Category: BEST ACTRESS & ACTOR AWARD – WSXA AMSTERDAM 2026

Original Film Title: Keepers Of The Door

Director’s Name: Folasade

Writer’s Name: Folasade

Producer: Folasade, Jessica Auguste

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 20 minutes 22 seconds

Film Description:

A comedy about hosts dealing with the hardships of working in a fine dine restaurant in Hollywood.

Original Film Title: Secret

Director’s Name: Jia Chen

Writer’s Name: Xinyu Zhang

Producer: Xinyu Zhang

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 17 minutes

Film Description:

A daughter with a new age female mind yearns for and fears a relationship. Unable to cook, she was forced to get married by her father. A father with Alzheimer’s disease wants his daughter to find support early, before he completely loses his memory. They quarreled and finally reconciled.

Original Film Title: CPA

Director’s Name: Gabriela Revilla Lugo

Writer’s Name: Jelena Woehr

Producer: Britt Ellis

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 9 minutes 41 seconds

Film Description:

Three undercover federal agents working in the world of hip-hop discover they’ve been unknowingly investigating each other—but none of them is willing to reveal the mix-up and return to their desk jobs empty-handed.

Original Film Title: DND

Director’s Name: Ravi Kishore Donthikurthi

Writer’s Name: Ravi Kishore Donthikurthi, Krishna Kishore Donthikurthi

Producer: Ravi Kishore Donthikurthi, Krishna Kishore Donthikurthi

Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates

Country of Filming: United Arab Emirates

Language: English, Portuguese

Runtime: 24 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

Danny is everywhere—except where he truly needs to be. Trapped between constant notifications and a life that moves on without him, a distracted husband and overwhelmed father begins to lose his family with every moment of inattention. As his routine fragments into surreal visions and painful confrontations, DND reveals the human cost of screen addiction—and the fragile hope found in reconnecting with the present.

Original Film Title: WiFi Date

Director’s Name: Daniela Lugo, Giorgio Rossini

Writer’s Name: Daniela Lugo, Giorgio Rossini, Derek Stusynski

Producer: Daniela Lugo, Giorgio Rossini

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

Johnathan is ready to start dating for the first time, and when he gets set up on a blind date by his cousin, he arrives at his date’s house dressed to impress. Awkward but sincere, Johnathan shows up only to be mistaken by his date’s sister Vanessa for a last-minute tech guy there to fix the Wi-Fi. Stumbling his way through suggestive misunderstandings, hilarity ensues as he plays along with the absurdity. Will he sabotage his shot at romance, or somehow stumble backward into his first real fling?

Original Film Title: Last Song

Director’s Name: Remco Merbis

Writer’s Name: Remco Merbis

Producer: Remco Merbis

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 45 seconds

Film Description:

At a school party, a quiet moment of eye contact over a song sparks a relationship shaped by music, closeness, and shared discovery. Last Song unfolds over a single summer, drifting through sun-warmed days, late nights, and the small rituals that define first love. Told in fragments of memory, the film traces how something once effortless slowly falls out of sync, giving way to silence and emotional distance. When a familiar track unexpectedly returns, it pulls the past into the present, asking whether certain connections ever truly fade. A tender, nostalgic portrait of young love, growing apart, and the fragile possibility of reconnection.