When You Run From Your Mom: Best Screenplay at Warsaw Glitch 2026
The tools may be shared. The story should not be. When You Run From Your Mom, directed by Edmond Yang from Norway, is the winner of Best Screenplay at the Ground Zero Edition.
Based on Yang's own experience growing up as a multicultural kid in the suburbs of Oslo, and inspired by an op-ed he previously published in the Norwegian newspaper VG, the film transforms lived experience into a deeply personal and beautifully animated story. It resonated with judges from across the world precisely because it feels unmistakably authored.
At Warsaw Glitch, this is something we want to praise. As generative tools become available to everyone, authorship becomes more important, not less. Give one hundred creators the same models, software and technical possibilities, and the films that matter are the ones where you can still immediately feel: this story belongs to this filmmaker and no one else. Tell us something you know. Something you lived, imagined, feared, loved or understood in a way nobody else could. Use AI to extend your artistic voice, not to replace it with generic generations.
Honorable mentions in the category went to The Beautiful Lie (Dennis Mohr, Canada), The Split (Stéphane Tranquillin, France), The Dilemma (Marc Horgues-Debat, France), The Gift (Junho Her, South Korea) and The Wind Changes (Oscar Burgos and Tomas Burgos, Colombia and the UK). The finalists were Two Shots (Alan Vidot, Australia), Drown in Love (Yonatan D. Shalev and Martyna Cohen, Israel and Poland), The Interview (Mark Wachholz, Germany) and The Order (Andriej Seliga and Ethan Mercer, Poland and the USA). Different tools can generate images. Only you can decide what is worth saying.
