Below is the #22nd Official Selection of the Paris Play Film Festival.
This edition shows 35 selected titles from 19 different countries.
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Best Feature
| Covert Story | feature | Canada | Emily Charles | WINNER |
Best Drama short
| THE SYSTEM IS YOU | drama | Germany | Mathias Max Herrmann | WINNER |
Best Feature Script
| Worst Night Ever | Feature Script | US | Joe Bartone | WINNER |
| The Great Hunger | Feature Script | UK | Paul G. Andrews, Thomas Keneally, Meg Keneally, Roland Joffé | FINALIST |
| Ants | Feature Script | N/A | Soroush Hosseini | SEMI FINALIST |
| Kill Class | Feature Script | Netherlands | Rens Konigshofen | QUARTER FINALIST |
| Playing Games | Feature Script | Ukraine | Leo Moroz | QUARTER FINALIST |
Best Short Script
| MUNCH | Short Script | UK | Darren Cullen, Sebastian White | WINNER |
| Resigned | Short Script | Italy | Katherine Luna Gate | FINALIST |
| Inside the Frame | Short Script | US | Francis DiClemente | SEMI FINALIST |
Best Documentary
| In a Whole New Way | documentary | US | Jonathan Fisher | WINNER |
| The Unlost Homeland | documentary | Greece | Eftychia Fragou | FINALIST |
| The United States of Fashion Designer Elie Tahari | documentary | US | David Serero | SEMI FINALIST |
| Defiance in the Kingdom of Fake News | documentary | US | Mathias Magnason | QUARTER FINALIST |
Best Experimental
| Katalinka 16 | experimental | Hungary | András Attila Farkas | WINNER |
| Cinema Verite | experimental | France | Gabriel Otero | FINALIST |
Best Animation
| The Garden | animation | US | Dre Katz | WINNER |
Best Music Video
| BODY | Music Video | Switzerland | Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris | WINNER |
| Shango SK – Sunshine | Music Video | UK | Christopher Gribbin | FINALIST |
Best LGBTQIA+
| We All Lie My Darling | LGBTQIA+ | Australia | Pierre Nicolas Panasci | WINNER |
| The Hijras we met : The 3rd Gender | LGBTQIA+ | US | kim jaeyoung | FINALIST |
Best Dance Film
| Memory of the Forgotten | dance | Spain | Marta Arjona, Maite Blasco, Raquel Rodríguez | WINNER |
| ERGO SUM. | dance | Italy | Francesco LONGO | FINALIST |
Best Score / Song
| Panguru’s Theme | score / song | Japan | Serina Aramaki | WINNER |
Best Comedy
| Dantzig Love | comedy | Netherlands | Paul Kant | WINNER |
Best Trailer
| Too Late | trailer | USA | WINNER |
Best Commercial
| Appetite | commercial | US | Ruth Anton | WINNER |
Best Student Short
| Love of Silence | student | Taiwan | Tsai, Han-Yun, Chen, Zhi-Ling | WINNER |
Best Thriller
| Unnamed | thriller | Russian Fed | Valerii Petrov | WINNER |
| The Awakening | thriller | UK | Andrew Abbiw | FINALIST |
| There’s No Hell Like Home | thriller | Australia | Russell Southam | SEMI FINALIST |
Best Web Series
| Cycle Trails 043 – Bohemian Paradise 2 (Casa Nuova, Trosky, Hrubá Skála and Valdštejn) | web | Czech Republic | Marek Tichý | WINNER |
Best Poster
| We All Lie My Darling | poster | Australia | Pierre Nicolas Panasci | WINNER |
| There’s No Hell Like Home | poster | Australia | Russell Southam | FINALIST |
Best Still Photography
| For old times sake | still | Belgium | tiago mesquita | WINNER |
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