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Several of this year\u2019s hottest award season contenders, including Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 Bugonia, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons; Joachim Trier\u2019s Sentimental Value with Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, and Elle Fanning; and international feature contenders It Was Just an Accident and The Voice of Hind Rajab, have made the shortlist for the 2026 European Film Awards.<\/p>\n
The European Film Academy on Tuesday unveiled its (quite long) shortlist of contenders for the 2026 awards, naming the features, documentaries, and animated films that qualify for next year\u2019s event, which will be held in Berlin on January 17.<\/p>\n
More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n In addition to Jafar Panahi\u2019s Cannes Palme d\u2019Or winner It Was Just an Accident (and Cannes prize winners Sentimental Value, Sound of Falling, Sirat and Pillion), the short list includes several of this year\u2019s festival favorites, including Dag Johan Haugerud\u2019s Berlin winner Dreams, Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s Venice festival opener La Grazia, and Tereza Nvotov\u00e1\u2019s Zurich festival winner Father. Many of Europe\u2019s international Oscar contenders are in the EFA running, including from Norway (Sentimental Value), France (It Was Just an Accident), Germany (Sound of Falling), Switzerland (Late Shift), and Belgium (Young Mothers).<\/p>\n Check out the full EFA shortlist below.<\/p>\n FEATURE FILMS<\/strong> DOCUMENTARY FILMS<\/strong> ANIMATED FEATURE FILMS<\/strong> Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several of this year\u2019s hottest award season contenders, including Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 Bugonia, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons; Joachim Trier\u2019s Sentimental Value with Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, and Elle Fanning; and international feature contenders It Was Just an Accident and The Voice of Hind Rajab, have made the shortlist for the 2026 European Film Awards. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2089832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[23919,353015,354966,27727],"class_list":["post-2089831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-sentimental-value","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oscar-Contenders-\u2018Bugonia-\u2018Sentimental-Value-\u2018It-Was-Just-an-Accident.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089833,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089831\/revisions\/2089833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Bearcave (Arkoudotrypa) directed by Krysianna B. Papadakis & Stergios Dinopoulos (Greece, United Kingdom)
Bugonia directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (United Kingdom, United States, South Korea)
Case 137 (Dossier 137) directed by Dominik Moll (France)
Christy directed by Brendan Canty (Ireland, United Kingdom)
Deaf (Sorda) directed by Eva Libertad (Spain)
Die My Love directed by Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom, United States, Canada)
Dreams (Dr\u00f8mmer) directed by Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway)
Duse directed by Pietro Marcello (Italy, France)
Father (Otec) directed by Tereza Nvotov\u00e1 (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland)
Franz directed by Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland)
Fuori directed by Mario Martone (Italy, France)
I Only Rest in the Storm (O Riso e a Faca) directed by Pedro Pinho (Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania)
It Was Just an Accident (Un simple accident) directed by Jafar Panahi (France, Iran, Luxembourg)
La Grazia directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)
Late Shift (Heldin) directed by Petra Volpe (Switzerland, Germany)
Little Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica) directed by Ur\u0161ka Djuki\u0107 (Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia)
Love Me Tender directed by Anna Cazenave Cambet (France)
Loveable (Elskling) directed by Lilja Ingolfsdottir (Norway)
Maspalomas directed by Jose Mari Goenaga & Aitor Arregi (Spain)
Milk Teeth (Dinti de lapte) directed by Mihai Mincan (Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria)
Mirrors No. 3 (Miroirs No. 3) directed by Christian Petzold (Germany)
Mother directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia, Belgium)
On Falling directed by Laura Carreira (United Kingdom, Portugal)
Once Upon a Time in Gaza directed by Tarzan Nasser & Arab Nasser (France, Palestine, Germany, Portugal, Qatar, Jordan)
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies (Hemme\u2019nin \u00f6ld\u00fc\u011f\u00fc g\u00fcnlerden biri) directed by Murat F\u0131rato\u011flu (Turkey, Germany)
Palestine 36 directed by Annemarie Jacir (Palestine, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway)
Pillion directed by Harry Lighton (United Kingdom)
Romeria (Romer\u00eda) directed by Carla Sim\u00f3n (Spain, Germany)
Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi) directed by Joachim Trier (Norway, France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden)
Silent Friend directed by Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi (Germany, France, Hungary)
Sirat (Sir\u00e2t) directed by Oliver Laxe (Spain, France)
Sleepless City (Ciudad sin sue\u00f1o) directed by Guillermo Galoe (Spain, France)
Sound of Falling (In die Sonne schauen) directed by Mascha Schilinski (Germany)
Sundays (Los domingos) directed by Alauda Ruiz de Az\u00faa (Spain)
The Last Viking (Den sidste viking) directed by Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark, Sweden)
The Little Sister (La petite derni\u00e8re) directed by Hafsia Herzi (France, Germany)
The Love That Remains (\u00c1stin sem eftir er) directed by Hlynur P\u00e1lmason (Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France)
The North directed by Bart Schrijver (Netherlands)
The Stranger (L\u2019\u00c9tranger) directed by Fran\u00e7ois Ozon (France)
The Voice of Hind Rajab directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (France, Tunisia)
Two Prosecutors directed by Sergei Loznitsa (France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania)
What Marielle Knows (Was Marielle Weiss) directed by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Hambalek (Germany)
Yes (Ken) directed by Nadav Lapid (France, Israel, Cyprus, Germany)
Young Mothers (Jeunes m\u00e8res) directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (Belgium, France)<\/p>\n
Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad) directed by Albert Serra (Spain, France)
An American Pastoral (Une pastorale americaine) directed by Auberi Edler (France)
Ancestral Visions of the Future directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (France, Lesotho, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia)
Fiume o morte! directed by Igor Bezinovi\u0107 (Croatia, Slovenia, Italy)
Flophouse America directed by Monica Str\u00f8mdahl (Norway, Netherlands, United States)
Good Valley Stories (Historias del buen valle) directed by Jos\u00e9 Luis Guerin (Spain, France)
Hair, Paper, Water\u2026 (T\u00f3c, gi\u1ea5y v\u00e0 n\u01b0\u1edbc\u2026) directed by Nicolas Graux & Minh Qu\u00fd Tr\u01b0\u01a1ng (Belgium, France, Vietnam)
Listen to the Voices (Kout\u00e9 vwa) directed by Maxime Jean-Baptiste (Belgium, France)
Memory directed by Vladlena Sandu (France, Netherlands)
Militantropos directed by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi (Ukraine, Austria, France)
Riefenstahl directed by Andres Veiel (Germany)
Songs of Slow Burning Earth (Pisni zemli shscho povolno horyt) directed by Olha Zhurba (Ukraine, France, Denmark, Sweden)
The Shards (Oskolky) directed by Masha Chernaya (Georgia, Germany)
Twst \/ Things We Said Today directed by Andrei Ujic\u0103 (France, Romania)
With Hasan in Gaza directed by Kamal Aljafari (Germany)<\/p>\n
Arco directed by Ugo Bienvenu (France)
Balentes directed by Giovanni Columbu (Italy, Germany)
Checkered Ninja 3 (Ternet Ninja 3) directed by Anders Matthesen & Thorbj\u00f8rn Christoffersen (Denmark)
Dandelion\u2019s Odyssey (Planetes) directed by Momoko Seto (France)
Dog of God (Dieva Suns) directed by Raitis Abele & Lauris Abele (Latvia, United States)
Little Amelie (Am\u00e9lie et la m\u00e9taphysique des tubes) directed by Ma\u00eflys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han (France)
Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake (L\u2019Ol\u00edvia i el terratr\u00e8mol invisible) directed by Irene Iborra Rizo (Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile)
Tales from the Magic Garden (Poh\u00e1dky po babi\u010dce) directed by David S\u00fakup, Patrik Pa\u0161\u0161, Leon Vidmar & Jean-Claude Rozec (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, France)<\/p>\n