Sometimes one performance is all it takes to pull you into another life. 🎭 Celebrating Best Lead Actress (Short Film). #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury

A glance can tell us what a whole monologue cannot. 🎭 Celebrating our Best Lead Actor (Short Film) nominees. #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury #actor

A film takes a team. Giving all those voices one direction is an art. 🎬 Here’s to our Best Director (Short Film) nominees. #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury

Countless creative decisions. One coherent vision. 🎬 Celebrating Best Director (British Short Film). The nominees for Best Director (British Short Film) | 2026 #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury

A small role can leave a huge impression. 🎭 Here’s to our Best Supporting Actress (Short Film) nominees. #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury #actor

New worlds. Old myths. Stories loved enough to inspire new ones. 🚀 Celebrating our Best Sci-fi, Fantasy & Fan Film nominees. #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #scifishorts

Great acting isn’t always about standing out. Sometimes it’s about being brilliant together. 🎭 Celebrating Best Ensemble (Short Film). #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury

Few pages. Big possibilities. 📝 Celebrating the writers behind our Best Screenplay (Short Film) nominations. #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury #screenwriters

Finding the right face is only the beginning. The real magic is finding the right chemistry. 🎭 Celebrating Best Casting (Short Film). #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury

A small role can leave a huge impression. 🎭 Here’s to our Best Supporting Actress (Short Film) nominees. #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury #actress

Not the lead. Still impossible to forget. 🎭 Celebrating the scene-stealers nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Short Film). #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury #actor

Every room has a backstory. Every prop is a choice. 🛋️ Celebrating the world-builders nominated for Best Production Design (Short Film). #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury

You can probably remember a film theme before you remember half the dialogue. 🎼 Music has a habit of finding its way straight into our memory. Sometimes it lifts a scene. Sometimes it unsettles us. Sometimes it breaks our hearts. #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations

Close your eyes for a moment. What do you hear? A distant train? Footsteps outside the door? A silence that feels just a little too loud? 🎧 Sound can build a world before we’ve even seen it. Here’s to the sonic storytellers nominated for Best Sound Design (Short Film)!

A glance. A cut. Suddenly, everything changes. ✂️ The editor decides what we see, what we miss and how long we have to sit with a moment. When it works, we might not even notice. We just feel it. A huge congratulations to our Best Editing (Short Film) nominees! #filmfestival

A sleepless night written across a face. A hairstyle that belongs to another decade. A transformation that makes you look twice. 💄 Make-up and hair can tell us where a character has been before the scene even begins. #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury

A jacket, a hemline, a scuffed shoe. 👗 Sometimes a costume tells us more than dialogue ever could. Celebrating Best Costume Design (Short Film). The nominees for Best Costume Design (Short Film) | 2026 #shortfilmfestival #filmfestival #nominations #jury #costumedesign

A single image can tell a whole story. 📷 Here’s to the artists behind the light, framing and camera movement. Celebrating Best Cinematography (Short Film). The nominees are...

No rulebook. No obligation to explain everything. 🎞️ Just cinema pushing at its own edges. Here are our Best Experimental Film nominees. Kobika dir. Nadia Otshudi On The Same Earth dir. Sam Cox A Medical History dir. Rob Ducky Elford Sunglasses dir. Esteban Villagomez

Our Best Horror Film nominees are here. I See You're Alone dir. Danielle Spontak Out of the Peat dir. Tabitha Carless-Frost and Theo Rollason What Goes Round (Or Things That Go Bump In The Night) dir. Edie Deffebach Mango dir. Joan Iyiola Skinned dir. Alee Ruggieri