Kutxabank New Directors Award for BODY OF GLASS
September 28, 2026
We are delighted to announce that BODY OF GLASS, the debut feature by Naëmi Ada, has won the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the 74th San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it competed in the New Directors section.
Naëmi Ada studied film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) where she wrote and directed several short and experimental films. Prior to that, she studied Contemporary Dance at the Northern School ofContemporary Dance in Leeds, UK. She was a Sundance Ignite Fellow 2019. Body of Glass is her debut feature film.
BODY OF GLASS is a Germany-France co-production produced by Silvana Santamaria (Soilfilms Media, Germany), Timothée Boullié, Victoria Braunholz and Pierre Cazenave-Kaufman (Soldats Features, France) and Naëmi Ada
