This year featured a great mix of in person screenings, on-demand content online, a special celebration of German films, and even a couple VR films in the theater lobby!
We had a great time being part of this festival with our doc, Sensei! The organizers were enthusiastic and fun and there were lots of options for getting involved. Thank you to the OFF for putting on such a great festival!
– Jill Roberts, 2022
Excellent festival – great communication and very nice people. Also very respectful to filmmakers.
– Jenna Bailey, 2022
Award Winners
Time to Vote
Best Picture
Santiago Requejo Lopez-Mateos
Almost Unreal
Best Animation
Eve de Montbrial, Léa Vasselle-Bossy, Margaux Kempff, Grégoire Deranville, Ambre Jacques, Eléonore Chaumont, Alexis Descamps
The Handyman
Audience Choice
Director: Nicholas Clifford
One Seven Nine
Documentary
Sam Bechtel, Alexa Gilker, Erik Johnson, Jessica Janzen Olstad, and Cody Giles
Bad News
Best Screenplay
Santiago Cardelús Ruiz-Alberdi, Pablo Manchado Cascón
CATARINA
Best Editing
Denis Camelin
Cuckoo!
Best Art Direction
Lotte Loos
Golden Minutes
Best Cinematography
Vytautas Katkus
The Handyman
Best Performance
Alison Whyte
Shark
Visual Effects
Paul Katte + Vick Nicolaou Make Up Effects Group, Studio Blackbird, and Double Barrel
Hunger
Best Overall Sound
Lex Ortega, Lex Ortega
2022 Feature Films
One Seven Nine
Okotoks, Alberta
Director: Sam Bechtel
Nomination: Best Documentary
SWEET DISASTER
Germany
Director: Laura Lehmus
Nomination: Best Editing, Best Art Direction
Abducted
Edmonton, Alberta
Director: Daniel Foreman
Jim Button and the Wild 13
Germany
Director: Dennis Gansel
Country Highlight: Germany
Reise nach Nirgendwo
Germany
Director: Thomas Scherer
Interstate 8
Germany
Director: Anne Thieme
Endless Pain
Germany
Director: Natalie Lehnart
CTRL_R
Germany
Director: Maria Kobzeva
Searching for the Perfect Gentleman (Sub Eng)
Germany
Director: Lena Windisch
THE THIRD KING
Germany
Director: CHRISTOPH OLIVER STRUNCK
Nomination: Best Art Direction
General Reels
Memory Makers
Canada
Director: Mark Pagliaroli
Nomination: Best Animation
CUCKOO!
Netherlands
Director: JÖRGEN SCHOLTENS
Nomination: Best Art Direction
Work it Class!
Spain
Director: Pol Diggler
Nomination: Best Overall Sound
The Best Orchestra in the World
Austria
Director: Henning Backhaus
Nomination: Best Overall Sound
SWÄN SØNG
Norway
Director: Daniel Christophersen
THE YELLOW DRESS
Ireland
Director: DEBORAH GRIMES
All the Days of Summer are Sad
Spain
Director: Estefania Ortiz
Rerouted
Canada
Director: Kelsey Andries, Noah Fallis
Go! Capitaine
France
Director: Pierre-Loup Docteur
The Guardian | The Orbs' Archive
Canada
Director: Aaron Glanfield
Nomination: Best Special and Visual Effects
Pain
New Zeland
Director: Anna Rose Duckworth
Almost Unreal
France
Director: Eve de Montbrial, Léa Vasselle-Bossy, Margaux Kempff, Grégoire Deranville, Ambre Jacques, Eléonore Chaumont, Alexis Descamps
Nomination: Best Animation
WHITE EYE
Israel
Director: TOMER SHUSHAN
Nomination: Best Picture and Best Cinematography
The Handyman
Australia
Director: Nicholas Clifford
Nomination: Best Picture and Best Performance
TIME TO VOTE
Spain
Director: SANTIAGO REQUEJO LOPEZ-MATEOS
Nomination: Best Picture and Best Screenplay
The Renters
Calgary/Okotoks, Alberta
Director: David Elder
The Statue (Peykareh)
Iran
Director: Mohsen Salehi Fard
Open Mic at the Comedy Cabaret
Alberta
Director: Gianna Isabella
SHARK
Australia
Director: Nash Edgerton
Nomination: Best Visual and Special Effects
Golden Minutes
Lithuania
Director: Saulius Baradinskas
Nomination: Best Cinematography
TwistedReels
Hunger
Mexico
Director: Carlos Meléndez
Nomination: Best Overall Sound
A conversation with E
Canada
Director: Esabella Anna Karena Strickland, Taylor Mitchell, Skylar A
PERSONAE
France
Director: Rémy Rondeau
Nomination: Best Performance
Hunter's Cabin
Canada
Director: N’cee van Heerden
Part Forever
Tiawan
Director: Alan Chung-An, Ou
Nomination: Best Cinematography
Giraffe
Canada
Director: Dan Nicholls
The Taxi Dead
Germany
Director: Simon Lahm
Nomination: Best Visual and Special Effects
KinderReels
Early Birds
Alberta
Director: Cole Stevenson
Sumpter
Australia
Director: Alice Jao
Nomination: Best Animation
Georgina
Brazil
Director: Carolina Batista
Cooking with Kyssara
Edmonton, Alberta
Director: Anne Mueller
Documentaries
Sensei
Calgary, Alberta
Director: Jill Roberts
Nomination: Best Documentary
The Nightwalk
France
Director: Adriano Valerio
Black Lives in Alberta: Over a Century of Racial Injustice Continues
Canada
Director: Jenna Bailey
Pacing the Pool
Australia
Director: Radheya Jegatheva
Spirit of A Nation: The Places we Belong
Canada
Director: Brandon Wilson
In the Jumpseat with Jacqueline
Canada
Director: Jacqueline Clements, Bill Clements
On Demand
On Demand Feature - Shoveling Pixie Dust: a Memoir
United States
Director: Tim Landry
Nomination: Best Documentary
Cabbages & Kings
Director: Tim Landry
CATARINA
France
Director: Pierre AMSTUTZ ROCH
Nomination: Best Editing
A Unicorn in Tel Aviv
Israel
Director: Zohar Ballas
Nomination: Best Screenplay
Shutter Gun
Iran
Director: Ramin Rastad
Nomination: Best Editing
Solitude
Brazil
Director: Tami Martins, Aron Miranda
Frames
Canada
Director: Farhad Pakdel
Babaou
France
Director: Alexandra Mignien
Bad News
Spain
Director: Santiago Cardelús Ruiz-Alberdi, Pablo Manchado Cascón
Nomination: Best Screenplay and Best Performance
And In My Dream
Israel
Director: Matan Portnoy
Virtual Reality
Chasing Dreams - 360
Alberta
Director: Maciej Hatta
Space Chase with Spot!
United States
Director: Ryan Rogers