38th European Film Awards - Winners 2026
With six awards, the film SENTIMENTAL VALUE was the winner with most awards. The show was distributed through 49 broadcast and livestream partners from 29 countries across Europe. For the first time, the awards show took place more prominently in the international awards season just after the Golden Globes and during the Oscar nomination voting period. The awards show is the glamorous highlight and conclusion of the European Award Season that kicked off in November. Under the header “why do we love cinema?” the show was an artistic experience, co-created by Irish-Scottish filmmaker Mark Cousins together with the creative team of the Academy, German film composer Dascha Dauenhauer and theatre director Robert Lehniger.
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ARCO
France
Animation
In 2075, a ten-year-old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit falling from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.
Directed by: Ugo...
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BUGONIA
United Kingdom, United States, South Korea
Fiction
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Written by: Will Tracy
Produced by: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorg... -
CITY OF POETS
Netherlands
Documentary
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets. The town’s psychogeography defines the mental and emotional state of its inhabitants, who live in a utopian illus...
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FIUME O MORTE!
Croatia, Slovenia, Italy
Documentary
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the co...
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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...
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE
AFFEKSJONSVERDI
Norway, France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Fiction
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon disco...
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SIRĀT
SIRÂT
Spain, France
Fiction
A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar – daughter and sister – who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freed...
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SOUND OF FALLING
IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN
Germany
Fiction
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home has been evolving for over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each o...
