Longlist 2026 – Short Film

TFA is happy to announce that twenty filmmakers have been longlisted for the 2026 Toto Awards for Short Film.

  1. Akshita Talwar (New Delhi)
  2. Akshita Tyagi (Saharanpur)
  3. Amoli Sachin Birewar (Mumbai)
  4. Apurv Anil Gautam (Pune)
  5. Aryan Sinha (Guwahati) 
  6. Bhaashya (Ujire)
  7. Bhavya Karthikeyan (Bangalore)
  8. Bonita Rajpurohit (Vadodara)
  9. Damayanti Saha (Kolkata)
  10. Divya Kharnare (Mumbai)
  11. Mallika Juneja (Mumbai)
  12. Richa Nanda (Mumbai)
  13. Shashank BP (Birur)
  14. Shovel Qureshi (Mumbai)
  15. Shubham Negi (Bilaspur)
  16. Soham Kundu (Kolkata)
  17. Sumit Saikia (Guwahati)
  18. Thangellapally Aman (Chennai)
  19. Vaidaangi Sharma (Mumbai)
  20. Zayyina Hasan K (Malappuram)

Congratulations for making it through! You are now part of the Toto Awards 2026 Longlist for Short Film.

Watch out for the next round – the shortlist – in January 2026.