FeKK 2026: Winners

The film unfolds like a familiar, long-forgotten record—rough around the edges, imperfect in all the ways that make it feel alive, yet infused with a quiet warmth and an almost nostalgic charm. Boundaries blur and cycles come full circle: fiction slips seamlessly into nonfiction, life brushes against death, while ghosts and cats roam the abandoned houses and the sea dissolves into the sky. And before the community disappears completely, a hand reaches out to another hand, as it has for decades — there’s still time for one more song.

This carefully crafted comedy of emancipation unfolds with a light-hearted tone in a playful atmosphere of small-town scrutiny, while the more complex issue of access to housing plays out in the background.

In between documentary and fiction, this haptic teenage ballad beautifully tracks the motions of a girls’ night out. Through its textured imagery, we witness a handful of young adolescents searching for their place in a sometimes hostile world, where perception becomes a constant push-and-pull of watching themselves and one another while being perceived by the world around them.

For gently visualising the unarticulated and untangling the repeating patterns of symbiotic intergenerational relationships with utmost care; for capturing the most intimate while finding what is universal at its very core; and for never losing hope that even in the walls that surround us, there is a door that’s waiting to be opened. 

For a portrait of a woman who so generously invites us to spend a day with her — not as spectators, but as her welcomed guests; for a workplace that gradually transforms into a space of solidarity, dignity, humour and care; for the labour of love and the love of labour — be it fish or the moving images. 

Awarded by the ESFAA Festival Network (European Short Film Audience Award),

Awarded by Radiator Sales.