Student Animation Awards

Student short films created at DigiPen Europe-Bilbao have captured the imaginations of audiences around the world. Since 2014, our students have won numerous accolades from international competitions such as the Blue Plum Animation Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival, the largest film festival in the United States where several student projects were screened. Our full list of film honors and awards showcase our students’ outstanding achievements in animation.

25 Percent

Jury Award, Student Short Film, 2018 Lady Filmmakers Festival
Award of Merit Special Mention: Women Filmmakers (Student), 2018 Accolade Global Film Competition
Finalist, 2019 PSICURT Festival de Curtmetratges
2018 Overmountain Animation Festival
2018 Female Filmmakers Fuse Film Festival
2018 Florida Animation Festival
2018 Orlando Film Festival
2018 Palm Springs International Animation Festival
2018 The Saint Francis College Women’s Film Festival
2018 Athens Animfest
2018 Cortoons Festival Gandia
2017 Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao
2017 Emerge Microcinema
2017 Día Mundial de la Animación - Madrid

500 Miles Close

The Most Wonderful Animation (3D Animation Honourable Mention), 2020 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia
2020 Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games
2019 Animakom FEST – Bilbao International Animation Community Festival
2019 Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games
2019 Athens Animfest
2019 Weird Market
2019 Día Mundial de la Animación - Madrid
2019 Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao

A Glimpse into the Past

2024 Athens Animfest

A Successful Student

The Most Bright Animation, 2021 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia

Ad Lib

Jury Award, Best Animated Short, 2019 Palm Springs International Animation Festival
Winner, Best Music, 2019 LGBT Los Angeles Film Festival
Finalist, Animation Shorts, 2019 Living Skies Student Film Festival
2021 Kinofilm 17th Manchester International Short Film & Animation Festival
2021 Zinentiendo
2020 Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games
2020 Festival Internacional de Cine LGBTIQ de Madrid
2019 Athens Animfest
2019 Palm Springs International Animation Festival
2019 Weird Market
2019 Zinegoak - Festival de Cine y Artes Escénicas LGBTI de Bilbao
2019 Animakom FEST – Bilbao International Animation Community Festival
2019 Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games
2019 San Antonio QFest-LGBT International Film Festival
2019 LGBTQ Shorts Film Festival
2019 Miami 4 Social Change Youth Film Festival
2019 Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival
2019 Florida Animation Festival
2019 FilmOut San Diego LGBTQ ShortFest
2019 L-DUB Film Festival

All Iron

2018 Animakom FEST – Bilbao International Animation Community Festival
2018 Skepto International Film Festival
2018 Athens Animfest

Amama

2021 Talentu Gazteak (Bilbao Bizkaia Design Week)

Arpeggio

Best of Student Award, 2017 Blue Plum Animation Festival
2017 Concurso Corto-Joven Ciudad de Toledo
2017 NexT International Film Festival
2017 Cardiff Independent Film Festival
2017 Athens Animfest
2017 Animakom FEST – Bilbao International Animation Community Festival
2017 Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games
2017 Mecal Pro International Short and Animation Film Festival
2017 Torrelavega International Film Festival
2017 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)
2017 Burbank International Film Festival
2017 Palm Springs International Animation Festival
2017 Donosskino Short Film Festival
2016 Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao

Bon Ali The Kind

Excellence Award, 2024 The Rookie Awards

Conej Steps Out

Winner, Best Foreign Short Film - Burbank International Film Festival, 2024
Winner, Honorable Mention - Hollywood ShortFest (USA), 2024
Winner - International Istanbul ShortFilm & The Writer’s Journey Fest, 2024
Winner, Best Basque Short Film - FANT Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival, 2024
Winner, Audience Award - Futur Talents, 2024 ANIMAC
Winner, Audience Award, 2023 Animakom FEST – Bilbao International Animation Community Festival
Winner, Best National Short Film Audience Award, 2023 WFest at Weird Market
Winner, Best National Short Film, 2023 Prime the Animation! New Talent International Festival
Winner, Audience Award, 2023 Prime the Animation! New Talent International Festival
Excellence Award, 2023 The Rookie Awards
Nominee, Best Soundtrack, 2024 BUEIFF Buenos Aires International Film Festival
Nominee, Best Student Short Film, 2024 BUEIFF Buenos Aires International Film Festival
Nominee, Best Ibero-American Short Film, 2024 Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards
Nominee, Best Visual Development, 2024 Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards
Nominee, Best Animation Design, 2024 Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards
Nominee, Best Sound Design and Original Music, 2024 Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards
Honorable Mention, 2024 Dubai International Film Festival (DUBIFF)
Honorable Mention (2D Animation), 2023 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia
Finalist, Film of the Year (2D Animation), 2023 The Rookie Awards
Distinction, Students, 2023 Athens Animfest
2024 IMAXINARIA Animation Film Festival
2024 ANIMAFEST Zagreb. World Festival of Animated Film
2024 International Animation Festival Fest Anča
2024 VENEZIA SHORTS
2024 Fascurt. Festival de Cortometrajes del Masnou
2024 Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards
2024 Mecal Pro
2024 Galician Freaky Film Festival, GFFF
2024 Animadeba 24
2024 New York Indie Shorts Awards
2024 Ottawa International Animation Film Festival
2024 Animalco
2024 Cuenca Internacional Film Festival. FICC
2024 SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya
2024 ALCINE
2024 Festival Cartón
2024 Cannes Indie Shorts Awards
2024 MIRADA CORTA Short Film Festival
2024 BUEIFF Buenos Aires International Film Festival
2024 Cervantes Institute
2024 TAAFI – Toronto Animation Arts Festival International
2024 Anima – The Brussels International Animation Film Festival
2024 Fifca – Festival International du Film Court d’Angoulême
2023 Humor en Corto
2023 Animakom FEST, Student Competition
2023 Animakom FEST, Best Student Animation
2023 ZINEBI 65 – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
2023 Film School Fest
2023 Animainzon – Concurso Nacional de Cine de Animación
2023 MUFF / Mieres Under-60’ Film Festival
2023 Mi Primer Festival
2023 Animation Day | Marché du Films – Festival de Cannes
2023 Panorama Español – Animario
2023 Festival de Málaga, Málaga Short Corner
2023 PSIAF Palm Springs International Animation Festival
2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival
2023 Córdoba International Animation Festival – ANIMA
2023 Cortoons Festival Gandia

Core

Finalist, 2016 Blue Plum Animation Festival
Finalist, 2016 Summa3D

Curves

2020 Premio Quirino
2020 Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games
2020 FIAfest – Festival Internacional Audiovisual
2020 Weird Market
2020 Athens Animfest
2019 Día Mundial de la Animación - Madrid

Dante’s Inferno

Best Intellectual, 2021 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia
2022 Athens Animfest
2021 Animakom FEST – Bilbao International Animation Community Festival
2021 Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games
2021 Weird Market

Dead End

2019 Aguilar Film Festival
2018 Athens Animfest
2018 Leiden International Short Film Experience (LISFE)

Deadly Delivery

Finalist, 2016 Plymouth Film Festival
Finalist, 2016 Summa3D
2017 Donosskino Short Film Festival
2016 Skepto Film Festival

Duck Attack

Excellence Award, 2024 The Rookie Awards

EOS

2017 Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games
2017 Cortoons Festival Gandia
2017 Summa3D

Gaia

2024 ReAnima: Bergen International Animation Festival
Honorable Mention (2D Animation), 2023 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia
2023 XVI Concurso Corto-Joven Ciudad de Toledo

Goodbye kepler

2025 MIRADA CORTA Short Film Festival
2024 ZINEBI 66
2024 Mostra de Curtas Vila de Noia
2024 TAF, Thessaloniki Animation Festival
2024 Concurso Corto-Joven Ciudad de Toledo
2024 Animalcoi
2024 CineMagic Belfast Festival
2024 PSIAF Palm Springs Animation Festival (USA)
2024 Festival Ibérico de Cinema de Badajoz
2024 Festival de Cannes
2024 Athens Animfest
2023 TALENTU GAZTEAK

Gone

2017 Athens Animfest
2017 Cortoons Festival Gandia

HeartBits

Best Science Fiction Love Story, 2023 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia
Second Jury Prize, 2023 Animainzon – Concurso Nacional de Cine de Animación
Nominee, Best School Short Film, 2023 Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards
2024 PequeFilmes
2023 Aguilar Film Festival
2023 Weird Market
2023 Mecal Pro – Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival
2023 Animadeba
2023 PSIAF Palm Springs International Animation Festival
2023 Athens Animfest
2023 Animatiba – Festival Internacional de Animação de Curitiba
2022 Animakom FEST, Student Competition
2022 Animakom FEST, Best Student Animation
2022 Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao

Insecure

2019 Athens Animfest
2019 Dumbo Film Festival

Level 1457 LAST

Best of Student Award, 2014 Blue Plum Animation Festival
2014 Palm Springs International ShortFest
2014 SIGGRAPH Asia Animation Theater
2014 Los Angeles International Student Film Festival
2014 Portland Film Festival
2014 Columbia Gorge International Film Festival

License to Krill

2018 Anim!Arte Festival
2018 Children’s Animation Competition, La Guarimba International Film Festival

MO

2016 Summa3D

Monster’s Lullaby

2020 FIAfest – Festival Internacional Audiovisual
2020 Weird Market
2019 Día Mundial de la Animación - Madrid

New Leaves

2017 Directed by Women Spain
2017 Summa3D

REA

Award of Merit for Women Filmmakers, 2016 Best Short Film Festival
Finalist, 2016 Blue Plum Animation Festival
Finalist, 2016 Columbia Gorge International Film Festival
Finalist, 2016 Summa3D

Safo

Most Surprising Animation, 2023 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia

Shades

2024 ReAnima: Bergen International Animation Festival
Finalist (2D Official Selection), 2023 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia

Sphere

2017 FANT Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival

Swing in the Sky

3rd Place Winner, 3D Animation Awards, Best Educational, 2020 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia
2021 Mecal Pro International Short and Animation Film Festival
2020 Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games
2020 Cortoons Festival Gandia
2020 FIAfest – Festival Internacional Audiovisual
2020 Weird Market
2020 Athens Animfest
2019 Día Mundial de la Animación - Madrid
2019 Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao

Tardes de Verano

Best Children Adventure, 2023 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia
Winner, Students, 2023 Athens Animfest
Winner, Audience Award, 2022 Animakom FEST – Bilbao International Animation Community Festival
Nominee, Best School Short Film, 2023 Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards
2023 Aguilar Film Festival
2023 Weird Market
2023 Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games
2023 PSIAF Palm Springs International Animation Festival
2022 Animakom FEST, Student Competition
2022 Animakom FEST, Best Student Animation
2022 Talentu Gazteak

The Balloonman

Best Comedy-Drama (2D Animation Honourable Mention), 2020 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia
2020 Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games
2020 Cortoons Festival Gandia
2020 FIAfest – Festival Internacional Audiovisual
2020 Weird Market
2020 Zlín Film Festival – International Festival for Children and Youth
2019 Día Mundial de la Animación - Madrid

The Garden

2020 Animakom FEST – Bilbao International Animation Community Festival
2020 Weird Market
2020 Athens Animfest
2019 Día Mundial de la Animación - Madrid
2019 Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao

The Lightkeeper

Excellence Award, 2024 The Rookie Awards

Toxicity Underwater

2017 Ecozine Film Festival
2017 Summa3D

Trott

Excellence Award, 2024 The Rookie Awards
2024 Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes
2024 Giffoni Film Festival
2024 CineMagic Belfast Festival
2024 Animalcoi
2024 Animainzon – Concurso Nacional de Cine de Animación

When Walls Talk

2019 Athens Animfest
2019 Weird Market

Witchhood

Best Educational, 2021 International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia

Witchy Crash

2024 Athens Animfest
2024 Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes
2024 Animainzon – Concurso Nacional de Cine de Animación