Official Selections
Winter 2026
Official Selections List
Best Short Film
"The Border" by Carlo Fumo
"Best Short Film"
In a nameless land, at night, two teenagers who communicate through an invented sign language decide to escape. Wrapped in blankets, they cross an arid and hostile territory toward an invisible border. Unseen by those who watch, they run toward freedom, while indifference turns into tragedy. THE BORDER is a silent, universal fable about love, war, and the moment when it is already too late to choose.
"Under a Cloud" by Frédéric Astruc
"Best Short Film"
After falling asleep near a lake surrounded by vacationers, a young woman wakes up alone. Intrigued, she returns to her car. When she turns on the ignition, the radio automatically turns on and announces an accident or a nuclear attack. A radioactive cloud circulates and heads towards the lake region...
"Stair-away" by Fan Ka Chun
"Best Short Film"
In a one misty city night, a young girl hunted by mystery force, stuck up into a surreal nightmare, she have to escape and find a way to survive.
"2054 : SEELE" by Edoardo Maione & Alice Gnech
"Best Short Film"
Situated in the future, 2054 Seele reveals a scene in which the economic violence seems to have changed gender. A world in which artificial intelligence and social control become human rights threats.
"The sweet sound of branch shredder" by Etienne Olivier Muller
"Best Short Film"
A man is depressed and spent his days in his couch. 
One day, an advertising about a schredder appears on his tv. The schredder will change his Life
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Best Director
"The Border" by Carlo Fumo
"Best Director"
In a nameless land, at night, two teenagers who communicate through an invented sign language decide to escape. Wrapped in blankets, they cross an arid and hostile territory toward an invisible border. Unseen by those who watch, they run toward freedom, while indifference turns into tragedy. THE BORDER is a silent, universal fable about love, war, and the moment when it is already too late to choose.
"2054 : SEELE" by Edoardo Maione & Alice Gnech
"Best Short Film"
Situated in the future, 2054 Seele reveals a scene in which the economic violence seems to have changed gender. A world in which artificial intelligence and social control become human rights threats.
"The Cockroach and the Ant" by Marco La Ferrara
"Best Director"
A father and his daughter struggle to cope with the gradual decline of the girl's memory, when an unexpected encounter with an insect shakes their existence.
The central theme of the film is Alzheimer's disease, through which the bond between a mother and her son is explored. In her confused state, the mother mistakes her son—who is caring for her—for her own father.
The story is told from the mother’s point of view, and as a result, her character is portrayed on screen by a young girl. By alternating between different timelines and perspectives, the narrative weaves together reality and imagination, ultimately inverting the parent-child relationship.
"The sweet sound of branch shredder" by Etienne Olivier Muller
"Best Director"
A man is depressed and spent his days in his couch. 
One day, an advertising about a schredder appears on his tv. The schredder will change his Life
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Best Feature Film
"HONEYMOONAY NAMAH" by Etienne Nishant Bhardwaj
"Best Feature Film"
Mona is the son of a farmer from Uttarakhand who is engaged to Varsha, a girl from a neighboring village. Mona invites his US-based friend to the wedding. The friend, expressing his inability to come, advises him to celebrate the honeymoon in a ritualistic way, before Mona takes more information about the honeymoon from him, the phone gets disconnected due to the poor network. Trouble/confusion arises for Mona from his lack of understanding on what is this honeymoon ritual and how to celebrate it? Even his friends don't know, no one in the village knows about this honeymoon ritual. When it reaches Mona's mother, its nature has changed even more, like if the honeymoon ceremony did not take place, children would not be born, they would remain illiterate, many ominous disturbances would come, wealth would not come. Mona's mother is determined that no matter what happens, Mona's honeymoon ceremony is done before the wedding. The village pandit, when asked about the honeymoon ritual, confesses that he too is unaware of this ritual. What to do now?
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Best Actor
"The sweet sound of branch shredder" by Etienne Olivier Muller
"Best Actor" — Julien Husser
A man is depressed and spent his days in his couch. 
One day, an advertising about a schredder appears on his tv. The schredder will change his Life
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Best Actress
"The Five Stages" by Jessica Orcsik
"Best Actress" — Hannah Carman
Eva Allen is a recently single, devastated young woman. She enters a black box theatre being filled with well-dressed and put-together people, laughing and drinking. A variety act performance is about to begin.

Slipping through the crowd, Eva slinks into a seat to watch Clara Bright and the Magnificent Five's performance. As the show begins... Eva is transformed through five acts of music and performances that portray her five stages of grief.
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Best Supporting Actor
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Best Editing
"2054 : SEELE" by Edoardo Maione & Alice Gnech
"Best Editing"
Situated in the future, 2054 Seele reveals a scene in which the economic violence seems to have changed gender. A world in which artificial intelligence and social control become human rights threats.
"Whisper of the well" by Elif Dokur
"Best Editing"
On a moonlit night, a woman unjustly condemned returns as a dark tale of vengeance, altering the fate of a quiet village.
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Best Cinematography
"The sweet sound of branch shredder" by Etienne Olivier Muller
"Best Cinematography"
A man is depressed and spent his days in his couch. 
One day, an advertising about a schredder appears on his tv. The schredder will change his Life
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Best Animation
"DESK BUGS" by Hakhyun Kim
"Best Animation"
"Qahwa Sada" by Alex Amoresano & Maria Alessia Di Maio
"Best Animation"
Qahwa Sada is an animated short that explores the mind's desperate capacity to build its own reality to survive unbearable grief. It's a poignant story about the loss of a home and a family, and the human spirit's resilience in clinging to the memory of what was.
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Best Original Screenplay
"The Owners" by Nick Nelsen
"Best Original Screenplay"
Nick and Sara charter a bush flight into the Alaskan wilderness to photograph a rare bull moose, a final tribute to Sara’s late biologist father. When their plane crashes in a violent storm, they’re separated, injured, and stranded in sub-zero temperatures.

Nick stumbles to a remote cabin, only to discover it’s been taken over by Cal and his family. Criminals on the run who’ve already murdered the cabin’s owners to cover their tracks. When Nick witnesses evidence of their crimes, he becomes their next target.

What follows is a brutal hunt through frozen valleys and abandoned hunting shacks. Nick fights his way through the family one by one, sustaining catastrophic injuries but driven by a single goal: find Sara and the owners’ four-year-old daughter, the only survivor.

But as the body count rises and the line between self-defense and murder blurs, Sara begins to fear the man she came here with. When Nick kills someone calling for help, unable to hear through howling wind that the man was surrendering. Sara realizes Nick has become unable to see past his own survival instincts.

By the time rescue arrives, Nick sits alone in the snow, pondering whether he’s hero or monster having saved two lives but lost himself in the process.
"THE BOX" by Philippe Marion
"Best Original Screenplay"
THE BOX is a minimalist, metaphysical short set almost entirely in darkness.

Three strangers wake up in a void. They can speak, think and feel fear – but they have no bodies, no past, no explanation. Naming themselves Thomas, Théa and Sophie, they begin to test the limits of this strange space, like prisoners in a contemporary “cave”. As they share fragmentary memories and theories, the void slowly reveals itself: faint scratches in the dark, a distant mechanical sound, a pulse of light.

Piece by piece, they understand that they are not people trapped in a room, but characters trapped in an image – the moving image inside a film reel running through a projector. Realising they are nothing but film images and sound, they must decide what freedom means when their entire existence depends on a fragile beam of light.
"The Fast Break" by Sam Thomas
"Best Original Screenplay"
"Pretty Little Lucy" by David Williamson
"Best Original Screenplay"
When a lonely pharmacy tech is catfished by someone impersonating actress Lucy Hale, he spirals into an obsessive digital romance that blurs the line between fantasy and delusion. As his life unravels, the only voice that seems to understand him is Aria Montgomery—Hale’s fictional alter ego—who may not be real, but speaks to the ache no one else sees.
"Tom Hanks Must Die!" by Evan Neill
"Best Original Screenplay"
When a bitter nobody becomes convinced that Tom Hanks is the cosmic reason his life sucks, he drags a new friend on a chaotic cross-country mission to confront destiny-and maybe punch America's dad in the face.
"The veil of silence" by Michael Davies
"Best Original Screenplay"
Quiet, nondescript man. Well-liked by coworkers, but mostly keeps to himself. He has a fascination with the medical field and anatomy that goes far beyond mere professional interest. Hidden beneath his mild-mannered exterior is a compulsion to control life and death.
"Like Angels with Burning Wings" by Kellasandra Ferrara
"Best Original Screenplay"
A young woman, Ella, is accidentally killed in an act of rage by the town bully, Jarod, who harbors an unrequited crush. Supernatural occurrences give her the ability to right this wrong and say goodbye.
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Additional Categories
"The program" by Alberto Zanigni
"Best AI Film"
The story of a man's mind
"2054 : SEELE" by Edoardo Maione & Alice Gnech
"Best VFX", "Best Director Debut"
Situated in the future, 2054 Seele reveals a scene in which the economic violence seems to have changed gender. A world in which artificial intelligence and social control become human rights threats.
"Counting down" by Joé Freilinger
"Best Student Film"
A young girl wakes up bound in a dark room, alone and with no memory of how she got there. A cold, distorted voice forces her to count backwards, without revealing why. With each number, she sinks deeper into a psychological void, as fragments of memory crash down upon her, the sting of failure, the pain of being excluded, the despair of deep loss, and the quiet vulnerability she carries within herself. Slowly, she begins to fight back against her fear, her grief, and the suffocating pressure of her own confinement.

Counting Down is a psychological short film about the pressure to always perform, and the fragile yet powerful act of finding oneself again.
"THE MIRACLE" by Alfredo Dias Gomes
"Best AI Film"
In May 1960, a father battles the weather and a fierce storm to save his newborn son, who urgently needs a blood transfusion. After medical failures and the discovery that a vital piece of equipment is missing, he is forced to retrieve the item in the middle of the night.
"Oopsy!" by Sijin Liu
"Best Music Video"
Siri Lee - Oopsy! takes its cue from the spirit of Guantanamera, keeping a touch of Latin warmth in the saxophone over a bold electronic soundscape. The idea of high heels biting, beautiful, painful, yet we still force ourselves into them shaped the theme, linking the friction in love with moments of losing and regaining control and a hint of self-alienation. In the video, every character except Siri is an AI-generated reflection of her, cloned from her own face.

When she finally takes them off and dances barefoot, she reclaims her freedom and the truth of who she is. Visually, the MV uses the three colours of the Taiwanese Jiazhi bag folding this everyday icon into a surreal, meme-tinged world that mirrors the song’s mischievous, slightly off-balance spirit.
"Soul Kitchen" by Hakhyun Kim
"Best Music Video"
The head chef “Cookoo” awakens from his slumber and begins to cook.

He cooks, and cooks, and cooks—without pause.
He cooks endlessly, unceasingly, until death.
"The Cockroach and the Ant" by Marco La Ferrara
"Best VFX"
A father and his daughter struggle to cope with the gradual decline of the girl's memory, when an unexpected encounter with an insect shakes their existence.
The central theme of the film is Alzheimer's disease, through which the bond between a mother and her son is explored. In her confused state, the mother mistakes her son—who is caring for her—for her own father.
The story is told from the mother’s point of view, and as a result, her character is portrayed on screen by a young girl. By alternating between different timelines and perspectives, the narrative weaves together reality and imagination, ultimately inverting the parent-child relationship.
"Bye Bye Baby" by Dianne Mary Lang
"Best Music Video"
This is a great original country song written and sung by Lisa Vasey. Lisa has spent her whole life playing guitar, singing and writing music. It takes her a couple of months to write, sing, play the music and produce the songs. Lisa has given me the necessary rights to use this song in a music video for International Film Competitions. This song is about a typical country song – love and relationships, exploring the intricacies of romantic love, heartbreak and finding a soulmate – in this case, saying bye to her current boyfriend and finding her real teddy bear.
"Kev Franzi - Works 80 Years in the Film Industry HD" by Dianne Mary Lang
"Best Short Documentary"
This is a brief story of Kev Franzi's life through the lens working in the film industry for 80 years. It was Kev's father who gave Kev a camera that started him on this career path at 13 years of age. Ian Mackay talks to Kev about the highlights of his career.
"The Visit" by Santiago Jordana Larrauri
"Best Producer" — Richard Sapida
​Videographer Santi is rushing to cover a high-stakes wedding after his colleague, Richard, mysteriously goes missing. Richard's spirit suddenly appears, asking a frantic Santi to drive him to a lake for a mysterious favor. Upon arrival, Santi is horrified to discover Richard's unconscious body inside a parked car, realizing the man who traveled with him was an astral projection. Now, Santi must call 911, struggling to explain how he knew exactly where to find his comatose friend.
"Mighty Joe Mui" by Jeremy Durgana
"Best Experimental Film" — Jeremy Durgana
​This is the riveting story of how a boy from a destitute-stricken village ultimately crosses paths with prominent global figures. A bold reminder that life is filled with irony and full-circle moments. This awe-inspiring memoir not only offers insights for succeeding in school and business, but it also motivates readers to be the best version of themselves today. It's jaw-dropping. It's uplifting. It's eye-opening. It's fearless. It's real. It's the life and times of Joe Mui.
"Symphonic Collapse" by Andrey Man
"Best AI Film"
his film about how classics meet real chaos.
A drop of absurdity, lyricism, drama, intrigue - and even action.
"The veil of silence" by Michael Davies
"Best Poster"
Quiet, nondescript man. Well-liked by coworkers, but mostly keeps to himself. He has a fascination with the medical field and anatomy that goes far beyond mere professional interest. Hidden beneath his mild-mannered exterior is a compulsion to control life and death.
"The sweet sound of branch shredder" by Etienne Olivier Muller
"Best Poster"
A man is depressed and spent his days in his couch. 
One day, an advertising about a schredder appears on his tv. The schredder will change his Life
"The Blossom and the Mountain" by Kathleen Stevenson
"Best Music Video"
Sakura and Fuji one fleeting, one eternal, falling for one another through the spring. Fire rages, water washes over them, and nature takes its course. Blossom fades, but their love lingers, even as the petals fall. A poetic take on love, time, and letting go.
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