Gene Horizons (watch on YouTube) is in English language. The SCINEMA Jury awarded Gene Horizons our ‘Best Animated Film’ for 2026. Gene Horizons explores the rapidly evolving world of gene therapy, where editing our own DNA is no longer science fiction, but a powerful tool for treating disease. Through imaginative stop-motion animation and conversations with leading experts in the field, the film breaks down the complex science behind gene therapies and shows how they are already transforming patients' lives. Supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Gene Horizons offers an accessible look at one of the most exciting frontiers in modern medicine.

Finding the Formula (watch on YouTube) is in English language.
This documentary takes you inside the University of Exeter's Formula Student team, Xracing, where students build a racecar bound for Silverstone... if they can rise to the challenge. Unprecedented access like you've never seen before, showcasing all that Formula Student has to offer, where students take their first step towards F1 and the professional world. Filmmaker TJ McErlean started his filmmaking journey shooting car reviews for YouTube and says this was his largest film project to date. Visit the film’s IMDB listing.
Director: TJ McErlean
Finding the Formula was entered in our ‘Best Student Film’ category

We Were the Future: Fred Peters - The Apollo Missions (watch on Vimeo) is in English language. A rhythmic, archival-driven exploration of the Apollo era through the eyes of spacecraft engineer Fred Peters, who oversaw the design and construction of spacecraft used in missions including Apollo 7 and Apollo 17. Historical NASA records are cut with the imaginative lens of classic science fiction, interwoven with President John F. Kennedy’s Rice University speech to help recreate the atmosphere of optimism and urgency that surrounded the early years of human space exploration.
Director: David Harrison
Apollo Missions was entered in our ‘Best Television’ category

Can Microalgae Solve Our Food Crisis (watch on YouTube) is in English language. For Naomi Arita Merino, food is connection, family and home. Raised in Mexico by parents working with sustainable aquaculture, she grew up with an understanding that what we eat shapes how we live. As freshwater and farmland become increasingly scarce, Naomi questions whether traditional food systems can endure. Trained in food science, she pivots toward microalgae biotech, exploring tiny algae as a sustainable and nutritious food source. Blending personal experiences with cutting-edge research, she works towards new ways of feeding a fragile planet.
Director: Jonathan Brodie
Microalgae was entered in our ‘Best Short Film’ category

Resonances (watch on YouTube) is in French language with English subtitles. The viewer plunges into a poetic exploration of the human body, witnessing the birth of a microscopic orchestra where heart cells synchronise to beat in unison. This journey takes the viewer to the frontiers of scientific research: the dialogue between the gut and the nervous system, the fight against ageing, and the creation of organoids, one of whose promises is to regenerate living tissue. From next-generation prosthetics to DNA architectures, we discover that every biological signal is a note that resonates. 
Director: Renaud Pourpre
Resonances was entered in our ‘Best Experimental Film’ category

The Drain of Routine (watch on YouTube) is in Portuguese language with English subtitles and on-screen International Sign Language interpretation.
Over the course of a single day, a woman spends hours washing a pile of dishes. As phone calls and conversations are repeatedly interrupted by the task, relationships shaped by her absence slowly come into focus, worn down by an exhausting daily routine. Director Yumi holds a degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies from Brazil’s CEUNSP and works as a screenwriter and director, focussing on female protagonists and their inner conflicts. Director: Yumi
Routine was entered in our ‘Best Student Film’ category

Genomic Mechanics (watch on YouTube) is in Portuguese language with English subtitles.
This film discusses the human body the same way we talk abut a cars - a customer has come to a mechanic repair shop, but the mechanic is really talking about genetic repair.  The filmmaker reflects on some of the mechanisms associated with genomic medicine, the way which it is communicated to patients and society in genera, and the impact that genomic medicine may have on people’s lives and addresses the figure of the genetic counsellor, mandatory by law in Portugal for patients exploring Medical Genetics.
Director: Tiago Cerviera
Mechanics was entered in our ‘Best Experimental Film’ category

Journey to Knowledge: Andalusia (watch on YouTube) is in Turkish language with English subtitles. Explores the fascinating route of science and technology as part of the great ‘transfer of science and knowledge’ extending from the Eastern Islamic world to Andalusia.
The story proves that Islamic civilization was not merely a stopover, but a vast "filter and laboratory" of the ancient world's legacy for the modern age. We look at how science was processed and transformed in ancient centers such as Harran, Baghdad, Alexandria, and Antioch, finding its way to Europe via caravan routes.
Director: Sendat Benek
Journey was entered in our ‘Best Experimental Film’ category

R.E.M. (watch on YouTube) is in English language.
In a near future where a device can record and replay dreams, Emma becomes obsessed with revisiting the past. Once a promising writer, she now spends her nights immersed in archived dreams of the ex-fiance she cannot let go of, Andy. This technology allows her to relive all that was good about life, trapping her in a cycle of toxic nostalgia that keeps her stuck, creatively and emotionally. But her dreams begin to shift, a new man appears. He’s unfamiliar, but safe; quietly guiding her out of these fragmented dreamscapes. 
Director: Maddi Trammell
R.E.M. was entered in our ‘Best Short Film’ category

Bite the Pain (watch on YouTube) is in Portuguese language and International Sign Language with English subtitles.
‘Bite the Pain’ explores the personal impact of an autoimmune disease. Based on the poem ‘Bite the Bullet’ by Marion Line, also featured in the aforementioned show, this digital artistic object focuses on the concept of translating something as personal and non-transferable as one’s pain.
Written by Marion Line, it features performance from Joana Sousa and Ines Dias, and a soundtrack by Marcelo dos Reis. 
Director: Marionet Associação Cultural
Bite the Pain was entered in our ‘Best Experimental Film’ category

Through Abe’s Eyes (watch on YouTube) is in Spanish language with English subtitles. Abe, a quirky and colourful physics student, is rebuked by her professor for presenting her homework with a creative flair; pushing her to change her eyes and experience the world like an "ordinary" person. Mexican filmmaker Melissa Yaeth is a science communicator and physicist with specialisation in cinematographic studies.
Yaeth plays with the Mexican literary tradition of magic realism in her short film that quite literally asks a student to see through the eyes of another person. 
Director: Melissa Yaeth
Journey was entered in our ‘Best Student Film’ category

Dr Nemo’s You’ve Never Seen A Clockwise Circle Pit (watch on YouTube) is in English language. With dreadlocks and eyeliner like they’re about to hit a Berlin club, Dr Nemo is a popular German YouTuber specialising in science. In this episode, they explore a phenomenon straight from the floor of one of those techno clubs. Dr Nemo says: “Have you ever seen people running in circles at a concert? That's called a "circle pit", and they always go counterclockwise. ALWAYS. I spent months trying to figure out why. The answer involves brain lateralisation, cultural conventions, mathematical attractors and a lot of crowd simulations.“ Director: Dr Nemo
The Circlepit Anomaly was entered in our ‘Best Short Film’ category

Can We Talk To Plants (watch on YouTube) is in English language.
Plants are constantly speaking, through subtle changes invisible to most of us. In order to learn how to listen, Vesna Bacheva pivots from the control and predictability of engineering, to the chaotic, living world of plant biology. By developing tools that can detect and translate plant signals, she explores how plants respond to pollution and climate stress, turning them into early warning systems in a changing world. Her work invites a shift in perspective: not just how we use plants, but how we understand them.
Director: Jonathan Brodie, Tristan Davis
Plants was entered in our ‘Best Short Film’ category

Buddha’s Lotus (watch on YouTube) is in Japanese language with English subtitles.
About 2,600 years ago, Siddhartha Gautama—the founder of Buddhism—found spiritual symbolism in the lotus, a flower that blooms out of the mud. Today, a Japanese researcher seeks to revive that ancient lotus which once moved the Buddha’s heart. Dr. Kiminori Takahata, a life scientist and chief priest of Shōren-ji Temple in Nara, has embarked on a mission to unearth 2,600-year-old lotus seeds from the sacred Buddhist land of Nepal. Will he succeed in discovering the legendary “Lotus of the Buddha”?
Director: Satoshi Moriguchi
Buddha’s Lotus was entered in our ‘Best Short Film’ & ‘Best Television’ categoryˆ

The Chiton (watch on YouTube) is in Japanese Language with English subtitles.
From the Japanese series ‘GalileoX’, The Chiton: A Mollusc With The World’s Strongest Teeth, and it’s all there in the title. The Chiton (Polyplacophora) also sometimes known as sea cradles, coat-of-mail shells, or suck-rocks are an ancient mollusc found everywhere yet often overlooked, and do indeed possess the strongest teeth on Earth. GalileoX is a Thursday night staple on Japanese TV, that ‘deeply, clearly, and interestingly’ conveys new trends and hot research related to science and technology. Director: Satoshi Moriguchi. The Chiton was entered in our ‘Best Short Film’ & ‘Best Television’ category

Right Here Right Now: The Science of Climate Justice (watch on YouTube) is in English language.
When lives or properties are destroyed by floods, storms, or wildfires, can and should anybody be held to account? Historically, these events have often been considered as ‘acts of God’ – unpredictable, unavoidable and beyond human control.
But does this reflect today’s world, where anthropogenic climate change is making weather and climate extremes more severe and more frequent? Produced for the 2025 Global Climate Summit, this film explores what happens when climate science enters the courtroom.
Director: Rob Key
Right Here Right Now was entered in our ‘Best Short Film’ category