BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - BUEIFF®
BUEIFF®
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Competition 2026
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
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (SHORT FILM)
- "ASHES" directed by Lewis MARTIN SOUCY and Mehdi AJROUDI (USA) - WINNER
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
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
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
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
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
BEST POSTER
- "Factory" by Ad Emilson (Paraguay) - WINNER
BEST SOUNDTRACK (SHORT FILM)
- "My Underwater World" by Paul Ryan (Australia)
BEST FIRST MOVIE
- "1212" by Laura Anderson (Colombia)
BEST 1-MINUTE SHORT FILM
- "YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW" by Chia-Hung Kao (Taiwan)
THE FULL LIST OF NOMINEES AND "WORK OF EXCELLENCE"
Official selections that request their Work of Excellence Trophy will also be promoted here!
"Nata dalla spuma del mare" by Paolina Stabile (Italy)
"CONCEPCION" by Jochi Melero & Carlos Larrieu (Puerto Rico)
"LA Jesus" by Richard David Charles Boddington (Canada)
"Genny - The Uncle" by Nicola Bianchi, Claudio Braccini (Colombia)
"Memories of the Little Pond" by Yeon Choi (China)
"Darn It, Darla!" by Walid Chaya (UK)
"En El Espejo" by Pablo Raul (Spain)
"Impossible Yet True 2" by Yanush Ahy (UK)
"Memory lane" by Frederic Mosbeux (Belgium)
"While Fingernails Grow" by Leandro Rial (Brazil)
"Sonata in D" by Craig Urquhart (Canada)
"A WEATHER REPORT" by YU KAJINO (South Korea)
"The Golden Acorn" by Maciej Osuch (United Kingdom)
"Dream Farm" by Bryce Mackie (USA)
"Invisibles México" by Rafael Franco Gomez (Mexico)
"In the Footsteps of Alexander Nevsky" by Anna Leonidovna Turchaninova (Russian Federation)
"Impossible Yet True" by Yanush A (USA)
"Herir" by Jonathan Ivan Hernández Jiménez (Mexico)
"I Love You So Much, But You Are So Difficult" by Berenicé Brino (USA)
"OBRAZ" by Nikola I. Vukcevic (Serbia)
"SOFIA" by Carlos Soto (Ecuador)
"The Guardian" by Xiaojie Shen (China)
"The Flickering Experiment" by Kostiantyn Mishchenko (Ukraine)
"NAND - SOS" by Aleksandr Irinarkhov (Russian Federation)
"The Last Keeper" by Tom Opre (USA)
"The alchemist's dance" by Arantxa Vela (Spain)
"While Fingernails Grow" by Leandro Rial (Brazil)
"NEW DAWN" by Bing Luo (Japan)
"Nowhere But Here" by Özgür Uyanık (Turkey)
"Sun also rises" by Enzo Xia (Japan)
"Secret Plan" by Zhao Kejun (China)
"Heavy Metal Dancers" by Gretta-Garoliina Sammalniemi (Germany)
"The Last Keeper" by Tom Opre (USA
"Dance Studio" by LINGXI YUAN (China)
"Disco Boy" by Mafalda Lorijn (Armenia)
"Scattered Sea" by Lia Sáile (Poland)
"In The Flame We Reveal Ourselves" by Virginia Heath (USA)
"Those who are under the star" by Víctor Terán Sandoval (Portugal)
"BATCAN" by Riu Lohri, David Riedener (Germany)
"Back Home" by Mercedes Arturo (Switzerland)
"The Life and Times of G" by Ian Johnston (UK)
"THOMAS" by Jénia Zaytsev, Gianluca Canale (Italy)
"In the Shadow of the Jaguar" by Bryan Hiveley (USA)
"Macho!" by Courtney Bahr (Germany)
"Beyond Time" by Geoffrey de Valois (Norway)
"Overtime" by Martin Molpeceres (USA)
Competition 2026
All the Winners, Nominees and Work of Excellence can request their Official BUEIFF® Trophy and their BUEIFF® Certificate!