Award Winner

With Tapes and Toasts in the Car

Name: With Tapes and Toasts in the Car | Short Films – Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2026 Screening in Autumn - SSFF & ASIA 2026 Autumn
Director: Kiana Naghshineh

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Animation Competition Best Short Award

After a long illness, Shari learns that she won’t recover ? she has only a few months left to live. Overwhelmed, she doesn’t know how to face her family. In an attempt to escape reality, the sky collapses above her, and she finds herself drifting through space.

Director: Kiana Naghshineh
Time: 0:14:24
Country: Germany, France
Genre: Animation
Year: 2025
Cast: Pegah Ferydoni (Shari), Masud Akbarzadeh (brother), Mon? Sharifi (mother), Jan Schuttack (grandma), Daniel Strohh?cker (Laika), Herr Osman (Doctor), Aaron Gr?f (Soccer kid), Marc Fragstein (Passerby), Henriette Schreurs (receptionist)

Director

Kiana Naghshineh

Kiana Naghshineh is a German-Iranian director from Mannheim. During her studies at the Filmakademie Baden-W?rttemberg, she created several award-winning films and was nominated for the Student Academy Award, the Student BAFTA, and the Annie Award. As a freelancer, she works as an animation director and designer.

Cast

Pegah Ferydoni (Shari), Masud Akbarzadeh (brother), Mon? Sharifi (mother), Jan Schuttack (grandma), Daniel Strohh?cker (Laika), Herr Osman (Doctor), Aaron Gr?f (Soccer kid), Marc Fragstein (Passerby), Henriette Schreurs (receptionist)