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Honor Roll · MMXXI – MMXXVI

Six editions.
Ninety honors.
One growing archive.

Below are the complete winners of every Oslo Short Film Festival edition since 2021 — including the freshly announced sixth edition, presented on 19 May 2026 at Oslo Konserthus.

VI · 2026 V · 2025 IV · 2024 III · 2023 II · 2022 I · 2021
VI Edition · Grand Prix Citation
Awarded · 19 May 2026 · Oslo Konserthus

The Crane Canvas
takes the Sixth Grand Prix.

A quietly radiant meditation on memory, paper and flight — assembled by a young Chinese collective whose work first turned heads at our 2025 industry showcase.

A film of breathing paper. The cranes are folded, unfolded, folded again — and in the spaces between, an entire grief is held without being said. — Jury Citation · OSFF VI
VI · MMXXVI

The Sixth Edition.

Awarded Tuesday, 19 May 2026 at Oslo Konserthus. Jury chaired by Joachim Strand. Fifteen jury honors and one audience award.

VI
N° 01
Grand Prix · Best Short Film
The Crane Canvas
China · 18 min
"For its patience, craft and a sense of wonder that refuses to be hurried."
World Premiere · OSFF
Main Creators Likang  ·  Shao Qianchao  ·  Gu Yuxiao  ·  Bai Cheng  ·  Guo Jinchen  ·  Qing Wanying  ·  Cui Encheng  ·  Liu Jingyu  ·  Ge Ruize  ·  Ding Muhan
N° 02
Best Director
Astrid Holm — The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Norway · 22 min
A coastal coming-of-age story rendered in long, weather-beaten takes.
N° 03
Best Narrative Short
Salt & Vermillion
Vietnam · 19 min · dir. Nguyễn Lan Phương
A widow returns to her family's salt fields on the eve of a typhoon.
N° 04
Best Documentary Short
The Last Train from Kiruna
Sweden · 24 min · dir. Mikael Strömberg
An entire town is moved, kilometer by kilometer, to make way for the mine.
N° 05
Best Animated Short
Paper Birds
France · 11 min · dir. Camille Robert
A hand-drawn meditation on origami, grief and the long migration south.
N° 06
Best Experimental Short
Static / Light / Static
Germany · 14 min · dir. Lena Krüger
A 16 mm essay film built entirely from broadcast TV signals from 1989.
N° 07
Best Student Short
How to Greet a Stranger in Sámi
Norway · 12 min · dir. Inga Sara Eira (KHIO)
A bus journey across Finnmark told in three languages and one silence.
N° 08
Best Screenplay
Tomás Aguirre — Things My Father Borrowed
Argentina · 21 min
A scrupulous, tender script that turns an inventory into a portrait.
N° 09
Best Cinematography
Wei Han — The Crane Canvas
China · 18 min
For light handled like paper — folded, unfolded, never crushed.
N° 10
Best Editing
Marta Pawlak — Border Songs
Poland · 23 min
Cross-cutting that finds the rhyme between three border towns.
N° 11
Best Sound Design
Yuto Mizoguchi — Tide
Japan · 16 min
A coastal soundscape that becomes its own protagonist.
N° 12
Best Original Score
Elin Bjørklund — Snowmelt
Norway · 20 min
A strings-and-electronics score that thaws as the film does.
N° 13
Best Production Design
Aoife Quinn — The Hotel of Small Mercies
Ireland · 19 min
A single corridor turned into a six-decade chronology.
N° 14
Best Performance
Adaeze Okafor — Dust on the Equator
Nigeria · 17 min
A debut lead role of disarming, unguarded honesty.
N° 15
Audience Award
A Postcard from Bergen
Norway · 13 min · dir. Henrik Vatne
Voted by 4 218 festival attendees over the screening week.
V · MMXXV

The Fifth Edition.

Awarded Saturday, 17 May 2025 at Oslo Konserthus. Jury chaired by Asif Kapadia. Grand Prix to A Room Full of Birches.

V
N° 01
Grand Prix · Best Short Film
A Room Full of Birches
Finland · 21 min · dir. Aino Korhonen
"A miracle of tone, suspended between elegy and forecast."
N° 02
Best Director
Mateo Ferrari — The Hour Before Pavia
Italy · 23 min
Direction that lets a city speak for itself.
N° 03
Best Narrative Short
Sixteen Sundays
United Kingdom · 18 min · dir. Joelle Adekunle
A teenage church choir on the brink of breaking up.
N° 04
Best Documentary Short
Cold Bell
Iceland · 24 min · dir. Aleksander Borg
Bell-ringers in a near-empty valley keep an old ritual alive.
N° 05
Best Animated Short
Octopus Garden
Belgium · 9 min · dir. Sien Vermeulen
A hand-painted underwater dream for an unsleeping child.
N° 06
Best Experimental Short
Notes on a Borrowed City
Mexico · 15 min · dir. Renata Ibáñez
A super-8 essay on apartments she has lived in and lost.
N° 07
Best Student Short
The Bus Goes No Further
Estonia · 14 min · dir. Karl Lepik (BFM)
Two strangers and a broken bus on the last route of the day.
N° 08
Best Screenplay
Hyo-jin Lee — The Bicycle Repairman's Promise
South Korea · 22 min
A small kindness across four spring afternoons.
N° 09
Best Cinematography
Aleksei Petrov — The Northern Mile
Latvia · 19 min
Long takes of a frozen highway, lit only by passing headlights.
N° 10
Best Editing
Nadia Haddad — Phone Booth
Lebanon · 12 min
A whip-fast assemblage of voicemails left during one civil-war night.
N° 11
Best Sound Design
Pedro Vilas — Tinnitus
Portugal · 13 min
The world heard through a single ringing ear.
N° 12
Best Original Score
Yuki Nakamura — The Cartographer's Wife
Japan · 16 min
Piano and strings drawn like contour lines on a map.
N° 13
Best Production Design
Anya Volkov — The Hotel Nobody Booked
Russia · 18 min
A perfectly empty seaside hotel, built and dressed entirely on a stage.
N° 14
Best Performance
Mohammed Khoury — The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Syria · 20 min
A performance built almost entirely on stillness and listening.
N° 15
Audience Award
How to Survive a Norwegian Family Dinner
Norway · 11 min · dir. Sofie Eide
Decided by 3 870 festival attendees.
IV · MMXXIV

The Fourth Edition.

Awarded Saturday, 18 May 2024 at Oslo Konserthus. Jury chaired by Liv Ullmann. The first edition to host its closing night at the Konserthus.

IV
N° 01
Grand Prix · Best Short Film
The Last Sermon at Vík
Iceland · 24 min · dir. Sigríður Magnúsdóttir
"A small parish, a vast horizon — a perfect picture of an ending."
N° 02
Best Director
Pawel Tokarski — Eight Floors Down
Poland · 19 min
A real-time elevator drama with no music and no edits.
N° 03
Best Narrative Short
The Goalkeeper
Senegal · 17 min · dir. Mariam Sow
A village football match on the day the national team plays.
N° 04
Best Documentary Short
Northern Light, Southern Border
Norway · 22 min · dir. Ingrid Aune
Border guards, asylum seekers and a winter that does not end.
N° 05
Best Animated Short
Mr. Bear Takes a Bath
Czech Republic · 8 min · dir. Tomáš Hruška
A wordless stop-motion comedy with a melancholy aftertaste.
N° 06
Best Experimental Short
VHS Aphorisms
United States · 12 min · dir. Cassidy Reyes
Family tapes from 1992 reassembled into a structuralist diary.
N° 07
Best Student Short
Three Things My Grandmother Cooked
Greece · 13 min · dir. Eleni Papadakis (NYU Tisch)
A recipe is also a portrait.
N° 08
Best Screenplay
Rune Bjørge — The Phone Number
Norway · 20 min
A wrong number that becomes a year-long correspondence.
N° 09
Best Cinematography
Liu Yifan — Yellow Earth, White Sky
China · 18 min
A widescreen study of high-plateau labour at golden hour.
N° 10
Best Editing
Helga Sørensen — Forty-Two Voicemails
Denmark · 15 min
A heartbreak collage that earns every cut.
N° 11
Best Sound Design
Onyeka Adichie — Lagos After Rain
Nigeria · 14 min
Sound as memory of a place mostly seen out of frame.
N° 12
Best Original Score
Júlia Cardoso — The Cartwheeling Boy
Brazil · 11 min
An accordion score that never quite settles, always lifts.
N° 13
Best Production Design
Anders Holm — Apartment 4B
Norway · 21 min
A single Oslo apartment furnished in three different decades.
N° 14
Best Performance
Beatrice Whyte — A Long Way to Drive
United Kingdom · 16 min
A one-take monologue from the driver's seat.
N° 15
Audience Award
Reindeer Crossing
Norway · 9 min · dir. Maren Utsi
Voted by 3 412 festival attendees.
III · MMXXIII

The Third Edition.

Awarded Saturday, 20 May 2023 at Vega Scene. The first edition to receive submissions from more than sixty countries. Honorary chair to José Salcedo.

III
N° 01
Grand Prix · Best Short Film
Salt Water
Norway · 23 min · dir. Hanne Vidnes
"A first work of remarkable composure, and a closing shot we are still thinking about."
N° 02
Best Director
Ana Quintero — The Year of Two Summers
Colombia · 19 min
Direction of unhurried emotional precision.
N° 03
Best Narrative Short
The Bread Oven
Turkey · 21 min · dir. Emre Yıldız
Three generations of women, one morning of baking.
N° 04
Best Documentary Short
The Pianist of Mariupol
Ukraine · 22 min · dir. Olha Tymoshenko
A piano teacher returns to a damaged conservatory.
N° 05
Best Animated Short
The Kite That Stayed
India · 10 min · dir. Priya Ramanathan
A child's kite refuses to come down.
N° 06
Best Experimental Short
An Unfinished Map of Sounds
Lebanon · 13 min · dir. Karim Haddad
A sonic atlas of one Beirut neighbourhood.
N° 07
Best Student Short
Lessons in Falling
Norway · 12 min · dir. Sigrid Halvorsen (Westerdals)
A skateboarding documentary built around one trick.
N° 08
Best Screenplay
Manon Leclerc — The Lost Hours
France · 18 min
A daylight-saving Saturday told from six perspectives.
N° 09
Best Cinematography
Aki Tanaka — The Last Ferryman
Japan · 16 min
River light, anamorphic, holding its breath.
N° 10
Best Editing
Magnus Bredesen — News at Eleven
Norway · 14 min
A newsroom thriller built almost entirely in the edit.
N° 11
Best Sound Design
Anya Volkov — Submarine
Russia · 17 min
The boat is never seen, only heard.
N° 12
Best Original Score
Tomáš Novák — The Glasshouse
Czech Republic · 15 min
A baroque-tinged chamber piece for ten instruments.
N° 13
Best Production Design
Mei Kawaguchi — The Tea House
Japan · 19 min
A traditional set rebuilt and re-lit hour by hour.
N° 14
Best Performance
Lorenzo Conti — Trattoria
Italy · 20 min
An entire life inside a single restaurant shift.
N° 15
Audience Award
The Cyclist Who Forgot Her Name
Netherlands · 12 min · dir. Lotte van Houten
Voted by 2 980 festival attendees.
II · MMXXII

The Second Edition.

Awarded Saturday, 21 May 2022 at Vega Scene. Jury chaired by Aki Kaurismäki. The festival expands to six days and two venues.

II
N° 01
Grand Prix · Best Short Film
The Fjord at Five
Norway · 20 min · dir. Kristoffer Lie
"A landscape film with an unexpected heartbeat."
N° 02
Best Director
Mei Tanaka — Returning the Lantern
Japan · 18 min
A ritual film of subtle, accumulating force.
N° 03
Best Narrative Short
Two Brothers, One Bicycle
Iran · 22 min · dir. Reza Madani
A long road, a short summer.
N° 04
Best Documentary Short
The Cleaners of Notre-Dame
France · 19 min · dir. Élise Marchand
The hidden labour of restoring a cathedral.
N° 05
Best Animated Short
Cloud Cottage
South Korea · 9 min · dir. Min-jun Park
A child draws a house no one else can see.
N° 06
Best Experimental Short
Field Recordings, 1999
Germany · 12 min · dir. Lukas Henkel
Cassette tapes from a now-vanished village.
N° 07
Best Student Short
The Pigeon Keeper
United Kingdom · 13 min · dir. Joelle Adekunle (NFTS)
A boy on a London rooftop.
N° 08
Best Screenplay
Sara Lindqvist — The Babysitter
Sweden · 17 min
A single evening, three plausible endings.
N° 09
Best Cinematography
David Okonkwo — The Long Walk Home
United Kingdom · 16 min
Available light, never staged.
N° 10
Best Editing
Sofia Lindberg — The Argument
Sweden · 11 min
One quarrel, twelve cuts, no winners.
N° 11
Best Sound Design
Karim Haddad — Sea Wall
Lebanon · 14 min
A coastline rendered entirely through sound.
N° 12
Best Original Score
Greta Bonnesen — The Skating Rink
Norway · 13 min
A waltz for a town that has lost its winter.
N° 13
Best Production Design
Wei-Lin Chen — Paper Lantern Workshop
Taiwan · 18 min
A working set entirely made of paper.
N° 14
Best Performance
Esmé Dujardin — The Audition
Belgium · 15 min
A breakthrough turn that holds the whole film.
N° 15
Audience Award
My Father Builds a Boat
Norway · 14 min · dir. Erlend Krog
Voted by 2 145 festival attendees.
I · MMXXI

The Inaugural Edition.

Awarded Saturday, 22 May 2021 at Vega Scene. Jury chaired by Joachim Trier. Our first ever night.

I
N° 01
Grand Prix · Best Short Film
A Letter to the North
Norway · 18 min · dir. Maja Lindqvist
"A debut festival's debut award — to a film that lights its own way."
N° 02
Best Director
Carlos Mendoza — The Lighthouse
Spain · 19 min
First-time direction of striking discipline.
N° 03
Best Narrative Short
The Window Cleaner
Germany · 20 min · dir. Anke Wagner
A high-rise, a low voice, a quiet decision.
N° 04
Best Documentary Short
Last Train to Murmansk
Finland · 23 min · dir. Olli Räsänen
A border-town conductor's final week of work.
N° 05
Best Animated Short
The Whale Who Lost the Sea
Norway · 8 min · dir. Tobias Frydenlund
A wordless ecological fable for children of any age.
N° 06
Best Experimental Short
Untitled #3 (For Birds)
United States · 11 min · dir. Cassidy Reyes
A super-8 portrait of an Audubon volunteer.
N° 07
Best Student Short
Tram Number Seventeen
Czech Republic · 14 min · dir. Tomáš Hruška (FAMU)
A late-night tram ride across a city not quite asleep.
N° 08
Best Screenplay
Henrik Aas — The Doormat
Norway · 16 min
A doormat, an inheritance, a sibling rivalry.
N° 09
Best Cinematography
Joachim Strand — Saltwater Sundays
Denmark · 17 min
A camera as patient as the tide.
N° 10
Best Editing
Greta Lind — The Phone Call
Norway · 9 min
A single call edited inside-out.
N° 11
Best Sound Design
Mateo Ferrer — Silent Highway
Argentina · 13 min
A long road built entirely from off-screen sound.
N° 12
Best Original Score
Ingrid Solheim — Late Frost
Norway · 15 min
An acoustic guitar score that breathes with the film.
N° 13
Best Production Design
Lars Berg-Hansen — The Last Tenant
Norway · 21 min
An emptying apartment built and dismantled in real time.
N° 14
Best Performance
Camilla Vik — The Interview
Norway · 12 min
A job interview that gradually becomes a confession.
N° 15
Audience Award
How to Read a Map in Oslo
Norway · 10 min · dir. Eivind Strand
Voted by 980 festival attendees on opening night.
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