Edition 2026
The seventh edition of the #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival featured1,658 entriesfrom 112 countries. Here are the winners and finalists in each category:
#LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival 2026
Winning Documentary 26:
→ Blame
Switzerland, 121 min, 2025
Christian Frei Filmproductions
→ Lions of the Skeleton Coast. Austria, 52 min, 2024. ORF, Into Nature Productions, WDR, Arte G.E.I.E., THIRTEEN Productions LLC. (watch video)
→ Noah. Spain, 72 min, 2024. Limmat Films, BsglobalTV, 3cat. (watch video)
→ Shot in the Arm. UnitedStates, 56 min, 2023. Black Valley Films, Diamond Docs. (watch video)
→ Spacewoman. UnitedStates, 100 min, 2024. Haviland Digital, Tigerlily Productions. (watch video)
→ The Thinking Game. UnitedStates, 83 min, 2024. Reel As Dirt, Cityspeak Films. (watch video)
Winning TV Show '26:
→ Sweat!
Canada, 52 min, 2025
Take Action Films, The Nature of Things, CBC.
→Changing Seas: "Maui Aloha ʻĀina: Mauka to Makai". UnitedStates, 27 min, 2024. PBS South Florida. (watch video)
→How Can One Look Happy When He Is Thinking About the Anomalous Zeeman Effect? Mexico, 20 min, 2025. Akanus. (watch video)
→Mare Farms – Horse Suffering for Our Meat. Germany, 29 min, 2024. Planete - ZDF. (watch video)
→Mytikah Explores - Charles Darwin. Brazil, 3 min, 2024. Oz Cultural. (watch video)
→Rat City. Canada, 44 min, 2023. The Nature of Things, CBC. (watch video)
→Saving Paradise: The Grand Canyon. France, 52 min, 2025. French Connection Films. (watch video)
Winning Production '26:
→Orchids: Darwin’s Conundrum
United Kingdom, 28 min, 2025
Thomas Cassar - National Film and Television School.
→Unfenced. Poland, 12 min, 2025. Wiktoria A. Ciesielska. (watch video)
→My Patch of Moss. UnitedKingdom, 10 min, 2025. Jason Elliott - National Film and Television School. (watch video)
→Molecule of Happiness.CzechRepublic, 24 min, 2024. Martin Studnický - Silesian University. (watch video)
→Kharvan- In Search of the Elusive One. India, 17 min, 2024. Nitya Navelkar. (watch video)
→Intercellular. United Kingdom, 10 min, 2023. Dan Short. (watch video)
→I Went Looking for Lions: A Story of Loss, Legacy, and African Pride. Nigeria , 28 min, 2025. Tamilore Adeshiyan. (watch video)
Winning University '26:
→ Arctic Shifts
United States, 10 min, 2024
UCONN School of Fine Arts
→A Blue Silence. Spain, 22 min, 2023. University of Girona. (watch video)
→In the Shadow of the Eclipse. Mexico, 30 min, 2025. UNAM. (watch video)
→Ocean Watch - A Story of Deep Sea Exploration. UnitedStates, 40 min, 2024. Schmidt Ocean Institute. (watch video)
→Our Earths. Austria, 10 min, 2025. Postfilm, BOKU University. (watch video)
→Right Here, Right Now: The Science of Climate Justice. UnitedKingdom, 14 min, 2025. Oxford Sparks. (watch video)
Winning video '26:
→ Can You Fight Fires and Diabetes at the Same Time?
United Kingdom, 4 min, 2024
Schmidt Science Fellow
→How Do Fish Get into Isolated Mountain Lakes? United States, 4 min, 2025. MinuteEarth. (watch video)
→Light in the Dark. UnitedStates, 6 min, 2024. Schmidt Ocean Institute. (watch video)
→Microwaving Metal is Fine (sometimes). United States, 9 min, 2024. Minute Food. (watch video)
→The History of the Pitiful Humanity. Republicof Korea - United States, 11 min, 2025. Young Chan Jeon. (watch video)
→The Shape of Our Memories. United States, 3 min, 2025. Yewon Jun. (watch video)
→Wild Hope: Bat Vax. UnitedStates, 15 min, 2025. HHMI Tangled Bank Studios (watch video)
→Your Climate Your Life. Morocco, 6 min, 2024. Zakaria El ouarouat. (watch video)
Sanitas Winner '26:
→ Spillover - Planet of Viruses
Germany, 89 min, 2025
Broadview Pictures, BR.
→Blame. Switzerland, 121 min, 2025. Christian Frei Filmproductions. (watch video)
→Breathe, Mom. Spain, 77 min, 2024. AlbaSoterra Cinema Productions, Televisio de Catalunya (watch video)
→Chronically Ignored. Austriaand Germany, 91 min, 2024. Inselfilm Produktion, Navigator Film. (watch video)
→Shot in the arm. UnitedStates, 56 min, 2023. Black Valley Films, Diamond Docs. (watch video)
The award Passion for Science" award recognizes the professional achievements of scientists and researchers in various fields of knowledge. In the 2026 edition, the award went to Pedro Miguel Etxenike.
Pedro Miguel Etxenique(Isaba, 1950) was one of the first students to pursue the licentiate degree Physical Sciences offered by the University of Navarra at campus Sebastián campus , where he graduated in 1972. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is currently Full Professor of subject Physics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
Etxenique has been president of the Donostia International Physics Center and the CIC Nanogune. He is Honorary President of Jakiunde, the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of the Basque Country. He has devoted great effort to promote science as an economic and cultural activity, and to emphasize the importance of a scientifically informed society.
Etxenique served Education Basque Education Minister of Education . He has beenan overseas fellowat Churchill College anda visiting professorat the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. He isa fellow ofthe American Physical Society and the association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences. He holds honorary doctor the universities of Valladolid, the Public University of Navarra, the Complutense University of Madrid, Aalto University in Finland, the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (the first university in the Americas), and the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Among the many awards and prizes attributed to him in his professional degree program are the Prince of Asturias for Scientific and Technical research , Max Planck for Physics, "Xabier María de Munibe", Euskadi for research, "Dupont" for Science, Prince of Viana for Culture, CSIC Tree of Science award , Iberdrola award for Science and Technology, National Blas Cabrera Award for Physics, Materials and Earth Science, among others. He received the Gold Medal of the City of San Sebastian, the Gold Medal of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics, Gold Medal of Gipuzkoa and in 2016 the Gold Medal of Navarra. He was named Universal Basque of the Year in 1998. He is Favorite Son of the town of Isaba in Navarra.