38th European Film Awards

38th European Film Awards

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38th European Film Awards
  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • ROMERIA

    ROMERÍA

    Spain, Germany

    Fiction

    Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met. She navigates a sea of new aunts, uncles, and cousins, uncertain whether she will be e...

  • SAUNA

    Denmark

    Fiction

    Johan is an ordinary young man who keeps all doors open when it comes to both love and sex. He has landed a job as a receptionist at Adonis, Copenhagen's only gay sauna, where he not only works but also shares experiences and encounters with the sauna's other guests. For Johan, ...

  • SLEEPLESS CITY

    CIUDAD SIN SUEÑO

    Spain, France

    Fiction

    Toni, a 15-year-old Roma boy, lives in Europe's largest illegal settlement, on Madrid’s outskirts. Proud to belong to his family of scrap dealers, he follows his grandfather everywhere. But demolitions edge closer to their plot, and his grandfather refuse...

  • SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH

    ПІСНІ ЗЕМЛІ, ЩО ПОВІЛЬНО ГОРИТЬ

    Ukraine, France, Denmark, Sweden
    Documentary

    Nominated for European Film 2026, European Documentary 2026

    An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia's full-scale invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, ...

  • THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, WITNESSING

    United Kingdom

    Documentary

    When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected...

  • THE NORTH

    Netherlands

    Fiction

    A decade after they were best friends and roommates, Chris (35) and Lluis (34) set out on a 600-kilometre hike through the Scottish Highlands. Following the West Highland way and The Cape Wrath Trail, they spend 30 days together in nature – hoping to rekindle their once-powe...

  • THE SHARDS

    ОСКОЛКИ

    Georgia, Germany

    Documentary

    In spring 2022, Masha prepares to leave Russia – her home country that has changed. It turns into chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart. Her way to co...

  • THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB

    France, Tunisia

    Fiction

    29 January 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
    Her name was Hind Rajab.

    ...

  • TWO PROSECUTORS

    France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania

    Fiction

    Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexa...

  • TWST / THINGS WE SAID TODAY

    France, Romania

    Documentary

    TWST takes as its starting point the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium, and as its title a Beatles song that already anticipates a time when the present moment will have become a haunting past, neither retrievable nor fo...

  • UNDER THE GREY SKY

    POD SZARYM NIEBEM

    Poland

    Fiction

    Belarus, 2020. Mass protests follow the elections rigged by Lukashenko. Anti-regime journalist Lena livestreams the brutal crackdown of a peaceful demonstration and is tracked down by a police drone. Nevertheless, she continues the broadcast and is arrested. Le...