🏆 Third Culture Film Festival 2026

Official Award Nominations

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The Third Culture Film Festival proudly presents the official nominations for TCFF 2026.
These films represent outstanding achievement in storytelling, filmmaking craft, performance, and cultural impact from across the world.

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Award winners will be announced at the Closing Night Ceremony – Sunday 15 March 2026 Tauranga, New Zealand.

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🎬 Feature Awards

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Best Narrative

• Girl No 60427

• E' stato un sogno

• At Horizon's End

• Erebus

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Best Animation

• In Half

• Life Eternal

• Code Deimos

• Other I

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Best Experimental

• Hello Anna

• Quand de la..

• Gunny

• Industrial Sunset

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Best Documentary

• Hadoud

• Doon

• Being Human

• More Than Convenience

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Spirit of New Zealand Award

• Home Base

• 10,774km

• Rapido

• Alien Weaponry

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Social Impact Award

• Ya Hanouni

• "The Fall" Love never let you down

• The Source of All Beauty

• Hello Anna

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Best Actor

• The Axe Forgets (main)

• Halal Dreams

• Fatman

• Erebus

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Best Actress

• Girl No 60427 (young girl)

• Bleeding

• The Beneath

• The Solution

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Best Animated Character

• Kāinga Tupu

• FearISH

• Bark and Bone

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Best Director of Photography

• Erebus

• Tea Travel

• At Horizon's End

• The Fight

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Best Director

• Tea Travel

• Fatman

• E' stato un sogno

• Halal Dreams

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Best Editor

• Everyone In

• Maniac

• Gunny

• Rapido

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Best Sound Design

• A Place To Hide

• Maniac

• The Beneath

• At Horizon's End

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Best Music

• Echo Bloom

• E' stato un sogno

• Noise and Neighbors

• Tea Travel

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Best Action Sequence

• Baigun Baigun

• The Fight

• Issen

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Best Production Design

• The Axe Forgets

• E' stato un sogno

• At Horizon's End

• Happy Dream Day

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Best Costume Design

• Helezon Akiskan

• Echo Bloom

• The Perfect Fit

• La Bruna

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Best Music Video

• Baigun Baigun

• Other I

• Saintly

• Lucy

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Outliers Award

• The Beneath

• Gunny

• Helezon Akiskan

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The Teo Award

• Other I

• Fatman

• Issen

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