Fiction Shortlist 2027

Fiction Shortlist 2027

These are the fiction films vying for the 39th European Film Awards (Athens, 16 January 2027).

Watch how to enter the shortlist here and discover how the nomination process works here.

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Fiction Shortlist 2027
  • A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO: CHAPTER PHAEDRA

    ΜΙΑ ΜΕΡΑ ΣΤΗ ΖΩΗ ΤΗΣ ΤΖΟ: ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟ ΦΑΙΔΡΑ
    Greece, Germany, France
    2026 | 88 min. | Fiction

    Jo, melancholic, wild and only fifteen, dreams of her last breath. Tiny nuances, signs and symbols of the dream plane will quietly pop up during the day, yet she recognizes nothing. All she knows is that s...

  • A MAN OF HIS TIME

    NOTRE SALUT
    France, Belgium
    2026 | 158 min. | Fiction

    September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut (Our Salvation), the 49-year-old is determined to sec...

  • BITTER CHRISTMAS

    AMARGA NAVIDAD
    Spain
    2026 | 112 min. | Fiction

    BITTER CHRISTMAS tells two alternating stories. One starring Elsa, during a long holiday weekend in December in 2004; the second in 2025, starring Raúl, who is writing a script that we will soon discover is the story of Elsa. The film narrates the c...

  • BLACK MONEY FOR WHITE NIGHTS

    ЧЕРНИ ПАРИ ЗА БЕЛИ НОЩИ
    Bulgaria, Greece
    2026 | 95 min. | Fiction

    After years of saving money from the small bribes they collect, sixty-year-old Marina and her husband Gosha are preparing for their dream trip to St. Petersburg to witness the White Nights. But when Russia invades Ukraine and the ...

  • BRACE YOUR HEART

    GARRAT DU VÁIMMU
    Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Bulgaria, Iceland
    2025 | 97 min. | Fiction

    In a remote Sám i village high in the mountains, 20-year-old Ejva inherits her late father's reindeer herd. As she struggles to keep the herd thriving, local leader Heaika develops romantic feelings for her, and...

  • BUCKING FASTARD

    Ireland, United States, Slovenia
    2026 | 109 min. | Fiction

    BUCKING FASTARD is about two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, who are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the wor...

  • BUNKER

    France, Spain
    2026 | 126 min. | Fiction

    When Miguel, an architect, accepts a prestigious yet morally ambiguous offer to build a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire, his wife, Sofia, begins to question their relationship after seventeen years together.

    Having uprooted their lives to move...

  • CONVERSATION WITH THE SEA

    HIWAR MA' ALBAHR
    Palestine, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
    2026 | 113 min. | Fiction

    In Jerusalem, Kamal, a 60-year-old Palestinian man, is ordered by an Israeli court to pay a large social security debt allegedly owed by his son Wael. But Wael drowned in the Red Sea decades ago. When no offic...

  • COWARD

    Belgium, France, Netherlands
    2026 | 125 min. | Fiction

    As the First World War drags on, Pierre, a soldier newly arrived at the front, is eager to prove himself. Behind the lines, he meets Francis, who decides to lift the spirits of his comrades by putting together a theatre show. While the viole...

  • DAU

    Germany, France, Sweden
    2026 | 195 min. | Fiction

    Inspired by the life of Soviet physicists who created the atomic bomb, DAU tells the story of a brilliant Greek-born physicist living in the USSR from 1928 to 1968. Driven to understand the laws of the universe, Dau is soon forced to use his geni...

  • DE GAULLE (PART 1): RÉSISTANCE

    LA BATAILLE DE GAULLE: L'AGE DE FER
    France, Belgium
    159 min. | Fiction

    June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
    Without an army, with...

  • DE GAULLE (PART 2): LIBERTÉ

    LA BATAILLE DE GAULLE: J'ÉCRIS TON NOM
    France, Belgium
    160 min. | Fiction

    June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom. Without an army, wi...

  • DIANE IN THE LOOP

    UN DÉTOUR PAR DIANE
    Belgium, France
    2026 | 91 min. | Fiction

    Diane despises men as much as she desires them.
    Her mother was raped three years before giving birth to Diane.
    As Diane finds out, she has only one goal: avenging her mother.
    But mom has one thing on her mind: finally becoming the woma...

  • DUA

    Kosovo, Switzerland, France
    2026 | 101 min. | Fiction

    Prishtina, Kosovo, late 1990s. As war looms and ethnic tensions escalate, 13-year-old Dua struggles to find her place among her peers and within her changing body. After an incident shakes her community, she becomes a target herself and bonds...

  • ELSINORE

    United Kingdom
    2026 | 111 min. | Fiction

    The deeply emotional and inspirational true story of Ian Charleson, a gifted actor whose greatest challenge becomes his greatest triumph. Facing his own mortality with unflinching honesty, wit, and grace, Charleson delivers a courageous performance that b...

  • EVERYTIME

    Germany, Austria
    2026 | 123 min. | Fiction

    Jessie is about to leave on vacation with her mom and little sister – but sneaks out to party with her boyfriend Lux. When the pills finally kick in and they climb a high-rise to watch the sunrise, Lux falls asleep – and doesn’t notice Jessie walking to...

  • FATHERLAND

    Poland, Germany, Italy, France
    2026 | 82 min. | Fiction

    FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a chall...

  • FJORD

    Romania, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland
    2026 | 146 min. | Fiction

    The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, resettle in a vilage set in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbours, the Halbergs. Their children bond despite their different education. When adole...

  • GENTLE MONSTER

    Austria, Germany, France, Sweden
    2026 | 115 min. | Fiction

    Lucy, a concert pianist, has just relocated her family from the city to a country house in the hope of easing her husband Philip’s severe burnout. Before they have a chance to set up their new home, an early morning police visit tears th...

  • GROWTH OF THE SOIL

    MARKENS GRØDE
    Norway, Denmark
    2026 | 153 min. | Fiction

    A stranger appears over the mountain, carrying little more than his determination. Isak, a man without a past, seeks a place to settle and carve life from the earth. High above the tree line, he finds a barren stretch of land, as unforgivin...

  • HOLD ONTO ME

    ΚΡΑΤΑ ΜΕ
    Cyprus, Greece, Denmark
    2026 | 102 min. | Fiction

    Eleven-year-old Iris barely remembers her estranged father, Aris. When he returns to town for his own father’s funeral, she becomes determined to find out who he is.

    Their first real encounter comes when Iris gets into trouble with the ...

  • HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR

    SKYRYBOS KARO METU
    Lithuania, Luxembourg, Ireland, Czech Republic
    2026 | 108 min. | Fiction

    Vilnius 2022. High-flying executive Marija chooses the worst possible moment for an honest conversation with her husband Vytas about divorcing – just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine goes into ...

  • I MATTER

    EU CONTEZ
    Romania, Germany, Belgium
    2026 | 100 min. | Fiction

    With her eighteenth birthday approaching, Rebeca, a young Roma girl, faces imminent expulsion from the orphanage she has called home. She clings to the hope that her father's release from prison will finally give her the family she ha...

  • I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING

    United Kingdom
    2025 | 109 min. | Fiction

    On the cusp of turning 30, Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor, five childhood friends from the same Birmingham estate, are suddenly forced to confront a life where their hopes and dreams haven't materialised. They are all walking the high wire. But which...