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16th Edition
Announced on September 2026
Best Narrative Feature
Code Noir
Director: Marie Annick Sadhoo
Best Narrative Short
Fade 2 Black (Love, Life, Survival)
Director: Clarence Gilmore
Best Documentary Feature
Getting Off The Wheel
Directors: Ming Kwang Hun, Jeremy Ho, Gary Thong
Best Documentary Short
The Infinite Promise: The Mama Negra Festival
Director: Ernesto José Cevallos Hidrovo
Best Director
Ömer Pekyürek
I AM HERE
Best Cinematographer
Mark Smith, Sam Rino
The Last Ospreys
Best Composer
THE WIND
Charles-Edouard Platel
Best Experimental
THREE DAYS IN FEBRUARY
Director: Serena Giovanna Stevenson
Best Animation
The Scent of a Question Burning
Director: Drew Hewitt
Best Art Film
SELF-PORTRAIT BY AN UNKNOWN ARTIST
Director: Jeremy Newberger
Best Student Film
Polly Rabinowitz
What Love's Worth
Best Independent Film
This October is not pink
Director: Luciana Salvatore
Best Short Script
Butterfly
Edwin Jair Nájera
Best Feature Script
Pony
Anatoly Vernik