New Critics & New Audiences Award

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025, directors Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki discuss their dreamlike animated short about life in a Polish village, where tenderness and cruelty exist in equal measure.

Now nominated for Talking Shorts’ New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025, Inès Sieulle talks about her dazzling AI-film The Oasis I Deserve.

Now nominated for Talking Shorts’ New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025, Stephen Vuillemin talks about his gorgeously animated short film A Kind of Testament.

Now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025, at the heart of Anna Martí Domingo’s Boys is the gradual construction of masculinity in its toxic iterations.

If anything terrible happens, best to laugh it off. French filmmaker Guil Sela knows it best, as he has experienced it firsthand in Montsouris Park, now nominated for the New Critics & New Audience Award 2025.

Taking us through various difficult memories from early childhood up to the present, Ana Gurdiș and Elena Chirilă’s video poem is now nominated for the New Critics & New Audiences Award 2025.