Official Selections and winners 2024

 These films are the finalist works for the Hell Chess Film festival 2024:

HUNKY DORY ------ WINNER AND BEST FILM OF THE YEAR. ----- STEVEN VANDER MEER

THORSTEN FRENZEL  ---------- BEST DIRECTOR FOR THE FILM ULTIMA

MOONSON MELODY ---------   BEST SONG ------------ JAGAN JAZZ

EFFIGY HOUSE   ------------ BEST EDITOR ------ DEB ETHIER

PLACENTA --------- SPECIAL AWARD ------------- MJ GOLZARI

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SEMI-FINALISTS:

LUCY directed by Roberto Pill 

EVADIR HACHURA directed by Mehran Hajihashemi 

QUARTER- FINALISTS:

PODER DEL PUEBLO directed by Héctor Eduardo Rivera

THE DOUBLE ROOM directed by Martín Del Carpio

HAIRY DREAMS directed by Lina Cruz.

PLACENTA .--------------- Directed by MJ Golzari -------------------------  IRAN 

This film got inside its inner simplicity, (one actress, few minutes, no dialogues) a deep

suggestion about life, motherhood or the power to overcome circumstances.

HUNKY DORY ----------------- Directed by Steven Vander Merr ------------ USA

This animation piece is made in a very traditional way, funny, plenty of animal details, almost

a music video with funny transitions plenty of liberty.

EFFIGY HOUSE ---------- Directed by Deb Ethier ----------------- CANADA

The Deb Ethier´s  animation world is always tasteful, solitary and plenty of aesthetic mystery able to be interpreted in many ways.  A classic inside the Hell Chess imaginary.

MOONSON MELODY --------------  Directed by Jagan Jazz ------------------- INDIA

This song is plenty of the traditional quality of the indian music. It is a video with almost no movement

but good enough to be the support of this sweet song sung by Nipuni Herath.

ULTIMA ----------------- Directed by Thorsten Frenzel -------------------- GERMANY

Our selection recovers the final 7 minutes of the original film. This trip to the purgatory got many elements adequate with our vision of the spiritual world.

.------------------ ALL THE FILMS WILL BE SCREENED IN DELARUINALPARAISO HEADQUARTERS, AT MIDNIGHT  JULY 5 ------------------------------ Los Barrios, Spain.