PFCAT Awards 2026
Festival Awards
Best Feature
- Crystal Cross
- SENDER Winner!
- The Plan
Best Animated Feature
- Memory Hotel Winner!
- Big City Pizza
- Lure of the Ponies – a spellbound attic mystery
Innovation Award - Documentary
- BurnerSphere
- Halcyon Daze
- Reality Looks Back
- IMMOTION’s: Dinosaur Evolution
- A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers Winner!
- You Play Too Much
Grand Prize in Animation
- Playing God Winner!
Innovation Award - Animation
- The Crown with a Shadow & The Search for Self Winner!
- Pistis Poiesis
- Tender
- How to Walk, a guide for fun and profit
- Encyclopedia Galactica
- Traveler’s Introspection
Best Animated Short Film - Long Form
- The Toast Trip
- Epic Yarn
- The Gun Winner!
- Hello Maggie
- reTIRED
- The Epic of Enkidu
- ¿Necesitas Ayuda?
Best Animated Short Film - Mid-Length
- Sundays
- My Dog: The Paradox
- Grain
- Worm’s-Eye View of the Bird
- Wishing Trees
- Creatures of Chaos
- 1981 Winner!
Best Animated Short Film - Short Form
- Su perisi
- Just One Peek
- At Night
- Hope
- Who’s Waiting for You? Winner!
- Ici ça plante
Best Extended Narrative Short
- Rodrigo
- Defne
- Man and Mattress
- Pretty Boys
- Focal Point
- Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting Winner!
Best Sci-Fi Short
- NO NATION
- The Door
- Focal Point Winner!
- Dante’s Inferno – The Ascension
- Don Quixote against the evil forces of hell
Best Narrative Short Film
- Play Date
- Astronot
- This is Private Winner!
- Bus
- Recall Me Maybe
- The Vale – Origins
Innovation Award - Full Dome
- Astranova
- Negative Breach
- Traveler’s Introspection Winner!
- 5055
- Mountain Nocturne
Best Documentary Short
- Oh Whale
- The Elk Winner!
- My Burning Pianist
- Elders of Time
Best Documentary Dome Film
- Last Symphony of Light
- She Whom the Moon Ruled
- Reality Looks Back Winner!
- Encounters in the Milky Way
- One Step Back: A Journey to Mars
Best Experimental Animation
- In the Eyes of the Worm
- Heat up!
- REST
- Deluge
- Rain, Rain, Go Away Winner!
- Perfect City: The Mushroom
Best Virtual Reality Film
- Moments Apart Winner!
- IMMOTION’s: Dinosaur Evolution
- CALL OF SY
- Reality Looks Back
- Performative Salvation
- BurnerSphere
- Apporter La Vie
Best Series
- The Dollop: The Animated Series – Ep 01: The Rube Winner!
- Tales from Outer Suburbia
- Jorel’s Brother – 5th Season – Episode “Mermaid Boy”
- The Human, Will
- The EKSPATS – We’re Going to Africa
Best Animated Children's Short
- The Dandelion
- Clay Bird
- Church Hat
- Koffee Kat, Lost and Refund Winner!
- Sunspark
- Epic Yarn
Best Animated Children's Microshort
- Family Dinner
- Glowberry
- Fluff & Furious
- She Creates Change: Dewmini Winner!
- Me in a Nutshell
- Golden French Fries
Best Fantasy Animated Short
- Hexapod Winner!
- KÖLEÑKE
- Tribe
- Bloom
- Yugen
- Paper Daughter
Best Student Stop-Motion Film
- MRI
- Death’s Peak Winner!
- Wizarding Woes
- Before Long
- Glowberry
- Happy Pig Brand
- Princess Dina Bo Bina
Best 2D Student Animated Short Film
- One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six
- Balance
- Project Selkie
- Schemes’
- Shapes of Us
- The Bard of the Mountain Valley Winner!
Best Student Animated Microshort
- Next Gourd Neighbor
- CHAI
- Come Home
- Mariposa
- The Puppeteer’s Assistant Winner!
- Franken Struck
- Waltz of the Smorbs
Best Animated Comedy
- Prout
- The Dollop: The Animated Series – Ep 01: The Rube
- Koffee Kat, Lost and Refund
- My Dog: The Paradox Winner!
- Baby Ray 2: Daddy Con Carny
Best Stop-Motion Mid-Length Film
- The Farmer’s Daughter
- Paper Daughter
- A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers
- You Play Too Much Winner!
- Down in the Dumps
Best Stop-Motion Short Film
- Aller & Retour
- Yugen
- Death’s Peak
- Playing God Winner!
Best Stop-Motion Micro-Short
- A Better Kind of Crying
- She Creates Change: Dewmini
- Hell Winner!
- Action Bog
- Foil Guy vs ANVIL
- What They Say About Carmen
Best Comedy Short
- We Were Here
- Bus
- Man and Mattress
- Astronot
- Hostile Work Environment
Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad Winner!
Best Animated Comedy Microshort
- Sweet Enough to Eat Winner!
- Legs
- Car Park
- To Have and to Hold
- There’s a Party (Let’s Go)
- Bad Day for the Worm
Best Sci-Fi Animated Short
- Max Q
- Iridescent
- Gravity Winner!
- The Fifth Moon of Anres
- Unboxed
- THE GUN
- MISSION ACCOMP*****D
Best Music Video
- Tender Winner!
- Edge Dance
- Fuzzysurf’s “Don’t Go Overboard”
- Looking for You
- Krill “Other I”
- Long Long Time
- The High King’s Daughter
- 1.21 Gigawatts (Director’s Cut)
Best Portland Animation
- The Well in the Woods
- How to Walk, a guide for fun and profit
- She Creates Change: Dewmini
- You Play Too Much
- Baby, That’s All I Need
- The Epic of Enkidu Winner!
Jury Awards
Innovation in Immersive Media
Special Jury Award
Immotion’s Dinosaur Evolution
Recognizes a work that pushes boundaries through innovation and audience experience.
First Time Filmmaker
Special Jury Award
Pistis Poiesis
Recognizes an exceptional debut film and the distinctive vision of an emerging filmmaker.
Outstanding Artistic Achievement
Special Jury Award
Two Ships
Recognizes a film of exceptional creative expression, originality, and artistic accomplishment.
Outstanding Visionary Storytelling
Special Jury Award
Jeem 1883
For expanding the possibilities of animated storytelling through creative vision and expression.
Creative Distinction
Special Jury Award
Tales from Outer Suburbia
For a singular blend of storytelling, artistry, originality, and vision.
Spirit of Independent Animation Award
Special Jury Award
Big City Pizza
For imagination, innovation and fearless creative expression.
Creative Achievement in a Feature Film
Special Jury Award
The Lure of Ponies – a spellbound attic mystery
For Distinctive Artistic Vision, Craftsmanship, and Creative Achievement
Boundary Breaker Award
Special Jury Award
Encyclopedia Galactica
Honors exceptional innovation, originality, and creative risk-taking.
Live Action Short
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Screenwriting
Pretty Boys
Episodic Series
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Screenwriting
The EXPATS – We’re Going to Africa
Environmental Vision Award
Special Jury Award
The Farmer’s Daughter
For exceptional artistic vision inspired by nature and handcrafted artistry.
The DarkCat Award
Special Jury Award for exceptional vision and artistry in horror animation
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