Winners August 2026

BEST PICTURE
Human Signal (China)
Dir: Wei Chen

BEST FEATURE FILM
Uninvited (USA)
Dir: Ethan Miller

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Human Signal (China)
Dir: Wei Chen

BEST SHORT FILM
Earthbound (Brazil)
Dir: Rafael Silva

BEST FOREIGN SHORT
The Day We Lost  (Poland)
Dir: Tomasz Kowalski

BEST DRAMA SHORT
Unforgivable (UK)
Dir: Jem Chevillotte

BEST ANIMATION SHORT
Her Own Hand
Dir: Zhuofan Li

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Call Of The Marsh (UK)
Dir: Robert Kroger

BEST STUDENT FILM
Before We Go Home (China)
Dir: Yuxuan Wang

BEST COMEDY/DRAMEDY SHORT STUDENT
Do Androids Dream of Affairs? (South Korea)
Dir: Kim Junseok

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FEATURE
Sparrow
by Jane Smith

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SHORT
MASTERMIND
by Marion H von Loewenstern, Wil Peterson

BEST DIRECTOR SHORT
Yuanwen Lu
‘Paradox’

BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Mark Harris
‘The Fallout’

BEST ACTRESS
Nathalie Didion
‘Unforgivable’

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mozi Liu
‘Mist Me