WATERSPRITE 2023

Watersprite returned for a free weekend of talks, screenings, networking and celebration from March 3–5, 2023.

The biggest Watersprite yet.

We received over 1500 submissions from 106 countries and welcomed over 4,000 attendees from 40 countries.

A DAY, THAT YEAR (Taiwan)

Salon Editing Award (Nominee):
Stanley Xu Ruiyang
United Agents Performance Award (Nominee):
Ray Liao
ABRIL (Uruguay)

Production Design Award (Nominee):
Eliana Fernández & Sofia Caponnetto
Cinematography Award (Nominee):
Eliana Fernández & Sofia Caponnetto
AIMÉ (Belgium)

Seven.One Studios Fiction Award (Winner):
Gillie Cinneri & Anouk Ferreira da Silva
United Agents Performance Award (Winner):
Frank Onana
Production Design Award (Winner):
Iman Zanas
Wychwood Media Social Impact Award (Nominee):
Gillie Cinneri & Anouk Ferreira da Silva
BEFORE AFTER (Poland)

Experimental Award (Nominee):
Filip Bojarski
CATASTROPHE (UK)

Sound Design Award (Nominee):
Mocong Yuan
DEAD GIRLS DON'T FEAR THE REAPER (UK)

Costume Design Award (Nominee):
Megan Lloyd
DEATH AT THE BUS STOP (Norway)

Neil Gaiman Film of the Year Award (Winner):
Maja Kjellstad Aanonsen
Animation Award (Winner):
Maja Kjellstad Aanonsen
Production Design Award (Nominee):
Maja Kjellstad Aanonsen
FALL FLOAT FLY (UK)

Original Film Music Award (Nominee):
Yi-jia Chen
FRIENDLY FIRE (Israel)

Animation Award (Nominee):
Tom Koryto Blumen
Wychwood Media Social Impact Award (Nominee):
Tom Koryto Blumen
HOMESICK LUNGS (Germany)

Cinematography Award (Nominee):
Felix Klee
HONEY BUNNY DURACELL (Czech Republic)

Casarotto Ramsay Directing Award (Nominee):
Nelisa Alcalde
I WILL MAKE IT (Spain)

Documentary Award (Nominee):
Loreto Saiz & Corentin Barrial
KILLING BAGHEERA (Syria)

Seven.One Studios Fiction Award (Nominee):
Muschirf Shekh Zeyn
United Agents Performance Award (Nominee):
Dara Lalo
Wychwood Media Social Impact Award (Winner):
Muschirf Shekh Zeyn
MALEVOLENCE (UK)

Sound Design Award (Winner):
Eugenia Hamilton
Wychwood Media Social Impact Award (Nominee):
Eugenia Hamilton
PAPER STAIRS (Canada)

Original Film Music Award (Winner):
Louis Parent, Théo Parent & Simon Demeule
PEPEDRILO (Mexico)

Documentary Award (Winner):
Victor Cartas
Salon Editing Award (Winner):
Victor Cartas
PHLEGM (Switzerland)

Casarotto Ramsay Directing Award (Winner):
Jan-David Bolt
Salon Editing Award (Nominee):
Lars Mulle
Original Music Award (Nominee):
Markus Schmid
Sound Design Award (Nominee):
Lars Mulle
RAJA'S HAD ENOUGH (UK)

Costume Design Award (Nominee):
Siobhan Gorman Gordon
RETURN (Mexico)

Experimental Award (Winner):
Jared Salero
ROOTS (UK)

Cinematography Award (Winner):
Agata Kazmierczak
SO LONG, GOOD TIMES (Germany)

Documentary Award (Nominee):
Simon Schares
SANGRIA (Brazil)

Experimental Award (Nominee):
Thales Prediger
THE DEVIL HAS THE BEST TUNES

Costume Design Awards (Winner):
Natasja Briers
THE PURSUIT OF FLESH (UK)

Animation Award (Nominee):
Anastasia Grech
WEN WILL I SEE U AGAIN SAM? (UK)

Screenplay Award (Nominee):
Joe Crabtree
YOUR GUARDIAN (UK, Serbia)

Seven.One Studios Fiction Award (Nominee):
Mimi Vlaovic
Screenplay Award (Winner):
Mimi Vlaovic
Audience Award (Winner):
Mimi Vlaovic
YUTA (Brazil)

Screenplay Award (Nominee):
Matheus Malburg

FESTIVAL

PROGRAMME

View the 2023 Festival Programme

Festival Highlights

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