Honorable Mentions: August 2026

Best Drama Short: 52 Hertz by Mim Qaaf (Iran)

Best Documentary Short: The Digital Loom: When Algorithms Price The Yarn by Yiting Yu (China)

Best Comedy Short: Players by Vanessa Every-Burns and Maty Young (Australia)

Best Dark Comedy Short: HoleyHole by Flo Bender (UK)

Best Thriller Short: Valley Magenta by Dominic Ryan Gabriel (USA)

Best Animation Short: The Fractured by Niko Kumberger and Nhu “Ted” Nguyen (Australia)

Best Women Short: Actually, We Were Revolutionaries by Vera Zoricic (Canada)

Best LGBTQ Short: The Grass Is Stone by Timothy Bellavia (USA)

Best Experimental Short: 1000 O by Barbara Peikert (Switzerland)

Best Microfilm: Afterimage by Shigenobu Sanda (China)

Best Music Video: Tokio Monochrome by Dahrell Williams (Japan)

Best Mobile Short: Fetish in E(x)ile by Dom of Pigland (Bulgaria)

Best Student Female Director: Flo Bender for HoleyHole (UK)

Best First Time Male Director: Ariel Turobiner for Orion (USA)

Best Acting Duo: Lea Denim and Jack Thomas Dickson for Orion (USA)

Best Editing: Carson Crow for Robin Cecilia Wheat (USA)

Best Production Design: Antoinette Michela for Orion (USA)

Best Original Score: Chris Campbell and Ryan Rapsys for K9 Goose Control (USA)

Best Short Script: Recover by Lora Renee Meadows (USA)

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