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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
  • 2024 ICONA Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival

Conej Steps Out

  • Winner, Best National Short Film - Fundación Mutua Levante , 2024
  • Winner, Prix du Meilleur Espoir - Cannes Indie Short Awards, 2024
  • Winner, Best Student Short Film - Festival Carton, 2024
  • 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 Los Angeles Animation Festival
  • 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 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 Durangoko Azoka
  • 2024 ICONA Ionian Contemporary Animation 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
  • 2025 JEF Youth Film Festival Antwerp (Belgium)
  • 2024 ICONA Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival
  • 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

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