Oscar-Qualified Animated Short Films for the 99th Academy Awards

Qualifying window: 1 October 2025–30 September 2026

Last updated: 13 September 2026

A complete alphabetical guide to the Oscar-qualified animated short films currently confirmed for the 99th Academy Awards, including synopses, runtimes, qualification paths and official links where publicly available.

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Current count: 55 films

All 55 Oscar-Qualified Animated Short Films (alphabetical order)

1981

Andy London, Carolyn London · USA · 8 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

In suburban Long Island in 1981, fourteen-year-old Douglas attends a birthday party whose supposedly festive adult surprise becomes a formative collision of curiosity, fear and desire.

🏆 Qualified through
Florida Film Festival 2026 · Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short

9 Million Colors

Bára Anna Stejskalová · Czech Republic / Germany / Norway · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Fran, a predatory shrimp, delights in the ocean’s colours. When she meets Milva, a blind fish struggling to survive, their different experiences of the same world challenge the possibility of a shared life.

🏆 Qualified through
Indy Shorts 2026 · Animated Grand Prize

ADGWA-ATA

Zsuzsanna Kreif · Hungary / France · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Three teenage girls are abducted for a jungle tribe’s violent initiation. In a supernatural realm, they must confront giant snakes that embody their animal spirits before they can enter adulthood.

🏆 Qualified through
Friss Hús Budapest 2026 · Best Hungarian Animation

Amarelo Banana

Alexandre Sousa · Portugal / Hungary · 12:40 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Unable to sleep, a man encounters a secretive community inside his apartment building. His discovery draws him into the elaborate illusion its inhabitants have constructed.

🏆 Qualified through
deadCenter Film Festival 2026 · Best Animated Short (tie)

Apart

Pola Maneli · South Africa / USA · 19 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

In apartheid South Africa, a forbidden friendship between two boys is tested by a life-saving act that forces them to confront the hatred dividing their world. The film combines traditional 2D, cut-out, 3D and 2.5D animation.

🏆 Qualified through
SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival 2026 · Best in Show

The Apricot

Alex Z. Avila · Mexico / USA · 9 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A ten-year-old boy joins the work on his family’s apricot farm for the first time, spending a summer learning about the world around him.

🏆 Qualified through
New York International Children's Film Festival 2026 · Jury Award Best Animated Short

Because Today Is Saturday

Alice Eça Guimarães · Portugal / France / Spain · 12 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

On a Saturday at home, a woman tries to meet her family’s demands while longing for time and space of her own.

🏆 Qualified through
Tallinn Black Nights / PÖFF Shorts 2025 · Best Animation Short

Beyond Measure

David Ferrier · Australia · 7:27 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

When a man begins physically shrinking, he and his wife invent new ways to manage everyday life and sustain their relationship as his size diminishes.

🏆 Qualified through
Austin Film Festival 2025 · Animated Short Jury Award

Film Page

Busy Bodies

Kate Renshaw-Lewis · USA · 6 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Tiny workers manufacture disposable objects in a household factory overseen by enormous hands. Their elaborate production line turns ordinary consumption into an increasingly absurd mechanical routine.

🏆 Qualified through
Slamdance 2026 · Animated Shorts Grand Jury Prize

Corpus Christi

Bea Lema · Spain · 13 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Convinced she is being watched, Adela seeks comfort in spiritual rituals when her family and doctors fail to understand her. Embroidered images explore the relationship between distress, faith and care.

🏆 Qualified through
Krakow 2026 · Silver Dragon for the Best Short Animated Film

Daughters of the Late Colonel

Elizabeth Hobbs · United Kingdom / Germany · 9 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

After the death of their controlling father, two middle-aged sisters struggle to imagine life on their own until an unexpected visitor gives them the courage to begin again.

🏆 Qualified through
Melbourne International Film Festival 2026 · Best Animation Short Film

Film Page

Dog Alone

Marta Reis Andrade · Portugal / France · 13 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 2× QUALIFIER

Returning from London, where she has been living alone, the filmmaker reflects on three intersecting experiences of solitude: her own, her widowed grandfather’s and that of an abandoned dog.

🏆 Qualified through
CINANIMA 2025 · Grand Prize – City of Espinho Award
IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival 2026 · Best Short Animation

Dollhouse Elephant

Jenny Jokela · Finland · 11 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 2× QUALIFIER

Neighbours share a building but inhabit very different private worlds. When their habits begin causing chaos, they must find a way to act together.

🏆 Qualified through
Animest 2025 · Animest Trophy
Beirut Shorts International Film Festival 2025 · Best Short Animation

El tamagochi escarlata

Francisco “Visceral” Rivera · Chile · 13:22 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A priceless Scarlet Tamagotchi is stolen from a classmate. Iñaki and his turtle friend Cecilio become 1940s-style private detectives to solve the case, only to encounter sinister forces.

🏆 Qualified through
Chilemonos 2026 · Latin American Animated Short Film Competition

Evacuations

Lilli Carré · USA · 7 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Painted, formless figures haunt photographs of emptied public spaces, repeating frantic movements before being displaced as their environments and printed records dissolve.

🏆 Qualified through
Ann Arbor Film Festival 2026 · Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film

Fačuk

Maida Srabović · Croatia / Slovenia · 12:47 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

In a deeply religious village, an unmarried pregnant woman approaches childbirth under the hostile gaze of her neighbours. Their condemnation turns her growing fear into something inescapable.

🏆 Qualified through
Palm Springs ShortFest 2026 · Best Animated Short

Film Page

Fille de l'eau

Sandra Desmazières · France / Netherlands / Portugal · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Mia has spent a lifetime diving and fishing in the sea. As age transforms her body and familiar landscapes, she revisits memories of the people she has lost.

🏆 Qualified through
César 2026 · Best Animated Short Film

Film Page

Fish Moon

Andrey Koulev · Bulgaria · 12:30 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Inspired by poems by Li Bai, the film follows the wandering Chinese poet through metaphorical, associative images rooted in Eastern aesthetics.

🏆 Qualified through
IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival 2026 · Best National Film

Film Page

The Flesh Dress

Joachim Hérissé · France · 15:10 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

An ageing tailor makes his wife work on dresses that have fallen out of fashion. A macabre event inspires a beautiful new creation with a disturbing secret.

🏆 Qualified through
LA Shorts 2026 · Best Animation

Film Page

Gilbert

Arturo Lacal, Alex Salu, Jordi Jiménez · Spain · 13 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Gilbert delivers parcels by gondola among a cluster of ocean homes. When he keeps a package intended for Sullivan, his trumpet-playing neighbour, the act disrupts their island routine.

🏆 Qualified through
Goya Awards 2026 · Best Animated Short Film

God is Shy (Dieu est timide)

Jocelyn Charles · France · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 9× QUALIFIER

On a train, Ariel and Paul draw their greatest fears to pass the time. Their game becomes unsettling when a mysterious fellow passenger takes an interest in what frightens them.

🏆 Qualified through
interfilm Berlin 2025 · Best Animation (International Competition)
Annecy 2026 · Jury Award (Short Films Competition)
Go Short Nijmegen 2026 · Best European Short Animation Film
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2026 · Short Film Competition - Firebird Award
ALCINE 2025 · First Prize European Competition (Diamond Award)
Leuven International Short Film Festival 2025 · Jury Award Best European Short Film
Raindance Film Festival 2026 · Best Animated Short
Fest Anča 2026 · Best Animated Short
Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF) 2025 · Short Film Grand Prize

Other awards: Audience Award Short Film (Annecy 2026), Honourable Mention and Audience Award (Vienna Shorts 2026), Grand Prix Labo Competition (Clermont-Ferrand 2026, non-qualifying), Best Genre Film Generation XYZ (Tampere 2026, non-qualifying), a prize at Animafest Zagreb 2026, César 2026 nominee for Best Animated Short (did not win)

Jour de Vent

Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Elise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding · France · 7 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A strong wind interrupts an ordinary afternoon in a park. As picnickers, lovers and other visitors are swept into the air, unexpected encounters carry their lives in new directions.

🏆 Qualified through
RiverRun International Film Festival 2026 · Best Animated Short

Kirpik

Doğa Kılcıoğlu Esen · Türkiye · 7 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A little girl lives beneath the lashes of an enormous eye. As her world changes, she passes through an intimate journey of grief, loss and transformation.

🏆 Qualified through
İzmir International Short Film Festival 2025 · Best National Short Animation

Film Page

Living with a Visionary

Stephen P. Neary · USA · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

After fifty years of marriage, John cares for his wife Diana as Parkinson's disease and medication produce vivid hallucinations, learning to live with both her illness and her visionary inner world.

🏆 Qualified through
Sundance 2026 · Short Film Jury Award: Animation

Film Page

Mambo No. 2

Anne Feldmeier · Germany · 10 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

On her way to a promising date, Betti suffers an unexpected intestinal crisis. Her attempt to keep the evening on track becomes a comic battle with her own body—and brings her closer to herself.

🏆 Qualified through
New Orleans Film Festival 2025 · Animated Short Jury Award (Helen Hill Animated Short Award)

Film Page

Melk

Filip Anthonissen · Belgium · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Charel runs away after killing his mother’s favourite fish. When he comes home hoping to put things right, his return unleashes disaster.

🏆 Qualified through
Locarno 2026 · Pardino d'Oro Arts3 Foundation for the Best International Short Film

Meteoric

Paul Ó Muiris · Ireland · 6:38 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A meteor strikes an artist and accidentally produces a painting that fascinates the public. Sudden acclaim leaves an awkward question: how can the artist give an eager audience more?

🏆 Qualified through
Animation Dingle 2026 · Best Irish Professional Short

On Saint Nicolas' Eve

Emy Mirel Ivașcă · Romania · 11 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A boy looks back on an evening spent with his father on the eve of Saint Nicholas’s Day, revisiting a childhood memory.

🏆 Qualified through
Animest 2025 · Best Romanian Film

Film Page

Once in a Body (Una vez en un cuerpo)

María Cristina Pérez González · Colombia / USA · 11 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 3× QUALIFIER

A woman carries a strange presence inside her body. Seeking reconciliation with her sister over an incident from their adolescence, she confronts the way a shared past continues to inhabit them.

🏆 Qualified through
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2026 · Rigo Mora Award for Best International Animated Short Film
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival 2026 · Best U.S. Latino Animated Short
BOGOSHORTS 2025 · Santa Lucía for Best Animation, National Competition

Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling

Judith Pungarta Inkamala, Marjorie "Nunga" Williams, Nelson Armstrong · Australia · 9 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 2× QUALIFIER ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY

An animated history of the Ntaria Choir, formerly the Hermannsburg Choir, tracing its international legacy and intergenerational impact in Central Australia.

🏆 Qualified through
Melbourne International Film Festival 2026 · VicScreen Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film
Sydney Film Festival 2026 · Yoram Gross Animation Award

Paper Daughter

Cami Kwan · USA · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A young Chinese woman uses a deceased girl’s identity to seek entry to the United States. Haunted by the life she has borrowed, she struggles with guilt and the price of becoming a paper daughter.

🏆 Qualified through
deadCenter Film Festival 2026 · Best Animated Short (tie)

Paper Trail

Don Hertzfeldt · USA · 14 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 3× QUALIFIER

An entire life seen only through pieces of paper. The look comes from a blend of 2D computer animation and animated objects.

🏆 Qualified through
SXSW 2026 · Animated Shorts Competition Jury Award
Annecy 2026 · Cristal for a Short Film
San Francisco International Film Festival 2026 · Golden Gate Award for Best Animated Short

Other awards: Short Film Special Jury Award for Creative Vision (Sundance 2026), Animated Short Audience Award (SXSW 2026)

Paradaïz

Matea Radic · Canada · 9:28 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY

A woman returns to the Sarajevo of her childhood, where memories of home collide with wartime destruction. Animation and family images reshape her search for safety and belonging.

🏆 Qualified through
DOK Leipzig 2025 · Golden Dove Short Film (International Competition Animated Film)

Sources: NFB film record · NFB trailer

Petra y el sol (Petra and the Sun)

Malu Furche, Stefania Malacchini · Chile · 11 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

When the Andean snow melts, 71-year-old Petra discovers the preserved body of a mountaineer from the previous century. She takes him into her home, where an unexpected romance begins.

🏆 Qualified through
CineLebu 2026 · Best International Animation Short

Film page / stills

Sources: CineChile: film details and stills

Pigeons

Amos Sussigan · Switzerland / USA · 13 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED THEATRICAL QUALIFICATION

A carrier pigeon loses his job when a telephone arrives in his owner’s home. Looking for food, shelter and a new purpose, he discovers what progress means for those it leaves behind.

🏆 Qualification
Screenings

Film Page

Praying Mantis

Joe Hsieh, Yonfan · Taiwan / Hong Kong · 18 min (international version; 21 min director’s cut)

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

On a nightlife street, a mutant praying mantis seduces and preys on men in a desperate attempt to save her child. A failed hunt reveals her past and darker secrets.

🏆 Qualified through
Golden Horse Awards 2025 · Best Animated Short Film

Festival / award page · Watch trailer · Festival / award page

Sources: Venice: international-version credits

School Show

Ana Horvat · Croatia · 6 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

At a school performance in mid-1980s Yugoslavia, songs and recitations proceed as a Pioneer girl notices an unknown man in the audience behaving in a way she cannot understand.

🏆 Qualified through
Animafest Zagreb 2026 · Best Croatian Film

Festival / award page · Film page / stills

Sources: Croatian Audiovisual Centre · Animafest technical record

Sulaimani

Vinnie Ann Bose · France · 19 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 2× QUALIFIER

Two women from Kerala dine separately in a Parisian Indian restaurant. Familiar flavours, sounds and language bring back memories of home and their different paths towards independence.

🏆 Qualified through
Aspen Shortsfest 2026 · Jury Award for Animation
Manchester Animation Festival 2025 · Best Short Film

Sources: Premiers Plans film record

Susurros

Alexandra Pewinski, Marie Lombard, Florian Reignier, Emma Pluchard, Lise Francillon, Alice Parmentier · France · 7:27 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

From the witch hunts of seventeenth-century Europe to the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, two women separated by four centuries face unwanted pregnancies as history repeats itself.

🏆 Qualified through
Cleveland International Film Festival 2026 · Best Animated Short Film

Film page / stills

Sources: Unifrance technical record

Tears

Paulina Ziółkowska · Germany / Poland · 8:50 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Faced with too many possibilities, a woman finds herself pulled in different directions. Her struggle to choose becomes a literal experience of being torn apart.

🏆 Qualified through
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2026 · Best Short Animation

Sources: Filmmaker record · Polish Animations: festival record

That Night

Hoda Sobhani · Iran / USA · 11 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY

Neda Naji recounts surviving the October 2022 fire in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Animation conveys the terror and solidarity experienced by her and the other imprisoned women.

🏆 Qualified through
Dallas International Film Festival 2026 · Grand Jury Prize - Best Animated Short Film

Sources: Official film statement

There Will Be No Other End (Innego końca nie będzie)

Piotr Milczarek · Poland · 8:04 min

ANIMATION OSCAR CYCLE TO CHECK

Five satirical episodes expose a society undermined by thoughtlessness, indifference and irresponsibility. Their playful visual language asks what happens when people refuse to recognise the consequences of their behaviour.

🏆 Recorded award — Oscar cycle to check
Animator International Animated Film Festival 2026 · Grand Prix – Golden Pegasus

Sources: Short Shorts: synopsis and technical record

Tooborac

Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie · Australia · 9 min

EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION CATEGORY UNCONFIRMED

Granite formations around Tooborac in central Victoria appear to move in a rhythmic study of landscape, endurance and the material possibilities of film.

🏆 Recorded award — animation category unconfirmed
Ann Arbor Film Festival 2026 · Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival

Research check · 13 September 2026: CATEGORY UNCERTAIN: RGFF labels this Documentary / Experimental; the Ann Arbor award is open across forms and does not establish Animated Short eligibility. Keep out of the confirmed-animation total pending filmmaker clarification. Runtime follows Ann Arbor’s 9 min; RGFF lists 8 min.

Sources: Ann Arbor touring programme · RGFF film record

Tourists

Mária Kralovič · Slovakia / France / Czech Republic · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 2× QUALIFIER

A married couple’s routine work trip becomes a struggle for survival when they are stranded in a remote forest. The wilderness exposes the fault lines in their stagnant relationship.

🏆 Qualified through
Fest Anča 2026 · Best Slovak Animated Short
OFF - Odense International Film Festival 2026 · Børge Ring Award

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation confirmed by the Slovak Film Institute, including runtime and Slovakia / France / Czech Republic co-production.

Sources: Slovak Film Institute

toward a fundamental theory of physics

Victor Van Rossem · Belgium · 12:49 min

EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION CATEGORY UNCONFIRMED

A return to the fundamentals of cinema, light, time, space and celluloid, turning experimentation into a hypnotic choreography and a meditation on perception, briefly ruptured by the appearance of the filmmaker.

🏆 Recorded award — animation category unconfirmed
Vienna Shorts 2026 · ASIFA Austria Award (Animation Avantgarde, Best Film)

Research check · 13 September 2026: CATEGORY UNCERTAIN: Vienna Shorts labels the film Experimental within Animation Avantgarde; that programme title alone does not prove Animated Short eligibility. A handcrafted 293-lens Time-Slice camera was used for the 16mm photography. Runtime follows Vienna Shorts’ indexed listing (12:49); Analogica lists 12:48. Direct confirmation of the Academy animation category is needed.

Sources: Vienna Shorts: indexed programme record · Analogica: indexed technical description · Filmmaker

Ujan

Anirban Paul · India · 5:48 min [provisional]

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

In a landscape where water erases walls and idols drift away, two brothers row against the current in search not only of survival, but of faith and meaning.

🏆 Qualified through
Bengaluru International Short Film Festival 2026 · Best Animation Film

Festival / award page · Watch trailer

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation supported by the official trailer and Bengaluru’s animation award. RUNTIME PROVISIONAL: an indexed Lichtblick Kino programme for ‘One Short for a Nation’ dated 25 March 2026 lists 5:48 and Anirban Paul, but the original programme page could not be fully retrieved. Confirm the duration with the filmmaker before removing this flag.

Sources: Official trailer · Lichtblick Kino: indexed programme only

Uka-Uka

Henri Veermäe · Estonia · 11:52 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Battling boredom, a little boy gets trapped in the boot of a car. When he gets out, he is no longer the same.

🏆 Qualified through
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival 2026 · Best Film, International Competition

Festival / award page · Film page / stills

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation confirmed by the filmmaker’s FilmFreeway record and Fantoche’s international animation competition.

Sources: Film technical record · Fantoche awards

Una parvada de estruendo

Mariana Mendívil · Mexico · 9:38 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A stop-motion collage dismantles inherited images of femininity. Its shifting bodies and forms search for other ways to express identity and freedom.

🏆 Qualified through
Morelia International Film Festival 2025 · Ojo for Best Mexican Animated Short

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation, exact runtime and director spelling confirmed by Morelia’s film record.

Sources: Morelia: synopsis and technical record

The Undying Pain of Existence

Oscar Jacobson · Germany · 5:20 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 2× QUALIFIER

A nude model poses motionless for an elite drawing class until a mosquito bite tests his self-control, setting the demand for perfection against increasingly animalistic impulses.

🏆 Qualified through
Atlanta Film Festival 2026 · Best Animated Short
Thomas Edison Film Festival 2026 · Stellar Award for Animation

Official film page

Research check · 13 September 2026: 2D computer animation confirmed by SWISS FILMS. Despite the Swiss database listing, its production country is Germany.

Sources: SWISS FILMS technical record

Une fugue

Agnès Patron · France · 15 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

A sister revisits memories of her brother: his appearance, their closeness and the route they followed towards the river. Shifting images preserve a bond that absence cannot erase.

🏆 Qualified through
Anima - Brussels Animation Film Festival 2026 · Grand Prix Anima for Best International Short Film

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation confirmed by Cannes Critics’ Week credits. International title: To the Woods.

Sources: Cannes Critics’ Week

Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank

Wesley Wang · USA · 2 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

After a tyrannical rabbit president takes control of the carrot supply, a married pair of country rabbits launch dangerous factory raids to reclaim it.

🏆 Qualified through
Tribeca 2026 · Best Animated Short

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation explicitly confirmed by Tribeca, which lists 2 min. IMDb and some reviews round to 3 min; exact duration remains unresolved.

Sources: Tribeca film record

Voideden

Alan Holly · Ireland / Portugal · 9 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Disconnection from nature leaves an emptiness that constant consumption cannot fill. Screens and desires multiply as the search for connection becomes increasingly elusive.

🏆 Qualified through
Galway Film Fleadh 2026 · James Horgan Award for Best Animation Short

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation supported by co-producers And Maps And Plans and BAP. Portugal added as co-production country; festivals list about 9 min (Animafest’s indexed record: 9:07).

Sources: Producer: film page · Producer catalogue and Galway award · Co-producer

We're Kinda Different

Ben Meinhardt · Canada · 3 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

An unusual hero introduces himself through song, turning the things that make him different into a playful musical celebration.

🏆 Qualified through
New York International Children's Film Festival 2026 · Jury Award Best Animated Short

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation, Canada and 3-minute runtime explicitly confirmed by NYICFF.

Sources: NYICFF film record

What We Leave Behind

Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte · Canada · 10:47 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED

Dan has a wound in his neck that refuses to heal, yet he cannot remember or speak about its cause. Returning to the world of his childhood, he searches for the part of himself he left there.

🏆 Qualified through
Kaboom Animation Festival 2026 · Best Short Film

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation and exact runtime confirmed by distributor Travelling, which also explicitly presents the film for 99th Oscar consideration.

Sources: Distributor: details, trailer and stills

With Tapes and Toasts in the Car (Im Auto Tapes und Butterbrot)

Kiana Naghshineh · Germany / France · 14:24 min

ANIMATION OSCAR-QUALIFIED 5× QUALIFIER

After learning that her illness is terminal, Shari escapes into outer space. There, the fragility of Earth helps her recognise what she wants most: ordinary time with her family.

🏆 Qualified through
Stuttgart ITFS 2026 · Grand Prix International Competition
HollyShorts 2026 · Best Animation
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2026 · Best Short - Animation
Seattle International Film Festival 2026 · Grand Jury Prize for Animation Short
Chilemonos 2026 · International Animated Short Film Competition

Other awards: Audience Award (ITFS 2026)

Research check · 13 September 2026: Animation confirmed by Short Shorts, which supplies the exact runtime and both production countries.

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