LIVE AUDIENCE AWARD SPRING 2026 Season I

'THE DIARY OF FAMILY' by ERKAN CEYLAN (TURKEY)

Top Quark FINALISTS SPRING'26

Final Statistics Spring 2026 Season I

Selected Total: 59 projects

Finalists: 31 projects

Honorable Mentions: 12 projects

Submitted Total: 233 projects

Countries Participated: 39 countries

Total Runtime: 41 hours : 51 min : 10 sec

Selected works rate: 25.32%

Total submitted works by Category:

Animations: 67 projects

Short Films: 79 projects

Feature Films: 14projects

Documentaries: 28 projects

Stories & Scripts: 45 projects

'The Diary of Family' by Erkan Ceylan (Turkey)

'Iridescence' by Adrien Lhoste (France)

'The Missing Segment' by Sam Lavy (USA)

'Glory' by Mahdi Barqzadegan (Islamic Republic of Iran)

'Focus' by Shi Shen (China)

'A Friend' by Uriel Vallín (Mexico)

'Glory' by Mahdi Barqzadegan (Islamic Republic of Iran)

'Creative Mind' by Mahdi Barqzadegan (Islamic Republic of Iran)

'Export mine' by Surapong Wetsuwanmanee (Thailand)

'Atomik Tour' by Bruno Collet (France)

'Leviathan' by Haonan Zhao (USA)

'Tom and the Proud Tall Sky' by Lorne Kraft (Canada)

'Annie in Space' by Mike Stinnett (USA)

'EZEKI3L' by Francois Poupard (France)

'N3W S74R7' by Charly Delporte & Prune Girand (France)

'CNXS' by Bernardo Alejandro Lorenzo (Argentina)

'Time Ball' by Vinod Thomas (India)

'Plug Me In' by Peter Van Lengen (Mexico)

'Third° and World' by Daniele Pignatelli (Italy)

'Overtime' by Trent Duncan (USA)

'HESTIA 19' by Stephen Bigot (France)

Animation Finalists

Short Film Finalists

'The world with you' by Kazuyoshi Masanari (Japan)

'Return: Saving Turtles' by Ignacio Loera (Mexico)

'Consciousness and Science' by Jacques-Hervé Fichet & Elisabeth Loesch (France, Switzerland)

Feature Film Finalists

Documentary Finalists

Story & Script Finalists

Special Effects Finalists

'The effect' by Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo

'Scratched' by Gary Miceli (USA)

'The forbidden meal' by Giorgio Marconi (Italy)

'Marie Curie. The undead eradicator' by Francisco Leslie López del Castillo Wilderbeek (Spain)

'6:30am' by Ahmad Mansour Ahmad

'Love goods' by Eun-taek Lee (Republic of Korea)

'Ascension' by Rahul Acharya & Sourabh Sole (India)

Top Quark Honorable Mention SPRING'26

Honorable Mentions Spring 2026 Season I

'Signs' by Leandro Monsieur (Brazil)

'To fly' by Mohsen Khademi (Islamic Republic of Iran)

'I meant to tell you something' by Dario Leone (Italy)

'Wait' by Jared Jacobsen & Lorena Diaz (USA)

'Sack' by Vladimir Izhendeev (Russian Federation)

'Imaginary friend' by Hayes K Davis (USA)

'Witch and frog' by Anastasia Provotorova (Russian Federation)

'Red wisdom' by Hossein Moradizadeh (Islamic Republic of Iran)

'Bhayat' by Jithin Paramel (India)

'Vinnana's threads' by Thibaut Dumont (France)

'TimeLapse: The Outlaw Reality' by Francisco J. E. Santos (Spain)

'Made in' by Rajesh Puthanpurayil (India)

Top Quark Official Selections March 2026

'Export mine' by Surapong Wetsuwanmanee (Thailand)

'The worst peace is better' by Miroslav Trifonov (Bulgaria)

'Atomik Tour' by Bruno Collet (France)

'Leviathan' by Haonan Zhao (USA)

'Tom and the Proud Tall Sky' by Lorne Kraft (Canada)

'Annie in Space' by Mike Stinnett (USA)

'EZEKI3L' by Francois Poupard (France)

Animation

Short Film

'e-Happiness' by Mahnut Taş (Turkey)

'A lost night' by Nanzhao Wang (China)

'The end' by Evandro Machado (Brazil)

'Third° and World' by Daniele Pignatelli (Italy)

'Overtime' by Trent Duncan (USA)

'HESTIA 19' by Stephen Bigot (France)

Feature Film

Documentary

'The world with you' by Kazuyoshi Masanari (Japan)

'Lost in the tiny kingdom' by by Tiefu Zhao (China)

'Consciousness and Science' by Jacques-Hervé Fichet & Elisabeth Loesch (France, Switzerland)

Story & Script

Special Effects

Statistics 2026 Season I

'Time slips' by Edward J Rubeo (USA)

'Crossroads waiting room' by Michael J Volpe (USA)

'The forbidden meal' by Giorgio Marconi (Italy)

'Mianmoto' by Jerzy P. Suchocki (USA)

'Scratched' by Gary Miceli (USA)

'The effect' by Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo

'Megaville - After Hours' by Tim Cürlis & Christian Skibinski (Germany)

'Ascension' by Rahul Acharya & Sourabh Sole (India)

'A New Day' by Darioush Rezaei (Islamic Republic of Iran)

Selected 03'26: 25 projects

Selected Total: 59 projects

Judged: 100%

Top Quark Official Selections February 2026

'The Missing Segment' by Sam Lavy (USA)

'Focus' by Shi Shen (China)

'A Friend' by Uriel Vallín (Mexico)

'Joaquim e Call The beginning of everything' by Antônio Carreira Alvim (Brazil)

'Glory' & 'Creative Mind' by Mahdi Barqzadegan (Iran)

Animation

Short Film

'Self Portrait in Plural' by Aixa Valentina Pachón Tovar (Colombia)

'Time Ball' by Vinod Thomas (India)

'Plug Me In' by Peter Van Lengen (Mexico)

'Patha' by Kushal Kumar R (India)

'Oblivion' by Amir Mehdi Tavakolian (Islamic Republic of Iran)

'Reversible' by Patrício Júnior (Brazil)

Feature Film

Documentary

'Love goods' by Eun-taek Lee (Republic of Korea)

'Return: Saving Turtles' by Ignacio Loera (Mexico)

Story & Script

Special Effects

Statistics 2026 Season I

'Marie Curie. The undead eradicator' by Francisco Leslie López del Castillo Wilderbeek (Spain)

'CyberMonday' by Maksym Severin

'Metallic Hearts Ancient Earth' by Adrian Kulawik (Poland)

'Love goods' by Eun-taek Lee (Republic of Korea)

Selected 02'26: 17 projects

Selected Total: 34 projects

Judged: 82%

Top Quark Official Selections January 2026

'The Hollow Child' by Tara Hamer (Australia)

'Ups And Downs' by Gudrat Hamidov (Azerbaijan)

'The Benevolent' by Minna Väisänen (Finland)

'Iridescence' by Adrien Lhoste (France)

Animation

Short Film

'N3W S74R7' by Charly Delporte & Prune Girand (France)

'The Diary of Family' by Erkan Ceylan (Turkey)

'Epitaph to N/949' by Nacho Recio (Spain)

'CNXS' by Bernardo Alejandro Lorenzo (Argentina)

'The Last Atlantis' by Chih Hao Shen (Taiwan)

'Song of Silence' by Vasilisa Kuzmina (USA)

Feature Film

Documentary

'Interrupted dreams of Humanity' by Igor Kolosov (Belarus)

'Statico' by Juan Carlos Hernandez (USA)

'Evolution' by Vittorio Caratozzolo (Italy)

'Remains' by Chih Hao Shen (Taiwan)

Story & Script

Special Effects

Statistics 2026 Season I

'6:30am' by Ahmad Mansour Ahmad

'Echo of reality' by Aliaksandr Ropat (Belarus)

'Inner voice' by Zachary Huang (China)

'The Last Atlantis' by Chih Hao Shen (Taiwan)

Selected 01'26: 17 projects

Selected Total: 17 projects

Judged: 46%