Official Results
Semi-Finalists Winter 2026
Every season, our jury shortlists the works that rose above the field. Congratulations to the 96 semi-finalist projects of Winter 2026 — each one a step from the podium.
96 Projects
26+ Countries
Hollywood Indie Festival
| Project Title | Directors/Writers | Country of Origin |
|---|---|---|
| Zombie House | jack thompson | United States |
| You are too far | Seiko Yamamoto | Japan |
| Rosa Costanza | United States | |
| Who Was He | Donato Leoni | Italy |
| Who Did This? | Zhang Qu | China |
| WHITE WOLVES – GHOSTS OF THE ARCTIC | Oliver Goetzl | Germany |
| Welcome to the Whimsical Desert! (Going Solo) | Heidi Elisabeth Appe | United States |
| Water Ways | Spencer Stander | United States |
| Walking the Cuban Tightrope | Margaux Ouimet | Canada |
| Walkers | william m mesa | United States |
| VoidBorn | Frank Bruno HOUBRE | France |
| TWO FATES | Kelsey Ann Wacker, Lori Lee Peters | Not Specified |
| TOMMASA | Julie Casamonti | France |
| Tom and Luce | Muxel Paule | France |
| Through life and death | Qing Chang | China |
| The Teleprompter | James C. Velasquez | United States |
| The Show Must Go On | Stefano Anania | United States |
| The Secret Notes | Joni Ravenna, Joshua Townshend-Zellner, Kabin Thomas | Not Specified |
| The Prosecutor's Witness | Donald Ray Schwartz | United States |
| The New Immigrants - Hong Kongers | Vivian Tsang | United Kingdom |
| The Lights | Barnabus Walsh | United Kingdom |
| The Gift of a Second Wind | Laurent Etchamendy | France |
| THE GENERATIONS OF MEDIA - Music is Dead? | Peter Eipeldauer, Robert Huber | Austria |
| The Final Year | Kristian James | Not Specified |
| The Corked Incident | Jesse McClain | Not Specified |
| Temple Crimes | Ian John Dixon | Australia, Singapore |
| SYVERTSEN'S COMPLEX | Marni Sullivan | Not Specified |
| Sugar Water | Noelani Mei Lee | United States |
| Splintered Front | Rudolph Rajendra | Not Specified |
| Sounds Of Life | Wael Najjar | Lebanon |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Headless Bishop | Danna Wilberg | United States |
| Scapegoat | Richard Geiwitz | United States |
| Rose Red | Austin Dru Turmel | United States |
| Rhythm of Light | Billy Mandarino | Not Specified |
| Reunion | Hawping Peter Hsui | Taiwan |
| Princess and the hotel | Max Joshua Toll Endersby | United Kingdom |
| PRECURSOR | Steve Brown | Not Specified |
| Pledge | Kristian Iliev | Bulgaria |
| Pensionator | Ars Bek | Not Specified |
| Peep Show | Judy Klass | Not Specified |
| Oz Doesn’t Exist | Mikel Capriano, Callum Chiplin (Lurcher Films) | Not Specified |
| Olympic Bodies | Jos Fonteijn | Not Specified |
| NORMAN: THE DOG WHO DIDN'T MEAN TO | Paul Millward | Not Specified |
| Mysterious Moments with Millie Mallory | Mysti Smith | United States |
| MORGAN WOOD "EVERYTHING ALWAYS HAPPENS SO MUCH" | Richard Gonzales (Director) and Morgan Wood (Writer) | United States |
| Moisture | Duda Gorter | Brazil |
| Midnight Journey | Loic Rathscheck | Not Specified |
| Lucid | Ina Mertesacker | Not Specified |
| LOVE THY NEIGHBOR | Jean Buschmann | Not Specified |
| Love Lives On | Lenny Gatto | United States |
| Los Días Buenos | Eduardo B. Lopez | Not Specified |
| Little Yellow Flower | Chien-Ping Lin | Taiwan |
| LIE TO ME | Bår Tyrmi | Norway |
| Let Sleeping Bears Lie | Oskar Willers | Sweden |
| Le DRH | Christophe Van Ingh | Belgium |
| J.Williams "REMEMBRANCES" Trio "Classic Deluxe" | Natascha Akinschin | Germany |
| IRISO | Mitsuo Kurihara | Japan |
| Io Corro - journey into the art of Luca Bray | Barbara Zonzin | Italy |
| Indian Billy Ice | Jerry Stephen Ice | United States |
| I would like to feel | Marcin Rossa | Poland |
| Homesickness in Southern Anhui | Yefeng | Not Specified |
| Heart of Love | Gaetano Cristiano | Not Specified |
| Handsome Hank | Scott Kunesch | Australia |
| Hamlet & Ophelia - Love Drowned in Silence | Damla Ayzeren | Turkey |
| Halloween Aftermath | James Grim | United Kingdom |
| GYRE | Gina Lennox | Not Specified |
| Grandma's Tale | Chatdilok Sae-oueng | Thailand |
| FOR NOW | Billy Mandarino, Michael Bowker, Anthony Tambakis | Not Specified |
| Father | Gabriel Constantinescu | Switzerland |
| Fatal Error | Mark Howard Mazza, Josie Hull | Not Specified |
| Equity of Silence | Gordon Carrick | Not Specified |
| Echo | Daniel Elkayam | Not Specified |
| DYNAMICS | Teo Baehler | Netherlands |
| Drugs Are Fun | Malcolm J Cook | United States |
| Doug | Evan Neill | Not Specified |
| DON'T FORGET 4 | David Motaze | United Kingdom |
| Diplodocus | Wojtek Wawszczyk | Poland |
| Destroy Imagination | Chris Adam Abercrombie | United States |
| Dear Lilith, I Love You (Sweet Dreams) | David Cole | United States |
| Dancing in Norms | Samuel Lewek | Germany |
| COLOMBANO & LA 21ESIMA FETTA | Paolo Pier Luigi Guglielmetti | Italy |
| Coal In Their Veins | Dalit Merhav | United Kingdom |
| Charlot 1 | Matias Guerra | Italy |
| Carpe Diem | Sergio Torres | United States |
| CARBONO | Alberto Arvizu, Yael Gonzalez | Mexico, Peru |
| Brodhead Society | Christopher Alan Scott | Not Specified |
| Broad Minded City | Quirino de la Cuesta | United States |
| Birth Cycle Of The Dying Artist | Mukesh Gandhi | Not Specified |
| Beautiful, Broken Things | Jack Newsome | Not Specified |
| Bad Love Strikes | Kevin Schewe | United States |
| Arming the Arctic | David Baillie | United Kingdom |
| Aching Earth | Barry Ferrier | Australia |
| A Fire in Africa | Gerhard Uys | South Africa |
| A Dance Story | Andoni Zorbas | United States |
| 4teen | Owen Myre | United States |
| 1985 | Marko Marjanović | Croatia |
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