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

- Akshita Talwar (New Delhi)
- Akshita Tyagi (Saharanpur)
- Amoli Sachin Birewar (Mumbai)
- Apurv Anil Gautam (Pune)
- Aryan Sinha (Guwahati)
- Bhaashya (Ujire)
- Bhavya Karthikeyan (Bangalore)
- Bonita Rajpurohit (Vadodara)
- Damayanti Saha (Kolkata)
- Divya Kharnare (Mumbai)
- Mallika Juneja (Mumbai)
- Richa Nanda (Mumbai)
- Shashank BP (Birur)
- Shovel Qureshi (Mumbai)
- Shubham Negi (Bilaspur)
- Soham Kundu (Kolkata)
- Sumit Saikia (Guwahati)
- Thangellapally Aman (Chennai)
- Vaidaangi Sharma (Mumbai)
- 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.
