From Dag Johan Haugerud‘s Dreams (Sex Love) to Palme d’Or winning It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi to the Silver Lion winner in The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania, the 2025 European Film Awards have naturally short-listed almost every single major Euro film entry that were part of the Berlinale, Cannes and Venice Film Fest competition line-ups and added some fresh voices in the likes of films by Tereza Nvotová, Urška Djukić, Mihai Mincan, Laura Carreira and Murat Fıratoğlu. 5,400 members determine the best of European cinema over the coming months, culminating in a prestigious ceremony in Berlin on January 17, 2026. Categories include European Film, European Director, European Discovery — Prix Fipresci, European Documentary, European Animated Feature Film, European Actress, European Actor and European Screenwriter. On November 26th we’ll get titles for European Casting Director, Cinematographer, Composer, Costume Designer, Editor, Make-Up & Hair Artist, Production Designer, and Sound Designer.
FEATURE FILMS
Bearcave – Krysianna B. Papadakis & Stergios Dinopoulos (Greece, United Kingdom)
Bugonia – Yorgos Lanthimos (United Kingdom, United States, South Korea)
Case 137 – Dominik Moll (France)
Christy – Brendan Canty (Ireland, United Kingdom)
Deaf – Eva Libertad (Spain)
Die My Love – Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom, United States, Canada)
Dreams – Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway)
Duse – Pietro Marcello (Italy, France)
Father – Tereza Nvotová (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland)
Franz – Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland)
Fuori – Mario Martone (Italy, France)
I Only Rest in the Storm – Pedro Pinho (Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania)
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi (France, Iran, Luxembourg)
La Grazia – Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)
Late Shift – Petra Volpe (Switzerland, Germany)
Little Trouble Girls – Urška Djukić (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia)
Love Me Tender – Anna Cazenave Cambet (France)
Loveable – Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway)
Maspalomas – Jose Mari Goenaga & Aitor Arregi (Spain)
Milk Teeth – Mihai Mincan (Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria)
Mirrors No. 3 – Christian Petzold (Germany)
Mother – Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia, Belgium)
On Falling – Laura Carreira (United Kingdom, Portugal)
Once Upon a Time in Gaza – Tarzan Nasser & Arab Nasser (France, Palestine, Germany, Portugal, Qatar, Jordan)
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies – Murat Fıratoğlu (Turkey, Germany)
Palestine 36 – Annemarie Jacir (Palestine, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway)
Pillion – Harry Lighton (United Kingdom)
Romeria – Carla Simón (Spain, Germany)
Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier (Norway, France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden)
Silent Friend – Ildikó Enyedi (Germany, France, Hungary)
Sirat – Oliver Laxe (Spain, France)
Sleepless City – Guillermo Galoe (Spain, France)
Sound of Falling – Mascha Schilinski (Germany)
Sundays – Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Spain)
The Last Viking – Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark, Sweden)
The Little Sister – Hafsia Herzi (France, Germany)
The Love That Remains – Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France)
The North – Bart Schrijver (Netherlands)
The Stranger – François Ozon (France)
The Voice of Hind Rajab – Kaouther Ben Hania (France, Tunisia)
Two Prosecutors – Sergei Loznitsa (France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania)
What Marielle Knows – Frédéric Hambalek (Germany)
Yes – Nadav Lapid (France, Israel, Cyprus, Germany)
Young Mothers – Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (Belgium, France)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS (15)
Afternoons of Solitude – Albert Serra (Spain, France)
An American Pastoral – Auberi Edler (France)
Ancestral Visions of the Future – Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (France, Lesotho, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia)
Fiume O Morte! – Igor Bezinović (Croatia, Slovenia, Italy)
Flophouse America – Monica Strømdahl (Norway, Netherlands, United States)
Good Valley Stories – José Luis Guerin (Spain, France)
Hair, Paper, Water… – Nicolas Graux & Minh Quý Trương (Belgium, France, Vietnam)
Listen to the Voices – Maxime Jean-Baptiste (Belgium, France)
Memory – Vladlena Sandu (France, Netherlands)
MilitantropOS – Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi (Ukraine, Austria, France)
Riefenstahl – Andres Veiel (Germany)
Songs of Slow Burning Earth – Olha Zhurba (Ukraine, France, Denmark, Sweden)
The Shards – Masha Chernaya (Georgia, Germany)
TWST / Things We Said Today – Andrei Ujică (France, Romania)
With Hasan in Gaza – Kamal Aljafari (Germany)
ANIMATED FEATURE FILMS (8)
Arco – Ugo Bienvenu (France)
Balentes – Giovanni Columbu (Italy, Germany)
Checkered Ninja 3 – Anders Matthesen & Thorbjørn Christoffersen (Denmark)
Dandelion’s Odyssey – Momoko Seto (France)
Dog of God – Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele (Latvia, United States)
Little Amelie – Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han (France)
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake – Irene Iborra Rizo (Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile)
Tales from the Magic Garden – David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar & Jean-Claude Rozec (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, France)
