
BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - BUEIFF®

BUEIFF®
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Competition 2026
THE FULL LIST OF FINALISTS / NOMINEES ("WORK OF EXCELLENCE")
ALL CATEGORIES
"Just a coin" Director Emanuel Vazquez Santana (Argentina)
"The Clerk" Director Julian Durand (Argentina)
"BLUFF" Director Tian Tian (China)
"Pescador" Director Harry Domenico Rossi (USA)
"The Last Crusade" Director Juan Díaz Farrell (Argentina)
"SUPER RABBIT" Director Weiting Tian (China)
"Budapest Diaries" Director Rafael Kapelinski (Poland)
"Are you Volleyball?" Director Mohammad Bakhshi (Iran)
"High Moon" Director Sean Bridges (USA)
"Instinct" Director Chad Lee (USA)
"Asteroid-77F" Director Vlad Dikarev (Russian Federation)
"Upbeat" Director Xie Boting (China)
"Right to Life" Director Natalia Arjona (Spain)
"Just Sami" Director Max Fernandez (Finland)
"The Right Face" Director Haoxiong Jin (China)
"EMPATHY REHEARSALS" Director Jacopo Cullin (Italy)
"The Last Sun" Directors Nigel Canepa, Orlando Charvetto (Gibraltar)
"A Conversation in Color" Director Vernor Schneider (USA)
"Survival/Humanity/Mortality" Director Dale Loon (Canada)
"Wanderers Like Fish" Director Xu Ye (China)
"Fretail" Directors David C Jones, Isis Diaz (USA)
"Before you gone" Director Xie ChIa-Ping (Taiwan)
"Transpiration" Director Bella,Bruce Chen (China)
"Asherah: A Love Odyssey" Director Gary Joseph Mazeffa (USA)
"Echo of The Mountain" Director Fengnian Zhao (China)
"The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd" Director Uwe Schwarzwalder (Switzerland)
"DANCIN' FOOLS" Director Kenta Takahashi (Japan)
"Saving Jaguars and Ourselves--The Climate Crisis Is Now!" Director Susan Perz (USA)
"To the adult" Director Grey (China)
"Moment of Silence" Submitter 마스코트맨 Mascot Man (South Korea)
"The Last Lie" Director Boyeon Kim (South Korea)
"The Book of Eve" Director Marco Duran (USA)
"The Man Of Tamagawa" Director Akila Ono (Japan)
"The Hidden Land of Peach Blossoms" Director Luojia GAN (China)
"DEADER THAN YOU'LL EVER BE" Director Christopher Jelley (USA)
"Our Monsters" Director Mia Mango (Petrovic) (Canada)
"Whispers In The Void" Director Kevin Geiger (Taiwan)
"The Fright Stuff" Director Mike Meyer (USA)
"Time and tide wait for no man" Director Jerry Ma (China)
"A Collective Descent into Evil: The Lethal Obsession with Jews and the Jewish State" Director Gloria Z Greenfield (USA)
"Lonely Survival Code" Directors Li-Yu Fu, Vick Wang, Yi-Feng Kao (Taiwan)
"The Enchanting Journey of Love and Cycling" Director Tianwen Yao (China)
"Glass Cocoon" Director Chaowei Jiang (China)
"Dysharmony" Director Wojciech Witold Lipczyński (Poland)
"Meet Me on a Rock" Director Marie Bryan (Ireland)
""Milky Way"_one min." Director Wojciech Witold Lipczyński (Poland)
"Cinema Kawakeb" Director Mahmoud Massad (Jordan, Palestine, Qatar)
"The Way They're Supposed to Be" Director Jiaqing Xu (China)
"Face-off" Director Pascal Chaumont (USA)
"Paradise" Director Daniel Mota (Portugal)
"Taste Channel" Director Petr Chroustovský (Czechia)
"Medicare Benefits In The Community" Directors Cristopher Avello, Olumide Orindare, Alvaro Acosta (USA)
"Gaza's Patient Heart" Director Mo'men Ghanim Hasanain (Palestine)
"Ann‘s House" Director Maggie Yao (New Zealand)
"JoinWith.Me (AI Trailer/Proof of Concept)" Director Mike Meier (USA)
"The Seasons Within Me" Director Sevda Doğan
"Algorithm: The Feed" Director Longwen Miao (China)
"The Coruskan" Director Fred Eyriey (France)
"Talking About Love" Director Marcelo Silva (Brazil)
"Click Bang Boom" Director Michael J Krym (Canada)
"Workday" Director Kevin Zheng (China)
"The salon stays open!" Director Vanesa Valdemoros (Spain)
"Tang Poetry: Chinese Painting" Director Luojia GAN (China)
"THE ART OF PLATE -pesceco-" Director SUGURU SASAKI (Japan)
"Take It Back" Director LEE DAEHAN (South Korea)
"Pendulum Drift" Director Shehzad Afzal (UK)
"Smoke and Mirrors" Director Wenxue Shi (China)
"MAINTENANCE ARTIST" Director Toby Perl Freilich (USA)
"IN SECT" Director MARIE Chiriac (UK)
"Planet Smearth The Land Of Wonders" Director Eyad Kikati (Syrian Arab Republic)
WINNERS 2026
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BEST SHORT FILM - NARRATIVE
- "PATOU: In Black & White" by Fiona Cochrane (Australia)
BEST SHORT FILM - EXPERIMENTAL
- "The three tenors who crossed the ocean from the Po" by Giusy Cafari Panico, Corrado Calda (Italy)
BEST SHORT FILM - ANIMATION
- "Million Loves in Me" directed by Sampson Yuen (Hong Kong)
BEST SHORT FILM - DOCUMENTARY
- "Mlungu - The White King" by David Lusicic (Croatia)
BEST SHORT FILM - UNDER 10MIN
- "Forfaiture" by Jean-François Cantenot (France)
BEST SHORT FILM - UNDER 5MIN
- "WOUND RIDERS" by Angel Barroeta (USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - HORROR
- "From belly to another" by Anaïs Peleyrol (France)
BEST SHORT FILM - COMEDY
- "A Significant Problem" by Trish Harnetiaux (USA)
BEST SHORT FILM - STUDENTS
- "The Cathar" directed by Liam Hendrix Heath (United Kingdom)
BEST DIRECTOR (SHORT FILM)
- "The Cathar" directed by Liam Hendrix Heath (United Kingdom) - WINNER
- Impossible Yet True 2" by Yanush Ahy (United Kingdom) - NOMINEE
- Memory lane" by Frederic Mosbeux (Belgium) - NOMINEE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (SHORT FILM)
- "ASHES" directed by Lewis MARTIN SOUCY and Mehdi AJROUDI (USA) - WINNER
- "While Fingernails Grow" by Leandro Rial (Brazil) - NOMINEE
BEST EDITING (SHORT FILM)
- "ASHES" directed by Lewis MARTIN SOUCY and Mehdi AJROUDI (USA)
BEST ACTOR (SHORT FILM)
- Gerry Grimes in "Confessional directed by Donal O'Dea (Ireland)
BEST ACTRESS (SHORT FILM)
- Yasaman Moshani in "Everyone" (United Kingdom)
BEST ACTING DUO (SHORT FILM)
- Mehdi AJROUDI and Marc Andreoni in "ASHES" (USA)
BEST SCREENPLAY (SHORT FILM)
- "A Minute To Midnight: A Musical" directed by Caue Barcelos (USA) - WINNER
- "While Fingernails Grow" by Leandro Rial (Brazil) - NOMINEE
BEST SOUNDTRACK (SHORT FILM)
- "X212" by Lau Pon yi (Republic of Korea)
BEST 1-MINUTE SHORT FILM
- "YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW" by Chia-Hung Kao (Taiwan)
BEST FEATURE FILM - FICTION
- "Cordas / Cordas World Music Festival" by Diogo Rola, Terry Costa (Portugal)
BEST FEATURE FILM - DOCUMENTARY
- "Land Activities" by Aliss Germain (Canada)
HALF-LENGTH FILM
- "SanDance! A Journey to the Heart of San Culture" directed by Richard Wicksteed (South Africa)
BEST DIRECTOR (FEATURE FILM)
- "Going to Beyond" by Kalli Paakspuu (Canada) - WINNER
- "The Last Keeper" by Tom Opre (USA) - NOMINEE
- "The alchemist's dance" by Arantxa Vela (Spain) - NOMINEE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (FEATURE FILM)
- "Nafkot - Yearning" directed by malka shabtay (Israel)
BEST EDITING (HALF-LENGTH AND FEATURE FILM)
- Branislav Trifunovic in "The Game" directed by Ana Lazarevic (Serbia) - WINNER
- "Heavy Metal Dancers" by Gretta-Garoliina Sammalniemi (Germany) - NOMINEE
- "The Last Keeper" by Tom Opre (USA) - NOMINEE
BEST ACTOR (HALG-LENGTH AND FEATURE FILM)
- Keene McRae in "Bad Furniture" (USA)
BEST ACTRESS (HALF-LENGTH AND FEATURE FILM)
- Shereen Ramprashad in "BLANKET" (Canada)
BEST SCREENPLAY (HALF-LENGTH AND FEATURE FILM)
- "Million Loves in Me" directed by Sampson Yuen (Hong Kong) - WINNER
- "Invisibles México" by Rafael Franco Gomez (Mexico) - NOMINEE
- "In the Footsteps of Alexander Nevsky" by Anna Leonidovna Turchaninova (Russian Federation) - NOMINEE
BEST SOUNDTRACK (FEATURE FILM)
- "Swallow, Dear Swallow" by Eva Colmers (Canada)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
- "BEAST" by Missy Jubilee (Australia)
BEST WEB /TV SERIES
- "The Wait" directed by Rik Langan (USA)
BEST TRAILER / TEASER
- "Complete Time Travel Guide / Denboran Bidaiatzeko Gida Osoa" by Oliver Mend, Rose of Dolls (Spain) - WINNER
- "The Golden Acorn" by Maciej Osuch (United Kingdom) - NOMINEE
- "Dream Farm" by Bryce Mackie (USA) - NOMINEE
BEST POSTER
- "Factory" by Ad Emilson (Paraguay) - WINNER
- "Impossible Yet True" by Yanush A - NOMINEE
BEST FIRST MOVIE
- "1212" by Laura Anderson (Colombia)
All the Winners and Finalists can request their Official BUEIFF® Trophy and their BUEIFF® Certificate!
Competition 2026