Sentimental Worth has emerged because the front-runner for the European Movie Awards 2025, with 5 nominations.
The nominations for the principle classes of this 12 months’s awards, which happen on January 17 in Berlin, have been introduced this morning by the European Movie Academy.
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Fifteen options compete for the perfect European movie prize, following a latest rule change which signifies that movies shortlisted for the perfect documentary and animation classes can even compete within the part.
Sentimental Worth is nominated in the perfect European movie class, in addition to director for Joachim Trier, actress for Renate Reinsve, actor for Stellan Skarsgård, and screenwriter for Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier. The Cannes Grand Prix winner follows two sisters who reunite with their estranged father, a once-renowned director.
Sirat has 4 nominations: in the perfect European movie class plus greatest director for Oliver Laxe, actor for Sergi López, and screenwriter for Santiago Fillol and Oliver Laxe. The movie collectively received the Cannes’ jury prize and follows a father and son at a rave within the mountains of southern Morocco, in search of their daughter/sister.
Different frontrunners this 12 months embrace The Sound of Falling, which additionally collectively received the Cannes’ jury prize. It has three nominations for greatest movie in addition to Mascha Schilinski for director, and Schilinski and Louise Peter for screenwriter. Schilinski’s drama is ready throughout a century on a distant German farm and depicts 4 ladies who’re separated by time however united by trauma.
Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner It Was Simply An Accident additionally has three nominations, together with greatest movie, director, and screenwriter for Panahi. The movie is a few group of former political prisoners confronting the guard who they are saying as soon as tortured them.
Rounding out the characteristic movies inside the principle European Movie part is Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at Venice. Based mostly on actual occasions, the docudrama depicts the response of the Palestinian Pink Crescent to the calls of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian lady trapped in a automobile in Gaza Metropolis beneath hearth from Israeli forces.
Two UK options are nominated: Akinola Davies’s UK-Nigeria co-production My Father’s Shadow and Laura Carreira’s UK-Portgual co-production On Falling, that are each shortlisted within the European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI part.
European Movie Awards nominations 2025
European movie
Afternoons Of Solitude (Sp-Fr) – documentary movie
Dir. Albert Serra
Prod. Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Pedro Palacios, Luís Ferrón, Ricard Gross sales & Pierre-Olivier Bardet
Arco (Fr) – animated movie
Dir. Ugo Bienvenu
Prod. Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas, Natalie Portman & Ugo Bienvenu
Canine Of God (Dieva Suns) (Lat-US) – animated movie
Dir. Raitis Ābele & Lauris Ābele
Prod. Raitis Ābele, Kristele Pudane & Giovanni Labadessa
Fiume O Morte! (Cro-Slov-It)_ – documentary movie
Dir. Igor Bezinović
Prod. Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser, Erica Barbiani & Marina Gumzi
It Was Simply An Accident (Fr-Iran-Lux) – fiction movie
Dir. Jafar Panahi
Prod. Philippe Martin, Jafar Panahi, Christel Henon & Sandrine Dumas
Little Amelie (Fr) – animated movie
Dir. Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han
Prod. Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago & Henri Magalon
Olivia And The Invisible Earthquake (Sp-Fr-Bel-Switz-Chile) – animated movie
Dir. Irene Iborra Rizo
Prod. Mikel Mas Bilbao, Ramón Alòs, Irene Iborra Rizo, Eduard Puertas Anfruns, Jean-François Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois, Hugo Deghilage, Vincent Tavier, Nicolas Burlet & Bernardita Ojeda
Riefenstahl (Ger) – documentary movie
Dir. Andres Veiel
Prod. Enzo Maaß & Sandra Maischberger
Sentimental Worth (Affeksjonsverdi) (Nor-Fr-Den-Ger-Swe) – fiction movie
Dir. Joachim Trier
Prod. Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Juliette Schrameck, Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Fionnuala Jamison, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Lizette Jonjic, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Atilla Salih Yücer & Lars Thomas Skare
Sirāt (Sp-Fr) – fiction movie
Dir. Oliver Laxe
Prod. Domingo Corral, Oliver Laxe, Xavi Font, Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García, Oriol Maymó, Mani Mortazavi & Andrea Queralt
Songs Of Sluggish Burning Earth (Ukr-Fr-Den-Swe) – documentary movie
Dir. Olha Zhurba
Prod. Darya Bassel, Anne Köhncke & Kerstin Übelacker
Sound Of Falling (Ger) – fiction movie
Dir. Mascha Schilinski
Prod. Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt & Lasse Scharpen
Tales From The Magic Backyard (Cz-Slovakia-Slovenia-Fr) – animated movie
Dir. David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar & Jean-Claude Rozec
Prod. Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasová, Juraj Krasnohorský, Henrieta Cvangová, Kolja Saksida, Jean-François Le Corre & Mathieu Courtois
The Voice Of Hind Rajab (Fr-Tun) – fiction movie
Dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
Prod. Nadim Cheikhrouha, Odessa Rae & James Wilson
With Hasan In Gaza (Ger) – documentary movie
Dir. Kamal Aljafari
Prod. Kamal Aljafari & Flavia Mazzarino
European Documentary:
Afternoons Of Solitude (Sp-Fr)
Dir. Albert Serra
Fiume O Morte! (Cro-Slov-It)
Dir. Igor Bezinović
Riefenstahl (Ger)
Dir. Andres Veiel
Songs Of Sluggish Burning Earth (Ukr-Fr-Den-Swe)
Dir. Olha Zhurba
With Hasan In Gaza (Ger)
Dir. Kamal Aljafari
European Animated Characteristic Movie:
Arco (Fr)
Dir. Ugo Bienvenu
Canine Of God (Dieva Suns) (Lat-US)
Dir. Raitis Ābele & Lauris Ābele
Little Amelie (Fr)
Dir. Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han
Olivia And The Invisible Earthquake (Sp-Fr-Bel-Switz-Chile)
Dir. Irene Iborra Rizo
Tales From The Magic Backyard (Cz-Slovakia-Slovenia-Fr)
Dir. David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar & Jean-Claude Rozec
European Director:
Yorgos Lanthimos for Bugonia
Oliver Laxe for Sirāt
Jafar Panahi for It Was Simply An Accident
Mascha Schilinski for Sound Of Falling
Joachim Trier for Sentimental Worth
European Actress:
Leonie Benesch in Late Shift
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in Duse
Léa Drucker in Case 137
Vicky Krieps in Love Me Tender
Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Worth
European Actor:
Sergi López in Sirāt
Mads Mikkelsen in The Final Viking
Toni Servillo in La Grazia
Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Worth
Idan Weiss in Franz
European Screenwriter:
Santiago Fillol & Oliver Laxe for Sirāt
Jafar Panahi for It Was Simply An Accident
Mascha Schilinski & Louise Peter for Sound Of Falling
Paolo Sorrentino for La Grazia
Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier for Sentimental Worth
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI:
Little Bother Women (Slovenia-It-Cro-Ser)
Dir. Urška Djukić
My Father’s Shadow (UK-Nigeria
Dir. Akinola Davies Jr
On Falling (UK-Port)
Dir. Laura Carreira
One Of These Days When Hemme Dies (Turkey-Ger)
Dir. Murat Fıratoğlu
Sauna (Den)
Dir. Mathias Broe
Underneath The Gray Sky (Poland)
Dir. Mara Tamkovich
European Younger Viewers Award:
Arco (Fr)
Dir. Ugo Bienvenu
I By chance Wrote A E book (Hungary-Neth)
Dir. Nóra Lakos
Siblings (It)
Dir. Greta Scarano
