38th European Film Awards

38th European Film Awards

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38th European Film Awards
  • I'M GLAD YOU'RE DEAD NOW

    France, Greece, Palestine

    Fiction

    Two brothers return to the island of their childhood, where buried secrets and heavy tensions force them to confront a dark past that connects them.

    Written & directed by: Tawfeek Barhom
    Produced by: Tawfeek Barhom, Akis Polizos, Stylianos Kotionis, Alexandre ...

  • IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

    UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT

    France, Iran, Luxembourg

    Fiction

    Iran, present day. A man happens to bump into someone he believes to be his former torturer. But when faced with this family man who vehemently denies having been his tormentor, doubt sets in.

    Directed by: Jafar Panahi
    Written by: Jafar Pana...

  • LATE SHIFT

    HELDIN

    Switzerland, Germany

    Fiction

    Floria, a dedicated nurse, navigates the relentless pace of her hospital’s understaffed surgical ward with humanity and warmth. As the day intensifies, she is pushed to the brink in a race against time.

    Written & directed by: Petra Volpe
    Produced by: Reto ...

  • L'AVANCE

    France

    Fiction

    Aliou, a rising student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, sells a painting of his deceased mother for 3,000 euros to a renowned collector. The delivery of the painting then becomes a long journey during which he will realise the weight of the money he earned.

    Directed by: Djiby Kebe
    W...

  • LEFT-HANDED PEN

    TUŠINUKAS

    Lithuania

    Fiction

    It's a sunny summer day at a suburban school. Schoolteacher Velta gazes at pupils celebrating the end of their final exam. Her son Paulius is there. Velta is distracted by knocking on a classroom door.
    Helped by a colleague working at an exam committee, Velta secret...

  • LISTEN TO THE VOICES

    KOUTÉ VWA

    Belgium, France

    Documentary

    Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer vacation in Cayenne with his grandmother Nicole. His desire to learn to play the drum brings back the spectre of Lucas, Nicole's son, also a drummer, who died in tragic conditions 11 years earlier.

    Directed b...

  • LITTLE AMELIE

    AMÉLIE ET LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE DES TUBES

    France

    Animation

    Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-San, the world is full of adventures and discoveries. But on the day of her third birthday, an event changes the course of her life. Because for Amélie everything is ...

  • LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS

    KAJ TI JE DEKLICA

    Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia

    Fiction

    Introverted 16-year-old Lucia joins her Catholic school's all-girls choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria, a popular and flirty third-year student. But when the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsal...

  • LOOKING SHE SAID I FORGET

    Netherlands, Switzerland

    Fiction

    Having just moved to Amsterdam, Lou prepares her new apartment that she will share with her partner, Joel. Though for now, Joel is on a trip with an intimate other. Confronted with the complexities of her non-monogamous relationship, Lou shifts her gaze to the r...

  • LOVEABLE

    ELSKLING

    Norway

    Fiction

    Maria juggles with four children and a demanding career while her second husband, Sigmund, travels all the time. One day they get into an ugly argument which led Sigmund to eventually ask her for a divorce.

    Written & directed by: Lilja Ingolfsdottir
    Produced by: Thomas...

  • LOVE ME TENDER

    France

    Fiction

    At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files a lawsuit to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a w...

  • MAN NUMBER 4

    United Kingdom

    Documentary/experimental

    Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

    Written & directed by: Miranda Pennell
    Produced by: Miranda Pennell
    Editing: Miranda Pennell
    Sound: Philippe Ciomp...

  • MASPALOMAS

    Spain

    Fiction

    Vicente, now 76 years old, came out of the closet and left his wife and daughter when he was 50. He has spent the last 25 years living happily with his partner in Maspalomas (Gran Canaria). However, everything is turned upside down when Vicente suffers a stroke that leaves him in ...

  • MASTERPIECE MOMMY

    United Kingdom

    Fiction

    A modern musical between Tess and her daughter Justine. After suffering a fall, the doctor expresses to Tess, from the CT scan, a potential presence of a lump in her breast and recommends a mammogram. Justine accompanies her and ultimately uncovering the real reason of th...

  • MILITANTROPOS

    Ukraine, Austria, France

    Documentary

    MILITANTROPOS captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war – those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight – tr...

  • MILK TEETH

    DINTI DE LAPTE

    Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria

    Fiction

    Romania, 1989. The twilight of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship. In a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, is the last person to witness her sister disappearing in front of her eyes. Torn apart by the loss, she is t...

  • MOTHER

    North Macedonia, Belgium

    Fiction

    Kolkata, India, August 1948. Teresa, Mother Superior of the convent of the Sisters of Loreto, is anxiously waiting for the letter that will finally allow her to leave her monastery and create a new order in response to the call she has received from God. And ju...

  • O

    Iceland, Sweden

    Fiction

    I walk in a circle
    around everything which is.
    And within this circle
    is your world.
    My shadow fell for a moment
    on the window’s glass.

    I walk in a circle
    around everything which is.
    And outside this circle
    is my world.

    (‘Outside the Circle’ by Steinn Steinarr, transla...

  • OLIVIA AND THE INVISIBLE EARTHQUAKE

    L'OLÍVIA I EL TERRATRÈMOL INVISIBLE

    Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile

    Animation

    Olivia, 12, her little brother Tim and their mother are forced to leave their apartment and move to a new neighborhood. To shield Tim from this upsetting situation, Olivia makes him believe that this is al...

  • ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA

    France, Palestine, Germany, Portugal, Qatar, Jordan

    Fiction

    Gaza, 2007. Yahya, a young student, forges a friendship with Osama, a charismatic restaurant owner with a big heart. Together, they start peddling drugs while delivering falafel sandwiches, but they are soon forced to grapple with a co...

  • ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES

    HEMME'NİN ÖLDÜĞÜ GÜNLERDEN BİRİ

    Turkey, Germany

    Fiction

    Having gone bankrupt in Izmir, Eyüp returns to Siverek and begins drying tomatoes with the villagers. Unable to earn his daily wages, he argues with his foreman, Hemme, and the argument escalates into a fight. Driven by anger and despair...

  • ON FALLING

    United Kingdom, Portugal

    Fiction

    Portuguese immigrant Aurora works as a warehouse picker in a vast fulfilment centre in Scotland. Trapped between the confines of her workplace and her flatshare, Aurora seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her...

  • PALESTINE 36

    Palestine, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway

    Fiction

    1936. As villages across mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With r...

  • RIEFENSTAHL

    Germany
    Documentary

    Nominated for European Film 2026, European Documentary 2026

    Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Her iconographic imagery of TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and OLYMPIA stands for perfectly staged body worship, for the celebration of th...