Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value leads the way at the nominations for the 2025 European Film Awards with six nods, including Best European Film. Elsewhere, It Was Just an Accident and Sirāt both earned four nominations. The three films are joined in Best European Film by Sound of Falling and The Voice of Hind Rajab. All five films are in contention for a nomination for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.
The awards will be presented on January 17 at a ceremony in Berlin. Full list of nominations below.
Best European Film
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
Sound of Falling
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best European Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Oliver Laxe, Sirāt
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski, Sound of Falling
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Best European Actor
Sergi López, Sirāt
Mads Mikkelsen, The Last Viking
Toni Servillo, La grazia
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Idan Weiss, Franz
Best European Actress
Leonie Benesch, Late Shift
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Duse
Léa Drucker, Case 137
Vicky Krieps, Love Me Tender
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Best European Screenwriter
Santiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe, Sirāt
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Mascha Schilinski and Louise Peter, Sound of Falling
Paolo Sorrentino, La grazia
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Best European Animated Feature Film
Arco
Dog of God
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake
Tales from the Magic Garden
Best European Documentary
Afternoons of Solitude
Fiume o morte!
Riefenstahl
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
With Hasan in Gaza
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
Little Trouble Girls by Urška Djukić
My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr.
On Falling Portugal by Laura Carreira
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies by Murat Fıratoğlu
Sauna by Mathias Broe
Under the Grey Sky by Mara Tamkovich
Best European Short Film
Being John Smith
City of Poets
L’Avance
Man Number 4
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Lux European Audience Film Award
Christy
Deaf
It Was Just an Accident
Love Me Tender
Sentimental Value
European Young Audience Award
Arco
I Accidentally Wrote a Book
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