Voting for the MIOB In Shorts Award 2026 closes on 15 October. The prize belongs to the programme of the MIOB (Moving Images – Open Borders) network and goes to a European short film chosen entirely by public vote. Each MIOB member festival nominated two titles, which brings this year’s selection to twelve.

Since 1 September the films have streamed on the European platform This Is Short, all with English subtitles and each with a dedicated Vote button. Viewers register to watch, with a free 14-day trial that asks for no credit card and a subscription of €0.99 per month afterwards.

Once voting ends, the programme travels to FilmFestival Cottbus in Germany, where all twelve titles screen in November. The winner will be announced at the festival’s closing ceremony.

All twelve films date from 2025. Austria is represented by Found&Lost from Reza Rasouli (17 minutes) and From Something to Nothing from Michael Heindl (7 minutes), while Portugal sends Tem Fé by Helen Esther Aschauer and Leonor Patrocinio (8 minutes) and Those Who Move by Stephanie Ricci (20 minutes). Radu Muntean’s Index (29 minutes) comes from Romania, and Máté Gergely Kiss’s PVRGATORIVM (24 minutes) from Hungary. The Serbian entry is Lime Kiln Workers by Nevena Micić, Katarina Micić and Filip Marojević (10 minutes). Marnie Blok’s Beyond Silence (17 minutes) represents the Netherlands, Mikkel Storm Glomstein’s Kjæledyrutryddelse (14 minutes) Norway, Aušra Lukošiūnienė’s Pra/rasti pasauliai (20 minutes) Lithuania, and Kristjan Poom’s Marelle (19 minutes) Estonia. Hêvî Çinar’s Dead but Not Gone (22 minutes) completes the list as a Turkish and German production.

Fiction and documentary share the programme with experimental work, and the films range from intimate personal stories to wider questions of identity and displacement.

Featured Image: E/rased Worlds, a film by Aušra Lukošiūnienė