Sexan short film competition

Njarðvíkurskóli is the winner of Sexan 2025!

The results of Sexan 2025 are in with Njarðvíkurskóli emerging victorious with their short film Effects of Bullying. In second place was Hólabrekkuskóli with the short film Fight, while Rimaskóli secured third place for their short film Digital Wounds.

The Sexan Encouragement Award is also given for notable use of technology, content handling, or methods. This year, Hrafnagilsskóli received the Sexan Encouragement Award for featuring actors of foreign origin in leading roles and showing in a clear way how young people can seek help in cases of digital violence.

Sexan is a peer education project aimed at educating young people about the manifestations of digital violence. The subjects of the short films are grooming, nude images, consent, or youth fights.

Below you can see the award-winning films of Sexan 2025.

How to I participate?

The format of Sexan is simple. Participants receive education in schools and/or youth centres and get the opportunity to create and submit a finished short film, maximum 3 minutes in length. The competition topics are four manifestations of digital violence:

• consent
• nude image
• grooming
• youth fights

In addition, there is an open category for anything that you think is important for all 7th-grade kids to know about.

You can submit a film yourself or ask your teacher or youth centre staff to do it. The submission portal will be open, as mentioned before, from February 3, 2024, to April 8, 2025.

• It's best to have the film in "landscape" format (16:9) and the image quality should be 1920x1080px or higher.
• Put the SEXAN logo at the end of the film (as an end card). You can download it further down the page.
• Remember that the file you submit needs to show the title of the short film, the name of your school, and your class.

Jury and winning films

Participants have free rein with scriptwriting, production, and post-production. Each school may submit a maximum of 3 films to the competition, but a jury consisting of representatives from the youth council, RÚV, MMS, and the film industry will select the three best short films, which will be shown in cinemas, on the UngRÚV website, and distributed to all primary schools in the country as educational material.

The winning films will be screened at Bíóparadís during the Children's Culture Festival and on the KrakkaRÚV website. Additionally, the winning films will be sent to all schools in the country and used for educational purposes for all 7th graders. Below, you can find everything you need to know about filmmaking and digital violence, as well as teaching packages for teachers and instructors.

We especially encourage young people of foreign origin, LGBTQ+ youth, and disabled youth to participate!

How do I know what the topics mean?

Below is a clear and simple explanation of what grooming, nude pictures, consent, and youth fighting mean. Remember that a good short film shows what kids can do to help those who experience digital violence.