CANNES 7th ART AWARDS
         2021 WINNERS

(formerly Cannes International Independent Film Festival-CIIFF)

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INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Best Director Short Film: Marcel Andre  / "Bread and circuses" / USA 

Best Feature Cinematography: "Broken Souls" directed by Juan Pablo Arroyo Abraham / Director of photography  Anna Soler Ceprià / Mexico

Best Documentary Cinematography: "Ocean Souls" directed by Philip Hamilton / Director of photography Scott Wilson  / United Kingdom

Best Composer Animated Film: Flavio Gargano / ​"Mila"/  USA 

Best Actor in a Lead role: Hussein Eskandri / "Nargesi"directed by Payam Eskandari / Iran

Best Actress in a Secondary role: Shirin Aghakashi / "Nargesi" directed by Payam Eskandari / Iran

Grand Prize Feature Film: "Nargesi" directed by Payam Eskandari / Iran

Grand Prize Short Film: "The Autumn girl" directed by Kyle Misak / USA

Grand Prize Animation: "Mila" directed by Cinzia Angelini / USA

Grand Prize Documentary: "Ocean Souls" directed by Philip Hamilton / United Kingdom

Grand Prize Music Video: "Highland Home" directed by Dan Schaefer / USA

Audience Award Animated Film (ex aequo):

"Tomorrow" directed by Mohammad Shihab Uddin / Bangladesh

 and "The Satchel" directed by Nissi Ogulu / Nigeria

Audience Award Documentary: "The Cathedral bells" directed by Kylie Tan / Singapore

Audience Award Music Video: "Boy scientist" directed by Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saika / USA

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NATIONAL FRENCH AWARDS

Best Actress in a Lead role Feature Film: Jeanne Faucher in "La fin d’Aaron" directed by Florian Bardet

Grand Prize Short Film: "Champion" directed by Sylvain Begert

Grand Prize Documentary: "Armenia – Time for Artists" directed by Anahit Dasseux Ter Mesropian 

and David Vital Durand

Grand Prize Music Video: "My bed of nails" directed by Michael Zaluski 

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SILK ROAD AWARDS (Silk Road's Countries)

Grand Prize Feature Film: "Nargesi" directed by Payam Eskandari / Iran

Grand Prize Short Film: "Solitude" directed by Fabio Grossi / Italy

Grand Prize Documentary: "White angels of Camargue – Europe last cowboys" directed by Dennis Schmelz / Germany

Grand Prize Music Video: "Searise" directed by Joseba Elorza / Spain

Grand Prize Experimental: "Eternal" directed by Nicolai Sagasser / Germany

Silk Road Production Association Special Prize: "They call me Dax" directed by Patrick Alcedo / Canada