Here is a collection of this year's Nevermore Jury Award winners for Best Shorts.
BEST SHORT (US/CANADA)
Tim Travers & The Time Traveler's Paradox: It is called the Time Travelers Paradox. In which a scientist creates a Time Machine and kills their younger self. So now a man who should not -- can not -- exist, somehow does. That is the Paradox, and Paradoxes are impossible.
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT
Jettison: A restless young woman ships off to fight an interstellar war, only to struggle with the effects of being cut off from her home by both time and space.
BEST HORROR-COMEDY SHORT
The Last Christmas: 'Tis the night before Christmas and all is peaceful. That is until High School Cheerleader, Kirsten, is awoken in the middle of the night by her mischievous 8-year-old sister, Alice. Teased at school for still believing in Santa, Alice's plan to capture the mythical gift giver and prove his existence has gone horribly wrong. The living room is trashed and Santa lies dead amidst a gruesome Christmas crime scene! But Alice has a plan and convinces her older sister they must work together to get rid of the evidence and bury the body before anyone finds out they killed Christmas!
BEST SHORT (INTERNATIONAL)
The Last Game: Alvaro and his friends are about to play one of their usual role games when a disturbing discovery will change the game forever.
In Spanish with English subtitles
BEST LONG-FORM NARRATIVE SHORT
Viral: An online activist was trying to uncover the truth about the Virus before she went missing earlier this year. Now, her FaceTime history has been extracted and the truth is worse than you think.
BEST LONG FORM NARRATIVE SHORT
Lips & Tips: Melanie -- a hard working flight attendant -- arrives late at night at the airport. She only wants to go home and get some sleep. But someone is watching her. As she enters the parking garage, someone is talking to her, and this person seems to have sinister plans. She manages to escape the stranger, but now someone has followed her home. Will Melanie survive this night of terror and find out what is going on?
Viewer's Guide: Graphic sexual dialogue and gore.
NORTH CAROLINA PREMIERE!
Melanie -- a hard working flight attendant -- arrives late at night at the airport. She only wants to go home and get some sleep. But someone is watching her. As she enters the parking garage, someone is talking to her, and this person seems to have sinister plans. She manages to escape the stranger, but now someone has followed her home. Will Melanie survive this night of terror and find out what is going on?
Viewer's Guide: Graphic sexual dialogue and gore.
2022 Nevermore Jury Award Winner!
BEST LONG-FORM NARRATIVE SHORT
2022 Nevermore Jury Award Nominee!
Best Makeup
Best Editing
Best Sound
Director Biography - Christian Koch
"I was terrified when I saw John Carpenter's Halloween for the first time at the age of 6, but in hindsight I also saw the raw power of cinema for the first time." Christian Koch was born on the 24th of May in 1989 in a little village in East Germany. He soon discovered his love for stories and especially movies. He began filming skateboard videos with local skaters of his area. During his apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic, he wrote and directed his film debut 'Cut Wide Open' , a horror film in the tradition of the 80s Slasher Movies. After a couple of short movies he enrolled in the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany in 2016. There he wrote and directed a comedy short film called 'Low on Gas' about a clerk who works at a Gas Station and the thriller/crime drama short film 'MIA'(2018). In 2018 he directed the World War I Drama 'Grauer Reiter - Dark Horsemen', which premiered at FEST in Portugal. It also won several awards. After that, he made psychological drama with thriller aspects, called "A CHRISTMAS CAROL".
- Year2021
- Runtime32 minutes
- LanguageGerman
- CountryGermany
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorChristian Koch
- ScreenwriterChristian Koch
- ProducerChristian Koch, Maximilian Kraus
- CastVivien König, Mike Müller
Here is a collection of this year's Nevermore Jury Award winners for Best Shorts.
BEST SHORT (US/CANADA)
Tim Travers & The Time Traveler's Paradox: It is called the Time Travelers Paradox. In which a scientist creates a Time Machine and kills their younger self. So now a man who should not -- can not -- exist, somehow does. That is the Paradox, and Paradoxes are impossible.
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT
Jettison: A restless young woman ships off to fight an interstellar war, only to struggle with the effects of being cut off from her home by both time and space.
BEST HORROR-COMEDY SHORT
The Last Christmas: 'Tis the night before Christmas and all is peaceful. That is until High School Cheerleader, Kirsten, is awoken in the middle of the night by her mischievous 8-year-old sister, Alice. Teased at school for still believing in Santa, Alice's plan to capture the mythical gift giver and prove his existence has gone horribly wrong. The living room is trashed and Santa lies dead amidst a gruesome Christmas crime scene! But Alice has a plan and convinces her older sister they must work together to get rid of the evidence and bury the body before anyone finds out they killed Christmas!
BEST SHORT (INTERNATIONAL)
The Last Game: Alvaro and his friends are about to play one of their usual role games when a disturbing discovery will change the game forever.
In Spanish with English subtitles
BEST LONG-FORM NARRATIVE SHORT
Viral: An online activist was trying to uncover the truth about the Virus before she went missing earlier this year. Now, her FaceTime history has been extracted and the truth is worse than you think.
BEST LONG FORM NARRATIVE SHORT
Lips & Tips: Melanie -- a hard working flight attendant -- arrives late at night at the airport. She only wants to go home and get some sleep. But someone is watching her. As she enters the parking garage, someone is talking to her, and this person seems to have sinister plans. She manages to escape the stranger, but now someone has followed her home. Will Melanie survive this night of terror and find out what is going on?
Viewer's Guide: Graphic sexual dialogue and gore.
NORTH CAROLINA PREMIERE!
Melanie -- a hard working flight attendant -- arrives late at night at the airport. She only wants to go home and get some sleep. But someone is watching her. As she enters the parking garage, someone is talking to her, and this person seems to have sinister plans. She manages to escape the stranger, but now someone has followed her home. Will Melanie survive this night of terror and find out what is going on?
Viewer's Guide: Graphic sexual dialogue and gore.
2022 Nevermore Jury Award Winner!
BEST LONG-FORM NARRATIVE SHORT
2022 Nevermore Jury Award Nominee!
Best Makeup
Best Editing
Best Sound
Director Biography - Christian Koch
"I was terrified when I saw John Carpenter's Halloween for the first time at the age of 6, but in hindsight I also saw the raw power of cinema for the first time." Christian Koch was born on the 24th of May in 1989 in a little village in East Germany. He soon discovered his love for stories and especially movies. He began filming skateboard videos with local skaters of his area. During his apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic, he wrote and directed his film debut 'Cut Wide Open' , a horror film in the tradition of the 80s Slasher Movies. After a couple of short movies he enrolled in the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany in 2016. There he wrote and directed a comedy short film called 'Low on Gas' about a clerk who works at a Gas Station and the thriller/crime drama short film 'MIA'(2018). In 2018 he directed the World War I Drama 'Grauer Reiter - Dark Horsemen', which premiered at FEST in Portugal. It also won several awards. After that, he made psychological drama with thriller aspects, called "A CHRISTMAS CAROL".
- Year2021
- Runtime32 minutes
- LanguageGerman
- CountryGermany
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- DirectorChristian Koch
- ScreenwriterChristian Koch
- ProducerChristian Koch, Maximilian Kraus
- CastVivien König, Mike Müller