RESULTS ANNOUNCED
THE 2026 WINNERS AND HONOURABLE MENTIONS ARE IN
Eighteen winners and twenty honourable mentions across eighteen categories.
The 2026 selection is complete. Every title below is both a nominee and a finalist in its category. The winners were announced at the festival and are listed on the 2026 winners page.
78 films and scripts were selected, carrying 80 nominations between them. Congratulations to every filmmaker and writer listed here, and thank you to everyone who submitted.
BEST FEATURE FILM
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Invincible
United Kingdom · 109 min
Emma Croft
Mags and Julie Go On A Road Trip
United States · 127 min
Ryann Liebl
Songs for My Son
Japan · 144 min
Masahiro Wada
Spades
United States · 116 min
Johnny Yong Bosch
The Night and Gail
United States · 90 min
Benjamin Justin Ehnert
BEST TV PILOT / WEB SERIES
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Burger Dude: Pilot (The Burginning)
United Kingdom · 15 min
Jackson Chaddock
Murder For Dummies (Episode 01: Victim)
United Kingdom · 23 min
J.W. Roberts
BEST SHORT FILM
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Galar
Ireland · 25 min
Niall Duffy
Largo
United Kingdom · 19 min
Rachid Sabitri, Charles Meunier
Petrol Head
United Kingdom · 15 min
Patrick Swain, Jasper Frost
Salem Not Salem
Bahrain · 28 min
Omar Farooq
The Liars of Black Mountain Road
United States · 12 min
Parker Croft
BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Brown Sheep
United Kingdom · 13 min
Konna Thomson
Just A Wish Away
United Kingdom · 16 min
Stephen Peers
The Missing Part
Netherlands · 12 min
Marv Hathim
The Village It Took
United States · 15 min
Victoria Wilcox
To The End
United States · 14 min
Ruiying Sun
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
1000 O
Switzerland · 7 min
Barbara Peikert
An Alternate Pond
United States · 10 min
C Thomas Lewis
Prayer of the Sea
Germany · 6 min
Martin Gerigk
Substance of Venom
United States · 9 min
Cherie Sampson
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
8 seconds
France · 79 min
Jean-Marie Vinclair
Going Long
Italy · 82 min
Vasilii Mozzhukhin
I Am Gitxsan
Canada · 64 min
Hossein Martin Fazeli
Penalty
Mexico · 40 min
Ivan Francisco Barrera
Rave Culture - a new era -
Spain · 87 min
Eduardo Cubillo Blasco
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Alone Across Gola
United Kingdom · 20 min
Jude Kriwald
Grappling Grace
United Kingdom · 20 min
Alexander Kiehl, Misha Novak
The Land We Fight For
Estonia · 39 min
Dimitri Nasennik
The Last Impression
Germany, Switzerland · 30 min
Milan Büttner
BEST ANIMATION
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Ema Leland
Japan · 30 min
Yu Numata
Finnick
United Arab Emirates · 90 min
Denis Chernov
BEST SHORT ANIMATION
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Hell
United States · 5 min
Parker Croft
Puny Humans
United Kingdom · 4 min
Samuel Joseph Williams, Timothy James Williams
The Intention Invention
United States · 5 min
R.J. Sullivan
Underneath
Australia · 2 min
Matthew James Bissett-Johnson
Wake Up Call
United States · 4 min
Kai Movagh, David Woulard
BEST STUDENT ANIMATION
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NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Doomsday 2000
Australia · 2 min
Harrisen Lysaght
Internal Embers
United States · 5 min
Alec Tufenkjian
Salt & Pepper
India · 4 min
Gunjan Dere
Tesseract
Canada · 7 min
Gracie Safranovich
The Big Bad Wolf
United Kingdom · 5 min
Leo William Wright
BEST AI GENERATED FILM
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Chairman
South Korea · 6 min
Studio 011
Gentle
United States · 4 min
Alex Naghavi
Growing Inwards
China · 3 min
Shuhan Liao, Xiangrong Wen, Anping Zuo
Inside the Maze
3 min
Arthur Mikheev
The last Track
Venezuela · 1 min
Oscar Sanchez
The Threshold
Poland · 8 min
Jacek Kadaj
BEST MUSIC / PERFORMANCE VIDEO
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Heart Failed
Germany · 4 min
Diana Näcke
Marionette (Ava Della Pietra - official music video)
3 min
Nathan Levine-Heaney
Single for Life (Ava Della Pietra - official music video)
4 min
Luke Orlando
Sky-Sky
Ukraine · 3 min
Ilya Noyabrev
Strolling Down Brighton Pier
United Kingdom · 5 min
Zach Stevens
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
How Do You Know?
Debra Gussin
Orage (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
10 min
Jordan Paul Rousseau
Red Balloon
4 min
Renzo Djordan
Starz
4 min
Bryan Huynh
BEST ONE MINUTE FILM
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Grown Up
United Kingdom · 1 min
Louis Leivers
Shut your trap!
Mexico · 1 min
Luis Ramos
The last Track
Venezuela · 1 min
Oscar Sanchez
Xmas Box
United Kingdom · 1 min
Adriana Mourelle
BEST FIRST TIME FILMMAKER
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Domestic
United Kingdom · 13 min
Jake Spence Barnes
Gentle
United States · 4 min
Alex Naghavi
Gourmanium
United Kingdom · 14 min
Benjamin Sitton
Push The Machine
Australia, France, United Kingdom · 14 min
Max Ward
BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Collector of Sounds
90 Pages
Rupert Miles
The Archangel Of Colorado
91 Pages
Matty Mahoney
The Farm
113 Pages
Craig Urquhart
The Headmaster
92 Pages
Felix McEnroy
Vigilante (2026)
100 Pages
Luke Hanlon
BEST SHORT SCRIPT
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
East London Western
20 Pages
George Cameron Gifkins
Lab Partners
United States · 16 Pages
Tommy Britt
Say It With Music
12 Pages
Christopher James Culberson
The Cart of Absence and the Apple Tree
14 Pages
Ozjan M Yeshar
The Visionaries
20 Pages
Simon Jones, Kaylee Nicholas
STAFFORDSHIRE FILMMAKER
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT THE FESTIVAL
NOMINEES AND FINALISTS
Party Games
United Kingdom · 15 min
Alfie Beard
Philip Hardaker: Sculptured to Speak
United Kingdom · 10 min
Henry John Sedgley
Safety Net
United Kingdom · 15 min
Alfie Beard
Statue in the Garden
United Kingdom · 8 min
Qianhui Yu
The Last Call
United Kingdom · 16 min
Bailey Mowatt