2019 Golden Gate Awards Official Selections
Documentary Feature
Always in Season
Jacqueline Olive, USA
The Hidden City
Victor Moreno, Spain/France
Honeyland
Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, Macedonia
Kabul, City in the Wind
Aboozar Amini, Netherlands/Afghanistan/Japan/Germany
Midnight Family
Luke Lorentzen, USA/Mexico
Midnight Traveler
Hassan Fazili, USA/Qatar/Canada/UK
Over the Rainbow
Jeffrey Peixoto, USA
Pahokee
Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas, USA
The Seer and the Unseen (Bay Area)
Sara Dosa, USA/Iceland
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America (Bay Area)
Tom Shepard, USA
New Directors Prize
The Chambermaid
Lila Avilés, Mexico/USA
Debt
Vuslat Saraçoglu, Turkey
The Harvesters
Etienne Kallos, France/South Africa
The Little Comrade
Moonika Siimets, Estonia
The Load
Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia/France/Croatia/Iran/Qatar
Moments
Beata Parkanová, Czech Republic/Slovakia
Paper Flags
Nathan Ambrosioni, France
The Sound of Silence
Michael Tyburski, USA
Suburban Birds
Qui Sheng, China/Taiwan
Animated Short
Bless You!
Paulina Ziólkowska, Poland
Cold Pudding Settles Love
Urszula Palusińska, Poland
Confidence Game (Bay Area)
Kathleen Quillian, USA
Don’t You Forget About Me
Lydia Ricci, USA
Fest
Nikita Diakur, Germany
From Under Which Rock Did They Crawl Out
Daniel Šuljić, Croatia
I’m OK
Elizabeth Hobbs, UK/Canada
Maniac Landscapes
Matthew Wade, USA
Mitya’s Love
Svetlana Filippova, Russian Federation
Selfies
Claudius Gentinetta, Switzerland
Documentary Short
Ad Astra
Aisha Sultanbekova, Kyrgyzstan
The Dispossessed
Musa Syeed, India/USA
Edgecombe
Crystal Kayiza, USA
Enforcement Hours (Bay Area)
Paloma Martinez, USA
Fast Horse
Alexandra Lazarowich, Canada
Life Overtakes Me (Bay Area)
John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson, USA
Lost World (Bay Area)
Kalyanee Mam, USA/Cambodia
Passerine in Time
Laurids Andersen Sonne, USA/Denmark
Scenes From A Dry City
François Verster, Simon Wood, South Africa/USA
Where Chaos Reigns
Braulio Jatar, Anaïs Michel, USA/Venezeula
Family Films
Back to the Moon (Bay Area)
FX Goby, Hélène Leroux, USA/UK
Belly Flop
Jeremy Collins, South Africa
In Bloom (Fé Bhlàth)
Ross Stewart, Ireland
Lost & Found
Andrew Goldsmith, Bradley Slabe, Australia
One Small Step
Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas, USA/China
The Pen Licence
Olivia Peniston-Bird, Australia
The Pig on the Hill (Bay Area)
John Helms, Jamy Wheless, USA/Croatia
Poem About All Different Things
Nancy Kangas, Josh Kun, USA
Right on Tracks – It’s All Family
Johnny Kelly, UK/USA
Rooftop Kiters
Daniel Ribeiro de Castro Paiva, USA/Brazil
Sam’s Dream
Nölwenn Roberts, France
Slurp
Florent Hill, France
Narrative Shorts
Accidence
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Canada
Brotherhood
Meryam Joobeur, Canada/Tunisia
Director’s Commentary (Bay Area)
Jonn Herschend, USA
Dunya’s Day
Raed Alsemari, USA/Saudi Arabia
Eat the Rainbow (Bay Area)
Brian Benson, USA
Fuck You
Anette Sidor, Sweden
Green
Suzanne Andrews Correa, USA
The Slows (Bay Area)
Nicole Perlman, USA
New Visions
The Labyrinth
Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia/France
Life After Love
Zachary Epcar, USA
Mixed Signals
Courtney Stephens, USA
Now and There, Here and Then
Sun Park, UK/South Korea
Pelourinho: They Don’t Really Care About Us
Akosua Adoma Owusu, USA/Ghana
That Woman (Bay Area)
Sandra Davis, USA
Traces With Elikem
Ariana Gerstein, USA
Youth Works
All Down the Road (Bay Area)
Sarah Jones, USA
Boba (Bay Area)
Kristina Tran, USA
Car Thieves (Bay Area)
Olive E. Starfas, USA
Charley Horse
Luna Garcia, USA/Israel
Element
Taeseong Choi, South Korea
Farewell (Bay Area)
Tyler Davis, USA/Ireland
I Am Alive (Bay Area)
Miles Potter, USA
The Last Straw (Bay Area)
Julian Jordan, USA
Meeting at Half Past Five
Daria Litvichenko, Russian Federation
Mistaken Love (Bay Area)
Jamahl Edwards, USA
This House Has Eyes
Theo Taplitz, USA