Congratulations to the 2026 festival winners:

Best Film Award 

Speedy!, Dir. Jiin Oh

3Pas Studios Award for Excellence in Producing

Kaustubh "Vick" Singh, Nikola, Nikola

James Ponsoldt Award for Best Director

Jiin Oh, Speedy!

Richard Brick Fund for Special Distinction in Line Producing

Laura Ganotis, When the Geese Flew

Adrienne Shelly Foundation Award

Cecelia Wheeler, Winners & Losers

National Board of Review Student Grant Nominees

Tonghuan Zhao, Last Day in the North
Leon Ristov, Nikola, Nikola
Cecelia Wheeler, Winners & Losers
Adam Zheng Yuan, Fifty Kilometers from the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge, Two Drunken Pigeons Are Dancing
Apa Agbayani, Is this desire?

NBR Marion Carter Green Award Nominee

Apa Agbayani, Is this desire?

NBR Norman T. Strauss Award Nominee

Adam Zheng Yuan, Fifty Kilometers from the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge, Two Drunken Pigeons Are Dancing

Audience Awards

Program A: Un Miratge, Dir. Hector Prats, P. Heather Francis
Program B: Doomsday, Dir. Sofia Voss, P. Anna Dunn
Program C: Fifty Kilometers from the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge, Two Drunken Pigeons Are Dancing, Dir. Adam Zheng Yuan, P. Yuxi Zhu
Program D: Last Day in the North, Dir. Tonghuan Zhao, P. Summer Xueyang Li
Program E: Si Shui (Still Water), Dir. Yijian Shan, P. Anqi Chen, Maggie Chen
Program F: Delay, Dir. Hanxuan Wang, P. Guang Ren
Program G: Oh Happy Day!, Dir. Ivan Rome, P. Leah Simone Scott

The Michael Hausman/Buffalo Mike Filmhaus Foundation Award Recipients 

Dave Flynch
Alex Hawthorne
Nadine Jose
Sophia Lim

Miloš Forman Directing Fellowships

Siena Jun
Yuhao Peng
You Wang
Coral Worley

Arthur Krim Memorial Award

Isabelle Abry
Kailynne Chiu
Sarah Mezzanotte
Louric Rankine

David Henry Hammer Award

Apa Agbayani

Lewis Cole Memorial Award for Excellence

Sofia Voss

Alex Sichel Fellowship

J Wang

Bobby Kashif Cox Memorial Screenwriting Scholarship

Kathryn Kearney