The European Film Academy has shortlisted 67 films, which will be available to receive nominations for the 38th European Film Awards, taking place on January 17, 2026.
The shortlist includes 44 feature films, 15 documentary films, and 8 animated feature films, with 27 shortlisted films directed or co-directed by women. 34 European – both EU and non-EU – countries are represented. The list was voted for by the members of the European Film Academy.
Titles that made the list include Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest Bugonia, Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes favorite Sound Of Falling, and On Falling, the debut feature from filmmaker Laura Carreira and produced by Jack Thomas-O’Brien of Sixteen Films. Scroll down for the full shortlist.
European Film Awards 2026: ShortlistFEATURE FILMS (44):BEARCAVE (ARKOUDOTRYPA) directed by Krysianna B. Papadakis & Stergios Dinopoulos (Greece,United Kingdom)BUGONIA directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (United Kingdom, United States, South Korea)CASE 137 (DOSSIER 137) directed by Dominik Moll (France)CHRISTY directed by Brendan Canty (Ireland, United Kingdom)DEAF (SORDA) directed by Eva Libertad (Spain)DIE MY LOVE directed by Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom, United States, Canada)DREAMS (DRØMMER) directed by Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway)DUSE directed by Pietro Marcello (Italy, France)FATHER (OTEC) directed by Tereza Nvotová (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland)FRANZ directed by Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland)FUORI directed by Mario Martone (Italy, France)I ONLY REST IN THE STORM (O RISO E A FACA) directed by Pedro Pinho (Portugal, France, Brazil,Romania)IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT) directed by Jafar Panahi (France, Iran,Luxembourg)LA GRAZIA directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)LATE SHIFT (HELDIN) directed by Petra Volpe (Switzerland, Germany)LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS (KAJ TI JE DEKLICA) directed by Urška Djukić (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia,Serbia)LOVE ME TENDER directed by Anna Cazenave Cambet (France)LOVEABLE (ELSKLING) directed by Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway)MASPALOMAS directed by Jose Mari Goenaga & Aitor Arregi (Spain)MILK TEETH (DINTI DE LAPTE) directed by Mihai Mincan (Romania, France, Denmark, Greece,Bulgaria)MIRRORS NO. 3 (MIROIRS NO. 3) directed by Christian Petzold (Germany)MOTHER directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia, Belgium)ON FALLING directed by Laura Carreira (United Kingdom, Portugal)ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA directed by Tarzan Nasser & Arab Nasser (France, Palestine,Germany, Portugal, Qatar, Jordan)ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES (HEMME’NİN ÖLDÜĞÜ GÜNLERDEN BİRİ) directed byMurat Fıratoğlu (Turkey, Germany)PALESTINE 36 directed by Annemarie Jacir (Palestine, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway)PILLION directed by Harry Lighton (United Kingdom)ROMERIA (ROMERÍA) directed by Carla Simón (Spain, Germany)SENTIMENTAL VALUE (AFFEKSJONSVERDI) directed by Joachim Trier (Norway, France, Denmark,Germany, Sweden)SILENT FRIEND directed by Ildikó Enyedi (Germany, France, Hungary)SIRAT (SIRÂT) directed by Oliver Laxe (Spain, France)SLEEPLESS CITY (CIUDAD SIN SUEÑO) directed by Guillermo Galoe (Spain, France)SOUND OF FALLING (IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN) directed by Mascha Schilinski (Germany)SUNDAYS (LOS DOMINGOS) directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Spain)THE LAST VIKING (DEN SIDSTE VIKING) directed by Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark, Sweden)THE LITTLE SISTER (LA PETITE DERNIÈRE) directed by Hafsia Herzi (France, Germany)THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (ÁSTIN SEM EFTIR ER) directed by Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland, Denmark,Sweden, France)THE NORTH directed by Bart Schrijver (Netherlands)THE STRANGER (L’ÉTRANGER) directed by François Ozon (France)
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (France, Tunisia)TWO PROSECUTORS directed by Sergei Loznitsa (France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania,Lithuania)WHAT MARIELLE KNOWS (WAS MARIELLE WEISS) directed by Frédéric Hambalek (Germany)YES (KEN) directed by Nadav Lapid (France, Israel, Cyprus, Germany)YOUNG MOTHERS (JEUNES MÈRES) directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (Belgium,France)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS (15):AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (TARDES DE SOLEDAD) directed by Albert Serra (Spain, France)AN AMERICAN PASTORAL (UNE PASTORALE AMERICAINE) directed by Auberi Edler (France)ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (France, Lesotho,Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia)FIUME O MORTE! directed by Igor Bezinović (Croatia, Slovenia, Italy)FLOPHOUSE AMERICA directed by Monica Strømdahl (Norway, Netherlands, United States)GOOD VALLEY STORIES (HISTORIAS DEL BUEN VALLE) directed by José Luis Guerin (Spain,France)HAIR, PAPER, WATER… (TÓC, GIẤY VÀ NƯỚC…) directed by Nicolas Graux & Minh Quý Trương(Belgium, France, Vietnam)LISTEN TO THE VOICES (KOUTÉ VWA) directed by Maxime Jean-Baptiste (Belgium, France)MEMORY directed by Vladlena Sandu (France, Netherlands)MILITANTROPOS directed by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi (Ukraine, Austria,France)RIEFENSTAHL directed by Andres Veiel (Germany)SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH (PISNI ZEMLI SHSCHO POVOLNO HORYT) directed by OlhaZhurba (Ukraine, France, Denmark, Sweden)THE SHARDS (OSKOLKY) directed by Masha Chernaya (Georgia, Germany)TWST / THINGS WE SAID TODAY directed by Andrei Ujică (France, Romania)WITH HASAN IN GAZA directed by Kamal Aljafari (Germany)
ANIMATED FEATURE FILMS (8):ARCO directed by Ugo Bienvenu (France)BALENTES directed by Giovanni Columbu (Italy, Germany)CHECKERED NINJA 3 (TERNET NINJA 3) directed by Anders Matthesen & Thorbjørn Christoffersen(Denmark)DANDELION’S ODYSSEY (PLANETES) directed by Momoko Seto (France)DOG OF GOD (DIEVA SUNS) directed by Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele (Latvia, United States)LITTLE AMELIE (AMÉLIE ET LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE DES TUBES) directed by Maïlys Vallade & LianeCho Han (France)OLIVIA AND THE INVISIBLE EARTHQUAKE (L’OLÍVIA I EL TERRATRÈMOL INVISIBLE) directed byIrene Iborra Rizo (Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile)TALES FROM THE MAGIC GARDEN (POHADKY PO BABICCE) directed by David Súkup, PatrikPašš, Leon Vidmar & Jean-Claude Rozec (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, France)
