Feature Film Selection 2026

Feature Film Selection 2026

These are the fiction films vying for the 38th European Film Awards (17 January 2026).

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Feature Film Selection 2026
  • BEARCAVE

    ΑΡΚΟΥΔΌΤΡΥΠΑ

    Greece, United Kingdom

    Fiction

    Set in the Greek mountain village of Tirna, Bearcave follows Argyro, a badass farmer, and her best friend Anneta, the village “It” girl and local manicurist. Once Anneta admits that she’s pregnant and planning to leave town with her lame cop boyfrien...

  • CHRISTY

    Ireland, United Kingdom

    Fiction

    Seventeen-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. He's just been thrown out of his pleasant suburban foster home and moved in with his estranged older brother Shane. As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on ...

  • DREAMS

    DRØMMER

    Norway

    Fiction

    Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read what she has written, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see that it...

  • DUSE

    Italy, France

    Fiction

    After decades on stage, Eleonora Duse looks back on a legendary career that seems to have run its course. But in the savage days between World War I and the rise of Fascism, the Divine Duse heeds a call stronger than any resignation and returns to where her life began: the...

  • FATHER

    OTEC

    Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland

    Fiction

    A tragic mistake destroys a man’s life, isolating him in guilt and shaking his marriage. Now facing prison, can he find a path to forgiveness? Can love survive what no heart was built to endure?

    Directed by: Tereza Nvotová
    Written by: Tereza Nvoto...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • WHAT MARIELLE KNOWS

    WAS MARIELLE WEISS

    Germany

    Fiction

    Julia and Tobias seem to be the perfect couple. Yet behind the facade and designer kitchen, trouble is brewing. Their fragile balance is shattered when their daughter Marielle suddenly develops telepathic abilities, giving her the power to see and hear everyt...

  • YOUNG MOTHERS

    JEUNES MÈRES

    Belgium, France

    Fiction

    Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma are housed in a shelter for young mothers. Five teenagers hoping for a better life for themselves and their babies.

    Written & directed by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
    Produced by: Delphine Tomson, Denis Freyd,...