38th European Film Awards

The 38th European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize achievements in European filmmaking, took place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin on 17 January 2026.

Mark Cousins will curate the award ceremony alongwith the musical concept incharge German composer Dascha Dauenhauer, and the German stage director Robert Lehniger, who also oversees the award ceremony.

Sentimental Value swept the top award categories.

Selection

Feature Film

The selection of feature films was announced on 14 October 2025.

• Bearcave – Krysianna B. Papadakis, Stergios Dinopoulos (, )
• Bugonia – Yorgos Lanthimos (, , )
• Case 137 – Dominik Moll ()
• Christy – Brendan Cantry (, )
• Deaf – Eva Libertad ()
• Die My Love – Lynne Ramsay (, , )
• Dreams (Sex Love) – Dag Johan Haugerud ()
• Duse – Pietro Marcello (, )
• Father – Tereza Nvotová (, , )
• Franz – Agnieszka Holland (, , )
• Fuori – Mario Martone (, )
• I Only Rest in the Storm – Pedro Pinho (, , , )
• It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi (, , )
• La grazia – Paolo Sorrentino ()
• The Last Viking – Anders Thomas Jensen (, )
• Late Shift – Petra Volpe (, )
• The Little Sister – Hafsia Herzi (, )
• Little Trouble Girls – UrÅ¡ka Djukic (, , , )
• Love Me Tender – Anna Cazenave Cambet ()
• The Love That Remains – Hlynur Pálmason (, , , )
• Loveable – Lilja Ingolfsdottir ()
• Maspalomas – Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi ()
• Milk Teeth – Mihai Mincan (, , , , )
• Mirrors No. 3 – Christian Petzold ()
• Mother – Teona Strugar Mitevska (, )
• The North – Bart Schrijver ()
• On Falling – Laura Carreira (, )
• Once Upon a Time in Gaza – Tarzan and Arab Nasser (, , , , , )
• One of Those Days When Hemme Dies – Murat Fıratoğlu (, )
• Palestine 36 – Annemarie Jacir (, , , , )
• Pillion – Harry Lighton ()
• Romería – Carla Simón (, )
• Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier (, , , , )
• Silent Friend – Ildikó Enyedi (, , )
• Sirāt – Oliver Laxe (, )
• Sleepless City – Guillermo Galoe (, )
• Sound of Falling – Mascha Schilinski ()
• The Stranger – François Ozon ()
• Sundays – Alauda Ruiz de Azúa ()
• Two Prosecutors – Sergei Loznitsa (, , , , , )
• The Voice of Hind Rajab – Kaouther Ben Hania (, )
• What Marielle Knows – Frédéric Hambalek ()
• Yes! – Nadav Lapid (, , , )
• Young Mothers – Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (, )

Documentary

The selection of 15 documentary films was announced on 14 October 2025.

• Afternoons of Solitude – Albert Serra (, )
• An American Pastoral – Auberi Edler ()
• Ancestral Visions of the Future – Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (, , , , )
• Fiume o morte! – (, , )
• Flophouse America – Monica Strømdahl (, , )
• Good Valley Stories – José Luis Guerin (, )
• Hair, Paper, Water... – Nicolas Graux, Minh Quý TrÆ°Æ¡ng (, , )
• Listen to the Voices – Maxime Jean-Baptiste (, )
• Memory – Vladlena Sandu (, )
• ' – Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi (, , )
• Riefenstahl – Andres Veiel ()
• Songs of Slow Burning Earth – Olha Zhurba (, , , )
• The Shards – Masha Chernaya (, )
• TWST / Things We Said Today – Andrei Ujică (, )
• With Hasan in Gaza – Kamal Aljafari ()

• Arco – Ugo Bienvenu ()
• Balentes – (, )
• ' – Anders Matthesen, ()
• ' – ()
• Dog of God – Raitis Abele, Lauris Abele (, )
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – Maïlys Vallade & LianeCho Han ()
• Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake – Irene Iborra Rizo (, , , , )
• Tales from the Magic Garden – David Súkup, Patrik PaÅ¡Å¡, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec (, , , )