2026 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Hurikán’ Director Jan Saska
This darkly comic black-and-white short is set in Prague, where a reckless romantic races through chaos to win his crush’s heart.
This darkly comic black-and-white short is set in Prague, where a reckless romantic races through chaos to win his crush’s heart.
Vine’s ‘Cardboard,’ produced by Locksmith Animation, follows a single dad and his piglet kids who turn hardship into adventure using pure imagination.
CEE Animation Forum 2025 returns to Pilsen, uniting some of Europe’s top animators and producers for pitches, market showcases, and industry talks.
The 24 Hours Animation Contest 2025 honors global student filmmakers for creativity, resilience, and record-breaking participation worldwide.
The dialogue-free short, produced by Agora Studio, explores love, sacrifice, and identity in a hauntingly familiar dystopian world.
‘Two Ships’ is a hand-drawn short that explores distance and connection as experienced by a couple occupying the same space, but with opposing schedules.
Patricio Plaza’s ‘Carne de Dios’ is a haunting animated journey through colonial-era faith, violence, and transformation at the edge of body and spirit.
Miguel Rodrick’s neon-drenched short ‘No Vacancy’ delves into a man’s unraveling mind in a decaying motel and earns 2026 Oscar qualification.
Darkly funny and brutally forthright, ‘The Well-Oiled Plan’ skewers the fossil fuel industry’s PR spindustry ahead of COP30.
Ida Melum’s stop-motion short ‘Ovary-Acting’ blends humor and heart as a woman literally confronts her uterus while debating motherhood.
Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Éiru’ is a visually lush Celtic myth about courage, nature, and divine balance, brought to life with a breathtaking color palette.
‘Gigi’ follows a transgender woman’s poetic journey of self-discovery through metaphors of water, mermaids, and transformation.
Guru Studio grows its hit preschool brand ‘True and the Rainbow Kingdom’ with new YouTube Shorts and a Roblox fashion collaboration.
‘Playing God,’ a skin-crawling stop-motion short where abandoned clay figures fight for identity and belonging, earned qualification by winning the grand jury award at Animayo.
John Kelly’s ‘Retirement Plan,’ narrated by Domhnall Gleeson, has qualified for the 2026 Oscars after winning several major festival awards.
The 17th Weird Market honored 13 standout projects in animation, video games, and short films, spotlighting global talent and original IPs.
Zohar Dvir’s ‘Butterfly Kiss’ turns fear of commitment into eerie body horror as a couple faces love, change, and metamorphosis.
Featuring narration by Jane Goodall, ‘anyone lived in a pretty how town’ blends E.E. Cummings’ poetry, painterly animation, and orchestral music.
Aaron Blaise’s heartfelt, hand-drawn short ‘Snow Bear’ is a moving Arctic tale of loss, hope, and love, now qualified for the 2026 Oscars.
Discover how Emmy-winning filmmaker James A. Castillo used VR tools to bring Goya’s haunting Black Paintings to life in ‘The Quinta’s Ghost.’