Category: ENVISION AWARDS – WSXA PARIS 2026

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: DELICIOUS AND TRAGIC

Director’s Name: Francis Lemoine, Guillaume De Mauroy

Writer’s Name: Francis LEMOINE

Producer: ATLAS PRODUCTIONS AF

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes 17 seconds

Film Description:

Monica and Gérard, in their forties, meet up with some college friends by chance.
They are going to remake the world. Meals turn into political meetings. They assert themselves, they oppose each other, they rebel, and reconcile while smoking a joint under the stars. Always eager for something new, they decide to spend an evening in a libertine club.
But fate has the annoying habit of giving you strange meetings!

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: Criminal

Director’s Name: Landon Donoho

Writer’s Name: Landon Donoho, Izzy Spring

Producer: Derek Ceca Res

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 3 seconds

Film Description:

Criminal is an EDM pop anthem about being messy and wild and making every kind of mistake possible in the moment. Directed by Landon Donoho and starring Izzy Spring, the music video follows Izzy as she navigates messy situationships with a variety of people using clever editing, playful colors, and collection of diverse actors.

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: Invincibles

Director’s Name: Shana Rosilio

Writer’s Name: Shana Rosilio

Producer: Shana Rosilio

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 24 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

This film is a dinner party behind closed doors. Hannah is hosting a dinner party at her house with her grandmother, her old school teacher, one of her classmates, and her brother, who lives with her. The classmate seems unaware of what he’s doing there, the school teacher tries to be as discreet as possible, and the brother keeps coughing. The atmosphere at dinner is heavy, as if everyone is superfluous, and the room is increasingly filled with unease…

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: The Thieving Magpie

Director’s Name: Chloé Luizard

Writer’s Name: Chloé Luizard

Producer: Chloé Luizard, Kévin Evanno

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 14 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

Nicolas is fighting an ongoing battle at the Gigamarché ; to spare the world of the uncatchable “Thieving Magpie”, who persists in their rampage and mocks him with each of their crimes. Fortunately, Nicolas’ team is there to support him.

(WINNER)

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?

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: RUDRAM

Director’s Name: Srinivasa Sasikiran Chakravarthula

Writer’s Name: Srinivasa Sasikiran Chakravarthula

Producer: Sravanti Yerragudi

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: Telugu

Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes 25 seconds

Film Description:

Storytelling has always been central to human survival. Long before books and screens, stories helped us make sense of the world, carry memory, and pass strength from one generation to the next. That belief is at the heart of Rudram.
The film follows Bhavani, a Drug Diversion Investigator, and her younger autistic sister, Shivani. Raised in foster care after losing their parents to drugs, the sisters navigate a world that has already taken so much from them. For Shivani, who is non-verbal, her sister’s stories become her language—her way of transforming silence into imagination. Through dance and mythic archetypes, she finds a strength that allows her to protect the only family she has left.
Rudram is not only about the opioid crisis—it is about the timeless power of story to heal, to empower, and to transform. Made entirely in the United States(Minnesota) with a debut cast and crew, the film carries forward that human tradition: to tell a story that reminds us we endure not just through survival, but through the stories we live and share.