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WINNER – INDIE ACADEMY AWARDS 2026
2026 October 3
The Beauty in a Restless Mind
By Lena Mattsson
BEST INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM 2026 & BEST SPIRITUAL FILM PROJECT OF THE YEAR.
Not Without Gloves
By Lena Mattsson
BEST INDIE VISIONARY SHORT FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE ORIGINAL STORYTELLER.
The Rorschach Test
By Lena Mattsson
BEST GLOBAL INDIE INSPIRATIONAL FILMMAKER, BEST SOUND & BEST EDITING.
The Aesthetics of Failure
By Lena Mattsson
BEST POETRY SHORT FILM 2026, BEST SOUND & BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2026.
Congratulations from Rome!
You have won at the Indie Academy Awards 2026, a prestigious international recognition celebrating excellence in contemporary cinema.
Furthermore, this victory qualifies you for BEST ARTIST 2027, which will be awarded shortly before Sundance by the Boulder International Film Contest. You will receive a dedicated invitation later today.
Here are the results of the Indie Academy Awards in Rome:
https://wildfilmmaker.net/winners-indie-academy-awards-2026/
Thank you, and congratulations once again on this outstanding
achievement.
Kind regards,
Indie Academy Awards
in partnership with WILD FILMMAKER.
Dear Indie Academy Awards Team,
Thank you most sincerely for this wonderful news. I am truly honoured and deeply grateful to have received these prestigious awards for my films The Beauty in a Restless Mind, Not Without Gloves, The Rorschach Test, and The Aesthetics of Failure.
I extend my warmest and most heartfelt thanks to the jury, to Wild Filmmaker’s editor-in-chief Michele Diomà, and to his entire international team for this recognition.
Special thanks are also due to Conny Malmqvist, who composed the music for The Beauty in a Restless Mind, Not Without Gloves, and The Rorschach Test, and to Ebba Melber, who appears as an actor in The Beauty in a Restless Mind and The Rorschach Test.
With warmest regards,
Lena Mattsson
