OFFICIAL SELECTION &
13th MADFA® Edition
IMDb presents the best of the Madrid Film Awards MADFA® 2025 International Competition.
Los Nominados serán anunciados durante el mes de febrero.
Los ganadores serán anunciados en la ceremonia de premiación en vivo, el 30 de mayo (fecha de la Gala a confirmar) en el Palacio de la Prensa en la Gran Vía, Madrid, España.
​​The Nominees will be announced in February.
The Winners will be announced at a live awards ceremony on May 30 (Gala´s date to confirm) at the Press Palace on Madrid's Gran Vía.
NARRATIVE SHORT FILM
(Cortometraje de Ficción)​
“An Old Friend” by Nuk Suwanchote (United States)
“Fare Thee Well” by Renjie Zhu (China)
“Conveyance” by Gemma Creagh (Ireland)
“Soul Shelter” by Juraj Mráz (Slovakia)
“Mama” by Denise Moreno (United Kingdom)
“Waiting Room” by Gerald Zibengwa (United Kingdom)
“Disposables” by YU WANG (Hong Kong)
HANNAH” by Reinier Smit (Netherlands)
“The Forgiven” by Burak Kablan (Turkey)
“My girl” by Daniela Cortés (Spain)
“Potpourri” by Paul Iacovou (Cyprus)
“Dirty Talk” by Felicia Bärgh (Sweden)
“Gum ” by Belal Albader (Saudi Arabia)
“Ring Ring” by Lucas Xavier Simes (United States)
“Morphic” by Malik Maliki (Iraq, United States)
“Land of Forgotten Echoes ” by Layne Marie Williams (United States)
“Shelters” by K. Prada & j. Prada (Spain)
“Al Wadiaa” by Hedi Krissaane (Italy, Tunisia)
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"Chaar Diwari" by Syed Shadan (India)
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"Némica" by Felipe Flórez Ramos (Colombia)
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"Passport" Director Tiago Pimentel (Portugal)
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"The Silence of the World" by Angelo Vapellari & Nicolas Pastergue (France)
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"Malo" by Louis Barrau (France)
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"Old Well" by Andrés Hernández Covarrubias (Mexico)
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"Jordan" by Patricio Mosse (Spain)
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"Conception Game" by Natalie Arle-Toyne (United Kingdom)
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"GO!" by BRACE EVANS (United States)
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"Underdog" by Gal Gonen
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"WHAT'S KEPT INSIDE" by Chava Méndez (Mexico)
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"The Axe Forgets" by John Christopher (Ireland)
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"App time love" by Hernán Kesselman (Mexico)
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"HOLD" by Josiah Junqueira Spencer (United States)
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"Egg Timer" by Rosie May Bird Smith (United Kingdom)
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"The Girl" by Mandy Kowalski (United States)
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"Where It Flows" by Ninna Fachinello (Brazil)
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"Tokyo Tea Tango" by Robert Chmielewski (Poland)
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"Snuffelstage ("The Sniffing Stage")" by Gijs Veerhoek (Netherlands)
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"Memoria Obscura" by David Christopher Nelson & Connor Ryan (United States)
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SHORT FILM DOCUMENTARY
(Cortometraje Documental)
"The Leap Beneath" by Roman Willi (Switzerland)
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"The lament of the sunflowers" by Oscar Vega (Spain)
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"Dream To Cure Water" by Ciril Jazbec (Slovenia)
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"The Trace of the Mud" by Rodrigo Marquez (Spain)
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"Healing Roots" by Niklas von Klitzing (Germany)
"Your Last Best: A Memphis Rox Story" by Glen Janssens (United States)
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"JUMPMAN" by Tom Dey (United States)
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"Fatbardha" Director Kitty Kentezi (Greece)
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"Yes We Sail" by Nicholas Simon Tolladay (Spain)
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"KIA" by Kate Weare, Jack Flame Sorokin (United States)
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"RUGULOPTERYX OKAMURAE. EL ALGA INVASORA" by Julio Junquera (Spain)
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"Craft in Clay" by Philipp Fuchs (Switzerland)
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EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM
(Cortometraje experimental)
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​"Beyond the Breakers" by Tauan Vinícius Sloboda (Brazil)
"FLOW" by Shoko Tamai (United States)
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"Out Land" by Boisnard Philippe & Brethenoux Maud (France)
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"Starry Eyed" by Carlo Molle (Canada)
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"Hands Are Wings" by Julia Godfrey (United States)
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"THE CORE" by Craig Murray (France)
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"Vinespiration" by Stephen John Vineburg (United States)
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"Tao" by Giselle Herzog (Germany)
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"NECTAR" by Lucas Arthur Massolo & Hannah Tacher (United States)
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ANIMATION SHORT FILM
(Cortometraje de Animación)
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"Touched" by Rana Rachid (Lebanon)
"In Half" by Jorge Morais Valle (Spain)
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"Into the Reds Tale" by Alisdair Zhang
"If the Dogs Don't Speak..." by Toritse Ogbemi-Daibo (Canada)
"FLOCKY" by Esther Casas Roura (Spain)
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"Tapir Memories" by Pedro Nel Cabrera Vanegas (Colombia)
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"Dancing in the rain" by Chao-chun Yeh (Japan, Taiwan)
"Rec" by Fedor Marić (Bosnia and Herzegovina​​​​​)
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"Departing" by Ole Christoffer Haga & Anja Manou Hellem (Norway​)
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"RAY THE RUG" by Mohammad Ali Shakeri (Thailand)
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"Vuela" by Florangela Condori
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"SuperSchoolers 2. A healthy mind" by Íñigo Echávarri (Spain)
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"The Family Photo" by John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez (United States)
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"Luz Diabla" by Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo & Patricio Plaza (Argentina)
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"SYKORAX VI" by Adrian Cadena Oviedo (Mexico)
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LGBTIQ SHORT FILM
(Cortometraje LGBTIQ)
"The lost Years of the turtles" by Verónica Contreras Jasir (Mexico)
"Caravaggio's Last Day" by Paolina Weber (United States)
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"With You Again" by Kulbir Singh Maras (United Kingdom)
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"Don‘t say goodbay" by Yinxiao Ran (China)
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"With You Again" Director Kulbir Singh Maras (United Kingdom)
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MUSIC VIDEOS
(Video Clips)
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"​New Heaven" Director Julia Shuvchinskaya (Portugal)​
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"Until the last minute" Director Ilya Noyabrev (Ukraine)
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"ميقات - MIQAT" Director HASSANEIN ABDULHAKEEM SARRAY (Iraq)
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"Old Horse // Official Music Video by Old Ships"
Directors Didier Chanot, Vladimir Andrijasevic (France)
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"ROBO99 : Finding Your Heart" Director SUNG CHEOL KIM (Republic of Korea)
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"You And Her" Director Mika Tervonen (Finland)
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"Smoldering-Smoldering" Director Ilya Noyabrev (Ukraine)
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"Alfarida" Director Yasser Mohamed Abdelsalam (Saudi Arabia)
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"Marionette (Ava Della Pietra - official music video)"
Director Nathan Levine-Heaney
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"He’s coming, my sweetheart"
Directors Alexey Belkin, Vsevolod Aljokhin (Russian Federation)
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"An Angel" Director François Vogel (France)
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"I’ll Burn Alive" Director Manuel Mira Albero (Spain)
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"Walk With Me Through The Fire - The Curse of KK Hammond"
Director K.K. Hammond (United Kingdom)
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"Gondi - Leyli" Director Eyal Gilo ( Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel)
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"LITTLE BLACK LE" Director MARCELO PRESOTTO (Brazil)
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WEB SERIES
(Series Web)
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"Dr. S.O.S. - Emergency In The Wilderness"
Directors Zsolt Marcel Tóth, Péter Sass (Hungary)
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"What Haunts Us"
Directors Lukáš Hanulák, Andy Fehu, Jan Haluza (Czech Republic)
"The Well" Director Tereza Kopacova
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"Bora" Directors Zuzana Marianková, Marek Najbrt
"T-REX" Director Gabriel Savignac (Canada)
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"The Desert Man" Director Eray Demir (Qatar, Turkey)
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"Heat" Director Artyom Aksenenko (Russian Federation)
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"The Surgeon" Director Ilya Ermolov (Russian Federation)
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"KOBA" Director Nurzhan Yerkinuly (Kazakhstan)
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"Constantinople" Director Sergey Chekalov (Russian Federation)
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BEST HALF-LENGTH FILMS
(Mediometraje)
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"Identity & Memory. The Republican Exile" Director Facundo Cantelmi (Mexico)
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"Seeds of Sovereignty" Director Stuart J Tanner (United States​)
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"I'm Sorry. No More" Director Tony Pancho (Spain)
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"Oranges Road" Director Sami Farah (Syrian Arab Republic)
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"Io Corro - journey into the art of Luca Bray" Director Barbara Zonzin (Italy)
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"Caesar's Cache" Director Ralph C. Schulz (Switzerland)
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"A Film by Roland Wehap" Director Roland Wehap (Austria)
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"MALENKIJ" Director István János Pekár (Hungary)
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"Themis is Tired" Director Ilya Demutsky (France)
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"Dream Man" Directors Harald Takke & Steven Takke (Germany)
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"BILLY" Director Pablo Damián Schiel (Argentina)
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"The Royale" Directors Daniel DeVous, Rodrigo Torres (United States)
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"Focal Point" Director Raphael Buisson (United States)
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BEST NEW DIRECTOR FILM
(Primer Película de un Director/a)
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"Bell Pepper Season" Director Elisheva Shochat (Israel)
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"Howl" Director aleksandra avidzba (Russian Federation)
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"Marcelo's Phantom" Director Macarena Doldán Aristizábal (Argentina)​
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"Starry Eyed" Director Carlo Molle (Canada)
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"Snuffelstage ("The Sniffing Stage")" Director Gijs Veerhoek (Netherlands)
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"Themis is Tired" Director Ilya Demutsky (France)
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"Conception Game" Director Natalie Arle-Toyne (United Kingdom)
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"Youth Myth" Director Ivan Kurbakov
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"Dancing Cities - Barcelona" Director Joselina Sánchez (Argentina, Spain)
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"ARRANCA" Director Liliana M Molina (United States)
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"The Soldier" Director Gian Majidi (Finland)
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"L'ARCA" Director Giorgio Caporali (Italy)
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"Cyrano aux tranchées" Director DOSSETTO Edouard (France)
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"Rocket Driver" Director Sriram Ananthashankar (India)
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"Selfie, Please" Director Anu Singh Choudhary (India)
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"After Party" Director Vicu Bazan Szelest (Netherlands)​​
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"EXILE" Director Maxime Pailloux (Ecuador)
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​FEATURE FILM FICTION
(Largometraje de Ficción)
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​"SUNPHLOWERS" Director DAVE BYRNE (Ireland)​​
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"Dead End" Director Alex Sokolov (Russian Federation)
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"Not That Rich" Director Chenyang Zhao (United States)
"Three" Director Nayla Al Khaja (United Arab Emirates)
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"Kipkemboi" Director Charles Uwagbai (Canada)
"Dwelling Among the Gods" Director Vuk Ršumović (Serbia)
"Cáceres" Directors Alexánder Fernández, Jorge Saim Hostos (Mexico, Venezuela)
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"THE HEALER" Director Giuseppe Carleo (Italy)
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·NO TIME FOR GOODBYE" Director Don Ng (Hong Kong)
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"Tale of a mother and son" Director Dimitar Petrov Sardzhev (Bulgaria)
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"Santa Zeta" Director Antonio Munoz de Mesa (çSpain)​
"MALIPUT MELODIES" Director Vishal Patnaik (India)​
"The Color Of Exile" Director AZLARABE ALAOUI (Côte d'Ivoire, France, Morocco)
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"Loss of Balance" Director Korek Bojanowski (Poland)
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"Other Fathers" Director Mario Sesti (Italy)
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"Love Nova" Director Stuart Evan Davis (United States)
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"The Silent Treatment" Director Caroline Strubbe (Belgium)
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"Without Permission" Director Hassan Nazer (Islamic Republic of Iran)
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FEATURE FILM DOCUMENTARY
(Largometraje Documental)
​"SOLO PIENSO EN TI" Director Hugo de la Riva (Spain)
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"The Birth of Your Divinity" Director Joao de Carvalho (Australia)
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"Kukràdjà Director Palmer Douglas Durr (Brazil)
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"People Gods and other Creatures" Director Svetlana Strelnikova (Greece)
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"Velintonia 3" Director Javier Vila Galarza (Spain)
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"NADO" Director Daniele Farina (Italy)
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"Amazing Grace YorubaWorlds" Director Raynald Leconte (United States)
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"Comrade Tambo's London Recruits" Director Gordon Main (United Kingdom)
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"Just Our Heart" Director maartje nevejan (Netherlands, Switzerland, USA)
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"Lluc, una crónica de la pastelería" Director Jordi Torra (Spain)
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"Small dogs bark loud" Director Nora Nivedita Tvedt (Norway)
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"Breathe" Directors Eduardo Muñoz, José del Corral (Spain)
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"Turtle Walker" Director Taira Malaney (India)
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"Mamã Guiné" Directors Mauricio Franco & Filipe Taslatti Mello (Portugal)
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"Sandra: The Drift Queen" Director Juozapas MikulÄ—nas (Lithuania)
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"Once you shall be one of those who lived long ago"
Directors Alexander Rynéus, Per Bifrost (Sweden)
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"Back to town" Director Djamel Lakehal (Algeria)
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"Life on Canvas" Director Gustavo Socorro (Spain)
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"Voz Viajante - Documental" by Wladimir Palacios (Ecuador, Mexico)
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"Becoming the Other" Director Beate Petersen (Norway)
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"DEZO HOFFMANN - PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE BEATLES"
Directors Laura Sivakova-Passova & Patrik Lancaric (Slovakia)
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"Beyond the river" Director Endre Dávid (Romania)
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"PATH" Director Firouz Farman-Farmaian (France)
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"The Cost of Growth" Director Thomas Maddens (Belgium)
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"COMPETITION OF A LIFETIME - The story of Axel Mitbauer"
Director Antonio La Regina (Austria)​​
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BEST DIRECTOR
(Mejor Director)
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Dimitar Petrov Sardzhev for ​​"Tale of a mother and son" (Bulgaria)
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Maxime Pailloux for "EXILE" (Ecuador)
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Nayla Al Khaja for "​Three" (United Arab Emirates)
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Don Ng for "NO TIME FOR GOODBYE" (Hong Kong)
Tauan Vinícius Sloboda for "Beyond the Breakers" (Brazil)
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Vuk Ršumović for "Dwelling Among the Gods" (Serbia)
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Mustafa Mahdi "Ten to One Rum "One For the Curious" (United States)
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
(Mejor Fotografía)
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​"Ghost in the Glass" by Dennis Robert Thomas
directed by Chuck Griffith (United STates)
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"Three" by Mik Allen
directed by Nayla Al Khaja (United Arab Emirates)
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"Beyond the Breakers" by Luiz Maurício
directed by Tauan Vinícius Sloboda (Brazil)
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"Gone But Not Forgotten" by Ali Farahani
directed by Jack Peter Mundy (United Kingdom)
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"Caesar's Cache" by Benjamin Rummans
directed by Ralph C. Schulz (Switzerland)
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"Alfarida" by Mohamed Osama Rashed
directed by Yasser Mohamed Abdelsalam (Saudi Arabia)
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"THE CORE" by Colin Elves
directed by Craig Murray (France)
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"Hands Are Wings" by Thomas Marchese
directed by Julia Godfrey (United States)
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"Beyond the river" directed by Endre Dávid (Romania)
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BEST ACTRESS
(Mejor Actriz)
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Ares Teixidó
in "JUST A BULLET AWAY" directed by Jordi Calvet San José (Spain)​
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Micaela Riera
in "DONT ASK" directed by Agustin Santiago Palleres Yoffe (Argentina)
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Fereshteh Hosseini
in "Dwelling Among the Gods" directed by Vuk Ršumović (Serbia)
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Yulia Graut
in "Themis is Tired" by Ilya Demutsky (France)
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Julia Liros
for "MILLENNIALS" directed by Ludovica Lirosi (Italy)
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Love Nova
in "Love Nova" directed by Stuart Evan Davis (United States)
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Natalia Beatriz D'Alena
in "RÉMORAS" by Diego Alfredo García (Argentina)​
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BEST ACTOR
(Mejor Actor)
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Jefferson Hall​
in "Three" directed by Nayla Al Khaja (United Arab Emirates)
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Mariano Argento
in "The Portal directed by Mariano Argento (Argentina)
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Matías Pimstein
in "The Metaphysical Odyssey of a Pizza Delivery Guy"
directed byMatías Pimstein (Chile, Spain)
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Yiu-Sing Lam
in "NO TIME FOR GOODBYE" directed by Don Ng (Hong Kong)
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Nikola Ristanovski
in "Dwelling Among the Gods" directed by Vuk Ršumović (Serbia)
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Cameron Cowperthwaite
in "Ghost in the Glass " directed by Chuck Griffith (United States)​​
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Boris Chistyakov
in "Themis is Tired" by Ilya Demutsky (France)
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BEST SOUNDTRACK
(Mejor Banda Sonora)
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"​Caesar's Cache" by Jan Willem De With
directed by Ralph C. Schulz (Switzerland)​
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"Aldo Baldin - A Life for Music" by Aldo Baldin
directed by Yves Goulart (Brazil)​​
"Industry" by Tobias Sauerwald
Director Lee O'Connor (Bulgaria)​​
"Themis is Tired" by Stanislav Malyshev
Director Ilya Demutsky (France)
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"MALENKIJ" by HungaryGergely Kocsák
directed by István János Pekár (Hungary)
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"THE CORE" by ​Amine Boucekkine
directed by Craig Murray (France)
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BEST SCREENPLAY
(Mejor Guión)
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"The Metaphysical Odyssey of a Pizza Delivery Guy"
written and directed by Matías Pimstein (Chile, Spain)
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"Old Well"
written and directed by Andrés Hernández Covarrubias (Mexico)
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"Ghost in the Glass"
written and directed by Chuck Griffith (United States)​
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"Blocked
written and directed by Pieter Hussaarts (Netherlands)
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"​A Film by Roland Wehap"
written and directed by Roland Wehap (Austria)​​​​
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BEST CLASSIC FILM (Films before 2025)
(Mejor Película Clásica - Películas previos a 2025)
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​"La Mer" by Victor Claramunt (Spain)
"Love´s worst nightmare (ft. Liz Kretschmer)" by Philippe Funk (Luxembourg)
"Shopping Trip" by Barry Wilkinson (United Kingdom)
"FLOATERS" by Aurelie Garon (France)
"In One`s Shadow" by Mor Lankri (Israel)
"The Same Gaze" by Güido Simonetti (Argentina)
"Tears of an Exile" by Pierre O'Reilly (United Kingdom)
"The Thief" by Arturo Brena (United States)
"The Master of Sento" by Yusuke Ishide (Japan)
"Giovanna" by Cesare Rossi (Italy)
"Let Sleeping Bears Lie" by Oskar Willers
"Blue" by Pedro Morata Rigueras (Spain)
"Salvar" by Sangwook Ahn (South Korea)
"Like Something Bloomed" by Wenti Wu
"ONE MORE" by J. Taylor Brookes (United Kingdom)
"SMASHED" by Brandon Chi-Wei Chen (Italy)
"The cap" by Claude Neuray (Belgium)
"BERGAMOT" by Marcio Rosario (Brazil)
"Chapter XIII" by (Iris) Concetta Lombardo (Italy)
"Scared" by Adrian Alejo Cernadas (Argentina)
"THE LAST KHORUMI'' by Ani Jgenti (Georgia)
"Verflechtung" by Simon Pflanzer (Switzerland)
"The Pencil" by Ahmet Serhat Ak (Turkey)
"Fragments" by Lucas Vossoughi (Austria)
"An Ordinary Day" by Pelin Boga (Turkey)
"The Forgotten Door" by Anzor Mulkoev (United States)
"Una Notte Ancora" by Bonobo Film
"The Dissident" by Nicolas Vimenet (France)
"GO!" by BRACE EVANS (United States)
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*CATEGORÍA ESPECIAL* (Special Category)
MEJOR CORTOMETRAJE ESPAÑOL 2026
​(Resultado parcial - Convocatoria aún abierta)
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"The Inspector" Director Jandro​​
"Maruja" Director Álvaro G. Company
​"Shit for mum" Director Rocío Rubio
​"Origami" Director Álvaro León​
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*CATEGORÍA ESPECIAL* (Special Category)
5º PREMIO ROBERTO ERCOLALO 2026
​( Convocatoria aún abierta)
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Los Pre-Seleccionados de esta categoría serán
anunciados directamente en la pestaña "Premio Ercolalo"​
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