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Awards + Competition > Films in Competition

Films in Competition

Presented at the Festival since its inaugural year in 1957, the Golden Gate Awards (GGAs) are among the most significant honors for emerging global film artists in the United States. Prizes are traditionally awarded in 12 narrative, documentary, mid-length, and short film categories.

McBaine Documentary Feature

I Didn’t See You There—GGA Winner
Reid Davenport, USA

Master of Light—GGA Winner
Rosa Ruth Boesten, USA, Netherlands

Children of the Mist
Diễm Hà Lệ, Vietnam

The Exiles
Violet Columbus, Ben Klein, USA, Taiwan, France, China

Fire of Love
Sara Dosa, USA, Canada

Jeannette
Maris Curran, USA

Mija
Isabel Castro, USA

No Simple Way Home
Akuol de Mabior, South Sudan, Kenya, South Africa

Riotsville, USA
Sierra Pettengill, USA

TikTok, Boom.
Shalini Kantayya, USA

New Directors Prize

Hit the Road—GGA Winner
Panah Panahi, Iran

Sublime—GGA Honorable Mention
Mariano Biasin, Argentina

Costa Brava, Lebanon
Mounia Akl, Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar

Fire on the Plain
Zhang Ji, China

The Gravedigger’s Wife
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, Finland, Germany, France

The Hill Where Lionesses Roar
Luàna Bajrami, Kosovo, France

Palm Trees and Power Lines
Jamie Dack, USA

Sonne
Kurdwin Ayub, Austria

Animated Short

Sierra—GGA Winner
Sander Joon, Estonia

Charlotte
Zach Dorn, USA

How Small!
Charlene Xu, USA, China

Letter to a Pig
Tal Kantor, France, Israel

Life Is a Particle Time Is a Wave
Daniel Zvereff, USA

Documentary Short

Long Line of Ladies—GGA Winner
Shaadiin Tome, Rayka Zehtabchi, USA

Holding Moses—GGA Winner
Rivkah Beth Medow, Jen Rainin, USA, Japan

Anshan Diaries
Charles Xiuzhi Dong, China, USA

For Love and Legacy
A.K. Sandhu, USA

Miss Panama
Pascale Boucicaut, Lamar Bailey Karamañites, David Felix Sutcliffe, USA, Panama

Nasir
Nasir Bailey, Jackson Kroopf, USA

Family Films

Battery Daddy—GGA Winner
Seung-bae Jeon, South Korea

The Ocean Duck—GGA Honorable Mention
Huda Razzak, USA

Dream Carriers
Esmeralda Hernandez, USA

Intervals
Mitchelle Tamariz, France

Mama Has a Mustache
Sally Rubin, USA

Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat
William Joyce, UK

‘Ohana and ‘Āina: Connecting Family, Farming, and Freedom
Jade Onaka, Joel Serin-Christ, USA

Space Race
Shane Dioneda, USA

The Trails Before Us
Fritz Bitsoie, USA

Mid-Lengths

The Time of the Fireflies—GGA Winner
Mattis Appelqvist Dalton, Matteo Robert Morales, Mexico, USA, Belgium

American Justice on Trial
Andrew Abrahams, Herb Ferrette, USA

Ayoungman
Larry Day, Holly Fortier, Canada

Mud Water
My-Linh Le, USA

My Dear
Aragon Yao, Portugal

Narrative Shorts

Busan, 1999—GGA Winner
Thomas Kim, South Korea

Half-Day—GGA Winner
Morgan Mathews, USA

Be Somebody
Edelawit Hussien, Ethiopia

Busan, 1999
Thomas Kim, South Korea

cosboi
Gosha Shapiro, USA

Live
Baggio Jiang, China

Successful Thawing of Mr. Moro
Jerry Carlsson, Sweden

New Visions

Listen to the Beat of Our Images—GGA Winner
Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, France, French Guiana

Anxious Body
Yoriko Mizushiri, France, Japan

Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung)
TT Takemoto, USA

Youth Works

Honeybee—GGA Winner
Emilio Vazquez Reyes, USA

Unzipped—GGA Honorable Mention
Jenna Miller, USA

Avi: From the North
Alex Maksagak, Canada

Beth Ava Bounds, UK

Freshman Year
Bea Hammam, Sydney Kaufman, USA

Incursion
Noah Lillywhite, Kai Willey, USA

Moments
Hurshida Sherkulova, Evgeniya Papina, Surayyo Tashpulatova, Uzbekistan

Performance Anxiety
Shaina Ocampo, USA

Pho
Ethan Chu, USA

Think Like a Filmmaker
Eli Berliner, USA

Cine Latino

The Employer and the Employee—GGA Winner
Manolo Nieto, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, France

The Box
Lorenzo Vigas, Mexico, USA

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future
Francisca Alegría, Chile, France, USA, Germany

Lo Invisible
Javier Andrade, Ecuador, France

Mars One
Gabriel Martins, Brazil

Private Desert
Aly Murituba, Brazil

Sun & Daughter
Catalina Razzini, Bolivia, Spain, Germany

Filed Under: Jurors and GGA Screeners, Uncategorized

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