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MIFF Shorts Awards
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MIFF hosts one of the most highly regarded short-film competitions in both the Asia Pacific region and the Southern Hemisphere. You can read the competition’s regulations here.
The MIFF Shorts Awards are Academy Awards® accredited. The 2025 winners of the Best Short Film, Best Australian Short Film, Best Documentary Short Film and Best Animation Short Film awards are eligible to submit their films for the 98th Academy Awards® in 2026.
The MIFF Shorts program is also BAFTA Qualifying. Any British film programmed for the 2025 festival is subsequently eligible for entry in the British Short Film and British Short Animation categories of the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards. (More information here.)
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