Official Results
Semi-Finalists Summer 2026
Every season, our jury shortlists the works that rose above the field. Congratulations to the semi-finalist projects of Summer 2026, each one a step closer to the podium.
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| Project Title | Writers/Directors | Country of Origin |
|---|---|---|
| 1944 - Fredrik + Johan | Kayla Mckenzie Moore | Denmark |
| A Burden to Bare | Jorge Orellana | Canada |
| A Chateau Too Far | Justin Lloyd-Williams | |
| A Date With Destiny | Caroline McNamara | United States |
| A DILO | Shein Mezour | Australia |
| A Journey Around Yourself | Małgorzata Frymus | Poland |
| A Spoonful of Gunpowder | Jackie Hovorka | |
| Amazônia Xamã BR | Rodrigo Rodrigo Pedroza Pedroza | Brazil |
| Americana | Dale Wolf | |
| An Ancient Evil | Roger Williams | United Kingdom |
| An Angel’s Diary | Hiu Ying Alesia Yu | Hong Kong |
| Arlington Heights | Eric Ayala | United States |
| Ashes & Sighs | Ian John Dixon | Singapore |
| Aurora Sky | Eleanor Veness | |
| Author! Author! | Joy Sawyer | |
| AZO | Sandra Luce | Côte d'Ivoire, France |
| Bah Humbug | Jo Garrett | |
| Before the Moon | Jason Sherman | United States |
| Berkeley Days | Clifford Kai Kwong Choi | Hong Kong |
| Between Us | Mario Barsony, Peter Kingston | Ireland |
| Beyond the Bench: The Bob Huggins Legacy | Terry Lukemire | United States |
| Beyond The Summer Of Love | Michael Duncan | |
| Blonde in the Congo | Bren Bennington Dahl | |
| BREED THE THIRST | Porscha Lewis | |
| BRIDGE -My Little Friends- | Kazuyuki Ishihara | Japan |
| Broad Minded City | Quirino De La Cuesta | United States |
| BROTHER IN LAW | Szymon Jakubowski | Poland |
| But It Helps | Aiden Spackman | |
| Call me Joe | Franco Ceredi | Italy |
| Call Me Margaret | Alda Maria Petitti | |
| Can't All Be Bad | Quentin Han | |
| Child of Dawn | Leslie A Lee | |
| Chitin & Love | Kessy "Kci" Eberlein | |
| CLARA’S WINTER JOURNEY | Christina Zurbruegg | Austria |
| Coffee with Claude | Kevin Cowan | United States |
| Cosmos Black | Eliot D Cooper | |
| Courtyard windows | Pepi Romagnoli | Italy |
| Cowing | Geoff O'Neill, Rosie Jones | Australia |
| CPA | Gabriela Revilla Lugo | United States |
| CRIMSON FIELDS | Andri Elia Elia, Eleni Elia Derke | |
| Crypto Cowboys | Joshua Reis | |
| DANCE: Generations | Dawn Gifford Engle | Spain |
| Dead Air | D.g. Allstrum | United States |
| Dear Baltimore | D. Rica Wilson, Kiyla O Mighty, Justin C Hardee | United States |
| DEFENDERS OF THE TYRRHENIAN SEA | Jack Shanks | United Kingdom |
| Deserter | Anthony Von Seck | Canada |
| Ditlihi - The Warrior | Tom Pareto, Mike Maley | |
| Divine Jealousy | Sean Brown, Mason Meloy | United States |
| Dollar | Prijomas Pojebleskus | |
| DOUBLE SQUEEZE | David Underwood | |
| Dreams in Black: With Love from the South to Los Angeles | Destiny D. Owens | United States |
| Easier Said Than Done | Erik J Waldman, Dante DiBello | |
| Echo of Drums and... | Roland William Oliver | United Kingdom |
| Enough | Sally Llewellyn | |
| Eternal Blessings | M. R. HIlow | |
| Fabio's Journey | Simon Schlömer | Germany |
| Fake & Bake: The Muffin Man Chronicles | Steve Marks | |
| Fall | Mark Molnar | Hungary |
| FIANCÉ NAVIDAD | Rosa Costanza | |
| First String 2: The Greenwood 20: Quest for the Great Dante | Dean George Christakis | United States |
| Flicker | Letitia Liu, Conrad Moody | United Kingdom |
| Foujan : The Sound Of Silence | Eliott Mogenet | France |
| Frayed | Sarah Powell | United Kingdom |
| Friday Dispatch | Nathan Mccoy, Ryan Hensley | United States |
| Game Girls | Alina Skrzeszewska | United States |
| GOLD MINE | Andrzej Ciesielski | |
| Grandma's Tale (Le conte de grand-mère) | Chatdilok Sae-oueng | Thailand |
| Green Falcons | Patricio O'Donnell | |
| Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear | Paul Taublieb | United States |
| Guardian's Lament | Phoebe Chou | United States |
| Gunyo Cholo: The Dress | Samundra Bhatta | Nepal |
| Holiday | Charlie Biedermann | Australia |
| HOME | Kelvin Wade Garvanne | United States |
| Hooper's Hope | Stuart Todd Stolp | United States |
| Husky Toni - Go Ahead | Ulrich Grimm | Austria |
| Hypotypose | Lucas Cornette | Belgium |
| In between waves | Britt Vanhaelen | Belgium |
| INKOMU - A child's promise | Gautier Courquin | France |
| Integrity Brotherhood | Timothy Nyquist | |
| John Johnson Reporting | Brian Calfano | United States |
| Kakehashi (The Bridge) | Luke Mazey | United States |
| Kate And Jack Are Just Friends+A99 | Aubrey Arnason | Canada |
| Kindred Candidates | Bryan Beasley | |
| Lady Lazarus | Jamie Lou | United States |
| Land of the Mustaches | Leon Joosen | United States |
| Last Lines | Greg McLeod | United Kingdom |
| Leaving Vacaville | Wendy Bain | United States |
| LENS | Eduardo Rodriguez | United States |
| Lluc, a pastry chronicle | Jordi Torra Ferrer | Spain |
| LOST KINGS OF BIOKO | Oliver Goetzl | Germany |
| Lost Love | Claudio Colomba | |
| LUCY | Bastien Leblanc | France |
| Mare Crisium | Kaspar Keller | Switzerland |
| Mary's eternal ways | Janos János Tari | Hungary |
| Maya | Aditya Ingale | India |
| Meet Me on a Rock | Marie Bryan | Ireland |
| Memories of the Warsaw Ghetto | Alexander Genievsky | United States |
| MINA | Negar Saddigh | |
| Monday's Hero | Larry Downes | |
| Mr. Money Man and the Big Load | Steven Cooper Mosley | |
| MUST EAT | Romeo Luciano Kapuscinski | |
| Mutual Silence | Nicos Verdiev | Russian Federation |
| My House | Tim Yao | |
| My Sunset Shadows | Francisco Alberto Pérez | Dominican Republic |
| NOEMA | Murukan Rajeswaran | Germany |
| Nothing to See Here: Watts | Michael Soenen | United States |
| Obsession | Karl Jonatan Karits | Estonia |
| Oceans Wild | Norman Hunter | |
| ONCE A HOMECOMING QUEEN | Joan Frances Moran | United States |
| Pater Noster | Moutaz Kotrob | Philippines |
| Peachy Blunders | John Richard Kay | United Kingdom |
| Poenitet | Audrey Baunez | Canada |
| Pope Alice: Transcendence | Luke Frederick George Roberts | Australia |
| Powder Keg | Meghan Allen | |
| Primates, Privilege & Possiblity | Ken Breniman | United States |
| Prison Island | Naz King Ja'son | |
| Racket Power | Javs Rockatansky, Gustavo G. Guevara | Mexico |
| REMORSE | Quinn Saunders | United States |
| Royal Keepers | John DiIullo | |
| Sacrifice | Logan Roberts | |
| Safe Haven | Will Carter | United States |
| Seats at the Table | Chris Farina | United States |
| Seon Actually - Episode 3 (Part 1,2,3) | SoYoung Lee | |
| Sex Is Power | William Fred Turner | |
| Sheldon Mashugana & The Fakakta Alien | Dean Morgan | United States |
| Sherlock Holmes and the True Believer | Dӓnna Wilberg | United States |
| Slithering Tides | Merlin Vanland | Finland |
| So Did I | Nick Nelsen | |
| Somewhere Else | David Mills | |
| Sophia’s Story: 2005 | Dontae Hill | United States |
| SPEED or PERISH | Seth Ickerman | France |
| SPRAWZHNI - THE REAL ONES | Denis Vorobiov | Ukraine |
| Stranded | Amy Kay DuBoff | |
| SUDDENLY RED | Patrizia Masi | Italy |
| The Absence of Everything | Gabriel Michael Sideras | United Kingdom |
| The Baby Clause | Maty Young | United States |
| The Black Rose | Doron Je Paul Mitchell | |
| THE BUSINESS OF HEALTH | Luis Escobar | |
| The Decision | Susibel Espaillat | Dominican Republic |
| The Doll Keeper | Diane F Sismour | |
| The First Tear | Bo Kim | South Korea |
| THE GAME SERIES | Naz King Ja'son | United States |
| The Gift of the Mannequin | David H Healy | |
| The Last Choir | Tom Rivers | |
| The Last Take | Brian Foyster | United States |
| The Letter of the Law The Movie | Rick E Cutts | United States |
| The Opaque | Broderick Russell Jr. | United States |
| The Order | Brian M Wixson | |
| The Other | William Danton | United States |
| The Proctor | Ed Huether | United States |
| The puzzle | Bhaskar Roy | United States |
| The Sapphire King | Russell A Reball | |
| The Six-Point Star | Miguel Nájera | Spain |
| The Vanishing Act | Fallon Westlake | United Kingdom |
| THE YOUTUBER | Joshua Meszaros | Ireland |
| This is Soho | Ahmed Peerbux | United Kingdom |
| This Machine Loves You | Michael Ray LeGrande | |
| Thunder | Luke Styles | Australia |
| Till the Sun Grows Cold | John Bebout | |
| Timeless : Animated Visions | Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia | Singapore |
| Unbrotherly Love | Nick Abdo | United States |
| Under the Western Skies | Natalie Aramendia | United States |
| Vaelena | Kenneth Ching | Singapore |
| We Were Rabbits | Dannielle Pendzich | |
| We'll Be Right Back | Lorena Stefania De Maddalena | Switzerland |
| Werther | Young Kim | South Korea |
| When Opal Was A Baddie | Andrea Laiacona Dooley | |
| White Rabbit | Leo Saint Thomas | |
| Will Kill For Food | Alex Schopp | |
| Wings of Inthanon | Theo Sahawat | Thailand |
| Wistleblowers | Giuseppe Portoghese | Italy |
| ZOYA | Ben Hopwood | United Kingdom |
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