2026 Films

Selected Films

A Clawsome Tale

Director: Lucie Machin

Best Short Film

A Life Among Elephants

Kenya and United Kingdom

Director: Nigel Pope

Conservation Hero Award

A Life Illuminated

Director: Tasha Van Zandt

Best Exploration Film and Best in Fest

Between Moon Tides

Director: Jason Jaacks

Official Selection

Bring Them Home / Aiskótáhkapiyaaya

Directors: Ivy MacDonald, Ivan MacDonald, Daniel Glick

Official Selection

Disneynature's Orangutan

Director: Mark Linfield

Out-of-Competition Selection

Fibers Weaving Tales of Coexistence

Director: Agustín Gregori

Out-of-Competition Selection

Flora, Fauna, Funga

Director: National Geographic Society Impact Story Lab

Official Selection

For Deer Life

Director: Yaz Ellis

Official Selection

Greater Flamingo

Director: Akanksha Sood Singh

Official Selection

H5N1: Conservation in Crisis

Austria, United Kingdom

Director: Valentin Blüml

Emerging Filmmaker Award

HYPERSCALED

Director: Maya Estrera

Emerging Filmmaker Award

Heart of a Lion

Director: Joe Pontecorvo

Best Wildlife Film

In Her Nature: Sloth Detectives

Director: Katie Schuler

Official Selection

Keeper

Director: Hannah Rafkin

New York’s Wildest

Leopard Dynasty

India, Germany, France

Director: Aishwarya Sridhar

Official Selection

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Family Day

United States, Canada, Australia

Directors: Phil Fairclough and John Murphy

Out-of-Competition Selection

Notre Paradis de Plastique

Director: Johann Vorster

Official Selection

Rhino

Director: Tom Martienssen

Official Selection

Risky Routes

Director: Jonas Steiner

Best Super Short Film

Second Nature

USA, Costa Rica, Netherlands

Director: Drew Denny

Special Jury Award

Silver Rush

Director: Kelsey Kroon

Emerging Filmmaker Award

Snow Leopard Sisters

Nepal and United States

Directors: Sonam Choekyi Lama, Andrew Lynch, Ben Ayers

Best Conservation Film

The Birds

Directors: David Allen and Martin Dohrn (A Film By)

People & Nature Award

Tides of Life

Director: Tatiana McCabe

Best Student Film

Emerging Filmmaker Award Winners

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