Nominees 2026
Congratulations once again to all Nominees!
Award Winners will be selected from the following Nominees and announced during the live event (on 6 -7 th of February 2026) in Barcelona.
| Project Title | Directors/ Writers | Country of Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Ed and Alfie | Shelly J Hong | Canada |
| Fillers | Adam Ethan Crow | Not Specified |
| Many Die Too Late | Julian Bonnin | Portugal |
| Moisture | Duda Gorter | Brazil |
| Pinocchio and the Water of Life | Victor V Luckysov | Spain, United States |
| RED DOT | GYUMIN KIM | South Korea |
| Spice Frontier: Escape from Veltegar | Jalil Sadool | United States |
| The Answering Machine | Jose Cortes | Germany |
| Ticket | Marcus P Liversedge | United Kingdom |
| Under My Skin | Jonas Larson, Caleb Marks | United States |
| VIRAHA | Andrea de Santis | Italy |
| Watchman | Yuşa Ebrar Dursunoğlu | Turkey |
| THE SUMMER OF LOVE | Fraser Kershaw | United States |
| 'Saturday Girl' | CLARE B. PERRY | United Kingdom |
| "Boreal Twilight" | Kristopher Carter | United States |
| "Historias Invisibles" | Guillermo F Navarro | Argentina |
| "The Beginning" | Cris Ruiz | Canada |
| “One Stupid Thing” | Linda Yellen | United States |
| [b]REACH | Rachel Hendrix | United States |
| 2 MILLION BRO | Thitia Marquez | France |
| 4 friends | Franciszek Kizinski | France |
| 60 Dates in Six Months (with a Broken Neck) | Maureen Anne Meehan | Not Specified |
| 90 Days in Europe | Sam Stevens | United States |
| A Day Like Tonight | Patricia Allison, Philipp Walsch | United Kingdom |
| A KNIFE IN THE MOONLIGHT | Manoj Koloth | India |
| A Love Supreme | Walt Alexander | Not Specified |
| A Minute of Silence | Harris W Freedman | United Kingdom |
| A STORY OF WRATH | Theo Leipert | Not Specified |
| Abuelo, ¿te acuerdas cuando mozuelo? | Mario Eneas Salguero | Spain |
| Adrift on the Amazon | Pol Ribera Guardia | Spain |
| AIDS REVOLUTION | FREDERIC CHAUDIER | France |
| Alfarida | Yasser Mohamed Abdelsalam | Saudi Arabia |
| Alina's voice | Ilaria Braccialini, Federica Oriente | Italy |
| All In My Power | Chandler Clarke | United States |
| All My Loved Ones | Kasia Prus | Poland |
| All The Way To The Endless | Liang Shi | China |
| Altrove - Elsewhere | Ettore zito | Italy |
| America's Radical Women: Forgotten Voices of History | E. Philip Brown | United States |
| American Spirit | Pink Jagg | Austin Spacy | United States |
| ANGELS DESIRED | Lukas Scheja | Germany |
| Animalz - Part One | Simone Bocchino, Luca Ontino | Italy |
| Another German Tank Story | Jannis Alexander Kiefer | Germany |
| April X | Michel K Parandi | United States |
| Arctic Odyssey | Evangelos Rassias | Greece |
| Art of Abandonment | Daria Podsiadlo, Edward Till | Spain |
| Asparagus Dead, Cherries Red | Nina Moog, Elisabeth Wilke | Germany |
| Assalti Frontali - A Tale of Resistance | Paolo Fazzini, Francesco Principini | Italy |
| ATTACK OF THE COAT | Lola-Rose Maxwell | United Kingdom |
| Avalon | Whiteman Whiteman | United Kingdom |
| Badger! | Barry Wilkinson | United Kingdom |
| Baka, The Wisdom Of The Forest | Rui Diogo, Denis Ndeloh, Muleng Timngun | Cameroon, Portugal, United States, United States |
| BATU: Historical Detective | Rachid Nougmanov | Kazakhstan |
| Because of Freddy | Tue Skals | Denmark |
| Before You Leave | Louise Thomas | United Kingdom |
| Being A Woman | Abbey Devoy | United Kingdom |
| Benita the Invincible | Terry Lynam | Not Specified |
| BENVINDA | Miguel Sales Lopes | Portugal |
| Between The Lines | Kaila York | Not Specified |
| Beyond The Horizon | James Peter Rowat | United Kingdom |
| Bitter Coffee | Sergio Pazos Conde | Not Specified |
| Blooming Paradiso | Song Roa | Republic of Korea |
| BLUE NOTES & HIGHER GROUNDS | Erik de Bruyn | Netherlands |
| BROKEN | Angelo Donzella | Italy |
| Brón | Catherine Mangan Williams | Ireland |
| Burnt Toast Theory | Ioanna Giannakopoulou | Greece |
| Cabrales | Sergio Morcillo | Spain |
| CALLIGRAPHER - TO DIE BEFORE DYING | Denizhan Ayar, Ahmet Serhat Ak | Turkey |
| Cast Aside the Clouds | Mary Darling | Canada |
| cemento | davide sozzi, Julian David Moccia | Italy |
| Clearing | Magdalena Ewa Pieta | Poland |
| Closing Act | Mariane G Rech | Brazil, United States |
| Coexistence | Anne-Sophie Mouraud, Lucie Francini | France |
| Collage | Marius Conrotto | Spain |
| Come As You Are | Xiaolin Mai | United States |
| COME BACK | IRINA VELEZ CRESPO, David GELAY, Mostafa BELBACHA | Belgium |
| Come Sit With Us | Elis Rumma | Estonia |
| Covid !9 | Liz Tobin | United Kingdom |
| Cross My Heart and Hope To Die | Sam Manacsa | Philippines |
| Cú Nhảy - The Jump | Leo Kei Angelos | Vietnam |
| Cuba es Mi Patria: The Homeland I Keep Inside | Rose Marie Perez | United States |
| Cupere | Roberta riontino | Netherlands |
| Curious (The Story of Pie) | JEONG JIN KIM | Not Specified |
| D6 Project: We Are Not Okay | Juliette Storr | Bahamas |
| DISORDER | JOSHUA MESZAROS | Ireland |
| Donkeyland | Bahar Pars | Sweden |
| Downpour | Robert Gómez | Spain |
| Drained | Marina Zvidriņa | Spain |
| Dream Man | Harald Takke, Steven Takke | Germany |
| DUE DATING | Daniel Pacquette | United Kingdom |
| Due...l | Marco Mondello | Not Specified |
| EDGE | Abel Moreno Pradas | Spain |
| Echo of Drums and... | Roland William Oliver | United Kingdom |
| Echoes of the Past ... | Tim S. Lott | United States |
| Echoes of water | Nicolas Lancelin | France |
| El Susurro Del Amazonas (The Whisper of The Amazon) | Jose Chica | Colombia |
| Empathy | Irina Cheremisova | Spain |
| EQUÁNIME Atolladero | Jorge Barbosa Flores, Juan Antonio Barbosa Flores | Spain |
| Eremos Trilogy | Sam Arnold | United Kingdom |
| Even Emptiness Has a Shape | Chris Thinn | Canada |
| FEDERICO FAGGIN - THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE | Marcello Foa | Italy |
| Field of Freedom | Cristina Principe | Italy |
| Fighting Fear | Pascal Funk | Germany |
| First and Last | Łukasz Krzemiński | Not Specified |
| Forever | Karim Kari | France |
| Forgive Me, Father | philip halmarack | United Kingdom |
| Forgotten Flavors | Kimberly Calvert | United States |
| From Heights to Horizons | Ana Castro | Portugal |
| Funcut | Mario Gaćina | Croatia |
| Gan Canny | Lou Burns, Aaron Burns | United Kingdom |
| Gators | Linda Kampley | Not Specified |
| GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA & THE TRIAL OF FIRE | Giampietro Manzalini | Italy |
| God & Country | Arnav Agarwal | United Kingdom |
| Gökotta | Kay Oceans | Spain |
| Goodbye, My Wonderful World | Joo Joostberens | Poland |
| Gum | Belal Albader | Saudi Arabia |
| Gunner | Dimitri Logothetis | United States |
| HANDIBROKEN FANTOMS (LOL) | Rahma Sophia RACHDI | France |
| Happiness | JoanGil Marti | Spain |
| Heart of Stone | Greta Liht | Estonia |
| Hippopotami | JJ Lin | China, Hong Kong |
| Hollywood Actor Jobs Infomercial | Phillip Eugene Walker | United States |
| Home - Between the Swiss Alps and the Ukrainian War Zone | Nath Holzer | Switzerland |
| HOME: The Story of Zak Moradi | Trevor Whelan | Ireland |
| Hometime | Jonathan Lambert | Ireland |
| Horizon | Analog Mirage | France |
| Chasing Snow Dreams | Xiaojuan Miao | China |
| Child of Dawn | Leslie A Lee | Not Specified |
| Chinese Whispers | Deborah Hadfield | United Kingdom |
| Chiquito | Lesley Marroquin, Anna Riva | Brazil, United States |
| Christina’s Pen Pal | Candice Candice | United States |
| I KNOW YOU | Laura Angiulli | Italy |
| I know you won't disappear | Maria Wróż-Prusiewicz | Poland |
| Ida Rolf - Mother of Fascia | Aleš Urbanczik | Switzerland |
| Ikea loves wood - sustainability or deceit? | Tom Heinemann | Denmark |
| Il Regalo "The Gift" | Loris Mazzeo | Switzerland |
| Imbalanced Love | Yiping Gu | China |
| ImmiGreat | Brandon Cole Widener | United States |
| Impact - The Story of Oshane Drews | Sebastian Thomas Brune | Germany |
| In a Station of the Metro | Shelagh Carter | Canada |
| In an Impasse | Navid Ghiasi | Islamic Republic of Iran |
| In The Shadow | Emma Penelope Lyndon-Stanford, Steve Graham | United Kingdom |
| Inflicting Good | Ksenia Khamatova | Latvia |
| Into the Light of Day | David David | Spain |
| Io Corro - journey into the art of Luca Bray | Barbara Zonzin | Italy |
| IRBIS: A Shared Future | Alberto Tarroni | Italy |
| Is It Still Me | Joanna Arida | Not Specified |
| It's Not You | Tanner Haney | Not Specified |
| It's only the little death | Dmitriy Sagan | Germany |
| Jack Brian | Marc Pedrals Prat | Spain |
| Jazz On A Wave | Robert Merz | Not Specified |
| Joy O' Dance | Dawn Feather | United Kingdom |
| JUST 5 MINUTES | MAXWELL WANG | China, United States, United States |
| Kanto | Ensar Altay | Turkey |
| Kick Rocks | Peter Herlan | Not Specified |
| Killer Kate! | Elliot Feld | United States |
| KOPLEVA | Theo Leipert | Not Specified |
| La Melodía del Fuego | Mario Eneas Salguero | Spain |
| La Quête | Jean-Baptiste BAGARIA | France |
| La ragazza d'argento (The Silver Girl) | Alex Scarpa, Margherita Giusti Hazon | Italy |
| La Signora del mare | Roberto Leone | Italy |
| La vida es otra cosa | Claudio Del Punta | Italy |
| Lakefield | Caden Pearson | Australia |
| Lately, Lorca / Últimamente, Lorca | Waref Abu Quba, Rachel Donaldson Clarke | Germany |
| Letters Of Love | Johan Wickholm | Gibraltar |
| LIBERTAIRE 2023 | Elizabeth Indianos | United States |
| Little Piece of Sugar | Clément Armand | France |
| Living With Grandma | Finise Avery | United States |
| Lluc, una crónica de la pastelería | Jordi Torra | Spain |
| LOVE EXPERIMENTS | Andry Platrites | Not Specified |
| LOVE HAS NO BORDERS | David McClendon | United States |
| Love Lost | Pablo Saura | Portugal, United Kingdom |
| Love Of An Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee | Delvene Delaney, Victoria Baldock | Australia |
| LYNCH | Peter Herlan | Not Specified |
| Marta, Aisha, and the Volcano | Alexandre Peralta | Spain |
| Masinga The Calling | Mark Anthony Engels | South Africa |
| MAX SIERRA | Nacho Martin | Spain |
| Mektoub (Fate) | Karim Berkani | Not Specified |
| Miorita. From the Beginning. | CALIN COMAN | Romania |
| MissFit | Sonia J Arora | Singapore |
| Moder | Tara Salas | Denmark |
| Moth | Daria Milyukhina | United Kingdom |
| My name is Renée | Renée Urgert | Italy |
| Mysterious Pond | Gudni Halldor Gudnason | Japan |
| Narrow House “No compromises” | Alessio Fantinato | Italy |
| Neighbors | Matteo Novellino | Italy |
| No Names | Artemis Adamantopoulou | United Kingdom |
| No Reply | Samer Singh Dawar | United Kingdom |
| No Strings | Molly Lipson | United Kingdom |
| On Weary Wings Go By | Anu-Laura Tuttelberg | Estonia, Lithuania |
| One Mad Apple | Laurie Asbourne, Tom Pratt | Not Specified |
| Open Call | Sille Storihle | Norway |
| OTHER TIMES | XAVIER GUÀRDIA | Spain |
| PARIVARA - The Last Families | Joe Scappaticcio | Italy |
| Party Pants | Trinette Faint, Jennifer Cuciti | United States |
| PARUT | Mohd Hisham Saleh | Malaysia |
| Pet Project | Rachel Elizabeth Samuel | Not Specified |
| Pit Bus | Helen Gascoyne | United Kingdom |
| Portrait of a Seaweed Farmer: Ana Borrero, PhD | Jeff Siebert | United States |
| PRECURSOR | Steve Brown | Not Specified |
| Primera persona | Daniel Peralta | Chile |
| Promet...ti amo - My Wow in Blue | Fabio Izzo | Italy |
| RARE: A Rare Disease Revolution | John Beder, Lainey Moseley | United States |
| Rebel Riders | Leonie Watkins | Not Specified |
| Reborn In Love | Shuo Zhao | China |
| REFLECTIONS | Mery Rose Franco | Spain |
| REFUGIUM | Valerio Vittorio Garaffa | Italy |
| RETURNEE | PRISCA OGOUMA | France |
| REVERSE | Pedro García de Viedma | Spain |
| Ricardo Fuentes of Chavez Ravine | J. E. Robinson | Not Specified |
| Saeed's Day | Mohammed Al Zawari | Saudi Arabia |
| Santa Zeta | Antonio Munoz de Mesa | Spain |
| Scarred Face | Alexandra Pettitt | United Kingdom |
| Seeds of Sovereignty | Stuart J Tanner | United States |
| SELFIE | Adriano Spadaro | Italy |
| Seven | Pablo Zubieta | Australia |
| She Ella | Clément Clareton, Eva Schumacher | France, Mexico, Netherlands |
| SHENESS | Manuraj Dubey | India |
| school _ home | Luís Araújo | Portugal |
| Sing Me a Song | Ruben Van Leer | Netherlands |
| Skin of Sadness | Hasan Ege Çalışkan | Netherlands, Turkey |
| Sleep | Nicolas Heinzel | Germany |
| Sofia | Ramón Naranjo Carrillo | Mexico |
| SOFT LOVE | Holmes Okechukwu Awa | Nigeria |
| Spare! | Jules Cales, Balthazar Ullmann | France |
| Spectacle | Shantelle-Ellysé English | United Kingdom |
| Steely Lovers | Jong koo CHOI | Republic of Korea |
| Sterile | João Pais da Silva | Portugal |
| SUNFLOWERS WITHOUT DECAY | Boris Eldagsen | Germany |
| Swallowtail and Dragonfly | Julia Pierrepont | United States |
| Switched Parallel World | Zabaldu Naraé | France |
| Syntax Error | Worathiti Manosroi | Germany |
| SYVERTSEN'S COMPLEX | Marni Sullivan | Not Specified |
| Tale of a Memory | Enrique Fivaller | Spain |
| TALES FROM THE BRIDGE: The Misfit | BOA CAMPBELL | Japan |
| The Air Between Us | Newton Mayenge | United States |
| The Bus Ride. | Janet Law | Not Specified |
| The Clearing Eliza | Michael Losonczy | Not Specified |
| The Color Of Exile | AZLARABE ALAOUI | Côte d'Ivoire, France, Morocco |
| The Colors of White | Nil Pagès Xuclà, Martí Colomer Morera | Spain |
| The Date | Nicola Fierro | Italy |
| The Deserter | Christoph Baumann | Germany |
| The Doll Keeper | Diane F Sismour | Not Specified |
| The Encarne Trilogy | SI Reasoning | United States |
| The Film is Lost | Anastasia Norenko | Russian Federation |
| The Forgiven | Burak Kablan | Turkey |
| The Ghost of Di An [Zee Ahn] | Taylor Hunt | Not Specified |
| The Gift of a Second Wind | Laurent Etchamendy | France |
| The Greens at Palm Scheme | Paul M Bourassa | Not Specified |
| The Haunting at Jack the Ripper's House | Natasha Tosini, Stephen Staley | United Kingdom |
| The Hermit | Salvatore Sclafani | Australia, United States |
| The Hole | Daniel Gómez Múgica | Spain |
| The Image of You | Jeff Fisher | United States |
| The Joy of Curiosity | Kum-Kum Bhavnani | United States |
| The Keyboard | Mohammed Mamdouh | United Arab Emirates |
| The King's Slayer | Djamel Bennecib | France |
| The Last Atlantis | Chih Hao Shen | Taiwan |
| The Last Cossack | Ronald McQueen | United Kingdom |
| The last forest | Rabia Rahou | Algeria, Canada |
| The last tupper | Manhal Aziz, Nina Rosser | Spain |
| The Little Ring | Chakme Rinpoche | China |
| The Long Run | Georgina Helen Zaldua | Not Specified |
| The lost Years of the turtles | Verónica Contreras Jasir | Mexico |
| The marriage | Lukas Lotti | France |
| The Medicine | Sarah Dienaar | Netherlands |
| The Mists | Barbara De+la+Cuesta | Not Specified |
| The Mystic | Michael Rutkowski | United States |
| The Oldest | Cathlin McCullough | United States |
| The other Julie | Charlotte Woolfe | Luxembourg |
| The Prop Master's Dream | April Liu | Canada |
| The Reminder | Filipa Martins | Portugal |
| The Return | BOHDAN DONALD TANASIJCZUK | Canada |
| The Righteous Road Trip | Vanessa Roth | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Road to Nowhere | Amadeusz Kocan | Poland |
| The Sanguine | Patrick McNerney, Daniel Jones | United States |
| The Scytheman Cometh | Paul May | Not Specified |
| The Search for the Cheeseman | Matthew Aird | United States |
| The Second Diary of Paulina P. | Neven Hitrec | Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia |
| The Shelter | César Terradas | Not Specified |
| THE STARS THEY WHISPER IN MY EAR | Ayu Rahman | Australia |
| THE SWING | joe graham | United Kingdom |
| The Tourist | Peter Zerzan | United States |
| The Trace of the Mud | Rodrigo Marquez | Spain |
| The Tree With No Heart | Aaron Huckleberry | Not Specified |
| The Voice | Luca Grimaldi | Italy |
| Themis is Tired | Ilya Demutsky | France |
| This Life and the Other | Luis Rojas | Colombia |
| Time Between Us | Isabella Campbell | United Kingdom |
| To See You (is to love you): Novak variations | John Gibbs | United Kingdom |
| Together for Water | Eriberto Gualinga | Ecuador |
| TOMMASA | Julie Casamonti | France |
| TRANSUMANZA | Giovanni Bertoia | Italy |
| Trucco and Parrucco | Martín De León | Argentina, Italy |
| Tumaini Festival | Rupert Poeschl | Germany |
| Turtle Walker | Taira Malaney | India |
| TWO FATES | Kelsey Ann Wacker, Lori Lee Peters | Not Specified |
| un deux trois | Brooke Dooley | United States |
| Unspoken | Piotr J. Lewandowski | Germany |
| VAIVEN | Anna Soler Cepriá | Mexico |
| Ventura | Juan Andrés Cermeño Salas | Spain |
| Vessel of Rain | Yasushi Fuluichi | Japan |
| Waiting for the Man | Gerard Lambkin | Australia |
| Waking Up, Waking In - A Leap Of Faith | Rejane dEspirac, Barbara Alves | Portugal |
| Warlord | Stuart Brennan | United Kingdom |
| When we cycle | Arne Guelen, Gertjan Hulster | Netherlands |
| Where Leo Went | Yalin Solmaz | United Kingdom |
| Whins | Eimear Fearon | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Wicked Women and Their Men | Merrill Anway Jones | Not Specified |
| Xian’er (Chinese Immortals) | Fang Zhou | China |
| Yalla Parkour | Areeb Zuaiter | Palestine, State of, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden |
| Yes We Sail | Nicholas Simon Tolladay | Spain |
| You Gotta Be Kidding | Tamami Kusaka | Japan |