2026 Awards and Nominees
Award Winners
Award Name
Film Name
Filmmaker Name
Grand Jury Prize
Ovary-Acting
Ida Melum
Best VA Film
Shallow
Luca Huff
Best Narrative Feature
The Queen’s Flowers
Ciara Leina’ala Lacy
Best Documentary Feature
Cutting Through Rocks
Mohammadreza Eyni & Sara Khaki
Best Actor
We Are Kings
Kenny Ridwan
Best Actress
Beyond Silence
Henrianne Jansen
Best Supporting Actor
Bird In Hand
James Le Gros
Best Supporting Actress
Bird In Hand
Christine Lahti
Best Student Film
Awaiting the Lightning Bolt
Marco Russo
Best Director
Ovary-Acting
Ida Melum
Best Editing
The Piano
Hunter Clayton Dixon
Best Cinematography
I Lay For You To Sleep
Zahed Bata
Best Production Design
Mole, Mole!
Su Rui-Rung
Best Sound
Playing God
Quentin Robert (Sound Designer), Pier Danio Forni (Composer)
Best Costume Design
I Lay for You to Sleep
Ali Al Hajri
Award Nominees
Best Actor
- Candy Bar – Damon Herriman
- The Heart Is A Muscle – Keenan Arrison
- Shallow – Will Lane
- Sit With Me While I Die – James Naughton
Best Actress
- Cuerpo Celeste – Helen Mrugalski
- Casi Septiembre – Ana Berja
- Terror Night – Edith Vallo
- Bird In Hand – Alisha Wainwright
Best Cinematography
- Cuerpo Celeste – Sergio Armstrong
- Cutting Through Rocks – Mohammadreza Eyni
- Still Moving – Rui Ting Ji
- Casi Septiembre – Gemma de Miguel
Best Costume Design
- Cuerpo Celeste – Paola Mendoza
- Poreless – Allison Calhoun
- Casi Septiembre – Aina Callejón Julià
- Pas De Deux – Natalia Melnikova
Best Director
- Cuerpo Celeste – Nayra Ilic García
- Snow Bear – Aaron Blaise
- Casi Septiembre – Lucía G. Romero
- The Quinta’s Ghost – James A. Castillo
Best Documentary Feature
- Khartoum – Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeaa Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox
- Getting Almost Naked – Austin Lee Bun
- Runa Simi – Augusto Zegarra
- MUKUNAN APRENDIZ DE PAJÉ –Rodrigo Sena
Best Editing
- Poreless – Harris Doran
- Cutting Through Rocks – Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki
- Petra And The Sun – Malu Furche
- Terror Night – Jakob Arevärn
Best Narrative Feature
- Ovary-Acting – Ida Melum
- The Square – Kim Bo-Sol
- Beyond Silence – Marnie Blok
- Snow Bear – Aaron Blaise
Best Production Design
- Ovary-Acting – Svein Erik Okstad
- Magic Candies – Sachiko Eba
- The Quinta’s Ghost – James A. Castillo, Pakoto Martinez
- Terror Night – Ian Wilson
Best Sound
- LOUD – Gregor Bonse, Adam Azimov (Sound Designers), Alex Gluch (Composer)
- Terror Night – Nils Viken (Sound Designer), Patrik Öberg (Composer)
- Kyiv Cake – Horret Kuus (Sound Designer), Anton BaiBakov (Composer)
- Magic Candies – Yuji Furuya (Sound Designer), Naoki Sato (Composer)
Best Student Film
- Pas De Deux – Madison Lee Koren
- Kaju Katli – Sujay Khona
- Vicarious – Zachary O’Connor
- Mole, Mole! – Rui-Rung Su
Best Supporting Actor
- Cuerpo Celeste – Nicolás Contreras
- We Are Kings – Mahi Alam
- Bird In Hand – Jeff Nordling
- Dirty Work – Jadon Boeglin
Best Supporting Actress
- Beyond Silence – Tamar van den Dop
- Casi Septiembre – Isabel Rico
- Sit With Me While I Die – Mia Dillon
- Connection – Maggie Gough
Best VA Film
- Bird In Hand – Melody C. Roscher
- In Your Dreams – Nate Henry
- 909 – Hunter Christy
- Vicarious – Zachary O’Connor
Grand Jury Prize
- The Queen’s Flowers – Ciara Leina’ala Lacy
- Cutting Through Rocks – Mohammadreza Eyni & Sara Khaki
- Baby Blues – Helen Komini Knudesn
- Magic Candies – Daisuke Nishio
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