VAFA 2016 open call have received a total of 266 submissions by 136 artists or collectives from 42 countries and territories.  The 8 finalists featured in the exhibition are:

Winner:

Ariane Loze - “Les Colombes”, 13:50, Belgium, 2016

 
Four honorable mentions:

 
Zihui Song - “What We Talk About When We Talk About Abortion”, 16:18, China, 2015

 
Isabella Gresser - “Iris 2.0”, 2:00, Germany, 2015

Mariana Rocha - “Death Diaries: Graceful Degradation”, 10:00, Brazil, 2016

Lina Selander - “The Offspring resembles The Parent”, 13:44, Sweden, 2015

Three finalists:

 
Fabian Heitzhausen - “Radical Chic”, 3:19, Germany, 2015

Patrick Tschudi - “Instant Traveller”, 5:35, Peru, 2015

Daz Disley and Fenia Kotsopoulou - “There’s No Limit To Your Love”, 4:00, UK/Greece, 2016

As part of the festival and following previous tradition VAFA also show a number of works as a screening program. This year 23 videos will be screened at Orient Foundation on November 20.

Irena Pascali - “Art & Craft”, 9:00, Macedonia/Germany, 2016
Chun-Yu Liu - “A Complete Story Between the Strait”, 12:46, Taiwan/UK, 2014
Arezou Zibaei - “Burried Alive”, 2:22, Iran, 2015
Minki Hong - “Noodle in the Rain”, 7:10, South Korea/USA, 2014
Francesca Lolli - “Just Want To Be a Woman”, 2:48, Italy, 2014
Sanaz Sohrabi - “Disposables”, 12:07, Iran/USA, 2015
Piotr Piasta - “Porun Stanislaw from Brudnow”, 4:00, Poland, 2014
Wang Li Chen - “Make Love”, 10:48, China, 2014
Ariane Loze - “Subordination”, 7:00, Belgium, 2015
Adrian Regnier Chavez – “La Fuga V.1”, 3:33, Mexico, 2015
Alejandro Fargosonini - “Succulenta”, 8:09, Greece/USA, 2015
Ben Huang - “Blowing Wind”, 1:49, China, 2016
Billy Sims -  “Tempo Rubato”, 3:03, USA, 2015
Duygu Nazli Akova - “Chaos In Cosmos”, 4:21, Turkey, 2014
Carlos Sena Caires - “Don’t You Dare Touch Me”, 4:02, Portugal, 2016
Florencia Levy - “Attachment”, 5:50, China/Argentina, 2016
Kit Lee – “Landscape_Sea01/02/03”, 2:23, Macau, 2016
Christin Bolewski - “Shizen?Natural”, 7:16, Germany, 2015
Haruka Mitani & Michael Lyons - “Blue Movement”, 3:45, Japan, 2016
Roland Wegerer - “The Skloib or The Hummerbichler”, 3:49, Austria, 2016
Sandrine Deumier - “Soft Butterfly”, 0:51, France, 2016
Thomas Kyhn - “History of Religion”, 5:22, Denmark, 2016
Loi Chon Pang - “Concrete Jungle”, 3:50, Macau, 2015

“VAFA International Video Festival 2016” will take place at Casa Garden, Orient Foundation. The exhibition will open to public till 30 of November, 2016. The gallery is open from 10:00am to 7:00pm, while closing on Mondays. This event is partly sponsored by Secretariat of Social Affairs and Culture and Cultural Affairs Bureau of Macao SAR Government. For enquiries, please call (853) 2836 6064 during office hours or email to info@afamacau.com .For more information please visit www.afamacau.com.