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

Documentaries

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

Animation Films

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