Indie Shorts Awards Cannes

Official selection & WINNERS

Discover the best films of the season!

Official Selection 2026

A Crime Across Four Landscapes | Aidan Weaver | United States
À La Dérive | Max Romain, Antoine Hendrix | Belgium, France
About Me | Fanny Rösch | Austria
All This Death | Fadi Syriani | Lebanon
Best Practice | Martin Strange-Hansen | Denmark
Between Day and Dawn | Lore Loyens | Belgium, Netherlands
Black Space Digger | Bernhard Riegler, Heinz Sambs | Austria
Broken Dawn | Hae-Oh Park | South Korea
Brokstukken (Broken Pieces) | Jörgen van Dongen, Steven Willems | Netherlands
Bulb | Guy Taylor | United Kingdom
Burning Water | Elisa De Block Coupez | Belgium
Checker | Bev Shroot, Charlton Schneider | Australia
Doom | Chamberlain Staub | United States
Everhand | Shane Hillier | United States
Fame | Jacopo Sala | Italy
Grown Up Day | David Capsir | France
Guardians of the Earth | Cyril Guyot, Sylvie Chantecaille | United States
Guille, 28 | Miguel Alcalde de la Fuente | Spain
Home Sweet Home | Tiffany Deleuze | Belgium
How to Hide It | Ramla Ali, Richard A. Moore | United Kingdom
Josephine | Aurora Florence | United States
King Ben | Raphael Toledano | France
Learning to Eat Cake | Juliette Strangio | United States
Lily’s House | Matthew Howell | United Kingdom
Long Balconies | Cara Gaynor | Ireland
Meeting Your Maker | Gregory JM Kasunich | United States
Napoli 2500 | Alessandro Rak | Italy
No Exceptions | Noa Kedar | Israel
Odessa | Harald Swinkels | Netherlands
Pandora | Isabelle Kirk | United Kingdom
Panorama | Nicolaj Larsson | Denmark
Passengers | Andrea Gandarillas Perez | Spain
Peckerhead | Ante Pask | Belgium
Rester | Kay van der Valk | Netherlands
Snipped | Alexander Saul | Denmark
Sundiata | Christian Saint | Ghana
Tȟáčȟa Škaŋ: Deer Movement | Juliana Brown Eyes | United States
The Bathers | Anouk Barrère | France
The Bird’s Placebo | Rami Jarboui | Tunisia
The Booth | David Lilien | United States
The Call of the Sea | Thiago Sampaio | Brazil
The Last Game | Daniel Chile | Cuba
The Last Ride | Vijesh Rajan, Yashoda Parthasarthy | India
The Ministry of Daylight | Emanuele Pappalardo | Italy
The Priest’s Dilemma | Maureen Payne-Hahner | Denmark
Today, Mum Died | Anis Bribi | France
Trolsk | Edith Morris | Norway
Two Kings | Eliot Hervier-Blondel, Mathieu Keraudran, Maxime Roget, Ophélie Maurin, Agathe Lootens, Adrian Delmotte, Jonas Lopez-del-Castillo | France
Vasu | Sidharth Harikumar | India
Veronica | Brett Dos Santos | United States
Wet Shoes | Pauline Vassal | France
Winter in March | Natalia Mirzoyan | Armenia, Estonia

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GRAND PRIX – USD 2000 

ROOM TAKEN | TJ O’Grady-Peyton | Ireland

PRIX DU MEILLEUR ESPOIR – USD 1000

CONEJ STEPS OUT | Pablo Río | Spain

AUDIENCE AWARD – USD 1000

KNIGHT OF FORTUNE | Lasse Lyskjær Noer | Denmark

CANNES NEW WAVES GRAND PRIX | November 2024 – USD 1000

IVY RIDGE | Sofia Valiente | United States

 

OFFICIAL COMPETITIONS

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

GOOD BOY by Tom Stuart | United Kingdom

BEST FOREIGN SHORT

I’M NOT A ROBOT by Victoria Warmerdam | Netherlands

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

A BODY CALLED LIFE by Spencer MacDonald | United States

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

TO DANCE AGAIN by M. G. Evangelista | United States

BEST ANIMATION SHORT

INFEMMES  by Nicolas Fodor-Levreaud, Danaé Grimore, Lise Merlaud, Florian Monchois, Julien Torres, Jade Wong | France

BEST NEW FILMMAKERS SHORT

SHADOW BROTHER SUNDAY by Alden Ehrenreich | United States

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT

CA7RIEL & PACO AMOROSO – BAÑO MARÍA by Brian Kazez | Argentina

BEST STUDENT SHORT

SYNCOPE by Linus von Stumberg | Switzerland

BEST HORROR SHORT

SLEEPWALKER by Brandon Auman | United States

BEST HORROR SHORT

3, 2, 1, 0 by Mingun Kim | Korea

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

DOBRIY ZLOY – SIROTKIN by Oleg Trofim | Uzbekistan

BEST COMEDY SHORT

GROUP C by Imran j Khan | United States

TECHNICAL & PERFORMANCES CATEGORIES

BEST PRODUCER

Elettra Pizzi | GOOD BOY | United Kingdom

BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR

Victoria Warmerdam | I’N NOT A ROBOT | Netherlands

BEST MALE DIRECTOR

Minkyu Kang | CHILDREN OF LIGHT | United States

BEST FEMALE STUDENT DIRECTOR

Hung Hsuan Hsu | ARE WE GOOD? | Taiwan

BEST MALE STUDENT DIRECTOR

Linus von Stumberg | SYNCOPE | Switzerland

BEST ACTRESS

Brid Brennan |  ROOM TAKEN | Ireland

BEST ACTOR

Leif Andrée | KNIGHT OF FORTUNE | Denmark

Ben Wishaw | GOOD BOY | United Kingdom

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Alden Ehrenreich, Nick Robinson, Lisa Edelstein | SHADOW BROTHER SUNDAY | United States

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Don Buppapirak | EATING HEARTACHE | Australia

BEST EDITING

André Rodriguez, Marvin Jay Alvarez | FESTIVAL OF SLAPS | United Kingdom

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Marta Zając, Jakub Zwolak | ESCAPE ATTEMPT | United States

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Tao Delport, Polerik Rouvière | COLEOPTERE | France

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Gene Micofsky | THE HEART OF TEXAS | United States

BEST SCREENWRITING

Alfonso Amador, Lluis Quilez | THE MASTERPIECE | Spain

Official Selection

SEASON 2024