5 European movies have been nominated for the 2026 Lux European Viewers Movie Award.
The 5 nominees are: Brendan Canty’s Christy; Eva Libertad’s Deaf; Jafar Panahi’s It Was Simply An Accident; Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Love Me Tender; and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth.
The Lux Viewers Award is organised by the European Parliament and the European Movie Academy in partnership with the European Fee and Europa Cinemas. Residents from throughout Europe, in addition to the Members of the European Parliament, can vote for his or her favorite movie on the LUX Viewers Award ranking platform. Their respective votes every depend 50% in direction of the movies’ closing scores.
Irish filmmaker Brendan Canty’s Christy world premiered within the Era 14plus competitors on the Berlinale this yr, successful the part’s Grand Prix. Offered by Charades, it’s primarily based on Canty’s quick movie of the identical title and follows a 17-year-old after he’s thrown out of his suburban foster house and strikes in together with his estranged older half-brother in Cork.
Eva Libertad’s Deaf additionally world premiered at Berlin within the Panorama part. The drama is in regards to the challenges of momhood from the attitude of a deaf girl, and is bought by Latido Movies.
French director Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Love Me Tender, which premiered in Un Sure Regard at Cannes, stars Vicky Krieps as a girl whose life is turned the other way up when she tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with girls. Be For Movies handles gross sales.
Jafar Panahi’s It Was Simply An Accident gained the Palme d’Or in Cannes and is France’s Oscar candidate. Offered by mk2, it’s a few group of former political prisoners confronting the guard who they are saying as soon as tortured them.
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth gained the Grand Prix at Cannes, and is Norway’s Oscar entry. Additionally bought by mk2, the movie follows two sisters who reunite with their estranged father, a once-renowned director who gives one of many sisters a task in what he hopes will likely be his comeback movie.
The 5 nominated movies have been chosen by a panel of movie professionals from throughout EU member states and introduced in the present day throughout an announcement occasion on the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Free screenings of the 5 movies will happen in all EU international locations till April 2026. For the primary time, the shortlisted movies could have subtitles for the deaf and arduous of listening to.
A ceremony to announce winner will happen within the European Parliament in Brussels in mid-April 2026.
For the 2025 version of the award, greater than 900 screenings of the shortlisted movies have been organised. 2025’s winner was Stream by Gints Zilbalodis.