KINO LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2026 AWARD WINNERS
OUR AWARDS CEREMONY WAS HELD AUGUST 25TH AT THE GARDEN CINEMA
Best Funded Short
First Sight
Fuck-a-Fan (WINNER!)
The Last Dance
The Pearl Comb
What We Wished We Could Be
Best Low Budget Short
The Carrot
Eyes, Front
The Hold
Triangle (WINNER!)
Wish You Were Here
Best Micro Budget Short
Alone Across Gola (WINNER!)
Blue Violet
Hopes and Beans
Lifelessnessless
Subject 73
Best No Budget Short
A Wonderful Neighbour
Coming Out
Good Choice Joseph (WINNER!)
Hot Mess
Nocturnal Eyes
Best Director
First Sight - Andrew McGee
Fuck-a-Fan - Muriel d’Ansembourg (WINNER!)
The Pearl Comb - Ali Cook
Triangle - Péter Engelmann
What We Wished We Could Be - Luke Shelley
Best Performance in a Drama
Boys Like You - Lindsay Bennett-Thompson
Fuck-a-Fan - Alessa Savage
The Last Dance - Karl Collins
Morning, Glory - Conrad Khan
What We Wished We Could Be - Jamie Muscato (WINNER!)
Best Performance in a Comedy
Baby Tooth - Dakota Bouher
Leg of a Salesman - Angus Miller
Popes - Mark Hammersley
The Quackening - James Button (WINNER!)
The Stork - Siobhan Finneran
Best Screenplay
Fuck-a-Fan - Muriel d’Ansembourg (WINNER!)
Jael Drives the Nail - Maddie Dai
The Pearl Comb - Ali Cook
Triangle - Péter Engelmann
What We Wished We Could Be - Jenna-Louise Hawkins
Best Cinematography
Boys Like You - James Oldham
Experience - Thomas Tyson-Hole
The Last Dance - Joel Honeywell
The Pearl Comb - Dave Miller (WINNER!)
The Viewing - Charlie Goodger
Best Editing
Cry Like a Guy - Ant Rubinstein
The Hold - Ben Cowan (WINNER!)
Stress Head - Kyle Jon Shephard
Triangle - Peter Engelmann
What We Wished We Could Be - Flaura Atkinson
Best Original Score
Art - Chris Baker (WINNER!)
Good Choice Joseph - Enzo Harrison
The Pearl Comb - Clark
Princeton’s in the Mix - Conor Abbott Brown
What We Wished We Could Be - Michael Llewelyn Barker
Best Production Design
First Sight - Giorgia Lee Joseph
Frayed - Sonya Bleiph
The Last Dance - Charlotte Toon & Melissa Baugh
The Pearl Comb - Isabel Pirillo (WINNER!)
The Viewing - Theo Boswell
Best First Time Filmmaker
Alone Across Gola - Jude Kriwald
Eyes, Front - Alex Wheeler
Good Choice Joseph - James Farrell
The Last Dance - Hayden Mclean (WINNER!)
Morning, Glory - Sonny Poon Tip
AUDIENCE AWARD
Dressed to the Nines (WINNER!)
(shortlisted, best of their screening block)
The Pearl Comb
Run Like We
Old School
David (Solace, Chapter 1)
Decoy
Fuck-a-fan
Mouth
Please
Mafia