Awarded Films 3: Best of International Shorts

A selection of awarded short films in the International Competition 2026.

Language: Eng, Fin Duration: 89 min Age Limit: 12+

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  • Living Despite Them

    Director: Antonia Colodro, Alaa Hathleen
    Country: Palestine
    Year: 2024, 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 19 min

    Filmed entirely with cellphone footage, Alaa, a soccer player and physical therapist from Umm al-Kheir in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, records daily life amid demolitions, settler violence, and military control.

  • Unanimated Strangers

    Director: Róisín Kelly
    Country: Ireland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Experimental, Animation
    Duration: 5 min

    Surrounded by strangers, a woman's memories of her past relationship unravel and mesh with the people around her.

  • Uragshaa harsan tsonh

    A South Facing Window
    Director: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
    Country: France, Mongolia
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 20 min

    Azaa and Shagai, a couple in their late 20s, are living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with their 6-year-old daughter. On the verge of divorce, they search for happiness in empty, high-rise buildings. Stuck in their car in the infamous city traffic, they fight it out.

  • It Lives Under the Snow

    Director: Igor Smola
    Country: Azerbaijan, Singapore
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 17 min

    In a village where people have been disappearing for years, a group of locals join two men to search for Murad, who recently vanished. They explore a local myth about a mysterious creature living under the snow. Their journey will uncover a secret deeper than they could have imagined.

  • SON

    Director: Leona Cauklija
    Country: Sweden
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 13 min

    A mother sees her homeless son's tags wherever she goes. She interprets his signatures as signals to her and wants to respond. She starts writing SON under his tags. One day, she suddenly gets a reply. Under SON it now says, 'Hello mom.'

  • Inherited Silence

    Director: Mariam Khatchvani
    Country: Georgia
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 15 min

    When Nata tries to leave her violent husband, it’s the women around her – bound by tradition – who urge her into silence. In a village where endurance is virtue, her quiet resistance becomes defiance.