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The <a href="https://cinemamix360.com/2026/10/14/uzbekistan-to-host-european-film-festival/" title="Uzbekistan to host European <a href="https://cinemamix360.com/2026/10/14/korean-cultural-center-new-york-presents-the-1st-new-york-korean-independent-film-festival-nykiff/" title="Korean Cultural Center New York Presents the 1st New York Korean Independent Film Festival (NYKIFF)”>Film Festival“>European Film Academy has shortlisted 68 feature-length films for a possible nomination for the European Film Awards, which take place on January 16 in Athens.
The shortlist comprises 45 feature films, 15 documentary films and eight animated feature films from 40 countries. 25 film of the films are directed or co-directed by women.
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The feature film shortlist includes high-profile festival titles such as Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Fjord, Venice Golden Lion winner Woman Unknown by May el-Toukhy, Berlinale Golden Bear winner Yellow Lettersby İlker Çatak and Toronto audience prize winner La Bola Negra by Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi.
Other festival victors shortlisted include San Sebastian Golden Shell winner Tender Loving Care by Mike Leigh, Florin Şerban’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner You Don’t Belong Here and Sundance world dramatic cinema winner Shame And Money by Visar Morina.
Elsewhere, the shortlist brings together an array of festival favourites, spanning Fatherland by Pawel Pawlikowski, which shared the Cannes best director prize withLa Bola Negra, and Simon Stone’s Elsinore which just opened the BFI London Film Festival.
From Cannes, Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas is on the shortlist, as is Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, Lukas Dhont’s Coward and Antonin Baudry’s two-part De Gaulle biopic. Venice titles include Florian Zeller’s Bunker and Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard.
The documentary shortlist spans Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor’s NAZA, winner of the jury prize at Venice through to Pegah Ahangarani’s Rehearsals For A Revolution, winner of the Cannes documentary award and Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić’s To Hold A Mountain,winner of the Sundance international documentary prize.
The animation shortlist includes Annecy audience and jury prize winner Iron Boy by Louis Clichy and Cannes premiere Jim Queen by Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané.
The shortlisted feature and documentary films have been chosen by members of the European Film Academy board and invited European experts, while the shortlisted animated feature films were chosen by a selection committee composed of members of the Academy Board and invited experts in cooperation with Cartoon, the European Association of Animation Film.
The shortlist announcement is the first step in EFA’s awarding procedure. In the coming weeks, the 5,700 members of the European Film Academy will watch the shortlisted films and vote for the nominations, except for the European discovery – Prix Fipresci, European short film, European young audience award, LUX audience award and honorary awards, which have separate selection procedures
The nominations for key categories will be announced on November 14 during the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, while the European young audience award nominations will be announced on November 1 at the International Film Festival Glasgow. The short film nominations will be revealed at the Seville European Film Festival on November 13 The nominees for the LUX audience award will be unveiled on 25 November.
European Film Awards 2027 shortlist
Animation
- Decorado (Sp-Port) Dir. Alberto Vázquez
- In Waves (Fr-Bel) Dir. Phuong May Nguyen
- Iron Boy (Fr-Bel) Dir. Louis Clichy
- Jim Queen (Fr-Bel) Dir. Marco Nguyen & Nicolas Athané
- Julián (Ire-Lux-Can-Den) Dir. Louise Bagnall
- Lucy Lost (Fr) Dir. Olivier Clert
- Monster Mia (Aus-Ger-Sp) Dir. Verena Fels
- Viva Carmen (Fr) Dir. Sébastien Laudenbach
Documentary
- A Fox Under a Pink Moon (Fr-Den-Iran-US) Dir. Mehrdad Oskouei & Soraya Akhlaghi
- Amazomania (Swe-Den-Fr) Dir. Nathan Grossman
- Bugboy (Gr-Den-Fr) Dir. Lucas Paleocrassas
- Citizen Osama (Fr-Palestine) Dir. Ahmed Hassouna
- Closure (Pol-Fr) Dir. Michaƚ Marczak
- Everybody to Kenmure Street (UK-Qatar) Dir. Felipe Bustos Sierra
- La Belle Année (Swe-Nor) Dir. Angelica Ruffier
- Letters From the Silenced Country (Pol-Lith-Ger) Dir. Andrei Kutsila
- NAZA (UK) Dir. Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
- Queer Edward II (UK) Dir. Theo Rollason
- Rehearsals for a Revolution (Cz-Sp) Dir. Pegah Ahangarani
- Rescue (Den-It-Swe-Iceland-Ger) Dir. Sine Plambech
- To Hold a Mountain (Serbia-Fr-Montenegro-Slovenia-Croatia) Dir. Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić
- Traces (Ukr-Pol) Dir. Alisa Kovalenko & Marysia Nikitiuk
- Whispers in the Woods (Fr) Dir. Vincent Munier
Fiction
- A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Gr-Ger-Fr) Dir. Jacqueline Lentzou
- A Man of His Time (Fr-Bel) Dir. Emmanuel Marre
- Bitter Christmas (Sp) Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Black Money for White Nights (Bul-Gr) Dir. Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov
- Brace Your Heart (Swe-Den-Nor-Bul-Iceland) Dir. Amanda Kernell
- Bucking Fastard (Ire-US-Slovenia) Dir. Werner Herzog
- Bunker (Fr-Sp) Dir. Florian Zeller
- Conversation With the Sea (Palestine-Neth-Saudi Arabia-Qatar) Dir. Muayad Alayan
- Coward (Bel-Fr-Neth) Dir. Lukas Dhont
- Dau (Ger-Fr-Swe) Dir. Ilya Khrzhanovsky
- De Gaulle: Liberté / De Gaulle: Resistance (Fr-Bel) Dir. Antonin Baudry
- Diane in the Loop (Bel-Fr) Dir. Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni
- Dua (Kosovo-Swi-Fr) Dir. Blerta Basholli
- Elsinore (UK-Fr-It-US) Dir. Simon Stone
- Everytime (Ger-Aus) Dir. Sandra Wollner
- Fatherland(Pol-Ger-It-Fr) Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
- Fjord (Rom-Fr-Nor-Den-Swe-Fin) Dir. Cristian Mungiu
- Gentle Monster (Aus-Ger-Fr-Swe) Dir. Marie Kreutzer
- Growth of the Soil (Nor-Den) Dir. Hans Petter Moland
- Hold Onto Me (Cyprus-Gr-Den) Dir. Myrsini Aristidou
- How to Divorce During the War (Lith-Lux-Ire-Cz) Dir. Andrius Blaževičius
- I Matter (Rom-Ger-Bel) Dir. Alina Șerban
- I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (UK) Dir. Clio Barnard
- Ivan & Hadoum (Sp-Ger-Bel) Dir. Ian de la Rosa
- La Bola Negra (Sp-Fr) Dir. Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
- La Gradiva(Fr-It) Dir. Marine Atlan
- Minotaur (Fr-Ger-Lat) Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Only Beautiful Things to Look At (Slovakia-Cz-Hun) Dir. Ivan Ostrochovský
- Red Rocks (Port-Fr-It-Sp) Dir. Bruno Dumont
- Rose (Aus-Ger) Dir. Markus Schleinzer
- Salvation (Tur-Fr-Neth-Gr-Saudi Arabia) Dir. Emin Alper
- Shame and Money (Ger-Kosovo-Albania-North Macedonia-Bel-Slovenia) Dir. Visar Morina
- Supporting Role (Geo-Est-Tur-Swi-US) Dir. Ana Urushadze
- Tender Loving Care (UK) Dir. Mike Leigh
- The Beloved (Sp-Fr) Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- The Diary of a Chambermaid (Fr-Rom) Dir. Radu Jude
- The Dreamed Adventure (Ger-Fr-Bul-Aus) Dir. Valeska Grisebach
- The Guest (Den) Dir. Mads Mengel
- The Soundman (Bel-Neth) Dir. Frank Van Passel
- The Spiral (It-Fr-Bel) Dir. Paolo Strippoli
- To the Victory! (Ukr-Lith) Dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Truly Naked (Neth-Fr-Bel) Dir. Muriel d’Ansembourg
- Woman Unknown (Den-Lat-Swe) Dir. May el-Toukhy
- Yellow Letters (Ger-Fr-Tur) Dir. İlker Çatak
- You Don’t Belong Here (Rom) Dir. Florin Şerban
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