The Goya 2026 outline the candidate short films: 15 fiction, 15 animation and 18 documentaries

A total of 48 short films (15 fiction, 15 animation and 18 documentaries) will compete in the next edition of the Goya awards that will take place in Barcelona.

María Castro, Néstor López and Melina Matthews, representing the winners of the last edition, have been in charge of revealing the productions that could be eligible for a Goya on February 28, 2026. On this occasion, after the Academy modified the bases of the awards, the list of candidates has been formed based on the merits of the productions, taking into account their journey throughout the different qualifying festivals whose selection is now more exhaustive.

The selected short films must also provide a document proving that they have won at least one award or have been selected for a minimum of 7 festivals in the case of fiction short films, 3 in the case of documentary short films and 1 for animated short films, or have participated in an international festival.

Short films competing in the 40th edition of the Goya Awards

• Best Fiction Short Film

'Dead angle'
'Anger'
‘Sugar’
'Where the pines complain'
'A Midsummer Night's Tale'
'The Prince'
'Insurmountable'
‘Death’
'The blood'
'Children'
'Pálpito'
‘Pipiolos’
'Sex at 70'
‘Solo Kim’
'A head on the wall'

• Best Documentary Short Film

‘Behind the wall’
‘DARU/N (Mother/Deceased)’
'Dissonance'
"The Lover"
'The custodian of Bahía Honda'
'He who does not see'
'The Saint'
‘Emilia’
'The conversation we never had'
'The First Times'
'The images arrived on time'
'Crazy girls from the attic'
'Platonic, platonic'
‘Relax’
‘The painter’s room’
'Sand Bellies'
‘Ground Zero. Self-portrait of an ocean abuser'
'Zona Theo'

Best Animated Short Film

'the last'
'Dance with Death'
‘Paradise Buffet’
‘Carmela’
'Ruben's oort'
'The State of the Soul'
'It is to come (And it will have your eyes)'
‘Flocky’
‘Gilbert’
‘Evil’
"Blessed Mother"
‘One-Way Cycle’
'Stone'
'a pleasure'
‘Tesoro’