Finalists
Making it to the finals is no small feat. The works listed below have survived multiple rounds of rigorous judging to earn their place here. They display the unique voice and technical excellence that define the future of film. Congratulations to our Winter 2026 Finalists!
| Project Title | Directors/Writers | Country of Origin |
|---|---|---|
| I was within everything | Mida Kagolkina | Spain |
| 2090 Declaration | Jaeyong Choi | Republic of Korea |
| A brave smile. The story of Candy Candy | Yattaa Brusini | Italy |
| A Kaddish for Selim | Jane Wells | United Kingdom |
| Aching Earth | Barry Ferrier | Australia |
| All In My Power | Chandler Clarke | United States |
| Almost Broken | Brian Kurlander, Edwin Dasso | Not Specified |
| Angel’s Tide | Zeph E Daniel | United States |
| Berlin Loop | Emily Manthei | Germany |
| Beyond The Summer Of Love | Michael Duncan | Not Specified |
| Bunnyville | Maria Audrey Samudro | Indonesia, United Kingdom |
| CaSSIS. Mars Demystified. Episode 3. Spiders. | Tatiana Keller | Switzerland |
| Cement People | GARY GREEN | United States |
| Cheers Captain Alma | Michael Thomas Wall | Sweden |
| CLUTCH | Michael Merino | United States |
| Cold Time | Vyacheslav Komarnitsky | Russian Federation |
| Common Law | Kagan Goh | Canada |
| Constant | Danny Ratcliff | United States |
| Dearly Departed | Caleb Nicholas | Not Specified |
| Deva Aaj Pan Vhay | Amol Jalandhar Jadhav | India |
| Diplodocus | Wojtek Wawszczyk | Poland |
| Dojo | Armin Alic | United States |
| Don’t Look Away | Ashley Malcolm Morrison | Australia |
| Dust and Dignity – African Lessons | Carla Zickfeld | Italy |
| Echo Frequency | Lara Köller | Germany |
| El Almuerzo | Denis Paz | Guatemala |
| Fighting Fear | Pascal Funk | Germany |
| Five Nights at Freddy’s: Haunting Hours | Dane Smoot | United States |
| FLASHING BACK | JJ Brent | Not Specified |
| Franisco Letelier: “I Write Your Name” | BROGAN / JULIE T / M DEPAOR / THOMPSON | United States |
| From The Cowboy’s Boot Heel: The Musical Journey of Rob McNurlin | Steven Middleton | United States |
| Fruitless | Henri van Hettinga Voß | Germany |
| Galliard | Michiro Naito | Japan |
| Girl of Peace | Caitlyn Jordan | United States |
| Hello | Paul Ogier | Not Specified |
| HERE LIVED | Jane Wells | United States |
| Home Call | Jeremy O’Hanlon | Ireland |
| How to Lie to Yourself in Three Maybe Four Easy Lessons | Stoney Forde | United States |
| I have laughed again. | ping chen wang | Taiwan |
| I See Dark (Veo Oscuro) | Domingo Pisón | Spain |
| If Not for Farming | Samuel Stacey | United States |
| Illusion of Abundance | Amy MacDonald, Sofia Gorder, Christopher Lee, Alexander Lee | United States |
| Imbroglio | Ian Sciacaluga | United Kingdom |
| In Progress – Bernar Venet’s sculptures | Julia Sandor | France |
| In the Footsteps of Alexander Nevsky | Anna Turchaninova | Russian Federation |
| IRISO | Mitsuo Kurihara | Japan |
| Journey | Damien Osborn | Australia |
| K3+ | Erasmo Acosta | United States |
| KISMET II | Merve Uslu-Ersoy | Turkey |
| La strada segnata | Michele Iovine | Not Specified |
| Legacy | chris williamson | Not Specified |
| Life of Time | Peter Ladkani | Germany |
| Litium | Peter I Östlund | Sweden |
| Lock Her Up | Elizabeth Ann Searle | United States |
| Lucid | Ina Mertesacker | Not Specified |
| Luo Shente | Robert A. Braunstein MD | United States |
| Mancala: Crisis in Bauxite Mining | Obediya Jones-Darrell | Canada |
| Moisture | Duda Gorter | Brazil |
| Not a Love Story | Francesco Massini | Italy |
| Out of State-A Gothic Romance | Victoria Bugbee | United States |
| Portae Infernales | Markus Wimberger | Austria |
| purple crab | jeromy desjarlais | Canada |
| Reality Game | Greg Lyon | Not Specified |
| Reckoning | Armando DuBon Jr. | United States |
| REDEMPTION | Ciril Tscheligi | Germany |
| RESISTERHOOD | Cheryl Jacobs Crim | United States |
| Savings Bonds | Chris San Nicolas | Not Specified |
| Shanghai Palace | heidi Jacobsen | United States |
| SPIRALMIND | Benito F Perez, Jackson J Smith | United States |
| SYVERTSEN’S COMPLEX | Marni Sullivan | Not Specified |
| Team Nuggets – Chicken Impossible | Tor Fruergaard, Michael Hegner | Denmark |
| The Bad Boy of Gospel Experience | Neil Carr | United States |
| The Boots | Ruby Lovell, Jaskaran Bahia | Not Specified |
| The Bulliiball Showdown – Rise to Glory | Manuel Antonio Cantu | United States |
| THE BUMBLEBEES | Music & Lyrics by Zachary Simpson | Produced by Studio Story Monster | United States |
| The Color of the Evening Sky | Linda Kampley | United States |
| The Deserter | Christoph Baumann | Germany |
| The End of the World | Sebastian Pereanu | Romania |
| The Last Ember | Kevin P Ryan | Not Specified |
| The last tupper | Manhal Aziz, Nina Rosser | Spain |
| The Magic Man | Rudolph Rajendra | Not Specified |
| The Mandate – for whom international law matters | Stefan G. Ziegler | Switzerland |
| THE PERFECT PALM | Ayse Altinok | United States |
| The Square Symphony | Etienne Jaxel-Truer | France |
| The veil of silence | Michael Davies | Not Specified |
| TIME | Petra de Nijs | Netherlands |
| Tinker’s Christmas | Sandra Jones Cropsey | United States |
| Trigger | Haris Gioulatos | Greece |
| Turtle | Sara Goworowska | Poland |
| GYRE | Gina Lennox | Not Specified |
| TWO FATES | Kelsey Ann Wacker, Lori Lee Peters | Not Specified |
| Unicorn | Jiaxi LI | Australia |
| Walk With Us | Hannah Westbrook, Kym Franklin, Willa Moore, Darren Crisp | United States |
| WHITE WOLVES – GHOSTS OF THE ARCTIC | Oliver Goetzl | Germany |
| Why Did You Come Back Every Summer | Juli Suàrez | Spain |
| Wilting of the Blood Orchid | Kiresh Bedhesi | South Africa |
| Wof Zerash Coffee | Sylwia Pecio | United Kingdom |
| Yahoo Boy | Wendy J Bednarz | Not Specified |
| Yoga Boy and Karma Cat | Rudolph Rajendra | Not Specified |