This year’s shortlisted films are:
- When the Bull Cried (Belgium, Bolivia, dir. Karen Vázquez Guadarrama, Bart Goossens)
- Dying Breed (UK, dir. Mick Catmull)
- Time to Read Poems (South Korea, dir. Soojung Lee)
- Turtle Shells (Germany, dir. Tuna Kaptan)
- Before the Bridge (USA, dir. Lewis Wilcox)
- Machines (India, Germany, Finland, dir. Rahul Jain)
- Alien (Türkiye, dir. Morteza Atabaki)
- The Mermaid Kingdom (Mexico, dir. Luiz Rincón)
- Carbon Nights (Switzerland, dir. Robert Müller)
- Delta (Ukraine, Germany, dir. Oleksandr Technyskyi)