Here are our best selections from the short films nominated for Grand Competition – Short Film and Student Film Competition at Animafest Zagreb 2026.


Grand Competition – Short Film

Winter in March
[Armenia and Estonia, 2025]
Director: Natalia Mirzoyan
Production: Artstep and Rebel Frame

The Girl Who Cried Pearls
[Canada, 2025]
Directors: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Production: National Film Board of Canada

Strive
[Croatia, 2025]
Director: Krešimir Pernek
Production: Ustanova Zagreb film and lutka film savska

2:14 PM
[France and The Netherlands, 2026]
Director: Luciano Lepinay
Production: Tchack, Les Fées Spéciales, Les Astronautes, Submarine Sublime, JPL Films, and Ankama Animation

Murmuration
[The Netherlands and Belgium, 2026]
Director: Janneke Swinkels and Tim Frijsinger
Production: Spotted Bird, Beast Animation, and Murmur Animation

Cosmonauts
[Slovenia and Italy, 2026]
Director: Leo Černic
Production: Finta Film and Staragara.IT

The Picture of Dorian Gray
[Switzerland, 2026]
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: RTS Radio Télévision Suisse and Studio GDS

God is Shy
[France, 2025]
Director: Jocelyn Charles
Production: remembers

Please
[Sweden, France, Czech Republic, Norway, and Finland, 2025]
Director: Anna Mantzaris
Production: Apparat Filmproduktion AB, Böhle Studios, Film i Väst, Kuli Film, Mikrofilm AS, Passion Paris Production, and SVT