SAMPA RESULTS || MAY - JUNE 2026

Category: Best Cinematographer

WINNER

High on life (2025)
Accreditee(s): Jere Valdevit
Croatia

Category: Best Director

WINNER

High on life (2025)
Accreditee(s): Jere Valdevit
Croatia

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Sunshine of My Life
Accreditee(s): Abigail Chavez
United States

Category: Best Experimental Film

WINNER

Medusa & Hermes The Reincarnation Musical 2026
Accreditee(s): Algis Kemezys
Canada

Category: Best Producer

WINNER

High on life (2025)
Accreditee(s): Jere Valdevit
Croatia

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARDS

Bunny Hop
Accreditee(s): Ankita Srivastav
India

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARDS

Sunshine of My Life
Accreditee(s): Abigail Chavez
United States

Category: Documentary Film

WINNER

Simple Solve
Accreditee(s): Ethan Lee
Netherlands

WINNER

The Invisible Dirt
Accreditee(s): Sunil Prakash
India

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARDS

Now or Never
Accreditee(s): William Almeida
Netherlands

Category: Feature Script

WINNER

Pirandello's Wife
Accreditee(s): Lynn Elliott

Category: Horror / Science Fiction / Genre Feature Film

WINNER

Memorium - Before the end
Accreditee(s): Billen Damien
Belgium

Category: Narrative Feature

WINNER

Sanctuary Pariahs.
Accreditee(s): Daniel Okoduwa
Australia

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Salvador
Accreditee(s): Charlotte Torres
Berlin

Category: Short Film

WINNER

Dipu Da O Chhaya Mon-er Rohosyo (Dipuda and The Mind Game)
Accreditee(s): Suman Bhattacharya
India

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

CUTE CUTE
Accreditee(s): Pedro Gandolla
Brazil

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Hacking
Accreditee(s): Sharman Joshi
India

CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARDS

Flemingo
Accreditee(s): Noah Sullivan
United States

Category: Short Script

WINNER

The Microphone
Accreditee(s): Daniel David
Slovakia

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Seriously Funny
Accreditee(s): Daniel David
Slovakia

Category: The Bergman Laureate

WINNER

Medusa & Hermes The Reincarnation Musical 2026
Accreditee(s): Algis Kemezys
Canada

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