Network Round Winners

# Network Round Winners 2026 Sydney Lift-Off Festival Programme HAVE A GREAT APOCALYPSE Francois Theurel Director,  Writer // Francois Theurel Producer//Kirk Mihelakos Country of origin // Australia Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative, Best Art Direction Synopsis // It’s an end of the world… and Sean wants to write a book. He doesn’t know […]

# Network Round Winners 2026 Paris Lift-Off Festival Programme Mothers Choukri Rouha Watch Trailer Director,  Writer, Producer// Choukri Rouha Writer, Producer//Grégory Verdat Producer//Marie-Laurence Attias Country of origin // France Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative, Best Actor (Karina Testa) Synopsis // Sabira, a single mother of Algerian descent, receives devastating news at the hospital:

# Network Round Winners 2026 Los Angeles Lift-Off Festival Programme Happy Birthday, Dorif T.J. Williams Director,  Writer // T.J. Williams Writers//Cara McFarlane, Alec Schulman Producer//BEN DILLION De Rozario Country of origin // United States Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative, Best Art Direction Synopsis //Greg, a struggling pianist, brings his nurse coworker to his

# Network Round Winners 2026 New York Lift-Off Festival Programme This Damnation Russell De Rozario Director,  Writer // Russell De Rozario Writer//MARK WORRAL Producer//BEN DILLION De Rozario Country of origin // Taiwan Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative, Best Art Direction Synopsis //Period drama set in London and Belfast in 1977 Season Awards #17

# Network Round Winners 2026 Toronto Lift-Off Festival Programme Contrition Marco Beyermann Director,  Producer // Marco Beyermann Director, Writer, Producer//Ben Keenan Country of origin // United Kingdom Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative, Best Actor (Ben Keenan) Synopsis // Damien, a man in his 40s, is haunted by a traumatic childhood event—A violent IRA

# Network Round Winners 2026 Tokyo Lift-Off Festival Programme The Boy from Outer Space SUNG HO KIM Watch Trailer Director, Writer, Producer // SUNG HO KIM Country of origin // South Korea Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative Synopsis // One day, a boy suddenly went missing. The detective, who responded to the report,

# Network Round Winners 2026 Austin Lift-Off Festival Programme Little Big Sister Alaa Al-Shameri Watch Trailer Director, Writer  // Alaa Al-Shameri Country of origin // United States Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative, Best Actor (Sophie Lin) Synopsis //Little Big Sister is an intimate portrait of resilience and quiet sacrifice. Set against the harsh

# Network Round Winners 2026 Manchester Lift-Off Festival Programme PUNCHBAG Mat Johns Director, Writer & Producer  // Mat Johns Writer/Producer// Emm Kenny Country of origin // United Kingdom Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative, Best Acting Ensemble Synopsis //Zoe has bills to pay and she’s found herself with an unusual job title. Season Awards

# Network Round Winners 2026 Berlin Lift-Off Festival Programme FOXBODY Cameron Monaghan Watch Trailer Director, Writer & Producer  // Cameron Monaghan Producers// Nika Burnett, Maya Donato, Grant Rosenmeyer, Maria Prieto, Sara Eklund, Lily Darragh Harty Country of origin // United States Season Award #17 Nomination // Best Short Narrative & Best Art Direction Synopsis //When a

# Network Round Winners 2025 Berlin Lift-Off Festival Programme Wake Up Halbe-Piter Claus Watch Trailer Director & Writer // Halbe-Piter ClausProducers // Laura Oosterloo & Janjelle Ringnalda Country of origin // Netherlands Season Award #16 Nominations // Best Short Narrative, Best Acting Ensemble & Best Art Direction Synopsis // For Dieuwke, silence is golden: no sleep means no explosive breakdance moves. Yet the