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