For transmitting, without music or excessive gestures, in 10 minutes and just five shots, the anguish of death translated by means of the pain witnessed by volunteer workers, the It's All True Award for Best International Short Film goes to

Moujarad Raiha/Merely a Smell, by filmmaker Maher Abi Samra (Lebanon)

For renewing cinematic language, focusing, like an eminently filmic spaceship, on an exceptional character who drifts through space during the most radical transformation in his daily life, but is still able to cry with happiness, the It's All True Award for Best Feature/Medium-Length International Film goes to

Cosmonaut Polyakov/Cosmonauta Polyakov, by Dana Ranga (Germany)

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