Still: Where Is My Sex Drive? - Nina Broers

Organised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Student Academy Awards honour outstanding work by student filmmakers in four categories: Animation, Documentary, Live Action Narrative and Alternative/Experimental. Previous winners have gone on to receive 70 Oscar nominations and have won or shared 15 Academy Awards. Alumni include filmmakers such as Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Patricia Riggen, Patricia Cardoso and Spike Lee.

Where Is My Sex Drive?, Nina Broers' graduation film at St. Joost School of Art & Design, was selected in the Alternative/Experimental category.

The film follows a young woman who struggles with her broken sexual health and gets two actors to play out scenes from her past to investigate where and how it went wrong. Whilst filming she gets confronted with opposed opinions.

The selection marks another international recognition for Broers’ film, which won the award for Best Dutch Short Film at Go Short 2025. The professional jury praised the film’s “hyperrealistic but fictional making-of” approach, which exposes the power dynamics hidden within stories of consent. The jury highlighted how the film examines masculinity, power relations and patriarchy, while the director reclaims both her project and her voice in a powerful cinematic manifesto.

The 2026 Student Academy Awards ceremony is organised in partnership with Rolex and will be announced on 14 September 2026 during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The ceremony will take place at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto. Find out more about the finalists here.