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Please qualifies for the Oscars with Nordisk Panorama's Best Nordic Short Film award

Published on SMDB 2026-11-12 Source date 2026-11-10

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Anna Mantzaris's felt-puppet stop-motion short Please is now an Oscar contender. Cartoon Brew's 2027 Oscars short-film contender profile (10 November 2026) says it qualified by winning Best Nordic Short Film at Nordisk Panorama.

In the interview, Mantzaris calls stop motion her language. The film was built and shot across three countries within its Sweden, France, Czech Republic, Norway and Finland co-production led by Apparat Filmproduktion. The article does not name producers or crew beyond the director.

This qualifying award is a separate event from the prizes SMDB has already reported for Please: the Jean-Luc Xiberras first-film award at Annecy, Animation Is Film's Special Jury Prize and the Fredrikstad audience award.

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