14/10/2025 - A total of 67 features have been selected for a possible nomination, in the Fiction, Documentary and Animation strands

Taking place on 17 January 2026 in Berlin, Germany, the 38th European Film Awards honour the greatest achievements in European cinema. Presented annually by the European Film Academy, the awards have shortlisted 67 feature films for a possible nomination. The shortlist includes 44 fiction films, 15 documentaries and eight animated films, with 27 shortlisted movies directed or co-directed by women, and with 34 European – both EU and non-EU – countries represented.

The shortlisted fiction and documentary films have been chosen by members of the European Film Academy board and invited European experts, and the shortlisted animated features by a selection committee composed of members of the Academy board and invited experts in co-operation with CARTOON - European Association of Animation Film.

In the coming weeks, the 5,400 members of the European Film Academy will watch the shortlisted titles, except for the categories of European Young Audience Award, LUX Audience Award (see the news) and the Honorary Awards, and vote for the nominees for the categories of European Film, European Director, European Discovery—Prix Fipresci, European Documentary, European Animated Feature Film, European Actress, European Actor and European Screenwriter, which will be announced on 18 November, right after the 22nd Seville European Film Festival, reviving the tradition of announcing the majority of the nominations in front of an audience at an event that will now return to Seville every two years.

Further nomination announcements are the European Short Film – Prix Vimeo, chosen by the European Film Academy Short Film Network, on 31 October at the 70th Seminci – Valladolid International Film Festival; and the nominations for the categories of European Casting Director, European Cinematographer, European Composer (Original Score), European Costume Designer, European Editor, European Make-Up & Hair Artist, European Production Designer, and European Sound Designer on 26 November.

Here is the list of shortlisted films:

Fiction

Bearcave [+see also:
film review
interview: Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysia…
film profile] - Krysianna B Papadakis & Stergios Dinopoulos (Greece/UK)
Bugonia [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland/UK/USA/South Korea)
Case 137 [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dominik Moll
film profile] - Dominik Moll (France)
Christy [+see also:
film review
interview: Brendan Canty
film profile] - Brendan Canty (Ireland/UK)
Deaf [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Eva Libertad
film profile] - Eva Libertad (Spain)
Die My Love - Lynne Ramsay (USA/Canada/UK)
Dreams [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Dag Johan Haugerud
film profile] - Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway)
Duse [+see also:
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interview: Pietro Marcello
film profile] - Pietro Marcello (Italy/France)
Father [+see also:
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interview: Tereza Nvotová
film profile] - Tereza Nvotová (Slovakia/Czech Republic/Poland)
Franz [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Agnieszka Holland
film profile] - Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic/Germany/Poland)
Fuori [+see also:
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interview: Mario Martone
film profile] - Mario Martone (Italy/France)
I Only Rest In The Storm [+see also:
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interview: Pedro Pinho
film profile] - Pedro Pinho (Portugal/France/Brazil/Romania)
It Was Just An Accident [+see also:
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interview: Jafar Panahi
film profile] - Jafar Panahi (France/Iran/Luxembourg)
La Grazia [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)
Late Shift [+see also:
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interview: Petra Volpe
film profile] - Petra Volpe (Switzerland/Germany)
Little Trouble Girls [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Urška Djukić
film profile] - Urška Djukić (Slovenia/Italy/Croatia/Serbia)
Love Me Tender [+see also:
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interview: Anna Cazenave Cambet
film profile] - Anna Cazenave Cambet (France)
Loveable [+see also:
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interview: Lilja Ingolfsdottir
film profile] - Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway)
Maspalomas [+see also:
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interview: Aitor Arregi and José Mari …
film profile] - Jose Mari Goenaga & Aitor Arregi (Spain)
Milk Teeth [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Mihai Mincan
film profile] - Mihai Mincan (Romania/France/Denmark/Greece/Bulgaria)
Mirrors No. 3 [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Christian Petzold
film profile] - Christian Petzold (Germany)
Mother [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Teona Strugar Mitevska
film profile] - Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia/Belgium/Sweden/Denmark/Bosnia and Herzegovina/India)
On Falling [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Laura Carreira
film profile] - Laura Carreira (UK/Portugal)
Once Upon a Time In Gaza [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Tarzan Nasser
film profile] - Tarzan Nasser & Arab Nasser (France/Palestine/Germany/Portugal/Qatar/Jordan)
One Of Those Days When Hemme Dies [+see also:
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film profile] - Murat Fıratoğlu (Turkey/Germany)
Palestine 36 [+see also:
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film profile] - Annemarie Jacir (Palestine/UK/France/Denmark/Norway)
Pillion [+see also:
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film profile] - Harry Lighton (UK/Ireland)
Romería [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Carla Simón
film profile] - Carla Simón (Spain/Germany)
Sentimental Value [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Joachim Trier
film profile] - Joachim Trier (Norway/France/Denmark/Germany/Sweden)
Silent Friend [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Ildikó Enyedi
film profile] - Ildikó Enyedi (Germany/France/Hungary)
Sirât [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Óliver Laxe
film profile] - Oliver Laxe (Spain/France)
Sleepless City [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Guillermo Galoe
film profile] - Guillermo Galoe (Spain/France)
Sound of Falling [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Mascha Schilinski
film profile] - Mascha Schilinski (Germany)
Sundays [+see also:
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interview: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
film profile] - Alauda Ruiz De Azúa (Spain)
The Last Viking [+see also:
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interview: Anders Thomas Jensen
film profile] - Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark/Sweden)
The Little Sister [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Hafsia Herzi
film profile] - Hafsia Herzi (France/Germany)
The Love That Remains [+see also:
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interview: Hlynur Pálmason
film profile] - Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/France)
The North - Bart Schrijver (Netherlands)
The Stranger [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: François Ozon
film profile] - François Ozon (France)
The Voice Of Hind Rajab [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Kaouther Ben Hania
film profile] - Kaouther Ben Hania (France/Tunisia)
Two Prosecutors [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sergei Loznitsa
film profile] - Sergei Loznitsa (France/Germany/Netherlands/Latvia/Romania/Lithuania)
What Marielle Knows [+see also:
film review
interview: Frédéric Hambalek
film profile] - Frédéric Hambalek (Germany)
Yes [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - Nadav Lapid (France/Israel/Cyprus/Germany)
Young Mothers [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film profile] - Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (Belgium/France)

Documentaries

Afternoons of Solitude [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Albert Serra
film profile] - Albert Serra (Spain/France)
An American Pastoral - Auberi Edler (France)
Ancestral Visions of the Future [+see also:
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film profile] -  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (France/Lesotho/Germany/Qatar/Saudi Arabia)
Fiume o Morte! [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Igor Bezinović (Croatia/Slovenia/Italy)
Flophouse America [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Monica Strømdahl
film profile] - Monica Strømdahl (Norway/Netherlands/USA)
Good Valley Stories [+see also:
film review
interview: José Luis Guerín
film profile] - José Luis Guerin (Spain/France)
Hair, Paper, Water... [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Nicolas Graux & Minh Quý Trương (Belgium/France/Vietnam)
Listen to the Voices [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste
film profile] - Maxime Jean-Baptiste (Belgium/France)
Memory [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Vladlena Sandu
film profile] - Vladlena Sandu (France/Netherlands)
Militantropos [+see also:
film review
interview: Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gor…
film profile] - Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi (Ukraine/Austria/France)
Riefenstahl [+see also:
film review
interview: Andres Veiel
film profile] - Andres Veiel (Germany)
Songs Of Slow Burning Earth [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Olha Zhurba
film profile] - Olha Zhurba (Ukraine/France/Denmark/Sweden)
The Shards [+see also:
trailer
interview: Masha Chernaya
film profile] - Masha Chernaya (Georgia/Germany)
TWST - Things We Said Today [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Andrei Ujică (France/Romania)
With Hasan In Gaza [+see also:
film review
interview: Kamal Aljafari
film profile] - Kamal Aljafari (Germany/Palestine/France/Qatar)

Animation Films

Arco - Ugo Bienvenu (France)
Balentes [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Giovanni Columbu
film profile] - Giovanni Columbu (Italy/Germany)
Checkered Ninja 3 - Anders Matthesen & Thorbjørn Christoffersen (Denmark)
Dandelion's Odyssey [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Momoko Seto
film profile] - Momoko Seto (France)
Dog of God [+see also:
film review
film profile] - Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele (Latvia/USA)
Little Amelie [+see also:
trailer
interview: Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
film profile] - Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han (France)
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake [+see also:
interview: Irene Iborra
film profile] - Irene Iborra (Spain/France/Belgium/Switzerland/Chile)
Tales from the Magic Garden [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar & Jean-Claude Rozec (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Slovenia/France)