and the winners are...
CANBERRA
Best Film: Marionettes (and the virtue of a lotus flower) - Prajdnik Awasthi
Best Director: Clare Young - Love Forever
Best Cinematography: Jack Saltmiras - Mine Mine Mine
Best Editing: James A Thomas - Set Times
Best Production Design: Dan Sanguineti & Denai Gracie - EXO226
Best Script/Screenplay: Kaitlyn Boyé - Straight On 'Til Mourning
Best Sound Design: Lachlan Kendall - CAPTCHA
Best Art Design: Jessica Orcsik - Starry Eyed
Best Acting: Hannah McKenzie - Love Forever
Emerging Talent: Denai Gracie
Highly Commended: Dungeons, Goblins and Broccoli - Dan Sanguineti
Highly Commended: Tea Break - Tom Pugh
Highly Commended: Hafekasi - Annelise Hickey & Josie Baynes
Highly Commended: Follow Your Nose - Ruth Pielor & Ujjwal Rai
Highly Commended: Just Like Horses - Deborah Kingsland
NATIONAL
Best Film: Svengali - James Robert Woods & Stephanie Jane Day
Best Director: David Robinson-Smith - Mud Crab
Best Cinematography: Nicholson Ren - Jia
Best Editing: Karen Pearlman - CUT
Best Production Design: Charlotte Wessel - We the Children of Caterpillars
Best Script/Screenplay: Finegan Sampson - Teach Me How to Cry
Best Sound Design: John Kassab - Breathe
Best Art Design: Sushi Noh
Best Actor: Ben Gerrard - Svengali, Monsters
Best Actress: Michala Banas - Breathe, Teach Me How To Cry
Highly Commended: Gîtar - Jack Rintoul
Highly Commended: Habitat - Brett Cousins, Teisha Lowry & Amelia Ford
Highly Commended: Baby - James Di Martino, Michael Llewellyn Bates
Highly Commended: MumLife - Ruby Challenger & Claudia Shephard
Highly Commended: The More the Storm - Nathan Croft & Victoria Schaw
INTERNATIONAL
Best Film: The Old Young Crow - Liam LoPinto
Best Director: Tan Ce Ding - Please Hold the Line
Best Cinematography: Freddie Whitman - Crack Shot
Best Editing: Geoff Ashenhurst & Sean Wainsteim - Demon Box
Best Production Design: Alina Bashirova - CIRCLE
Best Script/Screenplay: Liam LoPinto - The Old Young Crow
Best Sound Design: Peyman Khodaei - Hands
Best Acting: Portia McLaughlin - The Innkeeper
Best Score: Steve Hackman & Anibal Sandoval - CIRCLE
Best Comedy: The Innkeeper
Highly Commended: Rokh - Pegah Sajedi
Highly Commended: Arcadia Lasts - Aaron Shrimpton
Highly Commended: PANDA - Sasha Briggs & Sylvie Briggs
Highly Commended: EL FUNERAL - Sofía Blanco
Highly Commended: Sun is Up and I Shall Live - Jazmine Monaz & Macarius Chia
SCHOOLS/UNDER 18s
Best Film: Fragements of Self - Nancy Chamberlain
Best National: Distance by Yearning - Nicholas Dharma Gunawan
Best Canberra: Red Alert - William Timmers & Nathan Wang
Highly Commended: Hey Amica - Molly McLean, Nathania Arenas & Liisa Hagan Appoah
Highly Commended: The Homework - Yul Baek
Highly Commended: Duckumentary - Taj De Montis
Highly Commended: Picnic Panic - Mil Burford
Highly Commended: Crying Dolls - Miah-Tya Nungheena Gowland
FIRST NATIONS STORIES
Best Film: Bangay lore - Jahvis Loveday & Kiahma O'donovan
Best Series: Kutcha's Koorioke - Anna Grieve & John Harvey
Highly Commended: Allira - Tyeli Hannah
Highly Commended: Healing Heart Feeling Country - Robert Sherwood
Highly Commended: There I Was - MP Tremblay, Marie-Pier Morin & Mathias Mark
Highly Commended: I Am Kanaka - Genevieve Sulway
Highly Commended: The Great Kind Mystery - Ella Morton
DOCUMENTARY
Best Film: Everything belongs to you - Mani Pham Bui, Hien Nguyen & Tommy Vu Nguyen
Best National: No Such Thing As Sunday - Sebastien Rabas
Best Canberra: "Our Most Ancient Elder" : Kickatoo Tall Man Reburial - Ellie Gilbert
Highly Commended: Behind the Seen - Robin Gurney & Lawrence Blair
Highly Commended: Harton Moor - Erin Dickson
Highly Commended: Enemy Alien - Gabriel Murphy & Andrew McMartin
Highly Commended: untitled / unfinished - Matthew Victor Pastor
Highly Commended: A Way of Seeing - Cameron David Myers
MUSIC VIDEO
Best Film: Minor Setback - Jake Armstrong
Highly Commended: Forest Claudette "Goodbye" - Flora Hadaway
Highly Commended: Glitoris "Sock Puppet" - Marisa Martin
Highly Commended: Citizen Kay "so, where are we? chapter one" - Burrows & Adi
Highly Commended: Soupe Opera - Zoe Robinson
2-MINUTE FILM
Best Film: The story of the guitar with only one string - Jansen Čapar
Best CBR: Unholy Matrimony - Lucy Smith
ANIMATION
Best Film: Holy Men - David Lovric & Drasko Ivezic
Best Film for Children: Tiddalik - Meaghan Holborow
Highly Commended: Trace - Asparuh Petrov
Highly Commended: Llamas at the Laundromat - Martha Grant
Highly Commended: Ashnikko "Worms" - Raman Djafari
Highly Commended: End of the Night - Mawrgan Shaw
Highly Commended: 11 - Vuk Jevremovic
Highly Commended: Airborne - Andrzej Jobczyk, Jakub Karwowski & Piotr Szczepanowicz
EXPERIMENTAL
Best Film: The Rose - Hilary Campilan
Highly Commended: A Butterfly is Knocking at the Window - Mohammad Hasani
Highly Commended: Protest - Nicci Haynes
Highly Commended: Demi-Godesses - Martin Gerigk
Highly Commended: and furthermore (indexed)
Highly Commended: I Am a Horse - Chaerin Im
Highly Commended: The Bridge - Liesa Cole