Category: ENVISION AWARDS – WSXA AMSTERDAM 2026

Original Film Title: The Future Shapes the Past: The Hilsner Case

Director’s Name: Bryan Richard Felber

Writer’s Name: Bryan Richard Felber

Producer: Bryan Richard Felber

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Canada, Germany, United States

Language: Czech, English

Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes 41 seconds

Film Description:

In 1899, the murder of a young woman in the woods of Bohemia sparked a blood libel that still haunts the Czech Republic today. Leopold Hilsner, the Jewish man wrongly accused, remains legally guilty, despite activists fighting to overturn the verdict for more than 30 years.

Original Film Title: ELECTRA

Director’s Name: DIMITRIS ZAPATINAS

Writer’s Name: PETROS TSAPILIS

Producer: DIMITRIS ZAPATINAS, PETROS TSAPILIS, AFRODITI DIMOU, PETROS NIAMOTINAKIS, DESPOINA VOGIATZI

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: Greek (Modern)

Runtime: 23 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

A young female volleyball athlete is summoned to her coach’s office. Ready for the worst, she comes prepared to confront the man who has long abused his power over her and her co-athletes.

Original Film Title: Love Struck

Director’s Name: Clifford Xuereb

Writer’s Name: Nathan Vella

Producer: Jean Carbonaro

Country of Origin: Malta

Country of Filming: Malta

Language: English

Runtime: 13 minutes 44 seconds

Film Description:

In a story filled with sweat, tears, and pancakes, witness the epic tale of Andy, a goofy, overweight helpless romantic and Jake, a cocky martial arts trainer must save Mia, a young waitress from the no-good, height lacking, singlet wearing wannabe mafioso, Rico and his dastardly crew, witness this heroic a Laurel and hardy-esq duo as they fight for love… literally.

Original Film Title: A MOTHER’S LOVE

Director’s Name: Harald Schwarzenbacher

Writer’s Name: Gregor Schmidinger

Producer: Harald Schwarzenbacher

Country of Origin: Austria

Country of Filming: Austria

Language: German

Runtime: 21 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

Beate, 43, lives with her husband Uwe and their eight-year-old son Benjamin in a small town. On the surface, they appear to be an ordinary family—yet they are still reeling from the tragic bus accident that claimed the life of their eldest daughter, twelve-year-old Jana. The loss continues to weigh heavily on Beate, piercing through her daily life like a wound that refuses to heal.

When Benjamin is unexpectedly summoned to the police for questioning, Beate learns that her own son carries partial responsibility for the accident.

This revelation shatters her. A storm of emotions begins to rage within her, pushing her into a psychological limbo between grief and maternal love. She can barely look Benjamin in the eyes without seeing in him the cause of her daughter’s death.

How is she supposed to face her child now?
How can she reconcile his innocence with the unbearable weight of guilt?

Original Film Title: BARRAGE

Director’s Name: Emanuele Filiberto D’Andrea

Writer’s Name: Emanuele Filiberto D’Andrea

Producer: Sean Manuel Valdo, Fabio mauro Angeli

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 42 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

The red thread linking Thailand and 1980s Colombia is formed by the blood spilled by bullets. Between past and present, Kitt will face difficult choices to survive, but perhaps in the smoke of battle he will find a family.

Original Film Title: Enemy Heroes

Director’s Name: Mark Diamond

Writer’s Name: Mark Diamond

Producer: Laura Lee Diamond

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English,

Runtime: 7 minutes 51 seconds

Film Description:

Enemy Heroes “Because… sometimes it is not easy to tell… Who is the Enemy?.. Who are the Heroes?”

Enemy Heroes is a multi-level WWII version of ‘All Quiet on The Western Front’ in which the audience agonizes over the heart-wrenching choices the protagonists are forced to make – and in so doing clarifies their own values.
It’s not a film about War. It is a film about Humanity.