It is the third consecutive year that the winner of TIFF’s Best European Short Film award has gone on to make the PRIX VIMEO shortlist.

The 2026 award went to Nobody Said Anything, directed by Tamara Todorović, a 15-minute co-production between Serbia, France, Slovenia and Croatia. The film was selected for TIFF’s programme of short films eligible for the European Film Awards.

The TIFF 2026 jury, comprising Hoda Taheri, John Canciani and Nikola Majdak, cited the film’s skilful build-up of tension and its nuanced depiction of mistrust and the gradual erosion of solidarity.

Nobody Said Anything tells the story of Katarina, who is summoned to the home of her daughter’s friend after an apparently innocent game spirals out of control.

The film had already secured international recognition before its screening at TIFF, having been selected for the official short-film competition at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. It was one of 10 films chosen from thousands of submissions.

TIFF said the third consecutive inclusion in the PRIX VIMEO shortlist was another recognition of the Albanian festival’s growing profile in the European short-film scene.

“Congratulations to the staff and the entire team,” TIFF said in a statement marking the achievement.

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This year, Kadare’s A Dictator Calls (Alb. Kur sunduesit grinden), translated by John Hodgson, has been shortlisted for the literary prize.

“A Dictator Calls” was on the International Booker Prize’s 2024 longlist, announced on March 11.

The book, originally published in 2018 in Albania, offers a meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and the relationship between writers and tyranny.

The narration centers on the reportedly Joseph Stalin’s phone call with the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of Pasternak’s fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam – a man who had expressed criticism of the Soviet regime. Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural International Booker Prize, reconstructs the three minutes they spoke and the aftershocks of this tense, mysterious moment in modern history.

Albanian author Ismail Kadare was awarded was awarded the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005.

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“Hive” is in the shortlist of 15 international films for the 94^th edition of the OSCAR award.

“Hive” has been inspired by the real story of Fahrije Hoti from Krusha e Madhe who while looking for her missing husband in war, starts up an agriculture business to support the family. Fahrije faces a traditionally patriarchal environment that is hostile to ambition of development.

But, nothing could stop Fahrije on her mission. This became an inspiration for Basholli to produce a film on her life.

Yllka Gashi is the actor performing the role of Fahrije.

“Hive” is a co-production between Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania and North Macedonia supported by Cinematographic Centre of Kosovo, FOC and Cinéforom (Switzerland), Film Agency of North Macedonia and National Centre of Cinematography of Albania./k.s//a.a/p.s./