Category: AUDIENCE AWARDS – PARIS 2026 NOMINEES

Original Film Title: The Race

Director’s Name: Zoran Pribičević

Writer’s Name: Zoran Pribičević, Marko Hrenovic

Producer: Alenka Zganjer Pribicevic

Country of Origin: Croatia

Country of Filming: Croatia

Language: Croatian

Runtime: 21 minutes 49 seconds

Film Description:

Sanja, Darko, and their 7-year-old daughter Mara live in perfect family bliss—until a sudden heart defect shatters their world. As they search desperately for help, they find themselves trapped in a cold, indifferent system where time blurs and no one listens. With everything slipping away, they are left with one final, desperate chance.

Original Film Title: THE RESONANCE

Director’s Name: Emir Mavitan

Writer’s Name: Emir Mavitan

Producer: Melis Merdan

Country of Origin: Türkiye

Country of Filming: Türkiye

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 57 seconds

Film Description:

“The Resonance” emerges as a fashion film that translates Solfeggio frequencies – believed since ancient times to harmonize the mind, body, and spirit – into the visual language of contemporary cinema. The film narrates the character’s inner transformation in chapters, each built around one of six fundamental frequencies, each representing a distinct emotional state.

Starring Tuba Ünsal, The Resonance journeys through an emotional spectrum ranging from 396 Hz to 852 Hz, embodying stages of fear, flow, passion, connection, renewal, and rebirth through physical performance and choreographic expression. Sound waves act as an invisible architectural force, shaping the character’s internal odyssey.

The film not only offers a visual narrative but also immerses the audience in a world where they can feel the vibration of each frequency through 360 – degree sound design. The Resonance presents a poetic exploration that repositions sound as an aesthetic medium, transforming the relationship between emotion and vibration into a cinematic investigation.

Original Film Title: The Birth of Maiaas Tale

Director’s Name: Laetitia Cazaux

Writer’s Name: Laetitia Cazaux

Producer: Laetitia Cazaux, Jason Grangier

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 18 minutes

Film Description:

Maia, a 14-year-old dancer, sees her audition abruptly interrupted by her first period. Confronted with a fear of growing up, she desires only one thing: to speak to her mother, a figure ever-present in her heart but absent from her life. She persuades her older brother, Léo, to drive her to their mother’s house.

Original Film Title: Snow Over Kigali – an African Christmas Tale

Director’s Name: Kerim Esen

Writer’s Name: Kerim Esen

Producer: Kerim Esen, Esteban Corti, Jessica Beard, Lucia Sapelli, Aniket Ukey

Country of Origin: Argentina, Germany, Paraguay, Rwanda

Country of Filming: Germany, Rwanda

Language: English, German, Kinyarwanda

Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes

Film Description:

“Snow over Kigali” is told from an African perspective through the eyes of a nine-year old boy. It pictures three mother-child stories unfolding in parallel in Kigali and culminating on Christmas Eve in Berlin:
Rachel’s Secret – A nine-year old boy looking for snow travels alone from Kigali to Berlin. At the foot of the Berlin TV-Tower, Ethan meets former athlete Nick who promises that it will snow on Christmas Eve…
Esther’s Decision – After a bad breakup, a young Rwandan woman doesn’t tell her German boyfriend Patrick that she is pregnant. Patrick returns from Berlin to Kigali to fight for Esther’s love and the life of their unborn daughter…
Deborah’s Will – 20 years after genocide a widower returns to Rwanda to fulfill his late wife’s will. George is looking for Deborah’s daughter to confront her with the truth buried in the past…

Original Film Title: Pick Up Artist

Director’s Name: Alvaro Orlando

Writer’s Name: Alvaro Orlando

Producer: Evan Ross, Alexis Knapp

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes

Film Description:

Drew is seconds away from proposing to his girlfriend—he’s got the ring, the speech, the whole Pinterest-worthy plan—when she strolls in and casually announces she’s found someone else. Now heartbroken, humiliated, and housing enough sadness to flood a small Airbnb, Drew is convinced he’ll die alone.

Enter his best friend, who decides the cure for heartbreak is… a Pick-Up Artist seminar. Yes, those guys. Suddenly Drew is trapped in a world of spray-tanned dating “gurus,” aggressive cologne, and grown men shouting affirmations in the mirror.

What follows is Drew’s wildly disastrous attempt to “get back out there” using advice that absolutely no woman on Earth would ever respond to. But somewhere between the cringe, the chaos, and the catastrophic flirting, Drew just might stumble into something real—mostly by accident.

Original Film Title: Elsewhere

Director’s Name: Luca Forcignanò Serri

Writer’s Name: Luca Forcignanò Serri

Producer: Luca Forcignanò Serri

Country of Origin: Germany, Italy

Country of Filming: Germany, Italy

Language:

Runtime: 5 minutes 40 seconds

Film Description:

Through fragmented memories and haunting silence, Anderswo explores the devastating aftermath of trauma, revealing how one moment can rewrite an entire life.