A scene from 'This is Crazie'

Durham, NC - Whether it's fighting with your roommate, figuring out registration or losing your DukeCard, freshman life isn't easy.

This year's Froshlife film festival documented the trials and triumphs of life as a first-year student at Duke, with nine short movies screened at an awards ceremony in White Auditorium on Sunday night.

The winning film, "This is Crazie," came from Aycock Residence Hall, which also won top honors for best editing by Arjun Knanna and Insun Chong.

The film sets to music a series of quintessential campus experiences, from registration to Krzyzewskiville, with this concluding voiceover: "This was pretty crazy -- but so was signing up for classes, orientation, falling in love, studying and standing in K-ville for countless hours. That's the great thing about Duke and the Cameron Crazies. They're not just crazy about basketball. They're crazy about everything. They're crazy about life."

The Froshlife competition -- now in its seventh year -- challenges teams of students from the first-year residence halls to produce short films about campus life. Students were provided with equipment for filming and editing, and each team had 18 days to produce a film of eight minutes or less.

"The teams are under pressure, so you're not necessarily going to get the same quality as you do at the Oscars, but you do get something more important: insight, a real glimpse into what it's like being a freshman," said Michael Faber, an OIT multimedia specialist and Froshlife organizer. "The movies this year were more raw and emotional. Froshlife isn't always polished or idealized, but it's real."