Festival Nominees 2026

Congratulations to this year’s nominees

Best Foreign Narrative

First Summer

 Dir. By Gayoung Heo – Narrative – 30:00 Min – South Korea

Poor Me

Dir. By Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad  – Narrative – 19:39 Min – Norway

ASPHALT

Dir. By Mehdi Ouahab – Narrative – 23:14 Min – France

Wie die Nelken

Dir. By Emine Demir – Narrative – 22:00 Min –  Germany

Best North American Narrative

Time Space Love

Dir. By Marie-Louise Gariépy – Narrative – 15:00 Min –  Canada

Loon

Dir. By Brad E Kins – Narrative – 7:45 Min –  USA

The Oracle

Dir. By  JJ Adler– Narrative – 18:05 Min –  USA

Big Bad Yucky Monster

Dir. By Nicole Lipp – Narrative – 7:17 Min – USA

Best Local Filmmaker to Watch

Black Wedding A Serbian Folktale

Dir. By Jessica Bachman – Narrative – 8:18 Min –  Serbia

Vote for Viky

Dir. By Nick Nottebaum – Narrative – 15:36 Min –  USA

How do you spell amor

Dir. By Aarón Vega Granados – Narrative – 14:08 Min –  USA

Father Alphonse and the Fight Between Carnival and Lent

Dir. By Diana Thorneycroft

 – Animation – 7:31 Min – Canada

Best Animation

 

Papillon

Dir. By Florence Miailhe  – Animation– 15:00 Min – France

What We Leave Behind

Dir. By Jean-Sébastien Hamel & Alexandra Myotte – Animation – 10:47 Min – Canada

Best Documentary

 

Land of Cold

Dir. By Hervé Demers  – Documentary – 16:52 Min – Canada

A Wolf in the Suburbs

Dir. By Amélie Hardy – Documentary – 19:00 Min – Canada

Make Money, Find Meaning, Don’t Panic

Dir. By Amélie Hardy – Documentary – 22:00 Min –  Canada

Best Experimental

 

La Dichotomie

Dir. By Suzie Toot, Dan Ingram and Oscar Ruso – Experimental – 14:00 Min –  USA

NIO GÅNGER BÄTTRE

Dir. By Lorenzo Follari & Emma Dock – Narrative – 8:17 Min –  Sweden

UNTER STRAHLEN

Dir. ByJörn Staeger  – Experimental – 8:22 Min – Germany

Best Latin American Film

 

Iterations

Dir. By Alexander Gordillo – Narrative – 10:29 Min – Venezuela

La luna que amamos como un Hermano

Dir. By Iñaki Velasquez – Narrative – 17:00 Min – Chile

Director’s Choice

 

Wie die Nelken

Dir. By Emine Demir – Narrative – 22:00 Min –  Germany

Jury Award

 

Poor Me

Dir. By Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad  – Narrative – 19:39 Min – Norway