Like last year, we've also payed tribute to the masters of the independent film industry and explore the beginnings of their creative journeys. In 2019 we’ve looked at the work of underground pioneer David Lynch. David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. He is best known for acclaimed films such as Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001), regarded by some critics as among the best films of their respective decades, and for his successful 1990–91 television series Twin Peaks, which led to him being labeled "the first popular surrealist" by noted film critic Pauline Kael. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, he has received three academy award nominations for Best Director, and has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. He has been described by The Guardian as "the most important director of this era", while Allmovie called him "the renaissance man of modern American filmmaking".

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The 2019 award winners were the following:

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The award for the Best Feature Narrative Film went to '3 - nil' (Greece) by Boris Stout. Manolis, a happily married, successful young merchant banker seems more inhibited than inspired by his success and hopes that Irida, the rebellious artist that runs a local hipster bar can somehow save his soul. He wants a change. Irida is weary of a life lived on the margins; she is tired of the squalor of her shared apartment, tired of her stoner musician boyfriend bullying her for cash and selfish sex, tired of a job that gives her no time for art and insufficient money for rent. She wants a change.

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The prize for the Best Feature Documentary Film was for 'Wognum' (Netherlands) by Tim Bary. Mathijs is 42 years old and an avid member of the hardcore world. A life of raving, taking pills and jumping up and down and up and down. A rough and harsh life at first sight, but Matthijs found warmth there, warmth he couldn’t find elsewhere. Having had a difficult childhood, with parents who didn’t believe in his dream, he discovered a different world in the hardcore scene. An answer for his loneliness, a place where he felt understood. Unfortunately life is not an ever ongoing party, and Matthijs’ loneliness comes back to haunt him again. This affects his relationship with his friend René, and not knowing what to do he locks himself up in his attic during the day, dreaming of his long lost passion to become a world class pianist. He decides to pick up the pieces and bring back life in his piano playing fingers again.

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Best Narrative Short Film award went to 'Love' (Canada) by Benoit Ouellet. The friendship between Sam and Mathieu ends.

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'Pain is Mine' (Australia) by Farshid Akhlaghi was awarded as Best Documentary Short Film. One day, One room, One take. After her spinal surgery, she was always in pain, intense pain, unendurable pain. Painkillers have been her refuge for a long time, but one day, she decided to stop.

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The Best Animated Film award went to 'How Countries Fight Their Wars' (Netherlands) by Thomas Loopstra, Maurice Baltissen.