We are excited to announce the Official Selection for the 15th Edition of the International Filmmaker Festival of New York (IFFNY 2026).
439 submissions from filmmakers worldwide · 61 selected projects · 84 countries represented
50 projects in Official Competition · 11 projects in Spotlight Showcase
One World. Infinite Stories.
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★ Feature Films
Redemption — Miguel Barreda Delgado / 1h 30min / Peru
El verano más largo del mundo — Maria Alejandra Lipoma, Romina Vlachoff / 1h 19min / Argentina
Money Tree — Andy Jones / 1h 15min / USA
★ Short Films
Mamie — Pedro Tamames / 15:58 / Spain
At Stake — Emiliano Romero / 7:40 / Argentina
Lying Fallow — Amanda G Chung / 6:57 / USA
Uncopyable — Andrés Hidalgo, Gabriela Menendez / 3:03 / Ecuador
Asphodel — Andry Platrites, Cara El Haber / 6:04 / Cyprus
F*ck Florida — Adrian Jules / 7:04 / USA
The Last Sun — Nigel Canepa, Orlando Charvetto / 19:51 / Gibraltar
My Foot is in Heaven — Iyad Hajjaj / 15:00 / Palestine · USA
Branch On A Tree — Chris Zarb / 17:06 / Malta
me. — Elijah Anatole / 4:45 / Saint Lucia
Layla — Sondos Yasser / 13:42 / Egypt
Donde Todo Empieza — Denisse Juliana, Catalina Giraldo / 19:00 / Colombia
Nature and Poetry — Jasna Safic / 17:06 / Croatia
Sand — Noor Al-Nasr / 19:00 / Qatar
The Beneath — Lisette Vlassak / 7:31 / Netherlands
The Sleep of Reason — Aleksandr Akhmedov / 21:17 / Kazakhstan
Downward — Barnabás Juhász / 23:35 / Hungary
Parallax Of The Liminal Void — Odin Jurray / 30:00 / New Zealand
Morphic — Malik Maliki / 16:00 / Iraq · USA
Cassandra Venice — Hugo Justin Teugels / 20:00 / Belgium
★ Feature Documentaries
After Melissa — Kaneal Gayle / 1h 15min / Jamaica
Cinema Kawakeb — Mahmoud Massad / 1h 20min / Jordan · Palestine · Qatar
War on Art — Andrzej Miekus / 1h 13min / Estonia
They are Siufung — Jean-Luc Bonéfacino / 1h 25min / Hong Kong
★ Short Documentaries
Where is Home? — Lamtiar Simorangkir / 39:00 / Indonesia
Adas Falasteen — Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini, Samar Taher Lulu / 7:55 / Palestine
Yenna … Bread Crust — Ayoub AIT BIHI / 28:34 / Morocco
Chekhov.Offstage — Anna Turchaninova / 40:00 / Russian Federation
★ Music Videos
Fight for Me — Juanfer Andres / 3:34 / Spain
Justin Knuth: Things Change — Billy Freeman / 2:32 / USA
Oh My Baby — Jithesh CG, Sharon Shobana Vasudevan / 5:00 / Singapore
★ Animation
Night of the Living Fish — Taiah Hay / 4:59 / UK
Like Friend, Like Deer — Malek Eghbali / 11:47 / Iran
Octopus Banana Hotchpotch — Milanka Fabjancic / 7:40 / Slovenia
The Fiddler Crab — Chun-Shuo Huang / 8:25 / Taiwan
★ AI Art
Distillation — Serene Chu / 12:08 / China
The Optimization of Dissent — Yukun Huang / 6:52 / China
Terranova — Chad Seibert / 25:00 / USA
A-66 — John Tan / Singapore
★ Under 5 Min
Quiet — Holly Ester Meltzer / 2:00 / UK
Bonnie & Claude — Jim Hall / 4:58 / France
The Snail — Eyal Padan / 1:32 / Israel
Closer — Adam Courtney / 5:00 / Australia
The Lie — Patrikus Maximus / 4:38 / Canada
Gaza’s Lost Horizon — Mo’men Ghanim Hasanain / 2:00 / Palestine
Standing Waves — Nolan Stolz / 2:38 / USA
Astroid Space Cowboy — Harold Dudley Jr. / 2:38 / USA
Birth — Jumana Radi / 1:58 / United Arab Emirates
Australia – the beautiful — Chris Tangey / 4:30 / Australia
The Kingdom of the 7 Realms — Kedra L. Curry / 2:55 / USA
★ Scripts — Feature Films
The Executioner’s Room — Javier López Teso / Spain
Certification of Marriage — Michael Vasquez / USA
Zaccheus — Jose R Acosta / Spain
Marinara — Fabio Bianchi / Italy
★ Scripts — Short Films
Waking Prospects — Shahin Jabbarzadeh / Iran
Root 66 — Brittany Pera / USA
Rosemary Leaves — Daniel Warren / Ireland
Far from the War — Peter Bondarenko / Ukraine
