
Top Quark Live Audience Award SPRING'26







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 April 2026






'Ross-WELL' by Radames Humberto Clemente (Armenia)
'(DIS)Connected' by Yoni (Bulgaria)
'Welcome back' by William A Teichner (USA)
'Thank you for your service' by Eyal Padan (Israel)
'Spheres' by Martin Gerigk (Germany)
Animation
Short Film
'Lights out' by Tari Kristine Robinson (USA)
'Flores & Cienfuegos' by Henry Bedwell (Mexico)
'A new day' by Dariush Rezaei (Germany)
'Monster' by William Danton (USA)

Feature Film
Documentary
'My boyfriend, a mannequin' by Dmitry Nikolenko (Russian Federation)
'Kraina Larp Gothic' by A. Sobieszczyk & I. Mozgunov (Poland)
'The Life is Short' by Vittorio Caratozzolo (Italy)

Story & Script
Special Effects
'The Leader' by Adam S Kuhl (UK)
'The Glass Box' by John Arthur Little (USA)
'Andrea Moondust' by Jerzy P. Suchocki (Mexico)
'Space Pirate Ja Ralla!' by AJ Spencer (USA)
'New Day' by Dariush Rezaei (Germany)
'Through Abe's eyes' by Melissa Yaeth (Mexico)

Dark Quark 2026 Season II
'The Escape of the Nightbird' by Jerzy P. Suchocki (Mexico)
'Wellness check' by Scott Pittock (USA)
'Used' by Erkan Ceylan (Turkey)
'478' by Jhonattan Sarmiento (Colombia)
'Madame Tessa' by Robert Sebree (USA)
'Anny' by José Luis Moctezuma "Mocte" (Mexico)
'Epitaph to N/949' by Nacho Recio (Spain)
Dark Quark Script & Story
Dark Quark Film & Animation

Statistics 2026 Season II
Selected 04'26: 24 projects
Selected Total: 24 projects
Judged: 54%

