audience Favorite
Wheel
Best of Illinois
Roadkill
Best of Fest
Just. One. Mile
2023 Supporting Sponsors
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