BEST SWEDISH SHORT FILM
The Swedish jury awards the director of one of the films in the National Competition with the Uppsala Film Jackdaw and 50 000 SEK from the Swedish Film Institute.
UPPSALA EARLY BIRD
The jury awards the Uppsala Early Bird to a talented, daring, and challenging filmmaker at the beginning of their career. In addition to a prize sum of 10 000 SEK, the film is offered distribution via the VOD-platform Draken Film and given a chance to be seen by large audiences across all of Sweden.
AUDIENCE AWARD
The audience votes for their favourite short film in the National Competition.
Émilie Poirier
Émilie Poirier has been working in programming at the Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) since 2017. She is now head programmer of short film and feature film as well as being an independent curator, moderator and writer. She was on the Directors’ Fortnight selection committee at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025 and was a member of the preselection committee at the Busan International Short Film Festival from 2021 to 2023.
Margarida Moz
Margarida Moz is a short film programmer at IndieLisboa – International Film Festival and one of the directors of Portugal Film – Portuguese Film Agency. She holds a Master in Social Anthropology, has been working in films for the past 20 years, both in documentary research and production, and collaborated with several film festivals in Portugal. Besides teaching Anthropology at the university in Lisbon, she has been programming short films for IndieLisboa – International Film Festival since 2013.
Mathias Broe
Mathias Broe made his feature debut in 2025 with ‘Sauna’, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. He is a graduate from the Danish alternative film school Super16 and in 2022 he curated two programmes for Uppsala Short Film Festival highlighting the best films of Super16 and recent Danish art film and video. With his own graduation film ‘Amphi’, he won a Robert Award for Best Short Documentary. In addition to directing, Broe has also worked as a film consultant at the Aarhus Film Workshop and teaches at various film and acting schools in Denmark. This autumn, he will direct his first stageplay production at Aveny-T in Copenhagen, continuing his desire to explore and push our ideas of masculinity and identity while broadening his own artistic expression.