Super Shorts New York Film Festival 2026 Award Winners Revealed

The Super Shorts New York Film Festival celebrated its 2026 edition with three screening nights at Film Noir Cinema, showing shorts from around the globe.

Festival curator Kris De Meester: "Looking back on this first edition, we are especially delighted by the turnout. Despite the storm that coincided with our screenings, audiences showed up in great numbers, which was incredibly encouraging. We are also proud to have put together a diverse and well-balanced programme, bringing together experimental and more accessible works, with voices and perspectives from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. It was particularly rewarding to see this diversity reflected in the audience itself, with people from many different communities coming together through cinema. That, for us, is exactly what we hoped this festival would achieve."

Super Shorts New York is pleased to share with you today this year's award winners: 

Best Narrative Film 

An excess baggage (France) by Myriam Garcia Marienstras

Best Documentary Film 

Faustyna (Poland) by Natalia Dutkiewicz

Best Experimental Film

Bubble Bath (Italy) by Giulia Magno

Best Animated Film 

Une Fugue (To the woods) (France) by Agnès Patron

Best Underground Film

Looking for Mary (United States) by Madeline Rose Finkel

Best Music Video 

Loser (Taiwan) by Mali Chen

Best Super Short Film

Underground Man (United Kingdom) by Tommy Genes

Best New York Film

Before The Sun (United States) by Terrell Lamont

Best Actor (Gender Neutral)

Sophie Verbeeck in An excess baggage (France) by Myriam Garcia Marienstras

Best Director

Reliefs (Mexico) by Juan Manuel Gonzalez Fernandez

Congratulations to all!

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OFFICIAL SELECTION 2026 / winners of The Tarkovski Grant

Underground Man (United Kingdom) by Tommy Genes

Loser (Taiwan) by Mali Chen

An excess baggage (France) by Myriam Garcia Marienstras

The journey (United Kingdom) by Mel Steele

Reliefs (Mexico) by Juan Manuel Gonzalez Fernandez

Super V (France) by Franck Janin

Franck (France) by Fabio Caldironi

Bubble Bath (Italy) by Giulia Magno

Measurements (Italy) by Marta Capossela

Scarred (Canada) by Zeddy Chevron

Manya (Portugal) by Faebitha Rahiman, Camila Amado Restrepo, Mariia Ivashchenko, Jean Jurado

Tulipomania: Then and Only Then (United States) by Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray

To My Grandfather (Germany, Ukraine) by Sofia Samoylova

Mammo (Switzerland) by Salomé Crouzet, Marion Reymond

Under the table (Georgia, Romania, Switzerland) by Mariam Bitsadze

Tideline (United States) by Jason Harrington

How it begins (France) by Chloé Wasp

Une Fugue (To the woods) (France) by Agnès Patron

Faustyna (Poland) by Natalia Dutkiewicz

Looking for Mary (United States) by Madeline Rose Finkel

Before The Sun (United States) by Terrell Lamont

Handle With Care (United States) by Eli Jeffery

Adam Oh - Stroke (United States) by Annika White, Carl Knight

The Bull (United Kingdom) by Victor Nauwynck

Cardboard Heart (Colombia) by Catalina Ferreira Martin

The Ogre (United States) by Justin Boswick

The Fuckboy Diaries (United States) by Alison Wien

Anchor Points (Canada) by Victor Quijada, Samuel Greffe

Ujvala Jupalli: Asterisk Athlete (United States) by Josephine Harrison

Leap (United States) by Ketrina Bermingham

Theory of Perception (United States) by Adrian Conor Dowd-Pettingill

I Am The Night (Bulgaria) by Iliya Stoyanov

Domingos by Anna Gabriela de Mendonça

The Last Day (Italy) by Michael Fantauzzi