Finalists
Reaching the finals is a significant achievement. The works listed below have made it through several stages of demanding evaluation to secure their spot. They showcase distinctive creative voices and a high level of technical skill that point toward the future of filmmaking. Congratulations to our Spring 2026 Finalists!
| Project Title | Directors/Writers | Country of Origin |
|---|---|---|
| A Cambodian winter | Forest wise | United States |
| A Man Lies Here | Stefano Moya | Mexico |
| A Triptych “The Arc of a Narcissist” – Rise – Collapse – Decay | Adam john keith nigel Mitchell | United Kingdom |
| A Triptych – 99 years – Romanticism – Modernism – Realism | Adam john keith nigel mitchell | United Kingdom |
| A Triptych AORTA – Mortality – Trust – Humility | Adam J K N Mitchell | United Kingdom |
| Akashic Spheres | James Scott | United States |
| Ass Whooping | Luis Ayhllón | Mexico |
| ATLAS OF UNCERTAINTY | Massimo Vito Avantaggiato | Italy |
| BALLROOM BOOM | Billy McGrath | Ireland |
| Bat Diary | Silvano Plank | Italy |
| BE(E)ING ALIVE | Vincenzo Notaro | Italy |
| Being Hipp – First Lady of European Jazz | Anna Schmidt | Germany |
| Book…ish | Paul Pirkle | United States |
| Bread | David Alan Templeton | Not Specified |
| Breathe: Honouring Voices of Health | Kaye Tuckerman | United States |
| Common Law | Kagan Goh | Canada |
| CORA (Bleistiftstriche) | Alice Prosser | Austria |
| CRUSH | Van Eesbeek Cedric | Belgium |
| D6 Project: We Are Not Okay | Juliette Storr | Bahamas |
| Dippers in the Altai IV: Emergence of the Chicks | Andrew Laurie | United Kingdom |
| DONDE HABITAN LOS SUEÑOS | Fran Casanova | Spain |
| DYNAMICS | Teo Baehler | Netherlands |
| Embrace of the Carp | Linda Jane Walton | Not Specified |
| EXPLOSION AT BLACK TOM! | JAMES B B SAUNDERS | United States |
| Feel Proud Walk Tall. A Photographer’s Journey | Matt Reed | Australia |
| Gaddni | Dr. Paras Prakash | Not Specified |
| Good Luck My Road | Eiji Nakamura | Japan |
| Green Falcons | Patricio O’Donnell | Not Specified |
| Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear | Paul Taublieb | United States |
| Guardians of the Rainforest | Marianna Beltrami, Lia Beltrami | Italy |
| Gudrid the Fair | Luca Centoni | United States |
| Happiness | JoanGil Marti | Spain |
| Havenfall | Andy Dodd, Andrew Bell, Julian Gamm | United Kingdom |
| Heart Wide Open | Lauren Luxenberg | Not Specified |
| Heroes Among Us: Kid Electric | Anthony Jones | United States |
| HIT ME TV Pilot | Alexander John Brown | Not Specified |
| Hugging my ADHD | Andrea Lira Sanmiguel | Canada |
| Hunting Secrets of the Tropical Whale | Drew Kelly | Australia |
| Husky Toni – Go Ahead | Ulrich Grimm | Austria |
| I come from the fog（I am from the mist） | Zhan Xiao | China |
| I love you | Ko Han Hsu | Taiwan |
| I See Dark (Veo Oscuro) | Domingo Pisón | Spain |
| If Pigs Could Talk | Miki Mistrati | Germany |
| Ima | ricardo souza | Brazil |
| Interference | Ian John Dixon | Australia |
| Jaye Lakhay | Sanyukta Shrestha | Nepal |
| Just Another Day | Therese Jamora Jamora-Garceau | Not Specified |
| Kill me softly | Rodrigo Brand | Not Specified |
| LA TRANSFORMATION | Jonathan Mourava | France |
| Land of the Mustaches | Leon Joosen | United States |
| Landry | Eric Gerard Sollars, Michael David Sollars, Geoffrey Durand Sollars | Not Specified |
| Last Year | Reginald Butler | Not Specified |
| Lemon | Beth Curry | United States |
| LOST PAGES OF WAR | Maik Giessler | Germany |
| Lucky Phil | Christopher Swider | United States |
| Lupae | Edris Caige | Not Specified |
| Machanic Manyeruke: The Life of Zimbabwe’s Gospel Music Legend | James Ault | United States |
| MAN | Salvador Garza | Mexico |
| MORGAN WOOD “EVERYTHING ALWAYS HAPPENS SO MUCH” | Richard Gonzales | United States |
| MUOSSAIEF RED – BLOOD DIAMONDS | Roberta Mormando | Italy |
| Mysterious Pond | Gudni Halldor Gudnason | Japan |
| Nadia | Kinan Kotrash | United States |
| Nafkot – Yearning | Malka Shabtay | Israel |
| Noise & Neighbours | Liza Ludick | South Africa |
| Norseman – Human Endurance | Christer Klubb Fasmer | Norway |
| Obsession | Karl Jonatan Karits | Estonia |
| ORPHAN | Ignacio Bárcena Martín | Not Specified |
| Phoenix Incident – Festival Cut | Keith Arem | United States |
| Pioneer of Love | Amber Yanguo Hou | United States |
| Pisces Knockout | Misha Ghose | Not Specified |
| Plainspoken | Andrew Greer | United States |
| PROJECT LACUNA | Amit Kumar | Not Specified |
| Psalms | Benjamin Till | United Kingdom |
| RAIN | Mark Limburg | Canada, Netherlands |
| Remember me, remember love | FUNG HO | Hong Kong |
| Remember This Voice | Jeff Chan | United States |
| REVERENCE | Charles Evans, Jr | United States |
| REZ | Listening Raven | United States |
| Right in the Sight of God | Terrence Ward | United States |
| Rose Red | Austin Dru Turmel | United States |
| Same Same But Different | Craig Craig Brown | United Kingdom |
| Searching for Shadow | Marie Smalley | Not Specified |
| Sludge (The Water Barons’ Show) – Synth Farmers | GRANT HUNTER | United Kingdom |
| Song of Goats | Andrzej Jakimowski | Poland |
| Soon To Be Man | Mark Tachna | Not Specified |
| Spot. Less. Love. | Christoph Scheermann | Germany |
| Spy VS. Spy | Mohammad Safwan Fayez Moubaydeen | Not Specified |
| Standby | Christopher Christopher Shank | Not Specified |
| Stay With Me | Irina Masinovsky | United States |
| SUGARBABES | Camilla Anna Fink | Sweden |
| Temple Crimes | Ian John Dixon | Australia, Singapore |
| The animal that therefore I am | Bea de Visser | Netherlands |
| THE BLACK SPIDER | Markus Fischer | Switzerland |
| THE CITY OF GOD BENEATH THE RIVER | Edmund Tetteh Agorhom | Ghana |
| The Color of the Evening Sky | Linda Linda Kampley | United States |
| THE DIENER | Jason Eaton | United Kingdom |
| The Echo of the Herd | Rüdiger Heim | Germany |
| The Family from No. 1,154 | Christian Bernard | Brazil |
| The Game of Tao | Esther Pardijs | Netherlands |
| The Hall of Forgotten Dreams | Asia Charice Schmidt | Not Specified |
| The Joy of Curiosity | Kum-Kum Bhavnani | United States |
| The Knowing | Tyrel Reuben Lyngdoh | India |
| The last day of my left breast | Stefania Gallo | Not Specified |
| The Last Drop! | Rajeev Thakur | India |
| The Last Street | Kevin P Ryan | Not Specified |
| The Little Things That Moves The World | Dimitrios Sakkas | Greece |
| THE PROMISE OF PISA | Norbert ter Hall | Netherlands |
| The Revenge Club | Marla Naomi Eaton | Not Specified |
| The Secret Notes | Joni Ravenna, Joshua Townshend-Zellner, Kabin Thomas | Not Specified |
| THE SHADOW VERSE | Anna Blackblum Vasconcelos | Not Specified |
| The Silence of the World | Angelo Vapellari, Nicolas Pastergue | France |
| The Support Sake Tour | Christopher Leyva, Raechel Kadoya | United States |
| The True Story of Amerigo Bertolazzi | Giacomo Beschi | Italy |
| The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home | Mark S Weiner, David Ritsher | United States |
| The Writer | Austin Glasser, Luke Madenwald | United States |
| THE YOUTUBER | JOSHUA MESZAROS | Ireland |
| Tides of Tradition | Nina Van Belzen | Netherlands |
| Too Much Honey | Samuel Wilkinson | United Kingdom |
| Uncle Joey | Maria Anne Felicetti | Not Specified |
| Victor | Aaron Huckleberry | United Kingdom |
| WAR BEAR | David Meigh, Jose Almeida | Brazil, United Kingdom |
| WATERBUS | Silvia Busacca | Italy |
| We are Greenland: Football is Freedom | Søren Høy | Denmark, Greenland |
| What I am worth | Yann JEANNOTIN | France |
| What Lies Between | James J Cleary | New Zealand |
| White Wash at Ninety | Marko Nabersnik | Slovenia |
| Wicked Women and Their Men | Merrill Anway Jones | Not Specified |
| Windy | Adam Edward Sherman | Not Specified |
| WingMan | Harland Williams | Canada |