“This film is a tenderly constellated wake up call to each and every one of us, walking a fine line between cascading pixilated abstraction and overwhelming hard facts. A quiet authorial narration gently shifts from her fearful childhood encounter with water, learning how, ‘the water knows your weight,’ and, ‘the mechanisms that keep me from drowning are fragile,’ before pivoting to universally devastating statistics of melting and calving glaciers. The narration assumes the voice of the water that interconnects all endangered being on our planet.

The Jury Prize for Best Newcomer goes to
THIS, TOO, WILL BE LIQUID by Karolina Malwina Gruschka.”

— Jury Statement, Vienna Shorts 2026

I am deeply grateful for the recognition and for giving this film room to resonate.
Thank you to the Jury and thank you Vienna Shorts!